Please check my planned rig

[bigboxes]

Yeah, I agree. Go with Powerstrip.

Corsair rocks! XMS! Get the 3200C2!!!

~box

 

[godspeedx]

-Ilmater
Thank you very much for replying with such a detailed and helpful post. I appreciate it much and will follow your advice. And I agree with you on the site issue. I like newegg a lot because they made it very easy for me to find what I needed, and seemed to have competetive prices on all the things I looked at, but I would never tell someone to ONLY go to newegg. Newegg prices too much for the 9700 actually so I will be going to pricewatch to check what they list. But before I must finish that history paper...

 

[Alex]

Powerstrip can overclock any video card and is very reliable.

 

[Ilmater]

Glad I could help.

 

[godspeedx]

Thanks Franguinho, I'll be looking into powerstrip.

 

[Goi]

Warcon, that's nice to know. Can you do overclocking on the fly though? As in, do you need to reboot between overclocks?

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: Goi
Warcon, that's nice to know. Can you do overclocking on the fly though? As in, do you need to reboot between overclocks?

no you dont have to

 

[WarCon]

No, only reboot is to enable low level overclock.

 

[Goi]

Cool then...neither does nvhardpage...anyway they both do their jobs, rivatuner perhaps for those that don't want that initial jerk when the GUI is starting up, I don't really mind since my system is up 24/7 but others might.

 

[jacktesterson]

Yeah, heres my opinion

1) Drop the 4600. If you want to save money, get the 4200 by Asus (o/c's well) and Overclock it, it will be faster than the 4600 and cheaper

2) Buy the Radeon 9700 if you have the money. Its worth it. And I wouldnt worry about O/cing yet. Wait a couple months (or longer) and then do it. Stock this card smokes every card on the market easily, and to me O/C this right now is completly useless. Its all on paper what your worried about. When the time comes, O/C it. To me keep the warranty in mind for a few months. Whats the difference playing Unreal Tourn at 240 FPS rather than 210 ? You tell me. Things look good on paper, but come on

3) I would recommend Kingston PC3200....works better than Corsair.

 

[godspeedx]

Thanks AMDhardcorefan, I'll probably go with the radeon 9700. Anyone know where I can see some reviews and benchmarks on memory? I couldn't find any on anandtech or tomshardware. I wanna compare corsair XMS memory to some others. Thanks.