New Build Questions - Page 2

Kent10 · September 20th, 2007

Thanks for the card recommendation Stormcrow. My last build I used a Matrox card and really liked it. I am a little concerned that it only has 128 MB. I don't use Vista yet but isn't 256 recommended. Thanks, Kent

Quakindude · September 20th, 2007

128MB is the minimum recommended amount of Ram for Vista. It will run on integrated graphics in notebooks though.

My opinion on graphics is pretty simple. If ALL you do is photoshop, video editing or CAD, by all means, grab a workstation type video card. If you do some gaming, or might in the near future on this rig, a good 8800 is also a decent choice. The 2D performance difference has grown significantly smaller over the years for pictures and video.

After all, if you spend the money on a work station card, you can't play games on it to amount to anything. Solitaire maybe.

If you buy a good gaming type card, you can do it all except CAD type stuff. And even then, CAD still works with this type of card. The 7900GS is on the supported list for AutoCAD.

Oh yeah. Nvidia and ATI have had the Quadro and Fire series out for many years. Matrox used to try and compete in the gaming video card market, but was smoked too hard by Voo-Doo, Nvidia and ATI. They bowed out of the gaming market to focus on work station cards. So if you do decide to go with a work station solution, don't forget to look over the Nvidia and ATI solutions as well as the Matrox.

Also, if you're not going to game at all, I would strongly suggest an Intel based board like this one. The 680i is a fine motherboard, but it has had its share of Bios issues. Plus, if you're doing huge amounts of video and picture editing, you fall into the slim category of people who will actually see a large benefit from using a RAID array. And try as Nvidia might, Intel still has the stable RAID array market cornered.

Kent10 · September 20th, 2007

Thanks for all the info Quakindude. You are the 2nd person to recommend the Gigabyte board and I am going to get it. Kent

Elysium · September 20th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Kent10

Thanks for all the info Quakindude. You are the 2nd person to recommend the Gigabyte board and I am going to get it. Kent

I third the Gigabyte board.

September 20th, 2007	#11
Kent10 Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 176	Re: New Build Questions Thanks for the card recommendation Stormcrow. My last build I used a Matrox card and really liked it. I am a little concerned that it only has 128 MB. I don't use Vista yet but isn't 256 recommended. Thanks, Kent Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 Q9650 at 4.05 GHz Mushkin XP Ascent DDR2 1066 4GB Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 Cooler Master GeminII CPU Cooler Silverstone OP750 Power EVGA GeForce 8800GTS Video Card Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Windows XP SP3 Home

September 20th, 2007	#12
Quakindude I'm Diggin it! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Rucker, AL. Posts: 2,767 Blog Entries: 7	Re: New Build Questions 128MB is the minimum recommended amount of Ram for Vista. It will run on integrated graphics in notebooks though. My opinion on graphics is pretty simple. If ALL you do is photoshop, video editing or CAD, by all means, grab a workstation type video card. If you do some gaming, or might in the near future on this rig, a good 8800 is also a decent choice. The 2D performance difference has grown significantly smaller over the years for pictures and video. After all, if you spend the money on a work station card, you can't play games on it to amount to anything. Solitaire maybe. If you buy a good gaming type card, you can do it all except CAD type stuff. And even then, CAD still works with this type of card. The 7900GS is on the supported list for AutoCAD. Oh yeah. Nvidia and ATI have had the Quadro and Fire series out for many years. Matrox used to try and compete in the gaming video card market, but was smoked too hard by Voo-Doo, Nvidia and ATI. They bowed out of the gaming market to focus on work station cards. So if you do decide to go with a work station solution, don't forget to look over the Nvidia and ATI solutions as well as the Matrox. Also, if you're not going to game at all, I would strongly suggest an Intel based board like this one. The 680i is a fine motherboard, but it has had its share of Bios issues. Plus, if you're doing huge amounts of video and picture editing, you fall into the slim category of people who will actually see a large benefit from using a RAID array. And try as Nvidia might, Intel still has the stable RAID array market cornered. Q6600@ 3.2GHz w/ CNPS9700 \| EVGA 780i \| 4Gb Patriot Extreme DDR2-800 5-5-5-12 \| EVGA GTX 280 1Gb Video \| 1x WD 640Gb HDD, 2x Seagate 400Gb HDD, 1x250Gb WD \| 2x Samsung SH-203B Opticals \| Antec 900 \| ABS/Tagan BZ700 700W PSU \| Zalman ZM-MFC1 Fan Controller Last edited by Quakindude; September 20th, 2007 at 16:27.

September 20th, 2007	#13
Kent10 Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 176	Re: New Build Questions Thanks for all the info Quakindude. You are the 2nd person to recommend the Gigabyte board and I am going to get it. Kent Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 Q9650 at 4.05 GHz Mushkin XP Ascent DDR2 1066 4GB Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 Cooler Master GeminII CPU Cooler Silverstone OP750 Power EVGA GeForce 8800GTS Video Card Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Windows XP SP3 Home

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