The Ultimate $2000 PC - #1, August

[fps justin]

its cheaper too! so now you have more money to blow on the gpu or the cpu.

OR if you really want. you could get 4 x 1 gigs of ram. :twisted:

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by fps justin

OR if you really want. you could get 4 x 1 gigs of ram. :twisted:

That's actually what I wanted to do to begin with. This PC is going to evolve quite a bit before I have the cash though. Like I said, I'm going to collect the specs and prices each month until I can afford it. I just thought it'd be interesting to see how the technology and prices change over the course of half a year or so.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by fps justin

its cheaper too! so now you have more money to blow on the gpu or the cpu.

OR if you really want. you could get 4 x 1 gigs of ram. :twisted:

No use IMO. That, and painfully slow. 1T command rate rocks!

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

Look for a different motherboard, ASUS hasn't been to great with their AMD offerings...

This is just your opinion. I own the ASUS A8N SLI Premium and its an awsome motherboard. Its a good OCer and has lots of great features. I have had zero problems with this board. There are lots of great MoBos out there, but don't shy away from ASUS because Lead Head stated an opinion based on no fact.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Hitman

This is just your opinion. I own the ASUS A8N SLI Premium and its an awsome motherboard. Its a good OCer and has lots of great features. I have had zero problems with this board. There are lots of great MoBos out there, but don't shy away from ASUS because Lead Head stated an opinion based on no fact.

Socket AM2.

[yurimxpxman]

So which company do you all generally prefer for AM2 then?

[simple_inhibition]

Asus, DFI, MSI

[Capper]

Enough!!!!
All off topic posts will be deleted. All bickering posts will be deleted.....I'm getting rather tired of the BS.

As to the motherboards...if you want AM2, the Foxconn and EPoX boards are very very good in my opinion. ASUS generally makes very feature packed and stable boards for both AMD and INTEL, but i won't recommend their stuff to people who want the most extreme O/C. As to MSI, I actually don't care for their board, mostly because their very short shelf life (try finding a K8N Diamond Plus)...their s939 boards were very good, but were not on the shelves for very long, and their firmware/BIOS's are not updated enough.
ECS also makes very good products that generally have a very good bundle, are very stable, and easy to work with. I can't, nor can anyone else right now...comment on DFI's offering for AM2

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by Capper

I can't, nor can anyone else right now...comment on DFI's offering for AM2

Is that to say that they haven't released one yet or that they're just too new to know much about them?

[Capper]

To the best of my knowledge, they have not been publically released yet...should be very shortly though. I don't like commenting on hardware before its publically available...it leads to rumors....and thats not our business