Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?

ok guys I havent upgraded in a while so I need some advice. I am upgrading my case, cpu, ram, mobo and vid card. Can you take a look at the links I have posted and tell me what you think of my tentative choices? http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewP...




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#138492 - 05/04/04 06:14 AM Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?
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#138510 - 05/05/04 03:37 AM Re: Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?
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49 views and no one has anything to say?

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#138518 - 05/05/04 04:43 AM Re: Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?
Brian Frank Offline
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I'm not sure I'd trust OCZ. From their past, I'd be really cautious about buying them. Anything of the Epox brand in the past couple of years I personally wouldn't touch.

I haven't tried it, but Geil DDR seems to be pretty good and pretty cheap. I've also been reading rave reviews over PMI's DDR.
For the motherboard, I'm running the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe myself and I'm very pleased with it. Other popular choices are Abit's NF7-S ver. 2.0 and the DFI LanParty/Infinity boards.

For heatsinks, you might wanna look into ThermalRight stuff like the SLK-800/900 series. I'm not saying the other coolers you linked are bad, but I'm not sure how well they'll perform.

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#138524 - 05/05/04 06:52 AM Re: Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?
pr-man Offline
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actually i chaned the ram to 1 gig crucial and nixed the 9800 pro.

as for the mobo i nixed the epox and am looking at either abit or MSI what do you think?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-419&depa=0

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-144&depa=0


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#138529 - 05/05/04 10:37 AM Re: Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?
sapiens74 Offline
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Go with ABIT bro

I've had mixed results with MSI in the past

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#138555 - 05/05/04 08:18 PM Re: Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?
Brian Frank Offline
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MSI is usually solid, but the K7N2 Delta's are pretty bad. I had 2 of them that threw fits with every stick of RAM I had---which worked great in the other systems I had.

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