[olug] Advice on a new rig

[Kelly Williams]

John Vogel wrote:
> I would say wait another 6 months or by a $50 GPU.
> Waiting could help reduce the prices of 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM.
>
>
> 1. Power Supply
>
> Are you considering using SLI or Crossfire for your GPU?
> You may need a better power supply to use either.
>
> 2. Processors
>
> The Intel Core i7 seems to have the better performance than 45nm Phenom II
> that will be released soon (at least until AM3 boards are used).  Although
> it is to
> early to compare them yet.
>
> Either way cheap cheap CPU + board combinations won't be around for the
> newest CPUs.
>
> 3. GPUs
>
> I would wait until more GPUs come onto the market with Displayport (and
> HDMI)
> since it is the standard that will eventually replace DVI.
>
> But beware of the NVIDIA hardware problems in the GeForce 8000 series which
> may have carried over into the GeForce 9000 series (see
> why-nvidia-chips-defective<http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/01/why-nvidia-chips-defective>
> ).
>
> 4. A reason to have 8 gigs of RAM
>
> Use the extra 4 gigs as a ram disk to cache data and store temporary data.
> Could help speed up the encode/decode of multimedia files.
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How much did you want to spend on this system.
Kelly