Recommendations on a mobo and power supply?

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:53 pm

I'm looking for a good mobo and a power supply unit. Any recommendations?

I plan to run a 7900 GT on it and I hear that 550 or 650 power supplies are used with this card a lot of the time.

Immortal Lobster · Post by **Immortal Lobster** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:01 pm

CPU type would be nice to know =P

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:13 pm

Well I obviously need a board that is PCI Express capable and I plan to run at least an Athlon 64 3500+ processor on it. 1 Gig of RAM memory that I hope to upgrade to 2 gigs sometime this year will also be on this machine.

Immortal Lobster · Post by **Immortal Lobster** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:25 pm

In this Order

(If Overclocking)
DFI, EPox, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte

(if not overclocking)
Epox, DFI, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI

Im running an EPox 9NPA+Ultra, great board for the price, imo its better then most DFIs even in overclocking, that would be my recomendation, its just a solid oard all the way around, fast, stable lots of cool features, and cheap

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:14 pm

Actually, I am going for a 3500+ right now but I may upgrade later down the road to a dual core. Depending on what happens. If I do upgrade to dual core, say a year or so from now, should I upgrade it and my mobo or can I just take the 3500+ out and put the dual in the new board? If it is the latter, I might want to look at a dual core ready board.

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:05 pm

IL, would it be wise to point him\\her toward my thread \"Cost of a New Rig\"? It seems what he wants to do is about what was suggested....
This Thread too!
Look for the post on May 30, at 6:54 PM CST

Immortal Lobster · Post by **Immortal Lobster** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:33 pm

I spoke with him on msn, i think he might be squared away. Hes got a fair idea of what he wants.

messanjah, (and jake, might want to check this out too)
Heres the price war I was talking about, and what to expect to come from it
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2800

\"
According to memos recently obtained by DailyTech, AMD will drastically cut prices on its desktop processors after the July 23rd release of Intel’s Core 2 Duo Conroe processors. The memos that DailyTech has secured are between AMD and Japanese system manufacturers and indicate the following price cuts will become effective July 24th, 2006:

* AMD Athlon 64 price cuts will receive price cut up to 30%
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 will receive price cuts up to 50%
* AMD Sempron processors will receive price cuts up to 15%

The memos only mention the AM2 processors; however the AM2 parts are now priced identically with Socket 939 components. AMD has previously indicated that the aim of the AM2 processors was to be price competitive with its legacy components. \"

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:40 am

Sweet! so If I play my cards right I could get a good processor for the price of what would be a slower one before the price drop?

Immortal Lobster · Post by **Immortal Lobster** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:40 pm

aye

in price wars, the consumer always wins =D

d3jake · Post by **d3jake** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:52 pm

Good, I think I\"ll buy my CPU last then.

Immortal Lobster · Post by **Immortal Lobster** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:22 am

If those are your plans, look for a socket AM2 system, and DDR2 ram