Will it be good?

[ChillazWorld]

ok people right now I have my old ATI X700PRO 256mb card(AGP). I was thinking of using that until I can get my dual GTs and new motherboard, so I was thinking of going with the Asrock 939Dual. My other specs will be:

AMD Athlon X2 4400+
OCZ platinum 2gig (2x1gig)
Western Digi 250gig SATAII drive 16mb
Thermaltake Big Tyhoon
NEC 3550A Drive
Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
and a Lian-Li v1000 case.

Im upgrading from a

socket 478 2.8 P4 with 512mb (2x256 not dual channel, I dont think) some unknown Motherboard with a 266W PSU (its a Vaio RS610)

I was wondering if that Asrock gives alot of problems, and if I will see a performance change with the X700PRO with the new setup.

Plz give me some feedback.

 

[Ricemarine]

Ok thoughts durr...

Why are you watercooling? If to overclock, then change your cpu to opteron 170, and the ram to some pc4000 2X1GB ram...

Not sure about the asrock mobo.

 

[eXx08]

no you should be fine with that

 

[ChillazWorld]

water cooling? its Big Tphoon not big water lol. Im hoping the mobo isnt hard to setup because this is mt first time putting a pc together. if there was somekind of AGP to PCI-E or AGP to PCI id buy my new mobo now, but I dont think theres such thing.

Will I see any performance increase with gaming though?

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: ChillazWorld
water cooling? its Big Tphoon not big water lol. Im hoping the mobo isnt hard to setup because this is mt first time putting a pc together. if there was somekind of AGP to PCI-E or AGP to PCI id buy my new mobo now, but I dont think theres such thing.

Will I see any performance increase with gaming though?

My bad.
I thought it was the water cooling kit hahaha. ...... ........ *continues*....

You would see a slight increase, but that x700 will bottleneck your computer.

 

[ChillazWorld]

what do u mean bottleneck? does the mean slow it down?

 

[007ELmO]

bottleneck

n : a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel [syn: constriction, chokepoint] v 1: slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system" 2: become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"

 

[ChillazWorld]

 

[ChillazWorld]

how is that going to bottleneck my system? In what ways?

 

[TanisHalfElven]

it won't be fast enough to keep up with the proccesoor and other stuff. the main slow down will be it. if yu change it you will get a higher performance cuz it no more bottle necking your system.

 

[ChillazWorld]

ok changed it. Decide to get a not so expensive case.

X2 4400+
XFX 7800GT
OCZ Platinum 2gigs (2x1gig)
Enermax Liberty 500W


Is there a difference between the A8N32-SLI and A8N-SLI Premium? or should I go for a DFI?

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: ChillazWorld
ok changed it. Decide to get a not so expensive case.

X2 4400+
XFX 7800GT
OCZ Platinum 2gigs (2x1gig)
Enermax Liberty 500W


Is there a difference between the A8N32-SLI and A8N-SLI Premium? or should I go for a DFI?

the premium has the fancy heatpipe chipset cooler and dual-channel PCI-e x16 (i.e. if you have SLI on any other board, each card will run at x8 (still perfectly acceptable, iirc x4 isnt even maxed out), on the a8n32-sli, both will run at x16)

the rest of that setup is good

 

[alanore]

I would choose the A8N32-SLi over the A8N-SLi. If your overclocking the DFI is the daddy.

 

[ChillazWorld]

wouldnt you be able to get a fair overclock from the A8N32-SLI though?

 

[alanore]

You should be able to get a good overclock from the A8N32.

 

[ChillazWorld]

yea but with the A8n32 I heard the Southbridge fan doesnt last more than 2 months. Is the southbridge fan connected to that heat pipe thing?

 

[pkrush]

That was the old A8N-SLI Deluxe with the noisy chipset fan instead of the heatpipes.

 

[ChillazWorld]

ah ok, 1 other question. Is the X2 4400+ noticably faster than the X2 3800+?

 

[alimoalem]

no. will you be overclocking? cause if you are, the 3800 can easily get to 4400 speeds. you can get a 165 or 170 opteron if you plan on OCing

 

[ChillazWorld]

ah ok. what does the extra cache do though?