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The AM3 boards from gigabyte look pretty solid and seem to have wverything what I need and like you said they are more future proof.
I think I'll just get a AM3 board and now that I'm getting the 9950 I weon't be upgrading the processor for a while anyway.
Enjoy your scream machine!
Nice of Gigabyte to provide AM3 support with a bios upgrade
Will enjoy it thanks,
The other thing I wanted to make sure id if I use crossfire on the board do both of the video cards have to be identical? ie if I have a 4870 it will have to be 2 of these does the brand of the cards mater if one is diffeent to ther other?
As always, it depends!
Are you thinking about the 4870 or the 4870x2? here is a list of certified crossfire cards
I was thinking of the 4870
Brands don't matter, but GPU types do to a certain extent.... it can cope with some inequalities, but not all... did you read the faq through?
Yes I did thanks for info if I run into any problems or have any further questions I will let you know
The benchmark on that should be fairly high :)
Yeah I'm really looking forward to my new system :)
I have changed my mind instead of the 9950 I want to get the phenom II 920 hioefully on tuesday :)
Will this PSU run fine with the Phenom II this is one I am currently using:
http://jeantech.com/storm.htm
Antec says running just the phenom II will require 130w psu... have a look here it's the rest of the stuff that causes the problems :)
SOmeone told me to run the Phenom II I need a psu that runs 30 Amps on a rail so will the one I got do the job?
How do the Phenom 2 processors compre to the quad core intel ones and the i7