Today my PC decided to start randomly crashing, so instead of messing about with it I've decided it's time to upgrade it as it is a couple of years old anyway.
Now, do I buy an ASUS A8N32-SLI and a XFX 7800GTX Extreme 265MB...
OR
Do I buy an Asus ATI EAX-X1900 XT 512MB and a non-SLI motherboard (crossfire doesn't seem too good yet, unless I'm mistaken?) - not quite sure which though?
I've never really been a fan of NVidia, and always liked ATi, but the SLI seems like a good idea and the A8N-32 seems like a good mobo. Perhaps I should just get the A8N-32 and the X1900, but I think that kind of defeats the purpose of the SLI, and although I wouldn't use it straight away, it'd be nice to add another gfx card in 6 months time or so.
How noisey are NVidia cards these days?
I'm buying an Opteron 165 and G.Skill 2GB PC4000 to go with this one BTW.
What would you do?
Now, do I buy an ASUS A8N32-SLI and a XFX 7800GTX Extreme 265MB...
OR
Do I buy an Asus ATI EAX-X1900 XT 512MB and a non-SLI motherboard (crossfire doesn't seem too good yet, unless I'm mistaken?) - not quite sure which though?
I've never really been a fan of NVidia, and always liked ATi, but the SLI seems like a good idea and the A8N-32 seems like a good mobo. Perhaps I should just get the A8N-32 and the X1900, but I think that kind of defeats the purpose of the SLI, and although I wouldn't use it straight away, it'd be nice to add another gfx card in 6 months time or so.
How noisey are NVidia cards these days?
I'm buying an Opteron 165 and G.Skill 2GB PC4000 to go with this one BTW.
What would you do?