BF2S Forums ok how about this for a new rig?

<SS>SonderKommando wrote:

It looks TERRIBLE...... SIKE.

Looks good, haven't heard much about BFG 680i boards, and i HIGHLY recommend corsair XMS2 ram especially th Dominator series.

P.S.  You sure that board supports your memory choice?? Looks as if only supports 800mhz

-Form Factor - ATX (304mm x 244mm / 12” x 9.6”)
- Supports Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme (dual and quad core), Core™ 2 Quad, Core™ 2 Duo, Pentium® D, Pentium® 4, and Celeron® D Socket 775 processors
- Chipset NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP
- Four 240-pin DDR2 DIMMs up to 8GB
- Supports Dual Channel DDR2 400/533/667/800 memory***************
- (2) PCI Express x16 slots for dual PCI Express graphics cards
- (1) PCI Express x8 slot
- (2) PCI Express x1 slot
- (2) PCI slots
- Enhanced 8-channel High Definition Azalia audio
- Supports SPDIF output and jack sensing
- Supports six native SATA2 3.0Gb/s devices
- Hot-swap capability, allowing disks to be changed without
- Optimized for NVIDIA MediaShield(tm) Storage technology
- Supports SATA ATAPI devices
- One Ultra DMA IDE connector supports 33/66/100/133
- One Floppy Disk Drive connector supports up to 2.88MB
- Ten USB 2.0 ports support up to 480Mb/s data transfer rate
- Two 10/100/1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet (LAN) interfaces
- Two 1394a ports support up to 400Mb/s data transfer rate
- 3yr Manufacturer Warranty (Contact BFG representative on 001 866 234 3499 for warranty services)
- 24/7 Email Manufacturer Support (http://www.bfgtech.com/tech_redux.html)

buLLet_t00th wrote:

Get somee PC2-6400 RAM, a less powerful PSU (maybe a 750 watt) and are you going to be using Photoshop, video rendering software?

Last edited by (BMP) Smegmeister (2007-06-24 08:10:58)

motherdear wrote:

what about a little ageai physics card, could be worth the money for games like graw 2 and similar.

=Karma-Kills= wrote:

If you're going to double the RAM, then get 64 bit Vista.

32 Bit OSes cant handle 4GB and above RAM properly.

Last edited by Scardaddy (2007-06-24 10:57:56)

Scardaddy wrote:

l would get a faster hard drive and two of them and put them in raid.  Also grab two more ram sticks and go for vista or XPx64.  Also wireless gaming is total pants, you will never get a good speed or consistency outta wireless or maybe I live in the past.

To whoever is complaining about 64 systems I have one and never had driver issues.  I can run any  program in any version of windows I want and it is faster for problems that use it.  For example sound or photo editing.  But mainly I use it for 3D graphic modeling cause studio max is in 64.  Also there is no issue with using up to 16 gigs I happily use four and I used to have two.  It's is safe to say it is at least 33% faster.  I am sure that the 32 version can only run up to 2 and a half gigs of ram.  I also use two processors so, hate on it all you want but until you have tried it and used it you would only know what you have read.

Good luck with your system either way I bet it'll be a beast.

xRBLx wrote:

ok ok meny ppl saying lots of different things here so let me say this.

This will be my first rig custom built
It purely a gaming rig no photoshop ect ect
I have about £1200 to £1400 to spend
Thing i want are SLI BFG GeForce 8800 GTX but im only sticking with one FOR NOW
Yes i am wireless and theres nouthing i can really do about it ( i know it SUX )
Quad/Daul Core what ever gives me the best for my gaming i only picked quad cos i saw it going for cheap.

If u want to come up with ur own designs i be MORE than happy to hear them. and yes i am abit of a noob at this sorta thing sorry.