11-23-2007, 05:39 PM
Looks pretty nice, especially for the money.
I've been pondering similar upgrades to my old AMD box myself, and by "upgrades" I mean basically tearing everything out of the case and replacing the whole lot except for the hard drive and optical drives. I've spec'ed similar stuff (MSI AM2 mobo, Athlon X2 Socket AM2 processor, &c. &c.), though perhaps a bit higher up the food chain.
I assume the Radeon GPU will work okay with an nForce mobo, though I was going to get an Nvidia video card myself.
Some of the reviews on that particular mobo say that the PCI-e cards only go up to 8x, which is a bit odd because that seems to contradict Newegg's published specs.
What I think I'll really end up doing is getting a Mac Pro and just run Parallels / Boot Camp instead. I don't need Windows all that much, let alone need to boot natively into it. Most of the time, I just launch VirtualPC on my G5 rather than reach down and power up the PC and flip the KVM switch.
I've been pondering similar upgrades to my old AMD box myself, and by "upgrades" I mean basically tearing everything out of the case and replacing the whole lot except for the hard drive and optical drives. I've spec'ed similar stuff (MSI AM2 mobo, Athlon X2 Socket AM2 processor, &c. &c.), though perhaps a bit higher up the food chain.
I assume the Radeon GPU will work okay with an nForce mobo, though I was going to get an Nvidia video card myself.
Some of the reviews on that particular mobo say that the PCI-e cards only go up to 8x, which is a bit odd because that seems to contradict Newegg's published specs.
What I think I'll really end up doing is getting a Mac Pro and just run Parallels / Boot Camp instead. I don't need Windows all that much, let alone need to boot natively into it. Most of the time, I just launch VirtualPC on my G5 rather than reach down and power up the PC and flip the KVM switch.