Nv40
06-12-06, 06:29 PM
Im looking to buy a new motherboard ,CPU and RAm.,most likely it will be PCi-express unless someone shows me something really good in AGP for a good price. Im not interested in overclocking ,tweaking ,optimizing or any fancy feature .when you have plans to leave your machine ON 365days/24hours ,a cooler machine is more important .neither in SLI or Quad for gpus , but single or dual slots cpus are welcome .The aplications i use , needs lots OF RAM ,and lots of cpu power. the more ,the better ,so i was looking to start with 2-3GB and later add more. have heard that the majority of motherboards are very unstable after 2GB of ram even when its supports more . so the experience of people with lots of memory is more than welcome.
in the CPU side Conroe looks really nice ,but not sure about if their prices will be competitive enough ,once AMD lowers their prices.. However AMD historically always offers better price/performance . Socket 939 or AM2 which one? not interested in memory "performance" for overclocking ,i have no problems trading "quality" for quantity at least with memory. never had problems with cheap memory in the past. but compatibility with future CPUS from AMD and INTEL is a MUST!!. in short im looking to upgrade for a M/B and memory combo for CG graphics animations first and gaming second that will allow me to easily upgrade later to anything new if i wanted to faster processors without changing my whole computer ,the motherboard or the memory.
Since im not clear with Intel or AMD until i see their prices once conroe hits the market . will like to know your comments about future looking motherboards for Intel/AMD and if there is something closer to "universal memory". that will work with next generation from Intel and AMD processors. the last thing i want is to buy 4GB of memory that arent compatible with next generation CPus.
in the CPU side Conroe looks really nice ,but not sure about if their prices will be competitive enough ,once AMD lowers their prices.. However AMD historically always offers better price/performance . Socket 939 or AM2 which one? not interested in memory "performance" for overclocking ,i have no problems trading "quality" for quantity at least with memory. never had problems with cheap memory in the past. but compatibility with future CPUS from AMD and INTEL is a MUST!!. in short im looking to upgrade for a M/B and memory combo for CG graphics animations first and gaming second that will allow me to easily upgrade later to anything new if i wanted to faster processors without changing my whole computer ,the motherboard or the memory.
Since im not clear with Intel or AMD until i see their prices once conroe hits the market . will like to know your comments about future looking motherboards for Intel/AMD and if there is something closer to "universal memory". that will work with next generation from Intel and AMD processors. the last thing i want is to buy 4GB of memory that arent compatible with next generation CPus.