Budget PSU, Decision?

[Guest st_clancy]

I trust Antec, but could I trust this from them?

 

the 500W smartPower? and Would that work with say a 939 Ultra-D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817103937

 

Or go with the Sky Hawk 570W

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817193002

 

Also, Are they still selling the good chips for the optey's like at newegg? or ne other places, I'm planning on buying in a week, I hop eI don't get the short stack for waiting.

 

Consider you had about a 3700 San diego for this next question...

If you had a choice, would you A: get a 19" LCD with DVI cable, and 6800GS

or

B:17" LCD analog cable, 7800GT

 

For Gaming

A: 3700+ san diego overclocked as high as possible

or

B:Opteron overclocked as high as possible

[jtp137]

I had a 19 inch lcd but i took it back because at that size the max resolution of 1280 x 1024 looks terrible, i got the 17 inch samsung that has a dvi and 12ms response time it looks amazing. Be careful i wouldn't get an lcd with a greater response time of 12ms or you might get some ghosting.

 

you could always spend the money and get a 20 incher that can do 1600 x 1200

 

I have always used a DVI cable i have both connections on my monitor i could try using the analog and let you know if there is a difference

[Guest st_clancy]

That would be awsome,Thanks!

[Guest st_clancy]

bump

[Smoken Joe]

I would get a used 21 inch CRT and with the extra mony get a good PSU. Blue storm PS though Travis seems to like the Sky Hawk. Antec is hit or miss I would hate to try and save mony and need to get a new one.

[Contrariedad]

I've experimented extensively with DVI / analog because I insist on dual-monitor configurations for my profession. Since most video cards have 1 DVI + 1 Analog and I've connect these to two identical LCD's (I've used Dell 1704's, 1905's, and 2005FPW's) and I've had a chance to see the actual difference by comparison. I've even used several different video cards.

 

The result: text is always visibly superior on the DVI connection. When comparing the two, the text on the analog-connected display always appears relatively a little bit blury. Colors seem a tad more vivid though not very significant. Honestly I think you'll see less of a difference in games than in applications that you run.

 

Once this was clear I began to throw in an extra PCI card to make sure that each monitor could have a dedicated DVI connection. Newer video cards often have 2 native DVI connections.