Gaming PC

[powsmowl]

A friend of mine is planning on building pc consisting of the following:

 

AM2 3600+ Brisbane (planning on ocing to atleast 2.7ghz)

on a Asus M2R32-MVP

with 2gb ddr2 800 ram

he already has a X1950XTX

2 160gb for raid 0

600w psu

 

so he asked me to help find out, how the combination sounds and if the 3600+ will perform well in games until early 2008..and if the cache will be a problem

 

hes a diehard ati/amd fanboy so dont even suggest C2D and a 8800GTS

 

thanks

[Splave]

2.7ghz brisbane with an 8800gts plays everything at full at 1600x1200 so you oc that x1950xtx you will be golden for a while!

[powsmowl]

great, just what i wanted to hear

 

i also heard the LAN connection is pretty slow on the M2R32-MVP...do you think it would be worth it to get a seperate card? and would a 10/100mbit card affect the speed of a DSL 6k or 16k inet connection?

[Guest LookBackX2]

I have to admit, I don't know much about ASUS boards, but that Marvel LAN controller is capable of 10/100/1000, or 10 times faster than any 10/100 pci E-net card.

 

If you are using it for Internet exclusively, and not large network file transfers, you will never use its full potential.

 

So in short, use what is on the board.

[Angry_Games]

onboard LAN always sucks compared to a real good PCI card (like the Intel Pro 10/100 with onboard controller) which you can find new for $50-ish and used for as low as $10.

 

The NForce (Marvell) LAN always seems to suck compared to the PCI and even onboard Intel (usually a Realtek or even Marvell, but for some reason on the NForce chipsets they stink)