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Feb 11^th, 2009 at 5:54pm

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I'm building a new desktop and wanted some advice. First off a good reccomended motherboard, second processor, and a vid card.
any reccomendations would be nice. im pretty settled on xp x64 sp 3. and nick n any advice would be awsome.

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Reply #1 - Feb 11^th, 2009 at 6:29pm

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Recommendations can be found in this thread >> http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1190754444

It is the first post on this page.

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Reply #2 - Feb 11^th, 2009 at 6:41pm

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yes i seen that one but it was posted in 07. more or less should i go with the 285GTX video card and i7 processor or downgrade to the q series. 1366 is gonna be the new and i dont want to set myself up for failure.

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Reply #3 - Feb 11^th, 2009 at 8:18pm

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i gotcha.

there may be some newer stuff at the end; i don't know i haven't read through it.

other than that, i'm not qualified to give you any answer; sorry.

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Reply #4 - Feb 15^th, 2009 at 8:56pm

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this post is merely an overture to what i'm hoping the hardware geniuses here will advise, but a good computer these days basically consists of:

an i7 processor
a compatible socket 1366 mobo
DDR3 RAM
a 260/285 GTX card

and given that i7 CPUs require the new socket, any step short of it would mean having to buy another motherboard when you decide to upgrade CPUs again...

i don't think i'm informed enough to give any more specific advice than this... hopefully Nick or the other geniuses will come for help soon Wink

Cheers

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My 8800 GTX has at last retired... may it rest in peace in GPU heaven.

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