VooDoo2

Hmmm. VIdeo card clocking with the motherboard bios? Well, i don't exactly know what Ironic means, but i'd be VERY interested to know what changes you can make in your BIOS to overclock your video card. i have no real idea how to do this. Every BIOS i have ever seen doesn't allow you to change much more than the voltage (necessary sometimes) and the frequency of the AGP slot or the PCI-E slot. (the bus frequency is NOT the same as the gpu clock/gpu memory clock, not in the least.) I guess you'd have to be a REAL MORON to try to use something like coolbits, or ATI tool, or, you'd have to be completly RETARDED if you tried to flash the card's BIOS to a faster clocked card since you can just change it in the mobo bios. Again, please tell me how to do this. How do i change the core and memory clock frequencies of my video card using the motherboard BIOS. and by the way, if you are talking about the video card bios, please tell me how exactly i can "go into" the video BIOS. any vid card BIOS i have ever seen/edited/flashed doesn't have a menu that you can simply enter and make settings changes. I might also add that AGP 8x bus was never saturated; that means that any current card would run just as well in AGP 8x form if they made one. tsssss. get fucking real. AND TO THE OP: i've got some current stuff which is overclocked here and there, but maybe the neatest thing i've got is an unlocked 2800+ XP barton. I know it is b/c i tried it on a friends board, completly unlocked multi, just like the mobile. Problem? my motherboard can't lock the PCI bus, working on trading a friend for an Epox tho.

More for less is right! Look at that EVGA 7900GT, wow, 500/1500 clocks, nice. It is also only $320.00; that's really not bad at all. The 7800gt i bought was 314.00 dollars, and it's set to 470/1100 and will clock to about 525/1200, but the memclock won't go any higher w/o artifacting. That 7900gt's memory is clocked at 1500, truly monstrous. Kudos to Nvidia, and to ATI as now we have a real choice in video cards for the current generation.

OK, first, Do - Get PCI-E. This is the newest standard for graphics cards. Do - Get SLi if you want to buy two of the best cards out there, and you are planning on using a large display. Don't - do what Donny Don't does: Donny Don't does one of two tings: 1) he buys an Sli motherboard and just one card for it so that he can "buy the second card later to double his performance." OR he buys SLi becuase its the "1337 2600 leet OMGOWNZORZ" solution, then plugs his dual 7900GTs into his 17" monitor. SLI (as well as crossfire) is only worth if you plan to always have two super top end cards on a large monitor, otherwise you will have an SLi setup that could be matched or bested by a single card solution. It does not double your performance. If you buy one card, hoping to get the second one later, chances are there will be a single card relaeased by then that does just as well as two of the current cards in dual GPU mode. I also wouldn't be so quick to blast Intel for a couple of reasons. As the owner of AMD A64 computers, it pains me to say this, but there MIGHT (maybe, maybe) be advantages to using intel right now. -DDR2: The new AMD socket, AM2, due in june or so, will use DDR2. so if you got Intel now, you could use DDR2, and then when AM2 comes out you can compare it to the new Intel conroe core, and upgrade to either, but you'll already have the RAM in either case because both will use DDR2. DDR2 platforms also perform very well with more than 1GB of ram, good for games like BF2. However the current AMD memory controller handles more than 1GB of DDR1 quite nicely, to be sure; it has been said that DDR2 compatible controllers do better with more than one gig. http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2713&p=2 -on the other hand, AMD A64 skt 939 (and even 754) offer the best gaming performance that you can currently buy today, and, of course, they are the better value as well. One last consideration, there is are a few affinity fixes and workarounds that allow dual core processors to run single threaded games at full performance; games in the future will supposedly take advantage of multi-core processors more and more. However, for strict gaming, i would still get a single core if i was buying today.

sometimes a combo offer won't include critical information, and people get misled. this may be why people have advised against it. for instance, the combo offer might not tell you the type of core of the processor. I've even seen them for AMD 64 systems that didn't say the socket type on the ad. The seller will always be willing to clarify assuming that he is reputable. just make sure you know what you are getting. got any links?