Looking For A New Higher End Vid Card + Mobo

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  1. II Phix II

    II Phix II Well-Known Member

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    Looking for new stuff, gunna start looking now as it may be awhile before i can actually buy anything so basically, im looking for this

    - Socket 939 mobo w/PCI-e

    - Highmid - high end card (pci-e)

    all for ~500

    thx to anyone who helps
     
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    take your pick for the motherboard, but for the card, I suggest either a x1800XL or a 7800GT. if you get the 1800, you might want to get a crossfire compatable motherboard though, but don't bother with the 7800 and SLI.
     
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    well, the thing is, ive never had any luck with mobos, all the one ive ordered have flat out blown, so i was thinking heavily about a dfi, so if anyone has any recommendaions, they would be heavily appreciated
     
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    vid cards looks alright, i was thinking maybe something a litttle less high end on the mobo side though, favorable reviews are also really good to have imo
     
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    yeah im not really sure if some of the boards are decent, mostly because a lot of them are getting ---- reviwes, so if anyone else has anything
     
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    dfi make the best motherboards. The only ones that have gone bad were the first batch of SLI-Experts and their crossfire board which killed cpus. they have fixed their issues on them and all the others have been fine from launch.
     
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