gonna slap it in here when they become available on January 5th
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=RS480M2-IL&class=mb
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=639

[ 12-31-2004: Message edited by: Devastator ]

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You may want to consider going with an Athlon 64 3500+ or 3800+ Socket 939 instead. More cost, but might be a little more compatible.

[ 12-31-2004: Message edited by: AcidWarp ]

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

oops I posted the wrong one Look at the link again, I corrected it

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Nice Processor but I haven't run into anything tough enough to really test it yet

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When I get a good PCI-E card, I may (depending on my experience) go ahead and look around for a board replacement at that time. So you like the chip? the 512 (instead of 1GB) cache is a bummer but it's DDR so it's supposed to make up for it.

(I've seen the marks though, all depends on what you're doing.)

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Did I mention that card can be had for like $200USD or less even?

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

although I was gonna ask you guys before I commited. I'm really out of the loop. My goal is to build a "Budget" PC with some muscle and upgrade potential

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Also If I grab one with PCI-Express then the machine won't breath until I can get one I've been out of work for over a year now so that impacts my approach to this whole thing

The Radeon XPRESS200 chipset on that Micro-ATX board can share up to 128MB of RAM (of which I'm going to start out with 1GB) and I was hoping that would work for me for a month or two until I could get a vid card.

Find me a s939 board (They're rare enough as it is it seems) with PCI-E and onboard NVidia and I can go the route you suggested easily.

I'm impatient as hell hard enough just waiting for the parts I already have ordered lol.

I'm currently running a 2.0Ghz Northwood with 256MB RAM and GF2 MX 400 64MB in the AGP slot.

PCI=E and AGP will never both be on the same board for technical reasons.

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That MSI board DOES have a PCI-e 16x slot on it, so the 6600 might be a good upgrade option down the road.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Dev, that was actually the chip I was looking at. I am sorta starting to re-pique at the whole SLI idea. I was late in getting into 3D (the Voodoo2 came out right after I got my Monster)...and I was always too far behind the curve to take the plunge at SLI. Back then, $500 was a retarded amount to pay for 2 video cards. Now we pay that for 1!! So I am thinking that I will go that rout...maybe a AMD64 3500+, Asus A8N-SLI and maybe a couple 6600GTs or depending what the prices do in the next 5-6 months (I will not spend $1500 on video though!!). Just because I was late before...I want amazement

Good choices Dev. Intel is continually falling further and further behind on reasons to contiue supporting them. I went with AMD for a couple chips to "experiment" and am now wishing I never left...the innovation coming from AMD is staggering in comparison with Intel. Classic example of why you cannot have a single player in any game *COUGH*MICROSOFT*COUGH*.

The chip was only $274.00 at Newegg which seemed like a good price to get into the s939 game. I was looking at the 3200+ until Futureman explained to me that I needed to go 939 instead of 754.

I have a 1030-SX Antec SOHO case that I purchased and never used. So I plan on using that (maybe up the power supply though).

Heh, I finally am making decent machine choices? I never do that.

~watches the sky for a sign

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”