Hey,
I am planning on building a gaming PC for myself. After some research I am having trouble deciding between these mobo: -
1. ASUS P5N32-SLI PREMIUM/WiFi-AP nVIDIA nFORCE 590 SLI CHIPSET with eVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 Video Card
2. ASUS P5W DH Deluxe with Sapphire Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
I plan to use crossfire/SLI (will buy the 2nd card after a couple of months) and 3 SATA disks in raid 5 config as I will be using the same PC for wrk and require data back-up.
In either case I would have the following components: -
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2.40GHz 4MB Shared L2
- Seagate 3.0Gbps 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Barracuda 7200.10
- NEC ND-3550A 16X DVD+/-RW
- OCZ Titanium Alpha VX2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2-1000 4-4-4-15
Also, need to decide on the case & power supply + cooling system (no water for me).
I would appreciate if the folks could help me make a decision on the mobo. Also, if there is an alternate mobo or any other component that you would suggest.
Thanks!
I am planning on building a gaming PC for myself. After some research I am having trouble deciding between these mobo: -
1. ASUS P5N32-SLI PREMIUM/WiFi-AP nVIDIA nFORCE 590 SLI CHIPSET with eVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 Video Card
2. ASUS P5W DH Deluxe with Sapphire Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
I plan to use crossfire/SLI (will buy the 2nd card after a couple of months) and 3 SATA disks in raid 5 config as I will be using the same PC for wrk and require data back-up.
In either case I would have the following components: -
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2.40GHz 4MB Shared L2
- Seagate 3.0Gbps 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Barracuda 7200.10
- NEC ND-3550A 16X DVD+/-RW
- OCZ Titanium Alpha VX2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2-1000 4-4-4-15
Also, need to decide on the case & power supply + cooling system (no water for me).
I would appreciate if the folks could help me make a decision on the mobo. Also, if there is an alternate mobo or any other component that you would suggest.
Thanks!