My computer build.

[oldgregg]

I bought this, & it does everything you need, plus it's mobile.

[BrokenFeather78]

Originally Posted by Bayer-Z28

The M4A78 is a 790 NB board, IIRC. Should suit you well.. Never heard of the graphics card though. Good deal of a budget build.. Got some higher end ram there, so that'll eat up some funds.

Maybe a 4870 would suit you better for CAD? Never heard of the GS250, GTX series, yes. The 4870 would most likely out perform it and they can be had for a comparable price now. See if you can find yours in this link: http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f76/gr...e-list-212331/ I'm gonna wait till the new 5870's come down in price. Still a bit much for me seeing as I got my 4870 when it was still fresh for $190.

As far as the board, I have an M4A78 Pro sitting around, but I was never very fond of it. My Gigabyte board just *felt* faster for some reason, and it's an inferior 790gx NB. Asus boards are supposed to be really good, but I'm just off of them for a little while. The GB board never loads windows the same way twice, but the bios is GREAT!!! I HATE Award Bios in the Asus boards, but they are very consistent. Just a trade-off of what you love/hate more.

The quad cores are multitasking MONSTERS though!! If you're coming from a dual core, you will LOVE it!! Overclock it!! What are you running for a cooler? The stock AMD PII coolers are actually really efficient on the PII chips. They've gone up to 4g with them.

oh and NEW out this month and next:

NEW 4** series Femi NVidia cards
NEW AMD 1055 X6 chips 0_o
NEW 890NB MoBo's

It's gonna be a busy year. TRYING not to get sucked into the computers again!

The locals in Athens, Greece were less confusing!!!

[Bayer-Z28]

^ Most people have only used a dual core processor in their computers; Athlon X2 or Core2Duo. When you switch from those to a Quad-Core Processor, there is a HUGE difference with how much it can handle being asked to do. -Like an LS7 for your computer. To top the Quad cores, AMD is releasing a SIX CORE Phenom 2 series processor this month. 0_o Some are already out, and server chips have been out.

My laptop is an Athlon X2 and it can only handle so much. My big computer on the other hand.... . good god.. The new graphics cards (video) out now are getting such high frames per seconds ratings that if things advance any further, the human eye is the weak part in that it can no longer differentiate the frame rate difference.

[TBerry95z28]

buncha nerds hahaha jk

[Bayer-Z28]

^ Damn straight!

But isn't it just soo nice to be able to machine gun click stuff and have the computer respond instead of having it fall flat on it's face and give you error messages.

[KLAB]

All my stuff came in yesterday :]