Graphics Card

Hi all,

I decided to go with the Ausus A8N-SLI Premium as a motherboard. Higher spec
than I probably need, but I liked it.

I'm trying to decide on a PCI-Express graphics card. My budget at the moment
is £120.

I doubt I'll get an SLI compatible graphics card at this price, will I? (If
not I'll get two in the future when prices drop and I have a little more
money to spend).

In the mean time, what do you suggest for this price?

I've been looking at the
'Point of View GeForce 6600 GT 128MB'
'PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600GT PCI-E 128MB' (has good reviews on e-buyer)
'Sapphire X800GTO 256mb GDDR3 PCI-E VGA/TVO/DVI'
'Connect 3D X800GTO 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E DVI VIVO'

but am open to other suggestions.

I'm still interested in the idea of a water cooled pc, so a compatible
graphics card would be useful.

Regards,
Jonathan

"Midnight Moocher" <jonathan.matthews73 RemoveThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I decided to go with the Ausus A8N-SLI Premium as a motherboard. Higher
> spec than I probably need, but I liked it.
>

Nooooooooooooooooo no, never, no, not ever, never, no! Nooooooooooooooooooo!

I have an A8N-Sli (AFAICT the only realy change in the Premium was a higher
price tage and some extra LAN-based stuff)...and....oh man...it had driven
me insane. I've had a few problems with it - but it's been running ok for
some time now. Hopefully they were just 'teething' troubles and everything
has settled down now.
I still haven't gotten around to getting the replacement chipset fan that
ASUS provide to purchasers of these mobos.

But yeah...I *strongly* recommend you seriously look into other SLI-capable
mobos.
Just my feelings.

> I'm trying to decide on a PCI-Express graphics card. My budget at the
> moment is £120.
>
> I doubt I'll get an SLI compatible graphics card at this price, will I?
> (If not I'll get two in the future when prices drop and I have a little
> more money to spend).
>
> In the mean time, what do you suggest for this price?
>
> I've been looking at the
> 'Point of View GeForce 6600 GT 128MB'
> 'PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600GT PCI-E 128MB' (has good reviews on e-buyer)
> 'Sapphire X800GTO 256mb GDDR3 PCI-E VGA/TVO/DVI'
> 'Connect 3D X800GTO 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E DVI VIVO'
>
> but am open to other suggestions.
>
> I'm still interested in the idea of a water cooled pc, so a compatible
> graphics card would be useful.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>