Which Components Should I Pick?

[Kobe]

If you had to choose which of these would you go with? I don't know
anything about different vendors so not sure which to buy.

eVGA 6800GS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130267
or
MSI 6800GS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127200


Next for a motherboard I've chosen an ECS KN1 SLI Extreme
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135203
Is there anything better for about the same price range or even
cheaper?


Finally an LCD monitor. I've narrowed it down to these 2.

Rosewill R912E 19" 8ms -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824021019
or
Viewsonic VA902B -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116363

The viewsonic does not have a DVI port but I don't know how important
that is but it has a bit higher ratio. Are there any other good 19"
8ms LCDs that you would recommend for about the same price as these?

As soon as I can decide on these 3 parts I'm ready to order my machine.
I've picked out a amd 64 3700+ processor and 2 GBs of memory to go
with this stuff.

 

[Kobe]

Can anyone help me out here? Along with the ECS motherboard I've
notice an ASUS A8N board that is about the same price. I currently
have an ECS and ASUS board in my computers and both seem fine but don't
know about the newer models. Also I'm really confused on the LCDs.
I've never heard of Rosewill before but do know that Viewsonic is well
known. The Rosewill has a DVI input but the Viewsonic has a bit better
contrast ratio.

 

[RJK]

I thought that ECS were "badged" PCchips motherboards, like "Eagle" and
"Elite" I've used lots of PCchips in the past but, alway preferred Asus, at
least the Asus website works and you can find and actually collect things
from it, unlike PCchips, who don't give a shit about after sales service !!
....after "The PCchips Lottery" website was archived, it got really hard
maintaining PCchips boards.

regards, Richard