Still on new build but more help please

[Vaughn]

OK all those who have offered help to the last post Many thanks. Got me
really thinking, did a little research, and have decided to go for an
AMD Duel core, this is fairly simple, but Motherboard is a little harder.

One of you offered a site for comparisons, and after looking through
their listings I need to know if I need this feature.

they give a listing of board specifications on
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=412312

and one not checked is the SLI. did some reading up on this and it is a
kind of graphics system to improve the graphics rendering.

I am going to play games but his is not a games machine, but more a work
tool, and picture tool for my photography. Again not too high as I just
don't have the cash, but do I need SLI?

thanks again for all the help, please keep it coming ;-)

Vaughn

 

[Shannon]

OK all those who have offered help to the last post Many thanks. Got
me really thinking, did a little research, and have decided to go for
an AMD Duel core, this is fairly simple, but Motherboard is a little
harder.
One of you offered a site for comparisons, and after looking through
their listings I need to know if I need this feature.

they give a listing of board specifications on
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=412312

and one not checked is the SLI. did some reading up on this and it is
a kind of graphics system to improve the graphics rendering.

I am going to play games but his is not a games machine, but more a
work tool, and picture tool for my photography. Again not too high as
I just don't have the cash, but do I need SLI?

thanks again for all the help, please keep it coming ;-)

Do you require an SLI capable board ? Not from what you've written.

In some instances the price premium for an SLI board may be lower than you
think.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=462650

 

[Marcel Overweel]

Hi Vaughn,

SLI is nVidia's system for multi graphics setups.
ATI's counterpart is called CrossFire.

It's use is to allow you to add two or even more graphics cards on one
mainboard and let them work together to increase the number of frames
your computer can generate each seconds.
Mostly interesting for generating all the fancy 3d effects games,
hardly for anything else.
And even if you would go into gaming, SLI and CrossFire are only
interesting when running games on high resolutions like 1280x1024 or
better, although this also depends on a lot of other factors.

Normal (2d) graphics programs like paintshop, photoshop and the like
only uses a very small percentage of the abilities of your graphics card.
SLI is really no use at all for what you describe.

regards,
Marcel

 

[Vaughn]

OK all those who have offered help to the last post Many thanks. Got me
really thinking, did a little research, and have decided to go for an
AMD Duel core, this is fairly simple, but Motherboard is a little harder.

One of you offered a site for comparisons, and after looking through
their listings I need to know if I need this feature.

they give a listing of board specifications on
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=412312

and one not checked is the SLI. did some reading up on this and it is a
kind of graphics system to improve the graphics rendering.

I am going to play games but his is not a games machine, but more a work
tool, and picture tool for my photography. Again not too high as I just
don't have the cash, but do I need SLI?

thanks again for all the help, please keep it coming ;-)

Vaughn

Many thanks to both now feel a lot more able to make a real decision on
this part.

Vaughn

 

[Chiz]

High-end gaming tends to lean towards SLI based graphics systems.

No need to bother, as games do not require a SLI be in place over the
conventional specifications.

Good choice on the AMD platform... The sad thing about it is that
frequent improvements are being made in a quick pace, and sooner or
later, there would be more CPU cores better, and cheaper.

We thank AMD for pushing the envelope, thanks to their hypertransport
technology. It definitely pushes Microsoft's hyperthreading down a
notch..