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Hi, i am in the process of building a work/play/home computer. so far, it's looking like: Abit IC7 mobo PIV 2.8C ghz with ht 512 3200 ram 80GB WD hd with 8MB cache dvd/cdrw combined drive so, i'm stuck with the vid card question. Newegg is having a sale on the 9800 pro, but its still $200, which is ...

That would probably put me overbudget right now, but i wil be able to upgrade to that in a month or two. Thanks for the link

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See..that's the problem...there is always something better and that's great. I'm not wanting "Top of the line" stuff, i am just confused when something totally new comes out and is pretty close in price, like hte 2.8c and 2.8e. My main concern is to run photoshop very very quickly and with...

that's what i was thinking... so basically, stock for stock, the C will be faster than the E, but in OC'd applications, the E will perform better...sound about right? So...probably best to just save the money right now? Also, i was thinking of incompatibilities with the motherboard as i don't know w...

sooo say you're buying an Abit IC7 mobo, 512 MB of kingston ram, sata hd, ATI 9800 pro and you're looking at cases and the possibility of overclocking, but maybe not, depends on stability...is the extra 512 KB of cache worthwhile? or is that just Intel's way of making the way for faster future chips...