March 15th Forum Contest: Epox 8NPA SLI Motherboard

Kill_A._Byte · Post by **Kill_A._Byte** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:06 am

Black Mesa Scientist wrote:On to the next contest!

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BiG Kahuna · Post by **BiG Kahuna** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:08 am

congrats!

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:09 am

Congrats TGM!!

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:28 am

omg! wutcha... fo.. ma.. goodness....

i can't believe i won! i feel so stunned.... omg! i never win anything, like 3 times in my life,lol.

this is soooo great! thank you so much.

i'm very happy

Apoptosis, thank you so much.

TGM

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:35 am

ok, i went and got a drink of water, lol

so whats a decent mid range PCIe vid card?

6800GT? 7600GT? 7800GT? hmmm dual 6600GT's?

i'm going to have to do some research on this now.

should i run 1 fast card? no i don't think i can afford that.

i should get one mid range card and then a bit later get another mid range card so that they'll both together be as fast as the one good fast card..... ya, but which ones?

hmmm....

TGM

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:38 am

oh yes, thank you for all the congrats guys

yes, i will post a pic of the mobo when it arrives

when will that be? how is this done?

TGM

Kill_A._Byte · Post by **Kill_A._Byte** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:54 am

Hows this? At that price you could prolly get two.

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:06 am

Kill_A._Byte wrote:Hows this? At that price you could prolly get two.

i was thinking maybe one 6800GT, then later get another 6800GT. i'd love to step up to the 7800GT or the 7600GT but i'm pretty sure i can't afford that.

i'm looking around at newegg right now.

i don't have much money to spend and i need a new psu to run this mobo and vid card(s) as my psu was bought back in 2002. so i can't get too overly zealous with my purchasing ideas.

TGM

Johnie · Post by **Johnie** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:25 am

Congratulations TheGeekMistress! Enjoy Your new Mobo! And dont forget to post some pictures when it arrives. Have a nice day/night everyone!

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:29 am

i will post some pix

i've been snooping around and it looks like the XFX Geforce 6800GS would be the card i buy for it. two of these and i'd have 24 pixel pipes and 512mb of ram. now to try and figure out how to afford a $200 card and a $100 psu... that'll take time.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150118

Graphics Core: 256-bit
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 32 GB/sec
Vertices Per Second : 531 Million
Memory Date Rate : 1.1 GHz
Pixels per Clock (peak) : 12
Textures per Pixel: 12
RAMDACs : 400 MHz
Fill Rate : 5.1 Billion Texels/sec.
Memory Clock : 1.1GHz (vs standard at 1GHz)
Engine Clock : 485MHz (vs standard at 425MHz)
Chipset : GeForce 6800 GS
Memory: 256 MB
Bus Type: PCI-E
Memory Type : DDR3
Memory Bus : 256-bit
Output: DVI
Highlighted Features : TV Out , SLI ready , HDTV ready

TGM

pcrobot · Post by **pcrobot** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:54 am

Enjoy your new mobo TGM!!!

werewolfdaddy · Post by **werewolfdaddy** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:58 am

Congrats.

stev · Post by **stev** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:08 pm

TGM,

Nice win!

What AMD64 S754 CPU will be going into this bad boy?

Stev

SAMSAMHA · Post by **SAMSAMHA** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:16 pm

congrat man.

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:32 pm

stev wrote:TGM,

Nice win!

What AMD64 S754 CPU will be going into this bad boy?

Stev

well, first i need a video card and new psu.... that will take a few months to afford, but then i'll throw in my mobile newark that does 3200mhz and see where that goes. i was just reading that the mobo doesn't support DTR mobile chips, but mine is not a DTR, just mobile. so i'll prolly end up buying a 3100+ sempron and running the 9x multi and what ever HT Bus it'll clock up to. so the 6800GS, new psu, and new cpu.... i won't be able to afford that for the better part of this summer as i live on a fixed income of 600/m and rent alone is 470/m

i gota birthday coming up and some friends that like to get me computer stuffs, so maybe i can swing something. hehe

TGM

PuterPrincess · Post by **PuterPrincess** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:33 pm

WELL DESERVED!!! YAY TGM!!! WOOOOOTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!

76/\/\ |20xx5!!!!

WOOHOOOO...

umm... <.< >.> uuummm... can i touch it when no one is looking! =)

TheGeekMistress · Post by **TheGeekMistress** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:40 pm

PuterPrincess wrote:WELL DESERVED!!! YAY TGM!!! WOOOOOTTTTSSSSSSS!!!!!

76/\/\ |20xx5!!!!

WOOHOOOO...

umm... <.< >.> uuummm... can i touch it when no one is looking! =)

ty, ty, curtesies

101, '/35 j0u /\/\4'/ /\/\'/ |)34|2, jU5+ |33 93|\|+13

hehe

TGM

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:42 pm

Congrats

we know you will make the most of it thats for sure.

PCIe cards:
6800GT good price/ good overclocking
X850XT good price/ good overclocking / IMO better IQ

Both are sub $200 now

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:45 pm

oh be sure to PM your shipping info to me. I'll try to get it packed up today and drop it off at USPS tomorrow. This one is coming out of the personal stash ;)

zachig · Post by **zachig** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:06 pm

Congrats, TheGeekMistress!!!