Getting that new hardware itch...

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > Here's what I'm thinking - any recommendations or suggestions
> > are welcomed. I'm not a gamer or a multi-media guy - I do science
> > and noodling around so I don't need really high performance graphics,
> > but I like to have oodles of memory and plenty of cycles. I run gentoo.
> >
> > cpu : 2 Ghz Athlon 64 939
> > Motherboard : ASUS A8N-SLI - not sure which one, regular, premium, or
> > deluxe Disk : 2x250 Gb Western SATA
> > Memory : 2 Gb (4 Kingston 512k DDK 400)
> > DVD/CD/RW : Sony DRU 700A??
> > Video : eVGA GeForce 6200 128 Mb??
> > Audio : soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
>
> > Not sure on the video card - I'd kinda like to get one that has the option
> > for dual heads. I might want to do that in the future.
> >
>
> Dual-head and SLI are mutually exclusive (that is you can't use them
> simultaneously as far as I know) so since you say you're not a gamer I'd skip

That is correct right now.  SLI=one head.


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