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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2414735" data-attributes="member: 149">The X600 Pro is going to have half the performance of an X700/pro, for $10-$20 dollars less. I'd spend the extra money. Don't bother with the all in wonder cards unless you really need to make your PC act like a TV. One of the advantages of this motherboard from what I understand is that it is a great overclocker. For that you aren't going to want the fastest chips, so the 3800+ is probably a good choice. An advantage to the dual core chips from what I understand, is that you can be playing Doom3 while still having other stuff running in the background without a performance hit. The 4400+ is probably your most bang/buck choice if that sounds attractive. *************Edit*************The motherboard was convertable to being SLI, however they have made changes to it that prevent it from being converted. If you want to use SLI you will now have to spend an extra $60 to get the LANParty nF4 SLI-DR. However the DFI LanParty U-T nF4-D is still a very good overclocker. *************Edit*************The Thermaltake XP-90c isn't cheap, but it is by all acounts the best heatsink/fan out there. You will want a good heatsink for the processor if you have any overclocking ambitions.<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835109122" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835109122</a>Another advantage of the AMD chips is that they can benefit from low latency ram, since their memory controller is built into the chip. So you might want to consider Ram with 2-2-2-5 timings. It would be more expensive though.</blockquote>

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