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Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:59 am

ps, your mobo supports 7.1 sound already, why spend the extra money on a soundcard?

Post by **Gidan** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:23 am

This is true also, when I quickly ran through your list I just assumed you had picked out the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty, that one has onboard memory which frees up system memory. The sound card you have selected will not really give you noticably beter sound then your onboard sound.

kaharthemad · Post by **kaharthemad** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:28 am

the only thing to add here man, besides my wife teling you to look at the MSI borads, is to make sure your rig is crossfire compatible. If it aint dual SLI aint worth a damn when it boils down. Boards are either NVIDIA dual SLI or crossfire, never both. alot of people boost that this is not the case, however we did tests here at the shop using dual NVIDIA SLI's and 2 crossfire both tested fine on the boards that were setup for the specific dual SLI of that brand. We swapped them (NVIDIA on Crossfire Board, and Crossfire on NVIDIA board) and we found (After fighting to get the damn things to work right) a significant decrease in performance.

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:30 am

Tikker wrote:
Menlaan wrote:I didn't realize the MB came with onboard network access, and I thought it would be useful to have a wireless adapter as well for the times that my cable modem is down (which seems to happen ever few months).

Menlaan

That doesn't make any sense either

If your cable is down, what are you connecting to wirelessly?

My neighbors'. I have a couple of neighbors who haven't protected their Wireless. I don't make a habit of stealing their bandwidth, but when my cable modem is down it can be a life-saver.

Thanks for the soundcard advice too.

Menlaan