Hello all,
I had a 2800+ barton on a Gigabyte GA7VAxp which have both died - it spends most of it's time on, and whilst I was out the plastic lugs on the mobo decided to come free, the heatsink came loose, you can imagine the mess - one dead cpu & mobo
So, wanting to stick with AMD was just after some advice/feedback on the following:
mobo - Asus a8n-sli
cpu - amd x2 4200+
gfx - ????
Will get a sata2 hdd and use the existing 2GB pc3200 RAM - the system is used for quite a bit of gaming and a lot of general and heavy data crunching - imaging, videos, rainbow table generation etc.
It's been a while since I built a system (other than simple desktop), what gfx card to recommend? Don't want to spend silly money, but want something at least half decent. Do I need an SLI board, or should I be looking at AM2?
Thanks chaps!