I absolutely cannot make up my mind..
I want to replace my 6 year old AthlonXP system (GeForce2!). I've got
two raptor SATA drives, and some other bigger drives, so I'm good
disk wise, so I'll be getting new only:
Mobo / CPU / RAM (2gb ram wanted)
Video Card (whatever ATI card I can get a decent deal on)
I'd like to spend in the range of $800 dollars or so (got some
flexibility with price, if some more money raised quality a lot, I
wouldn't mind). Ability to play Oblivion with decent speed is a
plus :-) (though I think SLI is prrobably out my price range)
I can't decide between a Core 2 Duo and an X2. I'm leaning towards
Intel right now (with ability to run OSX better as a plus) but am
having trouble picking Core 2 Duo motherboards--seems like a lot of
new ones are slated to be coming out in the next several months. I do
want to buy within a week or two, and don't want to feel like I'm
buying crap hardware (though I guess that's always a problem...)
Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
Scott
