New video card equals oops...

[joesomebody]

Ok... so I went to one of my favorite shopping sites, www.woot.com, and bought a pair of the SLI video cards they are whoring today...

Well... after I'd bought them I realized that SLI are PCI-E slot not just regular old PCI... so that made me realize I'd need a new motherboard...

So I went shopping and realized no motherboard I could find that had PCI-E slots would support my Intel Pentium 4 2.4G 478... it had to be the newer LGA775's...

So here is where I realized I'd need a new MOBO and a new CPU... OH and then I realized all the newer MOBO's only take DDR2 memory, so I figured out that I had to buy new memory too...

So I did some shopping around and came up with this set up...

Motherboard: ABIT NI8-SLI
CPU: Intel Celeron D 3.2 Ghz
Memory: Kingston 1GB DDR2 533
Video Card: 2 of the BFG GeForce 6600 128MB PCI-Express SLI Video Cards

Could one of you intelligent Chiefsplanet members take a look at this setup and advise... I still have time to cancel everything but the video cards...

The video cards are what made me upgrade anyway...

[joesomebody]

Nah, gaming system isn't really what I was going for... I needed a new video card cause my old one is crapping out on me (screen goes black at odd times, and also having lines scroll vertically every now and then)

I saw the 6600 read good reviews on it, priced it and saw it was cheap.

I've been wanting to upgrade anyway, so while it was a mistake, it wasn't the end of the world.

This whole upgrade (new motherboard, gig of ddr2 ram, 2 video cards, much faster processor, new case with a much better power supply, and a tv tuner card) cost me about 440 dollars. I'm selling all the old stuff from my current computer for 200 dollars.

So I'm getting a MUCH improved computer for 240 dollars.

It sounds like I could have been smarter with my choices, but all in all its not a bad deal