Building my first system...

never bieng keen on amazon, yes thats why i want to buy from newegg, they have a massive selection,bazzillionssssssssssssssssssss of graphics cards ;p

 

I though Monarch was good in the UK?

 

monarch, what, i have never heard of them :s

 

if your in the u.k. try www.overclockers.co.uk or www.rlsupplies.co.uk they are pretty good and delivery is usually within a couple of days...thats where i get my stuff from

 

I think Venice is for normal Athlon64s and San Diego is FX line?
Try www.dabs.com or www.savastore.com.

 

so newcastle is better?

 

no Venice is better than newcastle. Go for it.

 

hmm,how much extra performance would i get from a venice 3500+ than a newcastle 3500+

 

Oh, 10% maybe. Nothing huge, unless you oc it.

 

ah, i think al go with a newcastle then.

 

They've got SanDiego 3700's Addis, but you knew that right?

 

how much extra performance will a sandiego 3700+ have than a newcastle 3700+

Also, were do they get these names from (san diego, venice, newcastle, winchester,)
lol are they all locations, 2 of em are in the uk, and proberbly usa aswell, 1 in france, and another in the use, why place names?

 

Quite a bit actually concidering that SanDiego is socket 939 only and NewCastle was for 754 so you'll see like up to a 20% boost if you're lucky in some tasks. As for the place names I can't really say, other than you're correct about that, was Barton a city somewhere? Otherwise it would seem like only the 64-bit chips took on place names, could very well be wrong about that though.

 

I buy from Newegg also , but I also buy from ZipZoom Fly and hardly ever hear them mentioned. I just got thru getting my stuff for new puter and had to use both to get all I wanted. Such as;
NEWEGG
XASER III V2000A case $159.00
W/D 36 gig Raptor 116.00
Plextor 716A Burner 106.99
Scanner 84.25
Card reader 13.99
Floppy 11.00
Shipping 32.41

Zipzoomfly

Leadtek 7800GTX Video $554.99
Maxtor 300gig SATA H/D 177.50
Coolermaster 555W power supply 119.00
Athlon 64 4000 retail 473.90
Asus A8N-E M/B 113.00
Corsair 3200C2PT 2GB memory 250.00
Shipping 00.00

Pretty hard to find one place that has it all at the best price. What I really like about Zip is the freight is built into the selling price. Most all is " Free 2nd Day " , except cases.

 

dont give away that much for one big drive, get two raptors and raid them for 40$ more, half the space, twice the speed

 

cool specs

 

Yeah you'd get awesome speed for your load and search times, if I had that kind of money I'd do it. Wouldn't it be 4x the speed if a raptor is like 2x as fast almost, but raided is another 2x faster.
Save yourself $50 on the 7800: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122224
You might like that optical drive for reasons I don't know of but for speed this one seems just fine for a lot cheaper: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152047

 

Hmmm, RAID isn't a full 2x speedgain but it is very noticable.

 

Okay so it isn't but theoretically it should be.