A64 3000+ K8T800 or P4 630 i925X based system?

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..I could replace my 2.8c with the 3.0c I'm getting and auction the
2.8c and the IS7-E off for probably less than a $30 or $40 hit...I
took another look and it turns out my current CPU is already a 3.0C
Northwood, so I'm going to be pretty happy having two of them. I
just hope the IS7-E motherboard doesn't provide too much of a
liability in having only 2 memory slots and not having firewire or a
RAID controller. If that becomes an issue, I'll probably just sell
it and look for another P4P800-E Deluxe.

I'm figuring that by the time the kids need a lot of power for games,
there'll be a new generation of processors and platforms anyway, In
the meantime, this'll be a pretty capable machine for a while.
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I cant remember how many slots it has probably 5 id think for cards.

You can always get a firewire card. Thats what I did. Xmas sales are
coming like I keep brining up and tomorrow possibly Halloween sales
week or maybe not, Anyway - I got one from old compusa for 10 bucks on
sale ages ago, Im actually not using it yet. Usually they are around
20 bucks there but you can find them for 10-15 on ebay usually. Of
course they charge kind of high shipping nowadays.

They also sell RAID cards cheap too. I used to see the Silicon Image
RAID controller cards for 10-15 on ebay and on the net they were cheap
too. Frankly RAID I doubt youll need it as Anandtech says. Im only
doing it cause of the reasons I mentioned.

And remember I only have 3 PCI slots because the new PCI express
boards for AMD tend to have 3 old PCI slots and use two of the usual 5
slots for PCI express 1x or faster for future PCI express cards that
may someday be out . And of course theres the ONE video 16x PCI ex
slot.

So Im using a music recording card Audiophile 2496, TV tuner -
hauppauge 150 and a modem for faxing. I use cable but I like to use
the old modem for faxing. I bought an external modem on sale so I
could free that slot and use it for a Audigy in the future for better
game sounds. Im using my onboard sound now.

Id like actually and this was my plan buy a PCI express TV tuner or
Creative sound card but no one seems to be coming out with them even
almost a year after the motherboards are out. Creative says there are
technical difficulties they have to solve.

You having an older boards should have lots of slots to add anything
you want but of course that adds cost so up to a point it may not make
sense.

Memory is pretty cheap and probably will be on deep discount over the
holiday so you may be able to pick up a great deal. Frankly if you are
that worried about it buy ONE 1 gig stick so that you can add another
1 gig stick later. Just ask around to make sure there are no
incompatibliities .

Im sure it will be fast enough for any game you want to play and you
even said you arent a fanatical gamer. Im going to be testing out
FEAR, COD2, Quake4 pretty soon on my 800XL. Im even having insane
thoughts of going for a 7800GT and selling my 800XL but I have a long
list of stuff to get - dual core, more mem, Canon Rebel etc.
 
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