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buy.com has the XFX Alpha Dog 512MB for $249 shipped. I'd probably buy that one, but I'm waiting until after the Christmas dust settles.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
Wow, it seems like they're even less available right now.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
Also, the only way Americans can pay is via PayPal. I hope I didn't make a poor choice in using that.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
The last 4 cards in this house have been ATI's, but I think the next 2 are going to be NV. The 3850/70 are pretty good for people on a tighter budget though.
Q9450 + TRUE, G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2, GTX 560, ASUS X48, 1TB WD Black, Windows 7 64-bit, LG M2762D-PM 27" + 17" LG 1752TX, Corsair HX620, Antec P182, Logitech G5 (Blue)
Laptop: MSI Wind - Black
FYI, buy.com e-mailed to let me know the XFX card is back in stock, but they've also jacked their price another $10 to $273 shipped. Newegg pushed their availability date back another week.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
My Galaxy arrived today. I can see that I have the new cooler on it, but I won't know more until I get it home.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
I installed it, and have about 10 minutes of Portal played. SO much faster than the X800 it replaced. I have lots of Filtering and AA options to try, but I was just playing the game at 1680x1050, with everything on High and full HDR, and the game was usually 200-240fps, but there was one scene where things would drop to 100fps if I looked at it right.
This card is unusual in that it has 2 PCIe power sockets. I have one of them plugged in. It also has a jumper to overvolt the card, but I'm running it stock right now. ATITool crashed the system when I tried to let it auto-overclock the card. It actually seemed OC the card, then go way too far in bringing the speed back down. Not sure.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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