# Building a new rig, Tech Gurus come on in

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**Created:** [April 24, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/building-a-new-rig-tech-gurus-come-on-in/11216 "2006-04-24T08:00:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/building-a-new-rig-tech-gurus-come-on-in/11216/6 "2006-04-24T21:56:39Z")

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> [@Clean Baldy](#):
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> DFI Lanparty Ultra-D motherboard. You can modify the Northbridge to make it a SLI board for cheaper, if you ever wish to do so later on.
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> AMD Opteron 165 Dual Core Socket 939 Processor (Double cache of x2 CPUs FTW)
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> 2GB Dual Channel Memory. There are good and bad. Find some links, PM me… i’ll tell you yes/no 🙂
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> Video Card… hmmm… with that price range, you can probably go X850 for around $200, or something a little nicer for around $300 (maybe a 7800 of some type). Make sure its a 256-bit video card, at least 256MB GDDR3 RAM, PCI-E x16, more than 12 pipelines is always nice.
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> People primarily run two high-end video cards if they’re gonna go SLI. The price vs. performance isn’t there, so you’ll get more performance from a $300 video card than you would with, say, two $200 ones running SLI.
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> I’d steer clear of the SLI with a budget of only $1200. Get a decent $200-$300 card. 🙂

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