New WoW Machine

[--Pete]

Hi,

Good thinking. You must have missed the post where I said I didn't care for ATI any more, but otherwise I think I agree with you.

Did some fast checking and using just pricewatch numbers, I concluded that if I got rid of the present motherboard, CPU, and video card and replaced them with:

Athlon 3500+
ASUS A8N-SLI
2 x 6600GT in SLI mode

then I would get about a 50% increase in video performance for a 5% drop in CPU performance (both numbers based on averages of game related tests from the Tom's links you supplied). And the total cost puts me just about $10 into the $50 reserve.

--Pete