The HD4850 and HD4870 have much better price to performance ratios, the 280 is overpriced by comparison. Also PCI-E 2.0 cards work just fine in PCI-x16 slots.General_X

In cross fire vs a single gtx 280, yes its out preforms the GPU, but anyways TC it actually depends if you wanna spend alot of money on a high end card. The GTX 280 is a very powerful card especially in sli but it's really expensive if price is a worry to you then I would suggest the GTX 260, HD4850, or Hd4870.

I plan to get a new motherboard, but I dont know which one to get. Here are the links for both, and thanks in advance.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188025

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131235

You don't seem to have enough connectors... but it should be alright to run.Bebi_vegeta

yeah I need to buy extra connectors for my 3rd graphics card that shouldn't be a problem, And thanks for your response.

I'm actually planning to do a tri sli with my 8800gtx ultra and I have a 900w PSU, is this enough to support my tri sli setup? And to add I may actually add watercooling would this mean I need to upgrade my PSU?

Heres the link to my PSU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817814013

And to answer your question yes I'm going to tri sli with the ultras, but I hope 900 watts is enough.

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So I'm creating my rig and I'm almost done, but I've done research on google about the new OS called windows 7 which is supposedly coming out in 2009-2010. I was going to purchase vista ultimate 64 bit, but Windows 7 coming out I'm still wondering if I should just purchase windows xp and purchase Windows 7 when its released. What do you guys think?

My Rig Specs:

ASUS Striker 2 Extreme

Corsair 4 gig DDR3 ram

seagate perpendicular 7200 320 gig HDD

Quad 9450

8800GTX Ultras

keymaster7

wow, awesome rig you got there. "8800GTX Ultras" with the "S" i guess you're gonna Tri-Sli it huh?...ok i see...since you have the money to buy all these expensive components why don't you get:

500GB hdd instead of 320GB

and it seems you forgot about the power supply?...get:

Corsair HX1000W that PSU is more than enough to power the most power hungry PC..

Anyways your question: Should you wait for Windows 7 or get Vista 64-Bits? I would take Vista because by the time Windows 7 comes out your rig won't be as powerful as now...remember GTX280 and Bloomfield and X58 power components are coming out in 2009?...so yeah

Hope this helps

I actually do have the PSU its a Tagan ABS 900 watt I hope its enough and I have 2 320 HDDs, I'm going to do RAID 0

If you you can wait 2 years you should waitPC_X360

Well actually probably just a year and a couple months. Lots of articles are saying that Windows 7 is being pushed to late 2009.

So I'm creating my rig and I'm almost done, but I've done research on google about the new OS called windows 7 which is supposedly coming out in 2009-2010. I was going to purchase vista ultimate 64 bit, but Windows 7 coming out I'm still wondering if I should just purchase windows xp and purchase Windows 7 when its released. What do you guys think?

My Rig Specs:

ASUS Striker 2 Extreme

Corsair 4 gig DDR3 ram

seagate perpendicular 7200 320 gig HDD

Quad 9450

8800GTX Ultras