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DLewis that is what the killer does, it has an onboard processor upto 400 MHz and 64 megs of built in ram to process this information to save the processors from doing so, and it stores the packets it needs for the game on the nic card instead of the hard drives so it doesn't have as much work to do in order to get thing running.

check out the videos on the killernic.com page or on youtube type in killer nic

Sometimes you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink!

yeah that's what i figured. I'm just looking at all the options there are.

I've been told that no one needs a quad core cpu, that a dual core 3.0 will run more efficiently and will run circles around a quad core...... Something about windows only using 3.5 gig of ram and you don't need 4 or 6 or 8 gig...........I don't get it lol. Also told me that Asus mobo's aren't really as good as everyone says they are.

I am either thinking about going with the dual core 3.0 and 4 gig ram, or the quad with 4 gig of ram. He also told me that if you're using a bigger monitor(which i am using only a 17 flat right now but hope to get up to at least a 22 wide) that if you run dual gfx cards that the games will run slower, so it's best to go with just 1 good card. ie. 8800gts or gt i forget what he said. I need a gfx card that will accept VGA for the time being. I would like to have hdmi or dvi to conver to hdmi so i can run it around the corner and over to our 40" 1080p lcd samsung.(not really needed but woud be nice for movies) instead of having movies on my 500 GB external and playing them off my laptop onto the TV.

he said he can run crysis and other games on all full bore settings with his 3.0 2 gig ram setup that he has in the shop on display.

I also want to swap out my 2 250GB ide's for 1 or 2 sata's...I'm thinking a 200GB or so for the windows and applications, and then a bigger one for all my movies and pictures and other files that I currently have in my pc right now.

Fill me in guys.

what mobo would you go with, cpu, ram, gfx card....middle of the road 8GB capability for the future if I needed it, gfx card to last and work for anything I would need it for(I'm not a heavy gamer but I enjoy lag free, glitch free gameplay with I do play a game), I do video editing, picture editing, computing, surfing, online playing.ie CS S
COD4,maybe crysis, nitto legends, and others.

1800$ in just gfx cards....PHUCK THAT LOL

yeah i've used asus in the past and always liked them.

here i'll post a setup i'm thinking about and you tell me what you guys think.

  MBM-680ILT-Q6600 :: XFX GeForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard CPU Bundle - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor 2.40GHz OEM (5.2 lbs) 
         
 O261-8040 :: OCZ ReaperX Dual Channel 4096MB PC8000 DDR2 1000MHz Memory (2 x 2048MB) (0.75 lbs) 

not a good mobo?

can it be overclocked?

fill me in guys

if you have links to comparable units let me know

SURE WHAT THE HELL LOL.

wants:
the ability to upgrade to 8 gig ram if needed in future,
gfx card capable of handling almost anything a novice gamer can through at it
I'm thinking quad core
a mobo that will allow for overclocking a lil
i'm thinking a i like that antec nine hundred case(it will keep everything nice and cool)
500w ps?
what gfx i don't know.


or does any of this sound off?

I do host files on ftp. but 4 gig is prolly good for now....and 8 gig in case for the future, you never know how things are going to go for the data word man. we have a 2.2 amd with 1 gig in this HP thing here and it was sweet when we first got it and after the last format...but gaming lately sucks donkie doo.(wife don't notice but I do) I can't go more ran on this thing, and it will only accept upto a 2.4 GHz cpu.

and overclocking just if I would need or want to....

not much I don't know lol.

I had a 1.4 in an old pc i over clocked to 1.77 i liked it.haha.

I remember a few comments that claim the 680i and quad cores and overclocking don't really work well together.  It can still work (just like the good ol' finicky DFI Ultra-D), but it takes a lot more effort. The P35 chipset is newer and basically superior.

You're also underestimating the power needed from the GPU.