its that time again

[[AK]JD]

My current P4 3.01 has served me well these past couple years and its now time to put it on ebay along with my 9800 AIW pro. I am looking at replaceing my current setup with the following.

Current:
ASUS P4P800
P4 3.01 (not sure which revision)
ATI 9800 PRO AIW 128
Enermax 350 PS

New:
ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe
P4 3.4 prescott 2MB 90nm em64
BFG 6800 Ultra OC 256 PCI-E
Fortron AX500-A 500w ps

I'd like to hear oppinions on my choices and if anyone sees any issues with any of the components I've listed please chime in.

Edit: upon doing some more research it appears the Radeon 850XT PE is alot faster than the 6800 U. I haven't yet seen any benchmarks with the 6800 Ultra OC... and roughly the same price.
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Fintail

[[AK]Hylander]

Oh sure.. you couldn't tell me this last week prior to me placing that order at newegg.com??!?!?!?

Just bustin' your chops.

[Katanas Blade]

I'm running a somewhat similar config to your current rig and one suggestion I'd have is getting two of the Western Digital Raptor HD's and set 'em up in RAID config. Even with my system being a year old I'm still loading maps faster then 99% of the other players in BF2. It's quite nice being able to spawn and grab my vehicle of choice (usually the blackhawk..) before most people have even gotten to the spawn screen.

[[AK]JD]

Agreed the raptor 10k's kick some serious butt, As you can see by the components I've chosen the piggy bank is going to be pretty much empty. I am even reusing my PC4000 memory.
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aromed vaporizers

[[AK]JD]

DOH, when did they come out with DDR2 and 3 looks like I can add ram to my list. Muskin 1GB PC-6400 DDR2-800 dual channel. I won't be playing any BF2 tonight, I've ordered the ram and should have it tomorrow... man that 6800 Ultra OC looks sweet!
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Ford Granada (North America) specifications

[[AK]StitchJones]

WD Raptor drives are a tough act to follow. it's just annoying they cost so much more and the capacity is so much less. I think that FightClub has a few of these guys in one of his boxes, or work boxes.

Tough break on the memory JD, but that's cool you got the Ultra version of the 6800. Very slick.

[[AK]FiGHT*CLuB]

I do run the raptors. They are very fast and I love them. Only problem with them is they have a very bad reputation of dieing after a few months. Its hit or miss with them. I missed because one died about 2 weeks ago so I have to send it back which I haven’t gotten around to yet.

Defiantly don’t want to store important info on them. but for gaming and programs, they cant be beat.