[FaDeEvetS]

Originally Posted by Hydroid

Last person I told to go Nvidia rather than ATI/AMD ignored me and came and apologized after 3 months saying never again will they buy a video card from them. You might save some money, but they can't do drivers right. Every couple of weeks he would be having issues with drivers in relation to a new game. If all you do is play 1 game (hopefully SC2) and stick with it for years I'd be fine recommending AMD because they can only mess up drivers so many times for the same game.

to be fair back when the 200gtx series was popular didnt nvidia release a set of drivers that 'blew' some peoples gpu's up cause the default fan profiles were wrong?

[|Erasmus|]

Originally Posted by TCPLemminks

GL Mate^^
Didn't Nvidia release a driver update that killed their graphics cards a while back?

Also are Western Digitals that bad? Cause I have this one in my current build

No. all manufacturers of all products will have bad items. I've just been unlucky with western digital in the past, and my preference will be for other brands. Im just pointing out that it's silly to take a personal anecdote for reliability and beat it into every internet random.

[IcedTea]

I think getting a sound card is a good choice. If you have a 5.1 system, it'll sound much better with the correct sound card to support it.