915G Combo And Double-Wide Card...

Hello everyone,
Question for you all:
I have a 915G Combo motherboard with an X800XT video card, but want to upgrade to the X1900XTX. However, the X1900XTX is classed as a 'double-wide' card. Is the 915G able to acccomodate it?
Regards,
Thor

Naw, a Pentium-D does not necessarily mean better 3D performance.
Remember a lot of games out there are written to take advantage of a single core only.  There are only a handful of games out there right now that takes advantage of two CPU cores.  At high resolutions, it's usually the graphics card that's the bottleneck, especially if you are using forced antialiasing or anisotropic filtering.  FSAA and AF are independent of the CPU, and they take a lot of graphics card power.
I wouldn't get the 1900XTX for a different reason...  It takes too much electrical power, runs too hot and makes too much noise.  I prefer the new 90nm Nvidia 7900GT, which uses just 85W of power at peak and dissipates around that much heat.  Works wonderfully with the rig in my sig.
As far as double-wide graphics cards go, it just means you lose the use of the slot next to your graphics card because it's taken up by the graphics card cooler.  I don't see any reason why it won't work on a 915G board.

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