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tickford_6
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so you have $1500 spare, and you want to build a new PC.
your old tower, LCD screen and power suply are all still good.
PC would be used mostly for games, needs to be able to run COD4
AMD and ATI are brands of choice.
what would you build?? |
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blackjack_original
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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lol, it won't take much to run COD4.
My PC is pretty low spec and it handles is fine. The motherboard is an asus m2n-mx ~ $60, the chip I use is an amd x2 3600+ which they don't even sell any more, 3 gigs of ram which cost me ~$75 and a generic 8600 GT 1 gig, which is now ~$105. With that I get ~45-60 FPS in COD4 running at 1440xsomething 16:10 resolution.
Basically, go to msy and buy whatever you can for $1500, and it's pretty much guaranteed to run COD4. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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s**t thats easy
have a look ant any pc store site and get the best u can buy
my 2.66 dual core e8200 with geforce 8800gt runs crysis fine on a 22" lcd |
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i would go Intel and Nvidia for that ammount of cash.
Q9300 and a 9800GX2 ~ $900
600 for the rest of the gear |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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yeah poor your real dosh into the video card. get urself a good whack of RAM.
i used to deal with CWS because they seem to be cheap across the board. and had good service. |
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tickford_6
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i needed to ask. i built the pc i have now a long time ago.
it runs an EPOX 8RDA6+ pro (socket A)
and a 512meg X800 (agp)
1 gig of ram
and a barton core althon 2600 (overclocked)
at the time i built it. the X800 was the best video card that ATI had going, the board was the best i could afford, and went with the slightly older barton core athlon as they overclocked better..
after that i pretty much just fell out of it all and stopped keeping up with things. now with games like COD4 my old s**t can't keep up anymore |
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Give me the $1500 and i'll build you a supercomputer for that much  I'll even include postage. You want my bank account number?  |
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Ditch the PSU as well.
A good quality PSU is well worth the money. |
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$1500 will build a pretty decent rig, you need to decide dual or quad core CPU, definate PSU update is required.
I would personally got ATi for GFx cards, but thats my choice, main reason is ati support Dx10.1, not really a big thing now, but the next gen of PC games will demand it, Nvidia is only at 10.0 right now, but I would also hang low until mid to late june as the next familt of GFX cards are due to be released then, either a better card or grab an old stock at a better price, being in FNQ I would be taking postage into account unless you have a good supplier up that way.
I recently built a monster pc and on case side of things, not inc stuff like monitor keyboards and the rest of that gear I dropped almost $2k, but this is a rapist machine, buy it in the shops and its a progaming machine somewhere like altech will sting you for $4k plus, when building big and fast do it yourself. |
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just got a 750w thermaltake psu
e8400 3g Intel
2g ram 800
8800gts GC (asus)
and asus p5k pro board
for $1000
go a Q9xxx intel, 1066 x 4 ram, and a 9600 or higher GC (my mates got a galaxy 9600 OC special) all on the P5K pro board and it will go like the clappers |
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If you're after value and still play the latest games get an E8400 and a 9600GT or a HD3870 cheap as and go great, don't spend more than $400 on a graphics card, it's just not worth it.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: |
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And on the ram side of things get 2x2GB rather than 4x1GB, I had and have heard of problems with populating all 4 slots with ram faster than 1066.
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fiftyone
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| Benji wrote: | ... don't spend more than $400 on a graphics card, it's just not worth it.
Ben |
Agreed, not unless your doing heavy heavy renders or are looking to play games that (little little little) bit better |
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| fiftyone wrote: | | Benji wrote: | ... don't spend more than $400 on a graphics card, it's just not worth it.
Ben |
Agreed, not unless your doing heavy heavy renders or are looking to play games that (little little little) bit better |
renders are done on cpu |
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I'd go something along the lines of the following:
Intel Q9300
4gb kit of 1066 ddr2 (2x2gb)
Gigabyte x38-ds4
512mb 9800gtx
a decent brand name 750w or 850w psu
and depending on how you wanted to go, possibly a wd raptor as primary drive and a couple of 160-500gb sata's in raid for your game install drive.
That would be a fast, competent system capable of handling everything you throw at it (within reason of course).
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| winterheart wrote: | | That would be a fast, competent system capable of handling everything you throw at it (within reason of course). |
the only thing i've come across of late that would come near giving that trouble is crysis. and even that is running on high settings on a mates pc with no drama
And seriously, no matter how big an AMD fan you are any benchmark you've got an equivalent Intel it will kick it around.
i'll post one up when i get home |
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tickford_6
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| fiftyone wrote: | | winterheart wrote: | | That would be a fast, competent system capable of handling everything you throw at it (within reason of course). |
the only thing i've come across of late that would come near giving that trouble is crysis. and even that is running on high settings on a mates pc with no drama
And seriously, no matter how big an AMD fan you are any benchmark you've got an equivalent Intel it will kick it around.
i'll post one up when i get home |
thing is, $ for $ when i was building the pc i use now and few others the AMD would kick the intel. guess i've hours of research ahead of me.... |
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well the other thing you need to trade off then, is the extra heat (and power consumption) justified?
the new 45nm jobs from intel are stupidly cold! ive got the 8400 and just just put a slightly larger cooler on it (from a 6850) and it idles at 25! running at 3.2 p-c it tops at around 40c!
i've brought a copper core intel cooler and going to overclock. |
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) there are systems like this out there well within your budget.
