Need a new gaming rig!
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I was looking to setting up a new machine and this was what I was wanting I hope we have some hardware enthusiasts here to help me at. My mainboard I wanted was: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131637&Tpk=m4n75td[^] and the memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311[^] But for CPU I dont know what is better, the athlon or the phenom: Phenom http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808[^] Athlon http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103885[^] Any help or other suggestion would be greatly appreciated. The price range for those three(3) main pieces I am looking to spend no more than $450 for all. So if you have any better suggestions, I would like to know. Pleace! :laugh:
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I was looking to setting up a new machine and this was what I was wanting I hope we have some hardware enthusiasts here to help me at. My mainboard I wanted was: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131637&Tpk=m4n75td[^] and the memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311[^] But for CPU I dont know what is better, the athlon or the phenom: Phenom http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808[^] Athlon http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103885[^] Any help or other suggestion would be greatly appreciated. The price range for those three(3) main pieces I am looking to spend no more than $450 for all. So if you have any better suggestions, I would like to know. Pleace! :laugh:
If you really want to build a gaming machine, don't forget the power supply and graphic card.
Watched code never compiles.
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If you really want to build a gaming machine, don't forget the power supply and graphic card.
Watched code never compiles.
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Well yeah I have those in my machine right now, they can supply enough for the parts im looking for, I am actually going to replace my 9500gt i have now with 2x 9500gt sli the card I have now isnt sli compatible =\
Unless your current system is 4+ years old (or was extremely low spec when new), you'd get more of an upgrade for gaming buying a $200ish GPU and delaying your CPU/mobo upgrades until more funds were available. Depending on how much memory you have currently upping that now might help. SLIing low end cards is almost universally never worth it, and the 9500 is obsolescent as well as being slow when it was new. Even the cheapest 4xx/5xx HTPC cards will outperform one now, and depending on how well SLI is working could do the same for two of them.
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I was looking to setting up a new machine and this was what I was wanting I hope we have some hardware enthusiasts here to help me at. My mainboard I wanted was: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131637&Tpk=m4n75td[^] and the memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311[^] But for CPU I dont know what is better, the athlon or the phenom: Phenom http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808[^] Athlon http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103885[^] Any help or other suggestion would be greatly appreciated. The price range for those three(3) main pieces I am looking to spend no more than $450 for all. So if you have any better suggestions, I would like to know. Pleace! :laugh:
You will never be able to build a system that can adequately run a game coming out next week - no matter what that game might be. Pursuing game performance with hardware is a no-win situation, an exercise in futility, and a vast waste of money. Believe me - I know. I did it for 20 years, and and I stopped doing it four years ago. As a result, I have more money for guns and ammunition. Guns almost never go obsolete, as illustrated by the fact that my prefered pistol uses a design that is more than 100 years old, and is still widely produced and respected today. Compare that to the 8800GTX video card I bought five or six years ago. You can currently spend less than 1/3 the money I spent on it, and get something that's "better". I'd rather be the one causing the bleeding than the one on the bleeding edge.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Unless your current system is 4+ years old (or was extremely low spec when new), you'd get more of an upgrade for gaming buying a $200ish GPU and delaying your CPU/mobo upgrades until more funds were available. Depending on how much memory you have currently upping that now might help. SLIing low end cards is almost universally never worth it, and the 9500 is obsolescent as well as being slow when it was new. Even the cheapest 4xx/5xx HTPC cards will outperform one now, and depending on how well SLI is working could do the same for two of them.
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Right now I have an A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard Socket:939, with 2GB Kingston HyperX Case 2.5 and an AMD Athlon 64 2.0GHz, Im just not satisfied with what I have. I would like to have something better. What would you suggest? If it may help, with the games im interested in and the system that I need, I play Wow cataclysm and I am waiting for Guild Wars 2 to roll out. Im not a big FPS fan, I noticed on most machines that people play wow on, the animation is very smooth and performs extremely well. No tearing on the screen even when they are in the city everything is clean such as the animation.
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You will never be able to build a system that can adequately run a game coming out next week - no matter what that game might be. Pursuing game performance with hardware is a no-win situation, an exercise in futility, and a vast waste of money. Believe me - I know. I did it for 20 years, and and I stopped doing it four years ago. As a result, I have more money for guns and ammunition. Guns almost never go obsolete, as illustrated by the fact that my prefered pistol uses a design that is more than 100 years old, and is still widely produced and respected today. Compare that to the 8800GTX video card I bought five or six years ago. You can currently spend less than 1/3 the money I spent on it, and get something that's "better". I'd rather be the one causing the bleeding than the one on the bleeding edge.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997My ATI Radeon HD 5870 bought 1 years ago still play the latest game I bought at max resolution (1920x1200) with max details! ;P I think we are reaching, or nearing, a plateau! Further, listening to an interview of a guy from, I'm not sure (memory trouble!), either Bioware or Bethesda, they said that Video card has finally delivered all they could ask from it, and that gaming experience improvement won't come from the graphics card anymore... A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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My ATI Radeon HD 5870 bought 1 years ago still play the latest game I bought at max resolution (1920x1200) with max details! ;P I think we are reaching, or nearing, a plateau! Further, listening to an interview of a guy from, I'm not sure (memory trouble!), either Bioware or Bethesda, they said that Video card has finally delivered all they could ask from it, and that gaming experience improvement won't come from the graphics card anymore... A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
Yep, I'm running with a pair of crossfired HD 4850s, and I immediately pump every game I get to maximum resolution and details... I've yet to encounter one that my cards can't handle. Funny enough, I was playing "The Ball" last night (Indie title, first-person 3D action/puzzle hybrid - Kinda like Portal but with a different gimmick)... Max detail, max resolution... Played for a couple hours... Finally shut it down for the night, and realized I still had Spellforce (Older RTS) running in the background. I had Alt+Tabbed away from it for some reason and totally forgot about it. I love my desktop :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Right now I have an A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard Socket:939, with 2GB Kingston HyperX Case 2.5 and an AMD Athlon 64 2.0GHz, Im just not satisfied with what I have. I would like to have something better. What would you suggest? If it may help, with the games im interested in and the system that I need, I play Wow cataclysm and I am waiting for Guild Wars 2 to roll out. Im not a big FPS fan, I noticed on most machines that people play wow on, the animation is very smooth and performs extremely well. No tearing on the screen even when they are in the city everything is clean such as the animation.
If wow's the only GPU intensive game I'd suggest going to Blizzard's forums to find out what sort of GPU you need to run cataclysm at full settings on your monitor and tailor your GPU purchase to that. While your system is on the old side, it's probably not at the point of bottle-necking a midrange GPU yet, so if you can't afford to replace everything now I'd still start with the GPU and then do the rest of the system later.
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