so im giving in and gonna take a stab at building a computer. Will the following stuff make a decent gaming computer that will also run hem, table ninja, stars/ftp, and firefox?
CPU
AMD Athlon II X3 435
$84
CPU Cooler
Xigmatek HDT-SD964
$22
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-MA790GPT-UD3H
$105
RAM
G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
$94
Graphics
2 x Sapphire 100245HDMI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
$200
Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS, 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 Gb/s
$75
Sound
Integrated
0
Network
Integrated
0
Case
Antec Three Hundred Illusion
$60
Power
Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W
$85
Optical
LG Black 22X DVD Burner SATA Model GH22NS50
$24
On April 11 2010 13:24 redrain0125 wrote:
i think all specs are good except you may want to switch to a different vid card to run all the current games smoothly (geforce 265 and higher)
No u probably missread
he runs them in SLI ( crossifre and has two 4850)
this will run all games easily and is even faster than a single GTX260
2x 4850 CF = Geforce 280GTX speedwise
only question is :
do u really need a Crossfire build ?
This is way more than SC2 will need to run on Ultra + u need a crossfire ready mainboard which is usually kind of expensive
+ u need XP64 Vista or Windows7 as OS to profit from the multicore Cpus and SLI
Well just from a performance point of view
Yes this computer is fast.
It can run all current games at good detail Level 1680x1050 easily
downside is that both the CPU and Crossfire cards will eat a shitload of power supply
will surley increase your electricity bills a fair bit
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On April 11 2010 13:24 redrain0125 wrote:
i think all specs are good except you may want to switch to a different vid card to run all the current games smoothly (geforce 265 and higher)
No u probably missread
he runs them in SLI ( crossifre and has two 4850)
this will run all games easily and is even faster than a single GTX260
2x 4850 CF = Geforce 280GTX speedwise
only question is :
do u really need a Crossfire build ?
This is way more than SC2 will need to run on Ultra + u need a crossfire ready mainboard which is usually kind of expensive
+ u need XP64 Vista or Windows7 as OS to profit from the multicore Cpus and SLI
Well just from a performance point of view
Yes this computer is fast.
It can run all current games at good detail Level 1680x1050 easily
downside is that both the CPU and Crossfire cards will eat a shitload of power supply
will surley increase your electricity bills a fair bit
i dont understand the 2 video card thing ;0 do they comebine power? Never heard of this before
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On April 11 2010 17:59 TalentedTom wrote:
i dont understand the 2 video card thing ;0 do they comebine power? Never heard of this before
lol dude this has been around for years now. and yes they do combine like you pair up ram together. similar thing.
yes they do. u just put a bridge to link two cards and they do twice the power. sli is for nividia but for radeons they call is crossfire, but its generally does the same thing
but with radeons u can span your screen with eyefinity option which is even more sick. u get thrice the resolutions which is unreal clear and crisp - ive tried it heres an example
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