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garbanian · 01-17-2011, 09:54 PM

Here is what I'm planning.
So far I like a lot.

Suggestions on anything.

Oh yea. This is about as overboard as I want to go on a PC right now though.
A little price increase is whatever, but hundreds more. NAHBRO.

I'll be purchasing in about 2 weeks or so.

SnOwBunZz · 01-17-2011, 10:04 PM

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,2833-12.html

Ditch AMD, get Intel.

Ninjaedit: get 6gbs of ram, 16gbs is overkill and will hit your FPS.
Get a bigger HDD with the money saved on the unneeded ram.

garbanian · 01-17-2011, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnOwBunZz

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,2833-12.html

Ditch AMD, get Intel.

Ninjaedit: get 6gbs of ram, 16gbs is overkill and will hit your FPS.
Get a bigger HDD with the money saved on the unneeded ram.

I've never had a good experience with any Intel based systems. That's why I chose to get AMD again.

I enjoy overkill.
I'm getting 2 500 gigs, I have yet to fill my 1 500 gig as of now.

Edit: Decent Intel one?

SnOwBunZz · 01-17-2011, 10:53 PM

Didn't notice the 2 next to your HDD selection. ><

As for the CFing the 6870s (coincidentally found after you pointed out the 2hdds), I've heard CF is pretty useless/not supported in alot of games. (mainly due to viiral nerdraging and darksin backing him up)
You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way.

General rule of thumb is that a single card is better anyways.

Other than this everything seems fine.

garbanian · 01-17-2011, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnOwBunZz

Didn't notice the 2 next to your HDD selection. ><

As for the CFing the 6870s (coincidentally found after you pointed out the 2hdds), I've heard CF is pretty useless/not supported in alot of games. (mainly due to viiral nerdraging and darksin backing him up)
You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way.

General rule of thumb is that a single card is better anyways.

Other than this everything seems fine.

Why not give me some recommendations on video cards as well then?
I have no nvidia/ati preference.

SnOwBunZz · 01-18-2011, 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garbanian

Why not give me some recommendations on video cards as well then?
I have no nvidia/ati preference.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnOwBunZz

You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way.

Yay for me making a bad sentence again (I notice I do that alot lately :/).
edit: I'm confused whether it's a right or wrong grammatical sentence now. lol

Since nvidia/ati isn't a preference, go with the gtx580. It's faster than the hd6970.
(or pick the hd5970, but I doubt much people are willing to spend 700usd minimum on a gpu alone)

IronyTaken · 01-18-2011, 12:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnOwBunZz

Yay for me making a bad sentence again (I notice I do that alot lately :/).
edit: I'm confused whether it's a right or wrong grammatical sentence now. lol

Since nvidia/ati isn't a preference, go with the gtx580. It's faster than the hd6970.
(or pick the hd5970, but I doubt much people are willing to spend 700usd minimum on a gpu alone)

I would stay away from the 5970 it has had a lot of performance issues in games.

I would also go for an intel i5 2500k or i7 2600k CPU.

tiger1526 · 01-18-2011, 01:06 AM

i would drop the 2 graphics cards and get a GTX 580, and a i5 2500k

the evga version comes with just cause 2 and mafia 2 right now as well.

edit just noticed you already changed out the AMD chip

edit: actually scratch that, triple channel is like a .1 increase on most charts, stick with what you have.

ZelkovaMoon · 01-18-2011, 01:17 AM

Cheap 2TB HDD for under 100$, cheaper than those two 500GBs you have set aside for over 100$. (If you are going for size)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148413

If you are going for a good RPM:SIZE ratio I say go for these, 1.5TB with 7200 RPM. Both are the same price, your call
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148337

If you plan on heavily overclocking and don't want to be bottlenecked by your read:write speeds on a standard hard drive, I suggest you invest in a SSD, and use it only for boot and high end games, and have a secondary drive for
data storage

garbanian · 01-18-2011, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZelkovaMoon

Cheap 2TB HDD for under 100$, cheaper than those two 500GBs you have set aside for over 100$. (If you are going for size)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148413

If you are going for a good RPM:SIZE ratio I say go for these, 1.5TB with 7200 RPM. Both are the same price, your call
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148337

If you plan on heavily overclocking and don't want to be bottlenecked by your read:write speeds on a standard hard drive, I suggest you invest in a SSD, and use it only for boot and high end games, and have a secondary drive for
data storage

Why did I not even think of an SSD.

About the vid card I did originally have the 580 picked out but I read a few things and stuff and it changed my mind. Looked around again and I'm more than fine with a 580 so I've added that in.

The CPU, I checked out some scores with the SandyBridge intel one that I have, and that's the so called chart topper of the month, so I'll be sticking with that.

Hard Drive - No doubt I'm going for an SSD and a terrabyte normal HD.

Ram - Anyone have an suggestions on a better thing of ram?

New build -

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garbanian Loric's Lunatic Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Elyria, Ohio Posts: 2,677 Reputation: 104	New PC Build Here is what I'm planning. So far I like a lot. Suggestions on anything. Oh yea. This is about as overboard as I want to go on a PC right now though. A little price increase is whatever, but hundreds more. NAHBRO. I'll be purchasing in about 2 weeks or so. __________________

01-17-2011, 10:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
SnOwBunZz Nyan nyan ni hao nyan Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Flanders Posts: 8,018 Reputation: 319	http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,2833-12.html Ditch AMD, get Intel. Ninjaedit: get 6gbs of ram, 16gbs is overkill and will hit your FPS. Get a bigger HDD with the money saved on the unneeded ram. __________________ [My Anime List] \| [last.fm] \| [xfire] \| [Steam] If anyone would like me to build a rig, I'd prefer it to be in a thread in the tech section rather than PM. Thank you.

01-17-2011, 10:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
SnOwBunZz Nyan nyan ni hao nyan Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Flanders Posts: 8,018 Reputation: 319	Didn't notice the 2 next to your HDD selection. >< As for the CFing the 6870s (coincidentally found after you pointed out the 2hdds), I've heard CF is pretty useless/not supported in alot of games. (mainly due to viiral nerdraging and darksin backing him up) You might want to reconsider a single 6870 or 6970. A single 6970 is cheaper than 2 6870s either way. General rule of thumb is that a single card is better anyways. Other than this everything seems fine. __________________ [My Anime List] \| [last.fm] \| [xfire] \| [Steam] If anyone would like me to build a rig, I'd prefer it to be in a thread in the tech section rather than PM. Thank you.

01-18-2011, 01:06 AM	#8 (permalink)
tiger1526 Olpah's Object Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2,733 Reputation: 112	i would drop the 2 graphics cards and get a GTX 580, and a i5 2500k the evga version comes with just cause 2 and mafia 2 right now as well. edit just noticed you already changed out the AMD chip edit: actually scratch that, triple channel is like a .1 increase on most charts, stick with what you have. __________________ Last edited by tiger1526; 01-18-2011 at 01:17 AM.

01-18-2011, 01:17 AM	#9 (permalink)
ZelkovaMoon Cloud's Hair Spray Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: ☆☆☆☆☆ Posts: 73 Reputation: 10	Cheap 2TB HDD for under 100$, cheaper than those two 500GBs you have set aside for over 100$. (If you are going for size) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148413 If you are going for a good RPM:SIZE ratio I say go for these, 1.5TB with 7200 RPM. Both are the same price, your call http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148337 If you plan on heavily overclocking and don't want to be bottlenecked by your read:write speeds on a standard hard drive, I suggest you invest in a SSD, and use it only for boot and high end games, and have a secondary drive for data storage __________________ Computer Specs: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T ~3.0ghz (3.5ghz AutoClocked in games) S-RANK ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GPU Clock: 900MHz Memory Clock: 1300MHz S-RANK 8GB DDR3 Ram G-SKILL RIPJAWS 1333ghz (1600 OverClocked) A-RANK GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 Motherboard A-RANK Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750w PSU A-RANK Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit S-RANK Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD B-RANK Last edited by ZelkovaMoon; 01-18-2011 at 01:26 AM.

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