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Hey guys
One of my mates help me put this together and i wanted to know if it would be able to run PR on all High settings, because the one i have atm is turning into shit

1. CPU – Intel Q6600 $325 <- Quad core so it will be good for a while

2. Motherboard - Gigabyte X38-DS5 $312 <- good future proofer imo.

3. Ram – 2 X 2 GB 667 MHz Kingston ram $132 <- 4GB of ram will be good for future.

4. Hard drive - Seagate SATA 2 X 500GB $350 <- For mass storage

5. Graphics Card - Generic 8800GTX 768mb $649

6. DVD Burner – 18X Asus SATA D.L DVD-RW $45

7. Monitor – Chimei 221D(B) 22 inch widescreen $295

8. Power Supply – Thermaltake Tough power 750Watt $198

9. Case – Antec 900 $168 or Thermaltake Armor

Total
$ 2474
Any suggestions about it would be great

thx

My budget is around $3000


ReconAus

My e6400 and 8800gts run PR on high pretty well. Your setup will be overkill.

Unless you plan on crysis?

Im thinking of getting crysis and thats one of the main things i asked my mate to put in so that i could play crysis on high, but i dont know becuase i dont know that much about Comps atm

ReconAus

uh... you could run two games like project reality at the same time on separate monitors on all highs on that rig. lol

When BF2 was relesed, the 6800 was the best, shortly after teh 7800 came out, the 7800 can run on all high and at the time 1 gig was the norm. so yes.

You gonna be dissapointed if your running 32bit windows. 4gig of ram will be a waste.
If your spending that much why not opt for raptor HDD's? that will improve performance no end.

As for quad core LOL!.., all you ppl out there who now even run dual core.., when your tasking bring up the task manager to see how much the dual core performance is eaten up. I will tell you now its next to nothing, total waste if you ask me.

BTW theres no such thing as a future proof PC component.
If you really wanna get technical about it that mobo is already obsolete as it doesnt cater for DDR3 RAM thats out already.

ReconAus wrote:Hey guys
One of my mates help me put this together and i wanted to know if it would be able to run PR on all High settings, because the one i have atm is turning into shit

1. CPU – Intel Q6600 $325 <- Quad core so it will be good for a while

2. Motherboard - Gigabyte X38-DS5 $312 <- good future proofer imo.

3. Ram – 2 X 2 GB 667 MHz Kingston ram $132 <- 4GB of ram will be good for future.

4. Hard drive - Seagate SATA 2 X 500GB $350 <- For mass storage

5. Graphics Card - Generic 8800GTX 768mb $649

6. DVD Burner – 18X Asus SATA D.L DVD-RW $45

7. Monitor – Chimei 221D(B) 22 inch widescreen $295

8. Power Supply – Thermaltake Tough power 750Watt $198

9. Case – Antec 900 $168 or Thermaltake Armor

Total
$ 2474
Any suggestions about it would be great

thx

My budget is around $3000


ReconAus

show off... you know you can use this rig on High.. come on admit it

Go ahead and send the rig over to me, I'll determine if it can run PR.

No promises that you'll get it back though

No really i didnt know im a real nub when it comes to Computers

ReconAus wrote:Hey guys
One of my mates help me put this together and i wanted to know if it would be able to run PR on all High settings, because the one i have atm is turning into shit

1. CPU – Intel Q6600 $325 <- Quad core so it will be good for a while

2. Motherboard - Gigabyte X38-DS5 $312 <- good future proofer imo.

3. Ram – 2 X 2 GB 667 MHz Kingston ram $132 <- 4GB of ram will be good for future.

4. Hard drive - Seagate SATA 2 X 500GB $350 <- For mass storage

5. Graphics Card - Generic 8800GTX 768mb $649

6. DVD Burner – 18X Asus SATA D.L DVD-RW $45

7. Monitor – Chimei 221D(B) 22 inch widescreen $295

8. Power Supply – Thermaltake Tough power 750Watt $198

9. Case – Antec 900 $168 or Thermaltake Armor

Total
$ 2474
Any suggestions about it would be great

thx

My budget is around $3000


ReconAus

Thats like asking if you brand new Ferrari can go 30MPh. I would faithfully say your more gloating. Nice specs, btw.

6800 might have been the highest for bf2 but pr needs more. I get 8fps sometimes, smoke is the biggest offender. I'd like to know if this can do better

I run a fps counter constantly so that I can tell network from graphic lag, imo this is not overkill if you want a perfect frame rate, sometimes the lag you get is from 90fps dropping to 30

did you get your computer from NASA

i dont have it yet i just wanted to know if there is anything i should change or add to it. And im not trying to gloat i really didnt know, like i said before i dont really know much about computers.

ReconAus

ReconAus wrote:i dont have it yet i just wanted to know if there is anything i should change or add to it. And im not trying to gloat i really didnt know, like i said before i dont really know much about computers.

ReconAus

It that case where is your sound card?... i'm not sure what the onboard sound is like on that mobo but normally its pretty poor.

I've got an old graphics card and i play on medium settings.. but i have an x-fi sound card and play ultra high sound settings.. i love it.. sound makes the atmosphere.. let alone hearing all the footsteps etc..

dp

OK that list was just something my mate and i put together in 30mins, so now i just want to know wat you guys think of it and also. i would like to know which one of these two motherboards you guys think is better Gigabyte X38-DS5 or the Gigabyte P35C-DS3R. and i will have to look if i will need a sound card

thx

ReconAus

MadTommy wrote:It that case where is your sound card?... i'm not sure what the onboard sound is like on that mobo but normally its pretty poor.

I've got an old graphics card and i play on medium settings.. but i have an x-fi sound card and play ultra high sound settings.. i love it.. sound makes the atmosphere.. let alone hearing all the footsteps etc..

^ QFT! If u want my 2 c: save on the quadcore, no application uses the quad technology atm, and none will use in the near future. Even Dualcores aren't used by most apps/games. Get a nice big shiny C2D like the E6750, get a Mobo that fits and 3-4 GB of RAM, and you'll be happy for a while. Better spend the money you saved on another monitor (Dualscreen FTW!), a X-FI Music or Gamer, a nice 5.1 Headset or speakers, and blow the rest on hookers and booze (or whatever u like).
Or, if you really want to spend 3k$ on your rig, go for a 88GTX SLI. Makes more sense than the Quadcore.

i need something thats going to last for 4 years minimum because im signing up for the ADF in 6-10 months

ReconAus

I'd add a X-FI ExtremeMusic or X-FI fatality1 soundcard from creative to that. 100x better than on board sounds.

ReconAus wrote:i need something thats going to last for 4 years minimum because im signing up for the ADF in 6-10 months

ReconAus

Then I would consider in investing in gold or diamonds. j/k.

Whatever you will buy now - in 1 year its old stuff. I bought my rig in 2/07. It was top notch by then. Now i can play the crysis SP demo on medium with good FPS. It always depends on what you want to do. If you want to play the latest games for the next 4 years you can: a) spend 10k$ on the ultimate rig, b) buy a good rig and play happily the games that come out this/next year, and play them for the next 4 years or c) upgrade a good rig from time to time to stay up to date.

If you ask me: upgrading almost makes no sense nowerdays. One of the old components will always be a bottleneck. Better change the whole sys, when needed. Buy a decent rig now but not the "non plus ultra" - it makes no sense. Buying it now, without the apps or games to use it is a waste of money. Components get cheaper per day. Whats good now, is average in 6 months and costs 1/2 the price.
my 2c