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Al Fire 101
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Post subject: New Computer Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:55 pm |
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:31 pm |
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Unless you are going to go to 32GB or RAM, that Proc, though good, won't do much more in gaming vs a 2600K. Just comparing Crysis 2 between a variety of Procs... Crysis II Processor Performance. As you can see, games, such as this, are more reliant upon the Graphics Card. So, my recommendation is save your money and go with the 2600K or 2700K and save money on the Proc and use the savings on going with the GTX 590 card. I would also recommend that you go with 16GB of ram. Other that that, I think your build is good...based on your personal preferences (NVIDIA, cough, cough...). Lastly, do NOT go with that monitor...great for Photoshop, horrible for gaming... It has a 8ms refresh speed and I guarantee you will see graphical tearing when playing games. I see tearing on monitors that advertise a 5ms refresh. Look for a LED backlit, LCD with 1 - 2ms refresh. If you are looking at 24" panels, look at these: ASUS VS248H-P or SAMSUNG S24A350H. I would recommend going w/a 27" such as these: SAMSUNG P2770FH or ViewSonic VX2753mh-LED
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:37 pm |
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I would recommend getting a regular old internal hard drive to go with that (Newegg is a good reference for price and reviews), as 120GB is going to feel cramped awfully fast--you definitely don't want to be installing programs on an external drive. I got an SSD with my setup, and what I've done is put games I'm currently playing frequently on the SSD and the rest on the old HD. This should help with that (haven't tried it myself, but it's recommended by the Steam forums). Also, look up the mklink command for Windows, it will help in offloading files that don't really need to be on the SSD.
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:32 pm |
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Joined: Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:36 am Posts: 1501 Location: Phoenix,Az
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that dell is way over priced,i just got this monitor a couple of weeks ago and love playing BF3 on it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6824236174also are you planning on over clocking? if not the that mobo is a big waste plus 6 cores is kinda a waste of money as software barley takes advantage of dual core and quad core let alone a six core,top that with the x79 chipset has been very bugy. i would save 300-500 and get a x58 mobo with a Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz LGA 1366 ,its just as fast with 2 less cores, and the only major difference with the mobo other then the x58 has a proven track record is it uses tri channel ram instead of a quad channel which makes no real world difference. the rest of the build is fine.
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:37 pm |
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Joined: Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:36 am Posts: 1501 Location: Phoenix,Az
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oh by the way for anybody that is interested or knows someone who is i still have a EVGA GTX 275 for sale
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:26 pm |
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MATRIX wrote: that dell is way over priced,i just got this monitor a couple of weeks ago and love playing BF3 on it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6824236174Actually, I'd say it's underpriced for the type of IPS panel it has.
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Al Fire 101
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:34 am |
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Joined: Sat May 23, 2009 11:43 pm Posts: 803 Location: Waukesha, WI
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I guess I should explain my reasoning for a few items that have been discussed. I put four 2GB sticks (8GB total) down because I plan on upgrading to 32GB of RAM when it actually would be needed in the future (as well when it isn't so darn expensive). For processor, I am thinking that within a year or two games and software in general will start to utilize cores much more than then they do right now. I would like to stay ahead of that curve as long as possible by getting a hexicore processor instead of a quadcore one. Speaking of the future. I guess I should detail my plan so better advice can be given, I plan to get a second gtx 580 in the future when the price becomes reasonable for a second one. As stated above I plan on upgrading from 8 to 32GB of RAM when the price goes down as well. And what Moniker was suggesting (adding a high capacity HDD) is why I am going to be getting my external 320GB drive in a few weeks (probably when all the parts start arriving in the mail). After that I plan on picking up one or two HDD to use as a dump drive for non important files (aka anything other than Win 7 Ultimate and Steam games) and the other to use as RAID drives. Hopefully using RAID 5 or similar at some point. Which brings me back around to a question I asked in the initital post. Are the brands I'm using for the RAM and SSD good? I don't know a darn thing about RAM and want to make sure it works out of the box with the rest of the comptuer. As for the SSD, should I go with a different brand like Samsung or is the one I put down perfect...I just don't want it to fail in 3 weeks and have to buy a brand new one. Finally, do I have a high enough watt power supply? I rather be on the safe side than down the line where I have to buy a brand new one with a higher wattage. Again, thank you everyone for your thoughts! The more discussion whether it be positive or negative helps tremendously when I finally start purchasing everything. Now if only the i7-3930k would be in stock anywhere
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:24 pm |
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Al Fire 101
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:30 pm |
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Sorry for not replying right away Matrix. Right now mostly gaming ...but I'll find someway to use the processor to its fullest (if not right now, in time). Right now I am using this computer as my gaming/main/only machine and for the most part can't even run TF2 anymore: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/asus-x83vb-x1/4505-3121_7-33309982.htmlI'm changing the build just slightly and waiting for newegg to have this combo to come in stock: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.769181The one thing I don't like in that combo is the case....and I don't want it. I still want the Thermaltake Level 10 GT, so if anyone would like to buy that case whenever I am able to buy/get it just let me know. Some people have spoken about the mouse to me and I will be upgrading my mouse to the Level 10 M mouse whenever it comes out. The one thing I've been looking at now is buying a sound card for the 7.1 headset I'll be buying when it comes out, but I really can not find a good/great soundcard that takes the 5 3.5mm jacks and supports 7.1 sound. If anyone knows a soundcard that does both please let me know as well. So newegg hurry up and get that processor in stock so I can buy that combo!
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:22 pm |
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:01 pm |
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+1 to HT OMEGA.
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Al Fire 101
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:33 pm |
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:17 pm |
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X-Fi nooooooooooooooooooo.........
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Post subject: Re: New Computer Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:21 pm |
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