New Hardware needed - advice

[efcmandan]

Re: New Hardware needed - advice

Then you will not benefit from the Core 2 Duo price drops. The new series of C2dD's are not coming out for a while yet.

I think I'm gonna go for the 6600 then Sod it.

I hope I get some time to play the damn game after spending £500 in order to do so!

[=98=]

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You will play absolute full graphics on 1280x1024 and higher.

Enjoy BF2 the way its meant to be seen!

[camper.]

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Enjoy BF2 the way its meant to be seen!

You don't have to buy BF2 to look at your desktop wallpaper, did you know that?

[This_guy_faith]

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Man! This setup is awsome! I'm saving it onto notepad and getting it :P


This would be capable of owning graphics on High?

[=98=]

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You don't have to buy BF2 to look at your desktop wallpaper, did you know that?

:laugh:

[This_guy_faith]

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This is in my price range :)


Gonna go for it.


PS Alex, I'm wandering why you havn't posted on my current thread

I want to bask in your wisdom. :P

[=98=]

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Linky? I haven't seen it?

Add me to your MSN if you want some ultra hardcore advice!

alex98uk @ yahoo.co.uk

[megawhompertoo]

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I've got that board, the P5B-E and I'm very happy. If it hangs because you're overclocking it, all you have to do is turn off the a/c and it will reset the bios to a stable config. Not having to open up the case and short the reset jumpers is a big plus if you're into overclocking. Most of the rest of the board is standard fair, but you do get RAID, and you do get e-sata, which are very nice things to have if you are considering ever making use of an array or an external hard drive that works at the same speed as your internal ones (yummy backups). You also get labeled jumper adapters so you can configure the jumpers on the adapter, and then hook them up. Arranging jumpers is always one of the more frustrating things about building pc's (provided it fires up) and Asus has made it very easy and very dummyproof.

Only potential problem is that the ram voltage only goes up to 2.1v (edit this MIGHT change in a future bios revision), so shop for memory accordingly.

The rest of the suggested build looks good, too, but I'd be very tempted to wait another couple of weeks until intel drops their prices. With the money you save, you can buy a decent, quiet aftermarket cooler. Personally, I'm holding off on a new processor until the q6600 hits $266 in Q3 2007. That's !four cores!@2.4 w/8MB cache for a little more than the current price/expected price of a e6400/6420--2 cores@2.13 w/ 2 (or 4) mb cache.

Four cores! Woot!

/off-topic fanboing

[[Expletive Deleted]]

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I think saying "costs a bit more" is a bit of an understatement.

It's like saying, since your building a new system, instead of getting an E6300 get the Q6700 quad core processor. It only costs a bit more, but it beats anything else in the market...

Seriously though, the 8800 is £200+ more expensive than the X1900gt. The x1900gt is a brilliant bargain at this price and has been given a lot of awards based on performance and price in Custom PC magazone.

The 8800GTS 320MB I was looking at is only £90+ more than that 1900. I think you were looking at an 8800GTX 768MB.

[=98=]

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yes, £90 + more, thats a lot!

I did look at the 8800gts 320mb, and while they were cheap, it was because they were all out of stock. This card will do for a while if your only going to be playing BF2!

[efcmandan]

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Arghs. Ebuyer are out of stock of that Asus P5B-E motherboard

Any other mobo recommendations?

Cheers

[=98=]

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Asus P5N-E SLI 650i Socket 775 Onboard Audio ATX:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/125082

The link above, is a good mobo, but not as good as the P5B-E. Try and wait for it to come back into stock is possible. If your prepaaired to spend a little more, you could go for the P5B-Deluxe which is an absolutely crazy board. It is probably the most popular mobo in the PC world at the minute due to the incredible amount of features it has and the fact that its a brilliant overclocker. It also comes with Wifi!

[efcmandan]

Re: New Hardware needed - advice

Asus P5N-E SLI 650i Socket 775 Onboard Audio ATX:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/125082

The link above, is a good mobo, but not as good as the P5B-E. Try and wait for it to come back into stock is possible. If your prepaaired to spend a little more, you could go for the P5B-Deluxe which is an absolutely crazy board. It is probably the most popular mobo in the PC world at the minute due to the incredible amount of features it has and the fact that its a brilliant overclocker. It also comes with Wifi!

Alex, thanks for your super prompt response! I've ordered!

[=98=]

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Nice! Your gonna love it!

If you have any probs installing, just come back and ill give you some help.

[efcmandan]

Re: New Hardware needed - advice

Nice! Your gonna love it!

If you have any probs installing, just come back and ill give you some help.

Cheers! Looks like next Wednesday night will be my build night :)