Building a new pc-need help!

r34ver · 1 Aug 2010 at 17:19

Looking at the RAM pricing, I think I might try and go for a cheaper monitor, or even put off buying it for a while so that I can get better RAM. If i were to go for a cheaper monitor, the resolution isn't really an issue is it?

Cycrow · 1 Aug 2010 at 17:23

coupe69 said:
I see, may have been a bad batch perhaps? I'd personally spend a bit more and get 1600MHz RAM anyway but I was merely trying to keep within budget

To the OP you could always swap out the RAM for this stuff, which could be beneficial in the future, especially if you were considering overclocking the cpu

apparently theres been a few bad batchs of OCZ Gold that keep failing.

so people have been wary of them since.

the new batches might be fine thou, i still use them for budget builds and not really had a problem

beefybarn · 1 Aug 2010 at 17:25

Well the 2 batches i had to rma were brought within the last month so be a little wary.

coupe69 · 1 Aug 2010 at 17:25

You could pre-order the OcUK 22" monitor for the bargain price of £99.86, although I've no idea what the overall quality would be like.

coupe69 · 1 Aug 2010 at 17:27

Cycrow said:
apparently theres been a few bad batchs of OCZ Gold that keep failing.

so people have been wary of them since.

the new batches might be fine thou, i still use them for budget builds and not really had a problem

beefybarn said:
Well the 2 batches i had to rma were brought within the last month so be a little wary.

I guess for the sake of an extra tenner or so, it's worthwhile getting the faster Corsair anyway.

Destination · 1 Aug 2010 at 17:43

Mason- said:
Basically the more Graphic card RAM you have the better it runs if the resolutions are higher, that's why the 1GB 460 was recommended and not the 768MB one, I tihnk it will be fine.

Crysis is always a bitch no matter how good you're graphics cards are. Some guy had Quad SLI GTX 480's on youtube on a UD9 with a 980X Overclocked to 4.4GHz and he still dropped below 60 fps sometimes...

I've wondered about this for some time now.
If the best combined and OCed hardware 2 years after a game is released can't play a game at full detail, and consistently trash it, then the fault must lie with the software.

There must be something missing from optimisation, or something missing in the coding, like they are asking too much.

How long is it since Crysis release? Yet it is still used as the 'test' standard for maxed out new cards.