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utw-Mephisto

utw-Mephisto

utw-Mephisto

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I bought my last PC about 5 years ago and spend about 3000 Pound which was well invested since I never had to upgrade anything until now ..

I saved up about the same amount and want to build once again a reference PC ... Since I had also bad expeirences with my last rig (incompatibility of certain hardware followed by bluescreens etc.) I would like to ask you for your oppinnion if the hardware I have in mind "fits" ...

Mobo
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939)

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core FX60 (Socket 939)

CPU cooler
Zalman CNPS7700-CU Ultra-Quiet

RAM
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
Some suggestions are Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3500LL Pro TwinX instead

PSU
Tagan TG1100-U95 1100W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU

Graphics
GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB (two of them)

HDD
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000KS SATA-II 16MB Cache

Screen
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24"

I am short of a few hundred pounds which can be saved over the next two month .. but what you think about this ?

This rig should be enough for another 5 years I hope ...
 
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I don't know - never had an Intel .. I am kinda AMD infected ..

Any Mobo and CPU siggestions then ?

edit: wow

The Core 2 Extreme clocked at 2.93GHz was able to beat the AMD Athlon FX-62 on average by 15-25% in the latest gaming tites such as Fear, Quake4, Doom3, Oblivion and many more games.
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mm.... thanks for the tip ..
 
utherpendragon said:
TBH if you want to play games on it, there's no chance in hell of it lasting for 5 years. DX10 will be required within the next 3 for most major games and with parallelism growing all the time, multi-core chips will make dual cores obsolute.
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Come on .. don't exaggerate ...

You want to tell me that in two years time (or whatever) you will get games which are impossible to play on Dual Core Intel / AMD and 2 GB Graphics RAM ?

If this is the case - screw that game - honestly ...
 
I just made up my mind ....

I gave the whole DirectX10 thing (and Vista) a thought and I must admit : You are right.. It would be stupid to invest so much money if I might say in January : damn ...

What I do now : I gonna buy a GeForce 7800 AGP for under 200 Pounds and wait then until the next year and decide then, based on the marked, if I go Intel or AMD, NVIDIA or ATI .. therefore an AGP card since I don't want to buy an Intel board or AMD since I am not 100% sure about that .. I am 100% sure that I need a new GFX since my 5900 Ultra is about to die ....

Thanks for your tips and hints guys ..
 
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