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Nocky24

Nocky24

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I'm thinking of going for the i7 4Ghz bundle, a corsair tx 650w (or 750w), a seagate 500GB 32mb cache HDD, and probably using the windows 7 RC 64bit, the case, optical drive and gpu i already have. I've only had experience installing cpus, psus and gpus but never installing motherboards, HDDs and Operating Systems. Is it easy enough to do and will this combination of parts work well?

The full spec will end up being:

i7 920 @ 4Ghz
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 mobo
Patriot Viper 6GB
Titan Fenrir cooler
500GB Seagate 32mb
Ati Radeon 4870 1GB
Antec 900
Corsair tx 650W (or maybe 750w)
Windows 7 RC OS 64bit
 
ArcAne151 said:
Get the 4890 instead of the 4870.

Rest looks ok.

If you have enough money you could even consider a small SSD.
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Already got the 4870 so i'll be sticking with that for now. How much of a performance increase will i get with these SSDs anyways? Will be using this system for gaming only so if were not talking fps increases im not that interested to be honest mate.
 
wbc1 said:
Only for gaming? get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-002-OB&groupid=43&catid=339&subcat=

£150 cheaper, you might lose something like 2fps but save £150.
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I did look at that but i play counter strike source and a lot of other source based games and i know they benefit a lot due to the massive bandwidth the i7 has, or so i'm told anyways. To tell you the truth i'm upgrading from a q9550 skt 775 based system which i'm abit disappointed in to be honest, most of my cpu intensive games (like css, hl2:ep2, etc) are performing at a lower fps than what i expected so i'm thinking the i7 is the answer right now :/
 
Nocky24 said:
I did look at that but i play counter strike source and a lot of other source based games and i know they benefit a lot due to the massive bandwidth the i7 has, or so i'm told anyways. To tell you the truth i'm upgrading from a q9550 skt 775 based system which i'm abit disappointed in to be honest, most of my cpu intensive games (like css, hl2:ep2, etc) are performing at a lower fps than what i expected so i'm thinking the i7 is the answer right now :/
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In that case... WAIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

A q9550 with a decent/high end gfx card should easily play the source games at 200fps+! There must be something wrong with your current set up.

Do a clean windows install, and see if it solves your fps problem!

ps. my set up plays all the source games maxed out on 60fps+ (1440x900 though)

edit; have you oc'ed your cpu? it should hit 3.5ghz-4ghz with a good cooler, a nice performance boost!
 
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wbc1 said:
In that case... WAIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

A q9550 with a decent/high end gfx card should easily play the source games at 200fps+! There must be something wrong with your current set up.

Do a clean windows install, and see if it solves your fps problem!

ps. my set up plays all the source games maxed out on 60fps+ (1440x900 though)

edit; have you oc'ed your cpu? it should hit 3.5ghz-4ghz with a good cooler, a nice performance boost!
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on dust2 and office i see usually 80+ fps on 24/32 man servers (1680x1050). When i start playing assault or militia i have seen lows of 50. My other source games don't seem too bad though i suppose. Still disappointed though as i thought with my system i'd never see lows like that again no matter what map or server size i play on.
 
Dont upgrade tp i7 to play source games, seriously, HUGE waste of money. Oc your cpu and do a clean windows install. Should see 100fps+ on your system (think you have 4870?)
 
wbc1 said:
Dont upgrade tp i7 to play source games, seriously, HUGE waste of money. Oc your cpu and do a clean windows install. Should see 100fps+ on your system (think you have 4870?)
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Yeh i might try overclocking. However i'm completely new to it so i'm just wondering whether its best to sell what i've got and buy the bundle. At a bit of a loss i know :/
 
Initially download all drivers etc for your current system, reinstall. See what that gives.
Then as long as you have OK cooling I'd overclock your current syste,, I reckon you'll save yourself a wad of money.
 
Nocky24 said:
on dust2 and office i see usually 80+ fps on 24/32 man servers (1680x1050). When i start playing assault or militia i have seen lows of 50. My other source games don't seem too bad though i suppose. Still disappointed though as i thought with my system i'd never see lows like that again no matter what map or server size i play on.
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I have a 4870x2 running with a overclocked Q6600 (@3.4Ghz) and i typically get between 240-300fps in CS source at 1920x1200. There's definately something going wrong with your system for you to be dropping as low as 50fps. How much RAM do you currently have? I'd say 4Gb is the minimum really.

Do the CS Source video stress test and let us know how many fps you get, I did mine recently and got 278 running at 1920x1200.

Another silly question for you, could your issues with the game be connection related as although 50fps isn't great fps (and needs to be investigated), you shouldn't really notice much in the way of lag at that?

As others have suggested, a fresh install from scratch (completely wipe system partition etc) using up to date drivers will almost certainly give your machine a huge boost! I tend to do this every 3-6months and every time it's like my machines suddenly doubled in speed. I have no ida why its like this with Windows but it does seem to get slower over time, no matter what clean-up, defrag, registry clean utilities you use.

Or if you just feel like spending some money, I reckon the overclocked Core i7 bundle is a bargain! Definately what I'd be doing if I could justify the expense!

Good luck,

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If you have v-sync on, turn it off, in all games v-sync limits your FPS to a certain degree.

Example, in Unreal Tournament 3, v-sync limits you to 60FPS unless you change the INI config. In source i think it limits to 100FPS or something ...

You can change your FPS limit (Without v-sync on) to something really high, default in source is 300FPS max.

Guild wars with v-sync on is 60FPS, i think most games with v-sync limit you to around 60FPS.
 
Installing a motherboard is easy if you've installed CPUs before. One tip though, I always forget to put the backpanel IO port shield on, get the motherboard installed, and then start kicking myself. Depending on your CPU heatsink, you may need to mount that before intalling the MB in the case.

Edit: Oh it's the titan, if the motherboard tray in the case does not have a hole behind the CPU, you will need to install the heatsinks CPU backplate before installing the motherbaord in the case.
 
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I had a Q9550 and i loved it - Best CPU i've ever owned.

There is defiantly something wrong with your setup if your only seeing that many FPS - it would be worth just upgrading your GFX card and RAM and save yourself a lot of cash.
 
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