Gaming Spec

tem07 · 26 Oct 2009 at 13:50

Good afternoon everyone,

If anyone could spec me a gaming computer with perhaps Windows 7 if it works with GTA: IV & Crysis and games a like - without monitor and other peripherals.

Budget - maximum 1000 - 1250.

Cheers!

95thrifles · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:02

Have a look at builds in the thread in my sig

tem07 · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:06

Cheers mate - really helpful!

However, I've been looking at the Overclocked bundles, what do you think of them?

Biz.Kid09 · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:09

There ya go mate, will run anything you throw at it and will oc very well as well, You if your not fussed about to much gaming drop the gfx down to 5850 and get i7 920

tem07 · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:12

Biz.Kid09 said:
here you go mate,

will run anything you throw at it and will oc very well as well

Cheers for the spec mate! Appreciate it, however, would it be better to go for 1336 rather than 1156?

Cheers

Poontun · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:49

1366 is better but you pay a premium for that performance, which means you would have to spend less on things like graphics.

95thrifles · 26 Oct 2009 at 14:59

Poontun said:
1366 is better but you pay a premium for that performance, which means you would have to spend less on things like graphics.

NO its not, not for a single gfx card gaming set up, its actually worse

tem07 · 27 Oct 2009 at 19:51

Why is it worse?

95thrifles · 27 Oct 2009 at 19:57

because 1156 uses an onchip PCI-E controller where as 1366 has to communicate through the NB which adds latency, its only marginal and not something to be concerned about, I shouldnt of really put it across like that initially, there were a lot of threads saying same thing and I was losing patience, lol.
1366 is better for dual gfx set ups though as it runs at full x16/x16 rather than 1156s x8/x8

PermaBanned · 27 Oct 2009 at 19:57

It's more upgradable... i don't even think there are going to be any more high end processors on 1156.

Biz.Kid09 · 27 Oct 2009 at 19:59

Well what will you use your pc for? If its just gaming go for the i5 if you want pure power go 1366 and drop 5870 to 5850.

tem07 · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:01

I just really want to get the best for my money!
Why drop 5870 to 5850?

Cheers

Poontun · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:02

95thrifles said:
NO its not, not for a single gfx card gaming set up, its actually worse

I didn't mean it in that way, but then again after reading i didn't make myself very clear.
I meant, if you bought 1366 you wouldn't as much money left over in a budget to buy graphics.

Sorry for confusion. :cool:

95thrifles · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:05

you dont want to drop 5870 to 5850 seen as how you state in first post its a gaming PC, think he was saying youd get more cpu power this way but for your needs you want gpu power

VonScar · 27 Oct 2009 at 21:15

I9 is coming for socket 1366, not the 1156 socket. Another reason to go the I7 route for the future.

95thrifles · 27 Oct 2009 at 21:56

Yes because Im sure games which currently only use 2 cores (99.9% of anyway) would benefit from 6/12 cores /sarcasm