I need to build a new rig, Help

djinuk205

djinuk205

djinuk205

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Many years ago I was very much into gaming and my powerfull rigs, at the time i was a massively keen ut player and i was running a 2500+ amd cpu overclockeed with a 9800pro gfx card.

Now many years have passed , my computer has laid redundant and my knoledge of hardware means nothing as i speant the last years of my life building track cars.

I want to get back into pc gaming aswell as learn some web design (currently doing some css tutorials) and would very much appreciate help in designing a pc.

Im looking for somthing that will allow me to experiance crysis in its glory aswell as make me feel it was worth spending the cash rather than leaving gaming to my ps3 and xbox360.

I still have a large antec case with the large sliding door on the side with side window etc?, is this now pretty outdated and will a new case be a bonus.

My funds are not endless but id like to build a good speced rig, so could you all give me some advice as now days none of it means a great deal to me. I have spotted the monitor im going to purchase (dell 24inch £187).

Thanks for any help in advance.
 
to be honest i cant remmber what ram is actually in it, other than its 2x 1gb sticks. I think its clocked at 3200+ speeds, was a really simple clock back in the day.

Only thing im worried about case wise is mine only has 2 front fans, 2 rears and 1 side, whereas cases now appear to have much larger fans and just look so much more efficiant.

to be honest i wasnt planning on keeping any of the original system as its pretty outdated, asus a7nxe-delux mobo rings a bell. It was a really common system to achieve a decent fps on ut2k4 as i was very serious on clan based gaming.
 
that's my bundle. unfortunately i've already returned one bundle and my replacement is still not working properly. i can't actually recommend it, simply down to my own experience, but many others have had no problems. on paper it's an awesome bundle :) it's cheaper than buying those particular parts separately, yes.

edit: i should say, it's stupidly fast. but the temps are too high on my particular bundle, for some reason. OCUK and others are trying to figure out why. (probably down to bad Noctua), but even with temps like mine games will run perfectly and temps will be fine. for instance running Team Fortress 2 on this bundle i get load temps of around 80C. But doing 3D rendering gives temps of 90C, so unless you're going to be doing rendering or anything more hardcore than simple gaming this bundle can't go wrong for you really. Especially if you get one that clocks well and stays cool, which most people seem to! (just not me, sadly...).
 
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sweet, that seems very much ideal then. What graphics cards are reccommended as ive noticed now there seems to be so much on crossfire and all this (means nothing to me yet) back then it was agp 8x was the cutting edge.

So whats recommended and whats on offer?
 
wait a couple of weeks for the new AMD cards - they will be the first DX11 cards out. will be a big push forward apparently. maybe buy a cheap temp card (8800 GT or something) for the mean time if you can't wait
 
yea, i did read up on the new gfx cards being released, my only worry is much like any of the latest hardware, is it not the case that usual when you buy the latest tech available you pay well over the odds, simply because its teh latest thing out , or are they promising that the additional performance will be worth the extra £££.

My plan is to build the pc in 4 weeks or so, ill also need a o/s i guess as im still using xp .
 
may as well go for win7 then, it should be out by then. unless you need backwards capability with other systems in a network like me - i'm forced to stick to Vista for now, or upgrade 6 computers to win7, which would cost a small fortune.
 
dont know about "free" but discounted maybe?

edit: let me check my recent vista OEM purchase. was supposed to have this.

edit: the buggers didn't give me the upgrade version as they said they would... (not OCUK, a different supplier). hmm.
 
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one can only hope i guess, really uming and aring about keeping my case or not now, maybe i will paint it as im a bit bored of it being black. Orange would make a welcome change i think.
 
just to add this is the same as my case , is this ideal ?

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