M8s new build

Ethan62 · 23 Jun 2009 at 14:21

Hey my m8 wants a new rig to play games that he won't have to upgrade for a while. This is what i have spec'd would b gr8 if i could get some feedback.

Thanks ethan

Max budget 1.2k roughly

unknownsock · 23 Jun 2009 at 15:09

Thats looks great to me, if that was me though i'd change that HDD to a samsung F1 1 TB put it in raid. There about same price, and should give you a big performance boost.

And possibly just get a cheap gfx for now and get a new ATI DX11 card when they come out in August?

Dauthi · 23 Jun 2009 at 15:13

Just a few things why windows vista not windows 7 RC.
Also why the worst bang for buck graphics card out atm?
No CPU heatsink is that right?

Then again i guess ur m8 doesn't do computers, just games.

Ethan62 · 23 Jun 2009 at 16:51

tbh my mate couldn't windows 98 -from windows 7 so aslong as it plays games he'd be happy.

I'll swap the HDD's over to the samsung ones.

On the graphics card front its been a while since i looked into them. Seeing as my i did my build when 4870's where the best bang for buck.

Would there be any benefit from the dx11 cards i mean not that many games use dx10 well as it is.