Soldato
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A few people mentioned in another thread that not enough people take pics so I thought I would go ahead and take some pics of my build, its by no means top of the range, I like to buy within a budget, i'm not rich but I dont like console gaming, i've always been a PC gamer so I bought the best I could afford and I think I made some sensible choices
I had a gaming PC but it was showing its age in some titles, unfortunately these were titles like BC2 which I play a lot so something had to be done
The old spec was
AMD 4200 64 X2
4GB GEIL DDR2
Asus A8N32 Deluxe
Western Digital Raptor
Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB
X-FI card
Hiper Type-R 550W (wheres the VTEC y0?)
Thermal Take Soprano Case
For my new build I retained the 8800GTS GPU until the end of summer and the sound card, the Raptor was demoted to a spare drive
First up was a case to fit everything in, I wanted to build it up over a couple of months but I am not a very patiant person and that got the better of me in the end so I ended up building it in one night, anyway here the case, pics from this point on, the pics are rubbish, never again will I buy a Samsung phone, Sony > Samsung
AND WHY THE HELL WONT IMAGESHACK LET ME MULTI UPLOAD FFS
I went for the Antec 902, simply because I built a mate a gaming PC with a 900 and for the price its a good case
Next up a few little bits, I was waiting for the motherboard to be released so I bought smaller items first.
I was going to get a Western Digital VelociRaptor HDD as thats what i've always bought, it was £140 for a 150GB, however things have changed and i'm glad I read into to some Hard Drive reviews and bench marks as I bought a Samsung Spinpoint F3 which is nearly as quick as the VelociRaptor 150GB but you get 500GB of storage and its only £40! Bonus! There are new VelociRaptor drives out that are quicker than the Samsung but they are over £200 so stuff that as I want to go SSD next year just not right now so I bought a new Sony DVD SATA drive as my old ones are IDE and I made sure it was a good one and also bought a new gaming keyboard which came to £100 inc del so I still saved £40!
All bought from OCUK, ordered at 4:00pm, arrived at 4:00pm next day, awesome service
Next up, Seasonic X-750W PSU and I bought the CPU whilst I was at it. The PSU IMO is one of the most important things in your PC and often overlooked, I decided on this PSU based on the reviews and I was happy to pay the price
The CPU I knew I wanted AMD, I wanted 6 core initially but after reading into it I saved myself £100 and went for the 965 BE, the mobo I went for should take any new 6 cores that come out in the future but right now for gaming and from a price point I think the 965 was the better choice
So, the motherboard and RAM, I was waiting for the Gigabyte with 870 chipset and I got hold of one last week, I went for this because I am not going SLI and for the price it does everything I want and more. I went for G.Skill RAM
Now that I had everything together it was time build, it took about two hours inc pulling my old one apart and taking my time, the cable management was the most time consuming part
Some of the main cable in, man I hate wires, wish it could stay looking that but noooooo, more wires
Done pretty much
Old GPU and sound card in, new and old drives
Installed W7 64, drivers and Bad Company 2 and its obvious my old CPU was a major bottleneck, I can now crank BC2 up to full and use AA where as before it was all running on low with forced DX9 and no AA
Just need more games to stress it out now
Thanks for looking open to any comments
Final spec
AMD Phenom 965 BE 3.4GHZ
Gigabyte 870 Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1333 CAS8
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500
Seasonic X-750
Sony DVDRW SATA drive
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 640MB
Creative X-FI sound card
Antec 902 Case
I had a gaming PC but it was showing its age in some titles, unfortunately these were titles like BC2 which I play a lot so something had to be done
The old spec was
AMD 4200 64 X2
4GB GEIL DDR2
Asus A8N32 Deluxe
Western Digital Raptor
Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB
X-FI card
Hiper Type-R 550W (wheres the VTEC y0?)
Thermal Take Soprano Case
For my new build I retained the 8800GTS GPU until the end of summer and the sound card, the Raptor was demoted to a spare drive
First up was a case to fit everything in, I wanted to build it up over a couple of months but I am not a very patiant person and that got the better of me in the end so I ended up building it in one night, anyway here the case, pics from this point on, the pics are rubbish, never again will I buy a Samsung phone, Sony > Samsung
AND WHY THE HELL WONT IMAGESHACK LET ME MULTI UPLOAD FFS
I went for the Antec 902, simply because I built a mate a gaming PC with a 900 and for the price its a good case
Next up a few little bits, I was waiting for the motherboard to be released so I bought smaller items first.
I was going to get a Western Digital VelociRaptor HDD as thats what i've always bought, it was £140 for a 150GB, however things have changed and i'm glad I read into to some Hard Drive reviews and bench marks as I bought a Samsung Spinpoint F3 which is nearly as quick as the VelociRaptor 150GB but you get 500GB of storage and its only £40! Bonus! There are new VelociRaptor drives out that are quicker than the Samsung but they are over £200 so stuff that as I want to go SSD next year just not right now so I bought a new Sony DVD SATA drive as my old ones are IDE and I made sure it was a good one and also bought a new gaming keyboard which came to £100 inc del so I still saved £40!
All bought from OCUK, ordered at 4:00pm, arrived at 4:00pm next day, awesome service
Next up, Seasonic X-750W PSU and I bought the CPU whilst I was at it. The PSU IMO is one of the most important things in your PC and often overlooked, I decided on this PSU based on the reviews and I was happy to pay the price
The CPU I knew I wanted AMD, I wanted 6 core initially but after reading into it I saved myself £100 and went for the 965 BE, the mobo I went for should take any new 6 cores that come out in the future but right now for gaming and from a price point I think the 965 was the better choice
So, the motherboard and RAM, I was waiting for the Gigabyte with 870 chipset and I got hold of one last week, I went for this because I am not going SLI and for the price it does everything I want and more. I went for G.Skill RAM
Now that I had everything together it was time build, it took about two hours inc pulling my old one apart and taking my time, the cable management was the most time consuming part
Some of the main cable in, man I hate wires, wish it could stay looking that but noooooo, more wires
Done pretty much
Old GPU and sound card in, new and old drives
Installed W7 64, drivers and Bad Company 2 and its obvious my old CPU was a major bottleneck, I can now crank BC2 up to full and use AA where as before it was all running on low with forced DX9 and no AA
Just need more games to stress it out now
Thanks for looking open to any comments
Final spec
AMD Phenom 965 BE 3.4GHZ
Gigabyte 870 Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1333 CAS8
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500
Seasonic X-750
Sony DVDRW SATA drive
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 640MB
Creative X-FI sound card
Antec 902 Case
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