New gaming machine. Any thoughts??

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What do you guys think?
I know i should go conroe but id rather stick with AMD as ive never overclocked before and am worrying whether to or not, so id rather spend the same amount on something a little faster.

Also, any comments on powerballs? First one, getting to build up arm muscle once my clavicle and arm are all fixed up :D

Cheers, Dan
 
Soz should have stated.
My budget is about £550, but i have "contacts" that could lend me £100 or so :D

Currently running some No swearing! 17" monitor, but as soon as i get the cash im going to get a 22" one, not 100% sure on which model yet.

I plan to game a lot, but dont care if everything is on max max max with 150fps, as long as i can run the latest games with high settings with a min of 40fps im happy :D
 
Depends what game, if you play CSS like me you'll get at least 100fps on that. Should be fine for everything tbh.

Powerballs, in my experience are a gimmick. Might be wrong, used incorrectly perhaps.

The conroes at that price might be just as fast, someone here will now.

I've heard very mixed reviews about the Medusa headset. Sennheiser and Plantronics Game Com are good. Also you got the retail X-fi, think the oem's are meant to be just as good for gaming really w/o fnacy bits.
 
I have a powerball and they work great, a lot of fun too trying to beat your high score :)

I don't think the one you have chosen has the little display to tell you your score though.
 
Keep the the 8800 GTS, change everything else tbh.

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) (£31.71)

Team Elite 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (TEDD2048M800HC5DC)
(£52.86)

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard (£96.34)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£64.61)

Samsung SH-S183ABEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£23.49)

Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
(£46.99)

Samsung SpinPoint T HD401LJ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£55.21)

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
(£58.74)

OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£182.11)

Total : £624.94
 
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Any second opinions on Jaffa's an Melbourbes comments?

I plan to play games such as stalker, bf2, oblivion, CoH and RS:Vegas.

Will spend the next few days scanning the OC thread, broken arm + collar bone so i cant do much else :D
 
I would go with Jaffa's build but save cash on the Heatsink and get a Arctic Freezer 7 and put the extra cash to get a E6320.

Unless ofcoarse you can afford the E6320 without changing the heatsink :)

Any reason you are getting a expensive soundcard ?
 
Gormond said:
Unless ofcoarse you can afford the E6320 without changing the heatsink :)
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I would disagree with that, the extra cache provides a very very small boost in performance for the amount of money extra.


melbourne720, 400W PSU with a 8800 ( looks worried ) ?

Save on the gfx and get a nicer upgrade later on :) Benchmarks would probobly be very similar however my spec would be a tad faster on 2d/encoding/bootup/general desktop usage.

I'm sure you don't play games 36 hours a week :)
 
I game too much lol :D
My day consusts of school/bike home/paper round/homework (pfff)/games/sleep, throw a few dozen miles mtbing at the weekends lol!

Thought id get an expensive soundcard as i fancied a wicked headset and thought itd let the headset perfrom better, and ive been led to beleive that if you have a stand-alone sound card it takes some strain off Mem/CPU, am i wrong?
 
Megahurtz400 said:
I game too much lol :D
My day consusts of school/bike home/paper round/homework (pfff)/games/sleep, throw a few dozen miles mtbing at the weekends lol!

Thought id get an expensive soundcard as i fancied a wicked headset and thought itd let the headset perfrom better, and ive been led to beleive that if you have a stand-alone sound card it takes some strain off Mem/CPU, am i wrong?
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You have to play me sometimes, see if all that practice actually works :rolleyes:

Onboard sound does indeed put slightly more strain on the motherboard but its barly noticable. I do like the X-fis though, noticably better sound quality than onboard.

I would definitely go for the Creative Fatal1ty ones or the Sennheiser PC161 mentioned above over your choice. The sound forum would agree with me there too :)
 
Megahurtz400 said:
Thought id get an expensive soundcard as i fancied a wicked headset and thought itd let the headset perfrom better, and ive been led to beleive that if you have a stand-alone sound card it takes some strain off Mem/CPU, am i wrong?
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Ohh i agree with having a separate soundcard as onboard sucks, i use a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card - OEM which costs 16 quid and is a very good card.
 
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Also supports a faster FSB, and doesn't it clock better too ?
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Don't remember off the top of my head but I beleive the E4300 has a higher multiplyer than the 6320 which is only 7, gives it more headroom for clocking, even from a lower stock clock.
 
Defo go with Jaffa's choice, obviuosly its your money so go with what you feel comfortable with. And i can second the Creative Fatality Headset its amazing although the ear pads are a bit small for my ears but its still amazingly good for the price.
 
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