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schumi84

schumi84

schumi84

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Afternoon everybody, posted a new thread in another section regarding my current setup and have decided that i would ideally like to do something with my system, as i have been running it now for about 2 1/2 years and would like to go back to running things at high detail again.

Current setup:
AMD XP3000+(sckt A), DFI Infinity NF2 Ultra, 1GB Geil pc4000 (2x512MB) RAM, 9800pro softmodded to 9800XT, SB Audigy 5.1 , Antec NeoPower 480W PSU and Antec PlusView 1000 AMG Case.Also using a 17" TFT max res 1280*1024.

New Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 4600 Dual Core AM2 - £137.50
DFI K9N Neo-F nForce 550 AM2 - £52.86
GeIL 2GB PC6400 800Mhz DDR2 (GX22GB6400UDC) - £176.24
Sapphire ATi Radeon x1950Pro 512MB DDR3 PCI-e -£147.99
Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Music OEM - £48.77
Saitek Eclipse 2 Illuminated Keyboard -£34.06
Total Cost - £597.42

Keeping the same Case and PSU.

Any comments would be very much appreciated, and yes i am a bit of an AMD groupee, but an Intel alt. wouldn't go amiss ;)

Cheers again
 
Which of the C2D would be best at around a similar price bracket, i noticed on one of the other threads a 6300 is 128 quid.

Also which mobo would u go for. My DFI i have has been faultless, have used ABit in the passed but have heard good things with ASUS.
 
4300 chip, Gigabyte DS3 mobo and if you can strech to an extra 25quid go for the crucial tenth anniversary ram

the 4300 isnt out till monday BTW
 
This would be a lot better system to go with for the money!

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM
(£51.11)

Saitek Eclipse 2 Illuminated Keyboard - Blue/Red/Purple
(£34.06)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
(£166.84)

Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£72.84)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2)
(£16.44)

HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£126.89)

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
(£119.84)

Sub Total : £500.44
Total : £598.53
 
Great stuff, thanks very much for the info. Looks like like i may well be saying goodbye to AMD........for the timebeing anyways.

Any ideas *** sort of o'cs the CPU has been getting, as am really wanting to get back into the o'c scene. Unfortunately the CPU i have wont budge 1MhZ even on water.

Cheers
 
I'm an AMD fan myself, but lets face it eveyone wants the best money can buy so therefore Core2Duo is what to go for. :)

If you can wait, i would be inclined to get the 4300 instead of the 6300 and First tests have shown that the 4300 can reach 3.4ghz easily, which means that your not even overclocking the 6400 ram due to the 9x multi!

Eg your ram would be running at 377mhz instead of the rated 400mhz, this is very good as you can then tighten timings etc etc. The benchies i saw was a 4300 running at 3.4ghz and it was mashing a 6700 easily! Very nice indeed for a £120 processor!

This is going to be my upgrade when i do one in march!
 
Just a quick thing on the GFX, would the 256MB less memory make much of a difference in gaming, cos am thinking that maybe you would need to be running at very high (1600 +) resolution to make a difference, and justify having 512MB.

If all those new specs look fine then will be doin the upgrade in the near future, hopefully and money permitting.
 
schumi84 said:
Just a quick thing on the GFX, would the 256MB less memory make much of a difference in gaming, cos am thinking that maybe you would need to be running at very high (1600 +) resolution to make a difference, and justify having 512MB.
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a lot of people say that but I dunno, I think maybe it will make a difference regardless of resolution, because if you have higher resolution textures in game, you won't need a high-res monitor to notice the difference - for example if you go up to a wall or character in game, even on a lower resolution monitor you will notice the difference between a high and low resolution texture.

So if you have 256mb memory on your graphics card, but your game wants to utilise more like 300mb for its textures, it's gonna have to load that from your RAM instead of your GFX card... so it'll be slower when games start having higher resolution textures which utilise more space.

Doom 3's a good example, best played with a 512mb graphics card on "Ultra" settings for those higher-res textures...

...anyone agree with that? :confused:
 
Yeah i have heard about that in Doom 3. I do have it, havent played it for ages, but i could run it pretty well on most of the settings on High at 1024x768.

I reckon with the specs of the rest of the machine, 256MB should be ample to be honest.

Am amazed really at how low the repsective gfx card prices are nowadays and the range of different flavours u can get, i remember buying the ill fated 5800 for 230 quid, was nice as had the 5900 cooler on it as it was a vanilla card, so wasnt a leaf blower all the time.

Cant wait to get it all up and running now
 
schumi84 said:
I reckon with the specs of the rest of the machine, 256MB should be ample to be honest.
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Yeah... i dunno, given the choice i'd definately go 512mb, as I'm sure games are gonna get increasingly higher res textures and more memory on the graphics card will help it cope with them :)
 
C2d for the win. lol


Going to take the plunge myself.


Looks cool.


im mainly getting it, because I play CS-S with mates. Runs fine atm but add bots (me and 3 others against 30 bots) and I am down to 5+ fps.

C2D rules!
 
Looks like i am gonna have to reconsider the gfx card then, lol. Havent had nVidia card since my old 5800 but may have a look to see what sort of 512MB cards on my budget, may have a look at the 7900 series.
 
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