New Rig

lee! · 26 Jan 2007 at 09:28

Hi guys, 1st post on here

Looking 2 update my rig completely from AMD 2700+, Radeon x900 etc etc. Only really play css so how would this do? I will be updating 2 GB of corsair in a couple of months. Any changes 4 the same price or less

Aspire Xplorer Black/Silver Neon Mid Tower Gaming Case - No PSU

Akasa Amber Internal System Fan 8cm 3pin Ultra Quiet

Hiper 580W Type-R Modular PSU SLI/CrossFire Certified - Blue

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz 1066FSB LGA775 2MB cache Retail inc.Fan

512MB Sapphire RX1950Pro, PCI-E(x16), Mem 1400MHz, GDDR3, GPU 580MHz, 36Pipes CrossFire Master/Slave

36 GB Western Digital Raptor 10Krpm 16Mb Cache Serial ATA HDD oem

80 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 7200rpm 8MB cache Hard Drive

1GB Kingston Value Ram

Asus P5B Skt 775 Intel P965 Core2 Extreme / Core2 Duo 1066FSB PCI-E x16 SATA RAID Giga LAN 8 ch. Audio ATX Motherboard

Samsung SH-S182M/BEBN Black Lightscribe 1 18 ±R/RAM DLayer DVDRW Writer OEM UK + Nero

Settings maxed out on high, what would the fps be on this system?

Yo may think there aint much storage space, but thats because all i do iss css, no downloading or anything.

Thx for any replies guys

Will_3rd · 26 Jan 2007 at 09:48

it all looks OK, but get a different PSU Hiper's are really really bad at the moment, Corsair & Seasonic would be good alternatives

lee! · 26 Jan 2007 at 09:59

Ok thanks a lot for your quick reply, would anyone suggest any particular PSU for that case?

mishima · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:04

Yeah there have been quite a few reports of dodgey Hiper's on here recently. I would recommend the Antec Truepower Trio series. Corsair and Enermax are also very good PSUs.

lee! · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:07

thanks!

mishima · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:09

As for FPS, not sure what CSS is like but I'm currently playing Far Cry at 1280 everything on very high, AA and AF right up and there aren't any problems at all. Not sure about exact FPS but should be like that on most games!

lee! · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:17

ok, the other thing is, im not 100% sure about which model of the x1950 to go for, any1 suggest 1, bearing in mind price?

hp7909 · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:21

lee! said:
Ok thanks a lot for your quick reply, would anyone suggest any particular PSU for that case?

Can't go wrong with Tagan, Corsair/Seasonic*, Enermax, FSP & OCZ. For that spec, looking at minimum 450W :cool:

What case is that?

*make both

lee! · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:23

ok thx, any case you would suggest for < £60? lol sry bout this im getting carried away now !! >.<

mishima · 26 Jan 2007 at 10:27

lee! said:
ok, the other thing is, im not 100% sure about which model of the x1950 to go for, any1 suggest 1, bearing in mind price?

I have the Powercolor X1950 Pro. Has a really nice cooler on it. Have a look at these performance stats of all the Pro's and over the page noise, temperature etc. Gives you an indication of what each brand is like.

hp7909 · 26 Jan 2007 at 17:41

lee! said:
ok thx, any case you would suggest for < £60? lol sry bout this im getting carried away now !! >.<

Has to be this!

EDIT: If you don't mind, what's your budget? Maybe (we) can draw up a better/cheaper/etc spec