Spec me a new gaming PC

Jed Shields · 31 Dec 2007 at 10:15

Hi guys,

I'm looking at upgrading my CPU, Motherboard, Graphics card and RAM. I'll be keeping my Antec P160 case, Hyper 580W PSU and Creative X-Fi Fatality sound card. Running my OS on a 74Gb Raptor and have plenty of other storage drives. Currently got:

Athlon 4400 X2, ABIT AN8 SLI, 2x 7800 GTX, 2x 1Gb DDR.

I'll be getting a 24" LCD, probably a Dell 2407 so need to be able to run games at 1920*1200, preferably with all the bells and whistles.

Budget probably between 600 and 700 ...

I was initially looking at Intel Duo's but have read some good things about the Quads. Was also initially thinking about 8800GTX, GTS etc, but have also just read some good reports of crossfire 3870s ...

Any thoughts.

Cheers,

Jed.

melbourne720 · 31 Dec 2007 at 10:18

Q6600
Tuniq Tower
Asus P5K motherboard
8800 GT gfx card
2-4GB of your favourite coloured PC 6400 RAM

Corsair 520W PSU

something like that

Jed Shields · 31 Dec 2007 at 11:17

Don't need a case or PSU ...

Will the GT be good enough to run Bioshock, Crysis, Gears Of War etc at 1920*1200?

melbourne720 · 31 Dec 2007 at 12:48

you'd probably be better off with a GTX, but I don't think there is a single card that can run crysis at 1920 x 1200 well

Jed Shields · 31 Dec 2007 at 13:16

Do you think Quad is more useful than Duo, price v performance?

melbourne720 · 31 Dec 2007 at 13:20

I'll be doing a comparison this week (see previous one in sig) with a bit of luck. I don't think the difference will be all that huge tbh, certainly worth getting a fast graphics card first, but I'm hoping there will be some benefit, particularly in RTS games and Crysis.

Jed Shields · 1 Jan 2008 at 12:31

What's the difference between the Asus P5K and the Asus P5K SE model?