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well im not to confident with bios settings and suchlike but im sure all the advice i need is right here on the forum, and its good to learn these things, so i'll probably go for the ram you suggested.
so finally onto the graphics card how does the card you suggested bare up against similar priced nvidia cards? is it all about amd cards these days when comparing to the same sort of price of nvidia cards
Sorry to turn this thread into a build thread by the way
can you elaborate on that, whats the difference? i just want to see if the differences are anything i would be interested in. however £50 extra is pushing the budget i was trying to stick to a little too far i think.
Well for me, better components, caps, heat sinks and power phases will make it a worthwhile investment, better layout of PCI-e slots, more thought in terms of pci-e bus splitting, additional chipsets. All add to a platform that you could happily upgrade more than one time
Choose wisely and your board could last you a very long time.
Point was really that if there is a newer revision - source that instead as it would have given GB time to iron out initial problems
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4015#ov
Heard you're having fun with it Haha, but we love build threads
Yea, we'd be happy to walk you through the steps in the BIOS to set your memory. In fact, here they are:
- When the computer first loads up and you see the "Gigabyte" logo, press the <Del> key.
- After doing this you should eventually arrive in the main BIOS menu, select the "MB Intelligent Tweaker (MIT)" option.
- Go to the "Advanced Memory Settings" page
- On this page locate the "System memory multiplier" option, at default it will be set to "[Auto]".
- Change this setting until the value of the greyed-out "Memory Frequency (Mhz)" just below the "System memory multiplier" changes to say "1600MHz".
- Now on the same page, look for the "Channel A Timing Settings", press <Enter>.
- On this new page change the first four values, the ones under the "Channel A Standard Timing Control" subheading (CAS Latency Time, tRCD, tRP, tRAS) to:
- Go back to the previous page and repeat the previous step for the "Channel B Timing Settings"
- On the same "Advanced Memory Settings" page, check that the "Profile DDR Voltage" is set to "1.5V" - which it should be at default (if it isn't you will need to go up one page and then into the "Advanced Voltage Settings" and finds the "DRAM Voltage" setting and change it to "1.5V").
- Press F10 and save the new settings
- Exit the BIOS
As for an Nvidia alternative to the HD 6850, that would be the GTX 460 1GB. It is a really nice card and in some games it is faster than the HD 6850, though it is slightly more expensive at the moment (as there are currently some really great deals on 6850 card). Here are the GTX 460 1GB cards available on OCUK.
Here is a direct performance comparison of the HD 6850 and GTX 460 1GB in a range of games with the cards at stock clockspeeds.
cheers for that
shoved them all in the case, it started first time no probs. ive set up the ram as cmndr_andi said and it all seems to be working sweet cant thank you guys enough. i just need to put some real games to the test now other than tf2 which im kind of addicted to, but it looks a lot better with everything on max , i might have a bash at bf3.
