How's it look?Post Date: 2007-08-24 |
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Aesos 
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 Topic: How's it look?Posted: 24 Aug 2007 at 10:17pm |
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Case: Digital Storm Twister Pro
Power Supply: 850W Thermaltake Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz (1333MHz Front Side Bus) (4MB Cache) Motherboard: nVidia 650i Core 2 Quad (By: eVGA) (nForce 650i Ultra) Memory: 4GB DDR2 Corsair at 667MHz (Dual Channel) Floppy / Media: Digital Media Card Reader (Black) Hard Drive 1: 320GB (Western Digital / Seagate) Hard Drive 2: 320GB (Western Digital / Seagate) Raid Option: - Raid 1 Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x) (LightScribe Edition) Network Card: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections) Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (By: eVGA / Asus) (PCI-Express) Sound Card: Motherboard Multi-Channel High Definition Audio (7.1 Channel) Cooling: Air Cooled Stage 3 (Silent Artic Cooling (TwisterBoost Overclocked) This will be my gaming computer. Trying to keep it under 2500. Any suggestions?
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skyR
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Posted: 24 Aug 2007 at 10:29pm |
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A little overkill in certain areas.
If you don't plan on upgrading, you don't need a 850W PSU. If you do plan on upgrading in future, why not get the cheaper 8800 GTS 320mb, it runs all the current and upcoming games on high settings & resolutions amazingly. That is also with the ram, do you really need 4GB for a gaming machine? If you don't plan on running 3 games at once then it's pointless. The only games that can possibly use 4GB is games from EA. You also need Vista x64 for your PC to recognize 4gb. What do you plan on doing with 640GB of space? A little waste of money I think that could be spent on something else in life. |
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Aesos
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Posted: 24 Aug 2007 at 11:33pm |
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I was planning on getting Vista. I use some mmo's and sometimes have a few running at a time so thats why I was looking at 4gb. mostly just dual games at once sometimes. I plan on upgrading somethings next year when new video cards come ou with new direct x. If 8800 GTS works just as good that works for me thank you.
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Aesos
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Posted: 24 Aug 2007 at 11:41pm |
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Case: Digital Storm Twister Pro
Power Supply: 850W Thermaltake
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz
Motherboard: nVidia 650i Core 2 Quad (By: eVGA) (nForce 650i Ultra) Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 667MHz (Dual Channel) Floppy / Media: Digital Media Card Reader (Black)
Hard Drive 1: 320GB (Western Digital / Seagate) Hard Drive 2: 320GB (Western Digital / Seagate) Raid Option: - Raid 1 Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x)
(LightScribe Edition) Network Card: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Soundcard: Creative labs soundblaster Audigy Se
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800Gts
Cooling: Air Cooled Stage 3 (Silent Artic Cooling (TwisterBoost
Overclocked) Windows Vista Ultimate
I was also thinking about getting a faster 10k rpm hard drive to run my operating system and games off of and use dual hard drives just to store my music and video's on.
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skyR
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Posted: 24 Aug 2007 at 11:44pm |
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An 8800 GTS will be fine for MMOs unless you plan on running two clients on high settings at 1600x1200 or higher O.O! I would also suggest getting a quad-core as it will perform much better then a duo core for multi-tasking.
Microsoft has confirmed that DX10.1 will not require a new GPU. All GeForce 8 series cards will support DX10.1. DX11 is scheduled to come out in 2009. |
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Aesos
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Posted: 24 Aug 2007 at 11:50pm |
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My only question is the the intel quad 6600 runs at 2.4 Ghz and the dual core is at 3.0. Even being quad core will it perform better then the dual core. If you go up one level more on the quad core it is 700 dollars more and that pushes it out of my price range as of right now.
Thank you for your help.
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skyR
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 12:05am |
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Q6600 is an excellent processor, it's on par with E6850.
You can run a game or do a task on each core at 2.4ghz, it's much better for multi-tasking. You can always request Digital Storm to overclock the Q6600 to 3.0ghz or 3.2ghz if you are worried about it being a little slow. And again you don't need 640GB of space or else you wouldn't be spending so little on a computer =\ I don't know anyone with 200GB worth of quality music, photos, and video. You can always store music, photos, video, ... on dvds, usb drives, or your ipod also. Would be my build if I was in your shoes. http://www.digitalstormonline.com/comploadsaved.asp?id=75434 |
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Aesos
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 12:14am |
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Thank you very much for your help I like thay set up.
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Alex
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 1:13pm |
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SkyR is correct, Aeosos, definitely go with conifg 75434.
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