| Peterisyum said: dad bought me the pc. It came with vista 64 but dad is very stubborn saying 64 bit OS were shit and he refused to let me keep it, so he unistalled vista and put 32 bit xp on. Eh nothing wrong with an i7 is there, its bottlenecked yes, but I didnt have to buy it :P. I have a collermaster power supply, which im assuming comes with the centurion case, ill look into getting that new power supply, in the mean time i took out the other hard drive to conserve more power for games. Also, I think I might either get a 5770 or 5870, any thoughts on this. |
There's nothing wrong with the i7-920. It's just way, way overkill for gaming, since games don't make use of hyperthreading yet. But if you got it for free, then more power to you.
Cooler Master make some excellent cases, but their PSUs are on the lower end of the quality spectrum. That would definitely explain it.
For gaming, I'd recommend the 5770. The 5870 (and 5970) are basically "uber 133t e-penis" cards that offer substantially more performance than you'll need at this point in time at the cost of boat-loads of cash. If you're running 1920x1080 or lower resolution, the 5770 will allow you to max out most games.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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