| Garcian Smith said: I) Standard Gaming Box A basic mid-range build for gamers of all shapes and sizes. This setup will play 99% of modern games at max settings. CPU: Athlon II X3 440 MOBO: Asus M4A77TD GPU: Powercolor AX4850 Radeon HD 4850 (for 1680x1050 and below); Gigabyte GV-R489UD-1GD Radeon HD 4890 (for 1080p TVs/monitors and similar) RAM: 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws Series DDR3-1600 HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB DVD: Lite-On 24x DVD+/-RW |
I'm looking at building my own system and think this one suits my needs pretty well. There are some parts I would need to switch out though (due to unavailability). This is what I'm looking at:
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 435 (I notice it isn't the same as you had, but I can't find any Irish websites that have the 440. Will the 435 be up to the task, or will I need to upgrade instead?
MOBO: ASUS M4A77TD PRO, Socket-AM3 (Again, not the exact same, but it's the closest that I could find. Will it work?)
GPU: MSI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 (The 4890 doesn't seem to be available anywhere and I'll be playing on a 1080p monitor, so is this good?)
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz 4GB CL9 (No sign of G.Skill, but I've been told Corsair is a very good brand, if somewhat more expensive)
PSU: Corsair VX 450W PSU (Will 450W still be ok with the 5770?)
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA2 (I think I might need the extra space)
DVD: Sony NEC Optiarc DVD±RW burner AD-7240S (Can't find Lite-On anywhere here and this seems pretty cheap)
CASE: Cooler Master Sileo 500 Midi Tower (No sign of the Centurion 5, just can't seem to get it anywhere heer, so I went with another Cooler Master that is around the same price and is presumably good enough)
Monitor: LG 22" LCD W2261VP-PF
Now that I look a it, it seems that nothing is actually the same. I tried to stay with the same template, but it's pretty hard when I have a more limited selection here. Does that look pretty similar to what you have? And, more importantly, will it be as effective and is everything compatible?
Thanks for the help,
GreyianStorm
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