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Soleron on 10 September 2010
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Killy_Vorkosigan said:

Thanks for the quick answers guys

- @ Soleron : My old 8800 GTS was running games like Crysis, Dragon Age,The Witcher,  Mass effect, Batman AA and Stalker really fine on a 1280x1024 monitor.6 months ago, I bought a fine LED LCD 32" TV for 1920*1080 resolution, and it appears some games really suffered from this upgrade, especially Dragon Age because I had to lower the resolution and change some settings, while ME2 was perfectly fine on relatively high settings.  On the other hand, I got lately Oblivion through Steam but I never managed to play more than 5 mn because it crashed whatever the settings/resolution.

You probably don't need dual 5850s or a 5870. I would get a single 5850 and save the money for something from the 28nm generation in the first half of next year, for the same cost but you'll end up with something much faster.

- The dedicated network/sound card goal is mostly enhance performance and add stability to the whole rig.  My old Asus P5K had a built in WiFi that I never managed to run correctly. Not that I wanted to connect wirelessly, but sometimes it would have come in handy for me (I used to move quite a lot because of my work :/, and might have to once again in a year or two). Again, I happened to get some crash on some games because of sound issues, thus my decision to try the dedicated sound card

OK, but I don't think it's necessary. You could buy it without those two, see if the integrated stuff causes issues and if they do then buy it.

- I am not really wanting to wait more and I will see on Saturday to keep on talking with the computer shop guys for my new rig ^^ and usually I prefer to wait for feedback and tests and so on before to buy brand new material. On the other hand, it could be a good idea to think about the future and the adaptability ot the MB for the next generation of graphic card.

MB choice doesn't matter for graphics card.


What did you think of my CPU suggestions?

- @ smidlee : Awesome site, lots of good ideas. o7

- Any advice/feedback about the SSD ?

Go for it.