Pemalite said:
Also noticed the case doesn't have fan filters? I dislikes dust on my pretty hardware. :(
As for the GPU, drop the 270X and get a Radeon 7870 instead, they're pretty much *exactly* the same, just save yourself 10-20 bucks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202025
Some improvements I would suggest to look into is a decent cooler for that CPU, get some fan filters, throw a couple of 120mm fans in the front.
Especially the CPU cooler, AMD coolers are loud when things warm up.
And get an SSD, even an SSD cache drive. :)
And lastly, is that 4 sticks of Ram I see? Why didn't you go with 2x 8gb kit? Could have allowed you to expand to 32Gb in the future if the need ever arose.
Otherwise, good budget rig.
Snesboy said:
the-pi-guy said:
GPU is probably fine, depending on what you want to play though and at what resolution/settings/frame rate. |
Monitor is 1440x900.
As for settings, StarCraft 2 defaulted to extreme and I still got 20 FPS in the late game in a 4v4. The AMD FX CPU is a beast.
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Well. An Intel Haswell Dual-Core will beat the FX in StarCraft 2, but overclock the FX and you will pull better frames.
You *should* also be able to do 4ghz on stock volts rather easy, my first gen FX can do 4.2ghz on stock volts.
Also, don't forget the hotfix, can give a small free performance boost.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646060
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594
You can also get a 10-15% IPC increase just by overclocking the NB in StarCraft 2 aswell, food for thought.
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Fans are on the way. Just wanted to get the tower up and running.
I was going to get an Corsair H100 cooler.
I just partitioned my HDD and put WIN7 on it's own boot. Didn't feel like waiting around to install my OS on an SSD when I could just have my computer instantly lol
RAM is from my old machine. It's going to go back into that box when the new RAM gets here. Same type, just 8GB sticks.
