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kiefer23 on 10 February 2010
Squilliam said:
kiefer23 said:

Thanks Squilliam!

I may just go for a single HD 5970. It's around £50-100 more than 2* 5850's, boasts a couple of FPS less than 2* 5870's CF (According to a few Crysis Benchmarks) and it seems it would save me the hassle of switching Motherboards, purchasing a higher watt psu and it should run cooler, quieter and free up some space. A 802.11n wireless card is pretty much useless for me at the moment as my router does not support that frequency. 

For a Monitor I'll probably go with a single 24 inch 1920x1200. The 2560x1600 resolution monitors I have seen are way too expensive. I'd use my 37 LG LH7000 TV but I have to sit to close to see any of the text.

Revamped List:

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD3L LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core i5-750 Processor
Case: Antec P183
GPU: ATI RADEON HD5970
RAM: Crucial memory 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR3 Ballistix PC3-8500 RAM 1066MHz CL = 7 Unbuffered NON-ECC 1.5V 256Meg x 64
Hard drive: Samsung SpinPoint F3 Desktop Class 1 TB Internal hard drive
Optical Drive: LG CH08LS10 Super Multi Blue
PowerSupply: ?
Operating System: Windows 7 64-BIT.
Wireless Card: EDIMAX EW-7128G IEEE 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Card

Thanks again Squilliam! I'll do some further research another time. For now it's 3:14am and my birthday, got to be up early!

The HD 5970 may be a mite overkill for the size of monitor. Its purpose is for people with 4-6 megapixel resolution display setups, like 2560 by 1600 or 4760 by 1080. However theres no shame in wanting the fastest! Its for your birthday, right?


Nah it's not for my Birthday. I wish I recieved £500 gifts! I'm just thinking a little bit ahead in the future. I passed my Games Development course at College and eventually plan on taking the course at a University. 3D rendering on a 1.6ghz dual-core laptop isn't my type of fun and level creation on the UT3 engine was a nightmare at home, it only just runs Halo 2 Vista on the lowest settings. Again it will mostly be used for max setting gameplay.



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caz604 on 10 February 2010

Tagging for future use... getting back into PC Rig Building... Great Thread!!!



I game.  You game.  We game.

I'm a videogamer, not a fanboy, but have a special place for Nintendo.

Current Systems Owned: NSwitch/PS4/XONE/WiiU/3DS/2DS/PCGaming Rig-i7/ASUS i7 Gaming Laptop.

Previous Game Consoles:  PS3/Xbox360/Wii/DSL/Pretty much every one thats been released since the Atari 2600.

Garcian Smith on 10 February 2010

FYI, for those of you looking for a great card on a budget: Newegg currently has the Sapphire Radeon 4870 for just $139.99 with free shipping. It's an older-model card, but for that price it's beastly as hell, beating out the similarly priced 5750 by a mile.



"'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'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

Squilliam on 10 February 2010
kiefer23 said:
Squilliam said:

The HD 5970 may be a mite overkill for the size of monitor. Its purpose is for people with 4-6 megapixel resolution display setups, like 2560 by 1600 or 4760 by 1080. However theres no shame in wanting the fastest! Its for your birthday, right?


Nah it's not for my Birthday. I wish I recieved £500 gifts! I'm just thinking a little bit ahead in the future. I passed my Games Development course at College and eventually plan on taking the course at a University. 3D rendering on a 1.6ghz dual-core laptop isn't my type of fun and level creation on the UT3 engine was a nightmare at home, it only just runs Halo 2 Vista on the lowest settings. Again it will mostly be used for max setting gameplay.

Awesome stuff. I say theres no problem in wanting the fastest.

Anyway I think you're missing a PSU. I use a corsair 750W and you can look at this model Corsair HX750W which is very efficient, cheaper than other equivalents and comes with a 7 year warranty. http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/18295/1



Tease.

Squilliam on 10 February 2010
Garcian Smith said:

FYI, for those of you looking for a great card on a budget: Newegg currently has the Sapphire Radeon 4870 for just $139.99 with free shipping. It's an older-model card, but for that price it's beastly as hell, beating out the similarly priced 5750 by a mile.

Thats only a 24 hour special. So anyone who wants it will have to get in quick.

 



Tease.

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Garcian Smith on 16 February 2010

Bump for major update to the OP!



"'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'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

jefforange89 on 16 February 2010

Another case worth mentioning I think is the Cooler Master Elite 341, for mATX builds. Very nice case, cheap, minimalistic for someone who doesn't need anything really fancy-looking with LEDs and what have you, and has room for *FIVE* 120mm case fans (which makes http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103052 a no-brainer to purchase with it).



Wii/PC/DS Lite/PSP-2000 owner, shameless Nintendo and AMD fanboy.

My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
Wii Friend Code: 2772 8804 2626 5138 Steam: jefforange89
Killergran on 17 February 2010

Awesome update :D



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Vetteman94 on 25 February 2010

You should ask for a sticky on this thread, it deserves to stay at the top since its pretty helpful



Foamer on 27 February 2010

Quick question- I'm currently using an 8800GT and a Core 2 Duo E6750. The combo's fine for my 22" monitor at 1680x1050 with just about every game bar Crysis, but I'd like to get a new 24" or 26" monitor. If I was to upgrade to an ATI HD 5850, would I get the full benefit from it, or would my cpu hold it back?