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| 360500 | 2005-06-02 03:37:00 | Just looking around these forums, and thought I'd post my plan for a gaming machine I plan to buy. Here it is- Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Video Card: eVGA Geforce 6800GT; 256MB; GDDR3; PCI-Express x16 Processor: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Memory: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1 GB -- Granted I have the hard drive, CD/DVD drive, screen, keyboard/mouse choosen also, but that's not important here. I was just wondering if anyone could foresee some technical problems, though I doubt there are any. My main question was if anyone had built a computer and "stagger-bought" the parts (i.e. buy a piece of the computer when funds were sufficient enough, then wait until the funds rise high enough again to buy another piece until the entire thing is complete) and if they had any major problems with this tactic. |
Magnum36 (8255) | ||
| 360501 | 2005-06-02 04:43:00 | Na, its seemed to work fine with me thats how I built mine. Those specs look pretty mean should be a nice system :thumbs: | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 360502 | 2005-06-02 05:07:00 | If you wanted to get an extra boost, you'd get another grphics card and use SLI, and *possibly* some more RAM, but otherwise it's all good :) | Edward (31) | ||
| 360503 | 2005-06-02 07:02:00 | Very yummy. I sort of did the buy in bits. I had an OK graphics card first and my old case and my old CDRW. Then got a new case. Then a DVDRW, then replaced the graphics last. And am now about to chnage my PSU for an Enermax. Only disadvantage is if you haven't got old h/w to use in it meanwhile, then its not usable. But if you have, no worries. Get a good PSU though at the start. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 360504 | 2005-06-02 08:03:00 | If you wanted to get an extra boost, you'd get another grphics card and use SLI, and *possibly* some more RAM, but otherwise it's all good :) Imagine this: 2 x 512MB of graphics card, giving you over 1GB.... Extra RAM would come in handy, is it DDR2? What's the speed of it? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 360505 | 2005-06-02 10:00:00 | Just looking around these forums, and thought I'd post my plan for a gaming machine I plan to buy. Here it is- Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Video Card: eVGA Geforce 6800GT; 256MB; GDDR3; PCI-Express x16 Processor: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Memory: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1 GB The Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe isn't the best. Heard of people with lots of problems with it. Try the DFI SLI-DR, or Ultra-D if you don't want or need SLI. If you've got the money for a 4000+ I would wait a bit longer and get an X2 (dual core) or get a venice core. Less problems with the venice, better overclocking and you can run 4 sticks of RAM without more problems. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 360506 | 2005-06-02 23:59:00 | Imagine this: 2 x 512MB of graphics card, giving you over 1GB.... Extra RAM would come in handy, is it DDR2? What's the speed of it? Cheers :) It's a CORSAIR ValueSelect – 1GB (2 x 512MB); 184-Pin DDR SDRAM; Unbuffered DDR 400; PC 3200 --- (*coming right off the specs page of their site ) :thumbs: |
Magnum36 (8255) | ||
| 360507 | 2005-06-03 00:07:00 | You might want to get better ram if you have the money and that you're an overclocker... eg. Corsair TwinL low latency 2-2-2-5.... But what you listed is already a pretty good rig... |
Azrael (4666) | ||
| 360508 | 2005-06-03 00:30:00 | The Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe isn't the best. Heard of people with lots of problems with it. Try the DFI SLI-DR, or Ultra-D if you don't want or need SLI. If you've got the money for a 4000+ I would wait a bit longer and get an X2 (dual core) or get a venice core. Less problems with the venice, better overclocking and you can run 4 sticks of RAM without more problems. I can see that the 3800+ Venice Core is pretty much consistently running pretty close behind the 4000+ in real time gaming, and in the 3D rendering it surpasses much of its competition. And for about $100 less, I'll definetly take it into consideration. As for the X2, it's pretty new and AMD has priced them in the < $500 range. *eek* I may wait it out, buy some other things and see if any dramatic sales depreciation happens. As for the motherboard, I too have heard of complaints about that board; however, the cons that they made didn't seem crazy enough in the face of the pros to change my mind. As for the SLI part, I do plan on using it. The reviews on 2 nVidia 6800 GT together showed amazing "horse power" for a video card and since it is $100 cheaper than the Ultra, and runs only 50 Mhz slower, I didn't think it'd be a bad choice to get two. Thanks for the recomendations though. The DFI SLI-DR mobo looks awesome. If you meant the DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR then I'm completly with you, it out ranks the ASUS on about every benchmark and after I read some reviews and testing info, it seems to be the best for gamers (which is what I'll be using this rig for ) :D |
Magnum36 (8255) | ||
| 360509 | 2005-06-03 00:41:00 | You might want to get better ram if you have the money and that you're an overclocker... eg. Corsair TwinL low latency 2-2-2-5.... I was looking for the TwinL, but all I could find was TwinX...did TwinL get discontinued or something or was that a typo? Anyway, I'm not to familiar with overclocking at the moment, but once I get something that can actually run well (unlike the Dell I have...) I'm sure I'll get into it. Also too, what's "2-2-2-5"? I know they're settings for the memory stick, but I was looking for a more in depth definition... |
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