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Lupin:

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Operating System
MS Windows XP Home 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Core i5 750  @ 2.67GHz 45 °C
Lynnfield 45nm Technology
RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P55A-UD4 (Socket 1156)
Graphics
ASUS VW266H @ 1920x1200
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Hard Drives
977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ (SATA) 31 °C
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (SATA) 30 °C
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 (SATA) 34 °C
Optical Drives
BENQ DVD DC DW240S
KBS UF8TER8 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio - ATI AA01
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Ok, that is what I have. It does exactly what you are looking for, and it is STABLE, no hardware problems at all.

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It doesn't have a future.

kitamesume:
hes asking for the "own a monster rig that can trample on future games like its just playing tetris" so basically he doesnt want to see his fps drop below 60 with 1080p and MAX settings 16AF

Edit: continuation from the question i asked before, if a USB-LAN is existing today, they should just implement USB to USB computer network. with the new USB 3.0 being faster than the Gigabit Lan, it`ll be well over insane speed connections, not only that, you`ll eliminate the requirement of a router as you could connect it in chains ([PC1] <---> [PC2] <---> [PC3] <---> [PC1]) the only thing that`ll make you buy a router or switch if that happens is long distance wired connections, But~ theres the so called wifi for that.

Osmo:

--- Quote from: fohfoh on April 26, 2011, 01:42:08 AM ---Osmo, seriously consider getting more than 1 HDD. Get a boot drive and a slave drive for storage. Samsung or Caviar Black (WD) for the 1TB 7200rpm is what I personally would go for. Hitachi I'm a little confused at the moment. WD bought them out if I'm not mistaken.

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The boot drive will be a SSD. I was thinking 40gb would be enough for a Win 7 64 bit. But a friend was saying get 80GB as Win7 updates take the piss.

Also. HDD slave drive will be a Samsung Spinpoint F3. Either 1TB or two 500GB F3 Raid. Undecided on that.


--- Quote from: BrownMasterV on April 26, 2011, 04:02:16 AM ---I don't see an aftermarket CPU cooler anywhere....are you planning to use the stock heatsink/fan for your CPU?   :-\

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I'm sorry come again?


--- Quote from: Lupin on April 26, 2011, 04:37:36 AM ---More options. Z68 is p67 and h67 combined. As for the price, mobo makers makes multiple models to cover multiple price segments so you'll probably get one that's within your budget.


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I will wait for the Z68, release date is May 11th. Will give me enough time to research my parts which to me is the fun bit :)


--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 26, 2011, 06:22:13 AM ---using an SSD for a boot drive is seriously a must.
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Question is what size? Want to buy a 40GB but will it be enough?


--- Quote ---for the ram, i suggest taking a look at this Corsair 2000MHZ CL9-10-9-27 2x2GB. the SNB has the memory multiplier unlocked, picking a high clocked ram would be a good thing.
PS: it says theres one one stock right now and it has a 40% off so Grab the ram now before the sale wears off.

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I'm going to wait awhile for the ram sticks still need to do research on it.



--- Quote ---i think Xfire a HD6950 would be a beast enough to play anything from this age's games by a huge margin and i'd doubt that it wont be enough for future games. go buy one first if it cant fit your budget and buy another later to Xfire. Asus 2GB HD6950 kind of curious tho, i see this asus to be cheaper than the other brands with only 1gb of ram...
Note: the HD6950 can be flashed into a HD6970 but seems like only the 2GB version could only be flashed and it is highly dangerous  ::) .
* preferably, i`d agree with vuzedome, GTX 560 Ti is theoretically on par with HD6950 and is just behind HD6970, tho one little thing, just to be safe STAY AWAY from OCed GTX 5xx, they have issues specially when SLIed. Asus GTX 560 Ti 1GB GDDR5 -OR- Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2GB GDDR5
the only reason you should be considering ATI over Nvidia would be image quality, ATI seems to have the advantage of better image quality(HQV 2.0 benches says so) and multiple monitors(well over 3, specially on multi-GPU setups) other than that, Nvidia has the upper hand on 3D support, Physx and Cuda.
* another thing, SLI/Xfire on HighEnd cards have some serious issues, they tend to overheat(90c-100c), specially the upper card and specially on mobo that has their PCI-E too near each other. if you consider multiple cards, try and pick a mobo with a decent spacing between the PCI-E slots.
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Let's just hope these new Z68 boards have lots of space. But in terms of GPU i'm come to these two ;

6970 or the GTX 570. Either one. Don't know which one, but I know that the GTX 570 is better in most cases but the 6970 isn't that far behind plus it is like £50-60 cheaper then the 570. Me personally, I like the ATi. But would like to hear more on this. And I will in future sli or crossfire depending on which one I buy.


--- Quote ---for power supplies at least 600Watts for an 2-way SLI/Xfire rig would be enough but 700-1000Watts of raw power would be nice, specially if you`d upgrade more and pay attention to their efficiency rate, mostly at 80% and theres some at 85% rarely 90%. overkill of a rating isnt too bad, but tightly clinging to your max wattage is bad, a spike can blow it up and by blow it up, it`ll literally go in smokes and sometimes it`ll include your other parts that`ll go in smokes.
tho i dont see any decent PSU under £70(by decent i meant more than 500Watts and 80% rated)
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£70+
600Watts+
It's decided.


--- Quote ---for Cases, pay attention to what size of the board it can accommodate, how many HDDs and how spacious it is. too big would be OK but its irritating, too small would be abit bad as airflow would get obstructed and the insides would be cramped and hard to assemble.
oh yea, watch out for cases with tons of lightings, once i had one of those because i was facinated by it and guess what, it lit up my room like i had my nightlamp(my study lamp imho) on -,- so i modded all those led lights with a 220ohm resistor to limit their brightness.
if you dont have any cases in mind right now, try ASUS TA-K51 , its tool free, has filters, plenty of bays to put drives on, an ATX can fit in it, it isnt too big neither it is too small and decent looking.

Edit:

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I think the case should be the last thing to buy, unless I'm missing something. Until I get the CPU, Mobo, PSU and GPu then I will start looking.


--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 26, 2011, 09:19:09 AM ---
ok anyway, you might want to consider buying an intelNIC and a X-Fi SoundCard.

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Out of total droopy-eyed sleepiness, I'm going to ask you without researching it... why? and what are they. I don't know much about sound, something about dolby 7.1?


--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on April 26, 2011, 01:39:23 PM ---From my experience, RAM is the thing you should be least worried about. Production of RAM is pretty standard. Just read a few reviews and look out for early failures. If it doesn't fail within the first week, it shouldn't fail within the first couple years.

Me, I'm using a 4GB dual channel kit from G.Skill because of their low latency. I'm pretty sure you could search for the same sticks on your UK sites. I was choosing between those ones and these ones, but I took the former because they were $5 cheaper. For a gaming rig, you'd probably want the latter, because of the bigger heatsink, and heck, it looks cooler.

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So when it comes to RAM I need to check for low latency and a bigger heatsink?
Thanks.

Micharus:

--- Quote from: Lupin on April 26, 2011, 01:53:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Micharus on April 26, 2011, 01:50:26 PM ---
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Operating System
MS Windows XP Home 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Core i5 750  @ 2.67GHz 45 °C
Lynnfield 45nm Technology
RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P55A-UD4 (Socket 1156)
Graphics
ASUS VW266H @ 1920x1200
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Hard Drives
977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ (SATA) 31 °C
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (SATA) 30 °C
488GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 (SATA) 34 °C
Optical Drives
BENQ DVD DC DW240S
KBS UF8TER8 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio - ATI AA01
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Ok, that is what I have. It does exactly what you are looking for, and it is STABLE, no hardware problems at all.

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It doesn't have a future.

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Sure it does.
It will also take the i7 series of cpu's, up to 14 TB in HD's and if I run a 64 bit OS, I can install the other 4GB of ram I have sitting safe in my drawer.

So why don't I have it set up that way? Because I don't need that much right now.

kitamesume:
well currently, i have not seen an OS past 40gb yet, so 40gb of ssd is enough, but if you're concerned then try at least to pick up a 60gb.

the ram i linked is a pretty big deal, usually that kind of rated ram is about £100, and right now its £50+, you could try searching other options but its a pretty darn good deal.

if you're purely on gaming, and gonna go multi card later on, GTX 560 Ti, when SLIed, rivals the newest GTX590(dual GPU single card, meaning, SLI out of the box in one card) the image quality of the newest Nvidia card and ATI isnt that much of a difference to be concerned about, but if you actually compare it side by side you`d see differences, Nvidia mostly seems grainy and colors abit dull, while ATI looks sharp and colorful.
you dont wanna waste money on GTX570 tho, if i give a scale of speed, its like GTX 560 Ti [3/10] - GTX 570 [4/10] - GTX 580 [9/10] - GTX 590 [10/10], GTX 560 Ti practically sandwiched GTX 570 on it's value.

IntelNIC = well known LAN card, its better than almost any onboard lan, has better packet management and you`d see better latencies and smoother connections. but if you're not concerned about better lan connections and internet, then the onboard on the SNB should be enough and you might not see the difference.

X-Fi soundcard = well known soundcard, if i`d give example, Orchestra A(regular Orchestra) only has 10 different types of instruments playing with a decent stadium while Orchestra B(X-Fi) has 50 different types of instruments playing with a super stadium. X-Fi Wiki

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