New Rig..

[Demalii]

Yea so.. what's the leetsauce hardware for top of the line rigs right now..

I need top mobo's cpus and video cards please, I looked on tomshardware for reviews.. seems nvidia is the way to go right now.. Asus or Abit though? and yes.. of course amd.

Thanks for the help =)

 

[gurusan]

if you have money then AMD is not the right choice. intel destroys AMD cpu's

 

[b1gapl]

Well what is your budget?

 

[siddanth3]

why amd, intel's isnt that expensive these days,

 

[Demalii]

I'm wanting to spend around $1500.

I want my games to have so many FPS that an epileptic person would poop their pants =p

My current computer is like 3 years old at least now and I spent $1500 on it and it was great for a year until I shoved too many UV lights in, etc.

 

[b1gapl]

For your budget:

Case - Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 or Thermaltake Armor or Antec 900
Motherboard - MSI P6N SLI Platinum or MSI P6N SLI-FI(Cheaper)
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or Q6600($270 on July 22)
RAM - G.SKILL 2GB HZs
Graphics - EVGA 8800GTX
Power supply - Corsair 620HX or Cosair 520HX(Cheaper)
Hard drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
Optical drive - Sony NEC Optiarc DVD-RW+/- Burner
Optional aftermarket CPU cooling - Tuniq 120 or Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro(Cheaper)

 

[Demalii]

Hey thanks for the price list, I really appriciate it.. I just installed splinter cell double agent and found my 9800xt has shader 2.0 not 3.0.. so I can't play it =( But soon I will fix that heh, thanks.

Do you really think intel is the way to go?.. I've been amd since the begginning.

 

[peterhuang913]

yes intels are hot at the moment, amd used to be ahead but the intel core 2 duos are just great now, highly overclockable and overall better than the amd x2's

 

[Demalii]

sick, I'm eager to run a computer with ram at 800mhz+..

Should I be running windows vista 64b with this computer?

 

[b1gapl]

nah..you don't need 64-bit OS right now. 32-bit will do fine.