Gaming PC Help

[PPP(PROWD PSP OWNER)]

Hey,

im choosing between these systems now

1GB RAM,
250GB HD,
Nvidea 7600GT,
DVD RW ,

a)w/better cooled case and P4 3.2Ghz
b)w/Norm Case and AMD Athlon 64 3700+

Cheers
PPP

[Tomlo]

There ya go Nvidia that card should run circles around that ATI card, now a few suggestions...

1. If your planning on gamming make sure that HD is fast usually the larger ones like 250GB are slow you want one at 7200 RPM and 8MB cache. Trust me your much better off going with the fast 100GB HD than the slow 250GB 5400 RPM 2MB Cache HD, look into it...

2. Your best off with two 512MB sticks of RAM than 1GB of RAM, If you have two then it will run the ram dual channel and you will get TWICE the bandwith from the RAM, its usually cheaper to buy 2 x 512 anyway and you get more performance.

3. Go with the Athlon 64, Cooling can always be cheaply added later and its much more faster and reliable than that P4. Remember its not too hard to add a fan or two or even buy another case a month later...

4. Make sure you get a Powersupply thats up to the challenge. If you go to cheap then it could blow or cause crashes, on the other hand if you go to expensive then thats wasted cash...

[PPP(PROWD PSP OWNER)]

hey,

This is the HD 250GB 3Gb/s ALL I KNOW,

500W PSU , CASE HAS A 120mm fan on front

all the oithers

Processor: AMD64 Athlon 3700+ Socket-939 San Diego; Memory: 1.0GB DDR 400mhz; Hard Disk Drive: 250GB S-ATA2 3.0Gb/s 16MB buffer; Second Hard Disk Drive: None; Optical Drive: 16x DVD-ROM; Second Optical Drive: None; Graphics card: Nvidia 7600GT 256MB TV/DVI; Floppy Disk Drive: None; Operating System: None; Software: BullGuard Anti-Virus, Nero Suite, PowerDVD - FREE; Sound Card: Onboard Sound; Internet and Networking: Onboard 10/100 network card (Built-in); Monitor: None; Printer: None; Warranty: 3 Years Standard Warranty; Case: Gladiator (500W PSU)

[PPP(PROWD PSP OWNER)]

WAIT !!!!!

THEYVE MADE A MISTAKJE ON ONE OF THE PC'S

ITS AN P4 3.2Ghz 640,

1GB ram

200GB

Thermaltake Suprano

BUT

theyve not added a price on 2X Nvidea 7900GTX (SLI)

do you think if i buy it thell charge me

[Tomlo]

Lol im sure they will charge you for the cards thats just too big of a chunk of change to let slip...

And yes that harddrive should be fast its SATA II, a pretty new technology and has a 16MB buffer...

The RAM is 1 x 1GB like I said 2 x 512MB is much better or you could go for 2 x 1GB, The thing is the two sticks have to be IDENTICAL (Same Manufacturer, same model) to run dual channel. The chances of buying an Identical stick later is small, so you best off getting 2 identical now, and Later if the motherboard allows add another 2 later, getting dual channel ram isnt a huge performance gain but its nice to have...


That 500w power supply is plenty enough for anything you have and will add later...

[PPP(PROWD PSP OWNER)]

Lol im sure they will charge you for the cards thats just too big of a chunk of change to let slip...

And yes that harddrive should be fast its SATA II, a pretty new technology and has a 16MB buffer...

The RAM is 1 x 1GB like I said 2 x 512MB is much better or you could go for 2 x 1GB, The thing is the two sticks have to be IDENTICAL (Same Manufacturer, same model) to run dual channel. The chances of buying an Identical stick later is small, so you best off getting 2 identical now, and Later if the motherboard allows add another 2 later, getting dual channel ram isnt a huge performance gain but its nice to have...


That 500w power supply is plenty enough for anything you have and will add later...

thanx so will that config OCd run ghost recon advanced warfighter at 1024 or higher

[Tomlo]

lol that rig underclocked would run ghost recon at max settings three times over...

[PPP(PROWD PSP OWNER)]

lol that rig underclocked would run ghost recon at max settings three times over...

2X Nvidea 7900GTX IN SLI!!!!
For anyone who is interested this is the final pc i have bought
MSI K8 SLI
AMD64 Athlon x2 3800+ Socket-939 ; Memory: 1.0GB DDR 400mhz; Hard Disk Drive: 200GB S-ATA2 3.0Gb/s 8MB buffer (Recommended); Second Hard Disk Drive: None; Optical Drive: 16x Double-Layer DVD+/-RW; Second Optical Drive: None; Graphics card: 2X Nvidea 7900GTX(sli) ; Floppy Disk Drive: 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive (Recommended); Operating System: None; Sound Card: Onboard Sound; Internet and Networking: Onboard 10/100 network card (Built-in); Monitor: None; Printer: None;
Psu:550W ezcoolWarranty: 3 Years Standard Warranty; Case: Thermaltake Soprano (550W PSU)

Comments welcome

539POUND!

[ptr.exe]

A rig with two 7900GTX (AKA Fastest cards on the planet) in SLi for £540 is pretty damn good.

You won't be getting the most out of them however, as you're probably getting a bottleneck with the CPU. A little overclocking should fix that.

[Tomlo]

Nice....