On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:18:08 GMT,
(E-Mail Removed)lid (sportsguyfan)
wrote:
>Ok I need to know if this is all good for gaming. And of course
>regular use for instant messaging and internet browsing.
>
>But mainly gaming smile recent games...
>
>
>Motherboard:
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128268
>
>Computer Case:
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811144151
>
>Hard Drive:
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144309
>
>Video Card:
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102536
>
>Memory: I have 1g now but will buy 2nd soon.
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145526
>
>
>ok with this combination..what do you guys think for the new sports,
>and army games?
What processor do you have? You dont really need a powerful one but
Id get at least a 3000-3200 AMD 64.
That MB is OK but Id rather get the Ultra but I think this one is
pretty good. I remember I was thinking about getting it but ended up
getting the chaintech since it was cheaper at the time and was an
ULTRA. Probably not a big deal. I remember posts from people who
bought the board and they claimed it was fine.
HD - thats OK. You get the best deals from Compusa during sales.
I think theres a 200-250 deal this week though the past few weeks
havent been the best , a bit spotty after the boffo Black Friday
deals. You get the usual deals somewhere though ---- either Compusa,
Best Buy or CC etc are having deals every other week.
The WD I think has a 1 year warrannty.
Others have posted these deals which are probably better:
Seagate 250 gig SATA 5 year warranty $109 free shipping
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=101571
Hitachi 250 gig sata 109.99 - rebates = 59.99 3 year warranty
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/398...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG
I really like the Hitachi the 160 gig sata I bought. It really does
feel faster than the PATA seagates, maxtors and WDs Ive been using.
Not because of the interface but because of the overall design.
RAID 0 -- you really do it at your own risk. Anandtech advised
against it saying in the real world virtually no performance gain
though artificial benchmarks would show big improvements. Not even for
games --- they tested it with Far Cry etc. They also noted it
increases chances of data loss. On top of that --- Ive been
experimenting with RAID 0 again though Ive read the ANANDTECH article
bexause I thought maybe my PC was more server like ---- in the
wimpiest sense of course. I do multitasking chores and various things
seem to bog my PC down. Subjectively it seemed to help RAID 0 with
some things --- not a huge difference but a minor one, but you add on
the fact that there are sporadic but persistent reports of nforce4 MBs
and data corruption problems and other things especially with RAID but
also with HDs in general. I had disasterous results with RAID 0 ---
constant severe data corruption. I mean disaster.
I finally got it going again - my MB bios also died when I tried to
update it thinking that would fix the corruption problems. Well I
tried some fixes mentioned - disabling TCQ etc but my PC froze again
with RAID 0 so I gave up. But like I said I noticed a difference
after I switched to the Hitachi SATA so Im happy with that.
Id get the 6600GT instead though its only 128 megs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/...ii/page11.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/...ii/page11.html
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