Need to buy Components Advice needed.

**banjo7** · #1 29th Dec 2007, 13:28

Hi,

Im going to build a Powerful Gaming Rig.

I have about £1000 budget and i have about £800 towards a CPU Mobo Ram,GPU and Sound Card.

Need advice on them

cheers,

**Cew27** · #2 29th Dec 2007, 13:34

you seem like your in the same boat as me
i am getting/already have
intel q6600 core 2 quad that i will overclock - 160
evga/xfx 780i sli motherboard (so you can have sli or tri sli if you wish) - 200
any goord ram about 200 for 4 gig
nvidea goeforce gtx 768mb graphics card - 300
total = 850

**alex** · #3 29th Dec 2007, 17:10

Only get a GTX if gaming at 1920x1200. If less the 8800GT will sort you out nicely. Also a lot cheaper, as in nearly half the price and can game at 1920x1200 just not as well as the GTX but you can always just turn a few detail settings down or turn off AA for those extra few fps.

I'll go nosey for a spec for you now.

I agree with Cewy on the Quad but you won't see the benefit in games just yet as not many are coded to use a quad.

If you want out and out cpu performance now then it has to be a dual, and it has to be the e6850.

Both it and the quad are priced closely, with the e6850 being about £20 more.

**Cew27** · #4 29th Dec 2007, 17:30

so the quad will be come more usefull later on ??

**alex** · #5 29th Dec 2007, 17:34

Yup. Not many (I know of 3, but there might be a few more) are yet.

But they will be, guaranteed.

It took around 2 years for games developers to make use of duals, it's only really taken off in a big way since conroe was released. Now cpu manufacturer's aren't waging the "mhz war" anymore but are now going for more efficient architecture and more cpu's on a single die those same developers don't really have a choice as they're wanting to expand the gaming experience. What do you think drives gpu improvements?

**Cew27** · #6 29th Dec 2007, 17:37

"What do you think drives gpu improvements?"

mexicans??

**alex** · #7 29th Dec 2007, 17:41

Was that sarcasm Cewy?

**Cew27** · #8 29th Dec 2007, 17:44

no lol it was a random comment outlining the fact that many foerign countries are becoming more industrial due to the workers accepting a lower wage

^^ that wasnt an insult either ... just some of my dry humor

**banjo7** · #9 30th Dec 2007, 08:34

Alex maybe you could answer me a question with me being a Idiot.

Take Crysis for example
Its Minimum Requirements are 2.8Ghz and the Core 2 Duo will do that nicely with its 2x3.0Ghz But (heres me being a noob)Would the Quad run it as it is 4x 2.4Ghz?

Cheers,

**alex** · #10 30th Dec 2007, 11:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by banjo7

Alex maybe you could answer me a question with me being a Idiot.

Take Crysis for example
Its Minimum Requirements are 2.8Ghz and the Core 2 Duo will do that nicely with its 2x3.0Ghz But (heres me being a noob)Would the Quad run it as it is 4x 2.4Ghz?

Cheers,

Hi Banjo. Just because you don't know something doesn't make you an idiot, you just don't know.

The min specs are based upon a P4 2.8ghz. An E6300 (1.83ghz) has more gaming prowess than this cpu due to its better all round architecture; it's got, i believe, 4 less pipeline stages resident.

Game developers give the minimum specs based upon the absolute minimum needed to boot the game without it crashing, thereby artificially increasing the market of sales. It's immoral but legal as it doesn't take into account frame rates, aa, or detail settings.

The resolution of your monitor plays heavily in how well any games runs. The larger screen the monitor has the more pixels. The more pixels the harder the gpu (and less so, the cpu) has to work.