Building a new pc from scratch, can’t decide what to do.
Considered an amd phenom 550 black edition (multiplier) dual core at one point, however some quads are roughly the same price (price isn’t a problem its getting the choice right for the requirements), can’t really determine if quad is better all round in general or even which manufacturer (overwhelmed with data and a limited understanding), given comparisons- they’re not exactly two dual cores (but their quads, supposedly Bigger newer etc must be double in some respect, although not all applications are utilizing their full potential, so save , and go dual core? Loop after loop, can’t decide when actually considering spending money, and being a small financial amount shy of a better choice cpu.
Over clocking and damaging your system slowly isn’t worth it, but given the below maybe you could help advise about choices when building a stock gaming rig.
64 bit operating systems, is direct x 10 exclusive or at least its advanced graphic features in games? Would you choose windows 7 or vista?
Dx 10 and 11 ready or at least future proofs towards choices, does the motherboard have to be dx 10 compatible? Probably a gpu issue will crop up regarding dx11 more so than a mobo or cpu, and that’s as simple as upgrading to a newer gpu that handles dx 11.
2560x1600, at least possible, don’t intend to run a 30” lcd, what power is required besides sli, any single high end card option that can pull that off?, also thinking more so mobo and a cpu power, what’s best for this, achieving high frame rates at that kind of resolution?
Water cooling the gpu and cpu, want to take good care of components, keeping them cool all the time, and benefit from this performance boost and life longevity, other deciding factor was having hopefully a quieter computer, need to pick the right case and do it yourself water cooling kit, ready to install liquid cooling kits are really noisy (exhaust fan around the pump), any pointers any recommendations? Researched into cpu blocks, gpu blocks, pump, but what tube size and what case?
Not trying to run crysis on a 2560x1600 (30”lcd) with these above requirements. Trying to achieve max settings with titles such as NB for ut3, using unreal ed (ut3 has something to do with quad maybe unreal ed to? doom3, thief2 for the fms, deus ex 3 and thief 4, maybe assassins creed and bio shock (apparently they have sequels now!) on a high resolution, good frame rate rig with a somewhat quieter pc using water cooling, that’s going to be running a widescreen monitor, getting the missing content (sides) and maximize those games to their top native resolution at least, considering the future requirement behind direct x11, and meeting direct x 10 now.
Thanks for looking.
Current pc spec and some details
asus a7n8x-e
amd athlon 1.1ghz
2048mb ram
dx 9.0c
radeon 9200
Couldn't keep using bfg 6800 ultra, had to remove it, pernumbra overture slows down and stops running, clear sky unplayable fps... had a boot up issue, green red black diamond background wierd shapes some times unreadable, ut3 in game videos lock up have to crash the program slowly to get back to desktop, "can't see's what im ctrl+alt+deling"
Considered an amd phenom 550 black edition (multiplier) dual core at one point, however some quads are roughly the same price (price isn’t a problem its getting the choice right for the requirements), can’t really determine if quad is better all round in general or even which manufacturer (overwhelmed with data and a limited understanding), given comparisons- they’re not exactly two dual cores (but their quads, supposedly Bigger newer etc must be double in some respect, although not all applications are utilizing their full potential, so save , and go dual core? Loop after loop, can’t decide when actually considering spending money, and being a small financial amount shy of a better choice cpu.
Over clocking and damaging your system slowly isn’t worth it, but given the below maybe you could help advise about choices when building a stock gaming rig.
64 bit operating systems, is direct x 10 exclusive or at least its advanced graphic features in games? Would you choose windows 7 or vista?
Dx 10 and 11 ready or at least future proofs towards choices, does the motherboard have to be dx 10 compatible? Probably a gpu issue will crop up regarding dx11 more so than a mobo or cpu, and that’s as simple as upgrading to a newer gpu that handles dx 11.
2560x1600, at least possible, don’t intend to run a 30” lcd, what power is required besides sli, any single high end card option that can pull that off?, also thinking more so mobo and a cpu power, what’s best for this, achieving high frame rates at that kind of resolution?
Water cooling the gpu and cpu, want to take good care of components, keeping them cool all the time, and benefit from this performance boost and life longevity, other deciding factor was having hopefully a quieter computer, need to pick the right case and do it yourself water cooling kit, ready to install liquid cooling kits are really noisy (exhaust fan around the pump), any pointers any recommendations? Researched into cpu blocks, gpu blocks, pump, but what tube size and what case?
Not trying to run crysis on a 2560x1600 (30”lcd) with these above requirements. Trying to achieve max settings with titles such as NB for ut3, using unreal ed (ut3 has something to do with quad maybe unreal ed to? doom3, thief2 for the fms, deus ex 3 and thief 4, maybe assassins creed and bio shock (apparently they have sequels now!) on a high resolution, good frame rate rig with a somewhat quieter pc using water cooling, that’s going to be running a widescreen monitor, getting the missing content (sides) and maximize those games to their top native resolution at least, considering the future requirement behind direct x11, and meeting direct x 10 now.
Thanks for looking.
Current pc spec and some details
asus a7n8x-e
amd athlon 1.1ghz
2048mb ram
dx 9.0c
radeon 9200
Couldn't keep using bfg 6800 ultra, had to remove it, pernumbra overture slows down and stops running, clear sky unplayable fps... had a boot up issue, green red black diamond background wierd shapes some times unreadable, ut3 in game videos lock up have to crash the program slowly to get back to desktop, "can't see's what im ctrl+alt+deling"
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