Re: WTD - Advice on components


"Yung@Hart" <Me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am thinking about building an gaming pc ... I've built workstations
before
but last one was 3 years ago so I'm out of touch with latest developments

Antec P180B case
Power Supply - Zalman ZM-460B
Motherboard - Asus P5B wiFi Deluxe MotherBoard
CPU - Intel E6600 Core2 Duo 2.4 GHz
RAM - Corsair TwinX 2Gb DDR2
Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 Mb
Sound - Creative X-Fi

I would be grateful to receive suggestions for a high spec pc to run a
Flight Simulation and other demanding games

Regards to all and TIA


Wow. OK, a gaming system needs a powerful single-core processor. Check
It needs at least 2GB of high speed RAM. Check
It needs a very powerful video card. Check
It needs kick-ass sound. Check

I'm surprised you want to upgrade already. But if you insist, you can spend
some money to get a system that performs maybe a little better than what you
have.

I'd suggest Phenom 9950 on 790X or 790FX mainboard, 2 X HD 4850 Crossfire,
BFG ES-800 power supply and 4GB (2 X 2GB) of DDR2-800 or DDR2-1066RAM. Add
any sound card and any case to the mix, and call it done.

You can spend a lot more money, but it won't benefit you for gaming use.
The only real weakness in your current system is video. And with your
current motherboard, it wouldn't make sense to buy a new video card or try
to SLI, as you'd be stuck spending money on card that is not PCI-Express
2.0. (double the bandwidth)

So the only upgrade path that even starts to make sense is to get something
that supports dual PCI-Express 2.0 graphics cards. DDR3 memory is wicked
expensive and not faster than DDR2. You can buy an Intel chip with the same
clock speed and multiple cores, but it will cost a lot more for no extra
performance for gaming use.

Note that your games will only use one CPU core. But any new build should
be multiple cores. The phenom quad cores are cheap, so might as well build
with one of them. -Dave




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