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Urisma
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Ditch the CPU / MoBo combo. For the price of the 960 you can get the top of the line Sandy Bridge line. It'll benefit you wayyyy more, especially if you're in to overclocking. I've never considered sound cards very worthwhile unless you're really an audiophile, and have the headphones / speakers to match with a good one. Just my opinion. Motherboards all have built in sound which sounds fine (on my 10 year old speakers  ) |
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Squirrel 
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Location: Wyano, PA (Come visit! My gameroom is always open.)
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Back in the older days with the Athlon XP and the Pentium 4 era, and the games coming out to push the specs out, you needed every ounce of CPU you could get. A decent sound card would take enough load off of the CPU to get some performance.
However, with today's processors and all, its not worth to get a sound card unless you get a 5.1 true surround sound speakers to match with it. ^_^
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Sarg338
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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How about this:
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CPU: AMD Phenom™II X6 1090T Six-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology [+20]
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: GigaByte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870/SB850 chipset support DDR3 Ultra Durable™3 Socket AM3 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Audio, GBLAN, Support 6-core CPU, CPU Auto Unlocker, USB3.0, SATA-III, ON/OFF Charge for IPod, RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1, & 3 PCI
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+133] (Major Brand Powered by AMD) |
6-cores is a little overkill I think, but like it says, it was only $20 higher than the stock CPU they had on it, so why not. Actually built this on over at CyberPowerPC.
The only thing I'm not very confident on is the Motherboard. I'm not good at distinguishing what's good or not is the Motherboard.
This set up actually came up about $200 cheaper than the last one. And, of course, I actually wont be ordering anything until at least mid-summer, so I'll plug in any new technology that comes out and stuff like that. |
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Desertman123
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Location: Central FL
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| Sarg338 wrote: | How about this:
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CPU: AMD Phenom™II X6 1090T Six-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology [+20]
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: GigaByte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870/SB850 chipset support DDR3 Ultra Durable™3 Socket AM3 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Audio, GBLAN, Support 6-core CPU, CPU Auto Unlocker, USB3.0, SATA-III, ON/OFF Charge for IPod, RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1, & 3 PCI
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+133] (Major Brand Powered by AMD) |
6-cores is a little overkill I think, but like it says, it was only $20 higher than the stock CPU they had on it, so why not. Actually built this on over at CyberPowerPC.
The only thing I'm not very confident on is the Motherboard. I'm not good at distinguishing what's good or not is the Motherboard.
This set up actually came up about $200 cheaper than the last one. And, of course, I actually wont be ordering anything until at least mid-summer, so I'll plug in any new technology that comes out and stuff like that. |
Dey maek guud motherboards. If you're not sure on something, look it up on newegg and look at the reviews.
6 cores is pretty future proof, and good for and CPU intensive game (GTAIV)
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Cyberwaste
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Location: Port Macquarie, the fine... planet of Australia. Chippy-chip-CHURRAH!
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So, I'm finally going to get off my ass and do my first build... I'm keen to have it run things like Sony Vegas, the Adobe Creative Suite and some of the FPS games (mainly CoD and CSS because I'm afraid of things that are different. :3)
Anyway, the guts I'm considering:
CPU: Intel Q9450
(Yo)Motherboard: Intel Extreme DX38BT
Graphics Card: Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD5770
RAM: Corsair CMP4GX3M2B1600C8 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3
Power: Thermaltake EVO Blue 650W
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB WD10EALX
CD/DVD: Sony AD7240SGB 24X SATA DVDRW OEM
And an internal card reader. :P I'm also looking at this case. Looks sweet. A Thermaltake V6 BlacX Edition (with a HDD Dock, because I'm lazy. :P
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How's it looking? What am I missing? I'm bound to have missed something, or be short when it comes to the power supply. I have a feeling I need 700, at least.
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Squirrel
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Go for the ATI 5830 instead of the 5770. Its a much better card for only a couple bucks more, they just hit the $150-$170 mark, like a month ago.
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Sarg338
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| FFFFFFFFUUUUUU- I need a better laptop. My laptop is so bad, it can't even run NFS Hot Pursuit at low settings. FML. |
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Squirrel
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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At the end of the month I'm getting my 2nd 9600GT and installing the custom drivers to add SLI to my intel motherboard.
Portal 2 is going to look amazing. 
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Sarg338
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Squirrel wrote: | At the end of the month I'm getting my 2nd 9600GT and installing the custom drivers to add SLI to my intel motherboard.
Portal 2 is going to look amazing. |
/jealous. Build me a kickass computer. kthx. |
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Squirrel
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| Sarg338 wrote: | | Squirrel wrote: | At the end of the month I'm getting my 2nd 9600GT and installing the custom drivers to add SLI to my intel motherboard.
Portal 2 is going to look amazing. |
/jealous. Build me a kickass computer. kthx. |
I need Monies, and I can.
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Sarg338
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Squirrel wrote: | | Sarg338 wrote: | | Squirrel wrote: | At the end of the month I'm getting my 2nd 9600GT and installing the custom drivers to add SLI to my intel motherboard.
Portal 2 is going to look amazing. |
/jealous. Build me a kickass computer. kthx. |
I need Monies, and I can. |
I need monies too. Needs summer job. |
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Desertman123
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Cabanon
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whats the biggest difference between the i7 1366 and i7 1155 socket. i mean, they're dropping triple channel support, consume less power, has integrated video card, is there anything else ? im noit really sure i should go with an i7 2600k vs i7 960, they're both the same price.
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Desertman123
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| Cabanon wrote: | | whats the biggest difference between the i7 1366 and i7 1155 socket. i mean, they're dropping triple channel support, consume less power, has integrated video card, is there anything else ? im noit really sure i should go with an i7 2600k vs i7 960, they're both the same price. |
The 2600k runs very cool, even on the stock heatsink. You can also save money by NOT buying triple channel RAM. Overclocking on the 2600k is so easy, your grandma can do it.
Oh yeah and here's some benchmarks for the 2600k compared to the 950 (close to the 960).
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K+%40+3.40GHz
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Cabanon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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i was thinking about going for the Sabertooth mobo, i really like the design. is this any good ?
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