Rig suggestions

2008-01-11 09:38:31

#1

Fester53D&E: Member; +3|6795|Los Angeles, CA

I've loaded up the cart at Newegg and am about to checkout! Where are the weak spots on this rig? I just want to be able to play BF2 and COD4 on high settings. It will be a single card for now.

$850 USD plus or minus

COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Black/Silver Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS ATX12V / EPS12V 600W Power Supply
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
G.SKILL 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

GIGABYTE GV-RX385512H Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported - OR
GIGABYTE GV-NX88T256H GeForce 8800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready SLI Supported

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler
SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW...CD/DVD Burner with LightScribe

MS Vista (i know but I if I go with 4gb RAM is Vista OK for a better price than XP?)

Thanks for any input, what do you think of the GPU choices?

Last edited by Fester53D&E (2008-01-11 16:21:40)

2008-01-11 09:41:23

#2

The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6478|SC | USA |

Looks good, happy building.

If you want to play games at higher resloultions (1680x1050+) go for the 3850. Otherwise the GT is a better card.

2008-01-11 09:44:10

#3

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6818|The Twilight Zone

50 bucks more for the GT 512 version, cmon u can do it

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2008-01-11 11:53:35

#4

The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6478|SC | USA |

.Sup wrote:
50 bucks more for the GT 512 version, cmon u can do it

Yeh its worth the money. If not definitely get the 256 GT

EDIT: If you wanted, you could always take off one of those drives, one would suffice.

Last edited by The_Sniper_NM (2008-01-11 11:54:59)

2008-01-11 13:56:15

#5

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.Sup wrote:
50 bucks more for the GT 512 version, cmon u can do it

yep, totally worth the money

2008-01-11 17:07:13

#6

theknuck: It's pronounced Knuck, like in Knuckle!!; +45|6977|balls

speaking from experience, if you don't plan on overclocking your cpu you don't need an after market cooler. i have an intel e6750 with the stock cooler and my idle/gaming temps are low 20's and high 30's. Something to think about as it could save a few bucks towards your GPU.

2008-01-12 02:28:29

#7

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6818|The Twilight Zone

theknuck wrote:
speaking from experience, if you don't plan on overclocking your cpu you don't need an after market cooler. i have an intel e6750 with the stock cooler and my idle/gaming temps are low 20's and high 30's. Something to think about as it could save a few bucks towards your GPU.

True, but I always get rid of the stock cooler. Its so frigging loud.

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