BF2S Forums Building a new comp what do yall recommend

Here are a few things for you to check out. In my opinion these are very good price/performance.

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819103539

        Or, if you want to go dual core: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819103562

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813123258

        Or, if you want SLI: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813136157

Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820145575

Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814130256

This is just to give you some idea of what the good buys are. I would definately go with a socket 939 AMD processor over Intel. Dual core isn't that much of a factor right now unless you multitask a lot, but they will be soon. Nforce 4 chipset for your motherboard. Nvidia video 7800gt or if you wanna go buck wild 7800gtx, but that would make you go over your budget I think. Just read a lot of reviews on certain brands and see what you like and what people that have it say about it.

Last edited by Ziggy_79x (2006-03-07 11:53:48)

I Recomend Buy  And Play Another Game This Game Has More Bug's Than Bug'd Life The Movie
Every New Patch Has A New Bug

Havazn wrote:

RECONDO67 wrote:

I Recomend Buy  And Play Another Game This Game Has More Bug's Than Bug'd Life The Movie
Every New Patch Has A New Bug

He never said he played BF2.

i play BF2 every day thats why im asking you guys what components you like

I dont have much to say past:

Vid Card: nVidia all the way, atleast a 6800 GT/GS.

RAM: 2 gigs. Your BF2 life depends on it.

if ur looking for bang get athlon if u got cash get p4 ex with athlon u can OC and it cools better p4 gets hot real fast 200$ for water cooler but better speeds

omg ninja you dont have a shock paddle kill , what currency of $1000, ill recommend the
AMD Athlon X2+3800 Dual-Core socket 939
Leadtek 7800gt (best bang for your buck 7800gt)
2gb of Corsair value or OCZ Value
Motherboard i'd say DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D Cheap and good

hehe, but its fun giving people the shock of their life

can someone help me find a AMD dual core 3800 on newegg.com and a good mobo to go with it?

I was gona build my own aswell.....untill i realised I was way to lazy so I went out and bougth myself and Alienware system...and man oh man...what a system....u should look thm up if your willing to part with your bank account abit

Remember when doing a new build that Windows Vista will be out soon that is intedended to only run 64-bit systems.  Within the next few years everything will be going to 128 bit or at least dual 64, so don't blow too much right now.  Just keep the old one ticking with upgrades for a year or so.  Rumor is that Vista will not even support non 64-bit systems.  Right now it doesn't in the beta models, but the final release is still unknown.  AMD has promised to have 8400+ processors or 64x2 (128 bit) by 2008.

with new technology coming out i will most likely not be able to afford it just likey the newest video cards. i do not want to dump my savings into my computer and i typically upgrade every year or two. i am not serious enough that i need the latest and greatest but instead a above average system that will let me enjoy BF2 to its full extent.

i could spend 4k on a computer if i wanted i just dont care to do so, im budgeting my self because im buying a new car.

with this said.... what are my best options or should i still wait? heres my Biggest dilema... i dont want to spend money on a AGP card and if i go to PCI-E i have to buy everything. do i wait or purchase now?

mtm87tx wrote:

with new technology coming out i will most likely not be able to afford it just likey the newest video cards. i do not want to dump my savings into my computer and i typically upgrade every year or two. i am not serious enough that i need the latest and greatest but instead a above average system that will let me enjoy BF2 to its full extent.

i could spend 4k on a computer if i wanted i just dont care to do so, im budgeting my self because im buying a new car.

with this said.... what are my best options or should i still wait? heres my Biggest dilema... i dont want to spend money on a AGP card and if i go to PCI-E i have to buy everything. do i wait or purchase now?

Simply wait it out.  As I mentioned, it's best to go with a decent RAM upgrade to extend the life of that computer of yours.  512MB is considered bare minimum for the most basic tasks in XP.  Gaming will need more than just 512MB just to house all those data and BF2 just simply does better with more than 1GB.  The most common performance booster is RAM, especially when you have a system like yours.  Your setup will set an example of just how much more responsive your system will 'feel' when you have 2GB installed compared to 512MB.

I won't question as to how much you are capable of spending.  I know we all have a limit when it comes to upgrading our systems.  It's just that right now we're stuck in the middle where we can either upgrade now or wait it out since the better stuff are coming soon.  I know that 3GHz for a P4 is good enough for many things.  And I know it's not the best out there.  But it does run and run it can.  The reason I recommend against going through the massive upgrade now is because I factor in what is coming out soon.  Thinking ahead and planning ahead is something I usually do when it comes to building a system in my head or on paper.  The last thing we need is to end up feeling screwed over because we jumped the gun.  I know I am half screwed because AMD is moving to DDR2 and that I just recently overhauled my system from AthlonXP to Athlon64 X2 AGP to Athlon64 X2 PCI Express... to a new pair of 1GB RAM.  The problem?  I did all that within a 3 month period, something that I should NOT have done in first place!  But I had the dough and I wanted the transition to be a little easier.

Trust in the few of us who have good insights as to what's best.  The choice will ultimately be yours in the end.  But I am posting right now to say what my recommendations are.  These are your options at this time.  And I won't question your decision if you decided otherwise.

vjs wrote:

Also harddrives Sixshot can you comment, I think your the only opinion on this board regarding tech that's worth something. Can you back up my support for a 15K scsi as an O/S, app, game, drive.

Do some serious searching about 15K drives they are amazing, cant wait for 22K drives to come out.

A 15K drive will last you at least 5 years if not more.

I'm flattered.

Well, as I have used SCSI in the past before, I have to admit that it is indeed an extremely solid interface and specifications compared to IDE.  SCSI drives are indeed built to last since most applications for SCSI is to be put through hell and back again.  15k SCSI is cutting-edge stuff, and I haven't looked into how much they cost now.  It'll definitely outperform SATA on a variety of applications.  But the biggest problem with SCSI is configuration.  One has to learn the terminologies as well as what is required to get a SCSI-based system going.  SATA has a simpler setup and is much more appealing to the DIY world with a much better learning curve over SCSI.

Going with SCSI is good if you can put everything on it... and that includes HDs and optical drives.  It'll shave off 2 or more interrupts and will free up CPU resources.  But the majority of today's optical drives are IDE/ATAPI and that's not likely to change (bad enough we don't have more SATA optical drives).  It'll be a good thing to have a SCSI drive boot Windows up... and perhaps other games as well.  But I personally do not see this to be practical.  A more cost effective solution would likely involve RAID setup that can both hold more data, have possible fault-tolerance, and be cheaper overall than getting a SCSI setup going.  SCSI has long sat in the realm of servers and high-end workstations that hardly anyone will give it any thought as an option for the gamer's market.  And with the move to a more serial-styled interface, SCSI is evolving or adapting to compete with the likes of SATA, which has been gnawing at the SCSI market for a while now.

I'll agree that SCSI is built to last.  The kind of conditions that SCSI has to endure makes it a nice option to consider if you want to keep your hardware for a long time.  But today's hard drives with sizes from 80GB all the way to 500GB, I find it hard to recommend it as an option as anyone can add in a second drive for mirroring (RAID-1) for loads less than a 15k SCSI drive of comparable sizes.  The problem I have is that it's a sound idea but it's really extreme to go for SCSI at this time.  With SATA being cheaper overall and comparable relatively in performance, it's SCSI's biggest competition of which the consortium ended up adapting SCSI into a serial interface (thus Serial Attached SCSI or SAS).  Even if one has the cash to spend for a SCSI setup, I ponder if it's necessary as it 1) increases power consumption (power needed for the SCSI adapter), 2) uses a parallel bus, 3) has a complicated setup (terminations and voltage differentials), and 4) requires possible adaption (80pin SCSI to regular 68pin or even to 50pin).  That's my take on it... I wish I could back you up on SCSI on OS and gaming... but I just do not find it practical enough to make it that much better.

Last edited by sixshot (2006-03-08 23:28:56)