Gaming PC Specs...

[mikecoulter]

I approve. Looks like a real solid rig.

Watch out for the board, ASUS boards are prone to malfunction. Mine's never gone out, but I know plenty of people who've had their board just die.

I've been warned about that. It's almost making me consider changing... But they offer such easy overclocking...

I have always used ASUS and I have never had any problems.. Or heard of people having some.

Ahh good, as that board has all the features I was interested in! At least they've been reliable for some, there's a chance mine will be too.

 

[Void(null)]

I find most people i talk to about nvidia physx and really most dont care and even one or 2 say its an excuse to bump up prices.

me personally im like meh with nvidia physx and to be honest im still rather pissed at nvidia and there need to make devs slap there logo in my face with most games i start (regardless if it uses physx or not)

Not that Nvidia cards are bad, ive owned a few in my time but pure price to performance ratio ATi really beat the hell outta nvidia

But the 5850 and the GTX 470 are roughly the same price... and the 470 has better performance, PhysX Native and CUDA for 20 quid more.

Fuck Nvidia/ATI brand wars... Price to Performance right now, the 470 is better than the 5850. Same price, better performance.

 

[ItsAPaul]

So all, I think I've finally settled on some computer specs. After numerous outcries from fellow users I've decided to make it all myself rather than buying pre-built.

Gaming Rig

Processor - Intel i5 750 @ 2.66ghz £159

Motherboard - Asus 1156 P7P55D S/L £96.24

Ram - Corsair DDR3 2x2GB 1600mhz £88.12

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer £69.98

Power Supply - Axle Typhoon Ax - P700P 700Watt £74.90

GPU - ATi Sapphire 5850 Vapor X 1gb £273.77

Thermal Paste - Actic Silver 5 £5.50

Hard Drive - Samsung HD103SJ1 1TB 7200RPM £47.50

Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe Drive (From old PC) £Free

Total - £815.01

Have you got any suggestions or tweaks to these specs? Thanks guys.

That seems really expensive for a case, but that could just be me.

 

[DragonChi]

I don't see a CPU cooler there. If you aren't overclocking and/or using a cooler (other than the intel one) you can save yourself some hassle and 5 quid by leaving out the arctic silver. Just use the thermal pad on the heatsink and it will be fine. High end thermal paste will save you 2 to 3 degrees but at stock clocks I wouldn't bother. Ignore anyone telling you ATI can't make cards, they are winning at the moment on price, heat and power usage. Well done.

Yea, I was about to mention the lack of a CPU cooler aswell. I recommend the Coolermaster V8 as a potential option. I have it in my rig and its a beast. It will only fit in a Full Tower Chassis but if thats not an issue than i would go for it, it works wonders. and looks BADASS.

 

[Wolfram23]

So all, I think I've finally settled on some computer specs. After numerous outcries from fellow users I've decided to make it all myself rather than buying pre-built.

Gaming Rig

Processor - Intel i5 750 @ 2.66ghz £159

Motherboard - Asus 1156 P7P55D S/L £96.24

Ram - Corsair DDR3 2x2GB 1600mhz £88.12

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer £69.98

Power Supply - Axle Typhoon Ax - P700P 700Watt £74.90

GPU - ATi Sapphire 5850 Vapor X 1gb £273.77

Thermal Paste - Actic Silver 5 £5.50

Hard Drive - Samsung HD103SJ1 1TB 7200RPM £47.50

Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe Drive (From old PC) £Free

Total - £815.01

Have you got any suggestions or tweaks to these specs? Thanks guys.

Looks good. I'd look at an Antec 902 case, it's just a tad better. Great gaming CPU, it's all you need. 5850 is a good GPU, but you won't be maxing out every game. Close, but not quite. Crysis, Metro 2033, Cryostasis to name a few will be at highish settings but not max. I have 2 5850s in crossfire and getting around 45-60 FPS in those 3 games at highest detail.

I think that motherboard is good, but you might consider the P7P55D PRO if it's available. Worth it if you can get it.

700W is fine, I wouldn't really go any less. It'll provide some headroom for future upgrades. I don't know if that's a quality PSU or not tho. Corsair is easily one of the best brands, a 650W Corsair is equivalent to many 750W or higher but cheaper PSUs.

 

[mikecoulter]

So all, I think I've finally settled on some computer specs. After numerous outcries from fellow users I've decided to make it all myself rather than buying pre-built.

Gaming Rig

Processor - Intel i5 750 @ 2.66ghz £159

Motherboard - Asus 1156 P7P55D S/L £96.24

Ram - Corsair DDR3 2x2GB 1600mhz £88.12

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer £69.98

Power Supply - Axle Typhoon Ax - P700P 700Watt £74.90

GPU - ATi Sapphire 5850 Vapor X 1gb £273.77

Thermal Paste - Actic Silver 5 £5.50

Hard Drive - Samsung HD103SJ1 1TB 7200RPM £47.50

Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe Drive (From old PC) £Free

Total - £815.01

Have you got any suggestions or tweaks to these specs? Thanks guys.

Looks good. I'd look at an Antec 902 case, it's just a tad better. Great gaming CPU, it's all you need. 5850 is a good GPU, but you won't be maxing out every game. Close, but not quite. Crysis, Metro 2033, Cryostasis to name a few will be at highish settings but not max. I have 2 5850s in crossfire and getting around 45-60 FPS in those 3 games at highest detail.

I think that motherboard is good, but you might consider the P7P55D PRO if it's available. Worth it if you can get it.

700W is fine, I wouldn't really go any less. It'll provide some headroom for future upgrades. I don't know if that's a quality PSU or not tho. Corsair is easily one of the best brands, a 650W Corsair is equivalent to many 750W or higher but cheaper PSUs.

Thanks for your PSU advice. i'll look into getting a more well known brand. Also i'll start looking for a good processor cooler as i'm planning on doing some overclocking.

 

[Estocavio]

Id rather like to know: Why such an expensive case? Do you actually stand to benefit somehow?

No matter how much you put into your computer, Crysis will still make it cry.

The Crysis games could bring NASA to its knees.

But you can play everything else =^-^= Have fun.

I wonder what Crysis 2 will be like on consoles...

Apparently, Crysis 2 is taking a step back in the graphical department.

It would need to take a rather large step back for the consoles considering Xbox360s are five years old (two years older than the original Crysis) and haven't been upgraded hardware wise since then. At least not as far as I'm aware.

iirc, crisis engine wasn't that refined. It took a gross amount of power, for not that much of a reward. Although it looked really good, the cost was fucking huge. They probably refined the engine so that it wasn't as much of a hungry little bastard as it was before. Also since it is in a city environment, you'll probably have to render less then a massive jungle.

So even a small step back should be able to make it work on consoles.

Plus, the graphics, although good, were absolutely unnecessary. All it did was prevent most people from being able to play it at a decent level.

 

[Daedalus1942]

So all, I think I've finally settled on some computer specs. After numerous outcries from fellow users I've decided to make it all myself rather than buying pre-built.

Gaming Rig

Processor - Intel i5 750 @ 2.66ghz £159

Motherboard - Asus 1156 P7P55D S/L £96.24

Ram - Corsair DDR3 2x2GB 1600mhz £88.12

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer £69.98

Power Supply - Axle Typhoon Ax - P700P 700Watt £74.90

GPU - ATi Sapphire 5850 Vapor X 1gb £273.77

Thermal Paste - Actic Silver 5 £5.50

Hard Drive - Samsung HD103SJ1 1TB 7200RPM £47.50

Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe Drive (From old PC) £Free

Total - £815.01

Have you got any suggestions or tweaks to these specs? Thanks guys.

Looks like a fairly solid Pc. I'm going to be buying The Nine hundred-two soon, i7 core, 6 gb DDRAM3, 2 tb hard drive and a whole bunch of other stuff (can't be bothered to go into all the details, suffice to say my new computer will most likely run new games for the next ten years at least. And I get it all at cost price cause of where I work ^.^
Also, my advice to you is spend a little extra and splurge on a 1200 watt PSU. It'll last longer and you won't regret it. Trust me.
-Re edit-
Also, in terms of the processor, my advice to you is to spend roughly the same amount on an AMD i7 processor. It's more powerful and AMD are a SHITLOAD cheaper than Intel cores. More bang for your buck, and also considering you're already planning to purchase an ATI graphics card so you won't get compatibility issues, so if I were you, I'd switch to an amd core.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I approve. Looks like a real solid rig.

Watch out for the board, ASUS boards are prone to malfunction. Mine's never gone out, but I know plenty of people who've had their board just die.

I've been warned about that. It's almost making me consider changing... But they offer such easy overclocking...

I have always used ASUS and I have never had any problems.. Or heard of people having some.

Ahh good, as that board has all the features I was interested in! At least they've been reliable for some, there's a chance mine will be too.

This is interesting news to me as I have to say I've always had more problems with the frigging gigabyte motherboards. Even with circuit breakers/surge protectors, the damn things always get fried.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Just in the interest of saving money you don't need a quad core.

Dual will do fine. But if you definitely want that processor and it works well then sure.

He's buying a gaming computer, you don't try to save money on those things, you try to make it as fucking rad as possible.

I approve. Looks like a real solid rig.

Watch out for the board, ASUS boards are prone to malfunction. Mine's never gone out, but I know plenty of people who've had their board just die.

I've been warned about that. It's almost making me consider changing... But they offer such easy overclocking...

I have always used ASUS and I have never had any problems.. Or heard of people having some.

Ahh good, as that board has all the features I was interested in! At least they've been reliable for some, there's a chance mine will be too.

This is interesting news to me as I have to say I've always had more problems with the frigging gigabyte motherboards. Even with circuit breakers/surge protectors, the damn things always get fried.

I have an ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 and have never had any problems. You should be right.

 

[mikecoulter]

So all, I think I've finally settled on some computer specs. After numerous outcries from fellow users I've decided to make it all myself rather than buying pre-built.

Gaming Rig

Processor - Intel i5 750 @ 2.66ghz £159

Motherboard - Asus 1156 P7P55D S/L £96.24

Ram - Corsair DDR3 2x2GB 1600mhz £88.12

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer £69.98

Power Supply - Axle Typhoon Ax - P700P 700Watt £74.90

GPU - ATi Sapphire 5850 Vapor X 1gb £273.77

Thermal Paste - Actic Silver 5 £5.50

Hard Drive - Samsung HD103SJ1 1TB 7200RPM £47.50

Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe Drive (From old PC) £Free

Total - £815.01

Have you got any suggestions or tweaks to these specs? Thanks guys.

Looks like a fairly solid Pc. I'm going to be buying The Nine hundred-two soon, i7 core, 6 gb DDRAM3, 2 tb hard drive and a whole bunch of other stuff (can't be bothered to go into all the details, suffice to say my new computer will most likely run new games for the next ten years at least. And I get it all at cost price cause of where I work ^.^
Also, my advice to you is spend a little extra and splurge on a 1200 watt PSU. It'll last longer and you won't regret it. Trust me.
-Re edit-
Also, in terms of the processor, my advice to you is to spend roughly the same amount on an AMD i7 processor. It's more powerful and AMD are a SHITLOAD cheaper than Intel cores. More bang for your buck, and also considering you're already planning to purchase an ATI graphics card so you won't get compatibility issues, so if I were you, I'd switch to an amd core.

Well I did look at them, but I went by this chart. [http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts-update-1/Performance-Index,1407.html]

Also in games, the six core AMD doesnt perform as well as the i5 750. I also plan on finding a good cpu cooler and overclocking the i5 to about 3.8 - 4.0ghz.

 

[veloper]

I find most people i talk to about nvidia physx and really most dont care and even one or 2 say its an excuse to bump up prices.

me personally im like meh with nvidia physx and to be honest im still rather pissed at nvidia and there need to make devs slap there logo in my face with most games i start (regardless if it uses physx or not)

Not that Nvidia cards are bad, ive owned a few in my time but pure price to performance ratio ATi really beat the hell outta nvidia

But the 5850 and the GTX 470 are roughly the same price... and the 470 has better performance, PhysX Native and CUDA for 20 quid more.

Fuck Nvidia/ATI brand wars... Price to Performance right now, the 470 is better than the 5850. Same price, better performance.

Entirely depends on what kind of deal you can make.
Over here a 470 is typically 40 euros more than a 5850.

CUDA is worthless to a gamer.

PhysX is no big deal either. They praise batman AA for great use of it, but all it does is some swirling mist.

Moreover, Direct Compute (part of the directx spec and something ati and nvidia cards can both do) is what M$ wants everybody to use anyway. M$ already succesfully removed OGL from the gaming scene and they will do the same here.

What's good about the 470 is faster tesselation. This may be a biggie in the future. I'd pay 20 for that.