StarchyPizza Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Do you think these parts will go good together( i know they will work but I mean work well). I am looking to do some media editing and listening/watching(Image Editing, Video Editing, Music, and maybe some Movies). I am also looking to play games like COD4, Crysis, and maybe far cry. If the graphics card or anything else isnt good enough let me know which part is better and I'll swap them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Looks fine, except for that video card. It won't play Cyrsis very well. And whats up with a screen shot? Don't like to type? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 What Card would you recomend, with the MOBO I chose it needs to be PCI express 1.0 or 2.0. Haha and yeah I didn't feel like typing or copy and pasting then formating it to be easy to read so i just posted a screen shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 The i7 uses tri-channel memory so you will need 3 dimms, and get a better graphics card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 Well what part do you suggest and how much because I would like to keep the cost under 900. So if it gets expensive I might as well swap out for another processor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 i would suggest at least, the nvidia Gforce 9800 or ATI's equivalent if you are going to be gaming. you might want to wait til the spring/summer to build, that's when many more and cheaper i7 Mobos will be coming out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Geforce 9600's are ok cards, not amazing but still decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothCriminal Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I agree with Vako, but if you are willing to throw down just a little extra, go with the nvidia GTX 200 series. Oh, and on a random note, what is with the start menu/taskbar on top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Get a 32Mb Cache HD, for defo. The Corei7s are still new, and un-necessary, a high end dual or quad will be fine, and will give you a cheaper mobo option. Go with an ATI 4870X2 if you want to play at 1920x1200, for a smaller resolution you could get by with a GTX280. For the record, you dont have to use dual or triple channel drr functionality. If you put an odd number of sticks in they will work, just slower. Check out the Steam Hardware Survey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 Well I was going to wait till spring to build because it's my birthday and ill have the money all saved up by then I was just pricing around to see how much ill need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhollyMindless Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Well I was going to wait till spring to build because it's my birthday and ill have the money all saved up by then I was just pricing around to see how much ill need All those numbers will be useless by then. The recommendations may hold but pricing will be much different. i7 MB prices will drop with the next chipset so you probably can save 75-100 on that if you can hang on until then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Yeah I wanted to try to build an i7 board but the more I read it's a little unecsary so I think im going to go back to my old build options i'll post them when i get all the parts figured out, thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberoidx Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Here's something you might like, just hit digg, http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/...s_800_gaming_pc The comments here will help too http://digg.com/hardware/How_to_Build_a_Ki...s_800_Gaming_PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remezcle Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Looks a-ok to me.. but im not a gamer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 don't go for core i7 just yet. motherboards are overpriced for the functionality you get the price of a high end board and the stability of a low cost budget motherboard the videocard is a low profile card not designed for much gaming so it wont run games like cod4 and crysis at a performance level that you would want. go for at least a gtx 280 or wait for the gtx 295 to come out if your current system runs fine then stick with it a little longer for better and cheaper motherboards to come out and for amd to come out with their new line as intel has currently made their processors hard to overclock by adding power limiters and a lot of other crap to make them harder to overclock if intel faces competition from amd on it's corei7 line then they will quickly abandon their habit of stopping the customer from overclocking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 don't go for core i7 just yet. motherboards are overpriced for the functionality you get the price of a high end board and the stability of a low cost budget motherboard the videocard is a low profile card not designed for much gaming so it wont run games like cod4 and crysis at a performance level that you would want. go for at least a gtx 280 or wait for the gtx 295 to come out if your current system runs fine then stick with it a little longer for better and cheaper motherboards to come out and for amd to come out with their new line as intel has currently made their processors hard to overclock by adding power limiters and a lot of other crap to make them harder to overclock if intel faces competition from amd on it's corei7 line then they will quickly abandon their habit of stopping the customer from overclocking At least a GTX280? Are you high? You do not need a £300+ graphics card as a minimum, its certainly nice to have but unless your a serious hardcore gamer its probally a waste of money. A 9800GT would be a far better option, and the money left aside from this could be spent on more memory which will improve general performance. You should be looking at 6GB of RAM with an i7 machine. As for the over-clocking issue, locking chips to prevent overclocking came about in the original Pentium era due to people taking a Pentium 100, overclocking it and selling it as a Pentium 120. When the part eventually failed it was Intel who got the bad reputation, not the store who lied to there customer. It was never intended to stop the 1% of users who do overclock. Finally I doubt that AMD's Shanghi chips will be better than the i7 chips in 1 or 2 way configurations, although AMD have traditionally been better at systems with 4 or more CPU's due to hypertransport (QSI might change this though) and provide hardware VM acceletation at a cheaper price (intel disables hardware vt in the lower chips, which really pisses me off). Even with overclocking AMD's single chip perfomance is still less than Intel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 At least a GTX280? Are you high? You do not need a £300+ graphics card as a minimum. Depends what resolution he wants to play those games at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 based on the cost of his system and the parts, anything less will be a bottleneck in gaming performance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 Okay so I made a new list of parts that I would like opinions on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Aside from the beige case it looks like a pretty nice system you have there, might want to double the RAM in the long run, as x64 Vista loves RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 I was thinking of running xp but I'm not sure yet because vista will support all of the games that are comming out. and i wasnt really sure on a case because i can't tell how good it is from a picture and a few poorly written reviews so i picked the best deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Go with Vista x64, i've not found much that doesn't work aside from some utilities. Games run a lot faster for me under Vista than XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 youre better off going with a faster clocked core2 duo unless youre going to be using alot of apps that will take advantage of a quad core proc. you could probably pick up a nice extreme edition 3ghz+ proc that will sail along just nicely and has good overclockability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarchyPizza Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 Yeah and I also have to "find" myself windows vista x64. I might as well go with vista since everything is being programed for it. and I think I might just stay with the e8400 because its gotten good reviews and good bang for the buck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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