- Mar 30, 2005
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So, my buddy would like me to build him a great gaming computer and it wouldn't be right not to run it by the anandtech forums.
Here is what I was thinking so far...
Intel E6300
EVGA 680i motherboard
EVGA 8800GTX
Seagate 750GB Hard drive
Coolermaster Stacker 830 case
Coolermaster 850W PSU
Coolermaster CPU cooler
Ram?
24" Dell monitor
The plan is to overclock the snot out of that E6300 with the 680i and see if one 8800GTX is enough to power these games at full res with very high quality. If not we can always get another one but I don't think that it would be prudent to get the third card right now until more games start utilizing it, would that be wise?
The Coolermaster stuff is free for me so after I go to CES to see their new products I will then decide which case, PSU and CPU cooler.
I hear that the 750GB Hard Drives are faster for loading games/levels than the 150GB 10k RPM Raptors. I want to go with whatever one is faster unless it doesn't make that much difference in which case I would go with the larger drive. There is no real benefit to raid0 for gaming is there? Otherwise I would probably get that if it makes any real world difference here.
As I understand it, ram should be of a type that is recommended for the motherboard but doesn't really effect perfomance that much for gaming unless you are really going for super high frame rate that exceeds the GPU bottle neck. That's not exactly right but I don't want to spend $350 on a pair of 1GB sticks when perfectly good ones can be had for $250. What do you think? Worth it?
And finally the Dell 24" monitor, is it the best gaming monitor? Any advice here would be much appreciated. Thank you guys for giving me a hand and I hope you all are enjoying a very happy holiday.
-mero
Here is what I was thinking so far...
Intel E6300
EVGA 680i motherboard
EVGA 8800GTX
Seagate 750GB Hard drive
Coolermaster Stacker 830 case
Coolermaster 850W PSU
Coolermaster CPU cooler
Ram?
24" Dell monitor
The plan is to overclock the snot out of that E6300 with the 680i and see if one 8800GTX is enough to power these games at full res with very high quality. If not we can always get another one but I don't think that it would be prudent to get the third card right now until more games start utilizing it, would that be wise?
The Coolermaster stuff is free for me so after I go to CES to see their new products I will then decide which case, PSU and CPU cooler.
I hear that the 750GB Hard Drives are faster for loading games/levels than the 150GB 10k RPM Raptors. I want to go with whatever one is faster unless it doesn't make that much difference in which case I would go with the larger drive. There is no real benefit to raid0 for gaming is there? Otherwise I would probably get that if it makes any real world difference here.
As I understand it, ram should be of a type that is recommended for the motherboard but doesn't really effect perfomance that much for gaming unless you are really going for super high frame rate that exceeds the GPU bottle neck. That's not exactly right but I don't want to spend $350 on a pair of 1GB sticks when perfectly good ones can be had for $250. What do you think? Worth it?
And finally the Dell 24" monitor, is it the best gaming monitor? Any advice here would be much appreciated. Thank you guys for giving me a hand and I hope you all are enjoying a very happy holiday.
-mero