New PC help

**Catleyj** · June 17th, 2010, 10:53 AM

Hey all

Been out of the PC game for a while now could do with sum help getting a new setup.

I wanna get it from ginger6.com its a localy company i have used before and wanna spend about £700 they do lots of custom pc's but im bewildered by all the options.

I would like dual graphics cards if possible and i already have a keyboard monitor etc so all i need is the stack.

Only want it to play modern warefare 2, bioshock 2, portal 2 (when it comes out) and sims 3 for the mrs

All ideas welcome

Thanks

**nemowolf** · June 17th, 2010, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Catleyj

Hey all

Been out of the PC game for a while now could do with sum help getting a new setup.

I wanna get it from ginger6.com its a localy company i have used before and wanna spend about £700 they do lots of custom pc's but im bewildered by all the options.

I would like dual graphics cards if possible and i already have a keyboard monitor etc so all i need is the stack.

Only want it to play modern warefare 2, bioshock 2, portal 2 (when it comes out) and sims 3 for the mrs

All ideas welcome

Thanks

All those will work just fine with a single card so what makes you want a dual card?

Why not check the system reqs for the games that are out and try to price out parts to meet or exceed them and then post a build list to start with ... that will help more then having us build a system WE want and you may not

Cheers and welcome to the board.

**Catleyj** · June 19th, 2010, 07:49 AM

think i will go for a single card option but would really want to be able to upgrade to 2 cards in the future, really not sure what options to go for tho Do i go for an amd or intel processor? , ati or nvidia graphics card? i dont no which are best anymore

**Imperion1** · June 19th, 2010, 05:33 PM

Are you having them build the computer, or are you going to build the computer?

If the computer is strictly for gaming, you can go with an AMD processor. You don't need a quad core when a triple core will be more than enough.

Such as an AMD triple core 3.0ghz, and an ATI 5870 would work.

I tried to build a system on the site you gave, but there were no price adjustments that were done. For example: If I picked a system that was built and it was 448.00 and I tried changing the processor to a faster speed or a single core to a triple, the price didn't adjust accordingly. It just added the full price of the new processor to the 448.00. Instead of making the 20.00 difference in price, it added the whole price.

**Catleyj** · June 20th, 2010, 05:34 PM

Yea i had noticed that too. I managed to meet up with a old pc friend this weekend and hes gonna sort me out with what i need component wise n just gonna build it from there really. I think i am gonna go down the amd processor route.

Been told a wont really need 2 grapchics cards but i wouldnt mind having the option of adding one in the future

**nemowolf** · June 21st, 2010, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Catleyj

Yea i had noticed that too. I managed to meet up with a old pc friend this weekend and hes gonna sort me out with what i need component wise n just gonna build it from there really. I think i am gonna go down the amd processor route.

Been told a wont really need 2 grapchics cards but i wouldnt mind having the option of adding one in the future

So get a mobo that has two PCI-E slots.

**Catleyj** · June 21st, 2010, 12:54 PM

yea i think thats gonna be the new plan, still not sure if sli or crossfire is worth it tho what difference does it make?

**stroyal** · June 21st, 2010, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Catleyj

yea i think thats gonna be the new plan, still not sure if sli or crossfire is worth it tho what difference does it make?

It depends on what kind of card you want, Crossfire is only for ATI, and SLI is only for Nvidia.

**ShyguyXPC** · June 24th, 2010, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by Catleyj

yea i think thats gonna be the new plan, still not sure if sli or crossfire is worth it tho what difference does it make?

see if you can build an Intel Based Socket 1156 PC, with the P55 Chipset.

most of those boards have at least 2 PCIe x16 slots and support both SLI and Crossfire, though you can't mix the two methods, but allows more flexibility and narrows down your choice confusion as to whether to get a SLI or Crossfire only motherboard.

**Catleyj** · June 24th, 2010, 01:54 PM

Yea sounds great, an old "PC'dohphile ( touches computers not kids lol) mate of mine as given me a load to fink about to about getting one decent Video card and keeping the option of haveing to buy getting the right card he suggested a ati card as there less powerhungry and a ddr3 board with an amd chipset cos it would wqork better with the radeon cards... this was all going so well until my other half decided we should save more money towards a house instead of putting half towards this build so looks like im getting it myself now and its gonna take another month or 2 to save this cash needed, on the bright side tho its possible that prices could drop in that time which would be nice, just gotta get everyfin before vat goes up to 20% thats all