Specs for a GOOD gaming comp

[knight.matt]

I know I dont know much but that proc is only 2.0ghz, my current is 1.8. Am I missing something, which I probably am or is that almost the same?

[ScottyRolen]

Yeah. That 2.0ghz will be as good as an p4 3.4ghz or so. GHZ is not a major factor when considering ANY of the 754 socket or 939 socket cpu's. My new chip is clocked at 1.8ghz right out of the box and it will blow by most 2.8ghz p4s, some of the 3.0ghz. Its about what you can do with each clock cycle, not how many you have. This is why AMD > Intel. And why Intel canceled production on their 4.0ghz cpu heh. On top of it getting too hot.

[ScottyRolen]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=7

Look at those results. I would say either go for the 3000+ if you dont need a power supply, hard drive, new case, new dvd drives. The sempron gets AWESOME scores on that chart and is 100 bucks. Cant beat that. The difference between the sempron and 3000+ is kind of low to spend 50+ more dollars on though, if you need all that stuff. On a $700 budget of course. Because everyone has reccomended 1 gig of ram, which is $160-$180ish and most of them are somehow reccomending a 939 CPU/mobo which will cost a great deal over 300 bucks. And alot of reccomendations are for a 400 dollar video card that is great but so is the $280ish 6800, which is plenty of graphic power.

[knight.matt]

Ok so far I have these three things that I've gathered from yall
Memory: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...factory=BROWSE
Proc: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...factory=BROWSE
mobo: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...factory=BROWSE

Now one more thing I beleive.... I am sick of looking at this HP case, can anyone recomend a good one that cools well?

[ScottyRolen]

Good choice of memory. Dunno about the Epox board w/ VIA chipset. Lots of people have problems with capacitator leaks with epox boards. I reccomend this mobo, as it lets you overclock without messing up AGP bus frequencies. Plus its cheaper, better chipset, better company heh.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...131-512&depa=0

That CPU is fine, that or the sempron if you want to have extra money for all the other stuff we think you need. You need a new PS pretty much. Do you need CD/DVD drives? Do you need a new hard drive?

So far you are looking at...

$150 for the cpu
$100 for the mobo
$170 about for 2 sticks of that ram
$280 for a Gforce 6800

Thats already about 700 bucks. Hope ya dont need too much more lol.

[knight.matt]

PS? Anyway my DVD and CD burner drives work fine. This hard drive is fine for now and it's never let me down so no, I dont think I will be needing a new one. I switched the mobo and in the benchmarking tests somebody pointed out earlier the semprons did not perform too well... I'll stick with this one.

[ScottyRolen]

They are probably looking at Socket A Semprons because that 3100+ Sempron is just great... You look at all the benches in that link I posted up there?

Power Supply = PS.

You probably need a brand new one to run all this new stuff heh.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=7

Its right up there at stock frequencies. Its a very good CPU and less money. The other thing is, its a very overclockable cpu. Lemme get the link to show ya what it can do with a decent power supply, and a decent heatsink. And its not conicidence I reccomended that mobo because it has the chipset you can overclock with.

[knight.matt]

Ah got it, so how many watts should I be looking for? I think my current one can go from 150 to 300, or I am imagining it.

[ScottyRolen]

There is a good Thermaltake 420W power supply for 40 bucks on newegg. Trust Antec and Thermaltake when it comes to power supplies.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...153-006&depa=0

Ah the newegg people dropped it a few $$ how nice.

Now here is the real deal report when it comes to buying the sempron. It blows away all the cpus you can buy for $600+.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...3100-oc_7.html

Read thru all the perfomance tests on it and read all the texts. Your building a gaming system here and some of those tests arent gaming based/run on Hyper threading support. So some p4s will beat it in some insignificant areas. Not like you want to do some video editing heh. It says alot about how it can be overclocked to much higher freqencies then any a64 because it takes less vcore, or power because it has a smaller cache. I wont be able to overclock mine just yet but it will scream win I can do it, better then a very expensive chip and its only 100 bucks!

[Bizkitkid2001]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottyRolen

There is a good Thermaltake 420W power supply for 40 bucks on newegg. Trust Antec and Thermaltake when it comes to power supplies.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...153-006&depa=0

Ah the newegg people dropped it a few $$ how nice.

WHY DID YOU POINT THAT OUT!??


Sorry, but I just bought that PSU yesterday for $39, and the very next day it drops in price. Me no like