it s sometimes very usefull to know what kind of specifications have your mates materials: it s a good way to share infos & experience or to ask some feedback before to buy some parts. AMD or Intel ? Nvidia or ATI ? XP, Linux or W7 ? Dual or Quad ? OC or not ?
-- Edited by Bl!tz on Wednesday 30th of December 2009 11:03:52 PM
i just have 1 main pc ;) My Rig: Asus P5N-T Deluxe Core 2 Quad Q9650 3ghz 2* 9800GTX+ Asus Dark Knight 4Gb G.E.I.L Ultra DDR2 800Mhz Soundblaster Xfi Extreme Gamer Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse Razer Lycosa Keyboard Sound Logitech Z-5500 Case Lian Li PC A 77 B
and liquid cooling stuff atm cpu cooler Enzotech SCW- Rev.A Pump Aquastream XT standard Fan control center Aquaero VF. display
and i had some probs to find a cooler for my GFX cause 9800gtx+ isnt referenz - design lol there isnt any special PCB for 9800gtx+ so i will have to use a gpu only cooler
-- Edited by KaiShun on Friday 27th of November 2009 02:04:57 PM
I'll be building up 3 identical PC's for relatives over the next few days. PC's will be for 'lite' gaming but should run nicely none the less.
Here's the specs;
Core i7-860 ASUS P7P55D-LE (or Gigabyte P55-UD3) mobo 4Gig Gskill DDR3 1333 XFX Radeon 5770 1Gb 1TB Samsung Hdd Pioneer 218 DVD Burner ThermalTake Armour+ mx case Antec EarthWatts 650w PSU Win7 Home Premium 64bit
I'll benchmark one once they are built and post the results!
NEXT DAY EDIT: Faark...I can't believe how hard it is to get 3 identical gfx cards n mobo's. Here in SA I can't get any 4870's, 4890's which are in the price range I wanted. 5770's were also hard to get but I managed to get 2 and got 1 5750. With the mobo's I got 2 P55-UD3's and one UD3R.... Ram I got was Kingston as I can't get GSkill RAM in 1600 or 1333.... ...but atleast I can now build them....
-- Edited by Lord_PorkSword on Thursday 3rd of December 2009 07:31:35 AM
Hey i7 860 is second after i7 920 no differances accept the sockets and clocks.
There are some differences, like the tri-channel memory controller and extra 16x PCI-E slot for the 920. I also believe the 920's OC a lot better as well.
Bane, Did you have issues using memory slots 1 and 3 on your Mobo? If not good on ya! Three UD3's that I've worked on now all refuse to boot if memory is sitting in slots 1 and 3. The new F5 BIOS doesn't fix the issue either. I've seen this mentioned on a few sites as well and it appears to be with rev 1.0 boards. ...Gigabyte get your act together....
Here it is... 3D Mark06 Benchmark for the i7-860/4gig - 1333 RAM/Radeon 5770 PC mentioned above. Score Total:16,360. Shader Model 2 score: 6388 - HDR: 7397 - CPU: 5087
as ya know i have intel too but its an price thing too ! and i think there not much different between maybe i would buy intel too ! ;) but i dont wanna upgrade my rig soon ;)
-- Edited by KaiShun on Wednesday 9th of December 2009 12:07:13 PM
I reckon intel chips are better....but all in all it looks like a pretty good machine!
looks good m8.....if it s not to fight on bench with intel chips this PC can cream all existant games on high settings Actually AMD & INtel last quad are rarely in troubble to run something already existant and if u dont have "special use or attemps" they are all surpowered: i mean u dont see a difference while playing UT3 if u use fps stock limitations ....honnestly there s no reason to spend 30% to 50% more to get same results...except if it s a luv story between ya & intel....AMD rules on prices and i m 100% satisfed with my phenom
-- Edited by Bl!tz on Wednesday 9th of December 2009 02:18:18 PM
had a prob on the 5970 cause i didnt know if 1 crossfire card would work on a sli board but now im sure it would work so there is the next question open for me if i could run my 9800gtx+ then just on physics but i will find out ! muahahahahah
Here the link to a OC site where Malkav is superadmin; feel free to ask there and u ll have quality and safe answer; it s german forum and i use to ask there when i m in doubts...they are skilled as possible ;)
Malk is the man; he test several products for the site like GFX and so and he have infos that we ll probably never have i trust his opinion 100% ;)
Coolmaster case. (its a model copy afaik) Antec 550W power supply AMD 64x6000+ 1MB L2 Processor 3Ghz (OC to a max of 3.15Ghz) 4GB Corsair 800Ghz RAM ASUS M3A AMD2+ Dual Motherboard Western Digital 7200rpm 160GB Hard Drive Lite On 20X DVD etc 512GB Geforce 9800GT Graphics Card (also OC but nothing radical) ASUS copper cooler LG2252TQ 22" monitor My current Razor mouse
I would like to replace my gfx card with a nvidia260 at least but no way can i afford it atm and I would probably need a psu upgrade as well now given its almost a couple of years old and their efficiency reduces with age. I have a craptop as well :)
-- Edited by TIPPER on Sunday 14th of February 2010 08:43:12 AM