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Build Advice What should I choose to build my gaming PC. Please give me an advice.

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Thanh55, 12 Dec 2010.

  1. Thanh55

    Thanh55 What's a Dremel?

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    Hi,
    I just clear my shed to day and I got some components "left over":

    Asus P5E64 Evo board, E8600 and Q9650 CPU, Ennermax Libery 500W PSU, CPU water block, 3x120 rad, 1x120 rad, 2 water pump, 24" NEC screen (1920x1200), 1x500Gb HDD.

    Now I need some DDR3 ram and a gfx card to build my gaming which I love racing game so all most game run on it will be racing like: DIRT 2, WRC, SHIFT, GRID, and online iRacing. Here some questions:

    1-Which CPU should I use?
    2-Which gfx card should I buy?(£200 max)
    3-Do I really need more powerful PSU?

    Many thanks for your help and please give me some advices. Or I just sell them on ebay and buy all new i7 or i5.
     
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  2. murraynt

    murraynt Modder

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    Use the Q9650. As graphics cards go look at the ATI 6870.
    500 watts it loads of power.
    Do you have a good HSF? If you don't look into the thermaltake Frio and overclock that beast.
     
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  3. Thanh55

    Thanh55 What's a Dremel?

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    Thank you for quick replied, I have some water coolong part I might use for the CPU, is that 6879 better performance than the 5870?
    And I need 4Gb of ram right? more is good or just waisted?
     
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  4. murraynt

    murraynt Modder

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    The 6870 is slightly slower than the 5870. But it is better at tesslation and consumes less power.
    4GB is a must for 7/Vista
     
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  5. Thanh55

    Thanh55 What's a Dremel?

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    Q9650 doesn't seem to bottleneck with the 6870 or does it? A little more question: should I buy a SSD for system OS?
     
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    Mechh69 I think we can make that fit

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    Just make sure your running 64bit not 32 bit with 4gb of ram.
     
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    the q9650 is still a very fast chip it won't bottle neck anything and you don't have to buy a ssd for you OS
     
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    As was siad already it won't be a bottle neck. If you have the cash an SSD would be great.But you need an expansion card to get it's full potential.
     
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    Marine-RX179 What's a Dremel?

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    Won't be a bottleneck for games in general at 1920 res (except Black OPs...which then again it is a poor optimised CPU hogging piece of crap), but it would bottleneck at Crysis at 1680 res (as the game don't really use more than two cores), which is why as a thumb of rules, always overclock your CPU if possible, as it would give yourself more headroom.
     
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    Just noticed the 5870 is down to around the 200 mark.
     
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    Thanh55 What's a Dremel?

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    Many thanks for all you advices, give me more confident to go a head. I might get the 5870, and decided no SSD. I try to get a nice but not to big case on ebay. Finger cross me :)
     
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    Good luck.
     
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