Athlon 64 3700+ handle F.E.A.R??

Hey ppl, Im new to the wonderful world of pc building and im just a bit unsure of the cpu (athlon 3700+) ill be using. Im a 100% gamer and i play Fear, Bf2, Hl2 etc. and am hoping to run these games and any upcoming fps's on max detail nice and smoothely. Just wondering if the CPU combined with the below specs is good enough to handle all this without a problem? Any help appreciated and thanks in advance.


Therm. Armor case (Aluminium)
Amd Athlon 64 3700+?
Seasonic s12 600W PSU
Xfx 7800 gtx 256mb
Asus A8N sli premium
2gig RAM
WD Raptor 150gb
Win xp Pro
----------------------------------- All already ordered.

yeah, you'll be fine with that rig man. It'll pretty much eat whatever you throw at it. Good luck with it

sli is a waste of money. if you want a super powerful pc experience, go for one ultra strong card.

yes any s939 proc can handle fear with a good graphics card.but dude what kind of ram you runnin if its name brand with low cas like 3.0 then yeah you should be fine but if you got the cheap stuff like rosewill,wintec.viking,etc then you might have some lag cuase of the high cas

I have Corsair twinx2048-3200 (2gb). Dat okay?

Thats a relief. I was getting a bit worried there for sec, lol. There would be no going back!

Go onto corsair.com and you'll see all the different categories, eg. Xms ( low latency gaming ram).

dude the cas maybe the same but the ras to cas delay maybe way higher and the discharge maybe too high that it bottle necks your other components

Generally, the cheaper RAM has higher latency and is not as fast.

Ok
Using such really good ram, is it comparable to 200mhz increase in cpu freq?
Or cant you compare those things at all?

Im trying to understand what "type" of performance increas you get by good ram.

Sorry if Im into som very basic questions, but i feel its important for to understand before i spend my cash

My computer
3700+ AMD not overclocked yet
KN8- sli
corsair 2 gigs
ocz power stream 520
Evga and BFG 7800GT not over clocked yet
I play BF2 at 1680x1050 full settings 4x aa 4x af
sli gave me 3000 points in 3dmark05

Abit makes a great Motherboard http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/153

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great really and I overclocked it to 2500 on stock cooling but, I run it at stock speeds

I switched from a P4 3.4 prescott and the performance is equal at stock speeds, but I can overclock with my new system and at 230 dollars its a steal because with better cooling I could run this at 2700mhz easy and thats alot of performance for 230 bucks IMHO.

system is very stable. I am not a expert but no problems with hardware
I had to update sound driver (I use the on board sound and it was studdered if I was doing a virus scan or something like that but the new nvida sound driver cured that.

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Laptops do not have keypads.
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You kidding? My system easily runs FEAR at highest no AA/Full AS filtering/no soft shadows @ 1280x1024, that's with a 6800gt...

god hates you.

is anybody else's web page on this thread screwed up, mine is about double the width of normal, and i have to scroll over to read the whole thread, wtf.

"Im a 100% gamer and i play Fear, Bf2, Hl2 etc. and am hoping to run these games and any upcoming fps's on max detail nice and smoothely. "

With the GTX256's rather high prices, I'd probably save an extra $50-$100 and instead opt for a single 1900XT, which will be roughly par in performance with a pair of SLI'd GTX256 cards...

As to the original question, yes, the 3700+ is certainly enough processor for gaming, and, the higher the res, the less important it becomes in the results. (In FEAR's performance demo at 1024x768/4xAA/16xAF, for instance, a 3500+ scores the same as an FX57, meaning, once you are gpu bound, 600 MHz extra offers little benefit.)

a 600 W PSU is way over the top... you will never need that... with your config a 450W PSU is enough... even with SLI. If you wanna be on the save side with SLI I would max go for 500W but 600 is the value for the year 2010 PC.

600W will waste energy like crazy 4 nothing...

Oh no.... i didnt know i was that overboard. So are you saying it wont work with my system at all or is it just that it'll give more power than needed?? Aslo what PSU's are you guys using?

"If you wanna be on the save side with SLI I would max go for 500W but 600 is the value for the year 2010 PC.
"

Or really, even 600 watts will not cut it for some of the quad-sli Dell rigs coming...

(Each video card pair will also need an external 125 watt laptop PS running it!) Total: 850 watts

You kidding? My system easily runs FEAR at highest no AA/Full AS filtering/no soft shadows @ 1280x1024, that's with a 6800gt...
Why buy a high end card if you can't use antialiasing? I use 8X for most of my games, and 4X for a special few, such as Age of EmpiresIII and F.E.A.R.

I guess that's a matter of opinion, I myself like both.

Would SLI 7800 gtx's actually be necessary for playing games like FEAR on max if i'll only be playing at 1024x768 resolution?

Hell no! By the way, never fall for SLi/Crossfire advertising. It's all marketing and bragging rights; real world performance would be better to have one super-powerful card.