Ok Im tryna build a new computer.I planning to spend 650-850 on it. Im looking for some help on the build, any recomendations will be nice thank you. Im planning on buying the following. Plan to use is for FSX on medium high graphic
650-850. Lets get to work. I will assume you don't need an OS, input devices or a monitor since they are not listed here.
Middle Budget Build: Goal $800- Acutal Price- $733.17 shipped before rebates of $65
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E7200
Motherboard: MSI Neo-3R ($20 MIR)
RAM: OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB DDR2-800 ($25 MIR) $18 RAM !
Video: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4850 512MB ($20 MIR)
Case: Antec Sonta III
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB
Thermal Compound: Arctic Cooling MX 2
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek Rifle 120mm CPU Cooler
Bracket: Xigmatek Retention Bracket
Upgrades worth it and still under budget: E8400 over E7200
4GB of RAM vs 2GB
ok i like the cpu as the cpu cooler the hard drive and the case but does the case have enuff room in it to hold the video card and still hav good air flow and i cant find any specs on the mother board
ok so dat system should be able the run FSX. And i like the new mother board.But I have. another concern.Its about a water cooler.Do you think its worth the risk. And i think im gonna stick with the xfx geforce 88000 gs and im planning on over clocking the processor so do u think that the MSI P45 Neo3-FR LGA 775 MB is good for over clocking
Message edited by silky1029 on 06-30-2008 at 06:06:03 AM
idk i jus never realy trust the ati video cards i read alot of reviews on them and there not realy good
With the budget you are considering, take the HD4850. My $.02
**Edit, never blindly support one brand or discredit another brand altogether. You should always consider the best price to performance value, and that currently is the HD4850.
Message edited by flyin15sec on 06-30-2008 at 06:17:07 AM
ok i think ima take a chance with the ati card i went on newegg and looked at sum reviews and they seem realy good. And another im thinkin about over clocking my the processor u recommended but some frenz say that over clocking the processor kills it
The only way you can kill the processor if you overclock is too much volts and too much heat. If you read the guides, you can overclock and not worry about the cpu dying.
ok as for the hard drive ive heard about this think i think its call raid 1.0 or something like dat where u use 2 hard drives for example a 250gb and anohter 250gbs to equal 500gbs but i kno there are risks wen using raid becauuse u can loose a hard drive and end up being screwed. how do u feel about using raid
RAID 1 is mirroring. What is on Drive A is on Drive B.
RAID 0 is what you are referring to. Unless you are doing large drive writes (read: Games don't fall into this category) there is no reason to use a RAID array.
