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Minak   12-26-2008 at 07:19:24 PM

Hello,

After several years my old PC wants to retire. For this I want to built a PC as follow regarding to my bugdet. I will use it ratherly for gaming..
I do not know if the units are harmonious but, I tried to read reviews on internet..

Your advices are important before I buy the hardware.. Because I do nt change my PC very often..

Thanks in advances..




GPU: PALIT ATI HD 4870 Sonic 512MB 256BIT GDDR5 (DirectX 10.1) PCI-E x16 2.0

HDD: SEAGATE 500 GB 7200 RPM 32MB CACHE NCQ SATA2

Monitor: SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 2232BW 22" 2ms DVI WIDE SCREEN LCD

MotherB: MSI - P45 PLATINUM (not ddr3 support?pb in future?)

CPU: Q6600 Quad Core 2.4 Ghz 8 Mb Cache 1066FSB 65 Nm CPU

RAM: OCZ PLATIUM SLI 2 GB 1066 MHz CL5 DDR2 (2x1GB)

Case+psu: GIGABYTE GZ-X5 460W

Sound: CREATIVE SB X-FI XTREME GAMER INT 7.1

Speaker: LOGITECH X-540 70W 5+1 SPEAKER

DVD RW: SAMSUNG SH-S223F 22X SATA DVD W/RW

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50bmg   12-26-2008 at 07:28:39 PM
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If i were building new today, i would go i7, x58 and ddr3. It will cost a couple of hundred more. If you have the extra money, it would be a much more future upside.

otherwise your build ok.

what OS? if you are using vista go with 64bit and 4G ddr2.

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50bmg   12-26-2008 at 07:31:58 PM
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Oh yeah, you could wait a month or 2 and see what AMD Phenom II is like. It is getting very good reviews and benchmarks. It may be cheaper than i7.

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Minak   12-26-2008 at 07:37:07 PM
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No, I should buy it in a few week...I could not wait for two months :)
OS, I will renew it also..

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50bmg   12-26-2008 at 07:48:27 PM
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Ok, the build you listed looks good, just be sure to get a good psu. I would get at least a 500w. Personally, i would get 650w.

look here for what brand psu:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=108088

with a quad core, you should make sure you motherboard and psu have an 8 pin 12v ATX cpu plug.

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Minak   12-27-2008 at 12:49:30 AM
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I'have looked the items that you said. Yep, I7 is an upcoming/recent technology...but it is unfortunetly expensive for me..

Can you say that, if I buy the system that I wrote, can I not play newer games in 1-2 years?

The other question is; DDR3 is important?

For motherboard, the other option is to buy MSI P45-8D INTEL P45 DDR2/DDR3 1600FSB FW1394, instead of buying MSI P45 Platinium which has not DDR3 support. So, can you please compare these two motherboard for gaming.

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