Hi everybody,
I have posted here before but I need to do so one more time to get another rig spec'd out for me. Im looking to build a rig that can play BF3 Diablo 3 Startcraft 2 and minecraft as well as some of the upcomming releases until April 2013 when I ship off to navy bootcamp. After that ill probably post again asking for a professional gamming rig lol.
I just want to get back to playing PC games so i need a little help I would like a PC that could play all of the games and minecraft at good framerates with good graphics. Im hoping that this can be done for around 600 to 700 dollars let me know what yall come up with thanks I appreciate everyones help.
do you intend on overclocking?
I dont think that I will have to to play these games will I giga? I dont even really know how to overclock but it would be nice to have a 4ghz cpu i suppose.
Have you subscribed to Razetheworld's YouTube channel? If not, I'd suggest you go to that. Tons of info. Check out this video to steer you in the right direction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoZcWXU2TfY&feature=plcp
not really you can run it at stock and stick kick ass, hold on a minute I'll whip something up
Update:BAM!
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if you want to overclock later on then get this Heatsink, it beats anything noctua has to offer and most closed loop water cooling solutions, that CPU is unlocked but will run stock just fine on its stock heatsink, but I would not do any kind of overclocking until you have a third party heatsink but the potential is there if you ever need it
yes i have seen that video and Im subscribed to his channel but i can never find those parts at that price. I do like the cheap power in the amd 965 processor but i have no expericance with them and im hesitant to use it
thats an awesome setup giga whats the reliability on the ram and motherboard i dont know anything about the brands? how well do you think this will run todays games like BF3 and Minecraft and such?
Giga how are the brands for the motherboard and ram? also will the 530 wat psu handle load under gameing what about OC or sli?
you'd be able to play mincraft at like 2600x1600 with all eyecandy max, 3d, full 60FPS, its not very GPU demanding and you have a beast CPU
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/547
it will play BF3 ultra with FXAA almost at 60FPS
I can try to sqeeze in a 560Ti 448 core version (better) if you go with a H61 board and don't intend on CPU OCing
as for qaulity I've only had one biostar board go bad out of 30 and it was a cheapo G45 755 board and it was doa so no going bad after warrent expires, ram is an okay brand too, not any bad brands that I'm aware of ram wise, its pretty simple, no complex components to go bad like MoBos
I've had that PSU under 2 HD585os +1GHz each and a 4GHz 955BE on it, you'll be fine
you'll be fine to OC the GPU, its OCIng on the stock CPU heatsink that you shouldn't do, once you throw on the V6GT you'll be golden to hit 4.8Ghz, I'd have to check and see if z68 supports SLI, I think it does but hold on a sec
I don't know how you're getting away with saying the V6 GT is better than anything Noctua has to offer, because that's simply not true. The NH-D14 is a better cooler, but the V6 GT is a bettter value for the money since it performs within about 4 degrees of the NH-D14. The NH-D14 is also a lot quieter.
I personally don't like Biostar because I got a board from them for the first rig I ever built and it died on me in 6 months. A friend of mine has a Biostar for his i5 2400 and it seems to be working fine though.
For ram, I'd personally go for something from G.Skill, Mushkin, Patriot, or Corsair just to be on the safe side.
As for the Phenom II 965, I personally had a Phenom II 940 which I overclocked to 3.7Ghz. The Phenom II's are nice processors, but if you can afford the 2500K then definitely go with that. Phenom II's are probably bottlenecking current video cards anyway.
what would be the difference if i went with that new set up giga?
this indicates it is
http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?full=1&set_albumName=CoolerMasterHyper612PWMCPUCooler&id=compare&option=com_gallery&Itemid=96&include=view_photo.php
the new setup would include a 448 core version (has more cores than a standard, faster Vram) which means it could play games better, the mobo would be H61 so you couldn't get ram past 1600 with Ivy, there would be a locked ivy chip so no OCing but the stock i5 won't bottleneck your system, they're still hella fast
so the performance wouldnt take a hit right?
According to that, the NH-D14 is 3.25 degrees cooler at load.
GAH!!! damn attention span
When I posted that link I didn't see Giga's posts...now my post seems rude lol. Now about the V6GT vs. Noctua, you both know the drill. THUNDERDOME! Two enter, one man emerges. GO