EDIT: Wanting to build my first computer for gaming. Mostly for wow and rts/fps games
First time building, did some research.
First time building, did some research.
Avoid tiger direct!!!! trust me, they take forever to ship have horrible support and RMA.
But those all would work correctly!
Thank you for the reply =]!
What site would recommend to use that is cheap and fast. only was using it cause i did not know of any good ones and Sli website suggested it.
unless you want to practice building PC's, then okay, I can understand that.
IMO, building your own PC is not worth it. I used to do it a lot and after seeing some of the prices online, you can get a cusotm built PC for around the same price as if you were to build it yourself. It might come out a bit more but I'd rather save myself the hassle of building it and then troubleshooting it. I'd rather spend that extra cash on having someone else do it.
this is all, of course, in my own opinion. I'm sure most of you will disagree. I respect that, though.
Should i get a full size atx rather then a mid size for Sli cards?
And how many fans do you think i need, is temp gauge necessary?
it'll work i guess...the cpu and gpu are way to weak to play any sort of modern game with decent settings and fps...the 750w psu is overboard for that rig given.....i dont trust ultra as far as psu's though. what is your price range?
If you're worried about temperatures i'd go amd for the processor and graphics card as they use less electricity and run cooler. Also most are better value overall. However, the case has enough fans, if you really are worried about temperatures you can add on a bigger heatsink and fan. Just a suggestion though. Also that mid size looks to be good enough.
Oh i didnt know that i thought that amd ran hotter for some reason. ty for that info.
My price range is just like 600 maybe 650 but i dont mind going over a lil imma just buy each part lil by lil.
What is a good amd processor and mobo that have xfire
what should i be looking for in a processor and mobo for gaming?
Would a 550w psu be fine?
What is a good amd processor and mobo that have xfire
Would a 550w psu be fine?
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if i were to build a gaming rig with close to that price range right now this is the exact rig i would build. if there's one thing i've learned over the years is never go with cheap brand's...always bites you in the ass later.
to get to your 650 range you could buy a mobo with only 1 pcie x16 depends on what you plan on doing in the future and that would drop 40-50 bucks(ASUS or Gigabyte) you could also drop to a 640gb hdd i think that would drop another 20-30 i think. but thats about all i would bend on if it were me. gl
edit:
looking it over i would probably lean towards the cheaper board it looks like nvidia is behind time's on the north bridge as far as sata 6gb and usb3....
and to answer your question i'm a pretty hardcore gamer myself and a single card solution has always been good enough for me. it seems by the time it would be worth getting a second card to play my games it's not worth dumping money on the old tech. the last upgrade would have been useless for me to have 2x dx10.1 cards vs 1x dx11 card for example. .02
they can both make a difference. i would say look for the strongest cpu for the price really. tbh you could get away with a dual core but more and more games are being optimized for more cores. ghz does make a dif but it really depends on the game.
AMD's Fall Refresh: New Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs Balance Price and Performance - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News
if you look at the chart the slower clocked x6 beats the faster clocked 970 in some games..loses to it in others. but these comparisons are at lower resolutions :/
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