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I am currently working on consolidating some of my PC's into a HTPC build. The question I have in general is whether I will see a major drop in performance while gaming. Allow me to ellaborate a little.
My current gaming rig is:
Asus P4C800E-Deluxe(intel 875 chipset)
Intel P4 skt 478 3.0 GHZ -- oc'd to 3.3GHZ
1gb(2x 512mb) Kingston HyperX PC4000 (ddr500) ram -- running in 1:1 ratio
BFG Nvidia Geforce6800GT OC(agp)
160gb (2x 80gb) IDE hard drive in raid config(striped)
SB Audigy2 value
Now without listing all the home theater specific details of the new rig, here's the major components:
Asus P4S800-VM -- SIS 661FX chipset
Intel P4 skt775 3.2ghz
Ram -- not decided yet
BFG Nvidia Geforce6800GT OC(agp) --same as above
400gb hdd( 2 x 200gb SATA150 raided -striped)
Chaintech AV-710 (via envy 24 ht-s)
SO,
#1 - Will this SIS chipset be a crapper for gaming performance?
#2 - What ram would you guys/gals pick for the new motherboard? stay with hyperX or go get some LL 3200 stuff?
#3 - How much performance increase would I really see with some LL 3200 ram over some stock, off-the-shelf 3200 ddr? (have lots of that stuff laying around, just nothing fancy)
#4 - Will the Envy24 based sound card be a lowsy performer in games?
Now, this new motherboard does not support overclocking options. Not to mention that I'm not at all familiar with this SIS chipset that it has. While I'm sure it would make a great HTPC I'm concerned that my gaming performance that I've grown accustomed to will take a major dive by going this route. Originally I was going to keep my current gaming rig and just consolidate everything else into the HTPC build. Lately however I've been wondering about the possible downfalls it would have to integrate all but one of my pc's into this one; including my gamer machine. Around the same time this build goes live it will be hooked to this
I would love to be able to run my BF2, etc on that screen. Also I'm concerned with the performance of that sound card within games. From what I understand its a great performer for a/v playback but I've run into performance issues before with other non-creative cards.
Well I think that's enough rambling for one post. Would love to hear your comments and suggestions. The components that I listed are already acquired so no substitutions on the major stuff; gotta make what I have work. If I can provide any more specifics to help direct the infinite wisdom of the [H] please just ask me. Thanks all!
My current gaming rig is:
Asus P4C800E-Deluxe(intel 875 chipset)
Intel P4 skt 478 3.0 GHZ -- oc'd to 3.3GHZ
1gb(2x 512mb) Kingston HyperX PC4000 (ddr500) ram -- running in 1:1 ratio
BFG Nvidia Geforce6800GT OC(agp)
160gb (2x 80gb) IDE hard drive in raid config(striped)
SB Audigy2 value
Now without listing all the home theater specific details of the new rig, here's the major components:
Asus P4S800-VM -- SIS 661FX chipset
Intel P4 skt775 3.2ghz
Ram -- not decided yet
BFG Nvidia Geforce6800GT OC(agp) --same as above
400gb hdd( 2 x 200gb SATA150 raided -striped)
Chaintech AV-710 (via envy 24 ht-s)
SO,
#1 - Will this SIS chipset be a crapper for gaming performance?
#2 - What ram would you guys/gals pick for the new motherboard? stay with hyperX or go get some LL 3200 stuff?
#3 - How much performance increase would I really see with some LL 3200 ram over some stock, off-the-shelf 3200 ddr? (have lots of that stuff laying around, just nothing fancy)
#4 - Will the Envy24 based sound card be a lowsy performer in games?
Now, this new motherboard does not support overclocking options. Not to mention that I'm not at all familiar with this SIS chipset that it has. While I'm sure it would make a great HTPC I'm concerned that my gaming performance that I've grown accustomed to will take a major dive by going this route. Originally I was going to keep my current gaming rig and just consolidate everything else into the HTPC build. Lately however I've been wondering about the possible downfalls it would have to integrate all but one of my pc's into this one; including my gamer machine. Around the same time this build goes live it will be hooked to this
I would love to be able to run my BF2, etc on that screen. Also I'm concerned with the performance of that sound card within games. From what I understand its a great performer for a/v playback but I've run into performance issues before with other non-creative cards.
Well I think that's enough rambling for one post. Would love to hear your comments and suggestions. The components that I listed are already acquired so no substitutions on the major stuff; gotta make what I have work. If I can provide any more specifics to help direct the infinite wisdom of the [H] please just ask me. Thanks all!