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ctu11y

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Wats up everyone!

With the recent job change and the mountain biking season in full swing i have been extremely busy this past year or so. I am so out of the loop as far as hardware goes! I feel like a complete idiot is what it comes down to. I sold my main rig about 4 months ago. She was a fully watercooled barton 3000+ (swiftech all around). I loved it but had to part with it becasue of money issues. I recent aquired a very good job and am looking for another system. I will be doing a lot of gaming on this machine, mostly some new first person shooters. Here is what it comes down to, i have about $3000 to spend on a system. I am in no way RUSHING to get a new system. So if some geeks could come in here and pretty much lay down the newer technology that would be great. Also if you could suggest a setup, it would be even BETTER! I could wait for better technology to come out as well, like i said I am not rushing
 
Damn with $3000 you can go to town. I would suggest 2Gig of Ram and 7800GT vid card. I will let some others give more specific advice, but I also sense a dual LCD setup in your future.

A few questions that may help in your purchasing.
Do you plan to watercool again?
Are you going to OC again?
Want to spend 2k and send me the remaining 1k?
 
zoobaby said:
Damn with $3000 you can go to town. I would suggest 2Gig of Ram and 7800GT vid card. I will let some others give more specific advice, but I also sense a dual LCD setup in your future.

A few questions that may help in your purchasing.
Do you plan to watercool again?
Are you going to OC again?
Want to spend 2k and send me the remaining 1k?
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Don't bother with the 7800GT, get the 7800GTX since you have a large budget for this.

And unless you really need a dual core processor, I would go with something like the FX series (a little expensive though). Games don't really take advantage of dual core at all - yet
 
yea, i mean dual core definitly isnt something i was looking into at this point because of the newness of the technology. As far as the DUAL LCD Setup, wat kind of benefits would i see from this. As of now im running a 21 inch CRT which is pretty bad ass but i do want to go LCD. For gaming will i see better performance on DUAL LCDS? Or will it make no differance? Why are the FX processors muc hmore expensive. Also i was wondering what mother-board to get as well, if someone could make me a mach setup or shoot me in a general direction it would be muc happreicated!
 
ctu11y said:
yea, i mean dual core definitly isnt something i was looking into at this point because of the newness of the technology. As far as the DUAL LCD Setup, wat kind of benefits would i see from this. As of now im running a 21 inch CRT which is pretty bad ass but i do want to go LCD. For gaming will i see better performance on DUAL LCDS? Or will it make no differance? Why are the FX processors muc hmore expensive. Also i was wondering what mother-board to get as well, if someone could make me a mach setup or shoot me in a general direction it would be muc happreicated!
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FX are designed specifically for gaming, come with 1mb L2 cache, and come in higher clockspeeds (i believe) than the plain A64 processors. To get an equivalent plain A64 to any of the A64 FX's you're going to pay around the same price.

For LCDs, you may see ghosting on many LCD displays when gaming if you have sensitive eyes and can notice things like that. I have a Dell 2005fpw (20" widescreen LCD) and I love it to death. Although some will probably curse me up one side and down the other for saying this, I think my LCD is much sharper and more colorful than any CRT I've ever used. Dual LCDs are just going to give you more screen space, no performance increase. But in general, LCDs do have a slower response time than CRTs but for some people that's negligible.
 
Yea, i heard some of hte dell LCD's have really good response times though, for LCD's @ least. My brother just purchased the 2100fp or whatever its called and the thing is pretty sweet when gaming! I mean, i have a CRT and i love it but its HUGE! I will take a look @ the monitor you have. Do you yourself experience ghosting?
 
Dual LCDs are nice for for the large desktop. It allows you to game full screen on one and have browser, chat, etc open on the other. Besides being just cool to look at, it will also give you a bigger e-p.

CRT is still and will probably always be better at gaming. However, I recently had to sell my Tritron flat screen 21" CRT and get an LCD for space reasons (moved into a much smaller place). I love my LCD, got a Samsung 193p+, and it is good for gaming. I play a lot of FPS games.
 
If you are looking for the fastest hard drive money can buy, your search begins and ends here. If you want to stick with ATA, pick up a 73GB Raptor.

For large storage, the 16MB Maxtor MaxLine III/DiamondMax10 are hard to beat, although the competition in 7200RPM is pretty stiff.
 
ctu11y said:
Yea, i heard some of hte dell LCD's have really good response times though, for LCD's @ least. My brother just purchased the 2100fp or whatever its called and the thing is pretty sweet when gaming! I mean, i have a CRT and i love it but its HUGE! I will take a look @ the monitor you have. Do you yourself experience ghosting?
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I don't experience ghosting on my 2005fpw at all that I can tell.

These are the games I play or have played on this monitor:
CS:S
WoW
SWG
EQII
NFSU2

I've also hooked up my PS2 through the composite connection on the monitor and haven't noticed ghosting with any games from that either.
 
I'm not really known to be the smartest tool in the shed when it comes to hardware, but for $3000 I'd go with something like this:

Antec P180 - $135
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe - $164
PC Power & Cooling 510W - $230
eVGA 7800GT - $358 after MIR
AMD 64 4000+ - $368
WD Raptor HDD - $183
Maxtor 300GB HDD - $128
NEC DVD burner - $39
Lite-on DVD-ROM - $20
OCZ 2GB Platinum RAM - $240 after MIR

Total: $1865

That's an incredibly low price for all those components. A year ago that would've cost twice as much..anyway. The PSU is up for change, I just happen to like PC P&C. I don't see the point in getting a GTX video card when, with a little knowlege, the GT is easily overclockable to GTX speeds. I didn't give you a dual-core processor because you said you were mostly doing gaming, and as you know, dual-core isn't as good as far as that goes. But seeing as you're still about $1200 under budget, it might make sense to up that to an FX-55. The Raptor HDD is also optional, I just threw it in there because it's fast. :p I dunno about the RAM..it's not my speciality. All I know is that OCZ is a good brand.
 
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