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Philip · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2010, 04:01 AM by Philip)

Well, I've decided to get myself a new PC.
I don't want to buy a pre-made one, so I was hoping to get some advice on what rig I should get.
I'd like to play the newest games out there, but without the 5 digit price tag.
I'm looking for quality not quantity, so I don't mind paying a little extra for better performance.
I've got around £400-700 atm, but the cheaper the better

mjaa · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2010, 01:37 PM by mjaa)

I'd get a HD 5850 graphic card insteed of the 5750. It's worth the extra money.

And a corsair power suply insteed of your, whatever the brand was. Corsair do stable and good stuff.
550w would be more then enought.

The best 7200rpm hard drives is Samsung spinpoint F3 and Western digital BLACK.
You should consider one of them insteed.

0Target0 · 02-06-2010, 01:49 PM

(02-06-2010, 01:32 PM)mjaa link Wrote:The best 7200rpm hard drives is Samsung spinpoint F3 and Western digital BLACK.

Make sure you read user reviews about ur hdd you are going to buy...I ignored those reviews once...and my hdd crashed after 1 month => cheap isnt always quality

. Just a reminder.

Cave · 02-06-2010, 02:37 PM

(02-06-2010, 01:49 PM)0Target0 link Wrote:cheap isnt always quality

Captain Obvious.

Oh, and wait for the GTX 300 series.

Thug · 02-06-2010, 04:02 PM

Haha, GeForce is shit.. Radeon ftw..

Philip · 02-06-2010, 04:17 PM

(02-06-2010, 04:02 PM)Thug link Wrote:Haha, GeForce is shit.. Radeon ftw..

Yeah, I was thinking the same.

Hitman · 02-06-2010, 04:23 PM

(02-06-2010, 04:02 PM)Thug link Wrote:Haha, GeForce is shit.. Radeon ftw..

Wont comment on that cos thats just bullshit.

If i were you id wait for the GTX 400 series to release (@Cave - the new nvidia generation wont be called GTX 300), cos once they're out the prices for the AMD cards will drop a lot.

Maka · 02-06-2010, 06:32 PM

Saying that nVidia is shit is one of the most stupid statements I've ever seen to be honest (don't take it personally, anyone). That for the simple reason because my own ATI card went broken in the past, and so did the one from my friend and the one from my cousin. With the nVidias I've had, I haven't had any single problem yet and they're basically great. But yeah, waiting for the 400 series might not be that bad of a thought.

I don't know much about AMD processors, so I can't talk about those. All I know is that the i7's are awesome too. No idea if the i9's are coming?

Hitman · 02-06-2010, 07:08 PM

About the i9s - the next cpu generation by intel is called Westmere and is going to launch in Q4 2010. Dont know whether they're going to be called i9, but they should be able to work on exisiting X58 mainboards with an BIOS update.

About the videocards all i can say is that AMD cards might have a better performance per euro but the nvidia cards have imo other advantages that are worth the extra cash (like PhysX, CUDA, GPGPU, more advanced and stable drivers, awesome Linux support and last but not least that they have less problems and bugs in games due to Nvidia working together with (and supporting) game developers in their TWIMTBP-Campaign).

Everybody should decide on his own whats better for him, for myself i can say that i'd always go with an nvidia.

mjaa · 02-06-2010, 07:09 PM

(02-06-2010, 06:32 PM)Maka link Wrote:Saying that nVidia is shit is one of the most stupid statements I've ever seen to be honest (don't take it personally, anyone). That for the simple reason because my own ATI card went broken in the past, and so did the one from my friend and the one from my cousin. With the nVidias I've had, I haven't had any single problem yet and they're basically great. But yeah, waiting for the 400 series might not be that bad of a thought.

I don't know much about AMD processors, so I can't talk about those. All I know is that the i7's are awesome too. No idea if the i9's are coming?

Fact is, nvidia have more broked cards then ati. Spec in the laptop market.

But i think Thug referens to the performance part. Witch he has right about, atm nvidia doesn't perform.

I don't think fermi will perform as many people hope it will.

Prob arround 5870 speed. But with a higher cost "Because the gpu at nvidia is 3 times bigger".

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