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Posted: Tue, 15th May 2007 18:22 Post subject: need advice on new hardware for pc gaming. |
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Hey nforce, I've got a couple hundred dollars to spend for an upgrade and I'm thinking my hard drive would be the next best upgrade as it's over 2 years old and is only a 80gig and It still uses gray IDE cables.
I play alot of games but mainly right now I'm playing LOTRO and I think it'll run alot smoother if i have a better and faster hard drive with the sata serial connection or whatever. Also my sound card is old but I havnt had any problems with it in game, it always works with games that allow me to enable EAX, so i think a sound card upgrade would be a waste, especially since i Play with earphones all the time as well.
Right now my system specs are:
MSI K8N S939 nForce4 SLI mobo
AMD 64 3.5+ @ 2.21GHz
2x1024 corsair ddr 400 ram
Geforce 7950GT KO
sound blaster audigy gamer 1
80gig IDE hard drive
compaq 7550 17"? CRT monitor
thanks for any advice in advance.
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Posted: Tue, 15th May 2007 18:28 Post subject: |
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x2 4400+ and Choose your poison And it'll cost you under 200 for the CPU. I recommend the 4400+ personally as it's the only one that really makes sense for the price. You could go lower for a little bit performance but any of the CPU's after the 4400+ were just a plain joke and has the 1MB L2 cache. An extra 200 or so on the price for an extra 300MHz Unless your an overclocker then get the fx-60 which is the dual core FX cpu with the multipliers unlocked.
Other than that your pretty damn good. I'd still keep the HD, either slave it for storage or run you rOS off of it. I got 3 HD's in mine. an 80 gig IDE for my OS, 80 gig SATA for my games and a 500 gig SATA for storage. I like to keep my stuff seperate incase something fucks up.
As for dual core people piss cry and moan about games not being multithreaded so theres no purpose for it but what they always fail to see is that even if a game only takes advantage of 1 core, windows and all those other programs running the background can still benefit from the extra core so reguardless it'll help in performance.

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Posted: Tue, 15th May 2007 19:05 Post subject: |
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Posted: Tue, 15th May 2007 19:17 Post subject: |
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fuck the monitor. it's all about performance. Monitor's come last imo.
btw, hitachi's are notorious for failing. Stick with western digital.
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Posted: Tue, 15th May 2007 19:48 Post subject: |
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SpykeZ wrote: | fuck the monitor. it's all about performance. Monitor's come last imo.
btw, hitachi's are notorious for failing. Stick with western digital. |
fuck my monitor exactly, I've been adding hardware to improve performance and I've had this monitor for almost 6 years now... fuck it, im getting a 19" LCD monitor, the cpu, and hard drive. its just money right.
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Posted: Tue, 15th May 2007 20:03 Post subject: |
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lol Well the monitor is just as important to a gaming rig as is the hardware. But you can benefit from better HW than a monitor. It may be all nice and yummy but doesn't do you a whole lot of good when you can't run your games on high to take advantage of it 
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Posted: Wed, 16th May 2007 04:40 Post subject: |
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im now sitting behind my new 19inch LCD widescreen, running win vista 64 on a WesDig 250gig fast cool and quiet sataII 3gig hard drive, the monitor is really nice, a big change from the small cube monitors ive had forever.
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Posted: Wed, 16th May 2007 05:41 Post subject: |
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haha ya, once you use widescreen for awile and try going back to normal, you'll hate it. I actually got naucious looking at a cube when playing a game cause it was so squashed. so whats the word on the CPU?
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Posted: Wed, 16th May 2007 06:48 Post subject: |
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the widescreen is awesome my old monitor is going to the curb next to the trash tomorrow
the cpu is gonna have to wait a couple weeks.
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Posted: Wed, 16th May 2007 07:03 Post subject: |
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HunterHare wrote: | the widescreen is awesome my old monitor is going to the curb next to the trash tomorrow
the cpu is gonna have to wait a couple weeks. |
keep the monitor and use both at the same time. Comes in handy at times.
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Posted: Wed, 16th May 2007 22:37 Post subject: |
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hey if i keep my IDE drive with my OS on it and install my games on my SATA2 drive, when im playing games that way will they be running at the ide or sata speeds?
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Posted: Wed, 16th May 2007 23:29 Post subject: |
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SATA The only thing that sucks about this setup is that the games being stored in the registry is going to be on your OS drive as well as some game companies bright idea to store saves in the documents instead of the save folder. So if your OS craches some games require you need the registry to run the game(not alot do) and also stores keys and so forth. The only games I've met so far that's a pain in the ass when the OS crashes is Dawn of War with all the expansions.
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