building my own pc

k0rnyfr33k · Post by **k0rnyfr33k** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:02 am

Ryan from Ohio wrote:That processor looks weak?
ATI graphics? I thought I was getting a good buy with ATI and man I was wrong...

What card did you buy?

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:35 am

k0rnyfr33k wrote:Are you knockin my AMD... oh the Mainboard is a MSI 770-C45

No just stating a fact. AMD invested money in the wrong tech and went 64bit were Intel went dual core. Now AMD is racing to catch up. They blew it.

k0rnyfr33k · Post by **k0rnyfr33k** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:50 am

Bwcad1 wrote:No just stating a fact. AMD invested money in the wrong tech and went 64bit were Intel went dual core. Now AMD is racing to catch up. They blew it.

Yea true, but i have faith in AMD they won't go down that easily... I like AMD they can take some stress when it comes to overclockin

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:02 am

My 8400 is dual 3.0 and Ive had it as high as 4.6 on air and 5.2 on water. mMMMMmmMmMMm

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:09 am

I bought an MSI version of the 8800 GT.

Its plenty of card. Hell I can run Bioshock, COD4 full tilt without ANY lag.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bes ... ,2362.html

I would advise you to set a budget and research it there.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:20 am

Ryan from Ohio wrote:I bought an MSI version of the 8800 GT.
Its plenty of card. Hell I can run Bioshock, COD4 full tilt without ANY lag.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bes ... ,2362.html
I would advise you to set a budget and research it there.

4850 would walk all over the 8800gts

an 8800gt/gts is fine for now but future not so much. 4850 will at least give him a bit of a head start. i believe that MIS is also the base 4850 not the OC'd version

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:26 am

Ya no doubt. Not saying he should get what I have, I know what I have is already out dated... lol just like everything in my box already.

So the Radeons are acceptable now I guess?

colemanyoungerinalaska · Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:09 pm

64 bit os are gonna be common soon
i run xp 64 on my athlon machine some things work awesome some dont oh well
keep thinking of getting a q6600 cpu and building something around it
ive only used nvidia cards for a while but after reading about that 4850 i might need to get one one question though is there a low profile version

im about 2 years behind on everything but that makes buying games hardware and everything else much cheaper

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:50 pm

I have no complaint with the 64 bit Vista

Everything seems to work just right.

Im not sure if you know, there is a 32 bit program file also. Under Windows directory I have two different "Program Files" folders. Ones labeled as an x86

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:52 pm

colemanyoungerinalaska wrote:64 bit os are gonna be common soon
i run xp 64 on my athlon machine some things work awesome some dont oh well
keep thinking of getting a q6600 cpu and building something around it
ive only used nvidia cards for a while but after reading about that 4850 i might need to get one one question though is there a low profile version

im about 2 years behind on everything but that makes buying games hardware and everything else much cheaper

64 bit OS's have been out for... years. Only install one if you're planning on utilizing more than 4gb of RAM.

Second, unless you're using software that uses multiple cores, get a dual core like Bill. The dual cores are cheaper, faster and more overclockable than the Q6600. I know, I have one.