March 20, 200917 yr NEW ZEALAND PRICES OF www.pricespy.co.nz CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Dual Core 3MB L2 2.53GHz = $223.88 (Will OC to 4GHz+ P/Core) MoBo: Asustek P5QL-PRO Intel P43 ATX Motherboard = $185.63 RAM: 4GB Corsair Kit DDR2-800 XMS2 2x 2GB = $116.00 GPU: Sapphire HD4870 512MB DDR5= $401.00 PSU: Corsair 450W VX Series Ultra-Quiet = $122.00 Case: Antec Nine Hundred Tower Gaming = $219.00 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit = $222.00 HDD: Western Digital 1TB SATA 7200rpm hard drive = $211.82 DVD drive: LG GH20NS15 20X SATA DVD Writer = $39.21 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Dual Core 3MB L2 2.53GHz = $223.88 (Will OC to 4GHz+ P/Core) MoBo: Asus P5Q PRO P45 LGS775 FSB1600, DDR2 1200 , 2x PCI-E 2.0, support CrossFireX = $358.00 RAM: 4GB Corsair Kit DDR2-800 XMS2 2x 2GB = $116.00 GPU: Sapphire HD 4850 512MB DDR3 = $336.00 PSU: Corsair 450W VX Series Ultra-Quiet = $122.00 Case: Antec Nine Hundred Tower Gaming = $219.00 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit = $222.00 HDD: Western Digital 500GB 7200rpm = $115.31 DVD drive: LG GH20NS15 20X SATA DVD Writer = $39.21 Which one seems better price/performance? Thanks. Maybe the bottom one with the top ones MoBo? P.S. 1440x900 + Want all games on High-Very high. Current goal: Legends, Regicide, Roving Elf's, Barrows RFD, 95+ Attack.
March 20, 200917 yr Both set-ups seem OK on performance, and price is ultimatly down to you. However, DO NOT GET VISTA! I've recently build a new computer and installed Vista, it's [cabbage]. Stick with XP - to begin with Vista will seem really great, fancy graphics etc. But these will soon be forgotten when you get random crashes, crazy HDD space used, and crazy RAM used. Best of luck with your new pc :
March 20, 200917 yr Both set-ups seem OK on performance, and price is ultimatly down to you. However, DO NOT GET VISTA! I've recently build a new computer and installed Vista, it's [cabbage]. Stick with XP - to begin with Vista will seem really great, fancy graphics etc. But these will soon be forgotten when you get random crashes, crazy HDD space used, and crazy RAM used. Best of luck with your new pc : Wow the computer you built seems very weak. Vista usually works better than XP on new computers. I know my computer is just a couple of years old and Vista works much better than XP. I have never crashed or anything on vista while I used to crash a lot on XP. Also Vista is faster than XP.
March 20, 200917 yr AUD right? I wouldn't expect to jump right to 4ghz as all chips are different. You could have 5 E7200 chips and all have different overclocking abilities. If your spending that much on the motherboard (build 2) I would get faster ram so that you can 1:1 it or get close. Your going to need an aftermarket HSF if your OC'ing. [hide=Drops]Dragon Axe x11Berserker Ring x9Warrior Ring x8SeercullDragon MedDragon Boots x4 - all less then 30 kcGodsword Shard (bandos)Granite Maul x 3Solo only - doesn't include barrows[/hide][hide=Stats][/hide]
March 20, 200917 yr Author What store(s) are you buying from? Off pricespy. Anyway thinking of Asus Maximus Formula II (OWNAGE!!!) + 4870 512mb then going budget on rest of pc. ill get thermal compound + artic cooling 7 freezer pro cheers ps. whats 1:1 mean? Current goal: Legends, Regicide, Roving Elf's, Barrows RFD, 95+ Attack.
March 20, 200917 yr Both set-ups seem OK on performance, and price is ultimatly down to you. However, DO NOT GET VISTA! I've recently build a new computer and installed Vista, it's [cabbage]. Stick with XP - to begin with Vista will seem really great, fancy graphics etc. But these will soon be forgotten when you get random crashes, crazy HDD space used, and crazy RAM used. Best of luck with your new pc : Wow the computer you built seems very weak. Vista usually works better than XP on new computers. I know my computer is just a couple of years old and Vista works much better than XP. I have never crashed or anything on vista while I used to crash a lot on XP. Also Vista is faster than XP. My new PC is hardly weak. :| 4GB RAM @ 1066, NVIDIA 9800GT 512mb, AMD Phenom x3 etc. No, it isn't faster. I can get an additional 10 - 20% more FPS with XP, also I was using Vista x32 not 64 :)
March 20, 200917 yr I reccomend only buy from some stores (Playtech, Computerlounge, Ascent, Ifocus,XP Computers, PBtech) as the price for parts may be more, but you get more service, extremely fast delivery and fast warranty acknolegements if something goes wrong.
March 20, 200917 yr Both set-ups seem OK on performance, and price is ultimatly down to you. However, DO NOT GET VISTA! I've recently build a new computer and installed Vista, it's [cabbage]. Stick with XP - to begin with Vista will seem really great, fancy graphics etc. But these will soon be forgotten when you get random crashes, crazy HDD space used, and crazy RAM used. Best of luck with your new pc : Wow the computer you built seems very weak. Vista usually works better than XP on new computers. I know my computer is just a couple of years old and Vista works much better than XP. I have never crashed or anything on vista while I used to crash a lot on XP. Also Vista is faster than XP. My new PC is hardly weak. :| 4GB RAM @ 1066, NVIDIA 9800GT 512mb, AMD Phenom x3 etc. No, it isn't faster. I can get an additional 10 - 20% more FPS with XP, also I was using Vista x32 not 64 :) Then you did something wrong when you installed Vista, since I have the sames specs, except the processor is an Athlonx2 @ 2.4GHz instead. At one time I had both XP and Vista in dual boot, and still there Vista ran much better and faster than XP. Oh, and my RAM is also lower speed, around 533 if I'm not mistaken.
March 22, 200917 yr Author Would this be a bottleneck? CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, dual core, socket AM2, 2.6GHz = $109.86 MoBo: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+ AMD770 ATX = $196.88 RAM: 4GB Corsair Kit DDR2-800 XMS2 2x 2GB = $116.00 GPU: Sapphire HD4870 512MB DDR5= $401.00 PSU: Corsair 450W VX Series Ultra-Quiet = $122.00 Case: ??? = $80.00 or less OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate X32 - Cracked = Free :) HDD: Western Digital 500GB 7200rpm = $115.31 DVD drive: LG GH20NS15 20X SATA DVD Writer = $39.21 Would the CPU bottleneck? Thanks Current goal: Legends, Regicide, Roving Elf's, Barrows RFD, 95+ Attack.
March 22, 200917 yr I didn't want to write in this thread, but i'll give it a shot anyways. CPU will bottleneck, and it's old. Pick atleast a 7750 and clock it. Or pick a quad. See Gigabytes homepage for support list on cpus on that mobo. And remove the OS sentence in your parts list, it's not very cool to publically jump around saying you got a "free" version. J'adore aussi le sexe et les snuff moviesJe trouve que ce sont des purs moments de vieJe ne me reconnais plus dans les gensJe suis juste un cas désespérantEt comme personne ne viendra me réclamerJe terminerai comme un objet retrouvé
March 22, 200917 yr I'm with OldJoe on this one. Your cpu is an old AM2 cpu, you'd be better to get a quad core. Also, 32bit OS on 4GB of RAM won't use all the RAM.
March 22, 200917 yr If not a quad, then a Phenom triple core. They're good : No. The Phenoms are not good, but the Phenom 2 are very good, comparable to the core 2 quads (that's what they say) and supposedly very easy to overclock.
March 23, 200917 yr Author Thinking of a X38 High end MoBo + 4870 + Crucial Tracer + E7200 + Xi-Fi Soundcard. Should be $1200(ish). Never OC'ed before, but one things for sure. I'm going all out (Volt mods etc). Would E7200 OC'ed to say 3.5-4GHz Bottleneck a HD4870? Thanks Current goal: Legends, Regicide, Roving Elf's, Barrows RFD, 95+ Attack.
March 23, 200917 yr Author it's not very cool to publically jump around saying you got a "free" version. MS are scammers. When I brought Vista, well well, if they lived up to all their promises I would buy it. Now they can go get [bleep]ed. Hopefully they don't go on about 128Bit Programs + DX11 + DX12 + DX13 + 5000 Service Packs in 2 months for Windows 7.. Current goal: Legends, Regicide, Roving Elf's, Barrows RFD, 95+ Attack.
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