Help with my future GAMING SYSTEM

[Pethegreat]

Originally Posted by ganzo

could u guys find any thing that was premade

3 questions:

Can you read
can you plug a wall socket plug im
can you assemble legos?

If you said yes to any of them you can build a PC!

[Agentlaidlaw]

http://www.cyberpowerinc.com/ well worth the money.

[1337cshacker]

Originally Posted by ganzo

hey... i just need sum input... im going to be buying a gaming computer soon here r da specs...

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ HyperTransport Technology / 1GB DDR / 160GB SATA / nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB 8X AGP /Gigabyte's K8Npro nForce3 MOBO/500watt power supply/overclocking fan control center includes 3 fans. ALL FOR GRAND TOTAL= 1,934.04 USD

here r my qwestions
1)Do you think it worth that much, is it a good price?
2)will it be able to handel hard core gaming..such as bf2 halo cs...ect
3)are the system specs good, any thing to add? or change

comments: im not shure about the Mobo its not "sli" just to add that.

plz people i need ALL UR INPUT/ADVICE/THOUGHTS.

thnx

-GanZo-

i would go PCI express, this is the way technology is moving, and its very upgrade freindly. one thing they taught me in ITT, is to make your network, or PC, expandable, by all and any means.

1 all except the 6800 GT, the x800 xl and x800 xt pe can be found cheaper, there much better in all except one game.

2 yes it will handle halo, if for some reason you think halo is hardcore, whatever, it will handle it.

3 again the x800's are better in about all games except doom3. lots of games out comming out on the d3 engine, like PREY and quake 4. if you really want to play those, than an x850 xt pe would be best. again, PCI-E, there cards are cheaper most of the time anyway.

[amoreelitesoldier]

If I were you, this is what I would do. I would get off my lazy butt (figuratively) and do my research!!! Oh wait, nvm, I already did that...

http://www.newegg.com/

or if you must, http://www.tigerdirect.com/

(NewEgg is king!!!)

[Pethegreat]

[quote=1337cshacker
2 yes it will handle halo, if for some reason you think halo is hardcore, whatever, it will handle it.[/quote]

while halo is not "harecore" it is a killer on Pc's I went though 3 graphics cards to run it smoothly. The Fx59xx and 9800 series struggled with it when it came out.

As for the debate of ATI vs Nvida, it depends on the site your reading from. ATi does better in Hl2 and Far cry while nivda does better in doom and unlear 3 engine based games. In other games the speed differnces are so minute they are the same.

[Revenge]

I could run Halo on a GeForce 4. It was touched up after the port from the Xbox, which uses a GeForce 4, but the engine wasn't rewritten. Only the textures were changed, so more RAM would be sufficient. Since most modern day PCs have more RAM than Xboxes, it should work fine.

Hey, if HL2 runs fine on a GeForce 4, Halo should.

[1337cshacker]

Originally Posted by Pethegreat™

while halo is not "harecore" it is a killer on Pc's I went though 3 graphics cards to run it smoothly. The Fx59xx and 9800 series struggled with it when it came out.

the engine is poorly compiled and optimized. typical M$. a good game though.

Originally Posted by amoreelitesoldier

If I were you, this is what I would do. I would get off my lazy butt (figuratively) and do my research!!! Oh wait, nvm, I already did that...

http://www.newegg.com/

or if you must, http://www.tigerdirect.com/

(NewEgg is king!!!)

no single company is "king" cheif value and zipzoomfly always has better prices than newegg. newegg has everything though, which is really good. www.pricewatch.com is really the best place to search for prices. anyone can find anything extremly low here.

Originally Posted by Pethegreat™

As for the debate of ATI vs Nvida, it depends on the site your reading from. ATi does better in Hl2 and Far cry while nivda does better in doom and unlear 3 engine based games. In other games the speed differnces are so minute they are the same.

as for this, your completly right. its jsut that ATI has better dx9 support, and benches higher in dx9 games and engines, lots of things detirmine frame rate other than this ofcourse. DooM 3 benched higher for nvidia because the engine was optimized and restructured/rebuilt when the nv40 core was announced. im not completly sure if nvidia worked with ID to do this. the x-ray is a dx9 engine that will favor nvidia, very rare, but nvidia is partner to GSC and the game STALKER is getting some extra eye candy for 7800's. ATI will preform fine in the game, but be just behind. how far is unsure until the game, and the x1800 xt pe is released.

[BLOODYCHUNKS]

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ HyperTransport Technology / 1GB DDR / 160GB SATA / nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB 8X AGP /Gigabyte's K8Npro nForce3 MOBO/500watt power supply/overclocking fan control center includes 3 fans. ALL FOR GRAND TOTAL= 1,934.04 USD


that is pretty much the exact same system i am running, 3400+ newcastle and mobo are the same as mine, i have had no problems with either but i wish i would have picked a mobo with pci instead of agp, i am prolly going to switch it out soon for a pci mobo

the price is a bit expensive i built mine for a little over $750 from newegg and that was just 5 months ago

[Wirhe]

THIS is the standard of today and what I bought a few weeks back. Just one exception already: GeForce 6600/6800 GT with 256 megs of RAM. That kind of PC should last for the next 6 or 7 years, or so I hope.