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I recommend you double check that information before making such a decision then. IRC is probably not the most reliable source of information, and it DOES make little sense.
JA is a game from 2003. If someone told you (over IRC, no less) that JA doesn't work with a 5770, it's most likely due to something they individually did wrong.
Well, I'd have to find someone I know that has one and plays JA. :/ Not really all that common, since Jedi Academy is a 6 year old game. A lot of people I know that start to upgrade their systems forget that rush you get when you play an old game that you love, and go on to play the more advanced intense action games.
What I need this computer to do, is handle my habits, which are a blend of light gaming and a lot of multimedia art: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Sony Vegas, 3ds Max (2008 and 9), and the games I play on a daily basis (usually just JA and TF2). Also, if I plan to make videos for other games in the future I would like to be able to, if necessary, use FRAPs. I don't think I'll be leaving the source platform, and most source games have build in demo/recording commands.
With that being said, I need a good video card, a good CPU, a motherboard that holds them together and allows them to run at their full, and a lot of RAM. Don't want to botch this one up. D:
It depends on how much you will be using the multimedia programs. If you use them fairly regularly, then the only change I would recommend is a change from the Core i5 750 to maybe the Core i7 860. The larger number of cores would do these applications good. If you have the money for a Core i5/i7 computer, I would definitely not recommend a Phenom II setup. Otherwise, what we have recommended would be ideal for those tasks. Your OC'd 260 will handle those games with ease, and so will a 5770. Since you already have the 260, and you aren't using any DX11 effects, the only possible thing that would compel you to buy a 5770 is lower power cost (which can be quite significant) or Eyefinity (which may be a real boost to productivity if you like multitasking and using said multimedia programs). If those don't really appeal to you, then I'd stay with the 260.
I don't really plan on overclocking at all. I'm not very hardware savvy, and I don't want to completely destroy a $150+ piece of hardware before I even get to use it.
Anyways, if the i5 drops heavily in price I'll go with that and probably and ASUS motherboard. As for the graphics card, if the 260 is still there on Newegg when I plan to buy all of this I'll buy it, but if not I'll go with the 4890 (possibly the 5770 if I can figure out if it runs JA or not), or I'll see what people think of the Nvidia 300 series.
I would love to keep this under $800 (currently at $770, I think), but if I have to I'll dig out the extra cash.
Anyways, final build. This is a total of 777 dollars (not including the money I get back after mail and rebate and the prices will probably drop from now and the time I decide to buy this).
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Last edited by Supa; January 6th, 2010 at 02:17 AM.
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