Ok, I was looking at a computer with the following items in it...
Intel® Core™ i7 920 2.66GHz (8MB Cache) Quad Core Processor
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Single 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260
6GB DDR3 1333MHz (3x 2GB) Tri Channel Memory
640GB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD
Would that make for a decent gaming system? And about how much would you pay for it? Or what should be upgraded?
Thanks
Looks good for the most part, but unless you only want to play bleeding-edge games, you might want to go higher than Home Premium on the Windows front- Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't have XP Mode.
GTX 285! Come on!
You want a custom case.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekologie.com%2F2009%2F03%2F02%2Fsteelers%2520case%25201.jpg&hash=bcb239f0f1a4f11eb924cfcf3988a1c81935d03a)
Yikes, that would definitely be overkill for me. I'm not doing a whole lot of PC gaming these days-- my system build in the next couple months is going to be a joke by these standards :D
Looks good. Might even be able to run HoI III
Looks good for the most part, although the graphics card seems a little strange to me. Why so much RAM on a detuned and somewhat old card?
Quote from: DGuller on October 27, 2009, 12:26:30 PM
Looks good for the most part, although the graphics card seems a little strange to me. Why so much RAM on a detuned and somewhat old card?
You can never have too much RAM.
I have 10GB, but I find myself wondering if I should fill those last 2 slots...
Quote from: Syt on October 27, 2009, 11:13:37 AM
You want a custom case.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekologie.com%2F2009%2F03%2F02%2Fsteelers%2520case%25201.jpg&hash=bcb239f0f1a4f11eb924cfcf3988a1c81935d03a)
:mmm:
Quote from: Syt on October 27, 2009, 11:13:37 AM
You want a custom case.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekologie.com%2F2009%2F03%2F02%2Fsteelers%2520case%25201.jpg&hash=bcb239f0f1a4f11eb924cfcf3988a1c81935d03a)
The Packers are already working on their own prototype....
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Quote from: Barrister on October 27, 2009, 01:08:46 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 27, 2009, 12:26:30 PM
Looks good for the most part, although the graphics card seems a little strange to me. Why so much RAM on a detuned and somewhat old card?
You can never have too much RAM.
I have 10GB, but I find myself wondering if I should fill those last 2 slots...
I meant video RAM. It just seemed like an odd combination, a mid-range card with more RAM than many high-end cards.
Quote from: DGuller on October 27, 2009, 02:12:27 PM
I meant video RAM. It just seemed like an odd combination, a mid-range card with more RAM than many high-end cards.
It's actually not that uncommon to see a midrange card with a ton of VRAM to pull in misinformed card buyers. Look at third-party Radeons; they'll have a ton of memory, and then you find out they skimp on rendering pipes or processing power.
Make sure that GFX card has a lifetime warranty, in case that chip problem nVidia was having for the last 3 or 4 years is still going on. If it still is, and your card takes a shit on you because of it, the various companies will generally replace it with whatever is "current" when it happens (upgrade :cool:).
Is it EVGA that has a lifetime warranty on its products?
XFX, BFG, and EVGA are the ones I'm pretty sure have some sort of lifetime warranty.
Edit: Oh, for Beeb and the MacBook Pro he may or may not have: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 Heh
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 27, 2009, 08:00:43 PM
XFX, BFG, and EVGA are the ones I'm pretty sure have some sort of lifetime warranty.
Edit: Oh, for Beeb and the MacBook Pro he may or may not have: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 Heh
I have a Mac Pro. :contract: