Witch processor is better at gaming? im ordering my new parts tonight and i want the best for good price. thanks
In general, AMD Athlon64 wins overall. Solid processor with some very nice motherboards out there as well. Be sure to get a good one
Ya thats what i thought, just wanted to make sure. im getting the following: AMD athlon64 3200+ newcastle gigabyte GA-K8NS PRO motherboard 512mb of corsair XMS PC-3200PRO Thermaltake silent boost k8 cooler sleaveright smoke 500w powersupplie I hope this will be a good gaming machine
Unless you plan to get that second stick fairly soon I would consider some less expensive RAM. At least around here the corsair XMS is pretty expensive, and it won't be a really good gaming machine with just 512MB RAM for todays games.
Ya im planing to get it soon. its only $129 american money with isnt much. i think i will be ok cause i play bf1942. bfv, and CoD witch arnt demanding. i run them on my p4 1.4ghz and get about 50fps with 512mb of slow pc800 rdram
For now that 512 will definitely do ya good. I'm quite envious of the parts you've chosen actually. Hope the 6/49 comes thru for me this week so i can build a new comp
That's pretty expensive... I can get OZC CL 2 PC3200 ram for about the same in CDN money, which would be around $90 US.
yeah... but that's crucial... I'm guessing normal crucial... high latencies... Pman... I'm pretty sure the new Crucial Ballistix will be a very similar price to the corsair you are looking at and it is SUBSTANTIALLY better over here it's almost identical in price to the corsair xms... 92GBP for 512 2-2-2-5 ballistix and the corsair xms is about 95 for 2-3-3-7... even if the ballistix is a little more expensive where you are... it's well worth the expenditure. I'd love to get some crucial ballistix because it will do 2.5-2-2-5 at 520fsb!!!!!! amazing stuff. But there's no chance in me upgrading in the near future as I have got 4x512mb sticks of Corsair XL... that's well over 500GPB worth of ram! lol
Of course it's normal Crucial. I'd never bust that much money on RAM. I'd never need it for my current setup anyways :lol: If I can run at 2.5-2-2-5, I'm happy. Crucial delivers quality RAM and good prices and that's all that matters to me. I'd go with Corsair, but the prices are a wee bit too high for me. Yeah, the Crucial Ballistix sound kick ass. If I were anybody here, I wouldn't blow wads of cash on DDR, since DDR2 is making it's way into the arena. But ultimately, it all depends on how much funds you have/willing to spend.
thank you all for your help on ram and stuff but i already ordered stuff. i had some cash to spend and i also wanter it to look good. The mobo has some UV connectors and the ram has those LED's . the total set up cost around $650 heres what i got AMD Athlon64 3200+ @ 2.2ghz/512k l2 cache ''Newcastle'' GigaByte GA-K8NS Pro nforce3 250 Corsair CMX-3200C2PRO 512mb PC-3200 Thermaltake pipe101 heatsink and UFO fan (already have) Sleeveright smoke 500w power supplie I already got a 9600 pro and a maxtor harddrive. I hope and think i will be able to play games at good speeds. I am getting paid soon for some work i did for my dad and i might buy another stick of memory then maybe for christmas i could get a 6800GT to compliment the other parts
Can't go wrong with what you've got. Solid stuff. I'm sure you'll be giddy with joy once you get them. As for the games, if you stay away from High Resolution Doom 3 and Far Cry, you'll be fine
pretty nice... the only thing I would have done differently personally would've been the ram... but I don't know the price difference/availability in your area. Yeah... with a 9600pro you won't be able to go onto any high res or the highest settings... but should still be decent enough
ya the 9600 pro works fine. bye the time that i will be able to get a new video card i will be done with the games i play now. i had it clocked at 520/320 with stock cooling and it runs good. even at stock i can get 100fps in bf1942 and 65-70 steady in bfv. the resolution i play in is 1024x768 witch isnt to high. thank you all for your help
