CD82
Well-Known Member
In the last couple of weeks I thought about buying a new pc, since my current gaming machine breaks a little sweat when it comes to newer games. Sadly I'm a bit out of touch with what systems offer good value for money, so any advice would be appreciated. I plan to buy something like this:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 4x3.2 ghz - overclock to ~3.7 ghz (177 ?)
Asus Crosshair III Formula 790FX (170 ?)
2x 2 GB 1333 MHz CL7 (90 ?)
Noctua NH-C12P 120 mm CPU cooler (65 ?)
total: 502 ?
Now for the graphics card:
I currently own an Asus 8800 GTS G92 with 512 MB and some overclocking potential. I could either try to sell it on ebay for 50-80 ? and buy a new card for ~200 ? or buy another used card of the same type for ~100 ? and run them in sli mode. Either way I can't spend more than 600 ? on the whole package (psu, case, drives and all that stuff is present, so it's really just the cpu, mb, ram, cooler and graphics card I need to buy). Am I going over the top here with some of the components? And would you rather buy one new graphics card for 200 ? or run two older cards with sli? The 8800 GTS still seems to be pretty ok, on my current system (X2 Black Edition @ 2x 3.2 GHz) it's more and more the cpu that can't keep up, overclocking the graphics card doesn't do anything for the performance and sadly I can't put that phenom II on by current board (asus m2n32sli deluxe, am2 / am2+ only). Or perhaps I should just put one of the bigger supported quadcores like the Phenom X4 9950 with 4x 2.6 ghz on my current board without changing any of the other components? Any advice would be very appreciated!
AMD Phenom II X4 955 4x3.2 ghz - overclock to ~3.7 ghz (177 ?)
Asus Crosshair III Formula 790FX (170 ?)
2x 2 GB 1333 MHz CL7 (90 ?)
Noctua NH-C12P 120 mm CPU cooler (65 ?)
total: 502 ?
Now for the graphics card:
I currently own an Asus 8800 GTS G92 with 512 MB and some overclocking potential. I could either try to sell it on ebay for 50-80 ? and buy a new card for ~200 ? or buy another used card of the same type for ~100 ? and run them in sli mode. Either way I can't spend more than 600 ? on the whole package (psu, case, drives and all that stuff is present, so it's really just the cpu, mb, ram, cooler and graphics card I need to buy). Am I going over the top here with some of the components? And would you rather buy one new graphics card for 200 ? or run two older cards with sli? The 8800 GTS still seems to be pretty ok, on my current system (X2 Black Edition @ 2x 3.2 GHz) it's more and more the cpu that can't keep up, overclocking the graphics card doesn't do anything for the performance and sadly I can't put that phenom II on by current board (asus m2n32sli deluxe, am2 / am2+ only). Or perhaps I should just put one of the bigger supported quadcores like the Phenom X4 9950 with 4x 2.6 ghz on my current board without changing any of the other components? Any advice would be very appreciated!