New Graphics card (new system?) Greetings and salutations Madshrimpers! It's been a few years since I frequented this site and World of Warcraft stole me away from the hardware scene. Where there once was a time when I would have known what to buy and what not to buy I now find myself in need of some advice on this matter. And where better to ask it then here amirite? |D I am looking for a new graphics card and perhaps a whole new core system altogether. When making suggestions please keep a few things in mind: - good overclocking potential while remaining stable for every day use. I don't need some motherboard that only runs good when it feels like it or a cpu that has a 1 in 6 chance of being a good oc'er. - readily available. Not some exotic graphics card that I need to import from Malaysia and have to wait half a year for. - reasonably priced. I know that's all relative but usually the latest and gratest also costs an arm and a leg while the next best thing is already a lot more, you guessed it, reasonably priced ;) Also another downside of being out of the scene for so long is that I don't know what is considered reasonably priced anymore. 200-300 € for a good cpu or motherboard and 500€ for a top end vidcard is what I'd expect to see 4 years ago but now? I haven't got a clue... Now first things first. The graphics card. I'm getting artifacts in games and thought the graphics card isn't necessarily the culprit it usually is. I don't have any spare hardware I can switch out to be sure but it's not the system memory, I know that much. Performance wise I'm thinking along the lines of a next best thing type of card. Basically so I end up with something that is still very good now and for some time to come but not the priciest of the lot. Unless offcourse there is a new line of cards coming up in a couple of months (preferably no more then 1-2 months, 4 months at the most) in wich case a low budget gaming card will do. On a side note I'm currently using an old 20 pin Antec PSU since I blew my (also old :p) OCZ 24 pin up a few years ago and haven't bothered to try and fix it. I'm guessing this may also need upgrading? Then on to the core components: Motherboard, CPU and Memory. Perhaps even a couple hard disks. This isn't a must like the graphics card is but I do feel it's time I upgraded this old beasty. For those who wonder that's an AMD3000+ on an MSI K8N SLI Platinum with 2* 512MB TCCD and a 7900 GTX so yeah, σσσσσσσσσld! :P With these components holding off a bit is no problem if something bigger and better is coming out soon. I've had a breef look around and a thread about the Phenom 2 X4 caught my eye? Though I hold my hart when I'm thinking of what it might cost ^^ Eh, I think I'm daydreaming again :D PS: It's by no means a must but it would be nice if all the components were available from the same shop. It Would save some cash on shipping/driving around. |
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- Intel P35 or P45 based motherboard - HD4870 GPU , at 170-200 euro, nothing better out there as bang/buck, wait for the price drop to come to EU stores, in some US stores the price was adjusted, ATI just lowered it for the holiday season:) - E8400 CPU - 4gb DDR2 PC2-6400 at least - Known brand 500-600W PSU should get you a very decent system for not a whole lot of money |
thx jmke :woot: when you say HD4870 GPU , at 170-200 euro I assume that's a 512MB version after the price drop?Because I'm looking at Jaha.be right now, wich seems to be a very competitively priced shop, and all the 4870's with 512MB go for 235€ and up |
They indeed cost about 220-235 euro atm. So a 20-30 euro should get them below 200 euro. Tough 170 seems a bit optimistic ;-) Agree on the CPU, E8400 of 8400 can be found at sub 150 euro ranges, paired with a cheap P35 or 45 chipset based board such as the P5K from asus at 75 euro, and with a tad overclocking you have a +4 Ghz stable silent aircooled setup. |
www.alternate.de , lower pricing:) |
Looks like I'll also be needing a new hard disk :x Anything in particular to look out for? How big is too big? |
does "too big" exist? :D no preferences here, get one with a nice long warranty, that should not be neglected |
have not seen this trend with the latest HDDs look into €/gb to get a good deal, with the 1.5TB out, the 1TB Drives make for a nice deal; stick two of them in RAID1 and you can store data on them without risk of sudden data loss |
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