Hey, this will be my first time building a new pc from scratch. I have been researching on how to do this and I have a friend that will help me who has experience. The games I want to play are Dragon Age Origins, Diablo 3, and The Old Republic, so I am hoping to build a pc that can easily handle these games while running at full gaming performance.
This is what I have so far and would like input on what other parts to get with them as far as a case, hardrive and graphics card. Mind you that money is not really an issue.
Sorry I do not have much on here yet, but as far as the rest of the parts I was hoping to get suggestions…For Ram I would like to have 6G total, maybe 3 of the 2G's but not sure which to get. Graphics Card I am a fan of NVidia. And when it comes to the harddrive I am not sure what would work great with the CPU and Motherboard I have chosen.
Have you worked out what OS you will be using?
XP, W7, 32 or 64 bit?
XP 32bit won't recognize more than 2GB of ram and W7 32bit won't recognize or use more than 3GB of RAM.
Those games need no more than 2GB of RAM with XP and 4GB for W7 as they all have a typical loading requirement of about 1.5GB of RAM space and some of that will load into your video card. 8GB of RAM would be a waste of money even for a 64bit system. I'd start with 2x2Gb -1333-value select of G.Skill or similar (it's all I use for most games). You can always add more RAM later if you have a 64 bit OS.
Geforce 9800 GT or Radeon HD 4770 level cards would be plenty enough for 1280 x 1024 pixel screen resolution and either a C2D E6600 (dual-core) or C2Q Q6600 (quad-core) CPU's at 2.4Ghz would handle those games very nicely. So too would a good quality 400 to 500w PSU with plenty of power to spare. A 500w would be plenty for a SLI combo of either of those cards too.
Cheers,
Lee
I am used to XP but will probly try the new W7. Guess I shall go for the 4G then. Do you happen to have a link from tigerdirect for the cpu you speak of? Guessing the one I linked would not be a good choice?
I'm in OZ (Australia) and I wouldn't have a clue as to the best places to buy PC Hardware in the US, but 'google is your friend'..
The i7 CPU for the average home PC user, is a bragging right's CPU IMHO. In 2yrs. years time, you'll pick them up for peanuts.
As it's your first time PC build, don't get carried away with 'numbers' (specs). A bigger number is often meaningless and not worth paying for unless you can experience and see the difference on the display screen in front of you or intent on serious processing time saving for intensive tasks (mostly professional), but for the average user?
OS speed as to what you see on your display screen when you are doing this or that, is already limited in the Registry for a 'comfortable' experience and that has been happening for a LONG time. A trip into the registry of any Windows OS, even Windows 98 and with a few number changes (if you know where and what) can dramatically change the OS experience from comfortable, to so fast as to be extremely unbearable, even if using today's slowest CPU's.
Cheers,
Lee
