Merlin007 Posted June 17, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1140 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8606 Content Per Day: 1.62 Reputation: 7575 Achievement Points: 76853 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 22 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted June 17, 2011 Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought a few new components to build myself a newer PC that would take my new graphics card I bought last Christmas but would not fit in my previous case (proprietary design crap). Anyway, on a tight budget so I went with components that weren't too outdated, have some future upgradeability, and without having to spend a large sum of dollars. So I went with: Mobo - Gigabyte GA-880GM-UDSH w/socket AM3. Not super high end but does the job nicely. CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 925 Quadcore 2.8 GHz. Nice upgrade from an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dualcore 2.2 GHz. RAM - 4 GB DDR3 Corsair XMS (board will take 16 GB). Will probably pick up another 4 GB later. and now I can use: Video - EVGA nVidia GTS 450 w/1 GB DDR5 RAM This all went into a case I had laying around and the PSU and hard drive from old unit. All in all, so far I am happy with it. Gaming tonight was smooth with nice, noticeable improvement in graphics and overall performance. Just monitoring temps now to make sure I have good airflow in the case (which is on the negative pressure side). Cheers all. Awards
tsw 8.5 Posted June 17, 2011 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 539 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 17625 Content Per Day: 3.10 Reputation: 42735 Achievement Points: 152564 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 693 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 10 hours ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted June 17, 2011 cool i am doing the same ..but with intel..will run 2 .260 oc ..8 gig ram..1600.. and the p67 mobo.have 2 tr hard d ..HAVE THE CASE and all that shit so now wait to get the $ for the mobo and cpu .. Awards
Bama Posted June 17, 2011 Member ID: 19 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 4446 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29420 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 23 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: iPhone Posted June 17, 2011 Good deal Merlin.. it's always nice to get a new rig. Hope it brings you lots of kills!!!! Awards
Hunter1948 Posted June 17, 2011 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.60 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Posted June 17, 2011 Good job Merlin and no more whining when the old / mature 1Deerhunter kills you LOL. Awards
RD Posted June 18, 2011 Member ID: 2520 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 627 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 48 Achievement Points: 3748 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/23/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2018 Birthday: 08/18/1953 Posted June 18, 2011 Nice upgrade Merlin......You should se some remarkable improvement throughout the everything . ........funny as I also am doing the same as we speak but with some slightly different hardware specs. I gave up the Opteron dual socket 8 core server platform and went this route.... MB - Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-us0000444 CPU- AMD 1100T 6core Black Edition 3.3Ghz http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off&authuser=0&q=amd+phenom+ii+x6+1100t+black+edition&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1026&bih=642&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14678895150520375047&sa=X&ei=it78Te6pDcry0gHazeXoBg&ved=0CDAQ8wIwAA I used another 900W PS I had and added 8G DDR3 @1333mhz Gonna use my 6970 in here. I lucked out and found 2 brand new WD Raptors from 6yrs ago I had no idea I had. Must be oldtimers disease catching up eh? It wont make my skillz any better but I will bad skillz will be much faster now They sent wrong ram so I'll be grinning sometime this week.......I hope
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