New pc!

[IrCute]

Im thinking about buying this pc :

Core2duo E6660 2.4 ghz processor
Intel Guardfish mainboard
4GB Kingston Memory.
320 Gbyte, 16MB ,Serial ATA Harddisk
Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB

1300 euros.

I want to be able to fraps and play big sieges without lag!
I'd like to know if this is a good buy~

[Psy]

u gonna make a good pc with a micro atx board ?

for "lag" free sieges u need what u got there and i would say a intel 956p mobo and some other ram that got d9 micron on em. Then oc the cpu to 3.2-3.6 ghz and oc the gfx to 6xx/20xx. U would allso want a raptor as main drive(for fraps writing) and a singel or 2 hd in raid0 as storage.

[kimmo]

I belive you mean raid 1 for storage ? And Kingston isnt that OC friendly as others, try getting crucial ballistix for the memory and for harddrive Western Digital Caviar AAKS models are pretty good

[Psy]

no raid 0

u wont get the performance output of raid 0 from raid 1. My raid are faster in some aspects vs my raptor x where my raptor x rapes the raid 0 config in some other aspects. but i can move 40gb of space from my main to my storage in around 1 and a half minutte, unzip 4 gb in 2 minuttes, startup programs in a heartbeat and i can rape my raptor x with data while i play a game without noticeing it in the game = good for frapsing.

[sh1geru]

The pc its fine.

Micron d9 its for OC, random sticks are good for a normalm configuration.
If you want good solid ram on stock clocks go for ECC on a 975x MB chip will be good for video editing but its just an extra.
I have a similar configuration, CPU oced to 3.6, and 8800gtx oc stock, and fraps great, theres no lag due hardware, fraps runs great.

[kimmo]

Lol at ECC ram, using ECC ram gives no benefit for normal pc users since it only decreases performance. http://wiki.extremeoverclocking.com/wiki/ECC_RAM
And abou the motherboards you might want to google for e6600 overclocking benchmarks to see what mobos do they use. I personally would go for p5b, but if you want 2nd gfx card later on you need to get one with sli support :P

[Create]

The PC is fine but if you really wanna keep your bottle necking down get 2 Hard Drives and run them in RAID 0, of course if 1 fails you loose info on both but its the best performance. I am running EVGA 680i with Core 2 Duo 2.4 , 4 Gigs Corsair XMS2 PC6400, and started with 1 EVGA 8800 GTX and later went to 2 in SLI. I was running only 1 Hard Drive WD Raptor 150 and I was also using 250 storage. No RAID configuration. Even with these specs I was getting a huge bottle neck on the Hard Drives access time and not being able to pull info fast enough. so I sold the Raptor and got another 250 gig WD same model as the one I already have. I now run them in RAID 0 and it made a huge differance. I noticed the biggest bottle was for sure with the HD's.

[Create]

The PC is fine but if you really wanna keep your bottle necking down get 2 Hard Drives and run them in RAID 0, of course if 1 fails you loose info on both but its the best performance. I am running EVGA 680i with Core 2 Duo 2.4 , 4 Gigs Corsair XMS2 PC6400, and started with 1 EVGA 8800 GTX and later went to 2 in SLI. I was running only 1 Hard Drive WD Raptor 150 and I was also using 250 storage. No RAID configuration. Even with these specs I was getting a huge bottle neck on the Hard Drives access time and not being able to pull info fast enough. so I sold the Raptor and got another 250 gig WD same model as the one I already have. I now run them in RAID 0 and it made a huge differance. I noticed the biggest bottle was for sure with the HD's.



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[Giq]

Psy is the master of computers and pie!

[Unregistered]

Im thinking about buying this pc :

Core2duo E6660 2.4 ghz processor
Intel Guardfish mainboard
4GB Kingston Memory.
320 Gbyte, 16MB ,Serial ATA Harddisk
Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB

1300 euros.

I want to be able to fraps and play big sieges without lag!
I'd like to know if this is a good buy~

i'd would suggest OC your CPU up to 3.4 ghz, 600/1000 GPU, and get at least 800 mhz memory...and raid 0 config would be nice but not really big factor if that makes too much trouble to make it...i bet you see much difference having a raid 0 and normal setup for harddrive.

[Psy]

Psy is the master of computers and pie!

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[Panther2103]

Holy crap you must be rollin in cash lol, you have a freakishly good comp, a ps3, a psp and either a plasma hd or a normal hd, all next to eachother. :P lucky bastard

[Psy]

got around 13 ps3 games now

and my cabels for my ps3/pc is around 450 $ total(gold connectors/insane qual cabels...the works)

earn around 5000 $ a month in a uneducated job lol...to bad im going back to studying in september.