Your verdict on this rig?

[zanyboy]

Building a new gaming rig since I am tired of gaming on my laptop (passing that to the wife )

CPU Fan - Coolermaster Hyper TX 2RR-CCH-L9U1-GP
PSU - PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 EPS12V (Black) 80+ Certified 610
CPU - Intel Core2 Duo E8400 - Dual Core 3.0 GHz Box Cpu
Chassis - Coolermaster CM 690 with Acrylic SeeThrough Side Window
GPU - HIS Digital 4850 IceQ 4 512MB ATI Radeon 4850 GPU
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 32MB Cache S-ATA2 72
RAM - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
OPTICAL - LG GCC-H13N 52/32/52 CDRW + 16x DVD + DVD-Ram Black
MONITOR - Samsung 2253GW glossy black 22" Wide Screen LCD
OS - Microsoft Dsp Windows Vista Home Premium 64Bit
MOBO - ASUS P5Q-E 8-Phase Power Design Intel P45 + iCH10R Chipset
EXTRA FAN - Coolermaster TLF-S12-EB UV+Led Blue 120x120x25mm

Will greatly appreciate some expert opinions...thanx

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

from what I know, that is quite the rocking system

 

[cerebus]

do you want an opinion or do you just want to show off?

 

[1derboy]

Why not get a 4870 instead of the 4850? otherwise quite a nice rig

 

[charlie_82]

Only thing I'd change is the 4850 to 4870 and the DVD-RW - get a SATA drive, they're super fast

 

[killadoob]

Charlie i find that a sata dvd-rw offers no speed advantage at all, it does however make installing it far easier

 

[charlie_82]

Nooo mine is much faster than my IDE. Copies faster, installs applications etc faster as well

 

[zanyboy]

Why not get a 4870 instead of the 4850? otherwise quite a nice rig

I was looking at these too, but felt that a 50% increase in price did not quite justify the increase in performance. With the technology always running so fast I tend to keep 2-3 models below the newest hottest cards.

 

[zanyboy]

Nooo mine is much faster than my IDE. Copies faster, installs applications etc faster as well

You had me scurry to my order sheet, but gladly this model is SATA

 

[charlie_82]

You had me scurry to my order sheet, but gladly this model is SATA

Haha cool. I have both IDE & SATA installed in my machine and there's a definite difference in speed. And the SATA drives aren't even expensive anymore

 

[Dohc-WP]

Well dos games will work ! killer system btw, most games will run maxed except Crysis Imo !

 

[Plasticmonkey]

see if you can rather get the ASUS P5n-D instead of the ASUS P5Q. Last time I checked their prices diff was about R50. The P5N runs the newer Nvidia 750i chipset compared to the P45

 

[zanyboy]

do you want an opinion or do you just want to show off?

And no...at R15500 this is hardly show-off material

Just spent a good 2 weeks on researching, price hunting and comparison. Was aiming for the best value for money components.

Now if I had say R40k+ to spend...hmmmm...

- 300GB Velociraptor
- Solid state main drive
- HD4870's in SLi
- XFX N790-iUL nForce 790i Ultra 3-Way SLi
- 4GB+ Corsair Dominator DDR3
- Intel 9 series CPU (maybe Q9770)
- etc, etc, etc.

if only

 

[S1ght]

- HD4870's in crossfire

lol, fixed it for you

 

[pjjdp]

Charlie i find that a sata dvd-rw offers no speed advantage at all, it does however make installing it far easier

+1. I have one of each in my home pc. No difference.

 

[Ghost02]

Well dos games will work ! killer system btw, most games will run maxed except Crysis Imo !

So what would you need to play crysis on max then?

 

[zanyboy]

lol, fixed it for you

thx...I am no techie so get mixed up sometimes

 

[marine1]

I play far cry 2 on max no problem at all. Is Crysis any different in terms of what it needs?

 

[zanyboy]

see if you can rather get the ASUS P5n-D instead of the ASUS P5Q. Last time I checked their prices diff was about R50. The P5N runs the newer Nvidia 750i chipset compared to the P45

Think I skipped this one since it can only handle max speeds of 800MHz memory. Went for one that can handle upto 1200MHz.

 

[charlie_82]

+1. I have one of each in my home pc. No difference.

Weird... maybe my IDE is crap... It's a Sony tho