tileman Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 Hi I am going to be building a new gamimg pc in the next week or so. The last time I was into online gaming was about 4 yr ago at our old house and we were on cable. We moved out into the woods 3+ years ago and was stuck with the old 56k but getting a T1 installed in one to two weeks. They just finshed up the wiring, now waiting for bellsouth/att to give them a port date. But back to my new PC. What would be a good setup? Always had luck with ASUS motherboards. Are they still the way to go? Back when I was playing the games were UT and quake and such games as that. But I am ready to get back into the gaming world and want to get some good stuff that will have me up and running with out worrying 4 months from now on big updates. So I would like your guys input on Motherboards / ram / power supplys / video cards (good for gaming) sound card / hard drive (was useing maxtor) and a new monitor. Can I go with a LCD for gaming or stay with the CRT kind? Thanks for info back and trying to stay around $ 2,000.00 mark. Ron. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 for $2k off the top of my head: E6600/E6700/X6800 Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 / Asus Striker Extreme (if its gotta be Asus, its way overpriced though) / Intel Bad Axe 2 / DFI ICFX 3200 Lanparty 2GB G.Skill NQ (I think, like 4-4-3-8 latencies) 1 or 2 GeForce 8800GTX / ATI R600 when it comes out soon 1 or 2 150GB WD Raptors (10,000rpm) 1 or 2 nice DVD burners 850W Silverstone PSU That should be a pretty good build. For the motherboards, the first 2 are NVIDIA SLI boards, the latter 2 are ATI CrossFire boards. I would actually wait until ATI releases the R600 card (X2800XT / XTX) because prices on the 8800 series will drop for sure. For the RAM, as I think you won't be overclocking, look for 2GB of low latency DDR2. I think there are some out there with 3-3-3-9 (Corsair Dominator, but those are MAD expensive!). For a sound card, check the OCC review of the Razor AC1 sound card, it looks real nice! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty11212 Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 / Asus Striker Extreme (if its gotta be Asus, its way overpriced though) / Intel Bad Axe 2 / DFI ICFX 3200 Lanparty Um, normally I am not fond of Asus boards but my p5w DH deluxe works great and changed my view on Asus conroe boards (though no board comes close to a DFI). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 (edited) Get the Gigabyte I heard good reviews from owners. You can get a cheaper processor e4300 ($169) and it OCs to 3.0 ghz from what I heard. I would wait to check out on ATI's R600 in a few weeks or months I don't remember its launch date. LCDs work good with gaming I own one myself. CRTs still provide the best picture color. Its based on your preference if you want a light energy effiecent monitor go with LCD. If you want a big n heavy not so power effiecent go with a CRT. 1 or 2 GeForce 8800GTX I would just get one, getting 2 8800gtx is just overkill right now. Edited March 3, 2007 by Krazyxazn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Odin Posted March 9, 2007 Posted March 9, 2007 My p5w2d-e premium is fairly buggy, and being on the asus forums for a while after I got that board n hearing all the other horror stories with them and other boards, I think I'd rather not get an asus board ever again.. Go DFI or Gigabyte. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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