I'm building a comp- how does this look?

[Rbstr]

yes but measure it with games like HL2 and other games like that, they ues less becasue PS, need to store alot more not texture data in its ram.

[Unfinal_Fantasy]

Can somone explain to me why the fx-53/55 board is better even though it's an entire GHz slower and has less cache? When people tell me 'it's just better, so get that instead' it doesn't talk me into it

[Rbstr]

Its 64 bit instaed of 32 bit first off.

It's just the Way the CPU is desined, it need few clock cycles to puch the same amount of calculations ect.

[HunterKiller]

Originally Posted by Unfinal_Fantasy

Firstly: HELLS YES! I got the job - booyah. lol.
Secondly: about ATI and Nvidia cards - currently the best of the 2 out are the X800XT's from ATI and the GeForce FX 5950's from Nvidia. If you look at the numbers and all the reviews that compare them - the X800XT is two or three times better then the GeForce. Now bow down before the 512MHz/1.12GHz X800XT core speeds! Bwa ha ha!
Thirdly: It would be difficult for me to trade my processor for that one at only $180 cheaper. Mine rips that one to shreds, I don't think that one even has hyper-threading - But I'm going to have to look into it because a bunch of other people also proposed the same exact processor!

dude dont take ATIs word use reviews and BTW you can purchase bothe the 6800 GT and ultra, but not unltra extreme. What you said about the X800 xt being the best is not true, the x800 pro is just as good if you mod it and the 6800s are better in opengl type games.

[Unfinal_Fantasy]

Who said I was taking ATI's word for anything? I've spent days putting this computer togather, looking at benchmarks and reviews and such

[TekDragon]

Originally Posted by Daleon

Hmm, I bet you were saying 1 gig was for newbs a cpl years ago to huh.

When the biggest game out was Wizardry 8? Your damn right I said 512mb RAM was enough. Anyone who bought 1gig was an idiot. By the time you actually started using that 1 gig, your memory was out of date.

Just to break it to you,.. blah blah blah

Just to break it to YOU, i have QUALITY memory. One gig of OCZ DDR 500 Gold EL series.

This weekend I was playing PlanetSide and CnC Generals at the same time, with no noticable lag.

So go ahead and get 2 gigs of memory. Like i said before, by the time games come out that will actually use that much your memory will be considered slow and out of date.

[DeepStrikeck]

he's gotta point