Legend of Myth
June 26th, 2008, 05:46 AM
Hello Everyone!
I just built a computer over the weekend (piece by piece) and I started to test it out on some of my games...here is the basic rundown of the specs,
AMD Phenom 2.4GHz True Quad-Core Processor
2X NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Cards 512MB Each (I LOVE SLI!!)
4GB DDR2 RAM
Windows XP Home Edition (Can't stand Vista killing 40+% of my memory!)
Support AMD Socket AM2 GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard
650 WATT Power Supply
The entire computer is SLI ready (which isn't rare) and I decided to start out with two 8800 GT's and 4GB of DDR2 RAM (considering 32 bit systems can't recognize 8GB)
With the case and shipping for all the parts the computer cost me about $1,300 Canadian. It took about 4 hours to assemble and an additional 4 days to get everything installed and updated (finished tonight).
I installed the following games to test out my new machine...
Crysis
Gears of War
Company of Heroes
Team Fortress 2
Crysis:
I managed to turn all the settings up to the highest at 1280x1040 resolution and averaged a frame rate of 70+...not bad considering how demanding the game is. I ran it without any of the games updates installed.
Gears or War:
Considering I can run Crysis at the highest settings and have it run smoother than all 360 games available, GoW for Windows looks about 2X better on my PC than it does on the 360 and runs over 100 fps. Absolutely stunning...
Company of Heroes:
See Gears of War
Team Fortress 2:
See Gears of War
Sooo...what build do all of you have? I still prefer my imac over PC, but I need one for school...so I decided to go all out and get something that could play Crysis (the most demanding PC game to date) at the highest settings and use that as my benchmark.
Just so all of you know, its ALOT cheaper to build a computer piece by piece than to buy one pre-built. The same computer I have would have cost me over 2 Grand and over 3 on some sites. Its also a really fun (and expensive) hobby!
Last question (Im looking at you Hippo!)
I would like to play some TF2 online with anybody who has it...also, if any of you have Gears or War for Windows and wouldn't mind playing some co-op, I have that to beat as well. I should have the computer online for good for the weekend!
I just built a computer over the weekend (piece by piece) and I started to test it out on some of my games...here is the basic rundown of the specs,
AMD Phenom 2.4GHz True Quad-Core Processor
2X NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Cards 512MB Each (I LOVE SLI!!)
4GB DDR2 RAM
Windows XP Home Edition (Can't stand Vista killing 40+% of my memory!)
Support AMD Socket AM2 GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard
650 WATT Power Supply
The entire computer is SLI ready (which isn't rare) and I decided to start out with two 8800 GT's and 4GB of DDR2 RAM (considering 32 bit systems can't recognize 8GB)
With the case and shipping for all the parts the computer cost me about $1,300 Canadian. It took about 4 hours to assemble and an additional 4 days to get everything installed and updated (finished tonight).
I installed the following games to test out my new machine...
Crysis
Gears of War
Company of Heroes
Team Fortress 2
Crysis:
I managed to turn all the settings up to the highest at 1280x1040 resolution and averaged a frame rate of 70+...not bad considering how demanding the game is. I ran it without any of the games updates installed.
Gears or War:
Considering I can run Crysis at the highest settings and have it run smoother than all 360 games available, GoW for Windows looks about 2X better on my PC than it does on the 360 and runs over 100 fps. Absolutely stunning...
Company of Heroes:
See Gears of War
Team Fortress 2:
See Gears of War
Sooo...what build do all of you have? I still prefer my imac over PC, but I need one for school...so I decided to go all out and get something that could play Crysis (the most demanding PC game to date) at the highest settings and use that as my benchmark.
Just so all of you know, its ALOT cheaper to build a computer piece by piece than to buy one pre-built. The same computer I have would have cost me over 2 Grand and over 3 on some sites. Its also a really fun (and expensive) hobby!
Last question (Im looking at you Hippo!)
I would like to play some TF2 online with anybody who has it...also, if any of you have Gears or War for Windows and wouldn't mind playing some co-op, I have that to beat as well. I should have the computer online for good for the weekend!