JEFX Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 I am planning to buy this system, probably in the next few days. I have been waiting all summer and the moment seems right What you guys think of it in order to play LOCKON, FC and eventually BS with great performances? intel core 2 duo E6400 @2.13 G\1066\2M\S775 Mother board Asus P4 S775 P5N32-SLI deluxe NF4 PCIE SLI 2 Gigs of DDR2 800 Mhz OCZ memory one video card Nvidia BFG PCIE GF7 7950GX2 1024M 600W power supply Thermaltake Harddrives, DVD, etc... thanks for your advice JEFX [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] In DCS I fly jets with thousands of pounds of thrust... In real life I fly a humble Cessna Hawx XP II with 210 HP :D
britgliderpilot Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 I think I want some of your spare money! The benchmarks I've seen still give the AMD 64-bit dual-core chips the advantage over the new Intel chips in games. Neither REALLY use both cores, simply because most games (certainly Lomac) are single-threaded . . . . but AMD are still in front. If it's a gaming machine only and you want raw performance, then take the AMD. If it needs to be a professional machine as well, running multiple-threaded applications, then it seems that the Intel offering will probably have the edge. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
WhiskeyRomeo Posted August 31, 2006 Posted August 31, 2006 Is someone planning on doing some overclocking? :crash: Be sure to get the ASUS P5N32-SLI SE motherboard. (The P5N32-SLI Deluxe (without SE) doesnt support Conroes.) There might some issues with P5N32-SLI and OCZ: OCZ Forum I havent seen anything to indicate the 7950GX2 gives any performance gain over 7900GTX.
Guest IguanaKing Posted September 1, 2006 Posted September 1, 2006 I think I want some of your spare money! The benchmarks I've seen still give the AMD 64-bit dual-core chips the advantage over the new Intel chips in games. Neither REALLY use both cores, simply because most games (certainly Lomac) are single-threaded . . . . but AMD are still in front. If it's a gaming machine only and you want raw performance, then take the AMD. If it needs to be a professional machine as well, running multiple-threaded applications, then it seems that the Intel offering will probably have the edge. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/02/thg_tuning_test/page6.html#games
emenance Posted September 1, 2006 Posted September 1, 2006 go AMD and read this Hardware leader board http://www.pcper.com/hwlb.php? Asus P8Z68-V GEN3/ 2500k 4.4ghz / Corsair 64gb SSD Cache / Corsair 8g 1600 ddr3 / 2 x 320gb RE3 Raid 0 /Corsair 950w/ Zotac 560TI AMP 1gb / Zalman GS1200 case /G940/
britgliderpilot Posted September 1, 2006 Posted September 1, 2006 http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/02/thg_tuning_test/page6.html#games Overclocked to 3666Mhz, I should bloody hope it's faster! OK, so definitely worth a look if overclocking . . . . http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
Guest IguanaKing Posted September 1, 2006 Posted September 1, 2006 Look again, Brit. ;) Even the bottom of the barrel in the Conroe line, the E6600, is faster at its stock 2.4GHz than an FX62 OCd to 3.00GHz in one of those game bench marks. The FX62 at stock clock speed, can't keep up with it in any of those bench marks. The best part is that the E6600 is about $300.00 cheaper. :P
britgliderpilot Posted September 2, 2006 Posted September 2, 2006 Look again, Brit. ;) Even the bottom of the barrel in the Conroe line, the E6600, is faster at its stock 2.4GHz than an FX62 OCd to 3.00GHz in one of those game bench marks. The FX62 at stock clock speed, can't keep up with it in any of those bench marks. The best part is that the E6600 is about $300.00 cheaper. :P It is as well. Oh well - ignore previous comments then :P http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
Guest IguanaKing Posted September 2, 2006 Posted September 2, 2006 Heh...its cool, mate. You might have been originally thinking of the Pentium Ds. When those came out, I was very disappointed in what they offered...not even sure why Intel wasted anybody's time with them frankly. :D
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