Well I bought this computer in early 2006 and just never bothered to upgrade it or buy a new one. It has 2 gigs/2.3processor/120 hd and I'm looking for a nifty little power house. I would just load up a cyberpower but I've heard some bad things about those PCs so I'd like to get some suggestions. Any tech freaks who can recommend a very solid and powerful gaming PC or which company to shop from? Don't worry about a budget, just looking for pure quality. Thanks.
hmmm... "dont worry about the budget?" --> that's so nice to hear.. hehehe well..you can always go with a core i7, x58 board, 6gb memory (3x2gb pack), a very good HDD... maybe F1's?? a very very good vcard (gtx295), a tower case, and juice it up with a single rail 1000w psu (corsair).. if i have "Dontworry about the budget" ... i would want this babeh
GTX295? Dont be silly, the drivers wont have been fully optimised for that yet, the HD 4870X2 is much better. Anything from Scans 3XS Range will be what your looking for http://3xs.scan.co.uk/Category.asp?SystemMasterCategoryID=20 This is a nice PC: - http://www.custompc.co.uk/reviews/605118/scan-3xs-x58-core-i7.html Without a budget you could theoreticlly have anything. Intel i7 965 Extreme Edition CPU 1000W Corsair HX Series PSU 1000 GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDD (x2 If you wanted) Asus Rampage II Extreme MoBo KillerNIC M1 Network Card Gaming Network Card Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional sound Card 6GB Corsair Dominator, Triple DDR3 PC3-14900 Ram Antech 1200 Case Any different range of Watercooling blocks for the GPU, There arent really any decent Waterblocks for the i7's yet but a nice HSF will do ok. And for the Ram if you wanted, you could also buy a nice little heatsink for the DIMMs and VRMs. Ginger6 (Google them) are also a nice company to buy PC's from, as are Yoyo tech and If you want to water cool the system www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/ are brilliant. Are you building it yourself or buying a pre built system? And DONT just go listen to some no0b who's just giving you a list of the most expensive gear going, thinking that thats what makes a good pc, because it doesn't, I mean the Q6600 isnt an expensive CPU but it's proven to be one of the best overclocking CPU's going and that it's the best CPU for the Kenstfield Architecture, 65nm, For that price range. Yes the stuff I've said is Good, The Best even but it's also been rigorously tested and proven to be the ultimate gear. Just think about what you want and what your buying.
Well ... Let's go Intel® X58 Chipset Nehalem MainBoard Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme 3.2GHz 8MB Cache 2GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 or Nvidia FX295 10,000 RPM – up to 16MB cache and 300GB storage 4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW) 1000-watt Multi-GPU-approved power supply 4 x OCZ OCZ3P18001G DDR3 (240) 1GB PC14400 1800MHz CL 8-8-8-24, Platinum Z3 XTC HeatSpreader, PLATINUM EDITION ---------------------------- I think it's enough for the moment
The 3XS Great White is an astoundingly fast PC! http://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=827 For £11,440 it's a beast of a machine, I mean it has 3-way Sli GTX280's!!! Pointless but cool. If I were to buy that machine I'd Custom it to have an HD 4870X2 instead, You dont need 3 GTX280's, I mean most games/Applications cant see more than 2 GPU Cores anyway, Thats why games like suprme commander, it's wise to turn one core off, so having 6 cores... all that extra power is completely useless unless your say, using 3Dmark to try to get benchmarks for the system. but other than that it is pointless to have 3 GTX280's. HD 4870X2 is much better.