Help with scratch building a gaming rig

[thedirtymex]

Hi all,
I'm building a new gaming rig... need some help picking parts. Thought this would be a good place to go...

Here it goes...
motherboard - gigabyte Ma7-90fx-dq6
CPU- AMD Phenom II 940 quad core 3ghz
MEMORY- 4 Gb DDR2 1066mhz
PSU- Coll master extreme DUO 650w ( looking fora better one)
HDD- Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm 16m cache
GRAPHICS CARD - 2 x Saphire Radeon HD4850 Toxic 512mb in crossfire config
OS- Windows VISTA 64bit ultimate

with other odds and ends im on around $2100

What do you all think?

 

[Berethond]

It seems a little excessive, my compy only cost ~750 and it's amazing anyways.

And, PM Eggo. He's great with this stuff.

 

[Aries_Split]

Hi all,
I'm building a new gaming rig... need some help picking parts. Thought this would be a good place to go...

Here it goes...
No AMD=No AMD Mobomotherboard - gigabyte Ma7-90fx-dq6
Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.AMD BAD for gaming.CPU- AMD Phenom II 940 quad core 3ghz
MEMORY- 4 Gb DDR2 1066mhz
PSU- Coll master extreme DUO 650w ( looking fora better one)
HDD- Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm 16m cache
Why two? One is sublime.Just get a 4870 if you want awesome performance.GRAPHICS CARD - 2 x Saphire Radeon HD4850 Toxic 512mb in crossfire config
OS- Windows VISTA 64bit ultimate

with other odds and ends im on around $2100

What do you all think?

You can do better.
MUCH better.

Wait till Eggo shows up. He'll sort you out.

 

[thedirtymex]

Ive been AMD all my life. I tried to go intel for this PC but i just cant do it...

Hi all,
I'm building a new gaming rig... need some help picking parts. Thought this would be a good place to go...

Here it goes...
No AMD=No AMD Mobomotherboard - gigabyte Ma7-90fx-dq6
Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.AMD BAD for gaming.CPU- AMD Phenom II 940 quad core 3ghz
MEMORY- 4 Gb DDR2 1066mhz
PSU- Coll master extreme DUO 650w ( looking fora better one)
HDD- Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm 16m cache
Why two? One is sublime.Just get a 4870 if you want awesome performance.GRAPHICS CARD - 2 x Saphire Radeon HD4850 Toxic 512mb in crossfire config
OS- Windows VISTA 64bit ultimate

with other odds and ends im on around $2100

What do you all think?

You can do better.
MUCH better.

Wait till Eggo shows up. He'll sort you out.

I've been AMD all my life. I tried thinking about Intel I7 E8500 i think. but i couldn't bring myself to do it.
I was comparing everything to crysis and COH. I want awesome frame rates. I did think about a HD 4870x2 but im not sure...

 

[Aries_Split]

Ive been AMD all my life. I tried to go intel for this PC but i just cant do it...

Hi all,
I'm building a new gaming rig... need some help picking parts. Thought this would be a good place to go...

Here it goes...
No AMD=No AMD Mobomotherboard - gigabyte Ma7-90fx-dq6
Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.AMD BAD for gaming.CPU- AMD Phenom II 940 quad core 3ghz
MEMORY- 4 Gb DDR2 1066mhz
PSU- Coll master extreme DUO 650w ( looking fora better one)
HDD- Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm 16m cache
Why two? One is sublime.Just get a 4870 if you want awesome performance.GRAPHICS CARD - 2 x Saphire Radeon HD4850 Toxic 512mb in crossfire config
OS- Windows VISTA 64bit ultimate

with other odds and ends im on around $2100

What do you all think?

You can do better.
MUCH better.

Wait till Eggo shows up. He'll sort you out.

I've been AMD all my life. I tried thinking about Intel I7 E8500 i think. but i couldn't bring myself to do it.
I was comparing everything to crysis and COH. I want awesome frame rates. I did think about a HD 4870x2 but im not sure...

Awesome frame rates...?

A 4850 will get you smooth gameplay on COD5 with maximum settings at 1920x1200.

And I don't really think it matters if you've been "AMD All my life".

I'm telling you what's better.

Hell a Q6600 is better than a Phenom right now.

There isn't any reason to spend 2100 dollars on something because you're a fan of the brand, that's just dumb.

 

[thedirtymex]

Ive been AMD all my life. I tried to go intel for this PC but i just cant do it...

Hi all,
I'm building a new gaming rig... need some help picking parts. Thought this would be a good place to go...

Here it goes...
No AMD=No AMD Mobomotherboard - gigabyte Ma7-90fx-dq6
Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.Bad.AMD BAD for gaming.CPU- AMD Phenom II 940 quad core 3ghz
MEMORY- 4 Gb DDR2 1066mhz
PSU- Coll master extreme DUO 650w ( looking fora better one)
HDD- Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm 16m cache
Why two? One is sublime.Just get a 4870 if you want awesome performance.GRAPHICS CARD - 2 x Saphire Radeon HD4850 Toxic 512mb in crossfire config
OS- Windows VISTA 64bit ultimate

with other odds and ends im on around $2100

What do you all think?

You can do better.
MUCH better.

Wait till Eggo shows up. He'll sort you out.

I've been AMD all my life. I tried thinking about Intel I7 E8500 i think. but i couldn't bring myself to do it.
I was comparing everything to crysis and COH. I want awesome frame rates. I did think about a HD 4870x2 but im not sure...

Awesome frame rates...?

A 4850 will get you smooth gameplay on COD5 with maximum settings at 1920x1200.

And I don't really think it matters if you've been "AMD All my life".

I'm telling you what's better.

Hell a Q6600 is better than a Phenom right now.

There isn't any reason to spend 2100 dollars on something because you're a fan of the brand, that's just dumb.

In a nut shell i was looking for a gaming rig that can handle anything modern games can throw at it. My main concerns are the CPU, MOTHERBOARD AND GRAPHICS CARD

 

[thedirtymex]

motherboard - gigabyte Ma7-90fx-dq6
CPU- AMD Phenom II 940 quad core 3ghz
MEMORY- 4 Gb DDR2 1066mhz
PSU- Coll master extreme DUO 650w ( looking fora better one)
HDD- Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm 16m cache
GRAPHICS CARD - 2 x Saphire Radeon HD4850 Toxic 512mb in crossfire config
OS- Windows VISTA 64bit ultimate

Jesus Christ 1,200 for that? shop around I bet you can get it for $900.
Also
What games are you going to play?

Think modern directx 10 games. COD 4 and 5. Crysis, red alert 3, gta4 all of them

 

[thedirtymex]

I've always been for AMD but you shouldn't be blindly loyal; go Intel for this generation unless you're penny pinching...Which you clearly are not.

Is your budget going to be $2100?

my original budget was 1500. i went higher due to the cpu, motherboard and graphics cards. almost 1k on those alone.

 

[thedirtymex]

Well, you're not only overpaying for the parts you got, but your parts aren't that great. Try this gaming configuration out:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pWf0R65ULXAn6FdekgrtQTA&gid=12

All you need to do is add Vista 64.

Wait, you're from Australia :sigh:

Why don't people specify AUD around here?

my bad. iasume yr in the us. so thats like half to u... bloody dollar!

 

[SilentHunter7]

I've always been for AMD but you shouldn't be blindly loyal; go Intel for this generation unless you're penny pinching...Which you clearly are not.

This. I loves me my AMD, but Intel is ahead this generation. Of course AMD processors are 2/3s the price of Intel processors of similar power, though the high end Intels far exceed the highest AMDs.

Still, loyalty will always play a role. Look at me, I still haven't forgiven Intel for that shit Pentium 4 C I bought from them.