This seem like a decent rig to play most current and forthcoming PC games? . . . .
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(Generated 2012-04-09 14:33 EDT-0400)
Current specs:
Hardware
Gaming Software:
- Will use steam:
Other Thoughts
- Budget - Within about $1500 (American)
- Resolution - At first 1680 x 1050 - Eventually HD (and a dual monitor setup)
- Games / Settings Desired: Everything from DOS era on, yes you read that correctly. Most should probably be high settings (if not ultra)
- Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc) - Folding at home (may run in background) - no Video editing, no modeling
- Country - USA
- Parts that can be reused: Not that I can think of (see current specs as to why)
- Buying Parts: Before the end of the year, hopefully before fall or end of summer
- Will NOT prebuilt
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- CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Microcenter)
- CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($22.99 @ NCIX US)
- Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-M Pro Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($122.99 @ NCIX US)
- Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
- Hard Drive: OCZ Agility 3 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($219.99 @ NCIX US)
- Hard Drive: Corsair Force Series 3 90GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($92.98 @ NCIX US)
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($119.99 @ NCIX US)
- Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($367.55 @ Newegg)
- Case: Corsair 500R White ATX Mid Tower Case ($139.98 @ Newegg)
- Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($145.98 @ Newegg)
- Optical Drive: LG GH24NS70 OEM DVD/CD Writer ($23.98 @ Newegg)
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated 2012-04-09 14:33 EDT-0400)
Current specs:
- Case: No idea (although it is a HP slimline, gray) - that should give some idea of the sort of case.
- Motherboard: Asus A8N-BR (Pyrite) (1 PCI, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394)
- Motherboard Chipset - nVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE, AMD Hammer
- Power Supply: No idea (but it's less than 100 watts, I think)
- Processor: DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3800+
- CPU Cooler: A fan
- Memory:
- - DIMM1: Kingston 1 GB DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM (5-4-4-12 (at) 266 MHz) (4-4-4-12 (at) 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 (at) 200 MHz)
- - DIMM2: Kingston 2G-UDIMM 2 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 (at) 333 MHz) (4-4-4-12 (at) 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 (at) 200 MHz)
- Hard Drive: 250 GB ATA drive
- Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H20L ATA Device (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
- OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
Hardware
- USB 2.0 speeds that are minimum of 30 MB a second
- USB 3.0 speeds that are at lest 300+ MB/s [I will get / use an SSD]
- Firewire (and or eSata port) --- because I have a external hardrive that has both along with USB
- At lest a solid terabyte (1.5 TB)
- Has either a VGA or DVI port (current monitor I have has both)
- Also has support for HDMI (for the future monitor)
- Multi card reader (although I mainly need SD and Memory Pro Stick Duo)
- Able to use a PS3 controller AND A XBOX 360 controller (yes I know 360 is native support . . .)
- I would like a quad core.
- Multiple internal DVD drives - Also to make installations faster
- Plenty of 3.5/5.25 drive bays . . .
- Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) (Main OS) -- Mostly for languages
- Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit (if needed)
- May first run Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit - as I have both 32/64 bit discs now)
- Windows XP (if 64 bit won't run some of the games I have) (if needed)
- Folding@home - (although I use my PS3 for that when I'm not using it)
Gaming Software:
- Will use steam:
- Elder Scrolls (Morrowind -> Skyrim)
- Portal 1 & 2
- Batman Arkham (Asylum/City)
- Sonic Generations
- Quake (all)
- Doom (all)
- Wolfenstein (3D) & 2009 - and the others
- Commander keen (all)
- Bioshock (1/2) (perhaps infinite)
- L.A. Noire
- Bejeweled 2/3
- Peggle
- Various COD's
- anything else that interests me
- - Will use CD/DVD's of the games I have:
- Warcraft 2 - Tides of Darkness & Beyond the Dark Portal
- Warcraft 3 - Reign of Chaos & Frozen Throne
- Diablo 1 - 3 (when it comes out)
- The Sims 1 - And all expansions
- The Sims 2 (probably)
- Simcity 4000 & Rushhour
- May use emulation (to run up to the PS2/Wii)
Other Thoughts
- Eventually a dual monitor setup (and one be HD resolution)
- I will wait for some parts (hard drives, GPU, etc) to drop in price.
- Will wait for IvyBridge. . . .
- I WANT UEFI, NOT regular old BIOS (that this slimline has
- May eventually like a dual GPU (crossfire?)
- First and foremost: Full HD
- Widescreen
- Supports: HDMI, DVI, Displayport (if the motherboard of the computer does)
- Within 1 - 2 MS response time (current monitor is 5 MS response ti
- Screen size - 25 to about 27 inches