Yes, a final build thread

claptonman

claptonman

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Getting into the final week of making my purchase. Obviously I'm gonna upgrade the CPU to the bulldozer when and if it comes out. I'm pretty sure I'm good to go, not doing crossfire ever. The only thing I'm thinking is getting a 570 instead. Gonna cost me $100 more, but I'm still deciding. Any suggestions are welcome. RAM and Case purchased so nothing I can do about that. I'm also using the SSD from the computer in my sig. I get Windows 7 free from my school. Monitor, keyboard, and mouse taken care of.

CPU (will upgrade, thanks to voyagerfan for selling it to me) $65
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103846

Gigabyte UD3: $105
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519

Gigabyte ATI 6950: $240
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125385

WD black 750GB 64mb cache: $59
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136794

CD drive: $20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118039

Coolermaster 212+: $30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065

Corsair TX650: $85
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

Coolermaster storm sniper: $110 (Shell shocker) (purchased)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119194

Gskill 1600 8 GB: $50 (Shell shocker) (purchased)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231445

Total comes to around $680, and with the projected bulldozer price, comes to $1000. Pretty good for this beast of a computer.

Any other last thoughts?
 
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jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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would say to keep the 6950 and put the money to the 160 buck gigabyte am3+ board, believe it's a 990fx chipset.

and don't forget you'r 8.50 off man, EMCKAKA24
 
claptonman

claptonman

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Like I said, I'm not gonna crossfire ever so that MoBo would be pointless.

And which product had the product code? On my old laptop, can't be bothered going through them again.
 
jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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and actually it says you can't use other codes or combos so not really much of a benefit anyways, and only up to 20 off, but sorry, thought something like that might come up but wasn't thinking about it much.
 
jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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well at 1080 is when it uses more vram, and with the larger maps and all in games like bf3 you may want more vram.
 
jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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actually since the vram hold all the little lines and all that make the maps and all, i think it might have something to do with it.
 
Benny Boy

Benny Boy

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With the cost diff of 1gb vs 2gb what it is, the 2gb makes sence to me.
Do any of these apply?
1. your res goes up
2. more monitors
3. down the road you change your CF mind
4. games may utilize it before an upgrade
5. higher resale value
 
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B

BassAddict

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Claptoman, that build looks great! The only suggestion I would have is to maybe take a look at the GTX 560 TI. I remember seeing benchmarks where the 560 was on par with the 6950. Also, there would be the added benefits of physics.

To go along with the 1gig verse 2gig thing.. 1gig will be plenty enough for a single monitor utilizing 1920x1080 resolution.
 
jonnyp11

jonnyp11

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actually the amount of games that use physx from the cpu out numbers the amount that really on the gfx card to do it, that way they sell more since every computer will look nicer instead of only physx ones.
 
claptonman

claptonman

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Refurb? Its not refurbished.

I'm never gonna use all the 750GB anyways since I have a 1Tb external, and I get an additional 2 years on the warranty with the black drives.
 
linkin

linkin

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claptonman said:
Vram has nothing to do with large maps, just resolution those large maps play at. For 1080, 1GB is enough.
Click to expand...

It's not. I can tell you that from experience. I recommend 2GB as a minimum for 1080p and up. Any modern game will easily eat 1.5GB at 1080p. Even the 1.28GB on my card is not enough. DX10/11 games fill it up.

If you want to run games on maximum with AA you will need 1.5-2GB as a minimum. VRAM usage in games isn't going to suddenly drop.
 
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