Hardware!

Post by **Class--** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:02 am

Hi Folks,
Right help a thicko out

Is AMD still alive or is it all about the bridges of Intel these days? I never seeem to see anyone talkin about their AMD just sandy bridge this and ivy bridge that. Is it worth buy Sandy bridge now? If someone was to be on a Â£300 budget what sort of hardware/performance should he expect? That budget would have to cover cpu, ram, motherboard and graphics card

u never know maybe someone will love my crap and I'll have a Â£500 budget

has ATI disapeared too? is it all about nVidia these days?

Ta

Class--

Post by **Trig** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:22 am

What requirements do you have for the kit you're going to buy?
Does it have to be new or will used do?

Post by **Class--** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:34 pm

Well cos I'm a stubborn old goat that is the last to move on (sisters words not mine

) its all about CS and now CS:beta but I would like to try bf3 out and see what u all get up to. Stable fps is a must but higher the better obviously. I can play any game with lowest graphics settings as I'm more gameplay over cosmetics. As for olld or new hell ANYTHING WILL DO

I'm not bothered about that its only the Benjamins I'm bothered about

Ta

Class--

Post by **Trig** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:53 pm

Well I'm sure between us we can sort you out with some hardware.

I've got some DDR3, hard drive and an HD6870 graphics card.

Post by **Class--** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:07 am

Excellent

Whats your price Sir?

oh and any more details on them?

ta

Post by **Trig** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:21 am

RAM is Vengence stuff, DDR3-1600 iirc, 4x4Gb sticks.
Graphics Card is a Sapphire HD6780 with Accerlero/Turbo Module.
Drive is 60Gb Vertex 2 SSD.

You'll probably want a few other bits, anyone else going to chime in with a list of older bits they have?

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:19 pm

My old kit comes off the ark, but if you nedd some PC66 RAM let me know

Post by **Class--** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:26 pm

Lol thanks Dangly I can always count on you

My pc days only started with PC100 and sadly finished with pc2100 lol yes my hardware is as old as yours

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:30 am

I do have two 512Mb sticks of PC5300 (667Mhz) DDR2 Dimm.

Any use?

Post by **Class--** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:12 pm

Thanks Dangly, Im lookin for ddr3 for my new build and ddr pc2100 for an upgrade on an old pc but have no use for ddr 2

Thanks again tho

Post by **Class--** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:18 pm

Well looks like I blew my budget but this looks like the rig so far:
i5 ivy 3570k (was going for an i3 sandy bridge and impulsed on this lol)
Asus P8Z68 V Pro
Trigs Sapphire HD6870
Trigs 8Gb DDR3
Trigs 60Gb SSD
BeQuiet 530W psu
Antec 300

I think two things are new and the rest used but I was on a budget. Christ now I really do need to get on ebay and sell sell sell

Now gotta wait for the stuff to come. Apart from all that I think I'm more excited waiting on an old RAID card poppin through the door and finally get my old dual 2800+MP RAID 0 and see if there is any diff

I love that old dualie

Class--

Post by **Trig** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:11 pm

That'll do the job for ya I would of thought lol..

You still rocking a 15" CRT?

Post by **Class--** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:29 pm

Erm 17" I'll have you know and as I'm told every lil inch counts

Thanks again for all ur help

Post by **Nellyboy** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:46 pm

I feel a bit out of date. Still rockin 8gb ddr2 here and a Q9550.

Got an M4 256gb tho.

Post by **Class--** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:35 pm

Lol nelly think how I felt as the dualie I'm on was built in 2002 and Im just now putting raid in it to try and boost a lil performance never mind ssd and ddr2 lol

Class--