Hello again

[TunnelRat]

Hey there, this is an official post from me to say hello all again. I've been away too long, and I am doing some research in putting together a new computer so i can get my arse kicked in COD again :

so if any hardware recommendations for me, place them here.

[{ESC}Amoniac]

Hello and glad you come back hope to play soon with you and I am the most noob ever in the history of ESc so you will have someone to shoot

[Admin]

great to see yo u back

Look in trippins forum there are multiple posts on ppl making comps and some recomondations
http://elitesnipercorps.com/viewforum.php?f=144

[{ESC}Mikey]

Welcome Back TunnelRat

Here is a system right up to date ;
Model: 5150
Released: September 1981
Price: US $1,565 ~ $3,000
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
RAM: 16K, 640K max
Display: 80 X 24 text
Storage: dual 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives
Ports: cassette & keyboard only
5 internal expansion slots
OS: PC-DOS v1.0

LOL


I think Lane should chime in here ???

[TunnelRat]

thank you BlackRose and Mikey. Glad i wasn't completely forgotten


Since I didn't see that section in the forum rose, i figure instead of having two threads I'll just keep this one here.

My budget is $2000 - $2500 (figure if I'm putting together a system might as well make it upgrade-able)

I have some things i picked out, but I respect opinions.

Here's what I have picked out so far:

ASUS GTX770-DC2OC-2GD5 - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6814121770 - $379.99

ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6813132053 - $519.99

WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6822236624 - $179.99

Rosewill THOR V2-White Edition, THOR V2-W Gaming ATX Full Tower Computer Case - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6811147158 - $149.99

Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 2011 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73820 - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819115229 - $309.99

G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820231510 - $179.99

Any help would be appreciated. anywho, glad to be back on the forums :D

[{ESC}UDClown]

If you're going to get a 770, you may as well get a 4gb version, should be able to find one around $400

[TunnelRat]

If you're going to get a 770, you may as well get a 4gb version, should be able to find one around $400

that's an easy change. the only thing I'm unsure of is the power supply.

i think i'm sticking with a sata hdd. anyone use ssd?

[{ESC}Mikey]

I have had good luck with these Power Supplies ...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=5442

I running the 1000 watt, seem to have power to spare for my system.
Specs on my system ;
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965
Motherboard - ASUS M3N HT Deluxe Mempipe
RAM - 4 gigs, 2 Corsair CM2X2048-8500C5D
Video - 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Harddrives - 1 - WDC WD2500JB-00REA0 (IDE)
1 - WDC WD64 00AAKS-65A7B (SATA)
1 - WDC WD75 01AALS-00J7B (SATA)
1 - WDC WD20 EFRX-68AX9N0 (SATA)
2 - WDC WD1003 FZEX (SATA)
CDROMS - 1 - Sony DVD RW DRU-V200A (IDE)
1 - ASUS BLue Ray Burner (SATA)
OS - Windows 7 Pro 64 bit


As you can see still only run SATA, no SSD.

[TunnelRat]

I have had good luck with these Power Supplies ...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=5442

I running the 1000 watt, seem to have power to spare for my system.
Specs on my system ;
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965
Motherboard - ASUS M3N HT Deluxe Mempipe
RAM - 4 gigs, 2 Corsair CM2X2048-8500C5D
Video - 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
Harddrives - 1 - WDC WD2500JB-00REA0 (IDE)
1 - WDC WD64 00AAKS-65A7B (SATA)
1 - WDC WD75 01AALS-00J7B (SATA)
1 - WDC WD20 EFRX-68AX9N0 (SATA)
2 - WDC WD1003 FZEX (SATA)
CDROMS - 1 - Sony DVD RW DRU-V200A (IDE)
1 - ASUS BLue Ray Burner (SATA)
OS - Windows 7 Pro 64 bit


As you can see still only run SATA, no SSD.

Yeah SATA hdd seems still the way to go. I was thinking that 1000 watts for a psu would be more than adequate. I almost went to a local store called memory express here in Edmonton, but they didn't have the video card that i wanted. :

[BENSTER]

I run a 120 SSD, and a 2 TB SATA drive. A few months ago, I moved my games off the SSD because it was less than 10 gigs free. With the SSD, I was always one of the first 3 players (if not the first) to load a map, and often would get in to trouble because I traveled too far in to enemy territory. I'm definitely not the one of the first ones to join any more, but then I'm not waiting to get thawed from the start any more.

In terms of booting up windows, the SSD is quite fast. Doing a full install on the SSD only yields a windows experience of 5.2. After reading some articles, I moved the libraries (documents/music/video/etc.....) to the SATA drive, and the score jumped up to 7.1. My old machine had a SATA2 60 gig, and this machine has a 120 gig SATA 3. I can't say as a i see a difference, just one is larger.

Once your machine is up and running - maybe it's not that big of a deal, and you'll be fine with out a SSD. IT seems the SSD is approaching 50 cents per gig now, vs $1 per gig last year. Because I store my music and movies on the Hard drive, even if I bought a 512 gig SSD, I wouldn't have enough storage for a SSD only machine. I'd suggest a 240 gig SSD if you want BF4 and COD4 on the SSD for speed...at least that is what I desire.