PC Upgrade, any recommendations?

[to0kenZA]

Trust me stick with Nvidia though. I wont touch another ATI card, sorry to say. For the price i paid for my GTX580 i could have almost bought one of the lower end 6990's and did not. Does not matter how good the 6990 is it still does not support physx or 3D vision surround(i stand corrected on the 3d). Go Green Team!!

Dude, I always thought the PhysX stuff was kinda redundant. Until I saw it on Batman Arkham Asylum. Just wow.

[OGBuzz]

is see what physx does!

pretty cool!

but HOW MANY games take advantage of physx?

[DarthSWNT]

Courtesy of wikipedia:

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Crazy Machines 2
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Dark Void
Darkest of Days
Hot Dance Party
Hot Dance Party II
Mafia II
Metal Knight Zero Online
Metro 2033
Mirror's Edge
Nurien
The Saboteur
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
Shattered Horizon
Star Tales
Star Trek DAC
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Unreal Tournament 3 (and Extreme Physics Mod)
U-WARS
Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction[28]

[Cre8torzn]

Hey guys I am looking to upgrade my pc... I have been a Intel Owner my whole life and I just have the feeling I need to go over to AMD to to see what its like.. lol I think I should be able to put together about 6k for my upgrade... there are a couple things I am going to keep like my HHD's and my graphics card. I will put up my current rig up and then put up what I am thinking of buying..


CURRENT RIG

Intel D946GZIS MOB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.1
4 Gig DDR2
XFX Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT - (keeping)
450W power supply (no-name brand)


MY NEW RIG - Nothing set in stone I am looking to get my upgrade towards the end of the year with my bonus


Asus Crosshair 4 (iV) Formula - Republic of Game
Amd socket AM3 Phenom2 x6 - Hexa/6-Core 1055T
OCZ DDR3 PC3-1333 MHz /Gold Edition / Triple Channel Kit / 6GB
(Power supply to go here)


I am looking for an upgrade to keep me going for the next couple years as my current rig has lasted 5 years. I upgraded to my 9600 GT about 2-3 years ago so it should keep up for a little while longer..

Any help would be appreciated and any questions please ask.

[seVer]

Hey guys I am looking to upgrade my pc... I have been a Intel Owner my whole life and I just have the feeling I need to go over to AMD to to see what its like.. lol I think I should be able to put together about 6k for my upgrade... there are a couple things I am going to keep like my HHD's and my graphics card. I will put up my current rig up and then put up what I am thinking of buying..


CURRENT RIG

Intel D946GZIS MOB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.1
4 Gig DDR2
XFX Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT - (keeping)
450W power supply (no-name brand)


MY NEW RIG - Nothing set in stone I am looking to get my upgrade towards the end of the year with my bonus


Asus Crosshair 4 (iV) Formula - Republic of Game
Amd socket AM3 Phenom2 x6 - Hexa/6-Core 1055T
OCZ DDR3 PC3-1333 MHz /Gold Edition / Triple Channel Kit / 6GB
(Power supply to go here)


I am looking for an upgrade to keep me going for the next couple years as my current rig has lasted 5 years. I upgraded to my 9600 GT about 2-3 years ago so it should keep up for a little while longer..

Any help would be appreciated and any questions please ask.

I would say push your PSU up to a 550w and upgrade your gcard too. Well I guess that does depend on what you are planning on playing... but you should definitely look at one of the lower end dx11 cards they really are not expensive anymore.

[DarthSWNT]

Hey guys I am looking to upgrade my pc... I have been a Intel Owner my whole life and I just have the feeling I need to go over to AMD to to see what its like.. lol I think I should be able to put together about 6k for my upgrade... there are a couple things I am going to keep like my HHD's and my graphics card. I will put up my current rig up and then put up what I am thinking of buying..
Any help would be appreciated and any questions please ask.

Atm you could get a new board, but you will be getting in just before a major update to the AMD line up.

You will also notice that the hexa-core is not much faster than quad-core AMDs as they are not optimised in most games.

You will be able to use the new chips on AM3 boards, but my prediction is that they won't be maximised on such.

[XeroS1x]

Hey guys I am looking to upgrade my pc... I have been a Intel Owner my whole life and I just have the feeling I need to go over to AMD to to see what its like.. lol I think I should be able to put together about 6k for my upgrade... there are a couple things I am going to keep like my HHD's and my graphics card. I will put up my current rig up and then put up what I am thinking of buying..

Go get your own thread (JK)

At your budget you should evenly distribute the items, going for a high-end motherboard is not really something you need. I would suggest something like the following:

• Motherboard - Asus P8P67 PRO Rev.3 - Link
• CPU - Core i5 2500k Sandy Bridge - Link
• RAM - Corsair XMS3 2x4GB 1600Mhz - Link
• PSU - Corsair GS600 600w - Link

For the above, you would pay - R5900

[OGBuzz]

you can check my thread here: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthre...lds-his-new-PC

no need to spend a huge amount of money to have a really good rig, its all about smart choices really

[Cre8torzn]

Thanks very much for the input guys I really appreciate it!

Atm you could get a new board, but you will be getting in just before a major update to the AMD line up.

You will also notice that the hexa-core is not much faster than quad-core AMDs as they are not optimised in most games.

You will be able to use the new chips on AM3 boards, but my prediction is that they won't be maximised on such.

That is why I said I will be getting my upgrade towards the end of the year when I get my bonus. Surely the AMD update should have happened by then.

I would say push your PSU up to a 550w and upgrade your gcard too. Well I guess that does depend on what you are planning on playing... but you should definitely look at one of the lower end dx11 cards they really are not expensive anymore.

Games that I play range from FP Shooters, Racing games, MMO and RPG's so I do play a little of everything..

The reason I am not too worried about the graphics card ATM is that a friend of mine just upgraded his pc to an i7 with a decent MoB and Ram and he has the same card as me and his machine runs 100% (to me that is) Ja sure with the new games coming out I might not be able to run everything on AAx32 but the games still look good and run smoothly...

[DarthSWNT]

DX 11 is not available on those cards though. That is my main problem, even if they run smoothly, it will not look nice on dx11 games.