Thread: My first computer build

gl sleeving. i just got black sleeved wires for everything. unless u got a window, who cares?

amd is lil slower, but way cheaper. ive ran both sides, both sides are awesome.
i have a amd penom II x4 @ 3.5 GHZ WITH 8 Gigs of ram, a 6870 gpu and have no issues running all games on the highest settings.
but im getting a 6970 to make sure!!
edit i love those pasmark links on cpu's, go grab some skyrim benchmarks and battfield 3 benmarks, youll find amd isnt that much slower, ive learned to to those graphs with grain of salt and look at game benchmarks

AMD is in the mail..... No more AMD/Intel Bull...

Originally Posted by matt5112

cable management and proper routing results in better air flow.

you can buy pretty much every damn cable sleeved nowadays, most cases have enough room to store cables behind them and people got their ziptying experience from car mods... im proud of my cable managment, considering it took 3 fking hours to do properly.

and i even remember using electrical tape back in the day when intel pentium 4 was released to tidy up the cables



amd is gonna make their own ram now. its getting really easy to do an "im only using amd parts" desktop i do suggest u stick with nvidia cards vs amd nowadays unless you want a driver headache. heard dreadful stories about amd cards and their performance in recently released games.

Mobo came in the mail today. I will have more pictures up as soon as Amazon sends my camera charger.

Cool man! Lets see that thing mounted up.

Yellow.... wire..... sleeving? To each their own I guess. But Odi is right, most cables now come sleeved already.

Ati ftw!

ATI's are a real pain in my azz to configure on laptops sometimes. Trying to get the HDMI's to play audio, getting them to clone\ show on a second display. Extending desktop. God i hate the Mobile ATI's. I won't buy a laptop with ATI graphics.

NVIDIA FTW Mobile wise...

As for Desktop Builds i'm on the fence. Being able to run 3d with one card is nice vs Nvidia thinking you need 2-3 Cards. Also you can run more than 2 Displays off a ATI card vs limitations to 2 monitors per card on the Nvidia's even though there are 3 outputs. More than likely since you went AMD your board is gonna support Crossfire so go ATI unless your board supports SLI and Crossfire then you can get either and be quite happy.

The prices on the 6-series is about to drop big.

7-series is due out in a few weeks

Typical AMD fashion...ugh

All I know is don't buy nVidia 310 GPU. Its in my computer with 8GB RAM with quad core processor, and its a piece of ****. I can barely play current games on lowest settings.

thats what happens when you get an entry level graphics card....

Yes my parents are cheap.. they opt for the 8GB ram upgrade with good for the time processor, and get teh sheetiest gpu. We dasn't even haz hd and our computer is a year oldz!