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[machinegunsquid]

Awesome. The 770 is a pretty beefy card.

did you build this yourself, or buy it that way?

[machinegunsquid]

Nice, any build pics??

This is my current rig. Nothing too crazy, though I am really happy to have the GPU's OC'd as far as they are, and stable at that.





Since those pics were taken I've sleeved all the PSU cables, done a little more cable management, and modded the side panel further. (Trimmed to the edge of the molding, and used modders mesh for a little better airflow for the top GPU

[Slick2500]

This is mine.
Its in dire need of an upgrade.
AMD Phenom II 550 BE Unlocked to triple core @ 3.6Ghz
Gigabyte GA-MA790X UD4P
4GB OCZ Reaper
Sapphire Radeon HD4890 Vapor X OC Edition
2 1tb Western Digital Black
Coolermaster Stacker 830SE
Corsair 850 TX

[hensleya1]

Built my rig back in summer 2010 on an ordinary-looking box. A sleeper of computers back in the day? I want an upgrade, but can't justify it and in any case I ahbor the thought of trying to use the cruel joke that is Windows 8.

I always said as a kid I was going to build my own mega gaming rig. Trouble is, by the time I had the money, I was 21, and didn't play that many games anymore. So I sank $700 into a computer that plays HD movies and runs Word, Firefox, and iTunes. The redeeming quality is my dual 23 inch screens that keep me distracted on GPF when I should be productive.

Here's the stats I could find courtesy of dxdiag and PC Wizard:

AMD Athlon II x4 635 @ 2.9
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H
4GB DDR3 (upgraded to 8GB shortly after realizing what a resource hog Win7 was)
ATI Radeon 5750 @ 1024MB
1 TB Hitachi somesuch that's actually 2x500GB in a RAID 0. Added a Seagate Barracuda 2TB last year after catching a $79 Micro Center sale, so I'm up to 3TB.
I'm 99% sure the power supply is OCZ. It's 700W.

I'm going to cry the day my four year old RAID 0 setup takes a dump. I try to back it up regularly, but I'll probably question if the 30% speed gain was worth it when I lose several weeks of work.

(To the OP: your HD is by far the weak point. Although probably too late to suggest by now, I would run a SSD for the OS and other high-demand programs despite its lower capacity (in the 100GB range), and then put a mega 7200RPM hard drive for everything else - movies, etc.)

[whitehead]

Nice rig!! For Christmas buy a second 770 overclocked and sli that ***** up! Lol.

[machinegunsquid]

^

Though I would look into a watercooling setup to be able to push the overclock on the 770s in SLI.

I really should have watercooled my 480's, but those Arctic Cooling coolers work really damn well. Top card barely gets above 100*C XD

[Grimsin]

I got a gtx 760 after my 2ND!!!! ati 6970 burnt out... runs all games better then the 6970 and runs a ton cooler also, my old phenom II 945 4 core @ 3.5ghz is still running games maxed out @ 1080p(except for maxing out AA settings), I could just imagine what a gtx 770-780 could do. thats with 8 gigs of ddr3 ram on windows 8.1

[Russosaur]

Intel + Nvidia all da way

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[machinegunsquid]

^^^

[Grimsin]

Intel cpu= way overpriced, new amd cpus are almost the speed of intel for qtr of the price

[whitehead]

Intel has been on a roll with its i7's. Especially since they are hyperthreaded. If your on a tight budget go AMD. Otherwise Intel all the way.

[Russosaur]

You pay for the performance Intel is better if you have the pockets. I had an i3 that was better than most Phenom quad cores

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[Slick2500]

And also after ~$220 in cost for a cpu, the gaming performance increase you get does not justify the increase in price anyway.

[whitehead]

Always had Intel so I stick with them. Plus in the vast majority of gaming laptops I look at Intel is almost always the best option. Nvidia is just a favorite of mine and based on matchups against ATI they have been winning out.

[Grimsin]

I was amd-ati guy due to building cheaper rigs, if I can stay 45-60 fps im happy, but since i burnt out the 2 6970's I went with the nvidia card. I made sure it was a quiet card also cause my 6970 would get so loud, so far haven't even heard the gtx760 fan speed up.

[Exile]

Nice setup. But you're missing an SSD!! I tell everyone who's building a new rig/upgrading putting an SSD in is the single biggest improvement you can make to day to day usage of your machine. Traditional drives with ~80mbps reads are they biggest bottleneck. Boot times, browser load times, programs, level load times ingame, etc etc. Newegg just had a special on 240gb Mushkin for $140, which I think is a great deal for a very reliable but high performance drive. I run a Mushkin 120gb, its great just not enough space. Gonna grab another at somepoint and raid 0 for even faster loads.


If you're extremely concerned with budget AMD is a good option, otherwise intel FTW. As far as GPU tho, Nvidia. Simply because their driver support is much quicker and overall better....along with profiles for multi-card setups, Nvidia hands down.

[Jomamma]

OP how much did you spend I've heard great things about microcenter.

Im still on my q6600 with dual sli 9800gtx+, i need an upgrade

[Slick2500]

Play Battlefield 3 or 4 with and without an SSD once. My SSD died and I hate loading maps takes 2-3 min now.