Building new Gaming PC

[Buds84]

Hate to sound like a parrot, but..

Just buying the fastest gpu card, sticking it in your old/existing rig, and forgetting about all the other new components, will give you the better gaming rig immediately.

I know it sounds like a scratched record, but I understand people wanting to shell out cash for a great cpu/mobo/ram setup and putting an existing or new lower end graphics card in it - possibly with the intention of adding to it later, chances are tho they stick with the graphics card and have little in-game improvement.

Buying/building a rig, for a gaming pc, imo, most of your cash should go to the gfxcard.

And an X58 system for a new gaming pc, and stick with a 450 ? If it's games, a cheaper chipset and a top end gfxcard would laugh at it, gaming wize.

I know what your talking about, but i just need a new PC because mine is just too slow. I want to have like 50 webpages open while running games and Visual C++ open without it slowing down much. Simply buying a better video card wont help me anymore.

I am currently running a Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz with a Intel Classic DG31PR Motherboard with 4 Gig of crappy Ocz ram prolly 800 mhz and its getting pretty limited, something in this old rig is going to die soon, its been through 4 video cards already. I actually want more power for everything.

I'll just buy a 2 new video cards to go in my system at an affordable price rather than buying one very expensive one when my build is done.

 

[Buds84]

Have you bought the CPU, Mobo, etc.?

If not, I'd go for a MSi P67A-GD65 with an i5-2500k. Faster.. and you'd even have more money for a gfx card

I bought the Motherboard already since before I made this topic.

Is it really that much faster than what I would be running?

It doesn't even have tripple channel and it does x8 / x8 for dual card use

I'll have to check it out more.

 

[Tortuga]

16x/16x the difference is negligible from 8x/8x gaming wise.

 

[Buds84]

16x/16x the difference is negligible from 8x/8x gaming wise.

Ok thanks ,didn't know that.

Thought it was a major difference.

 

[Tortuga]

Yeah don't worry about 16x to 8x...but anything under that, would be very noticeable.

 

[Buds84]

Should I be selling my MB to get one to take a i7 2600k?

Or can we expect a price drop on the i7 950 soon?

 

[Tortuga]

Thats a good question. I would expect the prices on the 950 to drop. As the i5 2500k has slightly better performance than the 950 at stock clocks. And its already cheaper than the 950...maybe you should think about that. The 2500k will straight up blow the 950 away with a decent over clock and cpu cooler and will cost significantly less. You'll need some variant of a P67 motherboard which don't go onsale till the 9th I believe. The 2500k will come in a bit over $200 (speculation) while the 950 is going for $299 on the egg. Something to think about