new budget gaming system

[jordan1989]

to start off with i have set myself a limit of £400/£450 and this is what ive come up with.

corsair xms3 ddr3 pc3 4GB

asus m4n98td

phenom 955

msi gtx 460 cyclone oc

so what do you all think ?

 

[tinytomlogan]

Be an idea to put in the post above ^^^^ what the items are rather than just links matey

even I cba to keep bloody clicking

 

[alienware]

Don't buy an SLI board on the AMD platform. They're flooking POO. And there's no reason to. If you do you cut your throat as you're trapped on SLI only. Get a Crossfire board (one with an AMD chipset) and then run the SLI hack on it.

Oh and that 955 is out of stock. Get a board with ACC (advanced core callibration) and get a Phenom 2 X2 and unlock the bugger.

 

[jordan1989]

Be an idea to put in the post above ^^^^ what the items are rather than just links matey

even I cba to keep bloody clicking

got ya

 

[jordan1989]

Don't buy an SLI board on the AMD platform. They're flooking POO. And there's no reason to. If you do you cut your throat as you're trapped on SLI only. Get a Crossfire board (one with an AMD chipset) and then run the SLI hack on it.

Oh and that 955 is out of stock. Get a board with ACC (advanced core callibration) and get a Phenom 2 X2 and unlock the bugger.

sli hack ?

 

[alienware]

Russian hackers FTW.

lmfao.

http://www.xdevs.com/eplugins/content/content.php?content.30

They reverse engineered a X58 bios (no mean bloody feat they're encrypted now !) and put the instructions that overrides VEN lockouts into a patch.

 

[jordan1989]

Russian hackers FTW.

lmfao.

http://www.xdevs.com/eplugins/content/content.php?content.30

They reverse engineered a X58 bios (no mean bloody feat they're encrypted now !) and put the instructions that overrides VEN lockouts into a patch.

ive suddely got the urge to get the Crosshair IV insted of the asus980a am3

 

[alienware]

Absof****nlutely dude.

Honestly the Nforce boards are a frickin tragedy. And, Nvidia are no longer supporting them as they have ditched production of chipsets.

 

[jordan1989]

Absof****nlutely dude.

Honestly the Nforce boards are a frickin tragedy. And, Nvidia are no longer supporting them as they have ditched production of chipsets.

oh really didn't know that.

i still remember my very first build with and intel nforce4 chipset. had nothing but problems with it !!!!!!

died on xmas day like 5 months later

 

[alienware]

Most of the reason I say don't get an SLI only board is due to the dire straits Nvidia are in right now. You could find that they could go under at any moment as they are showing all the signs. ONLY go with their stuff if it is super duper cheap (like my 470).

Have a quick mosey over this

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/30571-nvidia-in-big-trouble/

And you'll see what I mean. Now hopefully I am wrong (not about the info mind it's proven fact) and hopefully they can stay afloat. But yeah, buying stuff made by them (esp defunct products like chipsets) isn't a great idea. Bios updates come from them and are fed to the mobo makers and they won't bother doing that as it costs money and there's no future in it.

AMD chipsets on the other hand are their bread and butter so bios updates are very frequent. AMD are also better at getting vendors (such as Asus) to put in support for their new CPUs. For example I run a M3A32 quad PCIE board that's two years old. Supports all of the Thuban chips, even the whacky 1035 thing that only OEMs have.

 

[jordan1989]

thats quite interesting and now a few things make sense!.

i think the rushed the like hell get there 470/480 cards out just to try and bring on some cash all tough im probably wrong.

 

[alienware]

It was more a case of dumping millions into it and then realising, well, it was a bit poo and not having a choice. They couldn't afford to ditch it and go with something else so Fermi it was. They managed to refine it with the 460 but only by cutting it down. The big test now is if they can produce something truly stunning and fast without the issues of heat and noise.

 

[jordan1989]

well i hope they can pull it off would love to see a 5** series card with dual gpu's on a much shorter cooler card at the right price

 

[mezmir]

Absof****nlutely dude.

Honestly the Nforce boards are a frickin tragedy. And, Nvidia are no longer supporting them as they have ditched production of chipsets.

That's a good heads up.

 

[timby]

oh really didn't know that.

i still remember my very first build with and intel nforce4 chipset. had nothing but problems with it !!!!!!

died on xmas day like 5 months later

Funny, I still have a single core AMD Athlon 64 CPU running on an MSI nforce 4 MB. It's a little long in the tooth but plays COD4 fine and does a fair job on most things. Just sayin ....