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Sal

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Right so atm my rig has been the same since I got it from TTL customs. The spec list for it is as follows:

Lian-Li A-70B black with white powder coated interior

full water loop system with a triple rad

Asus P5Q-e motherboard with full water blocks

Intel e8400 overclocked to 4GHz with a D-TEK Fusion cpu block

2GB Corsair Dominator RAM 1066MHz

Gigabyte 4850 512MB RAM graphics card with a waterblock

2x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB hard drives

Gigabyte Odin 550watt pro psu

Got the rig back in 2009 and I just feel like its time that I update it as I got a laptop which is faster than it. All the older bits that are being removed from it will be going into a different case and used as a lan pc, this will strictly be a home use only pc. Probably will be getting the Fractal Design R3 for the old gear and mounting a 240 rad in the roof.

I've been using Intel for years but I feel like it's time for a change so I'm gonna jump ship to AMD
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Probably will end up going for the 1100T black edition. Just wondering what sort of motherboard, RAM, PSU etc you guys would recommend.

Thanks Sal
 
I'm no AMD hater, far from it but are you sure you want to go AMD right now?

I'm not completely sure what you use your PC for mostly and if your doing a lot of rendering than there hex cores might be just what you need but as far as gaming rigs go atm the word is that Intel are killing AMD as far as what you can get for your money. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-gaming-cpu-core-i3-2100-recommended-processor,review-32155.html

At the moment the only real advantage I can find with the AMD over Intel is that the AMD boards have more sata 3 ports where the Intel boards have 2 or 4.

Hopefully when bulldozer comes out then things will change and AMD will be back in the thick of things but personally if I was to build a PC today I would go Intel.

Just my personal option atm. If I'm wrong then please let me know why. I'm here to learn as much as anything else
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If you have to build today Intel is the way to go right now in the performance segment, specifically Sandy Bridge.

If you really have your heart set on AMD, do yourself a favor and wait to see what bulldozer brings.
 
the 1500 is just for the main one and im not getting it straight away. will hopefully be starting by the end of the summer.

And about AMD, i might change my mind down the line.
 
Sal said:
the 1500 is just for the main one and im not getting it straight away. will hopefully be starting by the end of the summer.

And about AMD, i might change my mind down the line.
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In that case before deciding on anything else we should wait and see what Tom gets out of those processors that he's using for the gadget show and then compare them to what he got out of the 2500K.

Where you thinking full AMD rig or considering of maybe going with an NVIDIA GPU?
 
Karlos_the_n00b said:
In that case before deciding on anything else we should wait and see what Tom gets out of those processors that he's using for the gadget show and then compare them to what he got out of the 2500K.

Where you thinking full AMD rig or considering of maybe going with an NVIDIA GPU?
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well rig atm is using a 4850 and in the past i have used nvidia graphics cards. First pc i ever built had 2 8600 GTs in sli. That rig could probably hold its own in most of todays games. last time i used it was playing cod 4 on full setting and it was breaking 100fps. so might come back to nvidia but i want to watercool and from what ive heard the 500 series runs really hot.
 
Sal said:
well rig atm is using a 4850 and in the past i have used nvidia graphics cards. First pc i ever built had 2 8600 GTs in sli. That rig could probably hold its own in most of todays games. last time i used it was playing cod 4 on full setting and it was breaking 100fps. so might come back to nvidia but i want to watercool and from what ive heard the 500 series runs really hot.
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Personally I don't mind too much about the fps difference between similarly priced and similarly performing cards. I myself have taken to looking at the distinct differences between them atm. If you like the games that support physicx or want to try out 3d gaming then look at the NVIDIA cards. If you want to run 3 or more monitors off a single card than look at the AMD cards. That said, powercolor do a 6970 with the waterblock already installed for about £370 that I really like the look of http://www.powercolo...ures.asp?id=314

Just so I've got this right, your thinking about putting your new setup into your existing [font="Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans"]Lian-Li A-70B [/font]case am I right? I think you mentioned it has a 3x120 rad in it and you didn't say that you where thinking about adding another. Unless you know exactly what your doing with watercooling, and if you do I apologise, then it might be worth running the spec you intend to go with past the guys in the watercooling forum to see if they think that rad (and pump I guess) will be enough for your new hardware.

Hope this helps
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Edit: p.s. if you have any pics of your rig I'd love to see them.
 
Karlos_the_n00b said:
Personally I don't mind too much about the fps difference between similarly priced and similarly performing cards. I myself have taken to looking at the distinct differences between them atm. If you like the games that support physicx or want to try out 3d gaming then look at the NVIDIA cards. If you want to run 3 or more monitors off a single card than look at the AMD cards. That said, powercolor do a 6970 with the waterblock already installed for about £370 that I really like the look of http://www.powercolo...ures.asp?id=314

Just so I've got this right, your thinking about putting your new setup into your existing [font="Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans"]Lian-Li A-70B [/font]case am I right? I think you mentioned it has a 3x120 rad in it and you didn't say that you where thinking about adding another. Unless you know exactly what your doing with watercooling, and if you do I apologise, then it might be worth running the spec you intend to go with past the guys in the watercooling forum to see if they think that rad (and pump I guess) will be enough for your new hardware.

Hope this helps
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Edit: p.s. if you have any pics of your rig I'd love to see them.
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I had actually looked at that card and was considering it. Im not intending to go anywhere near 3d in the near future and im only running the 1 screen.
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and i actually dont have a clue when it comes to watercooling so i might just take your advice on that one.

as to the pictures i have none BUT there is a video of Tom giving the walkthrough when he still had the man shed!

http://www.youtube.com/user/TimeToLiveCustoms#p/u/192/Ev3SmF2f2iw
 
I've watched that video before and I really like your rig. Got to respect how you did that on a budget too.

Watched the video for the last of the gadget show rigs last night and Tom got what looked like some good results but I'm sure the 2500K can do better for about the same money. If I was going to buy a PC today it really would be a 2500K no doubt.

If you can bare to hold off a few months for the release of bulldozer then you really should. Hopefully this will get AMD back in the game. If not then it might push down the price of the sandys. Don't think anyone's sure what to expect though.

But yeah, like we where saying before, when you think you know what you want then run it past the watercooling crowd before you buy anything cus you might find that there telling you that you might need a bigger pump and/or rad and that might mean a new case for you too and that extra cost might stretch your budget more than you want. (Edit: hope none of this sounds condescending. I promise that's not my intention.)

Anyway, hope I've been of some help and that you get what you want in the end
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P.S. Really do like your rig.
 
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