Mid level gaming pc

[Jun aka Pekto]

Yeah here in RP its still hard to find DDR3 memory and if you do its pricey. I might go the Intel route na nga lang... AMD is just weak in this country, its an Intel country (they use to have a plant here)...

You could wait til next year when DDR3 is more established over there. After all, the i7 is coming to RP eventually. That platform will need DDR3 as well.

Me, the only reason I'm buying parts now is because the motherboard of my once mighty X2 4200+ pc fell victim to the bulged and leaky capacitor problem. I was planning to soldier on with it until next year or even later. It was working great with Windows 7 RC until bad capacitors put an abrupt end to it. It seems all the Socket 939 motherboards have disappeared both retail and online. So, time for newer stuff.

[Jun aka Pekto]

The parts came in today. It took me a couple hours to assemble the pc because I examined each part carefully. The good thing is, it booted fine right on the first try. And to the guy who recommended Gigabyte.....Thanks. It's been totally problem free so far. It's a nice if compact board. Well laid out and labeled pins. Got everything right the first time. Plus, both the video card and cpu run relatively cool.



I of course tested FSX first. Consistent 30+ fps(maxxing out at 80+ fps) with at least double the detail compared to my previous pc. That's what I want to see..... I'm happy now.


A quick check of the Windows 7 Experience:
Processor: 6.7
Memory*: 7.5
Graphics: 6.9
Gaming Graphics: 6.9
Hard Disk: 5.9

Not bad for a "repair" job.

* I think I have my DDR3 1600 RAM underclocked in the bios. It's running as DDR3 1333.

[rion]

nice rig!...

it is not a happy time to buy rams today. nagmamahal na yung DDR2 kasi na-pha-phase out na daw sila. yung DDR3 are getting cheaper, but still not cheap enough.

cheapest is geil 1GB DDR2-800 - 1,150.00. I think this ram is about 650 pesos a few months ago.

one choice for Intel builders, probably i5. i7 boards and procie are still expensive. i5=10k for board and 10k for procie

looking forward for a i9 builds this 2010, once they release a lower i9 variant... by that time mura na yung DDR3 din...(I hope) and the i7 board are still compatible with i9

cheapest DDR2+DDR3 board for Amd is the Emaxx Emx-Amd785G-FXN at around 3.9k though hanggang 1333 lang max niya.

[Jun aka Pekto]

nice rig!...

it is not a happy time to buy rams today. nagmamahal na yung DDR2 kasi na-pha-phase out na daw sila. yung DDR3 are getting cheaper, but still not cheap enough.

cheapest is geil 1GB DDR2-800 - 1,150.00. I think this ram is about 650 pesos a few months ago.

one choice for Intel builders, probably i5. i7 boards and procie are still expensive. i5=10k for board and 10k for procie

looking forward for a i9 builds this 2010, once they release a lower i9 variant... by that time mura na yung DDR3 din...(I hope) and the i7 board are still compatible with i9

cheapest DDR2+DDR3 board for Amd is the Emaxx Emx-Amd785G-FXN at around 3.9k though hanggang 1333 lang max niya.

The i7 and i9 will make much better use of DDR3 than the AMD Phenom II's.

DDR3 is really overkill for my rig. But, I wanted a hassle-free assemble. So I went with AM3/DDR3. Plus, the DDR3 will come in handy once I start overclocking the Phenom II X3 (to 3.2ghz). I think this Gigabyte board is also defaulting to 1333. But, it'll do 1600 and 1800 overclocked.

[Negus]

Modern Man's Kama Sutra




can't help posting this image.

[rion]

love the pic. thanks!

[Horsepower]

*Jun, since your HDD is the bottleneck, maybe you can try RAID 0 / 1 / 1+0.

[Jun aka Pekto]

*Jun, since your HDD is the bottleneck, maybe you can try RAID 0 / 1 / 1+0.

That's ok. It's only bad if I'm short on ram. But usually, once the app loads into memory, hard drive access should be minimal. I've already seen a huge improvement in load times with Flight Simulator X on my current rig with 8gb ram compared to the 2gb of my previous pc. Add to that going from a 512mb video card to one with 1gb.

[Horsepower]

How does 8gb feel like?

[Jun aka Pekto]

How does 8gb feel like?

It's like having 8 toilets in the bathroom.

It seems so overkill right now. But, you know how short overkill lasts.