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Topic: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

Hi guys. Anyone still here?

You all have always been the best that I've seen at coming up with suggestions regarding parts for a new computer. Part of that seems to be how informed you are, and part of that seems to be a knowledge of what parts are likely compatible with each other (especially you Pissing)

I'd like for my new machine to be highly consistent with the technologies that Blizzard considers to be 'home turf', i.e. what hardware Blizzard primarily supports. (I heard that Blizzard was teaming up with nVidia, and that nVidia was the preferred graphics solution, for example. I can't find very much evidence about that now, though.) In this way I'm hoping to be able to run WoW at peak performance and hopefully be well prepared for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3.

I could put the pieces together myself, if you're sure you have the PERFECT combination of parts, but it would kinda be great to get the PC as a package deal, so that I don't have to worry about compatibility issues between parts or go through the hassle of building it.

My budget is around 1-1.5k or so. The last gaming PC I got was in 2002 and it cost me 1.4k, but that came with a monitor and peripherals that I'll already have this time around.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Re: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

Just to get this thread started, I'll post some parts I was planning to get this Summer to upgrade my current rig (2gb ram, 8800gt, AMD 4000+ 2.0ghz processor, some random $75 Mobo..):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814130370 - Video Card - 189.99 ($20 rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820227289 - Ram - 60.99 ($25 rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813128359 - MOBO - 119.99 ($15 rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819115037 - Processor - 167.99
Total: 538.96 (478.96 after rebate)

Hopefully this'll be of some use tongue

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Re: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

Here's the stuff that I was looking at:

Ram - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820231225
Video Card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150359
HD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6822152102
Mobo - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813128375
Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6811129021
PSU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6817139006
CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819115202

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Re: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

$1.5k will get you a top-of-the-line killer gaming rig now. And it's a significant period where both AMD and Intel systems are viable options, AMD being the slightly more sensible one if you are planning on a long term upgrade path.

I refer you to this guide if you want details:

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3542

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Re: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

Kenak wrote:

Just to get this thread started, I'll post some parts I was planning to get this Summer to upgrade my current rig (2gb ram, 8800gt, AMD 4000+ 2.0ghz processor, some random $75 Mobo..):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814130370 - Video Card - 189.99 ($20 rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820227289 - Ram - 60.99 ($25 rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813128359 - MOBO - 119.99 ($15 rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819115037 - Processor - 167.99
Total: 538.96 (478.96 after rebate)

Hopefully this'll be of some use tongue

i went on the cheap with a full AMD system recently too.

i like that guide you linked though Errrrrrr, and I like that list of hardware Killgore came up with too. /jealous =O

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Re: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

Killgore9998 wrote:

I'd like for my new machine to be highly consistent with the technologies that Blizzard considers to be 'home turf', i.e. what hardware Blizzard primarily supports. (I heard that Blizzard was teaming up with nVidia, and that nVidia was the preferred graphics solution, for example. I can't find very much evidence about that now, though.) In this way I'm hoping to be able to run WoW at peak performance and hopefully be well prepared for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3.

Total gimmick. Blizzard makes an effort to have their games be compatible with most combination of hardware possible. There is no "home turf".

In fact WoW had an nVidia logo in it graphical settings menu, yet was found to have compatibility issues with some SLI setups. So really do not limit yourself because of something like that.

Your build looks good.

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Re: Shameless request for advice regarding new gaming rig

Plus, it's also known that Blizzard is developing using Havok for physics in all their upcoming games, and ATI is teamed with Havok. Which basically puts Blizzard in line with ATI and directly against Nvidia and PhysX.

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