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Is this a good setup for a decent gaming computer?

Is this a good gaming computer setup?

  • EVGA nforce 780i SLI Motherboard XFX GeForce GTX 295 Video Card Corsair TX650W 650-Watt Power Supply Intel Core i7 920 Processor Crucial Ballistix Dual Channel 2048MB PC16000 DDR3 2000Mhz Memory (2x1024MB) Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card Seagate Barracuda ES.2 500GB Hard Drive Ultra / ChillTec / Socket 939/775/AM2 / Thermal Electric CPU Cooler ThermalTake Tsunami Series Aluminum ATX Mid-Tower Case Acer AL2216WBD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard what else do i need to make the computer run, and sorry i am not so good with computers

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    The computer is certainly going to be a gaming beast, but it's overkill, and you could rearrange you budget a bit better for pure gaming. Frankly it looks like you've got money to burn, and you want an all-around fast computer, not necessarily focussed on gaming EVGA with 780i chipset doesn't do DDR3 or i7, I am pretty sure. FOR GAMING: I still wouldn't go with the i7 (e8400/e8500 save $100), or DDR3 (save $100 and get 2GB or 4GB of fast DDR2), or a discrete soundcard (save around $175, use onboard), or a TEC cooler (save $100 and get sunbeam direct contact aircooler) Between that and the lower-end DDR2 motherboard, you should save $500 or more, which is a major monitor and/or video card upgrade. That will improve your gaming more than the parts I downgraded would have. Of course, much more in the video card, and you may actually want to go bigger on power supply - those high end cards claim to pull close to 300W (which is more than my entire system)! That 22" monitor is gonna be pretty sad looking next to such a beast of a PC. Monitors are very important to the overall enjoyment of your computer - do NOT skimp here. This may sound crazy, but I'd suggest budgeting about 1/3 of your total budget on the monitor(s). Next year this will be an ordinary gaming machine, but a big nice monitor will *still* kick butt. Also, your storage is gonna be the slowest part of this system. Consider a Velociraptor, SSD, or maybe even RAID (Intel Matrix RAID is built into high end Intel chipsets, and can be faster than hell - but I think you can only get it with Crossfire, not SLi)

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thats a very very good computer setup, im suprised you wouldnt of been able to guess it was a good computer, the price must be huge and you wouldnt have been able to choose a computer with that spec if you didnt know a deal about computers, so i suggest you stop showing off and get a life ********, you know thats a good computer and want everyone else to know it

tubz84

1) That motherboard will not work with that processor. The motherboard is socket 775. the Core i7 is socket 1366. If you want a a Core i7 processor you will need this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188039 or something similar. 2) I would definately upgrade the Power suppply to 700w or more. 3) memory for the new Intel Core i7 needs to be bought in triplets to work best/fastest. Like dual-channel but it's tri-channel. Look on newegg.com or other sites for recommendation on buying a memory kit that has 3 matched pairs of memory for the core i7 4) I would stick with the stock i7 cooler rather than the chilltec..

evaohell

It's a fine setup, though you'll probably be paying way too much for it.

KoKoKiTTy is depressed

Well, this is personal preference talking but I would go with the 9800 series Nvidia card. It is a good card. You have SLI so you could get two 8800's if you wanted too, 2 9800's would be getting expensive though. I would also go with 4 gigs of corsair ram. Ram is dirt cheap these days. Not to mention if your running Vista it takes more memory then XP. The extra memory never hurts. If im not mistaken XP took 256 and Vista takes 512. Somewhere in that neighborhood. That means you only have 1.5 gigs of ram for gaming use. Not very much if you plan to run the big games. As for hard drives...I always build PC's with Western Digital. They are good HD's. Never had a Seagate but have heard of a couple of people having issues with crashing repeatedly. Im sure it happens with any HD though. And im not sure as of the last two months or so but AMD makes a better gaming processor then Intel last I checked. I would look into an Athlon or one of their premium processors honestly.

BDK

Go to Cyberpower,Inc. You can configure a good gaming pc there for a good price. I bought my last 2 pc's from them-they rock.

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