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My new gaming rig.
Well, i decided to gut my old pc of what I could reuse and go from a amd rig to a intel.
Intel e8400 with Freezer Pro 7 HSF
Gigabyte x38-DS4 motherboard
2x1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 Ram
8800GT 512 OC
Gonna reuse my PSU that can handle this setup with absolute ease. Also going to continue to run windows XP 32bit, and Keep this running on my 19inch Viewsonic CRT.
Overall I think i will be able to handle anything coming out in the good future, with plenty of ways to upgrade if required, but satisfied that I wont have any mmorpg problems at all.
I acually built this also so i can test out both AoC and Warhammer on rather high settings.
Thoughts?
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Sounds awsome I'm guessing since you said your PSU is good its over 700 watts? The 8800 is pretty power hungry I know some of the pc's where I work have 800 watts just to keep the 8800 from flipping out.
You should be able to run just basically anything and everything on your set up.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817163111
It has been in use for well over a year, and it is rock solid still. It can handle SLI 7900GTX without issues and is a Etasis build.
It is a very high grade 560watt PSU with a single 12v rail @ 38amps. I know it will be fine. One reason is because i got the 8800GT on my current AMD machine with no issues. I even oc'ed it abit more and it is running without any issues at all.
I was one of those who "didnt skip on the psu!" on my last build. So it is going to save me money on this upgrade. I know a good few who even run a 8800GTX on it with a OC'ed Exxxx system and its handles it extremly well.
Looks good to me, and you are right, your 560 watt power supply will handle that with ease. Silverstone is a quality brand name.
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Desktop - AMD 8450 Tri Core, 3 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM, ATI HD 3200 Graphics, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) - Intel P8400, 2 GIGs of RAM, Intel X4500, Windows XP Professional
Yeah, I feel i was lucky to stumble on it after reading reviews for other psu brands. Its a very strong build, and was the only single 12v rail design psu they had at the time for that watt rating or higher.
Funny thing was when i bought it i got it at 137.99usd. Its on sale for 129.99, reg 139.99. Aside from the sale, it hasnt dropped in price after a straight 15 months since my purchase. It acually went up by 2 dollars.
I guess the later silverstone single 12v rail psu builds arent by etasis anymore, but still by a very high quality OEM. I am happy with mine however.
It's built, its running without any issues so far, and its a flipping wiring mess right now. I was up till 4:30am working on it making sure tempts were holding and no major issues. Windows installed very fast and overall it is running very well.
Ran prime95 for 10 minutes just to see if any issues and the full load tempts didnt pass 46c. However these are the Faulty <above> coretemp readings. They read 39-40c both cores idle for coretemp, while bios read the cores at 32c and then after i booted down and then into bios for the night 20c.
So tempts are a issue with mine, packed 1/29/08, so i will have to do some more tests.
However it screams!
Oh, and i got a zalman 9700 LEd instead.
I have 8800GTS n 550 watts...never had an issue doing anything.
Well..some updates.
It works FLAWLESSLY.
I oc'ed for right now the E8400 to 3.6ghz and will run it until I feel i need to go any higher. Took the XMS2 ram from 1.8v in bios to 2.0v and 2.00B for 1:1 with the FSB. I am still working on the timings but the ram is cool to the touch with a modded 120mm fan in the 5.25 bays above my sunbeam 4 fan controller and below my Lite-on DVD/CF burner combo.
Passed 4 hours of super PI 32m, 17 and half hours of Orthos, 6 hours of OCCT, and 8 hours of prime. Still upping each one on a following day until i can get a 24 hour Orthos, Prime, and OCCT run. Just havent had the time to remain at home for that long of time yet, as 17 and half hour Orthos stable run would i am sure hit 24 hours without a failure.
I get just about 13k in 3Dmark06, without ocing the card. Which, regardless, is exceptional for my needs as is. I am sure if I did the dirty tricks some use that I could get a higher 3Dmark06 score, but I want a solid score from a system spec i use 24/7, not for a benchmark run. I only game at 12x10, so The GT and CPU is a rather nice marriage for bottlenecking.
I took it for a test run. I was running 40-50 FPS running around Skyfire in EQ2 on Extreme Quality. I dip to about 15-20 in Qeynos harbor running around on the same setting but that is to be expected. These are moving, fighting, and looking around FPS, not just standing still and adding no stress.
CoD4 ran like a dream. Everything maxed as I could see, and even during firefights I saw ZERO slowdowns or tearing. I played for a good 3 hours and had a blast.
Maybe in a few weeks I will buy crysis. I know i will have "fun" with that game and settings, but sure my system will make me proud. Proud in a reasonable ratio to hardware used that is.
So overall I am extremly happy. Everything came the same day from newegg. Everything went together easy and no hassles. I ended up spending 3 hours on wiring and getting everything modded and setup how I wanted but the airflow in my case is excellent. After full stress load temps shoot down in seconds and return to around idle extremly fast.
I cant wait to test this out on Warhammer and AoC.
I am still using the 560w psu. If it was going to sputter then almost 18 hours of Orthos would have yielded some sort of issue. I also left 3dmark06 running a loop for around 4 hours and it never failed. So.. yeah it depends on how WELL the psu is built, and the amps, along with the wattage. Mine is heavy as hell.
I also have the 8800 gt and run my dual core e6750 with only a 500 watt antec earthwatts psu,All this talk of needing 800 watts etc is nuts unless you are running every extra and maybe 4 hd and even then people are over doing it,I guess they just like paying for electricity,I havent had any problems with my pc since I got it.
That is a very nice system mate and should bring you alot of gaming fun.
Also I just seen you are going to buy cyrsis,It is a hell of a game and even on my rig everything is set to very high so I am sure you will have a great experience also
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Well this is my first NICE gaming rig. All previous builds I went budget and this time I said screw it and went with some nicer things. It is paying off however.
I always hated walking into bestbuy and reading specs required just to see if i could run it decently. Now I am confident I can walk in, pick out a game, and know I will have a good time. Feels good!
And yeah, the psu i have was 144 shipped from newegg in december of 06. It is around 10 cheaper right now, depending on if the 10 bucks off is still there, and makes me confident that it still is still considered a "high end" psu. That, and I agree on the electricity bill.
Even on some VERY cold boots, being winter and I turn off my old furnace and heaters when I leave..{i dont want a dang fire} and come home to a chilly house, it boots right up and screams into windows.