› ›

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In Register

Quick Links

Ordered computer

TheFighterTheFighter Member Posts: 90
in Hardware

Not a complete computer wiz but I've ordered a computer as it was quite clearly better than my current one. How do you think this system will do on a game such as EVE Online in a 500 man battle with full graphics?

 

Graphics Card:  ATI Radeon HD 4850 1024MB GDDR3

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

Memory: Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P nForce 430 PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Optical Drive: LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter

Power Supply: Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 7850+ Black Edition 2.80GHz

Processor Cooler: AMD Black Edition Approved CPU Cooler

 

Comments

  • Loke666Loke666 Member EpicPosts: 21,441

    Doubled posted, ignore this.

  • Loke666Loke666 Member EpicPosts: 21,441


    Originally posted by TheFighter



    Graphics Card:  ATI Radeon HD 4850 1024MB GDDR3
    Acceptable card. Not great but ok I guess.

    Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
    One of the better regular harddrives. Not as fast a a Raptor or a SSD but it does it works well and Seagate makes good stuff.

    Memory: Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel
    Corsair makes good stuff. 4Gb is enough. Good.

    Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P nForce 430 PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
    Gigabyte do give a lot for little cash. Not in the same class as A-BIT but not bad.

    Optical Drive: LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter
    DVD drives are not that different. LG is fine.

    Power Supply: Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply
    Uh-oh. Corsair do make superb PSUs but 400W is not enough. You need at least 450W but you should probably get 500W to be sure.
    ATI Radeon HD 4850 System Requirements
    * PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard

    * 450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode)

    Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 7850+ Black Edition 2.80GHz


    Processor Cooler: AMD Black Edition Approved CPU Cooler
    I have no clue but I am sure it is ok. I reccomend a good cooler for any AMD, it have always been AMDs weakest point, it like to overheat. And a good fan doesn't cost much.

     

     It should work fine but you can never be 100% sure until you tried it. The GFX card is somewhat weak compared to both ATI and Nvidias top products. The rest is fine, except the PSU.

     

  • noquarternoquarter Member Posts: 1,170

    You made excellent choices for the price point, exactly how I woulda built it. The 4850 is the best ~$100 GPU out there, in many games almost as fast as a 9800 GTX+ which is 40 bucks more. The 7850+ is also a really good value.


    A quality 400W PSU is just fine too as the video card manufacturers always overestimate the PSU requirements to take into account the cheap ass PSU's that overrate themselves. Take a look at this:
    http://xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/system-wattage_6.html#sect0

    That system has an E8600 and a Radeon 4850 and draws 189W max. A 7850+ takes about 20W more than that but still right around the 50% load mark for a 400W PSU which is great.


    Now as to the real question about how it performs in Eve, I don't know how much Eve requires but someone said in another thread they did massive PVP fights with a lesser system than you just posted so I think you're good.

Sign In or Register to comment.