ShankerXV

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I'm going to get

AMD FX-60
2GB Ram
148GB 10000RPM HD
250GB HD
ati x1900 xtx

This sytem will mainly be for gaming. It should be good for awhile right?
 

chuckshissle

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SHould be quite zippy, as the 1900XTX is about the best single card solution there is right now for gaming...

(If it were me, hypothetically looking to save $300 or so, I'd bump the processor selection down a single notch, and get an Opteron 180 dual core instead, as most games played at high res are gpu bound, where the extra 200 MHz on core speeds will usually gain you only .5-1 frames/sec in games such as FEAR; I'd also save another $100 by getting the 1900XT instead, with a core/mem speed only barely below the XTX...; with the $400 saved total, you have an option of getting an even better video card 18 months later...!)

If the money is unimportant, get the FX60, though, they rock~
 

kolemunky

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ive got that rig, except for the xtx.....im bored already.....lol. I got a gtx cheap and im gonna wait on the g80. fx-60 is fast but not worth what i paid for it. should have gone with the opty!!!
 

pcrig

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I'm going to get

AMD FX-60
2GB Ram
148GB 10000RPM HD
250GB HD
ati x1900 xtx

This sytem will mainly be for gaming. It should be good for awhile right?

AMD 64 X2 is definitively a better deal!

No need for 10,000 RPM HD, you are NOT editing videos!
SATA II 7200 with 16 MB RAM is to good !!!

As far as for dual Video, it is just a marketing gimmick to suck fools out of the money, unless you do stock market and need 4 monitors or more.

My RIG:
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Lian Li PC 602 black
Enermax 600 W Eg 701 Noisetaker 24 pin
ASUS A8N SLI Premium (dual RAID - 8 SATA ports) 939 (with external extended 2 SATA ports))
Athlon 64 4800+ 2X (stock AMD fan GOOD enough!) 929
(2 x 512) PC3200 DDR400 OCZ 1024ELDCGE-K (2-2-2-5-1T @ 2.8 Volts) 184 pin
ASUS ATi X700-X PCI Express
Plextor PX-716 DVD +/_ RW
Plextor Premium CD RW
SB Audigy 4 PRO
Klipsch Pro Media 5.1
19" View Sonic LCD
LiteOn DVD 16 x
PROXIM AP 4000,
PROXIM PCI 802.11 a/b/g
8 x 250 GB Hitachi SATA 10 (300)
2 x 60 G PATA Western Digital (old stock)
(no floppy)
Zippy EL-715
Logitech Di noVo Desktop Bluetooth (laser)
HP LaserJet 4350TN
HP DeskJet 9680
(OS on each dedicated drive - booted by selected drive through the chage of boot drive in the BIOS )
LINUX Red Hat 9
Knoppix 4.02 on CD
Windows 200 PRO
WINDOWS XP PRO
(waiting for 64 bit VISTA)
IBM (LENOVO) notebook on 802.11 a/b/g
Nero 7.02B (NO to ROXIO!)

Other:
remote controled microwave oven powered by INTEL P4 chips
 

Maxiius

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woot kolemunky!

Finally another person besides me with an FX-60.

fx-60 is fast but not worth what i paid for it. should have gone with the opty!!!

Agreed to save cash, but not agreed since everyone and their mother's uncle has optys. :lol:
 

Maxiius

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After working 21 weeks straight at a telephone company in Katrina affected areas, working 13 on 1 off, 12 hour days. I believe it was worth treating myself to a little something special :)
 

kais

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if i were you i would gets x2 because the fx just keeps comin and comin and u wont need that much power youll probably only use about 19 percent of ur cpu i have a x2 4800 and im only using 29 percent of my cpu