dual core or not for gaming

[faye]

Hi,

want to build a good performance gaming setup all the time,
will dual core such as AMD X2 3800+ do way better than ordinary AMD athlon 64 3800+

The reason i choose AMD because i don't see anyone using INTEL anymore... and all of my pc at home are INTEL, this time will give AMD a try. I doubt no one is going to argue with me this time...

will play Quake 4 and Fear and these kind of games.
Will get a 7800GT or something around this range. (not going to get anything higher because of budget.)

Ram : Corsair 1gb to 1.5gb
motherobard, don't know which one yet, but may prefer Asus and gigabyte

talking about overclockable,, is corsair good to be oc? or OCZ? but it is a little pricey.

Thank you

 

[biff 24 2000]

i would get the x2, the 7800gt would be a good card for yea, try to get ocz if you are going to be overclocking.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: biff 24 2000
i would get the x2, the 7800gt would be a good card for yea, try to get ocz if you are going to be overclocking.

:thumbsup:

if you have a choice of 1.5gb OCZ or 2gb corsair, go with the corsair.

 

[Ricemarine]

Apparently Nvidia is making drivers that utilize dual cores, which is a good thing...

But get the opteron 165, cheaper, bigger cache. great ocer!...

For motherboards, get an Epox, for DFI will do you no good since you have corsair ram (incompatibiliy, steered me away from it)...

Also, get 1 GB of G.skill DDR500 ram, and add a 2nd stick later 🙂

 

[Shizzle]

Originally posted by: faye
Hi,

want to build a good performance gaming setup all the time,
will dual core such as AMD X2 3800+ do way better than ordinary AMD athlon 64 3800+

geee you are getting exactly what i am getting! 😀 YAY


if you would like to know what im getting this is it so far 😀

AMD Athlon 64 (939) X2 Dual Core 3800+
Asus A8N-SLI
1G Corsair DDR400
OR
1G (2x512M) Kingston Value DDR400
Thermaltake Suprano Black Case (400W TT PSU)
Seagate 8m SATA 200G Hard Disk
256MB Gigabyte 7800GT VIVO
17" Samsung 730BF
Pioneer 110 OEM Black D.L. 16x DVDRW
Black 1.44M Floppy Drive
Logitech keyboard + Optical Mouse
Logitech X530 5.1 Speakers
Windows XP Pro

 

[faye]

how big of advantage is ddr2 over ddr?

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: faye
how big of advantage is ddr2 over ddr?

No

 

[topdoubledigit]

well it is the Evolution of DDR technology, for gaming DDR2 is a MUST BUY! 🙂

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: topdoubledigit
well it is the Evolution of DDR technology, for gaming DDR2 is a MUST BUY! 🙂

DDR2 is actually inferior to DDR at this point in time, because only Intel motherboards support it.

OP, are you building a whole box or whole PC? What's your budget?

I suggest a Dual-core Opteron, because regardless of clockspeed all current games will give acceptable performance on all current socket 939 cpus, but future games will make use of SMP more and more. Current games will be limited just by your video card.

 

[topdoubledigit]

WOW, that 6MB Internet connection is for more than one PC, unless your Downloading Stuff, Updating Steam, Surfing the Net and Playing Online all at the same time!

 

[faye]

yes, i do everything with just a single 6mb connection which i think i need to get a faster connection.

However i just don't know which to get...