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B00MH3ADSH0T wrote:

Would this be a good rig to built for $863 aus?
$786

CPU - Core 2 Duo E6300 - $294.80
   same - $249
GFX - XpertVision 7600GS - $147.40 < PCIE
   Gigabyte 7600GS - $135 < PCIE
or Gigabvte 7600GT - $215
Motherboard - Asrock ConRoe865PE - $92.40 < Only DDR1 and AGP
   Asus P5VD2-MX -$85 < DDR2 and PCIE
HDD - Western Digital WD800JD 80GB - $82.50
   WD 80Gb SATA - $63
Memory - OCZ 1 GB (2x512mb) DDR PC-3200 - $191.40 < DDR1 400MHz
   1Gb Corsair DDR 2 5300 - $199 < DDR2 667MHz
or 2Gb Corsair DDR 2 5300 - $399
Case - Basic black case with 400W psu - $55
   Yeah whatever case - $55

Ill be keeping my old monitor and using my own floppy and cd drives.
is there anything else i would need to buy? or is that all the parts i need to build it?

This is Melbourne prices. Plus it'll all fit together as I've built this machine before.

Soundcard.. You could but its not essential. Noises still come out the speakers with onboard sound so you can get a X-Fi later on if your not happy with it X-FI Xtreme Music - $178

As Cyborg said, like Lego. Very simple.

What's everyone else think of this too?

I got these prices and items off www.megapc.com.au do you know anyother australian sites that sell for good prices and ship to nsw?

Also cheez your saying that the xpertvision 7600gs wont work with my asrock motherboard because it doesnt support pci-e?

where did you get these prices from cause on megapc.com.au that asus mobo was $119

would a corsair vs1gbkit533d2 1gb 2x512mb value select pc-4200 ddr2 work with that asus mobo you mentioned?

OK this is the new rig im going to get:

core 2 due e6300

xpertvision geforce 7600gs

corsair 1gb ddr2 ram value select pc-4200, 240 pin ddr2 non-ecc unbuffered

Asus p5vd2-mx motherboard

samsung sataII 80gb hdd 7200rpm 8mb cache

all this for $880 aus (about $20 more then the rig i posted on the other page)

Would all this hardware work with eachother? and how much better is this then the other one i posted on other page?

Last edited by B00MH3ADSH0T (2006-12-13 05:25:17)

I would not recommend anything below an Pentium 820 processor.  The 805 series drops you down to 533FSB where as the 820 and on up uses the 800FSB and can be overclocked very well from what I have experimented with.  I would also recommend getting at least 2GB DDR2 (try to get 667MHZ mem, dont get 800MHZ you will run into bottleneck issues with the processor) memory as it is pretty cheap right now.  I would also recommend spending a little extra $ and go with the 7600GT vs the GS there is an incredible performance gain by going with the GT, I have included a link that shows the benchmark results for the 7600GS vs the 7600GT.  I would also recommend getting at least (1) SATA-150 10K Raptor drive.  I've noticed that BF2 uses the Windows page file alot while in game, the 10K spindle speed and 16MB buffer will make a ton of difference in load time and performance.  Its a little extra $ but will give you the extra added boost that you are looking for.

http://www.ixbt.com/video2/g73-1-d.shtml#p16

System Specs:
Pentium D 840 3.2Ghz
2 GB DDR2 533MHZ OCZ Spec Ops
Western Digital SATA-150 10K Raptor 36.7GB
ECS 570SLIT Motherboard 570Nvidia chipset SLI board
(2) EVGA 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 Graphics Cards in SLI mode

Great System for BF2

Last edited by darthazeem (2006-12-13 10:27:15)

you can get a nice dual core processor for about $100-$150 bucks that ll run just about anything.. i d be more concerned about ram and video card

B00MH3ADSH0T wrote:

1 gb of ram and a 7600gs whats so bad about that? what kind of settings would i run if i had a e6300 core 2 duo

High for most stuff, except textures, due to only 1GB of RAM, 2x AA. You should probably get decent frame rates on that rig with those settings.

I think.