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snakemaw · « **on:** January 28, 2005, 04:55:50 AM »

what is a good all around system to purchase with a primary use of playing aces high?

Rasker · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2005, 08:36:20 AM »

From what I read in here, a system built around an AMD Athlon 3000 or higher CPU, socket 754 or (dual channel memory) socket 939, compatible mobo plus decent amount of ram, is now the price/performance "sweet spot", plus whatever the cheapest vid card is that will not bottleneck the above system. Such a system should provide a couple years of very decent play without devastating your wallet. Only my sense from what I read in here tho.

Kev367th · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2005, 01:17:19 PM »

Wouldn't use the socket 754 personally, its as high in clockspeed as it's gonna go.
With a 939 AMD64 you will also have option later in year of using a "dual core" CPU which will not be available for socket 754.

eagl · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2005, 01:36:12 PM »

If I was starting from scratch, I'd probably go to tigerdirect and get one of their socket 949 athlon 64 barebones combos. You can get a great deal there, under $400 for a case, mobo, cpu, power supply. Then start adding the finishing touches. 80 gig hard drive for $60 more, Nvidia GeForce 6600GT or 6800, 1 gig (2x512 meg sticks) pc 3200 or faster memory, and you're in business with a system that is going to be within 10-15% of the speed of the fastest out there.

If you have the extra bucks, get a GF 6800GT or one of the more expensive X800 vid cards. I have a GF6800GT and it's a nice match to my Athlon 64 3200.

If possible, get a 90nm "winchester" socket 939 athlon64 since they run cooler and maybe a bit faster than the older socket 939 cpus, but they'll probably cost just a bit more.

snakemaw · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2005, 11:21:52 PM »

Thanks alot for the ideas!!!!!:D