Author Topic: Building a new rig (Read 317 times)

smash · « **on:** March 28, 2006, 05:11:45 PM »

Hi all...

I haven't played AH for a couple of years (994 days -wow.....), mainly because my FLCS died and I couldn't find a reasonable alternative... and then my rig was too old. I'm moving from a Northwood 1.6a OC'd @ 2.2 with a 32 meg vid card to this:

Asus P5WD2-E
Pentium D (775) 920 800 FSB
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
Asus EN7900GT
Patriot 2x1G DDR2 PC2 5600
WD Raptor 74G
PCP&C 510watt
Lian Li PC-1200B

Getting a Cougar with the Hall and Uber mod, and putting a Hall sensor in my RCS.

I want to be able to run AH with all the video goodies enabled/maxed etc. I've got a 19" CRT at the moment and will probably stick with CRT for the future. I would like to know what everyone thinks, and whether this rig will last me for a while. It would be great if one of HTs developers could look this over and let me know what they think. Knowing what you know about the future of the game etc.....

68DevilM · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2006, 06:42:35 PM »

whats the cpu clock at, and id go with a larger hard drive, at least a 120 gig

smash · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2006, 10:26:28 PM »

Its a dual core @ 2.8GHz 800FSB, they claim I can get close to 4.0 GHz out of it with good cooling, but I'm not planning on taking it to the limit.

Storage isn't really an issue, I have two servers in the basement, one primarily as a PVR and the other for file storage (mirrored 160g drives). Cat5e to a Cisco hub and a PIX501 for the firewall.

Kinda curious about the video card.... can't decide between the 7900 and an ATI.

As an aside, I picked up my Cougar tonight. Its freaking heavy. Can't wait to get the Hall sensors in it.

Wolfala · « **Reply #3 on:** March 28, 2006, 11:09:21 PM »

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Originally posted by smash
Its a dual core @ 2.8GHz 800FSB, they claim I can get close to 4.0 GHz out of it with good cooling, but I'm not planning on taking it to the limit.

Storage isn't really an issue, I have two servers in the basement, one primarily as a PVR and the other for file storage (mirrored 160g drives). Cat5e to a Cisco hub and a PIX501 for the firewall.

Kinda curious about the video card.... can't decide between the 7900 and an ATI.

As an aside, I picked up my Cougar tonight. Its freaking heavy. Can't wait to get the Hall sensors in it.

I've got a 7900 GTX by PNY. Its doublewide - i've got 2 of them - so the only trouble to think about is space. With those installed and the massive radiator they've got - i've only got 1 PCI slot free for anything else.

Are you thinking Intel or AMD? Type of RAM? HD,Motherboard combo, etc?

68DevilM · « **Reply #4 on:** March 29, 2006, 08:26:54 AM »

ive been looking at ati's video cards, sum preety nice cards out there

smash · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:28:58 PM »

Updated:

Asus P5WD2-E
Pentium D (775) 920 800 FSB
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
2 ea Scythe 120mm fans
Sapphire ATI X1900XT 512 meg
Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 graphics card cooler
Kingston HyperX 2x1G DDR2 PC2 7200
WD Raptor 74G
PCP&C 510watt
Lian Li PC-1200A Plus

Blew the budget.... but I'm hoping to go another couple of years without an upgrade.

smash · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2006, 03:07:30 PM »

Got it together... maxed everything in AH and I'm getting about 74 FPS offline. I've only been able to get online once and only for a few minutes, but the FPS seems slightly less. The 820 is clocked at 3.6 g with no problems... haven't oc'd the vid card yet, or monkeyed with the memory.