[quote who="ernie leo" reply="48" id="3439920"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 44Good points. I'll inquire about them. The board has an AM3+ socket and supports DDR3 & USB3 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4591#sp http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128602 [/quote] Thanks. That at least resolves one concern that was previously expressed, here.
[quote who="starkers" reply="43" id="3439871"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 36So you don't feel the current motherboard is good enough to handle the rest? Because I got the impression from your response: Okay, I just took at the GIGABYTE 970A-DS3P AMD 970 ATX w/ Ultra Durable 4 Classic, On/Off Charge, GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI. and it supports AM2, AM2+ and AM3 CPUs Now the AMD FX-6300 you have chosen is an AM3+ socket, so check to see i
Fair enough. :) And I agree, storage and RAM are always addable at a later date. With a 2 T secondary I shouldn't need the former for some time, but I'm not placing any bets on that. And I still really like the idea of the SSD, especially since, with the sale going on this week, I can get the 128GB one to handle the OS.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="37" id="3439859"] Quoting starkers, reply 35but you really need to set a budget higher than what you may eventually spend... I think his problem is....he needs to spend LESS than what he's currently budgeting on... Limits are limits. The only issue is 'expectations' for an unrealistic budget. It's like building a house....everyone THINKS they are going to be the first to get somethin
[quote who="starkers" reply="35" id="3439855"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 34I just edited my response to answer you while you were answering me. The $71 is an issue. I'll suggest it, but I doubt it will fly. I don't mean to sound negative here, but if there's quibbling over $71.00 extra for a decent motherboard, which isn't a lot by today's standards, then is it wise to be thinking a new build at this time? I realise you're not building anyth
I just edited my response to answer you while you were answering me. ;) The $71 is an issue. I'll suggest it, but I doubt it will fly. My wife wants to see about pricing this rig down at Microcenter early this week, but I'm sure they'll be considerably more expensive.
[quote who="starkers" reply="31" id="3439807"] Motherboard: * GIGABYTE 970A-DS3P AMD 970 ATX w/ Ultra Durable 4 Classic, On/Off Charge, GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI I would be inclined to go with a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3. The higher chipset would mean better CPU response, less chance of a bottleneck with the power of a 6 core CPU... and not much difference in price, either.[/quote] I agree, but these are the only options they offer:</
[quote who="harpo99999" reply="29" id="3439786"] I would suggest reducing the cpu cores (& video card) (unless you will be editing video) to increase the ssd size( you WILL NEED the extra space on it from experience) harpo [/quote] Believe it or not, that's the low end for CPU cores and video card for price at the moment, due to "Valentine's Day sales" they've got going. Configuration's default to the lowest cost, un
Thanks, again! I greatly appreciate this.
[quote who="ernie leo" reply="26" id="3439724"] Quoting Glazunov1, reply 24Oh, and the liquid cooling: part of all the midtowers and fulltowers they offer. It's not optional. If it were, I'd drop it. Do you have to buy a computer from them?[/quote] No, but I've found no other online "customize your own" site aside from Walmart, and that one's laughable. (Well, Puget Systems does this, too, but their prices are ridiculously high, an
[quote who="Kinger" reply="21" id="3439684"]Absolutely a SSD drive with a minimum of 250 Gigs. And at this moment in time I wouldn't touch AMD anything(that's just a personal preference)[/quote] Like I wrote above, not an option. I could do just this and nothing larger, but then there would be no HDD. I'm pushing as is, with the added SSD referred to, above. I'm getting that look from my wife that says she'd considered selling
What stronger CPU would you or others recommend? Oh, and the liquid cooling: part of all the midtowers and fulltowers they offer. It's not optional. If it were, I'd drop it.
I'l [quote who="Primal_Savage" reply="50" id="3439665"] O.K. It is untested (So you know), so please do report anything unusual when playing. I've played a fair bit of CoS myself (including some w/ my Xtra Mods) so I have an idea of the stuff that's in there. Files that have been updated (Other ones should all be CoS compatible already): Xtra_AIPriority3_Mounts.xml (Added some UnitStat_BG)<br
That is excellent news. Thank you. I look forward to using these mods in tandem. [e digicons]k1[/e]
So is this mod completely compatible with CoS and Black Market Bazaar?
I'm really seeing a consensus on the SSD for the OS, and I'm reading that in articles, too. Thanks for the suggestion. Think I'll make that the primary, and the HDD a secondary drive. Decent enough graphics card, given that I don't need the latest, greatest for anything? Extra fans needed?
[quote who="doortech1" reply="15" id="3439614"] Last input. Radeon, really, gddr3, really? Think Nvidia, think gddr5![/quote] Remember, I'm not into twitch games and pulse-pounding action. From what I've read, the GDDR5 gives you a helluva lot more bandwidth for high-end graphics games, but at the cost of latency issues outside them.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="9" id="3439595"] If either/or...then the SSD. Ram you can always upgrade later if you get the urge....eg. I started with 6....and about 12 months later went to 12 [a second 6 the same about half the price] and if I dump all 6 sticks I may yet go to 24 which is the max for this board....but means all-new 24...[/quote] As an old memory management tinkerer, who worshiped QEMM in years gone by, this kind of comment about so much RAM
The best I could manage would be the 64GB SSD, plus the 2 TB HDD. Couldn't spend more than that. If we went that route. I'm also wondering whether Win7 would use Superfetch and ReadyBoost on the HDD, if it was placed on the SSD.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="6" id="3439591"] Go with the more ram...and the 128+ SSD...[/quote] And if it's either/or?
You mean, such as: 64GB ADATA SP900 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 505 MB/s Write (Single Drive) ...with the OS on that, and everything else on the 2TB HDD? How much speed would that add to its operations? And are there any special considerations to keep in mind, assuming we went this way, with access between the two, so it doesn't
Well, I agree, too, but I'm also thinking what it would be look like to be half-snookered as you came across the title, "Sticky Wiki." [e digicons] And no, I was just thinking of the sound of the words. Get your mind out of the gutter.
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="10" id="3438526"] Reply #71 here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/451631/page/3 It seems SD is interested in going as high as 2.0! Therefore, 1.6 appears highly probable. [/quote] That would be excellent news. I think the questions are, what priority is LH getting? And how many resources are being devoted to it? But I suspect we'll find out about the next release when it sh
We've finally decided to take the plunge and buy a new desktop, something we haven't done in oh, around 7 years. Rather than settling for pre-made units, we're checking out the CyberPowerPC site. First off, this isn't intended for a twitch-game machine with surround sound. It needs reasonably decent graphics, lots of RAM, decent draw, plenty of USB ports. A business machine with some game capabilities. This is what I've built up, so far, and I'd
Thanks for the quick response. And a positive one, too. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]