03.10.2008, 11:38
Building is like legos. Its pretty easy man. Go for it.
As for the board. Yeah. Intel boards are pretty generic. Im surprised that guy mentioned one.
Check into asus or gigabyte etc. I recommend asus but Im sure there are others that have their own favorite.
You could go with a dual core for now and then get a quad core chip later....
but I would hold off till the i7 chips come out in a month.
It will be a new socket and of course better processing power. So you might want to just wait and get one of those.
As well, the new chipsets that will be coming for the i7 family... will allow BOTH ATI and Nvidia SLI modes. No longer just limiting you to the ati crossfire platform.
between dual and quad... its all about the threads. If the program is written to handle more than one thread. You are golden. If not, oh well.
IL2 is not, so it runs on ONE core. But.. you can assign other programs to run on the other core at the same time.
New games like BOB will be multi core compatible.
The more cores, the more can be processed at one time.
THe new i7 quad core chips will be multi threaded, allowing the chip to work on 8 threads at one time (the current quad cores work on 4 threads)
Ram.... get 4 GB. (2 X 2GB) Even though you will have XP, it will still recognize 3.2 to 3.5 GB.
I have noticed that going from even 2 GB to 4 GB has pretty much ended all stuttering. At 2GB was still getting some stuttering on the larger maps when flying online.
We were trying to use the new Aplin map on our DCG server, (Dual core with 2GB of ram on it). And after a short flight the server went down with an out of memory error on the controller lol.
That comes into play with these new maps like slovakia, the slot and newer ones that are very large and RAM intensive.
I recommend Corsair Dominator ram
The video card.. pretty much on track. Both EVGA and BFG offer lifetime warranties so those two make the top of the list. Very good cards.
An 8800 will get you by nicely.. and you can upgrade later.
The HDDs... Id recommend getting some new faster SATA drives. They are rather cheap at this point. Just get yoru old drives copied over onto the new ones.
Power supply.. 750.. and dont spend less than $90 on it. Cheap power supplies will kill stuff.
I had one take down my AGP card. Thermaltake, corsair, Nspire, cooler Master, Silverstone, OCZ and BFG are just a few good makers.
As for the board. Yeah. Intel boards are pretty generic. Im surprised that guy mentioned one.
Check into asus or gigabyte etc. I recommend asus but Im sure there are others that have their own favorite.
You could go with a dual core for now and then get a quad core chip later....
but I would hold off till the i7 chips come out in a month.
It will be a new socket and of course better processing power. So you might want to just wait and get one of those.
As well, the new chipsets that will be coming for the i7 family... will allow BOTH ATI and Nvidia SLI modes. No longer just limiting you to the ati crossfire platform.
between dual and quad... its all about the threads. If the program is written to handle more than one thread. You are golden. If not, oh well.
IL2 is not, so it runs on ONE core. But.. you can assign other programs to run on the other core at the same time.
New games like BOB will be multi core compatible.
The more cores, the more can be processed at one time.
THe new i7 quad core chips will be multi threaded, allowing the chip to work on 8 threads at one time (the current quad cores work on 4 threads)
Ram.... get 4 GB. (2 X 2GB) Even though you will have XP, it will still recognize 3.2 to 3.5 GB.
I have noticed that going from even 2 GB to 4 GB has pretty much ended all stuttering. At 2GB was still getting some stuttering on the larger maps when flying online.
We were trying to use the new Aplin map on our DCG server, (Dual core with 2GB of ram on it). And after a short flight the server went down with an out of memory error on the controller lol.
That comes into play with these new maps like slovakia, the slot and newer ones that are very large and RAM intensive.
I recommend Corsair Dominator ram
The video card.. pretty much on track. Both EVGA and BFG offer lifetime warranties so those two make the top of the list. Very good cards.
An 8800 will get you by nicely.. and you can upgrade later.
The HDDs... Id recommend getting some new faster SATA drives. They are rather cheap at this point. Just get yoru old drives copied over onto the new ones.
Power supply.. 750.. and dont spend less than $90 on it. Cheap power supplies will kill stuff.
I had one take down my AGP card. Thermaltake, corsair, Nspire, cooler Master, Silverstone, OCZ and BFG are just a few good makers.