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For sportsbetting and poker? Get the cheapest netbook you can find and plug in an external monitor. Get booze and hookers with the money saved.
Oops, I overlooked gaming. Which games do you want to play, and on which resolution?
It would be easier to help if you had the names of your components in your OP in addition to the links.
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Oh, right forgot to mention that. I'm on a 24in monitor... so 1900x1200? As for which games... SC2 mostly, some Diablo 3.. might mess with Final Fantasy 14. I have Dragon Age so I definitely want to play that. From what I've read the Radeon 5770 should be able to handle most games out now fairly well on 1900x1200.
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your quite overspending on memory and ram
I'd suggest taking a 770 mobo and cheaper ram, then you can make some place free for a triple/quadcore cpu.
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FragKrag put together an epically awesome thread going through what everything that was needed in relation to SC2 and computers.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=113094
He'll probably also pop his head in here and give you some advice... I suggest you take it, since the guy really knows his stuff.
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Yeah, ditch the ram. just get some 1066 ram ftw.
go higher only if you are confident you can overclock it.
mind you amd stock cooler are pretty bad so you have to squeeze in a cooler.
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yeah, the major reason ppl upgrade their computers is to get to that next level in sportsbetting and poker.
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Get a better proc.
Get a quad.
i5-750 or phenom II 955 BE
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On March 03 2010 21:12 Pakje wrote:
your quite overspending on memory and ram
I'd suggest taking a 770 mobo and cheaper ram, then you can make some place free for a triple/quadcore cpu.
Thanks for the suggestion. When I'm capping sports I have at least 20 Firefox windows opened and I'd be streaming 3-4 games at the same time so I thought I'd spend a lil extra on RAM. From what I've read a dual core CPU is plenty good enough and that there's only a handful of games that even uses more than 2 cores.
On March 03 2010 22:04 haduken wrote:
Yeah, ditch the ram. just get some 1066 ram ftw.
go higher only if you are confident you can overclock it.
mind you amd stock cooler are pretty bad so you have to squeeze in a cooler.
Is there a CPU cooler you'd recommend?
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On March 03 2010 22:29 intrudor wrote:
yeah, the major reason ppl upgrade their computers is to get to that next level in sportsbetting and poker.
Yep, spending 1k to build a computer just for betting sports and playing poker.
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I'm gonna need a better power supply if I get a quadcore, huh?
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On March 03 2010 22:59 uhgotosleep wrote:
I'm gonna need a better power supply if I get a quadcore, huh?
mmm it should be ok because Corsair is a good brand but you can always get a Corsair HX520 or a VX550.
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I was recommended a very similar system, and it's working perfectly fine, but the guy recommended an Antec Earthwatts 650w rather than 450. Don't know how much more it'll cost you though.
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On March 03 2010 23:24 sc4k wrote:
I was recommended a very similar system, and it's working perfectly fine, but the guy recommended an Antec Earthwatts 650w rather than 450. Don't know how much more it'll cost you though.
Don't bother with this.
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I'd say, go with a quad core proc (hopefully a BE, really the extra $30 is worth it), better PSU, (Antec Earthwatts 550 watt or better, but that's about all that's required) cheaper RAM (DDR3-1066 can be had at really good timings for cheap) and keep the same videocard.
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