EPTbtw, fan of Jin Yong novels?
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
btw, fan of Jin Yong novels? | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
5770 costs way more than $100, you'd also need a new PSU to go with that | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
I haven't really checked the prices of configured and prebuilt systems, but this doesn't look too overpriced for what's in it: Athlon II X4 630, HD 5670, 4 GB DDR3, 500 GB 7200 rpm, 600W supply (according to the label), Win7 Home Premium 64-bit, keyboard, mouse. I won't straight-up recommend it for your purposes though. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On August 01 2010 06:50 FragKrag wrote: it's not an AM3 motherboard it's an AM2 motherboard Oh well if he has an Athlon II he can get a phenom II. That was the idea. Didn't look at his motherboard, just his Cpu. edit: took a look at his second post nvm  | ||
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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
On August 01 2010 11:22 Condor Hero wrote: can you recommend a graphics card? im not so obsessed with playing on ultra as much as playing at least on high without any lag during big battles how about an ati hd 4650 or 4670? im a lot more concerned about lag and fps than ultra settings over just high settings please let me know, im leaning towards buying one from ibuypower also i think i need a new monitor so im not sure what resolution | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
What's your resolution | ||
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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
On August 01 2010 14:12 KOFgokuon wrote: Read all of the posts What's your resolution sorry i edited my post | ||
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s2pid_loser
United States699 Posts
I got a new desktop (i7 quadcore, windows 7, 8gb ram DELL desktop) currently, really low end graphics card so i bought a new one a couple days ago: Radeon HD4870. I'm having trouble installing it I'm not even sure if I can even use it right now cause here's my problem: the hd4870 has 2 ports for molex adapters, but my power supply only has one. The graphics card came with 2 spare adapters but i don't see any way to connect the spare adapter from the card to the power supply. So my question is: Can I not use this graphics card right now? a. If so, is there another high end card i could get that could run on one molex adapter? b. should i get a new power supply? if so, what kind do i buy (link me to one)? P.S. If someone can help me with this, please PM me so I know someone responded to this. Thankyou | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
The HD 4870 requires 2 Six pin connectors. The GPU came with two 2 molex to 1 six pin connectors. You connect the two molex to the six pin and then the six pin to the graphics card along with the six pin on your power supply. | ||
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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
1. how big a difference is there between dual core and quad core? (specifically the AMD Athlon II X2 240(2.8GHz) and the AMD Athlon II X4 630(2.8GHz)) 2. as i understand it, the ATI hd 5670 is superior to the GT240 but how big a difference is there with the memory difference? (specifically between the ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB and NVIDIA GeForce GT240 1GB graphics cards) in other words, if the 5670 is superior to the 240 other things equal does the memory difference matter a lot? thanks for your help, still trying to learn all i can | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
2. The HD 5670 is indeed superior to the GT 240. In general, it is fairly significant if I remember correctly. Make sure when you buy the GT 240 that you get the 512MB GDDR5 version. The 1GB GDDR3 version is inferior to the 512MB GDDR5 version. The size of the memory doesn't matter because the GDDR5 is twice as fast as the GDDR3. The Size of the memory only matters when you start to apply AA, do triple buffering, or go to high resolutions. haduken: I don't see a problem with it. If you really are concerned, get the 1GB. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
On August 01 2010 18:28 haduken wrote: 1GB is like a $100 AUD more Wow, that's really excessive, there's only supposed to be a 30 USD price delta. must be because of demand? but for 1920x1200. 768 MB should work. only when it gets to 2560X1600 do you need the 1GB frame buffer. check out hardwarecanucks review. | ||
GTR
51480 Posts
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
Weird. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
Thank god for stores like MSY. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On August 01 2010 20:07 johanngrunt wrote: Same here in Hong Kong T.T Weird. It's not weird at all. The problem is that countries with a small market have no bargaining leverage on the big suppliers. USA is a mature market with good customer base and the run rates means that companies like newegg can sell to the mass and still make money on tiny margins. They probably sell their bundles at a loss to attract customers. I wouldn't be surprised if HK market is monopolized by one or two suppliers and the retailers are dumped with prices. | ||
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krynis
Canada43 Posts
On August 01 2010 10:01 FragKrag wrote: krynis: A better upgrade would just to buy a motherboard and save the money for a better setup. That setup shouldn't have any problem with high. I don't see any reason to upgrade it and gain minimal performance increases.. I'd like to remind you that while SC2 is a big part of my gaming life right now I do play a lot of other more demanding games, also the cpu upgrade is not minimal at all, my current has ZERO L3 cache and the one I linked has 8mb thats actually pretty big, also while it wont help with SC2 it also has hyperthreading which is very nice in games/programs that support it, the overall speed is also faster, especially when you take the Turbo mode into accout, it automaticly OCs the cores depending on which ones are being used, higher over clock the less the other cores are used. (yay 2 core in sc2) | ||
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R04R
United States1631 Posts
 keep in mind we're mostly building towards sc2 specs. you probably should have mentioned this was for more than sc2 in your original post if you didn't want flak on the overspec'd new pc you're building. | ||
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