Worth it?

[Indiana_Jones]

http://www.cellotech.co.nz/products/...ng/WKDCELLO103

Thinking of getting this for gaming. Or this:

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/syst...sp?systypeid=4

Thoughts?

-Indy

[bogan]

Depends what sort of gaming you want to get into. Most of it looks like older tech stuff, which may not offer the same bang for bucks as newer stuff. But does need less bucks overall.

[Indiana_Jones]

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Rome_II_Recommended_Specs

Just run of the mill games, nothing too serious, but I do like Total War and having the graphics up

-Indy

[bogan]

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Rome_II_Recommended_Specs

Just run of the mill games, nothing too serious, but I do like Total War and having the graphics up

-Indy

Should do that pretty easy.

Another option might be the new ivy bridge CPU and it's iGPU may be able to run that, which leaves room for a pretty effective partial upgrade at a later date.

[Indiana_Jones]

Should do that pretty easy.

Another option might be the new ivy bridge CPU and it's iGPU may be able to run that, which leaves room for a pretty effective partial upgrade at a later date.

Any examples?

Don't mind doing the upgrade box with decent CPU & Motherboard which I can then upgrade the rest of it over time.

eg

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/comp...p?partid=19361

-Indy

[bogan]

Any examples?

Don't mind doing the upgrade box with decent CPU & Motherboard which I can then upgrade the rest of it over time.

-Indy

http://ark.intel.com/products/65520

3570K is the mainstream gaming CPU atm, with intel HD 4000 iGPU (seems like the only 4000 series iGPU model)

Asus P8Z77-V is a good mobo

probably 6-700 bucks for those two.

should be able to get the rest for around what you were looking at spending. The iGPU does Dx11 and ram should meet the requirements for that one.

[bogan]

Yeh that example one is pretty much what my rigs run. But with the PRO version of that mobo, which is think is really just better power management for overclocking.

[Indiana_Jones]

Won't be doing any overclocking etc, just kinda a stick it in and play sort of guy _b

-Indy

[bogan]

Won't be doing any overclocking etc, just kinda a stick it in and play sort of guy _b

-Indy

Yeh, which means you don't need the K series CPU, but I'm not sure if the non K series iGPU is up to it...

[Gremlin]

Depends what sort of gaming you want to get into. Most of it looks like older tech stuff, which may not offer the same bang for bucks as newer stuff. But does need less bucks overall.

Haswell is the latest chipset for Intel, LGA1150. Ivy bridge is the older stuff (LGA1155). Not familiar with the AMD range.

[bogan]

Haswell is the latest chipset for Intel, LGA1150. Ivy bridge is the older stuff (LGA1155). Not familiar with the AMD range.

So it is, that all happened pretty under the radar, I'm guessing not a huge performance improvement over ivy bridge then?

[Gremlin]

So it is, that all happened pretty under the radar, I'm guessing not a huge performance improvement over ivy bridge then?

Haven't read up on it at all. Ivy Bridge was just fine, had a sweet motherboard choice for good quality builds.

But hey, lets just change things coz we can

[yod]

I built a new beast a few months back:

AMD 8-core FX8350 Black Edition @ 4.0Ghz (will overclock easily) with a Deepcool 90mm Heatsink Fan setup (stock one is shite and fucking noisy)
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 mainboard
16GB Ripjaws RAM 1866
3TB SATA HDD
Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB DDR5 (OC) video
CoolerMaster mid case
FSP 750Watt PSU

That was about $1400 all up (already had monitor) and it fucking rips along

[Indiana_Jones]

Sounds sweet, where did you get your components from?

-Indy

[yod]

Sounds sweet, where did you get your components from?

-Indy

The Deepcool unit from Ascent as that was an afterthought and I usually get components from them but I know a guy who has an account with PBTech so I could get it all marginally cheaper through him. Pays to keep an eye on Mighty Ape as well as some of their specials on components and rigs can be pretty good too