CPU: AM3 x6 1090T Black Edition MOBO: Asus Crosshair-IV Formula GPU: Asus 1GB HD5770 PSU: Thermaltake EVO Blue Gaming 650W Case: Coolermaster RC-692 Advanced II Black Screen: 24” 2ms Benq G2420HD RAM: Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB), PC-12800 (1600MHz) DDR3, Dominator GT DHX+ Fan HD: Western Digital 1TB, Caviar Black, SATA-III, 7200RPM, 64MB Cache DVDR/W: Sony 24X SATA OEM DVD Burner Black PRICE: CPU: 339 MOB: 345 GPU: 189 PSU: 144 CAS: 125 SCR: 219 RAM: 265 HDD: 125 DVD: 39 TOTAL: $1790 AUD I was limited on cost.. Soo yeah haha Anything to change ect note my budget was 1800.
Ahhh several things... CPU: If you've read the AMD vs Intel thread or even viewed the poll - I'd highly suggest picking up an i7. RAM: You're only picking up two sticks of 2Gb each. While I agree that 4 Gbs is plenty, your motherboard should support Tri channel, and to use this you'll need three sticks of equal amounts. I love Corsair RAM, but there are other alternatives that may allow you to lower the price of your build if that's at all a concern. MOBO: Until recently I only purchased Asus motherboards, but my most recent build I went with a Gigabyte Mobo and I couldn't be happier. It overclocks far better then my previous Asus Striker Extreme, it's significantly more forgiving, and cost quite a bit less. However, again, I respect the brand Asus. Screen: I like Benq actually. HD: I strongly suggest buying two drives and using one for storage and place programs you'd want to run fast on your master. I run with a SSD drive, but if that's too pricey I would look for a WD Raptor drive to run as your main, and any HD you want to run as your slave. GPU: Like Intel vs AMD, I strongly believe nVidia is out performing ATI. I strongly suggest this: GIGABYTE GV-N460OC-1GI GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125333 For the money. Other notes: I love modular PSU's, and I never use the stock cooling fan that comes with the CPU.
3 slots is for i7. I would give you a tip to buy a SSD to put your OS and WoW in since wow is constantly loading small files from a giant library. You will still got some loading issues/players not showing up fast in places like dalaran with an ordinary hdd.
Or a 5850/5870, less power usage than the Nvidia cards and the proces have dropped some over the last couple months. However, WoW is more CPU-intensive so upgrading the video card might not matter all that much. SSD is a must. I bought a cheap 64GB one to store my OS and WoW, and it's so much faste rload times it's incredible.
So it means that wow need a good CPU more than a good GPU? I need to run 10 World Of Warcraft or more. Don't know what to chose ( CPU / RAM / GPU ). And is a SSD so Useful?
I would get an ATI 5870 GPU (and yes im a nvidia fanboy). I don't know much about the new AMD boards/cpu's but if it supports tripple channel then you should get a 3x2gb kit. I would still go with Intel though, pick up a cheap i7 920 and a decent x58 board.
it'll run just fine, personally i'd go with the i7 cpu and a ssd drive for the os/wow install. i'd at least get the ssd if you're set on the amd chip.
I've built many computers over the years, and I've had more issues with my current one an any other.. I have an i7 and 5870.. 5870: When it launched drivers were a joke, had tons of problems and crashes due to it, it's gotten better but I still have plenty of things going on that shouldnt. Also their software to manage your card, CCC, is shit compared to nVidias. Not to mention myfirst one was DoA. i7: I got the Lynnfield, and for some one who loves to overclock, I was very disappointed. Even with a conservative overclock I still have crashes, and to get a decent overclock with stability requires pumping up the vcore way past what they specified as the limit. Might be different now too, but I know when I got my Lynnfield, the available MBs to support it were very limited in their specs, compared to AMD and older socket intel boards. And I would 2nd the SSD idea, so worth it, disk based drives are such a bottleneck on todays systems, it makes a world of difference. I got a 128 with windows and my apps/games, and 1 terabyte disk drive for storage. plenty of space and great performance. An SSD will give you more performance return for your money than paying the premium price difference between the best cpu and gpu and cheaper more sensible models.
One more vote for an SSD. I don't personally have one on my home computer but thats because I gave myself a $300 budget for upgrades (upgraded CPU/MoBo/Ram) about a month ago. Next time I need an upgrade SSD's will be much cheaper and that will be my top upgrade. If you have a budget of $1800 you can easily make room for it. I won't input on the CPU/MoBo because you are planning on running multiple instances of WoW but from my experience WoW is not graphics heavy so you would want CPU and more RAM. Oh and out of the 5-6 computers I have built I have gone with Gigabyte and never had any trouble.
Well. Do you think I'll be able to open more than 10 wow with a GTX 460 and an i5 750 or 760 and 6 or 8 GB of Ram?
I run 5 WoW with : Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 4096 Mo, Type: DDR2 No SSD, no overclocking... So yeah, you can run 10 WoW on this PC, and with 1800 you can have 3 of them
