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Title: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Roadkill on September 20, 2010, 10:49:34 pm
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Motherboard: Asus M4A89GTD Pro USB3
Memory: 4GB DDR3 1333mhz (2x 2GB)
Graphics card: 2 x ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB (Crossfire)
PSU: 400W Corsair CX4000W

What do you think? I've not really done much research as of yet so I need your opinion.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Rexham on September 20, 2010, 10:52:45 pm
Monster! The 2 5770's will beat a 5870 or a 5850 at least.

I'm not sure the power supply will be able to cope though, I think you'd need atleast 500W for 2 5770's.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Rexham on September 20, 2010, 11:20:22 pm
You should go for a 600W decent brand power supply, to be honest. I know someone who had a 5770 and they needed a 500W PSU to power it (... and that's 1 5770).
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Roadkill on September 21, 2010, 12:00:55 am
Yeah it's only 16 pounds more for a 550W Thermaltake PSU.

http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/ShowInfo.asp?SIArray=919,&cd=PSU (http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/ShowInfo.asp?SIArray=919,&cd=PSU)

 :ps: Sorry about my previous posts, using the pound sign seemed to delete the rest of my post. :conf:
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Dave on September 21, 2010, 01:14:57 am
You shitting me....400-550 Watt? ....Get 750-1000 Watt, you'll need the extra juice.

Up the RAM to 6-8GB to compensate for the overkill 6 core 3.2 GHz processor and it looks fine in my eyes.

(Bearing in mind I spend most of my time buying parts, assembling rigs, and selling them to people I know.)

DinoPC is great btw, I bought the barebones/skeleton/base of my current PC from them. Although, it's comming up for two years in July 2011, so i'll need to think about replacing and upgrading parts too.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Roadkill on September 21, 2010, 08:47:07 am
You shitting me....400-550 Watt? ....Get 750-1000 Watt, you'll need the extra juice.

Up the RAM to 6-8GB to compensate for the overkill 6 core 3.2 GHz processor and it looks fine in my eyes.

(Bearing in mind I spend most of my time buying parts, assembling rigs, and selling them to people I know.)

DinoPC is great btw, I bought the barebones/skeleton/base of my current PC from them. Although, it's comming up for two years in July 2011, so i'll need to think about replacing and upgrading parts too.

I think I'll just get a cheap 700W EZCool PSU. I'm starting off with 4GB RAM but I'll definitely upgrade to 8GB in the future.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Bilbo on September 21, 2010, 11:23:06 am
Good if you will even be using 400W...

Anyways, why 2x 5770? You could get for the same price a GTX480 or 5870.
5770 is only a bit better when compared to an old 4850 or 8800GT.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Roadkill on September 21, 2010, 06:56:44 pm
Good if you will even be using 400W...

Anyways, why 2x 5770? You could get for the same price a GTX480 or 5870.
5770 is only a bit better when compared to an old 4850 or 8800GT.

GTX480 is another 120 pounds more expensive and apparently doesn't offer much more performance than the 2 5770s, same story with the 5870 which is about 70 pounds more expensive.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: Todor on September 21, 2010, 10:32:49 pm
GTX460 SLI nuff said.
Title: Re: Purchasing a new rig soon...
Post by: RailWayGuy on September 22, 2010, 07:55:45 pm
its ok imo, tho why would you need 8gb
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