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03-06-2010, 10:01 AM
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Weaning into AM3
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My current configuation is this. AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.1 GHZ 4GB DDR2 G.skill 800MHZ 550 PSU Corsair 512 SAPPHIRE HD4850 Asus M2N-E Mobo Windows XP 32-bit Anyways... I am kind of wanting to wean myself into the new AM3 Platform and was wanting to do this GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3 AM3 AMD 770 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard $94.99 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $165.99 - G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit $159.99 And Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium Things I am salvaged are my case, my hard drive, DVD- Rom drives, PSU 550 watt corsair. Rest is becoming replaced as mentioned. Would this be okay to do? And If I were to upgrade my video card with my future upgrades, what's the biggest video card you think I can run with my current PSU? Thanks, Mark |
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03-06-2010, 10:19 AM
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AM3 does not support triple channel - just dual channel. Your PSU can handle any single video card out there except maybe the real high end ones with dual GPU's.
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03-06-2010, 12:27 PM
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So should I cut my ram down to 4 gigs? I was just trying to provide myself with plenty of headroom because I realized the 64 bit version of Windows 7 utilizes almost 2 gigs of ram. And some games these days, I have noticed are recommending upwards of 2 gigbs. Suggestions?
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03-06-2010, 01:35 PM
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Get either 4 gigs or 8 gigs.
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03-06-2010, 02:41 PM
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Think I will notice any difference between 4 and 8 gibs when gaming?
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03-06-2010, 02:48 PM
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With the games that are out now, chances are not very much. I have 4GB and I have never come to 100% use in any new game like Battlefield bad company 2, Borderlands, Mass Effect 2, Resident Evil 5. Then again I have an overkill on ram for an E5300 lol.
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03-06-2010, 11:58 PM
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are you running ddr3? what are your settings on bfbc2 like? and video card
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03-07-2010, 09:28 AM
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 I have DX9 enabled, low details (for some reason this takes up a good amount of frame rate...I think it's my CPU lol), medium textures/shadows, high effects, no HBAO, 16xAF 0xAA.
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03-09-2010, 04:59 AM
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So... I think I finally got my gear figured out. I was going to go with this motherboard, ram, and processor...
GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3 AM3 AMD 770 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor OH, and slapping on Windows 7 64-bit in place of XP. For 475 bucks I figured that's a heck of an upgrade. Keeping my Sapphire HD4850 for now, and possibly upgrading to a 260 later. Basically, I'll have a whole new computer. Everything I can salvage and I am pretty sure I can run something along the lines of a 260 with a 550 watt power supply. Am I right? |
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03-09-2010, 11:24 AM
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A quality 550 watt will run any single card made except the real high end ones with multiple GPU's on one card.
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03-10-2010, 04:24 AM
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I am wanting to get Windows 7 64 bit. All I am going to play is Starcraft 2 when it comes out. Just making sure that 4 gigs will be more then plenty to run that operating system as well as starcraft 2. if that's the case, I can just scratch everything else out and just get the OS and be happy.
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03-10-2010, 12:11 PM
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4 gigs should be plenty for now. You can always put 4 more gigs in later.
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03-10-2010, 08:36 PM
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I'd opt for a better board...with the 955 make sure the board is 140watt CPU safe and I would use atleast a 790 chipset or newer...
the 770 is ok but not as good as the 790...some of them were finicky with the Phenom IIx4 CPUs
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03-18-2010, 03:35 AM
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Change of plans.
The whole reason I was planning on doing this was because my video card is a PCI Express 2.0 and I wanted to upgrade the motherboard to one that was PCI Express 2.0. My motherboard that I have now is an Asus M2N-E (which is PCI Express x16). Well, I found this mother board, GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3. I am planning on reusing my ram processor and video card. My ram is G.Skill DDR2 800MHZ My processor is Athlon X2 6000+ 3.1 GHZ My video is Sapphire HD4850 512 If I was to replace my M2N-E with GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 would there be any bottlenecks with my system? Such as the ram or processor bottlenecking my video card. Or any other combination of the three lol. I don't have the money to do a full fledged build, or even doing anything such as upgrading processor and ram either right now. I know this sounds like a waste... but I just want to be able to unleash the full bandwidth of my video card so that I can get it's full potential. That is why I am upgrade motherboard for the PCI Express 2.0 feature. BTW, would I really notice much if any improvement from upgrading my mobo from PCI Express 16x to PCI Express 2.0? BTW, I will be installing Windows 7 Home premium 64-bit on this machine. It should play nicely with Modern Warfare 2, Starcraft 2, so on so forth. Thanks, Mark |
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03-18-2010, 12:11 PM
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03-18-2010, 12:20 PM
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The key is this:
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03-18-2010, 12:45 PM
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How do I go about checking to see what mode I am running in? x16 or x8 that is.
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03-18-2010, 02:19 PM
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Quote:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/ |
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03-19-2010, 12:09 PM
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So basically my video card is running at it's full potential? And nothing I do will bring out any more power from it. Even if I upgraded the whole computer and kept my video card the same as it is.
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03-19-2010, 04:34 PM
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The actual video processing is at full potential, yes.
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03-20-2010, 02:08 AM
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So... do you see any bottlenecks at all with my system as it sits? with the Athlon X2 6000+, 4GB of DDR2 800 and that video card and M2N-e mobo? Any at all?
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03-20-2010, 02:33 AM
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No, it's a well matched system.
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03-20-2010, 05:41 PM
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thanks
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03-31-2010, 01:06 PM
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So I am back to my original plans of upgrading. With my choices listed above I was thinking of throwing in a 260GTX for about 200 bucks. Is there a better choice for my money? Should I wait? Or is this the best bang for my buck?
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03-31-2010, 01:07 PM
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I may go up another 50 on the video card if the performance increase is noticeable.
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04-01-2010, 03:25 AM
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anyone? Or maybe perhaps a 5850. Would a good quality PSU like the one I have, Corsair 550 (41amp on 12v rail) be good enough to power this card? Their website says it will be.
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04-01-2010, 09:47 AM
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Answered in your other thread.
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04-02-2010, 04:42 AM
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Well GLC.. thanks for the follow-ups. And finally, this is my final break down of my future purchase. How does it sound? All this running off of my Corsair 550W PSU (41Amps on 12v+ rail)
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard $99.99 SAPPHIRE 100282SR Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity $329.99 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $159.99 G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) $104.99 |
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