Last Wednesday I played online for the first time with the new copmuter. WOW A huge improvement in graphics (everything set to highest setting), sound, frame rates and overall playing enjoyment! Now I experience no lag at all on some of the heaviest AAA maps in SoV, I can see bogies at 3 to 4 times the distance, oh man it is just ass kickingly fun! I now have the power to fly in some of the team tournaments and such and actually be a true squad member, WooHoo!

I was using a Dell Pentium 4 2ghz, with 2gig Ram and ATI Radeon (I think a 9800). I bought it in 2002, has served me very well. Wife now uses it strictly for work stuff. My new system is:

Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor

GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

XFX P1-650X-CAG9 650W ATX12V 2.2 / ESP12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE PFC Power Supply

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack

MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333

DVD BURNER SONY | AD-7260S-0B % 27-118-039

I spent about $935.00 USD before my rebates come in, about $880.00 after rebates. Ordered everything through newegg.com, rockin site. First time with AMD as well, and in terms of bang for buck, it is awesome awesome awesome. I'll post up piccies in a couple days.

American, I know you want to help me do some overclocking so I posted the sepcs just for you. What's you opinion?

It sounds like a awesome rig!

The 965 chips are awesome they already have a high Stock clock. And they can easily hit 4.0 GHZ stable and if your really lucky you might not even have to adjust the voltage!


** Also you bought a Mobo with 8+2 phase system. (This means that you can upgrade to a six core and overclock it to with out your board catching fire)

It just so happens you bought a a GTX 460 which is a very efficient when in SLI. (Not sure how well that x4 slot works tho) But its defiently a upgrade you should consider (Consider buying a used one to save money)

The ram you got is optimized for Intel systems so it wont overclock as well on AMD (despite the fact that the board can support up to 1866Mhz.) But im sure we can probably bring it upto ~9.5 GB/s

I also hope you are planning on buying more Hard drives..
MANY MANY more.

if you connect more then 2 you can put them in a RAID Configuration which will boost your speed considerably. Especially when starting up or loading UP or what ever..



I have 3 HD (7200.9.. Yea they are old) connected on a RAID 0 Array. I can achieve 200Mb/s read/write speed..

American, you sound like you're a serious gear head! I'm jealous! I havent bought or tinkered with a computer in a while, this is my first new system in 8 years. From your reaction sounds like I put together a nicely upgradable system, woo hoo! (that was partially on purpose and partially luck) As far as the hard drive goes, the 1TB will be my last physical spinning drive, and the next drive/s I get will be SSDs.

I'll start tinkering with this system probably toward the end of the year. I want to get used to it as it is and see how it does when I throw some new games at it. (Duke Nukem baby!)

Well it depends on how you mange your data. With modern drives you can probably hit upwards of almost 300mbps if you get 3 1 tb drives together..


You can get 3 Tb's of SSD space...


So when upgrading to a SSD you have to make sure you know where every file is going.. There are some registry edits you can make to make windows place the users folders on another drive by default.