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Answer» Hi guys, so those in the SBCC have already seen these specs, but I was wondering about what others thought of a new build I am planning on getting. Might help if we knew where you are getting these parts from, I for one don't know any NZ parts sites so I can't really suggest anything myself. Well the x700 and RAID card I already have. The other parts are a "upgrade kit" http://pconlineshop.co.nz/pcshop/product_info.php?cPath=11_38&products_id=35132&RBTid=8a4b06f419d177b6da40ca30fc27f798 I know it says gigabyte mobo but I got it swapped for the ASUS one because I like it better.Hmm, it looks OK then, I didn't see any better deals there. I'd take that Asus board over the Gigabyte one too, good decision.OK well that's good to hear Can anyone say if i would fall victim to bottlenecks/disadvantages in games? I realize the x700 is nowhere near powerful enough to even consider newer games, as I said before i mostly play WoW, HL2, Final Fantasy 8, nothing too intensive. But want to my Radeon 9700 Pro is still good enough for those games...but would the x700 be much of an improvement? My research showed the x700 os compareable to the 6600 (non GT), while my R9700 Pro is comparable to FX5500 or so.The X700 will be an improvement, but probably not a huge one. You can't keep that 9700 ANYWAY as the Asus board has PCI-E slots, not AGP. You'll see a BIGGER gain from the MASSIVE CPU upgrade than the graphics card in this case.Yeah that's what I thought...my poor 2.5GHz Celeron is junk...it is really the same as a 1.7GHz "true" P4. Also one other thing I forgot to ask...I know I am getting into the actual forum side of things here but the board only supports DDR800 by overclocking. Because I am using a 1066MHz FSB CPU, is it safe to assume it will be easy enough to just change the divider of the CPU/RAM FSB and run the RAM at 800MHz?You can change the divider, or possibly unlink the FSB/RAM speeds and just bump up the RAM speed. You won't really see any benefit from doing so though, for that CPU DDR2-533 RAM is enough (synchronous with the FSB because it's half the speed). Some people will say the faster the RAM the better, others that syncing the speeds is everything. I personally haven't seen a difference between lowering my RAM speed to 667, to match the FSB, and running it at the stock speed of 1GHz. Synthetic benchmarks would show a difference, but in the real world, I SAW nothing.OK thanks, i did a search in the PDF for unlink and I can unlink the RAM FSB from the CPU FSB Quote Some people will say the faster the RAM the better, others that syncing the speeds is everything I can say I wasn't really concerned but as a typical human being I want to get the most out of my hardware as possible Nvidia chipsets usually do offer that option, good to know yours does too. Very handy to have, I miss my 680i board. Play around with the RAM settings and see what gives you the best actual performance. I'd say the most likely candidate would be to run your DDR2-800 RAM at 553MHz, to sync it with the FSB, and tighten the timings, but every setup is different.Alright i should have it within a week and I'll tell you how it goes Thanks Calum KurtisYou're welcome. |
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