powerful enough for vista

pat82 · Aug 4, 2008

Well i am building a new computer and being i am in IT i decided to go ahead and get vista so i can get myself use 2 it, i am building a computer solely for vista ultimate, and nothing else... it will be eventually my everyday pc/gamming pc... here is the specs and was wondering hows vista going to look/run?
case - thermaltake xaser II
mb - gigabyte ga m57sli - s4
cpu - amd x2 6000+
ram - 4gigs Gskill 6400+
hd - 80gig wd sata (vista only) dual 250's
video - evga 9800gtx +

xguntherc · Aug 4, 2008

Not bad at all.. Looks pretty good. For one, why go AMD. intel's new Duo's are lookin really good. If your not set on that Mobo I'd get something that can do the 45nm Duo's and get a e8400-8600 those things are ROCK solid. and also why get g-skill 6400 get 8000, or 8500. unless thats again limited by the Mobo?

are you going for a decent system, are you tryin to do a budget system.? if not there's some much better Motherboard choices that would allow a better CPU. Also on the 9800+ I almost got that on my new build. but might as well spend the $70 or 80 more and get the 260. thats what I got, and it's a great card.

edit* and instead of Dual 250's. get one Seagate 500GB 32mb cache 7200.10 or even better a 7200.11 the (11) is there newest technology. and this HD have 32mb cache. and the 250's only have 16mb. well most of them. The one I just described is the best price to performance HD you can get thats not a raptor, or a velicrapter or something extreme. and it can be found for around $79.99 on BUY.com or a little more elsewhere.

Adrian Wainer · Aug 4, 2008

pat82 said:
Well i am building a new computer and being i am in IT i decided to go ahead and get vista so i can get myself use 2 it, i am building a computer solely for vista ultimate, and nothing else... it will be eventually my everyday pc/gamming pc... here is the specs and was wondering hows vista going to look/run?
case - thermaltake xaser II
mb - gigabyte ga m57sli - s4
cpu - amd x2 6000+
ram - 4gigs Gskill 6400+
hd - 80gig wd sata (vista only) dual 250's
video - evga 9800gtx +

I do not understand why you would use an AMD processor, the Athlon 64 939 was better than then current Intel offerings but the Athlon 64 940 AM2 was just a reheated Athlon 64 939 with a new socket and DDR 2 support, since Athlon processor are very dependent on latency, it actually turned out that the early equivalent models of the 940 AM2 were slower than the 939 socket processors they replaced. The Intel Conroe is streets ahead of the Athlon 64 AM2 and frankly if you can afford the likes of a 9800gtx card I can not see any sense in going for an Athlon processor. If you are going to be using the computer for gameing it further makes no sense to be using an Athlon processor in that if you are doing something like Word processing, most of the time the processor would be be running at only a fraction of capability even if the processor was one of the old 754 socket single core Athlon 64s, but something like Flight simulator FSX will extend even a top of the range quad core Intel Conroe to the limit of its resources and if paired with an Athlon 64 will result in a stuttering mess at high resolution with features such as 100% ground traffic enabled.

Furthermore the Athlon processor only supports DDR2 RAM and you can get Intel Conroe with the appropiate motherboard to support DDR3, if DDR3 was super expensive as it was only a short time ago there would be an argument for staying with DDR2 but DDR3 has come down in price and there are some great deals on 4 packs of DDR3 two gigaabyte sticks which will give you eight gigabytes which would fill your mobo to the limit [ nb some mobos only support 4 Gigabytes ].

As for a disc drive, I would just get one largish capacity drive, as drives get bigger they tend to get faster as larger capacity drives tend to pack their data more closely together, go for the biggest cache figure as this cuts down on relatively slow read and write operations and a high spindle speed is desireable too, around 500 to 700 Gigabytes or thereabout is were mass market fast drive technology seems to be at, at the moment.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hard-disks/average-read-transfer-performance,658.html

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

kruger · Aug 4, 2008

For a gaming system I would go with an Intel Quad core proc. The AMD x2 procs are very good but but the Intel quad core procs, such as the Q6600 and Q6700 have dropped down in price quite a bit and are extremely fast and reliable. With a good board and good cooling you can overclock them really high as your system grows.

RAM looks good but if you could go faster, of course go faster.

Great video card choice

Are you just going to run the O/S on the (1) 80 and have (2) 250GB as data drives? If you want to maximize performance, I would go with 2 good fast drives,for the O/S and stripe them. Maybe grab a couple of WD Raptor 150GB's for the OS.

wysiwyg · Aug 5, 2008

kruger said:
For a gaming system I would go with an Intel Quad core proc. The AMD x2 procs are very good but but the Intel quad core procs, such as the Q6600 and Q6700 have dropped down in price quite a bit and are extremely fast and reliable. With a good board and good cooling you can overclock them really high as your system grows.

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Definitely agree with Kruger, Intel Quad all the way,

fieseler · Aug 5, 2008

if ur going for 4gb of ram, make sure you get 2 x 2 gb sticks if possible

rtt_77388 · Aug 5, 2008

Your specs should work well. However, since gaming comes into play..I am going to vote with the crowd on going with an Intel processor based platform.

johngalt · Aug 5, 2008

Another *key* factor is the HDs - you say one 80 GB for Vista and dual 250s - the Cache on said drives and their speeds and interface are crucial.

Get nothing less than 32MB Cache drives - TigerDirect has Seagate 500 GB 32MB Cache drives for $80 USD each. Can't shake a stick at that. I have 2 of those, and I think gunter has at least one if not two as well - and we can both attest to the speed on thse puppies.

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