New PC to run AA2, Looking for suggestions |
New PC to run AA2, Looking for suggestions |
Oct 8 2010, 09:32
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literally the BIG BOSS of OFP Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,532 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Bari (ITALY) Member No.: 66 |
Hi guys,
seems that... well, I'm going to be back... lol... in some months.. I'm building my new PC with some new stuff like Motherboard, GPU... Since I would like to start again editing for these games, I'm looking for the best-at-good-price computer I already have: QUOTE Motherboard AsRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 CPU Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40Ghz Cores pr CPU 4 Measured speed 2394.9 GHZ Multiplier 9.0X Bus Speed 264Mhz Front Side Bus speed 1055Mhz L1 Instruction cache 4x32 MB L1 data cache 4x32 MB L2 cache size 2x4 MB RAM 2048MB Ok so..... I'm about to upgrade this. I would like to buy a new GPU and I'm a bit confused between some Nvidia GPUs and some ATI ones. Models are: QUOTE Nvidia GTX 460 1GB GDDR5 CUDA Cores 336 Graphics Clock (MHz) 675 MHz Processor Clock (MHz) 1350 MHz Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 37.8 Memory Clock (MHz) 1800 Standard Memory Config 1GB GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 256-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 115.2 PRIZE: 210€ QUOTE Nvidia GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 Processor Cores 192 Graphics Clock (MHz) 783 (MHz) Processor Clock (MHz) 1566 (MHz) Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 25.1 Memory Clock (MHz) 1804 Standard Memory Config 1GB GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 128-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 57.7 PRIZE: 170€ QUOTE Ati Radeon HD5770 1GB DDR5 # Engine clock speed: 850 MHz # Processing power (single precision): 1.36 TeraFLOPS # Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec # Data fetch rate (32-bit): 136 billion fetches/sec # Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 34 Gigatexels/sec # Pixel fill rate: 13.6 Gigapixels/sec # Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 54.4 Gigasamples/sec # Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz # Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps # Memory bandwidth: 76.8 GB/sec # Maximum board power: 108 Watts PRIZE: 180€ QUOTE Ati Radeon HD5750 1GB DDR5 # Engine clock speed: 700 MHz # Processing power (single precision): 1.008 TeraFLOPS # Polygon throughput: 700M polygons/sec # Data fetch rate (32-bit): 100.8 billion fetches/sec # Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 25.2 Gigatexels/sec # Pixel fill rate: 11.2 Gigapixels/sec # Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 44.8 Gigasamples/sec # Memory clock speed: 1.15 GHz # Memory data rate: 4.6 Gbps # Memory bandwidth: 73.6 GB/sec # Maximum board power: 86 Watts PRIZE: 160€ Also I would like to upgrade my Windows XP and buy Windows 7 64-bit. So guys, what y'a think? Tell me everything you know This post has been edited by Linker Split: Oct 8 2010, 16:52 -------------------- Visit my blog about Poker at Blogspot.com
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Oct 8 2010, 11:16
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
Unless you seriously need the newer software that won't work on XP, I'd say skip Vista. Once you sort out the bullshit, it's pretty much just the same thing.
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Oct 8 2010, 16:52
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literally the BIG BOSS of OFP Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,532 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Bari (ITALY) Member No.: 66 |
Unless you seriously need the newer software that won't work on XP, I'd say skip Vista. Once you sort out the bullsh*t, it's pretty much just the same thing. D@v£, I corrected myself I meant Windows 7 -------------------- Visit my blog about Poker at Blogspot.com
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Oct 8 2010, 18:40
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
D@v£, I corrected myself I meant Windows 7 Unless you seriously need the newer software that won't work on XP, I'd say skip -------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
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Oct 8 2010, 21:17
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literally the BIG BOSS of OFP Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,532 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Bari (ITALY) Member No.: 66 |
well I don't think it's the same cause I know that XP doesn't use all the cores of a quad core, while Windows 7 does...
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Oct 9 2010, 01:20
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
well I don't think it's the same cause I know that XP doesn't use all the cores of a quad core, while Windows 7 does... is it correct? Ah. Yes. I forgot about that. I know it does support more RAM, though I think the numbers are 3gb for XP, 4gb for Vista and Seven. Not too sure about processors though. Bear in mind though, if you do get Vista or Seven, you're effectively only getting the same performance as if you have 1gb of RAM, due to increased demands of the OS. -------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
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Oct 9 2010, 11:40
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literally the BIG BOSS of OFP Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,532 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Bari (ITALY) Member No.: 66 |
thank you d@v£.
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Oct 14 2010, 06:36
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 23-May 10 From: phoenix Member No.: 7,654 |
thank you d@v£. But what about GPU's? I think I'm more inclined to buy a GTX 460 If it helps any, XP limits: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888732 Although it says XP is limited to 2 processors, my work laptop is running XP with a quad core, and it does see all the cores. I can't say that it performs very well. It is surprisingly sluggish, partly due to all the junk they load on there. I do agree with d@v£, Windows 7 is pretty much the same as XP. It looks different, they made it harder to find what you need, and then when you do find it, you have the same exact windows pop up as XP. At any rate, I run A2/OA on Win7 64 bit, and it runs well. I have a friend that got a GTX 460, and it died about 4 weeks later. Warranty replacement of course. Probably a fluke, I've used Nvidia for many years, never had one die without a good reason His 460 seemed to run real smoothly. I have a 285, it's done pretty well for the most part. |
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Jan 4 2011, 12:15
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 4-January 11 From: 5651 Frist Blvd, Hermitage, TN 37074 Member No.: 8,667 |
In AA2 is demanding on both CPU and GPU...
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Jan 4 2011, 17:57
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Junior Member Group: Site Team Posts: 11 Joined: 11-December 10 From: Görlitz, Germany Member No.: 8,596 |
The GTX 460 is okay, not top shelf though. I would invest in a better CPU too. There is a now Intel architecture (Sandy Bridge) coming out this month, so the prices for the old i7s and i5s might drop a lot as well as the mainboards.
here's a brand new cpu benchmark of ArmA2:OA including the new sandy bridge Intels: http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozess...ation_arrowhead I'm also getting a new rig together and i'm going for a Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition @3.4 GHz |
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