Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 5014200" data-attributes="member: 478">That's a socket 1366 CPU (the Bloomfield; the 1156 are the Lynnfield), which is also hinted at with the Triple Channel RAM, but that is certainly not a problem.The 1366 is the better tech.It's just also the more expensive tech (which is the reason why I would settle with the 1156), but if it fits the budget... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Tom's Hardware on current CPUs:<a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-cpu,2466.html" target="_blank">Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November '09 : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware</a>The 260 is a good card. Really, I have one from 2 generations before that (8800GTS640) and it runs EVERYTHING absolutely fine (on high to max settings) today still (including Crysis, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, L4D2, ...). The 260 should be quite a bit faster, so there is nothing to worry about.Still, the new Radeons blow the current GeForce generation away, speedwise. The Radeon HD5870 is the fastest single card right now (and I would generally steer away from SLI/Crossfire solutions due to inherent problems).Tom's Hardware on current gfx cards:<a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2464.html" target="_blank">Best Graphics Cards For The Money: November '09 : October Review And November Updates - Review Tom's Hardware</a>I would never buy a package computer like that, but I have other options, which you might not have. I can just go into one of several stores here and let them build my machine with exactly the parts I want, and I get a complete custom system, professionally built, fully tested, OS preinstalled and with 2 years full warranty for a price none of the "big names" can match (it costs like €25 + a very competitive price for the various components). Can't do much wrong there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But as I said, if you do not have shops like that in the US, you are probably better off buying a system like the one you are looking at. It's certainly better than scratch-building everything yourself, unless you have some experience/interest in that area.I have Vista on my gaming computer and have had zero problems with it.But today there is no point in getting Vista anymore. Win7 all the way.And yeah, 64bit is probably the right choice, too, nowadays.ByeThanee</blockquote>

Verification