Building a new pc

[jayrc]

I really would like to start building my new pc, could anyone chime in that's running AMD Phenom 2 x4 955,965,970, I saw the Grunch was getting decent performance. Here's what's on my list:

AMD Phenom 2 x4 965 be,970
coolermaster 212 cpu cooler
Fuzion MOBO
8 gb ram 1600mhz
SSD
6970 2 gb GPU
WD 500gb HDD
Corsair 750 PSU(don't Know what I need to run 2 6970 gpu for the future?)
Win 7 Pro

I know patches are coming soon and with in 6 months this is going to be the best flight sim, any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

[TheEditor]

Start off by going with a 2500k for your cpu. Check the benchmarks, it kills amd!

[sod16]

Dont do AMD, they are terrible. Cheap and crap. Get a intel i7 2700k. It destorys any AMD chip.

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by sod16

Dont do AMD, they are terrible. Cheap and crap. Get a intel i7 2700k. It destorys any AMD chip.

AMD is everything but not terrible. Awesome bang "for the buck", not everyone can afford an intel system. Btw. Bulldozers are due out in late June.

Currently, Sandy Bridge chips walk over anything AMD has to offer. That is true. However, I haven't yet seen an i7 2700k CPU.

If you are referring to the i7 2600k vs- i5 2500k, then definitely save your money and go for the 2500k. HT is useless in games.

As for the GPU, AMD/ATI might be a better choice now due to more VRAM as this game seems to have a very strong appetite for it.

[Jatta Raso]

i'd go for a GTX570

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by Jatta Raso

i'd go for a GTX570

For every other game out there - yes. However this is CoD.

[NLS61]

Originally Posted by T}{OR

For every other game out there - yes. However this is CoD.

Hi,

After some tweaking i can play this game witout much stutters and then they are not note worthy on a 2500k with a ASUS p68 and ther it comes as this is COD a 1 GB gtx560ti not using all of that even.
To be honest i'm playing at 1440x900 and probably higer res would cost more ram.
But at his res it runs actually yust fine.
Updates wil only make it better.
Affinitymask 15 helped a lot to.


Niels

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by T}{OR

AMD is everything but not terrible. Awesome bang "for the buck", not everyone can afford an intel system. Btw. Bulldozers are due out in late June.

Currently, Sandy Bridge chips walk over anything AMD has to offer. That is true. However, I haven't yet seen an i7 2700k CPU.

If you are referring to the i7 2600k vs- i5 2500k, then definitely save your money and go for the 2500k. HT is useless in games.

As for the GPU, AMD/ATI might be a better choice now due to more VRAM as this game seems to have a very strong appetite for it.

Yeah dont listen to the intel fanbois nothing wrong with amd. What you list will be fine once the bugs are exterminated

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by jayrc

I really would like to start building my new pc, could anyone chime in that's running AMD Phenom 2 x4 955,965,970, I saw the Grunch was getting decent performance. Here's what's on my list:

AMD Phenom 2 x4 965 be,970
coolermaster 212 cpu cooler
Fuzion MOBO
8 gb ram 1600mhz
SSD
6970 2 gb GPU
WD 500gb HDD
Corsair 750 PSU(don't Know what I need to run 2 6970 gpu for the future?)
Win 7 Pro

Well the bold parts are the two bits that seem to be most important *at the moment*, and you've definitely made the right choices there. Emphasis on the fact that these particularly important parts might only be temporarily more important if changes are made to the way the engine works. Any more detail about which motherboard? You don't want something that you won't be able to upgrade later.

[JG14_Jagr]

Just built one.. I would HIGHLY recommend you not go AMD and instead get the Intel i5 2500K and also get the MSI P67A GD65 motherboard Without EVER having to open the BIOS I was able to boot that up, press a single button on the motherboard..and automatically OC it to 4.2 GHz...