Building a new pc

[BigC208]

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

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

Unless I needed a computer right now for other reasons than Il2 CoD, I would wait at least 6 months before I get a new machine. By then the optimizing patches should've been implemented. Only then do you know If CoD will bennefit from SLI/CF, 6-8 cores, 64 bit W7 etc etc. Good chance a $1500 rig will run the game as fast as a $4500 one. Computer technology is always moving along at a fast speed. Right now there are a few new items on the horizon that may change performance significantly. Bulldozer 6-8 core chips and the new Ivey Bridge socket 2011 pin, 6-8 core chips. In six months these should be out.

[TheEditor]

Originally Posted by BigC208

Unless I needed a computer right now for other reasons than Il2 CoD, I would wait at least 6 months before I get a new machine. By then the optimizing patches should've been implemented. Only then do you know If CoD will bennefit from SLI/CF, 6-8 cores, 64 bit W7 etc etc. Good chance a $1500 rig will run the game as fast as a $4500 one. Computer technology is always moving along at a fast speed. Right now there are a few new items on the horizon that may change performance significantly. Bulldozer 6-8 core chips and the new Ivey Bridge socket 2011 pin, 6-8 core chips. In six months these should be out.

Ivy bridge is not 2011 socket. Ivy bridge is the same as sandy bridge but its 22nm. It will fit it the same 1155 socket.

[AFJ_rsm]

guys i'd love it if you could help me get this idea to take off. I'd love to have your proposed rigs in here: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=20311

I think store links + prices could really help those of us looking into buying a new pc in the hopefully near future.

[Tacoma74]

It has basically HD5450 performance. Pretty decent for an IGP if you ask me. But if you're running a dedicated graphics card (most will...) than it's basically worthless. I guess I didn't make that clear, my bad. I meant for a basic system.

[DoolittleRaider]

Here's what I have so far penciled in for my new Rig. Any advice will be appreciated.

Asus P8P67 Deluxe

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB or G.SKILL Sniper 8GB

GTX 580 (or GTX590 dual)

Windows 7 OS 64Bit

I tentatively plan to keep my current four 400GB 7200 SATA2 HD's (currently in a RAID config which I don't think I'll do this time). I've done no research, yet, on State-of-the-art new HD's...So advice on Drives would be most welcome

[Tacoma74]

Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider

Here's what I have so far penciled in for my new Rig. Any advice will be appreciated.

Asus P8P67 Deluxe

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB or G.SKILL Sniper 8GB

GTX 580 (or GTX590 dual)

Windows 7 OS 64Bit

I tentatively plan to keep my current four 400GB 7200 SATA2 HD's (currently in a RAID config which I don't think I'll do this time). I've done no research, yet, on State-of-the-art new HD's...So advice on Drives would be most welcome

Save the $100 and go 2500k. For gaming the performance gains of the 2600k are marginal at best. The rest will be great.

[BigC208]

Originally Posted by TheEditor

Ivy bridge is not 2011 socket. Ivy bridge is the same as sandy bridge but its 22nm. It will fit it the same 1155 socket.

Thanks for the headsup. I'm going to wait for the LGA 2011 socket. Wonder how much faster and cooler the Ivey Bridge 22nm 1155 chips are going to be. If multicore is not going to make that much of a difference in CoD, IB may be the ticket after all. Especially if those 1366 cpu's are going to cost $1000+.

[TheEditor]

Hard to think bout buying a new pc at this point. Bulldozer, ivy bridge, 2011 socket(z79), the games bad performance... Multi core may still be a option if Ilya and crew can fix the game. Multi core support was in the list of items to be fixed.

I'm waiting 6 months to a year.