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Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - Peresh - 12-08-2009

Hey

I'm about to buy a new computer and this is what i'm thinking about :

AMD PHENOM x4 940
Biswal 9803
Mother board: ASUS M4A78 -EM
Hard disc: 160GB SATA II
RAM: DDR 2 or 3 2GB Kingston (later I'll improove this one)
DVD writer (if it's wrong sry, didn't know how to say this one, I'm Uruguayan so I talk Spanish)
Mouse, keyboard, etc.
Thermaltake cooler
PCI Express ATI HD4870 1gb DDR5
Or Nvidia PCI Express 9800GT EVGA 512MB DDR3

If there's anything I've forgotten just tell me...

I'll use it for these ->
Msn
Listen music
Play games such as Assasin's creed
Dolphin (Zelda Twilight princess, Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario bros wii, Paper Mario The millenary door, etc)
And normally to have more than 5-9 software apart from Anti-virus working.

Will it be enough to play with nice FPS?I mean 30+...
Thank you all, Peresh

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - twilightrose - 12-09-2009

(12-08-2009, 01:02 AM)Peresh Wrote: Hey

I'm about to buy a new computer and this is what i'm thinking about :

AMD PHENOM x4 940
Biswal 9803
Mother board: ASUS M4A78 -EM
Hard disc: 160GB SATA II
RAM: DDR 2 or 3 2GB Kingston (later I'll improove this one)
DVD writer (if it's wrong sry, didn't know how to say this one, I'm Uruguayan so I talk Spanish)
Mouse, keyboard, etc.
Thermaltake cooler
PCI Express ATI HD4870 1gb DDR5
Or Nvidia PCI Express 9800GT EVGA 512MB DDR3

If there's anything I've forgotten just tell me...

I'll use it for these ->
Msn
Listen music
Play games such as Assasin's creed
Dolphin (Zelda Twilight princess, Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario bros wii, Paper Mario The millenary door, etc)
And normally to have more than 5-9 software apart from Anti-virus working.

Will it be enough to play with nice FPS?I mean 30+...
Thank you all, Peresh

Looks good, Whats the Ghz on the CPU? and if your worried about CPU temps get an aftermarket cpu fan, and better thermal past. Good choices are Artic Silver 5 and Artic MX-3 for paste.

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - Theway - 12-09-2009

Try to get i5 750

Also, you don't need more than 4GB ram

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - Nazgul1 - 12-10-2009

Hi

I have a question

I also gonna buy something new for my computer.

I want to change my graphic card or my processor but I don't know what is the most important thing for an emu a better graphic card or a faster processor?

because the emulators on my pc are not enogh fast.


my config


dual core 3ghz
ATIHD2600 Saphire
2gb ram

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - WhiteZero - 12-10-2009

(12-10-2009, 11:01 AM)Nazgul1 Wrote: Hi

I have a question

I also gonna buy something new for my computer.

I want to change my graphic card or my processor but I don't know what is the most important thing for an emu a better graphic card or a faster processor?

because the emulators on my pc are not enogh fast.


my config


dual core 3ghz
ATIHD2600 Saphire
2gb ram
In your case, getting a better processor won't help much. Get a better gfx card.

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - Jefferson - 12-10-2009

Both have importance Firt is the core speed. With 3GHZ and 2,5 or GB RAM it should run your decently. Your Graphis cards also have incidence on the speed and the quality, NVIDIA SERIES, ATI RADEON PCI EXPRESS....etc.

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - James333 - 12-10-2009

idk what is the problem with that graphics card if it support OGL 2.1

Remember that the important thing here is the CPU ( unless you are trying to do another things )

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - Peresh - 12-10-2009

wich is best?

PCI Express ATI HD4870 1gb DDR5
Or Nvidia PCI Express 9800GT EVGA 512MB DDR3

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - WhiteZero - 12-10-2009

(12-10-2009, 11:26 AM)Peresh Wrote: wich is best?

PCI Express ATI HD4870 1gb DDR5
Or Nvidia PCI Express 9800GT EVGA 512MB DDR3

How many different threads are you going to ask this in?
4870!

RE: Gonna buy a new CPU, looking for help and your opinions - Peresh - 12-10-2009

ok and is it compatible with the motherboard? (srry for the other thread, I didn't know where to ask :S)