Building New Gaming System - Suggestions Please

[MonkeyFish]

Pay attention to Martyx's comment about CAS latency. I had a couple of high-CAS sticks which gave me no end of trouble. Athlons are far more sensitive to poor quality RAM than Pentium systems are. So check the RAM before you buy it, make sure the numbers are nice and low. =)

[Martyx]

Thanks MonkeyFish

Well my "Stop-Gap" has become a more permanent measure... my new spec is as follows:

Existing Coolermaster ATC210 Alu Case
Seasonic S12 600w ATX2.0 (nVidia SLi Compliant) PSU
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra Mobo
AMD Athlon64 Venice 3000+ CPU
Zalman CNPS7700-ALCU Ultra-Quiet Cooler
2Gb (2x1Gb) OCZ Platinum EL-DDR RAM @ 400Mhz CL2.5-3-2-5
BFG GeForce 7800GT OC 256Mb PCI-E
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Edition
300Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus10 NCQ HDD (SATA2, 16Mb)
Existing 160Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 HDD (SATA, 8Mb)
Existing 160Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 HDD (SATA, 8Mb)
Pioneer Slot-Loading DVD-ROM & Pioneer DVD-RW


Hardly ground breaking, but both Quake 4 in Ultra & F.E.A.R at near maximum are playable... so its all good

[Big Country]

Your old video card isn't going to run Doom 3 no matter how fast the rest of your computer is. I bought the PCI-E 6600GT just so I could play Doom 3 and it runs great. If you do go with the 6600 make sure it is the GT model as the standard 6600 is way slow.

[DABhand]

Big Country didnt read your last entry :P

[GeneralWaddles1]

I got a XFX 7800GT and it will run doom 3 and anything on high with no fps drop. it is amazing.