Dear overclockers,
I want to build a new stable system for my grandfather who loves gaming .
He's 82 and plays farcry2 (on hard, I know amazing...)
Recently he bought Borderlands but his system can't cope with it (he has to run it @ 800x600 resolution poor sod)...
His actual system :
- P5GD2 Mobo
- 3GHz Dual P4
- 2X 512mb Dual channel
- GT8800 nvidia
I was thinking of making this kind of system :
- Triple channel (3X 1GB RAM) DDR 3 1600
- I7 CPU (would a 2.66/I7-920 suffice ? )
- we'll probably wait with changing the video card...
I have acces to the following brands :
- for motherboards I have a Gigabyte distributor
- for memory : OCZ or Kingston
I want to be able to run my memory @ 1600 without a problem.
I always had problems in the past, buying very expensive memory but my motherboard didn't seem to be able to cope with it (even if it the box indicated it could run the mem at that speed).
thx a lot for your input !
I want to build a new stable system for my grandfather who loves gaming .
He's 82 and plays farcry2 (on hard, I know amazing...)
Recently he bought Borderlands but his system can't cope with it (he has to run it @ 800x600 resolution poor sod)...
His actual system :
- P5GD2 Mobo
- 3GHz Dual P4
- 2X 512mb Dual channel
- GT8800 nvidia
I was thinking of making this kind of system :
- Triple channel (3X 1GB RAM) DDR 3 1600
- I7 CPU (would a 2.66/I7-920 suffice ? )
- we'll probably wait with changing the video card...
I have acces to the following brands :
- for motherboards I have a Gigabyte distributor
- for memory : OCZ or Kingston
I want to be able to run my memory @ 1600 without a problem.
I always had problems in the past, buying very expensive memory but my motherboard didn't seem to be able to cope with it (even if it the box indicated it could run the mem at that speed).
thx a lot for your input !