So I'm in the market to rebuild my old gaming desktop into something that will be fierce for the next few years. I play at 1920X1080 on a 40" Samsung LCD, I want what I get right now to be overkill for this resolution so that in the future it will have room to expand. My limit was 500$, but I already have a powersupply, case, Hard Drive, DVD RW, and Memory so the only thing my 500 has to go towards is the motherboard/processor/video card.
This is what I'm thinking now.
Video Card : MSI R6950-2PM2D2GD5 Radeon HD 6950 2GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127555
Motherboard : MSI 890FXA-GD65 AM3 AMD 890FX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130565
Processor : AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Callisto 3.2GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103846
Here are my thoughts. The video card can be bios modded to the 6970. I went with that motherboard because it has the capacity for Crossfire and according to MSI's latest press release it will be AM3+ compatible with a bios update which is something I really want in the machine.
The only sticking point is the processor. I'm going with the dual core with the thought of unlocking the other 2 cores for some quad core fun, but I'm also considering just paying the extra 50$ (putting me over budget by a bit) and going to the true quad core. Any suggestions would be helpful, and how do you think this machine would do on benchmarks/game settings?
The powersupply is a Coolmaster 700 watt and I will be using 4 gigs of DDR3 ram for now, with the expectation of one day going to 8 gigs.
This is what I'm thinking now.
Video Card : MSI R6950-2PM2D2GD5 Radeon HD 6950 2GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127555
Motherboard : MSI 890FXA-GD65 AM3 AMD 890FX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130565
Processor : AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Callisto 3.2GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103846
Here are my thoughts. The video card can be bios modded to the 6970. I went with that motherboard because it has the capacity for Crossfire and according to MSI's latest press release it will be AM3+ compatible with a bios update which is something I really want in the machine.
The only sticking point is the processor. I'm going with the dual core with the thought of unlocking the other 2 cores for some quad core fun, but I'm also considering just paying the extra 50$ (putting me over budget by a bit) and going to the true quad core. Any suggestions would be helpful, and how do you think this machine would do on benchmarks/game settings?
The powersupply is a Coolmaster 700 watt and I will be using 4 gigs of DDR3 ram for now, with the expectation of one day going to 8 gigs.
? And PSU enough to handle 6950?
