Help ! Specs on building a gaming machine

Hi People,

Could anyone help me with the most latest specs on building a gaming machine. I have a project to do for school and am not sure whats the latest and fastest video card and best monitor used in games. :guh:

Last edited by PCGEEK on Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:36 pm; edited 1 time in total

lol thats a realy wide field my friend.

At the moment its AMD FX 55 With PC 4000 ddr 500 with Geforce 6800 ultra extreme or ATI x850xt PE PCI-x

2 to 4 gig of ram

2 72 gig raptors 10,000 rpm in raid 0

or 2 16 meg cash maxtors 7200 rpm in raid 0

S B Audigy 2 ZS Plat with 7.1 THX speakers

Keep in mind very few of these systems are run stock. most of them run highly overclocked.

Monitors for gaming are LCD with 8 ms or 12 MS in respons time. with ultra bright tech or Xbright.

Moved to General Chat

For gaming,

Any Athlon 64, preferrably Socket 939.
Graphics: 6600GT/Radeon 9800 Pro and above. Highest is the 6800 Ultra in SLI PCI-E(2 cards) or the X850XT PE PCI-E.
Hard drive: 2x74GB Raptors RAID0, Maxtor 16MB cache DiamondMax9 RAID0
1-2GB RAM Kingston HyperX, Crucial Ballistix, Geil UltraX, OCZ EL Platinum Ed., Corsair XMS (PC3200-PC4000)
SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro edition.
Logitech MX1000 laser mouse

Last edited by PCGEEK on Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:17 pm; edited 1 time in total

didnt he ask for the latest and best gaming specs? Some of the hardware you listed is very mid range.

Well, I think he needs to be more specific with his price range... :hmm:

For the best, I suggest you take a look @ PCGURU's profile: http://cyberitforums.cjb.net/index.php?showuser=35

His specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI
Koolance Exos WaterCooling
2 X 6800 Ultra Extreme PCIx16 + Water Block OC'ed
4 X 1GB Kingston HyperX PC4300
2 X 74GB SATA Western Digital Raptor @ 10,000RPM [RAID0]
2 X Western Digital Caviar SATA 320GB [RAID0]
OCZ Mod Stream 520W
*Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro*

**An Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro will serve efficiently as well.

Comeon Guys i did not have the time to come back online. Am a busy girl. Sorry am not a guy !!! So please assist

ask away and read what we posted before.

Ok thanks guys but i need to get a little more specific

Am seeing on sites and even on this forum different persons talking about using different video cards but which one do u recommend I use and the specs on it also which LCD Monitor would you suggest i use also.

Thanks KV

when you say specific.. are you looking for brand names for the monitors and cards? eg. monitor brandnames: NEC, APPLE, VEIWSONIC? eg. videocard brandnames: ATI, SAPPHIRE, PNY, ASUS, MSI... and then model numbers for both?

plus.. i assume you want the rest of the system specs too?
like CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Harddrive..

IF this is what you're looking for.. just ask.. and you'll get very specific answer.. (probly 2.. one with nvidia card, and one with ATI card)
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if not we can flood this thread with specs offf the tops of our head all day long.. lmoa..

top dogs for GPU,s are 6800 ultra extreme and x850xt PE

Last edited by Super XP on Mon May 09, 2005 9:43 am; edited 1 time in total

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 @ 2.80GHz
NVIDIA's G70 & ATI's R520
ABIT & DFI Motherboards for Socket 939
Etc.

My god my PC is 6 months old and sooooooooooooooooooooo out of date. cry.

heck i be happy with the 3700+ sandiago.