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First blog - and need computer suggestions
xaelus | 1:39 AM on 12.27.2007 10 comments


Hiya guys, I posted on a blog before but this is my first real blog. Been reading destructoid for quite a while now and finally decided to setup my account. So nice to meet you all.

Anyway onto what I wanted to know. I was thinking of buying the following components to build a new computer rig (I have a case that's fine), so I could play new games. For instance my current comp runs Lord of the Rings Online at like Medium, I want to run at max. BF2142 also. In particular I wanted to beef up my computer for Aion :D

Anyway suggestions would on the components would be nice. I was looking to spend 500ish and I went a bit over but ah well.



DVD Drive: SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 250g
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
Video Card: EVGA 256mb Nvidia 8600GT
Power Supply: Seasonic
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200 Dual Core 2.6ghz
Memory: 2 Gig Gskill DDR2 800MHZ (Buying 2 sticks of it)



Plan on picking up another 8600 GT for SLI in a little bit.


Thoughts? Think I'll be able to run new games good?



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RoffleWaffle's Destructoid Blog
I would possibly consider bumping up the graphics card(to ~512mb) but the rest looks good. Posting in the forums wouldn't hurt though.

Welcome. Don't suck. Also, Cocks

Waffles for all!!!!(as long as you give me the money to buy them)
frozenbabylon's Destructoid Blog
Death Note sucks shit. Get better taste in anime.

I just wanted to throw that out there.
Mizruko's Destructoid Blog
Just a word of warning 4gb of ram will only amount to about 3gb if your rockin a 32 bit windows operating system there was a pretty good post about it on this site somewhere if you wana look into it more.
RoffleWaffle's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, we all know Pokemon is the real hardcore anime...
Snaileb 's Destructoid Blog
Hi. Dont mind the crowd. Welcome to dtoid!
xaelus's Destructoid Blog
Yeah I'm going to be running Windows Vista ultimate 64bit. So it will recognize the 4gbs of RAM. 32 bit OS's have a limitation they will recognize like 3.4 or something of the 4 gig.

Hi WiiSucks :D

I enjoyed death note, so to each his/her own I suppose.

See the reason I was thinking to stick to an 8600 with 256 is I remember reading somewhere that 2 256s in SLI are better than one 512. Don't remember what site though....


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