Attention prospective gaming rig builders!

[Konovalov]

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html

Great tool for those trying to decide over what processor to buy. Play around with it to find the right CPU for you. Obviously you will have to look seperately at price but that's not to difficult. This is a very convenient way to compare two types of CPU's and saves you having to wade thru pages and pages of benchmarking tables.

[Torpedo Fodder]

Interesting, but of course CPU speed isn't the only factor affecting game performance, the mobo and video card obviously play a big role too, and then you also have to take power supply into consideration, to name a few items. But anyway, I have a friend who recently built a gaming PC, and he says what he does is copy down the specs of an AlienWare rig and buy the approprite hardware to build a functionally identical computer, saving himself hundreds of dollars compared to buying an actual AlienWare machine. :up:

[kiwi_2005]

Thanks, ive already got my rig worked out to build i get my info from a PCPOWERPLAY aussie magazine "Who also i might add gave SH3 a score of 9/10"

What i intend to build on christmas day after the hangover clears...

AMD Athlon FX - 57
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR
2 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 RAM
Cooling Vapochill LightSpeed AMD version
Turbo-Cool 850 SSI 850W PSU
X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS creative sound
ASUS DRW-1608p 16x dvd
4x Hitachi 500GB SATAII 7200rpm HDD
19" Samsung 930BF LCD
Antec 180 Case
1 XFX Geforce 7800 GTX in SLI (one at the moment but buy 2 and have them in SLI mode double the power) Can't cause ive broke my bank balance!!! :arrgh!: