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Originally Posted by Brenjen
I play SH4 & many other games just fine on my older machine. I'm not saying it's out of date old; it was top of the line a couple years ago. My specs are:
ASUS A8N SLI Premium socket 939 (mature not ancient)
AMD64 FX-60 dual core CPU (overclocked to 3ghz for my amusement)
2 x 1gig sticks of Patriot DDR (upgradable to 4)
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS sound card
eVGA 7950 GX2 (overclocked to 595 core & 1600 memory also for amusement)
Antec 550 watt true power power supply
Windows XP home (I'm cheap like that,I had pro on another machine & it's not worth the extra price imo)
My CPU & GPU(s) are water cooled by Danger Den
My system rips through everything on high settings that I've played so far. I built this system for Aces High & it performed well; if you have ever played that game you'll know how it bogs down systems. I reccomend eVGA strictly on the basis of warranty & customer service; they are second to no one. I'd also stay far away from Vista for a few years & let everyone else test it. The video cards are the real quandry; DX10 is coming sooner than later & video cards are way too expensive. In short whatever video card you get you'll have to live with a while unless you're made out of money & the better the video card the more power it'll need (as a general rule), so do not skimp on your power supply, get a good one - good reputation & high wattage output. Newegg is an excellent place for PC parts & they can sometimes get you your stuff in under 24 hours depending on where you live.
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My motherboard but I went for two 7600GTs in SLi to see what I could get. I'm not sure that was a great move. I cheaped out and slid in an Athlon 64 3700+ cpu because I spent all that money on the graphix
. I'll have to do something about that someday. No water cooling and overclocking for me, it's not worth it to me to cost myself 2 years of product life for 20% gain. That means I'm likely to get into it for my amusement like you.:rotfl:But later for that too.
Heck, I even got a 550 watt power supply like you, after I melted it down and blew up a graphics card.
But that's the system building game. It's called adventure and it ain't pretty sometimes.
It's amazing that two unconnected people choosing from thousands of different component combinations can build such similar machines. Gotta love the Asus motherboard. Other than the on-board sound, which we've both deep-sixed, it's great!
I'm happy enough with the AMD chip and I sure saved a bundle. As long as I can run SH4 with graphics settings WFO I'm happy. I do that easily, even with only one card in the machine right now.