Thursday, November 15, 2007

Getting the configuration right.


When I was deciding upon my computers configuration, i was sure of only one thing. I wanted an AMD processor. All other things had choices but no choices were gonna be made in processor department. (Big AMD fan )

Simple buy the fastest AMD processor available.
So I got an AMD 6000+ dual core processor.

Now one needs a good motherboard to have a stable machine. A motherboard is like a chassis of the vehicle on which everything is attached and which is responsible for proper coordination between components.

For motherboard the requirements were:-
AM2 socket
SLI support at full 16x rate for both PCi express slots.

So from the available chipsets nvidia 590 was chsen by me.
ASUS Crosshair seemed to fit the bill. Great overclocking ability, simple BIOS navigation.
Nice lights (For fun).

So ASUS Crosshair it was.

Since i wanted to overclock my machine and did not want to depend on the stock cooler provided with the processor i got "ThermalRight 120 extreme" CPU cooler along with two Scythe 120 mm S-FLEX fans and MX2 Thermal Paste.
Getting the extreme and fans was a challenging job. As shipping itself was as expensive as the product itself. Searching for an Indian sellers took me some searching effort.
I found out that ABGB in Mumbai sell thermalright products and also ship it to various part of the country(India). Since these guys also had corsair stuff and i always wanted to buy the corsair brand in machine i also ordered some corsair products from them.

Now that i have given away a company name then the next component can be very well guessed. Right, Its the RAM. Important leg in the Tripod of CPU-motherboard-RAM. (One of Tridev if you like Mythology). I got matched set of 1 GB sticked to make 2 GB in total.
"XMS2 800 Mhz. Dual channel memory. SLI certified."

A output of any machine is very much dependent on input provided. And since a computer needs power to run, a good and robust SMPS was a must. The SMPS usually provided with the cabinets as a combo offer are not of very high quality and at best might result in BSOD and hangups or at worst could provide you with fried CPU , motherboard or both.

I actually wanted 520hx to power my rig but unfortunately it was not available so had to get 620Hx . Makes for good future proofing. I could add another Graphics card to the current one and run in SLI mode without having to worry about the power requirements.

Now that we are already on the subject of graphic card lets talk about that.
Having an excellent graphics card is imperative if you want to play any of the latest games with all eye candy turn on and having a playable framerates(Not like a slideshow). I wanted to go in for a 8600 gt at first and then adding another 8600 Gt later on in SLI mode, but my research told me that for same amount of money spent the SLI setup is inferior to a single card. Another benefit is that later on you have an upgrade path open where you can add another card (More money going away).

4 comments:

Unknown said...

And it does play "New age" games very well!!!!!!
:)

Unknown said...

Nice one dude..

monks said...

could u upload a good AMD gaming pc config within 30k. shouldn't be difficult i hope.

Kunal said...

Making a fast PC which is good for gaming would require compromises to squeeze into 30k limit.
phenom-MB would be about10/11k
monitor 19" 9k
hdd 3k
kbd, mouse,DVD, 2k
cabinet-SMPS 3k
speaker2.1 - 1.5
joypad - 1k.

WE have not even added the graphics card. A decent one would cost about 5-6 k.

There will always be a component better than what we are planning and urge to take that one.

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