Building a gaming pc: Need your help!

[airjordan12345]

Yeah i was helping you with your new name and i end up helping this guy with a PC

 

[G-T-4-Fan]

I did U clicked on his siggie I guess

I tell u all he KNOWS HIS STUFF

 

[amp88]

Also, you can get someone to raid the disks for you so if you ever lose one of the disks, your data on the other is recovered (i forgot if it was a raid 0 or a raid 1) and trust me its a major benefit to have your data recovered.

That'll be RAID 1 (Mirroring). Though, it's particularly pointless on a gaming system. You're writing data twice to two different drives...what's the point for gaming? Unless the system's going to be used as some kind of server, RAID isn't worth it. Not even RAID 0 would be a good idea for gaming (the speed up in terms of writing/reading isn't sufficient enough to increase performance really noticably).

Back the important data up, don't just RAID so you won't lose your data in the event of a hard drive failure.

For the ram i would go with low latency. For gaming you need low latency RAM as you are making calls to it continuosly.

Again, the difference in gaming performance between two set ups with slightly different RAM timings is going to be minimal. It's not really worth paying anything extra to get tighter RAM timings. It is, however, worth paying extra to get good quality RAM.

 

[TURBO (@)....]

Here's a good web site... http://newegg.com/

 

[Pako]

That'll be RAID 1 (Mirroring). Though, it's particularly pointless on a gaming system. You're writing data twice to two different drives...what's the point for gaming? Unless the system's going to be used as some kind of server, RAID isn't worth it. Not even RAID 0 would be a good idea for gaming (the speed up in terms of writing/reading isn't sufficient enough to increase performance really noticably).

Back the important data up, don't just RAID so you won't lose your data in the event of a hard drive failure.



Again, the difference in gaming performance between two set ups with slightly different RAM timings is going to be minimal. It's not really worth paying anything extra to get tighter RAM timings. It is, however, worth paying extra to get good quality RAM.

I would have to argue with the Raid 0 comment about it not being noticeable in my situation. I have two WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drives in Raid 0, but they were not always in Raid 0. The before and after performance gains were well worth it in my experience! I will note that most of the gains were noticed in loading times of maps, and levels. In-game loads were also improved.

airjordan12345,
Thanks for your input in this thread and welcome to GTP!

 

[emad]

I would have to argue with the Raid 0 comment about it not being noticeable in my situation. I have two WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drives in Raid 0, but they were not always in Raid 0. The before and after performance gains were well worth it in my experience! I will note that most of the gains were noticed in loading times of maps, and levels. In-game loads were also improved.

airjordan12345,
Thanks for your input in this thread and welcome to GTP!

Raid0 is great... but it scares the crap out of me from the lack of redundancy. If drive A fails, the data in drive B is gone as well and that's too risky for me... maybe in a few months, I can dedicate some cash for a pair of decent drives for testing it, but not now.

 

[amp88]

I would have to argue with the Raid 0 comment about it not being noticeable in my situation. I have two WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drives in Raid 0, but they were not always in Raid 0. The before and after performance gains were well worth it in my experience! I will note that most of the gains were noticed in loading times of maps, and levels. In-game loads were also improved.

True (of course), but that's not gaming...that's waiting to game...

In-game framerates were what I was talking about...they won't be affected

 

[the_undrtaker89]

Alright, I started this thread a while ago and I kinda had a feeling that I wouldn't have got the computer around that time. But now it's the time to get it. Should I change anything else.... and I want to know if I want to edit movies and such will I need to get something else?

 

[emad]

Go dual core or hyperthreaded if you plan on editing videos frequently. The performance boost will be noticeable in any major graphics related application. Don't bother with the entry level intel dual core chip though, the 3700+ will kill it.