[Nick232]

Recently rediscovered that i was a member on this site and that I haven't posted on it in ages so heres the specs of my current rig.

ASRock N68-S (I went with this board because iv'e owned some other asrock boards in the past and I liked them)

Amd Athalon 64 x2 cpu 2.2ghz overclocked to 2.4

4gb of mushkin enhanced ddr2 memory

Evga Geforce 9800gt(LOVE THIS CARD!!!)

If anyone remembers my first rig I posted here im still using the old reliable case lol.

Total spent on the build was 250-270 just about so not bad games really amazing plays EVERYTHING (except Gta 4 GRAHH it plays but not as good as crysis on max go figure) flawlessly and i have had no complaints whatsoever.

Pics.





(actually i dislike how close the ram was to each other but it is ok for now)


(lol me and my friends call it the Sleeper pc cause it looks like POS but it games like a mofo hah)




(i currently got rid of the CRT monitor cause it wasn't fair for this pc so with Christmas around the corner i think a 27" 1080p should be fine for inbetween these speakers lol)

[Neuromancer]

Not bad, yah you really do not need a whole lot of CPU if the resolution is enough.

There are exceptions of course, GTA IV as you mentioned absolutely demands a quad core CPU. Crysis is supposed to take advantage of multi core setups but it is a single digit percenage difference so really not needed.

Most games still need only a single core.

[Nick232]

Yeah I think the Quad core is another Christmas gift idea for the fam haha, I'll prob be getting a phenom II x4 and give gta 4 another go.
Gta plays just not to my liking it actually plays really good better than i had expected but it only gets at most 20-25 fps down to about 13 when i last remember playing so.

[Neuromancer]

I can't comment on the Athlon X4, But the Phenom II X4s defintiely a very nice chip, you will be real happy with it.

From what I have seen the differnce appears to be mainly when loaded, the Phen II shows it L3 cache. There are a couple of benches that actually show the Athlon II x4 doing better than a equivalant Phenom II.

[Kal-EL]

It has been a while hasn't it?
Love the case size, could park a classified in there I think.
Welcome to the forum

[Nick232]

Lol it looks like its big but its just i saved money by buying a small motherboard .