My First Gaming PC :)?

Mustafa

After being a STANDARD PC user since 1990 I have finally decided to build my very first Gaming PC though my wife says that I am too old for that - I am 34 now. So need some guidence.

In Processor I got the following choices:

INTEL CORE 2 QUAD 2.40Ghz (8MB CACHE - 1066 MHZ FSB) INTEL XEON QUAD CORE 2.00 GHZ (12MB CACHE - 1333MHZ FSB).
Both comes in my limited budget.

Also if you guys can suggest suitable motherboard, RAM (thinking about 4GB DDR2), Graphic Card, Sound Card etc. then it will be awesome.
I am really grateful to all the people who replied to my questions, I do want to select every answer as best answer but sadly I am not allowed for that, thanks.

Answer
Well, since you're on a budget, here's what I suggest. I think that you should actually get a different processor. Quad core isn't as good when it's below 2.4 GHz compared to Core 2 Duos.

Low End
Processor - 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7200
Heatsink and Fan - Zalman CNPS9500 LED
Motherboard based on the Intel P45 chipset (ie. Intel P45 Socket 775 ATX Audio PCI Express Gigabit LAN USB 2.0 SATA RAID eSATA)
Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640 GB
Memory - 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM (Corsair XMS2 or OCZ HPC Reaper series)
Video Card - Radeon 4850 or GeForce 9800 GTX+ (512 MB or 1 GB, your call; If you decide to get the Radeon, makes sure that you get the card from a manufacturer that offers a 3rd party coolers as the originals are horrible)
Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe DVD Burner SH-203N
Power Supply - 700 Watt or Higher

Medium End
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Heatsink and Fan - Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme
DX38BT Motherboard (look at the nVidia 700 series if you want to SLi)
Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640 GB
Memory - 4 GB DDR2 1066 MHz RAM (Reaper HPC Edition 4GB PC2-8500 DDR2 DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit)
Video Card - GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon 4870
Sound Card - Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional or Asus Xonar DX 7.1
Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe DVD Burner SH-203N
Power Supply - 850 Watt or Higher (recommend BFG ES 800 Watt PSU)

High End
Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 or the new i7 cores...but I wouldn't get those atm, WAY to overpriced and 3.0 GHz quad from Intel (can overclock to 3.5 GHz) should last a while
Heatsink and Fan - Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme
Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI or Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Intel X48
Hard Drive - Western Digital VelociRaptor
Memory - 4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM (recommend OCZ Reaper HPC 4 GB kit; you can upgrade to 8 GB if you have 64 Vista)
Video Card - GeForce GTX 260 SLI (x2/x3) or Radeon 4870 X2 (You can get 280 GTX if you want, but atm, price not worth it; though it does save you multi GPU problems)
Sound Card - Asus Xonar D2X 7.1
Optical Drive - Samsung Lightscribe DVD Burner SH-203N
Power Supply -1000 Watts or Higher (recommend Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt DXX PSU or BFG 1000 Watt Power Supply)

Enjoy :D

Why is my gaming pc lagging at games?

Janne

My computer is handling games worse than it should. specs:


0101 - Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
0102 - Language : Finnish (Regional Setting: Finnish)
0103 - BIOS : BIOS Date: 07/18/12 18:08:03 Ver: 12.01
0104 - Processor : AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
0105 - Memory : 16384MB RAM
0106 - Available OS Memory : 16366MB RAM
0107 - Page File : 4042MB used, 28687MB available
0108 - Windows Dir : C:\Windows
0109 - DirectX Version : DirectX 11
0110 - DX Setup Parameters : Not found
0111 - User DPI Setting : Using System DPI
0112 - System DPI Setting : 96 DPI (100 percent)
0113 - DWM DPI Scaling : Disabled
0114 - DxDiag Version : 6.01.7601.17514

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02 - Processor
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0201 - Caption : AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor x8 ~3100MHz
0202 - Current Clock Speed : 3100MHz
0203 - L1-Cache : 384,00 KB
0204 - L2-Cache : 8,00 MB
0205 - L3-Cache : 8,00 MB

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03 - Video Adapter
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0301 - Card Name : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
0302 - Manufacturer : NVIDIA
0303 - Chip Type : GeForce GTX 560
0304 - DAC Type : Integrated RAMDAC
0305 - Device Key : Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1201&SUBSYS_83B510â¦
0306 - Display Memory : 4050 MB
0307 - AdapterRAM : 1,00 GB
0308 - Current Mode : 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
0309 - Monitor Name : BenQ G2410HD (Digital)
0310 - Driver Name : nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dllâ¦
0311 - Driver Version : 9.18.0013.2049
0312 - Driver Language : English
0313 - DDI Version : 11
0314 - Driver Model : WDDM 1.1
0315 - Driver Beta : False
0316 - Driver Debug : False
0317 - Driver Date : 6/21/2013 15:06:36
0318 - Driver Size : 15144928
0319 - VDD : -
0320 - Mini VDD : -
0321 - Mini VDD Date : n/a
0322 - Mini VDD Size : 0
0323 - Device Identifier : {D7B71E3E-5141-11CF-F27B-B8A31CC2C435}
0324 - Vendor ID : 0x10DE
0325 - Device ID : 0x1201
0326 - SubSys ID : 0x83B51043
0327 - Revision ID : 0x00A1
0328 - Driver Strong Name : oem12.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.â¦
0329 - Rank Of Driver : 00E02001
0330 - Video Accel : ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_C ModeWMV9_C


I get like 40-50 fps at battlefield 3 on low settings. I bought the pc used. It was assembled 6 months ago.
I have updated my video drivers. What other drivers should i update?

Answer
Your gaming pc isn't simply a Processor and video card. You have hard drives which become fragmented, you have drivers that become old and don't support features added in game updates, you have dust that clogs fans and keeps components from working optimally...

I have similar specs, FX-8120, 16gb ram, radeon HD7850 and I play BF3 on ultra settings on 5040x1050 resolution...and I get no lag what so ever.

Of course, I clean my PC every couple of months.

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