Q&A: Please review this computer build (gaming rig) and tell me any flaws in design/components.?
Posted by James on March 12, 2014 · 6 Comments
Question by Daemon: Please review this computer build (gaming rig) and tell me any flaws in design/components.?
I will be building my first gaming rig and need to know that these components will work seamlessly with each other. I would hate to get these parts only to realize that I’ve got incompatible MoBo/graphics.
PARTSLIST:
CD drive:LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model GH22NP20
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive
Graphics Card: Recertified: XFX HD465XZDF Radeon HD 4650 1GB 128-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
Ram: GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model GV34GB1066C7DC – Retail
PSU: Antec TruePower New TP-750 750W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE … – Retail
Mother Board: BIOSTAR TA760G M2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 760G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Kuma 2.8GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Dual-Core Processor Model AD785ZWCGHBOX
ALL PARTS are going to come from NEWEGG.com, fyi.
So if there are any issues with this build please give me your advice, I’m open to suggestions.
PS: I understand that this rig isn’t the best quality; however, i am working on a budget. These are the parts I would like to use, so unless they aren’t compatible, or I need more than 320GB of HD 😉 then I wouldn’t want to change the SPECS. And yes VISTA 64bit.
Best answer:
Answer by Deus
Not bad of a rig, but i would recommend you get more than 320 GB of hard drive space, it will get eaten up pretty quickly, trust me.
At least get a 500GB hard drive
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bump up the graphics card to the newer Radeons sporting GDDR5 memory. you also didn’t mention if you were going to run a 64 bit or 32 bit OS.
Get a 64 bit OS so you can use greater amounts of RAM.
Wrong RAM. You need DDR2 for that motherboard. On a side note, I’d recommend you get an Asus motherboard, or at least a Gigabyte. Biostar isn’t a good brand. You want to spend at least $100 on the motherboard, and since you’re saving money not buying DDR3 RAM, it shouldn’t change the overall price of your computer.
You need a better burner, Blue Ray preferred, and a better brand, LG is cheap they break often! Mine did!
Hard drive is too small, I suggest 1T or more!
Graphics and ram good.
Processor AMD? Go with pentium Dual core man. AMD is second rate.
Do not get anything that is integrated like sound card. Get the sound card put into the system like a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum.
Also to utilize your ram, you need a 64 bit operating system. Otherwise anything over 2 GB ram is a waste!
DVD Burner is IDE, you should get a SATA burner instead.
Hard drive is fine but I’d get a Caviar Black for gaming
Graphics card isn’t designed for gaming, I’d look more into at least an HD4830/4760.
RAM is overpriced, get this instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148150
Powersupply is completely over-kill and over-priced, you only need 500w for a single-card system. Here’s what I suggest:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182031
That motherboard is really, really low quality and it uses DDR2 1066 memory, not DDR3 1066. I’d get this instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392
That processor is outdated and uses old technology, I’d get this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680
1, your board doesnt support ddr3 ram. so one of those two have to be changed, the board you chose supports up to DDR2 1066 ram. so i would recommend 4 gigs of OCZ DDR2 800 Mhz ram before the ddr3.
2. 320 gig HDD for gaming, thats like a joke really. get at least 1 500gig HDD or get 2 320s and run them in a striped raid. even 2 250gs would be good.
3. dont get a recertified video card. really your building a machine to play games not to breakdown. spend the 75 bucks and grab a new sapphire 4670 128bit 1gig ddr3 card.
4. ditch the power supply. you dont need a 750 for what your building, thats just ridiculous. get a 450 and you will have plenty to go around and store for upgrades later on. or if you want to be cautious get a 500. but you wont need more then 400w to power that machine.
then you should be fine. nice attempt at a pc though. make sure you get some thermal paste for the CPU, and a good case with cooling, oh and run a dvi monitor at the least, vga would just waste what your building. your cd drive should be fine, even if you upgrade to a sata cd/dvd drive it wont burn any faster considering data transfer speed doesnt matter when both ide and sata are both capped at the same max burn speed.
Here are a couple different brands of compatible RAM. I’m using the OCZ.
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145197&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Memory+(Desktop+Memory)-_-Corsair+(XMS+Series)-_-20145197
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P10664GK – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227298