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If you're doing a first/budget build AVOID INTEL AND NVIDIA LIKE THE PLAGUE. AMD Processors and ATI cards are 90% Performance 60% Price. Go for a 5000 series DX11 card because that is what you'll need for gaming.
If you're doing a first/budget build AVOID INTEL AND NVIDIA LIKE THE PLAGUE. AMD Processors and ATI cards are 90% Performance 60% Price. Go for a 5000 series DX11 card because that is what you'll need for gaming.Don't buy Gigabyte or Asrock. ASUS is a good brand (M4A87TD is one of them). Don't worry too much about RAM branding.Windows 7 definitely.OCZ Coolers are good for air-cooling.
ATI has actually been getting their act together windows drivers lately. My 5770 has been running perfectly stable for months now.
thanks everyone i guess i might go with a nvidia if there arent any ati's that have linux support. sorry for not replying for a while. i was in dc. try running linux on a partition of your hdd. just curious if it will work with an ati.
Hmm the Catalyst I installed didn't look like that. lol. and it did that before a driver was installed too, so i dunno.
i dual booted windows 7 and ubuntu for a while on this machine. it took a good bit of work to get everything graphics related set up properly, but i was able to do it. there was a ton of screen tearing though, i never managed to get around that.it's a bit hard to find, the layout isn't the greatest. in ccc, it's under desktops and displays>(right click the display you want)>configure>scaling
ok did you install windows before linux? also what does the "screen tearing" mean? is it where it blurs in one spot but not the other? and what are the specs of your pc? just curious.
lol im breaking the pattern with the pcs we have around my house. all the things we have are nvidia and intels running single boot. and the highest ram is 4gb. Im going with 8gb. the best windows we have is a core 2 duo. and since the mobo is clock it wont oc anything. im building a better pc than my parents have pretty much a server with a 2 tb and 3.4 ghz stock speed cpu with 8gb ram.
ok did you install windows before linux? also what does the "screen tearing" mean? is it where it blurs in one spot but not the other? and what are the specs of your pc? just curious.lol im breaking the pattern with the pcs we have around my house. all the things we have are nvidia and intels running single boot. and the highest ram is 4gb. Im going with 8gb. the best windows we have is a core 2 duo. and since the mobo is clock it wont oc anything. im building a better pc than my parents have pretty much a server with a 2 tb and 3.4 ghz stock speed cpu with 8gb ram.
yea i installed windows before ubuntu, then i used ubuntu's partition editor to resize my windows partition and make a smaller partition to install ubuntu onto.phenom 2 945@ 3.0 ghz4gb ddr3 1600500gb caviar greensapphire radeon hd 5770asus m4a78t-e mobo500w psulg dvd drive^my system specs, not including monitors, keyboard and mouse, audio setup, etc.i build it last november, i'll probably keep it for around another year before i build a new one. maxes out most games at 1080p while watching movies on my secondary monitor.i love having the fastest pc in my house, but be prepared to become the local tech support guy. don't offer help for free to anyone but close friends and family, you'd be surprised how many computer related issues your neighbors can get themselves into every day.
I suggest looking at the palicomp website (it's a uk site, but they list all the parts in their prebuilt pcs, and just remember you can always make it 5-15% cheaper by building it yourself).The mid-to-midhigh range intel pcs are probably what you'll want, seeing as you seem to be leaning towards intel and nvidia.Also who said 22fps on crysis with gtx240? What was the resolution you used?
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