Custom build question...Help appreciated greatly

I'm a PS3 gamer trying to crack into PC Gaming to see what it is all about. I'm pretty excited, but I have hit a snag. I built a computer back in May of this year, and while it turned on( or so it seems), I could never get a picture. Then I had to move and blah blah blah, so a lot of time has passed and I was wondering how my computer would hold up to today's games.

I still can't see a screen at all, no matter if i use HDMI or the regular pc cable thing. I am taking it to a computer shop so they can fix whatever I might have messed up when I was putting it all together, but man was a great feeling it was to hit the power button and for it to come on at least ;)

Anyway, would you guys give me your thoughts please? It is very much appreciated!

CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965

GPU - XFX Radeon 5770 1GB x2 Crossfire

Mobo - MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD 790 Socket AM3

Ram - Corsair Dominator PC128000 4GB

Hardrives 1. WD 300GB Velociraptor SATA 10,000 RPM 1. WD Caviar Green 1.5TB 7,200

Soundcard - PCIe Sound Blaster Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

Power Supply - X4 Series 1050w ATX

I know it might be a silly question but i know pc tech moves fast thats all. Thanks for your help ;)

I'm a PS3 gamer trying to crack into PC Gaming to see what it is all about. I'm pretty excited, but I have hit a snag. I built a computer back in May of this year, and while it turned on( or so it seems), I could never get a picture. Then I had to move and blah blah blah, so a lot of time has passed and I was wondering how my computer would hold up to today's games.

I still can't see a screen at all, no matter if i use HDMI or the regular pc cable thing. I am taking it to a computer shop so they can fix whatever I might have messed up when I was putting it all together, but man was a great feeling it was to hit the power button and for it to come on at least ;)

Anyway, would you guys give me your thoughts please? It is very much appreciated!

CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965

GPU - XFX Radeon 5770 1GB x2 Crossfire

Mobo - MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD 790 Socket AM3

Ram - Corsair Dominator PC128000 4GB

Hardrives 1. WD 300GB Velociraptor SATA 10,000 RPM 1. WD Caviar Green 1.5TB 7,200

Soundcard - PCIe Sound Blaster Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

Power Supply - X4 Series 1050w ATX

I know it might be a silly question but i know pc tech moves fast thats all. Thanks for your help ;)

Zeifer21x

[QUOTE="Zeifer21x"]

I'm a PS3 gamer trying to crack into PC Gaming to see what it is all about. I'm pretty excited, but I have hit a snag. I built a computer back in May of this year, and while it turned on( or so it seems), I could never get a picture. Then I had to move and blah blah blah, so a lot of time has passed and I was wondering how my computer would hold up to today's games.

I still can't see a screen at all, no matter if i use HDMI or the regular pc cable thing. I am taking it to a computer shop so they can fix whatever I might have messed up when I was putting it all together, but man was a great feeling it was to hit the power button and for it to come on at least ;)

Anyway, would you guys give me your thoughts please? It is very much appreciated!

CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965

GPU - XFX Radeon 5770 1GB x2 Crossfire

Mobo - MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD 790 Socket AM3

Ram - Corsair Dominator PC128000 4GB

Hardrives 1. WD 300GB Velociraptor SATA 10,000 RPM 1. WD Caviar Green 1.5TB 7,200

Soundcard - PCIe Sound Blaster Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series

Power Supply - X4 Series 1050w ATX

I know it might be a silly question but i know pc tech moves fast thats all. Thanks for your help ;)

tequilasunriser

Thank you. Just wanna know, is this like a Medium-end rig in your eyes? Sorry, I would really just like to know where i stand. I'll shell out money for more upgrades :)Zeifer21x

Medium-high, based the 2 GPU's.

Thank you. Just wanna know, is this like a Medium-end rig in your eyes? Sorry, I would really just like to know where i stand. I'll shell out money for more upgrades :)Zeifer21x

That depends what you class as High-end.

On a scale of 1-5, one being a budget gaming PC and five being some ridiculous $10k+ PC, I'd probs give it a 3.5.

Thank you. Just wanna know, is this like a Medium-end rig in your eyes? Sorry, I would really just like to know where i stand. I'll shell out money for more upgrades :)Zeifer21x

It's not a bad build, by any means.

I'd rate it a 7 out of 10 on sheer performance. The 5770 cards are decent, though you might have been better off getting a single HD 5870 or GTX 470, but that's just my opinion.

I'm not against running SLI or Crossfire, but I'd much rather buy a good high-end card and in a year or two pick up a second one (before they become out dated....right at that point in time they're getting phased out and the price drops on them a bit) to run SLI/Crossfire.

That's pretty much what I've done. I used to have 1 8800GTS 512, about 6 months down the road when the price dropped quite a bit I picked up a second one for SLI. About 2 years later I found a couple of new GTX 280s that I got for under $200 each to run in SLI and I'm sitting pretty for a good while now for GPU power.

The PSU is a complete overkill for that computer....

Other then that, you shouldn't have any issues running pretty much any game out there on 1080p or lower screen resolution.

Have fun gaming once it's up and running!

[QUOTE="Zeifer21x"]Thank you. Just wanna know, is this like a Medium-end rig in your eyes? Sorry, I would really just like to know where i stand. I'll shell out money for more upgrades :)neatfeatguy

It's not a bad build, by any means.

I'd rate it a 7 out of 10 on sheer performance. The 5770 cards are decent, though you might have been better off getting a single HD 5870 or GTX 470, but that's just my opinion.

I'm not against running SLI or Crossfire, but I'd much rather buy a good high-end card and in a year or two pick up a second one (before they become out dated....right at that point in time they're getting phased out and the price drops on them a bit) to run SLI/Crossfire.

That's pretty much what I've done. I used to have 1 8800GTS 512, about 6 months down the road when the price dropped quite a bit I picked up a second one for SLI. About 2 years later I found a couple of new GTX 280s that I got for under $200 each to run in SLI and I'm sitting pretty for a good while now for GPU power.

The PSU is a complete overkill for that computer....

Other then that, you shouldn't have any issues running pretty much any game out there on 1080p or lower screen resolution.

Have fun gaming once it's up and running!

[QUOTE="neatfeatguy"]

[QUOTE="Zeifer21x"]Thank you. Just wanna know, is this like a Medium-end rig in your eyes? Sorry, I would really just like to know where i stand. I'll shell out money for more upgrades :)Zeifer21x

It's not a bad build, by any means.

I'd rate it a 7 out of 10 on sheer performance. The 5770 cards are decent, though you might have been better off getting a single HD 5870 or GTX 470, but that's just my opinion.

I'm not against running SLI or Crossfire, but I'd much rather buy a good high-end card and in a year or two pick up a second one (before they become out dated....right at that point in time they're getting phased out and the price drops on them a bit) to run SLI/Crossfire.

That's pretty much what I've done. I used to have 1 8800GTS 512, about 6 months down the road when the price dropped quite a bit I picked up a second one for SLI. About 2 years later I found a couple of new GTX 280s that I got for under $200 each to run in SLI and I'm sitting pretty for a good while now for GPU power.

The PSU is a complete overkill for that computer....

Other then that, you shouldn't have any issues running pretty much any game out there on 1080p or lower screen resolution.

Have fun gaming once it's up and running!

The HD 5770 is basically at a GTX 260 1GB performance - which means running two of them in Crossfire is kind of like having a GTX 295 (which is still one hell of a card). I don't see why you couldn't get a good 2-3 years of solid performance out of the cards you have (unless technology actually jumps so much by then....you never know what the future holds).

Without actually looking at the specs of your PSU, you could quite possibly run two GTX 480 cards in SLI (but that would cost you about a grand to pick up two of those cards right now).

Keep what you have and you should be sitting pretty for the next 2-3 years. I mean, I don't plan on upgrading anything in my computer for the next 2-3 years and my build is roughly the same as yours (I have a Phenom II x4 940 that I've OC'ed to 3.5GHz and I run 2x GTX 280 in SLI). I can run almost any current game maxed out at my 1680x1050 resolution.

You have a faster CPU and slightly weaker GPUs, but in the end the overall performance should be about the same between my build and yours. So don't sweat it, you're good to go for a few years or more.

[QUOTE="Zeifer21x"][QUOTE="neatfeatguy"]

It's not a bad build, by any means.

I'd rate it a 7 out of 10 on sheer performance. The 5770 cards are decent, though you might have been better off getting a single HD 5870 or GTX 470, but that's just my opinion.

I'm not against running SLI or Crossfire, but I'd much rather buy a good high-end card and in a year or two pick up a second one (before they become out dated....right at that point in time they're getting phased out and the price drops on them a bit) to run SLI/Crossfire.

That's pretty much what I've done. I used to have 1 8800GTS 512, about 6 months down the road when the price dropped quite a bit I picked up a second one for SLI. About 2 years later I found a couple of new GTX 280s that I got for under $200 each to run in SLI and I'm sitting pretty for a good while now for GPU power.

The PSU is a complete overkill for that computer....

Other then that, you shouldn't have any issues running pretty much any game out there on 1080p or lower screen resolution.

Have fun gaming once it's up and running!

neatfeatguy

The HD 5770 is basically at a GTX 260 1GB performance - which means running two of them in Crossfire is kind of like having a GTX 295 (which is still one hell of a card). I don't see why you couldn't get a good 2-3 years of solid performance out of the cards you have (unless technology actually jumps so much by then....you never know what the future holds).

Without actually looking at the specs of your PSU, you could quite possibly run two GTX 480 cards in SLI (but that would cost you about a grand to pick up two of those cards right now).

Keep what you have and you should be sitting pretty for the next 2-3 years. I mean, I don't plan on upgrading anything in my computer for the next 2-3 years and my build is roughly the same as yours (I have a Phenom II x4 940 that I've OC'ed to 3.5GHz and I run 2x GTX 280 in SLI). I can run almost any current game maxed out at my 1680x1050 resolution.

You have a faster CPU and slightly weaker GPUs, but in the end the overall performance should be about the same between my build and yours. So don't sweat it, you're good to go for a few years or more.