Getting a new rig tomorrow!!! Someone let me know if it will be up to par

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#1 brandon634
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I am getting a new computer tomorrow and I just wanna make sure it is up to standard as far as playing all new games on high settings with ease.

Here it is

AMD PHENOM II x4 955 Black edition

Asus Crossfire Motherboard

4GB DDR3 Ram

Radeon HD 5770 1gb GDDR5

Let me know guys...

I wanna be able to play current games as well as games coming out in the next year or so without having to upgrade anything?

Thanks

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#2 tequilasunriser
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What is your budget? If it is high enough I'd say to get a better GPU and more ram.

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#3 brandon634
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Well my budget is like 750 canadian dollars and i plan on getting more ram. I just didnt wanna go cheaper on the motherboard and processor as i was told the mother board im getting can support a new processor in the future if i need to upgrade. What gpu would you recommend upgrading to?
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#4 brandon634
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Or question. What if i got that card right now and in a month or so when i get some more cash flow buy another one of them and crossfire them??
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Crossfiring em is ok...they are around the 5870 when xfired. Where you live I can recommend some local places in canada? Beats getting shipping and handling charged if you do it online.
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#6 brandon634
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I live in vancouver bc. Im not ordering. NCIX is putting it together ( well not literally as i have to assemble) But like say for bad company 2. Will that setup be able to play it smoothly ??
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Dont waste your money on extra RAM unless you doing lots of Photoshop or movie editing. Anyway try to buy a better graphics card if you can afford it like the 5850.

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Crossfiring em is ok...they are around the 5870 when xfired. Where you live I can recommend some local places in canada? Beats getting shipping and handling charged if you do it online.Human-after-all
He didn't specify which board though. What if the second slot scales his PCI-e bandwidth to 8x?

Dont waste your money on extra RAM unless you doing lots of Photoshop or movie editing. Anyway try to buy a better graphics card if you can afford it like the 5850.

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8gb will be useful before anyone realizes it. Might as well get it now.
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#9 brandon634
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Ok but for crysis and BC2 and games like that , Will i be able to play them at good frame rates??
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#10 tequilasunriser
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Hard to say. BC2 isn't out yet. Crysis should be a non-issue for you though. Still, if you are going to go ape**** on the CPU, you might as well get a better GPU.

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#11 brandon634
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Hard to say. BC2 isn't out yet. Crysis should be a non-issue for you though. Still, if you are going to go ape**** on the CPU, you might as well get a better GPU.

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So that CPU is a good choice then??

What would you recommend as a good not soo crazy expensive upgrade on the GPU??

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#12 tequilasunriser
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No its a great CPU. I just think you should get a better GPU. The 5850 looks like the best price/performance deal right now.

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#13 brandon634
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Ok the 5850 sounds good. Only thing is it appears its gonna cost me about 150 dollars more to get that card? Is it going to improve performance that much to have to come up with that extra money
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[QUOTE="tequilasunriser"][QUOTE="Human-after-all"]
[QUOTE="Human-after-all"]Crossfiring em is ok...they are around the 5870 when xfired. Where you live I can recommend some local places in canada? Beats getting shipping and handling charged if you do it online.tequilasunriser
He didn't specify which board though. What if the second slot scales his PCI-e bandwidth to 8x? [QUOTE="Daytona_178"]

Dont waste your money on extra RAM unless you doing lots of Photoshop or movie editing. Anyway try to buy a better graphics card if you can afford it like the 5850.

8gb will be useful before anyone realizes it. Might as well get it now.

Theres zip performance loss on a 4x pci-e 2.0 slot and if there is its MAYBE like 3 or 4%
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#15 tequilasunriser
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[QUOTE="brandon634"]Ok the 5850 sounds good. Only thing is it appears its gonna cost me about 150 dollars more to get that card? Is it going to improve performance that much to have to come up with that extra money

Being a budget gamer I want to say no, but since you went with a quad core AMD instead of a triple core I want to say yes. You are on a budget and went balls to the wall with the CPU but skimped on the GPU. You should tone down the CPU and go for a better GPU if only the next year matters. The other option is to keep what you've got and upgrade the GPU later if you need to upgrade it at all.
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#16 ShimmerMan
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Phenoms aren't even that expensive . I know here in the UK a dual core phenom that runs at 3.10 will cost about 60-70 pounds. A quad core 955 black edition phenom costs about 120-130, 4 cores and runs at 3.20. So it's only 50 pounds more.

GPUs are the things that cost a ****ing boat load now days. That and RAM. I'm looking at overclockers now, some ddr3 memory, (3x2gb) so 6gb of ddr3 - 300 english sterling. Which is about 500 USD. I wouldn't buy 8gb ram now personally, it's over-priced. GPU, gpu is the most important thing to buy for a gaming rig, 5770. Is basically a high tier mid-range card which is easily upgrade able via crossfire, and it scales very well. I personally wouldn't spend 150 extra bucks to go upto a 5850 at the moment. There's just not many games out at the moment that truly warrants a 5850 over a 5770. A part from maybe Dirt2 in DX11. Every other top game out at the moment, a 5770 can run pretty well. So yeah why bother really, it's 150$ extra that you don't really need to spend atm. When you need more GPU power in the future just crossfire a 5770, or upgrade to fermi.

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#17 NLahren
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it is ok, if u can not affort more money now wait a little and buy another 5770 and 4gb ram is enough