Sigh! I have heard that the open beta will be almost the exact same version as the closed beta but just offer new cities. They have a ton of fixes to implement in the U.I, its pretty laggy when selling or crafting, also their are some bugs with nvidia 400 series cards. I guess I'll have to go play frontierville :D until I get to see for myself when open beta starts up in early sept. Anyone else looking forward to it?
google crystal disk mark. I use that to bench my ssd's. You may want to go to your manufacturer's website and download some diagnostic tools, run the smart tests to make sure your hdd isn't failing.
No way to tell what you'll need until the game comes out. Beta kills my gtx 480, SLI is non functional. They have ALOT of work to do.
I would go with an amd cpu. I didn't know hexacores were only 200, But they don't OC well I've heard. I posted in OP's thread in the hardware section, and no way would I get a $50 dollar PSU thats just insane, low quality garbage PSU' s are the worst I dont trust them. Go with a PSU that passes torture tests (doesn't have to be pricey) and is reliable and you wont regret it and can possibly use it for future builds. You have to do your research on each component otherwise you will just be wasting money. If you have cash to spend I highly recommend getting an SSD it may not be THAT much of a benefit in gaming, but boy does it speed up loading programs, bootup time, and gives your pc that "snappy" freshly formatted feel.
I am not sure about the amd x6 they have the max operating temp listed on amd's website. Try looking there.
I do know that the max operating temperature of a GTX 480 is 105c though most like to keep it lower than that. If it goes above 105c the card will start to reduce clock speed to reduce temps and you'll get a performance hit. The only program I've seen that really heats up video cards is furmark. Not sure if regular games go that high. In FFXIV my GPU usage was 99% and in an SLI'ed system the higest temp I've seen was 87C. If you SLI these cards, they WILL get to max temp alot faster in furmark and you need to seperate them if you have 3x PCI16 slots for better temps in case you have an SLI board and decide to get a second one down the line.
I guess if you don't bend any pins (mobo for intel, cpu for amd) then there's no problem, but I can't say the same thing about what kind of temperatures you'll be getting :D
If you don't have any kind of special removers then do what I do, use a tissue to remove it. Did you buy a new HSF and it doesn't come w/ thermal paste?
I love everest. (but as you said it's not free :( ) I use it and my g15 keyboard to monitor temps and gpu/cpu usage in game. Evga and now MSI both have tools to display those stats on screen but I could never get those to work. Hardware Monitor is a very good program, but you can't monitor temps in game with it.
I would head on over to guru3d and see the tool they have to display temps while in game, I think if you could get it to work it would be very useful
Oh forgot to mention what cpu you should get. Alot of people say intel's i7 is the best cpu, and it sure does beat AMD's cpu's in a number of benchmarks, but for gaming it all depends on what resolution you game at. For 1980x1020 and above the graphics card does most of the work so you wont be held back (as much, maybe a few fps) by your cpu. I think intel i7 930's are going for about 199, but motherboards for these processors can go beyond $200 easily.
You could get an AMD quad core for about 140, and if you want to overclock they sell unlocked cpu's that aren't that much more expensive. Motherboards are also generally much cheaper for AMD as well. I would check that site I mentioned and look at the gaming benchmarks and see what the differences are I can't recall them offhand. But they lower the resolution to like 640x480 to take the graphics card out of the equation and see how the cpu does. If all you care about is gaming I would save some money and go with AMD.
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