Need Help in choosing a Good Config..

Hey guys i wanna buy a new comp n well i want suggestions

CPU- quad core budget abut 300$
motherboard -300$
Ram -150$
GPU well am confused whether to go for 9800gtx+ in Sli o 4850 crossfire
N a good psu

Thnx 4 your help..

Here's a build you might want to consider....

CPU: Q9450 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115042

Motherboard: ASUS P5E Deluxe LGA 775 Intel X48 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131317

Ram: mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820146726

And for your GPU: Since that is a crossfire mobo, crossfirex two of those 4850's and you'll be a happy gamer.

Howdy Jimmy,

I was wondering if the mobo you recommended supports crossfireX at 16x for both PCI lanes? I know it probably doesn't make a whole lot of actual difference as opposed to 8x speed, but its still nice to be able to give them full speed on the lanes.

i think crossfire is the way to go for your build, there is less problem with crossfire and you can use a stable intel chipset

ASUS P5Q Deluxe LGA 775 Intel P45 Intel Motherboard $209
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131297

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 $270
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115043

Patriot Viper 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1200 $75 i would recommend getting 2 pairs for $150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820220282

ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 4850 512MB $195-$30 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121253

Thermaltake W0106RU 700W $150-$50 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817153039

total = 900
900-80 rebate
total cost after rebates = 820

what is your total build cost?
do you have a harddrive , cd drive, case?
do you plan on oc'ing

You want the full X16/X16 lane speed so....

CPU: Q6600, it is cheap and performs on par with just about everything else, and it allows you to save money. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115017

Motherboard: DFI Lanparty, good motherboard at a great price, it will serve you well especially if you want to overclock later in life. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813136045

RAM: Patriot Viper 2 x 2GB, good memory good timings, and a good price. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820220293

Get 2 4850s

Power Supply: PC Power and Cooling, this is the absolute best 750w power supply and is not overpriced like the Thermaltake listed above. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817703009

What games will you play, and at what resolution? One of the best guides is guru3d. http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=vga_charts
What I find interesting is that at 1920x1200 a single 9800GX2 or GTX 280 will play any game at over 60fps, which is considered best possible gameplay. I expect that the upcoming 4870X2 will also do it. Why pay more for higher capability? A LCD monitor will have a refresh rate of 60hz(some claim 120hz), but your eye can not detect much over 75hz.
With the lowered prices of the GTX280, I would try that first if you have to buy today. The 4870X2 may well become a better deal by the end of the summer.

At the level of the E8500 or Q6600, the vga card is much more important for gaming than the cpu.
Today, very few games can make use of more than two cores.
Flight simulator X is an exception. It is not a trivial matter to code multi threaded programs,
and game vendors will not sell too many games that require quads to run.
I don't see this changing in the next couple of years, and then nehalem will be upon us.

Net: E8500 for the increased clock speed.

well pcie 2.0 16x doesn't benefit much from an 8x slot except in flight simulator and call of duty. you might lose around 1-5 fps in most games.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 915-9.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 15-12.html

but i will recommend pci 16x over 8x. but like bobfacebilly said if you want to oc go with the p5q and if you want more stable performance

if your planning to oc i wouldn't use a stock fan i dont know if you already have an aftermarket

Here's a x48 that I mentioned earlier, it'll set you back $220, but that is a pretty nice price for one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131317

how abut the asus maximus formula??

The P5E Deluxe is better then the Maximus Formula because it is the X48, The P5E Deluxe is the Rampage Formula minus the LCD Poster and the onboard buttons.

I have the Rampage Formula and it ROCKS. I have had it to 463 FBS stable but due to the summer I went to 450 for heat reasons. This board has so many options in the BIOS to finetune you overclock.

Bob facebilly is right on the money with his first post in this thread. the only thing I would change in the list is the RAM get atleast DDR-1000. The Q9450 will do 3.6 on Air. 3.6 is 450 FBS and DDR2 would be running at 900(450X2). Yes some DDR2-800 will run at 1066 but not all, I learned that the hard way, I got some Corsair DDR2-800 that would not run above 875 no matter what voltage I set it at. If you get DDR2-1066 you will not run into that problem. I went with OCZ DDR2-1000 so i could go above 400 FBS.

The HD4950 in Crossfire is a great deal now. I have my second card in route.



Q9450
P5E Deluxe
4 Gig of DDR2-1000 or better
2X HD4850 The ones with the best price or rebates
The power and cooling PSU is great


1Haplo

I second that decision.
I wasn't sure on the multiplier of the Q9450, but haplo1 is absolutely right. If your gonna want to overclock past 3.2 ghz you'll do best to go with some good ddr2-1000 memory.

Good luck, and have fun!

id go for everything, but get a P5K-C instead

ive got it, n the only thing that ive had wrong with it is getting it past 494mhz fsb. thats all, near 4ghz on my e8200. n as far as i know its x2 x16 slots!!!