Need Help on a good video card for gaming

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:48 pm

Here is what I have ordered so far. Still trying to decide on the video card(or get my hands on a good one)

MB GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R

PSU SEVENTEAM|ST-850ZAF 850 RT

CPU INTEL|CORE I7 930 2.80G R

SSD 80G|INTEL SSDSA2MH080G2R5 R

2 x2 MEM 2Gx2|GSKILL F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL

DVD BURNER LITE-ON | IHAS124-04 % -

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:48 pm

need a budget amount you wanna keep within range of

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:26 pm

$500- $700

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:56 pm

Ati Radeon 5970

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:05 pm

Rivas wrote:Ati Radeon 5970

Have had a hard time finding it in stock.

Found this link http://www.provantage.com/asus-eah5970g2dis2gd5~AASU916V.htm said should be in 3-28-10 but have never heard of provantage

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:16 pm

Bound wrote:Have had a hard time finding it in stock.

I know, I was waiting 2 months for it.

They are unable to meet the demand, ncix got over 2000 of them and they were sold in less then 7 hours.

You still can go with 5870 I think it's $100 cheaper.

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:42 pm

Rivas wrote:I know, I was waiting 2 months for it.

They are unable to meet the demand, ncix got over 2000 of them and they were sold in less then 7 hours.

You still can go with 5870 I think it's $100 cheaper.

Do you like the card?

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:31 am

Bound wrote:Do you like the card?

It's good video card, was thinking about crossfire but it would be too expansive.

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:51 pm

I was able to get one this morning from newegg. As soon as i placed the order they were sold out.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:57 pm

Nvidia Geforce 480 FTW!!

They are hard to find right now with just being released but I'm sure you can grab one for around the $500 mark

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:59 pm

Sava700 wrote:Nvidia Geforce 480 FTW!!

They are hard to find right now with just being released but I'm sure you can grab one for around the $500 mark

I got the xfx 5970

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:22 pm

The start of the build.

a little help with the build!

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:57 pm

Why in the HELL would you assemble your new components on a tablecloth next to a cat? WOW...

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:58 pm

Wow heat riser!!!! That's over kill for size, you prob be better off going with water cooling save a ton of room and less space for dust to settle.

But yeah I have to say that building it on a table cloth with a cat near it is bad.... static from hell and the cat fur!

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:05 pm

RaisinCain wrote:Why in the HELL would you assemble your new components on a tablecloth next to a cat? WOW...

because I don't worry about stuff like that!

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:28 pm

Sava700 wrote:Wow heat riser!!!! That's over kill for size, you prob be better off going with water cooling save a ton of room and less space for dust to settle.

But yeah I have to say that building it on a table cloth with a cat near it is bad.... static from hell and the cat fur!

I bought the heat sink off reviews and was surprised on the size. I thought about water cooling but have never messed with it before.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:27 pm

Bound wrote:I bought the heat sink off reviews and was surprised on the size. I thought about water cooling but have never messed with it before.

Water cooling is very easy, I've got a fanless tower that just releases the heat through the outer fins, it pushes the liquid through the hoses to the CPU and GPU. Simple to setup and cheap enough to go for vs when they first came out.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:28 pm

Watercooling is something I will definately want for my next GPU at least. Have you heard the GTX4xx series fans? My god!

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:10 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Watercooling is something I will definately want for my next GPU at least. Have you heard the GTX4xx series fans? My god!

I know DangerDen just released their blocks for the 4xx series and I'm sure builders like BFG will release versions with it already installed and overclocked in the coming weeks.

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:38 pm

It's done and this is my first ssd and boot up time is wicked fast.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:50 pm

Sava700 wrote:Water cooling is very easy, I've got a fanless tower that just releases the heat through the outer fins, it pushes the liquid through the hoses to the CPU and GPU. Simple to setup and cheap enough to go for vs when they first came out.

You might like FrozenCPU, I don’t know what they have for water cooling though. They have tons of stuff for modding, I’ve ordered from there a bunch.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:30 pm

Sava700 wrote:Water cooling is very easy, I've got a fanless tower that just releases the heat through the outer fins, it pushes the liquid through the hoses to the CPU and GPU. Simple to setup and cheap enough to go for vs when they first came out.

Which WC setup do you have Sava? Is it totally silent?

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:32 pm

Bound wrote:It's done and this is my first ssd and boot up time is wicked fast.

Purrdy!!!

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:39 pm

Thanks

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:22 pm

loop2kil wrote:Which WC setup do you have Sava? Is it totally silent?

Yes totally silent.. and I think its this one although mine is black. Only thing I added was the block for the GPU that I installed and you get plenty of hose with this but I added more instead of cutting what I had.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/han ... 836-9.html

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:15 pm

Sava700 wrote:Yes totally silent.. and I think its this one although mine is black. Only thing I added was the block for the GPU that I installed and you get plenty of hose with this but I added more instead of cutting what I had.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/han ... 836-9.html

I remember going to a LAN party a couple years ago and one of the guys brought one of those along with his whole computer setup

Bound · Post by **Bound** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:29 pm

Sava700 wrote:Yes totally silent.. and I think its this one although mine is black. Only thing I added was the block for the GPU that I installed and you get plenty of hose with this but I added more instead of cutting what I had.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/han ... 836-9.html

I did get the corsair h50. I know it is not hardcore water cooling ,but it is a start.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:25 am

Bound wrote:I did get the corsair h50. I know it is not hardcore water cooling ,but it is a start.

I've heard good things about the h50