The PC Builder's Guide

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Originally Posted by EvilGenius

That's a good idea... maybe Xyvik and I could work on a comprehensive list or something.

Perhaps ideal parts for certain categories?

Here's a start:

(the following list assumes a Mid/Full Tower ATX case)

Video Card:
Budget: Nvidia Geforce 9600 / ATI Radeon 5670
Mid-Range: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon 5770
High-End: Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 /Radeon 5870

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Just a minor correction ;)

But the Radeon 5870 is like double the money from a GTX 460, it is double the money if you don't count the discount.

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Originally Posted by Twilice

But the Radeon 5870 is like double the money from a GTX 460, it is double the money if you don't count the discount.

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I suppose the 5870 IS a little more high-end, but they're both certainly high-end cards.

If you're looking to spend VAST amounts of money look at the Geforce GTX 480

Athlon II x4 cannot be high end. If anything it is mid-range. High End would be anything Phenom II x3 and up. Just because of the L3 cache of 6MB, and higher clock speeds.

Also count the Phenom II x2 as mid-range, priced at the same price as the Athlon II x4, but performs much faster than one.

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Originally Posted by EvilGenius

I suppose the 5870 IS a little more high-end, but they're both certainly high-end cards.

If you're looking to spend VAST amounts of money look at the Geforce GTX 480

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Or the card which still cannot be beaten in every benchmark under the sun, the ATi Radeon 5970

Amazingly enough, in a lot of cases it is actually still cooler than the 480, despite having 2 GPUs on it. Still faster, still cooler, still better, a year later.

And protoswarrior, you are correct, I didn't notice those. In fact, a nice mid-range card is the Phenom X3, which manages to run pretty dang good. I'll put my recommends down later this week myself.

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Originally Posted by protoswarrior

Athlon II x4 cannot be high end. If anything it is mid-range. High End would be anything Phenom II x3 and up. Just because of the L3 cache of 6MB, and higher clock speeds.

Also count the Phenom II x2 as mid-range, priced at the same price as the Athlon II x4, but performs much faster than one.

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Yeah... like I said, I was tired - I kinda just skipped over the phenoms - some of the X3's even have an unlockable core :)

Hey guys, I am having a big problem with my computer. I am having the problem when ever I start a video game. The computer will crash with BSOD error: 0x116 and will say something about ATIKMDAG stopped. Then it will do a memory dump and restart. I have tracked the issue to do with my graphic card, my ATI HD 5970. It has got so bad windows has a message in the slove PC issues. Any help, I have checked ATI help section and they want me to go into safe mode and fix the problem like that only I don't know how to do that. I have tried a system restore to no avail. Any help would be great.

uninstall the ATI driver, download a fresh new one and install it
I guess that there might be hotfixes for the 5970 cause I remember that 2GPU cards have issues with systems, so it's really nothing new

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Originally Posted by spychi

uninstall the ATI driver, download a fresh new one and install it

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Thats the first thing I did, I did the whole express uninstall. I still have a problem it just did it again for the 63rd time.

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Originally Posted by mikill

Thats the first thing I did, I did the whole express uninstall. I still have a problem it just did it again for the 63rd time.

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producent? Sapphire, Powercolor or HIS?