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Hey all,
I am looking at helping my bro build a budget mid-range gaming PC for my niece. To keep costs down I was thinking of going the AMD route to get good performance for a lower cost. The last while I have been all Intel so I am out of the AMD and thought to pose the question to the group. What is a solid mid-range cost effective motherboard\CPU\RAM combo to give good gaming performance? Probably will be matched with an ATI 5770 vid card. Thanks -- Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Phat_Jethro wrote:
Hey all, I am looking at helping my bro build a budget mid-range gaming PC for my niece. To keep costs down I was thinking of going the AMD route to get good performance for a lower cost. The last while I have been all Intel so I am out of the AMD and thought to pose the question to the group. What is a solid mid-range cost effective motherboard\CPU\RAM combo to give good gaming performance? Probably will be matched with an ATI 5770 vid card. Thanks Depends on what you want and how much and how much you want to spend. What is "mid-range" to you? Mid range to me is about $1200-$1500. Personally, I would never buy ATI. Read the specs on everything and compa Vid cards, mb, cpu, ram, power supply, etc. Make notes. |
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?check here for some GOOD information
http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html mikeyshd "Phat_Jethro" wrote in message ... Hey all, I am looking at helping my bro build a budget mid-range gaming PC for my niece. To keep costs down I was thinking of going the AMD route to get good performance for a lower cost. The last while I have been all Intel so I am out of the AMD and thought to pose the question to the group. What is a solid mid-range cost effective motherboard\CPU\RAM combo to give good gaming performance? Probably will be matched with an ATI 5770 vid card. Thanks -- Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128431
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x4,2791-2.html http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134792 http://techreport.com/articles.x/19868 To the poster who says don't get ATI, I got a geforce 240GT and found that I couldn't get the sharpening or dynamic contrast to work in flash player 10.1 (in Win 7). Nor could I make profiles for different levels of sharpness and choose them by right-clicking a tray icon. Went back to ATI, and even the humble 4350 lets me do all that (it doesn't have the dynamic contrast, being a very low-end part). The ATI drivers do have strange anomalies and you have to test what settings such as brightness really do and where (in Win 7, desktop gamma affects the video). If you don't mess with brightness and get it all right at the monitor, then that's not relevant. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Ed Light wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128431 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x4,2791-2.html http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134792 http://techreport.com/articles.x/19868 To the poster who says don't get ATI, I got a geforce 240GT and found that I couldn't get the sharpening or dynamic contrast to work in flash player 10.1 (in Win 7). Nor could I make profiles for different levels of sharpness and choose them by right-clicking a tray icon. Went back to ATI, and even the humble 4350 lets me do all that (it doesn't have the dynamic contrast, being a very low-end part). The ATI drivers do have strange anomalies and you have to test what settings such as brightness really do and where (in Win 7, desktop gamma affects the video). If you don't mess with brightness and get it all right at the monitor, then that's not relevant. The problem I had with ATI is that the are made for LCD monitors and locked at 60 Hz. I prefer my 19" CRT at home. |
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On 12/13/2010 4:40 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
The problem I had with ATI is that the are made for LCD monitors and locked at 60 Hz. I prefer my 19" CRT at home. Did you install the catalyst drivers, and a monitor driver from the monitor manufacturer? I've got a LCD but can take it to 75. Without those drivers, you're using the Windows basic driver. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Ed Light wrote:
On 12/13/2010 4:40 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote: The problem I had with ATI is that the are made for LCD monitors and locked at 60 Hz. I prefer my 19" CRT at home. Did you install the catalyst drivers, and a monitor driver from the monitor manufacturer? I've got a LCD but can take it to 75. Without those drivers, you're using the Windows basic driver. Yes. There are no ATI drivers for CRT's. I did much research on the subject. I'm talking many hours even to the point of writing and compiling my own drivers. (They did not work.) IMO, ATI is devious in that they never say anywhere that their vid cards are locked at 60 Hz and can only be used with LCD's. If you hook your comp to a crt, you will see that the higher settings are fake and do not do anything. Your LCD monitor runs at 60 Hz "frame rate". There is no flicker since the pixels do not fade between scans. |
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Paul, did you get the monitor driver?
-- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Ed Light wrote:
Paul, did you get the monitor driver? Got them from HP: hp9500.inf and icm. Tried them and generic inf and icm files. They did not work. The refresh rate on the ATI card cannot be changed. I tried 3rd party overrides also, to no effect. I tried editing the inf files, etc. I tried RefreshForce. I tried 2 other CRT monitors. My son has the same problem with his system and ATI card. He does not notice the 60 hz flicker though whereas I can't stand it. There is a lot written on the subject. Thousands of hits. Seach for ati refresh rate locked at 60 hz or ati refresh rate stuck at 60 hz Check he http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=216919 Emails to ATI/AMD about the problem went unanswered. |
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Thanks Ed
You kind of confirmed the was I was thinking. I had my eye on the Phenom II X4 955 black as well. Mother board of GA-770T-USB3... any issues with it having a slightly older chipset? I am out of the loop on AMD chipsets so just asking. Thx On 12/13/2010 7:30 PM, Ed Light wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128431 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x4,2791-2.html http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134792 http://techreport.com/articles.x/19868 To the poster who says don't get ATI, I got a geforce 240GT and found that I couldn't get the sharpening or dynamic contrast to work in flash player 10.1 (in Win 7). Nor could I make profiles for different levels of sharpness and choose them by right-clicking a tray icon. Went back to ATI, and even the humble 4350 lets me do all that (it doesn't have the dynamic contrast, being a very low-end part). The ATI drivers do have strange anomalies and you have to test what settings such as brightness really do and where (in Win 7, desktop gamma affects the video). If you don't mess with brightness and get it all right at the monitor, then that's not relevant. -- Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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