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Upgrading advices
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07/09/08 11:01
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Hey everyone, finally i've decided to upgrade my PC, but i'm a complete noob in hardware. So i wanted to ask few things: -What processor can you advise, AMD\Intel? for gamedev and games of course -How many cores should it have? 2 cores a quite popular now, but i've seen triple and quad core processors. As far as i know not many applications now are optimised for more than 2 cores. -What about GPU? I've been thinking about ATI Radeon HD3850 512MB PCI-E Thank you for attention
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Re: Upgrading advices
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07/09/08 11:47
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Just one hint: for gamedev you should choose a lowend pc
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Re: Upgrading advices
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07/09/08 12:05
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Just one hint: for gamedev you should choose a lowend pc No, only for game testing you should have a low end pc to optimize it for such systems. For game dev you should always use a high end system because of the workflow.
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Re: Upgrading advices
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For game dev you should always use a high end system because of the workflow. No - not from my experiences. If you develope a (casual) game on a highend machine you develope with specifications the lowend system can't support. Many test cycles results in extra work on the performance. Since we work with medspec laptops we save much time for performance optimization (thats our experiences). Outside this Shadow969 will not buy a system for dev only but also for playing games so it's useless to discuss such a topic...
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Re: Upgrading advices
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- i'm an amd fan, but i cannot recommend their latest phenom chips, i'd go with an intel core xyz bla bla (be careful, their naming system is some kind of weird and you can easily end up with a chip that's not worth much). 2 cores will be enough for now and the coming year. - i'd always choose nvidia for my graphics card. mostly because ati driver support on linux sucks, however, besides this, i guess it's more a question personal preference. either take a radeonhd 38xx or a gf 8800 xx. - be careful with your choice of your mainboard, it influences your GPU and CPU choice (crossfire/SLI chipsets). and don't forget to check how many pci-e lanes are available in multi-gpu mode for each graphics card, esp. the second gpu. - 2 GB RAM for winXP, 3GB for vista, decide for yurself if you really need a 64bit OS - 2 HDDs for a RAID system
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Re: Upgrading advices
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07/09/08 16:37
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Thanks for the advices! I'm going to buy a completely new PC, so choosing fitting components will be rather hard. That's why i looked for some premade configurations, and found this: - Quadcore AMD Phenom X4 9550 - Socket AM2+: AMD770 ATX - 2GB RAM; 500GB HDD; DVD-RW - CR x-in-1 //i have no idea what's that - ATI Radeon HD3850 512MB PCI-E not bad IMHO, but the price seems suspicious to me (only 550 euros). What do you think about it?
Last edited by Shadow969; 07/09/08 16:45. Reason: some encoding problems
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