M2TW beast

**Yun Dog** · 11-21-2006, 07:54

Warlords,

Im looking at dumping my old inspiron and upgrading to a new desktop - primarily to DESTROY M2TW and ANILHALATE NWN2. Ras Al Gul suggested I drop a line down here for any suggestions .. thanks Ras

I have a budget of $3k AUD

Heres what I was looking at via the dell website - although I wont be getting a DELL again

Intel Core 2 vii Duo E6700 proc (E6600 is also a cheaper option)
1gig DDR ram (2 gigs might be necessary?)
20" flat LCD ultra sharp (1600x1080)
250 GIG HD

I have a choice of graphics cards
256m Radeon x1300 pro
256m Geforce 7900
1GB Gforce 7950 (+$1000)
do you think I need a 512MB card? or will the 256m cards suffice for the price?

any suggestions/options most welcome and appreciated
my main choices that im unsure about are chipset, graphics card, and a motherboard that can handle it
I dont want to just run the M2TW - I want to LIVE IT

**Husar** · 11-21-2006, 17:09

I don't know how much your 3k$ are worth, but I'd got for 2GB RAM and at least a 7950, you may want to consider a 8800GTS or GTX.
On the chipset i cannot comment, personally I am using a cheap one but may migrate to the new NVidia NForce 6 series somewhen.

**Yun Dog** · 12-12-2006, 04:29

So Ive done some poking around and now think Ive goto go with a Dx10 enabled card - dont want to buy something redundant

has anyone got any suggestions for well priced quality cards they know will run M2TW without any probs

edit: is the 8800GTS dx10 compliant?

**Lemur** · 12-12-2006, 04:35

If you want a DX10 card, the 8800s are the only game in town right now. Yes, the 8800gts is a DX10 card. Either card will run M2TW like a champ. Be warned, however, that by the time DX10 games are shipping, there will be smaller, cooler, better cards for DX10, and you will feel slightly deflated. But you'll be able to run those games without needing a new card, which will be more than the rest of us will say.

**Yun Dog** · 12-12-2006, 05:36

cheers for that Lemur

Alot of dudes are talking about waiting for the R600 Ati card to come out - go for the R600 or the 8800Gts/x will be cheaper

but Ive also been reading the current CPU Chips are a bottleneck - and cant run the GPU at it full potential

so this said do I need to wait even longer for a chipset that can run the cards properly and then get the 2nd gen Dx10 card

but then I could wait for ever and never get to play any of the cool games I want to/at least on anything other than the lowest settings

**Yun Dog** · 12-14-2006, 08:54

Ok gents,
heres the quote I got from my suppliers

AMS Intel Core 2 Dual E6600 PCI-E ATX System 1
* Intel Core-2-Duo CPU, E6600/2.4GHz/2MB Cache/1066FSB/LGA775
* Intel DG965RY ATX LGA775 Motherboard:-
- Intel G965 Chipset, Dual Channel DDR2 800/667/533 SDRAM,
- 6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem-SigmaTel* STAC9227 audio codec,
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 onboard, 8 USB-2.0,
- Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN, 4x SATA, 1x IDE, 1x Parallel,
- 1x Serial , 1x PCI Express x16, 3x PCI.
* 2GB KINGSTON DDR2 RAM (2x1GB Modules)
* 512MB 8800GTS Geforce Nvidia PCIExpress Video Card
* 250GB WD-KS SATA II Hard Disk (16MB, 7200rpm)
* 1.44MB Panasonic FDD Drive
* Pioneer 16x Dual-Layer DVD/CD Writter
* Inwin Midi Tower ATX Case with 350W P/S
* 22" ViewSonic VX2235WM Wide-Screen LCD Monitor
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 OEM CD

Ive been reading from another thread that maybe I should opt for the
Asus P5B-E Socket 775 Intel 965 Express MB

Thermaltake Silent PurePower W0049RUC 680W Active PFC, EPS 12V and ATX 12V 2.2 Version
power supply

thoughts????