Age of Conan

Im building a PC purely for AoC..problem is I never built one before and I haven't a clue what parts to purchase.

I'm lookin for a gaming computer. On the scale of 1 -10; I'd like an 8.5 or 9.

Need help choosing:

MOBO

Chipset

Case

Thanks!

Originally posted by Truthstar

Im building a PC purely for AoC..problem is I never built one before and I haven't a clue what parts to purchase.

I'm lookin for a gaming computer. On the scale of 1 -10; I'd like an 8.5 or 9.

Need help choosing:

MOBO

Chipset

Case

 

 

Thanks!

How much do you want to spend on it?

You gotta tell us what you've chosen already, cant recommend a mobo if you don't tell me which graphics card you'll have.

I have 2 8600 GT cards I'll link together.

Price isn't that much of a problem, but I dont want the absolute highend stuff.; waste of money imo. Probably the 2nd or 3rd best mobo/cpu combo would suffice.

THanks

I got my pc from cyberpower.com, it was actually cheaper to get it from here than getting the parts from newegg and building it yourself, I had 10% discount and free shipping and 3 year warranty.

you should go for 8800 instead of 8600 its much better.

Case is pretty easy. Thermaltake make some excellent cases (I have the Soprano).

So Basically you want to know what motherboard to buy? I would say ASUS P5N-D. My buddy got it and SLI's 2 8800GTs and works nicely.

If you have a AMD CPU, I would buy a E8400 along with it since the board is INTEL/nVidia.

2 8600GT = 1.2 8800GT.

OK so we have 1 setup suggested. Thanks. Im not upgrading the video cards yet. Just the mobo/cpu/case.

if it was for me i would buy:

motherboard: DFI lanparty x38-t2r

cpu: E8400 for dual , or Q6600 95w for quad

case: lian-li pc-7b plus II , (edit: you can buy a side window as well, if you like that and dont like modding yourself)

all that doesnt cost to much money either

m8 you have to give more info,tbh running sli you will only see real improvement with a 24"screen for higher res,also you could do better using your cash on other system specs and going single card like the 8800gt or 8800gts.more is not always better.

Asus RoG series motherboards are the best games boards on the market at the moment, from the 680 striker extreme, the 780 striker II formula ( northbridge runs very hot on this board ) and up to the 790 striker II extreme which would be a waste of money for the cards you have.  The 680 would do you just fine, it's a very fast, reliable board.  One word of advice if you go for one of these however is to ensure that you unplug the power cord and wait a minute for the capacitors to discharge before making any hardware changes, adding extra ram etc. as these boards are very sensitive to EM damage.  Note that I am advising an Nvidia chipset here as you have two cards to link in SLi, if you only had one card I would be advising an Intel chipset.

As for cpu, any of the intel quad cores really, Q6700 and up.

oops, forgot the case:  I have one of these http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=628084 but just black without the Nvidia logos.  Excellent case but a bit on the pricey side.