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I've already got paging files on both HDs, going through a massive overhaul and thinking about upgrading my proc to an AMD X2 5000+ Black. Doing minor tweaks right now to gear up for that.

Planning on upgrading my powersupply to 750w+ so I can get a nice 2gb Nvidia. After all of that, I may be able to wait for the i15's to come out before I have to upgrade my OS, mobo and proc and ram.

I've heard that if you have multiple hard drives, its best to move your games to a HD without the OS on it. Anyone tried this? Know if its true? What's the performance difference?

Anyone got any projects going on?

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I've already got paging files on both HDs, going through a massive overhaul and thinking about upgrading my proc to an AMD X2 5000+ Black. Doing minor tweaks right now to gear up for that.

Planning on upgrading my powersupply to 750w+ so I can get a nice 2gb Nvidia. After all of that, I may be able to wait for the i15's to come out before I have to upgrade my OS, mobo and proc and ram.

I've heard that if you have multiple hard drives, its best to move your games to a HD without the OS on it. Anyone tried this? Know if its true? What's the performance difference?

Anyone got any projects going on?

Having the games on a seprate hdd makes sense but I don't think it has to do with a performance difference, more of an easier way to transfer your games from one pc to another should the need ever come up.

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Maybe things have changed, and I'm not a PC gamer so I wouldn't know, but I thought you -had- to have your games installed on the same drive as your OS?

Nope, doesn't really matter where you do the install. The registry entry in your OS tell's everything where to go so thats the only connection to the OS.

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I haven't had a decent gaming PC in years. My most recent one broke down and I haven't had the extra money to build another one. I guess in today's day and age you don't really need one, but man I'd certainly love to have one for when Diablo III comes out.

Also, Team Fortress 2 is awesome and I actually own it (Steam acct) and cannot play it cause I don't have a PC. Macbook for the luls.

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I dunno, its hard to not take a look at he i7's, with 6 processors on board right now. January should see the release of the i9's, with 8 processors. AMD's just tend to overheat badly, but I got a good deal on my 4600+ 2 and a half years ago. Just now its starting to show its age with only a 350w power supply and a 512mb nvidia card. I like nvidia better than ati, mostly cuz nvidia is quicker with updates. But some of the low end manufacturers out there have to be avoided.

Now that I've gotten all of my games from my OS HD (which is ide to sata) to my sata2 HD (that's a major difference between the two HDs and why I considered the switch to begin with) soaked my heatsink in isopropyl, cleaned the dust off my vid card heat sink, I'm running games at at least 50% improvement.

From running Borderlands at 640x480 with no fluff and sporadic lag to 1280x1024 with max textures and some antialiasing quite smoothely. This card I have is no good at filters though, so I have to keep the pretty things turned off, its only a 512mb 9400gt.

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I'm going to be doing a budget build in the next few months. I've built one before and I used a core 2 duo but somebody told me that AMD's are better for gaming. Is there any truth to this?

One of Best Buy's doorbuster deals on Black Friday was a quad core amd with 8gb of ram, win 7, a tb hard drive and a 20" flatscreen with printer for $499.99

I'd rather start with a solid expandable premade and upgrade the components as need be. At a deal, of course. You couldn't assemble that pc for less than 500 bucks.

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One of Best Buy's doorbuster deals on Black Friday was a quad core amd with 8gb of ram, win 7, a tb hard drive and a 20" flatscreen with printer for $499.99

I'd rather start with a solid expandable premade and upgrade the components as need be. At a deal, of course. You couldn't assemble that pc for less than 500 bucks.

Most times though, those systems have integrated components with little expandability. Like your vid card is prolly on the mobo and you have 1 or 2 PCI-E slots max.

Personally, I love building my own systems, and relative comonents, is cheaper than the system builders will charge for it with substandard parts. The only thing I couldn't get past is their mass buying power for the OS. A $300 Win XP Pro is a bit of a hurdle to surpass... :lol:

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Yep, gonna have to purchase an OS when I upgrade my mobo and proc.

And as far as needing an i9....maybe some people don't want to have to buy or upgrade their mobo for another 6 years.

Yeah, that premade only has one pci-e and the power supply sucks, and of course the vid mem is on board. But another hundred on a video card will keep it competitive for another two years before moar ram, bigger vid card and power supply are needed.

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