PC upgrade time and would like some feed back.

[Trifixion]

<p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">this si the pc I may buy </span></strong></p><p>Alienware Aurora-R3:Alienware Aurora Desktop   ASR    Processors:Intel® Core™ i7-2600K (8MB Cache) Overclocked Turbo Boost to 4.1GHz       Operating System:Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit,     Chassis Color:Matte Stealth Black Chassis with 525W Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply    Cooling Option:Alienware™ High-Performance Liquid Cooling       Memory:8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 2133MHz, 4 DIMM       Video Card:Dual 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 545 - SLI Enabled       Hard Drive:500GB SATA 3Gb/s (7,200 RPM) Solid State Hybrid     Sound Card:Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio       Optical Drive:Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)  </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">this is my current pc specs</span></strong></p><p><img src="http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww67/85gp/oldpc-1.jpg" width="1023" height="654" /></p>

[Brigh]

Overkill for EQ II.

[vochore]

<p><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; border: 0pt none; position: static; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; color: green;"></span>1....never ever build a comp to play <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; border: 0pt none; position: static; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; color: red;">eq</span>2,build it to play any of the newest games out there then just adjust it down so <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; border: 0pt none; position: static; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: none; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: serif; color: red;">eq</span>2 plays good.</p>

[Kosh]

<p>Go to the Tech section at EQ2 Flames and have a look through the threads on building new systems.</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Very nice system and it would work great in EQII.  I use an older i7 with a GTX480 and raid in extreme quality above 30FPS.</p>

[Coolit]

<div>I've just purchased all the bits to build a new system around the i7 2700k, if you feel comfortable building a pc then you may get better value by doing that.</div><div></div><div>I’m pretty interested to see how well the Intel does vs my current AMD in EQ2, everything I’ve read say's the current Intel chips are much better not just in EQ2 though so I'm expecting it to run well.</div>

[Oink]

<p>System supporting SLI with a meager 525W power supply is pretty disturbing.  Geforce 545s are pretty low-to-midrange parts and a single 570 would outperform the SLI setup.</p><p>With SLI disabled, it wouldn't run much different than a HD4850.</p><p>I have an overclocked Q6600 (G0) w/ a 9600 GT and an OC'd I7 920 (D0) w/ a pair of GTX 275s and I don't notice a difference beween them in EQ2.. but I refuse to use shader 3.0.</p><p>I will say though, multi-boxing with textures cranked to maximum, 4GB didn't cut it for me.  But for a single EQ2 client and most other tasks, it should be fine.  If you can bump that Q6600 up to a 1600 FSB, I'd say.. don't bother upgrading.. maybe just get an SSD instead if you don't already have one.</p><p>As for that alienware R3 build:</p><p>While the $75 might be worth it for the 4.1 (turbo boosted) overclock of the 2600K vs the 3.9 as you might be guaranteed a better binned / capable cpu, paying $150 extra to get 8GB of PC3-2133 ram instead of the included 6GB doesn't make sense when you can 8GB of 2133 memory from newegg for less than a hundred.  Then I'd use that $50 saved to get the single 560ti instead, which in almost every case should perform better than a pair of 545s.</p>

[vochore]

<p><cite>Oink@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>System supporting SLI with a meager 525W power supply is pretty disturbing.  Geforce 545s are pretty low-to-midrange parts and a single 570 would outperform the SLI setup.</p><p>With SLI disabled, it wouldn't run much different than a HD4850.</p><p>I have an overclocked Q6600 (G0) w/ a 9600 GT and an OC'd I7 920 (D0) w/ a pair of GTX 275s and I don't notice a difference beween them in EQ2.. but I refuse to use shader 3.0.</p><p>I will say though, multi-boxing with textures cranked to maximum, 4GB didn't cut it for me.  But for a single EQ2 client and moth other tasks, it should be fine.  If you can bump that Q6600 up to a 1600 FSB, I'd say.. don't bother upgrading.. maybe just get an SSD instead if you don't already have one.</p><p>As for that alienware R3 build:</p><p>While the $75 might be worth it for the 4.1 (turbo boosted) overclock of the 2600K vs the 3.9 as you might be guaranteed a better binned / capable cpu, paying $150 extra to get 8GB of PC3-2133 ram instead of the included 6GB doesn't make sense when you can 8GB of 2133 memory from newegg for less than a hundred.  Then I'd use that $50 saved to get the single 560ti instead, which in almost every case should perform better than a pair of 545s.</p></blockquote><p>i agree with oink on many of these statments...you def.would be far better with a single 560 or better yet a 570 and i would go with a min of 650 watt to 750 p/s.</p><p>my comp specs are in my sig and even after overclocking my cpu to 4.0 ghz i still see no increase in performance with eq2.</p>