T:A Rig? Recommendations? — TWL Forum Archive

Teamwarfare Vet

2011-10-10 22:28

Gonna be building a new rig here soon..my laptop is on its last leg! $1200 budget. looking for suggestions and most importantly.....cost effeciency! flame away!

psst...update: bf3. fuck T;A.
Post edited by CoJacK at 10/10/2011 11:32:44 PM

sQu33ze

TeamWarfare Vet

2011-10-10 22:32

buy a diablo 3 rig. t:a is pretty meh

4nonymous

Permabanned

2011-10-10 23:00

How about something like this:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_customed&update_id=192357

NoBigDeal

Competition StaffLadder AdminTribes 2

2011-10-10 23:19

Originally posted by: sQu33ze
buy a diablo 3 rig. t:a is pretty meh

NoBigDeal
TeamWarfare Competition Staff
Email: rayne@teamwarfare.com
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4nonymous

Permabanned

2011-10-10 23:44

buy a rig for crysis, that way you buy a rig for everything

The D_e_V_i_L

TWL Member

2011-10-11 00:56

I wouldn't bother building a rig for T:A.... just look at the format, what the fuck are they doing, it's not CS with jetpacks, we wan't more than two weapons per armor type YOU STUPID MOTHER FUCKERS...

gisky

TWL Member

2011-10-11 12:18

T:A is UE3 - it'll run on most 2-3 year old stuff, let alone a new PC you build yourself right now.

NYC

"I'm 13 MoFo"TWL Contributor

2011-10-12 03:58

I just built this PC for $~550... runs every game on max, love it so far (including copy paste from newegg if u wana look up parts):

Motherboard: MB ASUS| M4A87TD EVO AMD870 $104.99

CPU: CPU AMD|PH II X4 955 3.2G AM3 RT $113.99
(AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2Ghz)

Videocard: VGA DIAMOND|6950PE51G HD6950 1GB $239.99
(Radeon HD 6950)

RAM: MEM 4Gx2|GSKILL F3-12800CL8D-8GBRM $84.99
(8 gigs GSKILL)

HD: HD 750G|WD SATAIII WD7500AALX $58.99

+ dvd burner / case / power supply / fans

hope that helps, works great for me

ReDEyE!!

TeamWarfare Vet

2011-10-12 10:38

Originally posted by: CoJacK
Gonna be building a new rig here soon..my laptop is on its last leg! $1200 budget. looking for suggestions and most importantly.....cost effeciency! flame away!

psst...update: bf3. fuck T;A.

Order sober.

BubbleTrout

TWL Member

2011-10-12 16:33

Is that phenom a BE?

CoJacK

Teamwarfare Vet

2011-10-12 18:03

Originally posted by: ReDEyE!!
Originally posted by: CoJacK
Gonna be building a new rig here soon..my laptop is on its last leg! $1200 budget. looking for suggestions and most importantly.....cost effeciency! flame away!

psst...update: bf3. fuck T;A.

Order sober.

lol. good advice redeye. taken to heart. thx.

never gone the amd or ati route.. probably will buy some quad-core from intel along with a gtx 560 or someshit. asus has always made good boards and will most definitely be buying another from them. will do some reviews on what's out there.

they have monitors out nowadays so that i can hook up my cable box somehow to it and then switch back over when gaming? psyched about getting a new monitor! mmmM 27".

Descolada

TWL Member

2011-10-12 18:08

Don't buy AMD cpus right now. They're shit compared to intels offering. Their graphics line up is pretty decent though.

Dareplaytribe

TWL Member

2011-10-12 18:21

put ur dick in it

BubbleTrout

TWL Member

2011-10-12 18:57

Yeah, AMD isn't good right now. You can get better performance per $ with Intel. Just do your homework.

4nonymous

Permabanned

2011-10-12 21:35

AMD is only good for video cards because they bought out ati

--Gunther--

TeamWarfare Vet

2011-10-13 15:55

Originally posted by: NYC
I just built this PC for $~550... runs every game on max, love it so far (including copy paste from newegg if u wana look up parts):

I did the almost exact. just upgraded a lil.

Gunthers new machine

Motherboard-ASUS M5A97 EVO-I picked this one because it will upgrade to an 8 core.
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366622

CPU-AMD 3.4 http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0325874

Vid Card i wanted- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0342820

I had to return one cuz the fan was hitting the inside of the case and another due to a hole in the box.

They upgraded me for free to this- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0365382

Hard Drive- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0334293

Power supply- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361181

Case- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0339423

Ram is cheap.

The only probs i had was only cuz i didnt go directly to the AUSU site to get all the drivers i needed. Now she is smooth as glass.

Im looking for a good mouse if anyone has advice.

g
Post edited by --Gunther-- at 10/13/2011 3:59:31 PM

Friendo

TWL Member

2011-10-15 10:50

Here are the recommended system requirements for TA
http://hi-rez.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/269/~/what-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-system-requirements-for-tribes%3A-ascend%3F

Minimum requirements
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
RAM: 2GB (XP), 3GB (Vista, Win7)
Graphic card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support. (ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher).
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
Hard drive: 10 GB free

Recommended system requirements
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 4GB
Graphics card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 1GB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560+ or ATI Radeon 6950+).
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
Hard drive: 10 GB free

Pittyswains

TWL Member

2011-10-15 11:58

82nd Mofo

TeamWarfare Vet

2011-10-15 13:22

I just purchased this...fits in your price range, and will be for diablo 3 and guild wars when TA fails.

Case - Coolermaster HAF 932 $160
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119213

PSU - OCZ 750W $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341041

Mobo - ASrock Z68 Pro 3 $105
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157251

Ram - 8GB Ripjaws $47
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311

CPU - Intel i5 2500 sandy bridge $210
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115073

SSD - Crucial 128GB $228
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148448

GPU - Gigabyte 560ti $199 AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125401

Cathodes - $10
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811994001

I did mine on a budget, but if you have a little more room, the 2500k and a aftermarket HSF will OC very well, so ive read.

EpsilonNav

TWL Member

2011-10-15 21:33

If I'm correct in my understanding they are using the unreal tournament 3 engine for T:A... so if you want to build a rig that handles it well there will be loads of info out there on the interwebs on machines that handle UT3 well.

And considering UT3 was released 4 years ago in 2007 means you can build a rig thats well able to handle the game at over 150fps for a few hundred dollahs nevermind your $1200 budget if it doesn't include a monitor.

Personally get a nice i7 quad CPU and spend 20 dollah more on a decent heatsink so you can overclock that baby by 50%, combinded with a nice gfx card and you'll be pissing all over T:A and even battlefield 3 for your $1200.
Post edited by EpsilonNav at 10/15/2011 9:35:49 PM

CoJacK

Teamwarfare Vet

2011-10-15 21:59

whatup mofo! thx for this..i'll be doing some reviewing on these links. hope family life is going good yo. cheers!