If you decide to keep things strictly 2005:
candle_86 wrote on 2020-01-20, 05:11:So 2005 […]
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So 2005
Athlon FX60 or x2 4800
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
2x1gb OCZ Platinum DDR600
2x 7800GTX 512
150gb Western digital raptor
320gb storage drives
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZX
BFG Phsyx card
That's the ultimate 2005 gamer
I appreciate the attempted specificity. Preliminary research, however, indicates that the FX-60 was an early 2006 release. Also, I thought all PhysX hardware and games/patches started mid-2006?
awgamer wrote on 2020-01-20, 05:48:
2005, year before core 2 came out, top end was an FX-57 and 7800 gtx 512mb
I'd agree at this early point in my research that the FX-57 was the top gaming performer of 2005.
This thread is timely, as I recently acquired a rig locally for a reasonable price:
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
A couple of Raptors in RAID (don't remember the model)
"some ram idk" 😉 good troll BTW
Two 6600 GTs in SLI
I was only really interested in the motherboard and CPU. After seeing the prices of FX-60s, I decided to make this a 2005 rig. However, I don't expect the FX-57 to be much better in that regard, so the 4800+ may stay. The absence of 512MB 7800 GTXs also meant that I bought two 256MB 7800 GTXs to replace the GTs in SLI.
The case is an Antec SLK1600, which is a 2002 case with aesthetics I appreciate and cooling performance I do not. Back in 2003 , I had its superior kin, the Antec SLK3700AMB.
It would be more interesting --except to my wallet --to build an January 2006 PC, as kind of a last hurrah for AMD before the C2D reign. In keeping with the underdog theme, FX-60 would be joined by X1900XTX in crossfire. X1900XT X master card /dongle hunting, anyone?