Building a new PC

[LAWY]

Hey all,

Currently I am playing ET on my self-built gaming PC back from 2008. It has horrible FPS, especially when there are a larger number of people playing on the server. I have overclocked the CPU a bit but it is very unstable, the whole system crashes during the most inconvenient moments. So I was wondering if any of you tech-savy people could help me out a bit. I know a thing or two about building PC's but technology moves very fast and I am not up-to-date with the current generations of GPU's, CPU's and RAM capacities.

Could you maybe list your system specs here and give a short summary on how it performs? I have seen horror-stories on other forums from people that built a 1000USD gaming PC but Enemy Territory doesn't take it well. I really only need this PC to do ET, some minor video editing and perhaps some of the newer games.

Thanks and best regards,
LAWY

PS: you can laugh at my current 2008 setup: I7 920 (3.8ghz unstable) on an Asus P6T deluxe, HD7950, 9GB ram, SSD and a 75hz/2ms Iiyama monitor. This gets me lags when 12> people are playing, it skips frames and I have to guess and predict where people will be

[ETc|#.Jay.#]

Hey Lawy,

since i use nivida grapic cards i have no problems anymore.

my specs are

Betriebssystem
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.40GHz 52 °C
Haswell 22nm Technologie
RAM
16,0GB Dual Kanal DDR3 @ 933MHz (9-10-11-27)
Motherboard
MSI Z97 GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (SOCKET 0) 40 °C
Grafik
PL2530H (1920x1080@60Hz)
DELL AW2518HF (1920x1080@240Hz)
2047 MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Watercooling (MSI) 34 °C
Speicher
931GB Western Digital WDC WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 (SATA ) 29 °C
476GB Samsung SSD 970 PRO 512GB
Optische Laufwerke
HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH12NS30
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Logitech G533 Gaming Headset

performance is very good and stable.

[Etc | Jiggy]

Hello Lawy,

as we spoke yesterday, there are many things to keep in mind if you thinking about building a new pc these days.
The amount of money you want to spent.
The use of your new system, do you want to play ET only?, or even other games, perhaps even some games which arent released yet, (think for the future)
There is a optical thing if you want to make it pretty.
Thinking about Bottlenecks in the system.
Is it userfriendly or just for pros...

so many things ;P

I mentioned yesterday that i´d build my pc just some days ago, i´d thought verry long about every part in it and all in all i can tell you that this machine just running perfect.
I always been addicted to this electronical stuff xd, may thats the reason i have a job in this topic

You can wirte me anytime on discord if you want to talk about stuff like this or just some help xd

Here now my specifications.

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 6x3.6Ghz standard > pushed it to 4,6Ghz running on Peak Core Voltage of 1,2875V
CPU cooling: First i had the stock fan of the 3600, which is getting pretty loud at above 80°C Temps > I switched to Artic Liquid Freezer II 240mm Radiator now got max temp about 60°C under full load with 4,6Ghz and max sound of 21Db.
Mainboard: MSI Tomahawk MAX B450 chipset , OC friendly, Big cooling unit for the voltage transformers, BIOS which can be controlled by mouse, Nice Bootmenu with easy OC, Also got 4 Sys FAN plugs, 1 Pump, at least 2 RGB Headers and a slot for NVME M2 SSDs.
RAMS: I picked Corsair Vengenace LPX 3200 Mhz > boosted it to 3600Mhz
PSU: BeQuiet Pure Power 11 750W, nice sleeved cables and silent.
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO M2 NVME SSD 500GB, 2 TB HDD Seagate, 512 GB Toshiba SSD
GPU: ASUS ROG Strix Geforce RTX 2070 Gaming, i fist had the stock version in MAX OC, which imho gets to loud if its under max load, so i decided to Mod it, now its watercooled too and max temps are 60°C and the Boost of it is even higher now becouse its so good cooled.
Case: Corsair Carbide 275R , 2x FAN´s pre mounted, space for 1x 360 Radioator and 1x 280 Radiator.
Monitor: MSI Optix MAG34IQ 34" curved ultrawide 3440x1440 resolution, 100Hz Refreshrate, 1ms reaktion time, FreeSync...

xd

Thats Version 1, everything Stock

Version 2, Everyhting OC´ed and CPU Watercooled

Final Version.

Overview


Greez Jiggy

[LAWY]

@Jay: nice! Thanks for your reply, glad to hear it works. Perhaps I could find a system like that on Kleinanzeigen.
@Jiggy: hey! Thanks for your very extensive reply I have done some thinking and research and I think I can narrow it down to the following:

- Budget: I want a system + new monitor (144hz). So I need some financial space for that. I'd like to spend not more than about 1000 in total I think, that includes the 144hz (prefably again an Iiyama).
- Use of system: work, ET, i'd like to give the new GTA V and COD a try, multimedia
- Optical: doesn't matter

I found a a nice buying-guide on one of the largest tech sites here in NL:
https://tweakers.net/reviews/7702/2/des ... steem.html = 1000 euro
https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/li ... es/1984266 = 800 euro

I'm still concerned about ET not working properly. Does that really come down to the settings only? I'd hate to spend that amount and only notice a slight improvement or none at all