Hello guys, This is my new Rig that I purchased from Micro Center store in VA, I hope it will run rfactor2 smooth and strong all max. This rig coast $1135 + I paid $100 to Micro Center for assembly & installation as I am not an expert with that. I will inform you with the performance of this rig with rFactor2 once I get it from the store. Note: I did not buy after market heat sink as I will not over clock it right now. ==================================================================== Now with the rig configuration: date of purchase 5-29-2012 Mother Board = Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H LGA 1155 Z77 ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0388327 Processors = Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz LGA 1155 Processor http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0388577 Memory/RAM = Kingston HyperX blu 16GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 (4 X 4GB Memory Modules) http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360527 Power Supply = OCZ Technology ZT Series 750 Watt Modular ATX Power Supply http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0377236 Video Card = HIS H785QN2G2M Radeon HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0387843 Internal Hard Drive = Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive WD10EALX - OEM http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0352167 Computer Case = Cooler Master HAF 922M Mid Tower ATX Computer Case http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0310583 Operating System = Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit OEM (PC) http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361170 Internal CD/DVD Driver = Samsung 22X DVD±RW Burner with Dual Layer Support - OEM http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0382892 Keyboard/Mouse Combo Set = Gear Head Wireless 2.4GHz Keyboard with Optical Mouse http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0356649 Wireless Network Adapter = Tenda W311M 150Mbps Wireless N USB 2.0 Adapter http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0373032 Best regards
If you are only going to play games with that then 16GB of ram is way overkill. The max you will need is8GB of ram and even that is a bit too much.
Price update: While I was on my way to Micro Center picking up my new computer, I just checked the newegg.com website and I found that the video card above “HIS H785QN2G2M Radeon HD 7850 IceQ 2GB” priced at $249 while I paid $289 in Micro Center which is $40 more!, so when I arrived to Micro Center store I asked the customer service to match the price and They did without any argument and that was fantastic, and they refund the $42 including the tax.
imo, u could have left 8gb of ram at the shop, & with that saving & the $42, upgraded the gpu to a 7870.....u wouldnt regret it my 2c
It is almost $100 difference from 7850 to 7870, and despite that I like I got some refund I think I will add $70 over that $100 and get the GTX670 2GB instead of the Radeon 7870. Also I can overclock my 7850 to get the same performence of the 7870.
Good choice on the GTX670 They keep up with stock 7970/GTX680s Overclock model if possible with twin/triple fans aka: Gigabyte windforce or MSi frozr
"Intel.. Kingston.. Western.. Cooler Master" good choice. for wifi best way is to use pci-card (D-Link DWA-556)
I forgot to update you with the new WiFi card, here we go: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0376778
Nice!!! I've got to nVidia cards and have no regrets I've got a GTX570 so I'm going to wait for them to go down to about £150 and get another for SLI/3 monitors
I noticed that my computer detect the video card as AMD Radeon HD 7800 series, but it didn't say 7850 is it should be like this or the system has to specific which 7800 series this video card is?
Yes it seems to do that for the AMD cards, happens too in other programs like Unigine Heaven benchmark and Afterburner vidcard utility.
First impression with rFactor2 & rFactor1 rFactor 2 My first impression with rFactor2 was fantastic I put every thing on max and tried monte carlo online with 10 F1 1960's cars and I got minimum 49fps and maximum of 100fps, the game was very smooth, then I tried the GT endurance mod offline at Malaysia with 25 cars in the grid max everything with heavy rain and I got minimum of 52fps and maximum of 105fps, I can tell that the HIS Radeon HD 7850 2GB video card doing great job with rFactor2 so far with all maxout, I will post a video soon for rFactor2 in game fps with different mods and tracks and weather. rFactor 1 Runs very smooth but I see that the textures not smooth as before when I was using the Nvidia GT9600, I am sure that there is something I have to do with that I didn’t go through yet, but I did all configuration like anti aliasing and maxout all graphics options, but still have aliasing edges, but other than that the game runs in great fps minimum of 57fps max of 110 at Laguna Seca with Lexus IS.
Getting more RAM is never overkill if the prices are so low as they are today, sure 99% of software doesn't use more than 4-6GB by itself but the more RAM you have, the more can windows eat for themselves and not load anything from HDD so overall response of system is better. If you have only 2GB ram, W7 uses like 600MB. With 8GB, it uses about 2GB. Plus, he won't have to upgrade for few years