need your advice please

[madtorn]

hi guys
i am going 2 open a gaming cafe and i am going 2 put on the PCs
ati 3870 cards and cross fire ready motherboards
but i want 2 know what should i get cpu wise and what motherboards you guys recomande
p.s i went with the 3870 becuse its alot cheaper than the 8800gt in my country
srry for my english

[dsturner]

Just My Thoughts

Asus MaximusX38 DDR2 mother board as both PCI-E run at 16x and handles the new 2.0 double bandwidth

Intel CPU with 1333 FSB ( buy the fastest you can afford you won't go wrong)

Some good high speed Ram Pc 9200 or Pc9600 (1150mhz / 1200mhz)

1000 watt power supply and a good case to keep things cool:clap:

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

lol 1000w is a waste of electricity and totally overkill for anything but a skulltrail or maybe 2 2900xt + OCed QX9850.

PC P&C Silencer 750 is all you need for that setup, your wallet will thank you

[dsturner]

Yea its a little overkill but got tired of poppin PSU's hehehe....Its not an electricity killer either it only draws what it needs ..but its there when I need it.:D

Example: 5 hard drives 2DVD writers 2 hd2900xt now 8 case fans and more...hehehe I can make it wine!:rofl:

[revogamer]

with 2 2900XT's of course you can.. and you dont really need pc9200 or 9600, all you need is pc-8000 or pc-8500 for good performance

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

the best stuff out there for the money atm in crucial ballistix pc8500 2x 1gb kit.
I'm even considering getting 4 gigs of it myself

[madtorn]

thx for your help guys but i am on budget i just want a cpu that wont botellnick the 3870 and a motherboard that will handel crossfire
i was thinkin of something like an amd 2x5000+(if its easy to oc) i dont want 2 spoile the players :)
p.s its gona by 20 pcs linked with lan
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now i am thinking of getting AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition
or the e6550

[xMrBunglex]

let me know where this gaming cafe is gonna be. i wanna go there! the specs you guys are throwing around are a lot better than any computer i've ever seen at a LAN center before. you won't need CrossFire, you won't need a big power supply, you on't need DDR2 1066 memory. all of that is overkill for a LAN center. just go with a basic all-AMD build.

i'd say X2 5000+ would be the high end for your CPU's. go with Radeon 3850's unless you're going to have big widescreen monitors (i'm assuming you won't). you could probably even get by with 1GB DDR2 800 memory too. 400-450 Watt power supplies. nothing more is necessary.

if your LAN center is going to be like most LAN's in America, most people will just play WoW anyway. you shouldn't need uber rigs to make the customers happy.

[madtorn]

cool thx man yeah thats what i think i will go with
but about the corssfire i am planing to add the 2nd cards when or if games get more demending in 6~12 months
and yeah the monitors goning to be 19 or 17 crt
and can the 3850 handel games like farcry and ut3 with some good eye candy???
thx for all of you help guys :up:

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i found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eNAwFyN5b8

i think the pcs will be like this
vid card ati 3850
cpu 2x5000 black edition
psu thermaltake 550w
19in crt
motherboard GA-MA69G-S3H (its the only gigabyte crossfire am2 motherboard i found)

[xMrBunglex]

a 3850 will eat those games up on a 19" or smaller monitor. piece of cake.

[adamsleath]

19 inchers...please