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Whats most important?

Geeky, Hardware May 18th, 2006

9 Responses to “Whats most important?”

1. The Technocrat Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 9:17 am

   When building a new PC, I would rank it as follows:

   PSU
   Northbridge
   rest of motherboard, including manufacturer
   CPU
   Memory
   GPU
   Cooling
   Display
   Hard Drive

   Alright, who voted for the mouse… :-S

2. AtariBoy Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 9:42 am

   I put mouse!!

   In a gaming system your only as good as you input, my G5 improved my score better than any other upgrade, closely followed by my RAID0 which loads games nearly twice as fast.

   GPU is more important than CPU to me as well, Ram is Ram, as long as you have at least 512 your good, 1gb is all you need, speed doesnt matter.

   The screen is pretty important to me as well, you’ll get so much more out of your pc from having a nice big montior or even two, much more than a slight speed increase which you would only really notice in benchmarks.

   Although i wouldnt say no to a vapochill case

3. GeekLimit Adminbot Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 9:44 am

   bah, I have a 300mhz machine around here somewhere, the best mouse in the world wouldn’t make me want to game with it…

   I regard those as peripheral input devices anyway – needed, but not part of the machine… I can see your point, and agree with you on the gaming machine though

4. machernucha Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 10:17 am

   i cant vote, i think the sharing IP addy thing has struck again

5. Jeremiah Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 12:29 pm

   The most important part of a PC is most certainly the motherboard. If your motherboard is junk then it pulls down the performance of the entiere PC.

   Who ever put Hard Drives. . . . wow.

6. AtariBoy Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 12:46 pm

   The harddrive is the biggest bottleneck in modern PCs, changing that can have a big effect on every day performance and loading.

7. Zhooibaal Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 3:22 pm

   I voted for GPU, allthough the motherboard is also very important… My current motherboard managed to cut down my GPU’s performance drastically… I “upgraded” from an MSI socket A board to an AsRcok socket 939 board when the MSI broke…

8. iiq374 Says:
   May 18th, 2006 at 7:06 pm

   Motherboard – without that upgrade it’s often pretty hard to upgrade the other bits to what you want (yeah jam that socket 939 processor in your socket A motherboard….)

9. E@zyVG Says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 5:44 am

   For me it’s surely CPU, which past 5-6 years has been AMD only.

   Sidenote: My first AMD = i386DX

   But then again, I look at CPU from motherboards perspective. If you have seen my profile on PC specs on my blog, you can understand that it’s overclocking and getting max is what I am interested.

   So if I put my priority list, it will look something like:

   1. CPU+Mobo+Cooling —> RAM —> Video —> Storage –> PSU->Audio
   2. Display –> Keyboard+Mouse
   3. Case + Modding (if I still have money)

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