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Frozencry
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^Good to hear you're stable now  That SLI should give you a solid boost once the Crysis patch is out, which is what I'm waiting for also, considering that 'apparently' it's supposed to improve the quad core support by quite a bit.
For now I just stick to UT3 though. 140fps at 1680x, max everything. Deferred lighting render paths refuse to mix AA with it, but regardless you don't notice jaggies at 400 km a minute.
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| Frozencry wrote: | | Deferred lighting render paths refuse to mix AA with it, but regardless you don't notice jaggies at 400 km a minute. |
Sounds awesome, I really need to pick it up sometime soon! Can't believe that you're getting such a stupidly high frame-rate on it, given how sexy the game is. I suppose thats what you get when you're running an 'uber' rig 
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| Karai Pantsu wrote: | | Frozencry wrote: | | Deferred lighting render paths refuse to mix AA with it, but regardless you don't notice jaggies at 400 km a minute. |
Sounds awesome, I really need to pick it up sometime soon! Can't believe that you're getting such a stupidly high frame-rate on it, given how sexy the game is. I suppose thats what you get when you're running an 'uber' rig |
That, and a lot of tweaking and OS optimization 
My shutdown issue's gone too, looks like the BIOS update fixed it for me.
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| Passa wrote: | I'd be extremely cautious buying a HDD off ebay Samboy
(ie wouldn't touch one off ebay with a 10 foot pole) |
yeah i was also pretty cautios about it. so i decided not to
im ugprading at xmas (pressies  ) and this will be my setup:
Motherboard: Gigabyte MA69GM-S2H AM2 ATX All in One M/B with HDMI - $99.00
CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 6400+ AM2 Processor Retail Dual Core 125W Black Edition(NO FAN) - $269.00
CPU cooling: Cooler Master Hyper TX2 (AMD Socket 754/939/940/AM2/ Intel Socket 775) - $38.00
HDD: Western Digital 500G SATAII 7200 rpm HDD(16Mb Cache) - $129.00
Ram: DDR2 2048MB (2X1024Mb,2G Kit) PC6400 DDR2 RAM with heatspread PNY - $73.00
Total: $608.00
all from http://www.umart.com.au/
also, on a sidenote. i was originally going to get this AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Cord 2.2Ghz Socket AM2, but then got told that the current CPU (dual core 6400+), is better for gaming. so i changed to that 1. also, its a little cheaper, but the money saved goes to the cooling, because it doesnt have any cooling on it *sad panda*
thoughts?
Update: what im getting for Xmas. has been finalised, this is it
Motherboard
CPU
also, im buying an 8600GT off a mate of mine for $100. 512mb GDDR3.
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System specs below in sig.
Have Asus 8800 GTX to install.
Not sure whether its worth going to Phenom 9600 with this Crosshair MB, any suggestions on this?
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The E6850 is a good choice 
I was tossing up between it and my Q6600.
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My PC is just about built.
All I need is for my motherboard to arrive sometime soon.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 SLACR/G0 Stepping
4GB RAM - G.Skill 4x1GB CL 4-4-3-5
Asus Striker Extreme 680i SLi mobo
SLi XFX 8800GT XXX
22" Samsung 226BW 'S' Model
Antec Nine Hundred case
Logitech X-540's... which pump!
I will be quite satisfied
Come on UT3!!! hehe... plus Crysis, which will look beautiful.
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antec 900..... beautiful case, the 1 that i want, just gotta get another $160 together...
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^I'm hoping to replace this generic thing for an Silverstone TJ07 Black with window sometime around Xmas .
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^ wow, id never even heard of the TJ07, so i had a quick google, and damn that looks like a nice case. qutie alot of fans, and it looks really sleak.
just read a quick review aswell (Here) and it looks to be a very nice case.
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Yeah it also allows you to install 2 Power Supplys,
Here an Video Review from 3dgameman over @ Youtube
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IDSkubfWaPM
he has an full website of the same name you should give it a visit.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: |
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At the moment i'm Waiting For My new (and First Gaming Computer) The Laptop Im on At the moment Is So embarrassing its Cruel to list the Specs.
So my new Comp Has..
Core 2 Duo processor E6750(2.66ghz)
3gb Dual Channel ddr2 Ram
Vista Home Premium
256mb ATI Radeon X1300 Pro Video Card(Pretty Crap Right.)
Will this system Play Call of Duty 4 (on what settings??)
Thinking of Upgrading Vid Card To a Nvidia 8800gt 512mb
But that May Take A while
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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with that system, yes, but only if u can upgrade that video card. it looks to be the only thing dragging down your system, everything else is great. i just built a PC for my dad with pretty much same specs (E6750, 2gb ram, and an 8600) so yes, you should be able to run call of duty 4, but not on that video card. get an 8800gt and it will run great
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Thanks Alot Mate
Means Alot.
Merry Christmas xD
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Got a nice new comp for xmas
Its an acer veriton 7900pro with some custom ordered parts
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.6ghz
Geforce 8800 Ultra
4GB ddr2 ram
2x 350gb internal HD + 1tb external hd - and its almost full atm with film footage and all my 3d files, now I need another terabyte to back it all up
I also got a 22" samsung 1080p HD monitor, and im using my old Logitech X-230 2.1 speakers, hoping to buy a 5.1 setup soon but my computer room isnt really set up properly for it.
Im just wondering though, im running windows xp proffessional atm, is it really worth upgrading to windows vista? like is there really that much difference? does it improve performance for anything?
Not too worried about the UI differences, i know it looks alot cooler, just thinking about the performance side.
thanks
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^With SP3 (You can get the RC Version Release Here) on XP the performance is meant to be 3x faster the Vista with SP1 installed, so that should clear it all up for you.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Although there's no DX10 love for XP.
Well, not at the moment anyway.
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| ult1matex64 wrote: | | ^With SP3 (You can get the RC Version Release Here) on XP the performance is meant to be 3x faster the Vista with SP1 installed, so that should clear it all up for you. |
That 3x is only in specific circumstances... not really related to gaming at all either. However you'd find that performance for most games is slightly below XP performance in Vista.
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Yeah really can't wait to see Vista's Gaming Performance getting better then XP defiantly in DX10 of course.
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finally got my entire setup finished (except for my keyboard, im trying to find a good place to buy a wolfclaw V2 or attachement, if any1 knows a place)
i got my G9 mouse yesterday, aswell as my sata DVD drive and an XFX 8800GT (alpha dog edition).
i ran the windows experience points in vista, and i get a score of 5.7.
i get 5.7 for processor, a 5.9 for everything else, except data transfer speed, which is 5.8.
overall, im so very happy being able to run crysis on very high settings. no AA or anything, and not at highest res, but still, it looks great.
edit: forgot to mention, i ran 3dmark05 yesterday (still have to DL 06) and i got 19,997 marks for my gfx card. kinda disapointed i didnt get 20k, but still, 19,997 is nothing to complain about. im still grinning about seeing the score last night
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Samboy you should be proud with that score, I only got 13,022 3Dmark05 points with my system (might redo it again though), and only get 4.9 Vista Performance Score.
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yeah, thats exactly what my step-dad said, he got around 13k as well. in comparison, my old 8600 got around 3k marks, so im very impressed with the card.
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The plan is for me and my setup is to drop a new CPU into what I've now dubbed my Franken-Dell. Basically everything in it has been changed the only original hardware that remains is the motherboard, sound card and PSU.
So now its time for a new CPU, the plan is to sink a quad 2.4 of 2.66 unit into the Dell. Now the only thing that needs working out is if I'll need a new motherboard.
What is currently has:
2.8GHz Pentium 4
3GB of DDR2 667Mhz RAM
160GB Hard Disc (Basically I got a replacement one since the other crapped out)
256MB 7600GT Nvidia with Dual DVI
Dual DVD-RW drives at x8
MX 3200 Keyboard/Mouse set
MX Revolution Mouse
Generic Sound Card
One day I'd like to be able to cut a perspex window into the side of my Dell Box and stick some blue LEDs in there, maybe even change the Dell logo to "Franken-Dell".
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Thought I'd jump on the wagon.
Quad Core 6600
2 GB DDR2
WD SATA 500GB HDD
8800GTS 640MB
P35C-DS3R Mobo
CM Stacker RC-830 Case
DELL 2407WFP 24" LCD
Will upgrade to DDR3 once price drops, since my board can handle it. Will also probably go to 45nm sometime, since the board can handle that too! Also going to put in a 2nd 500GB HDD for some RAID action soonish.
Runs Crysis quite well at 1680x1050... Native res of monitor is 1920x1050, but Crysis is not very playable at that level! What a monster of a game. Awesome stuff though! 
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1Gb ram
300GB WD hard drive
AMD Athlon XP 3600+ CPU
ASUS A8n-VM-CSM motherboard
16X Liteon DVD burner IDE
20X Liteon DVD burner SATA (having issues with, see my DVD Drive issues thread)
Intregrated Geforce 6150
Runs UT2004 and CS:Source fairly well (25-50fps)
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