Suggestions? Yeah, another 6800
It looks good YG. Make sure you post some benchmarks once you get it put together.
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| Author: | Kills On Site [ 02-13-2005 09:25 PM ] |
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http://www.abit-usa.com/news/2005/20050131.php http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2270&p=1 http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzA1LDE= definatly awesome boards. I have one 74GB Raptor and it owns, especially in map load times. I also have a BFG Tech (awesome company that makes great nVIDIA cards) 6800 GT AGP that I love. I am running an overclocked 2.4 GHz Athlon XP and I get no lag at all, so my dream rig would be pure ownage in everything from play and work |
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| Author: | Tormentius [ 02-13-2005 10:34 PM ] |
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This thread has been pruned. Keep it to relevant points gents or it goes to R&R... |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-15-2005 05:52 PM ] |
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I think I'm ready to do this.. ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. $178.97 AMD Athlon 64 FX 55AS, Boxed. $899.00 BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC 256. $555.50 Corsair Twnix 1024-4400 DDR550 2.5ns, with Aluminum heat spreaders. $265.00 Total: $1898.47 What do you guys think? Component suggestions? Anything? Thanks in advance. |
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| Author: | Tormentius [ 02-15-2005 06:04 PM ] |
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Suggestions? Yeah, another 6800 It looks good YG. Make sure you post some benchmarks once you get it put together. |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-15-2005 06:56 PM ] |
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Yeah, another 6800 would be nice. But that's something I'll do in another year or so. I'm probably gonna order this weekend, with another friend of mine who's gonna get the same PC, plus drives, case and PSU. |
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-15-2005 07:37 PM ] |
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right now I'm reading about the nf5 chipset and it's reported overclockability, think my dream machine is in the future cause if NF5 as good as reported, it would be an amd/nf5 based system, SLI with two of the best available nvidia cards at the time, watercooled and overclocked to the max. And pc power and cooling 550 watt power supply. Top end AMD processor. I guess that's a little general, but why want what is available now when there is something better to dream about just around the corner. |
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| Author: | Kills On Site [ 02-15-2005 07:53 PM ] |
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nForce 5 already? damn, granted 3 different sockets, but still the same AMD 64 architecture and it has gone thru 3 series of nForce chipsets |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-15-2005 08:35 PM ] |
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ajerara wrote: right now I'm reading about the nf5 chipset and it's reported overclockability, think my dream machine is in the future cause if NF5 as good as reported, it would be an amd/nf5 based system, SLI with two of the best available nvidia cards at the time, watercooled and overclocked to the max. And pc power and cooling 550 watt power supply. Top end AMD processor. I guess that's a little general, but why want what is available now when there is something better to dream about just around the corner.
The problem with that logic is, there's always something better just around the corner. If you never buy what's out now, you're going to be left dreaming forever. 
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-16-2005 08:24 PM ] |
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Well I did it... Most of it anyway. 110314 Asus A8N-SLI NForce4 SLI Audio/GB-LAN/USB/PCI-E/SATA/DDR/ATX 64 939 1 $168.00 $168.00 Warranty: 800746 - 60 Day Monarch / 3 Year Manufacturer Dire 190483 BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC 256MB DDR3/PCI-E/TV-Out/Dual-DVI (Retail Box) 1 $540.00 $540.00 Warranty: 800011 - Manufacturer's Direct Warranty Molex Connector: None 140980 1 GB (2 pcs 512) DDR (550) PC-4400 Corsair (TWINX1024-4400C25PT) 1 $265.00 $265.00 Shipping: FedEx Two-Day Air: $16.06 Sales Tax: $0.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total: $989.06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still gotta work out the AMD 55SA. Looks like I may not get it until after the 25th. 
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-16-2005 11:36 PM ] |
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Nah, I actually did buy and build last summer, did pretty good within a limited budget and overclocked nicely. Plays D3 quite well. Far Cry plays OK. Could OC more with a beefier power supply. Your new rig is looking pretty sweet. It'd be interesting to see some game benchies on that when it's done. Is the Asus A8N a pretty fast board? |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-17-2005 07:10 PM ] |
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Well I finished my system with the AMD Athlon 64 4000+. I couldn't get the FX55AS by the time I wanted it and saved $250.00 by going with the 4000+. The final system will be. ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe Athlon 64 4000+ 1 gig Corsair PC4400 twinx 2.5ns RAM Geforce fx 6800 256mb ULTRA OC (2) Maxtor 80 gig SATA 8mb 7200 RPM RAID 0 Stripe (1) Maxtor 250 gig SATA 8mb 7200 RPM Pioneer DVR A105 Lite-On 52x24x52 Antech 550 watt true power PSU I also ordered a friend's system tonight too. He got the exact same thing, except for the drives. He got, (2) Maxtor 200 gig SATA 8mb 7200 RPM drives that we may RAID 0 Stripe and a Pioneer DVR-109, dual layer DVD burner. These should be some smokin systems.... I'll post some benchies when they're done. 
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-17-2005 11:06 PM ] |
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If you have Doom 3 I'd love to see a report on how it runs on that rig. |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-18-2005 05:48 AM ] |
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Yeah, I've got Doom 3. I'll be interested to see what the game looks like with AA turned all the way up. I already can play at max detail, 1024X768 with my current PC. But I can't use AA with that setting. |
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-19-2005 11:51 PM ] |
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Yeah, definitely test it with AA all the way up. Curious to see the fps you will get with those settings, too. |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-20-2005 11:24 AM ] |
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With my current PC, I get 35 FPS at 1024x768 Ultra quality. No AA though. |
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-20-2005 02:31 PM ] |
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Is that on a timedemo or just ingame? |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-20-2005 03:33 PM ] |
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Time demo. |
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-20-2005 08:48 PM ] |
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I think your new rig will surpass that easily. |
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| Author: | AmIdYfReAk [ 02-20-2005 09:09 PM ] |
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ajerara wrote: I think your new rig will surpass that easily.
ya think?
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-21-2005 04:16 AM ] |
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ajerara wrote: I think your new rig will surpass that easily.
I probably could have got away with just upgrading the video card to a FX6800 256 Ultra AGPx8. But I wanted to go PCIE, so I had to change to the mobo. Since I changed the mobo, I thought it wouldn't be right if I didn't upgrade the CPU and RAM too. 
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-21-2005 06:51 PM ] |
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yes, you might as well. More fun that way, anyway. Are you going to try OCing? |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-21-2005 07:35 PM ] |
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ajerara wrote: yes, you might as well. More fun that way, anyway. Are you going to try OCing?
Yeah.. Unfortunately the AMD 64 4000+ has a locked clock speed multiplier and I'll have to use the FSB. That's why I bought the 550MHz DDR 4400 RAM. It should give me plenty of FSB range to O/C with. |
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| Author: | AmIdYfReAk [ 02-21-2005 08:02 PM ] |
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make sure you keep ontop of the Hypertransport multiplyer.. also, i would like to add that overclocking any of the new AMD's is a diffrent world.. thus far 400mhz is the best i can yeald out of this cpu.. ( 3200+ 90nm core ) |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-21-2005 09:54 PM ] |
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Hypertransport Multiplier? I wasn't aware of such a thing. Please explain... |
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| Author: | ajerara [ 02-21-2005 10:57 PM ] |
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There's a guy with a Chaintech NV4 board and a winnie 3000 that's running at 2.7 ghz. Let me check...yes, here's his specs: Chaintech VNF4 Ultra (Beta BIOS) @ 300HTT A64 3000+ Week 44 Winchester @ 2.7GHZ 4 x 512MB Kingston HyperX 3200 DDR Gigabyte 6600GT @ 570MHZ (Mem @ 1.21GHZ) 2 x WD SATA 7200 RPM 120GB 8MB Cache HDD's in RAID 0 impressive - there another guy on the site running a 3200 at 2.7, too. He's on watercooling, the first guy is on aircooling. |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-25-2005 12:25 PM ] |
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I've got the new rig up and running. 3d Mark 2005 4653 1024x768/4xAA 5204 1024x768/no AA No O/C yet either. |
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| Author: | Tormentius [ 02-25-2005 12:41 PM ] |
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FFS. Nice YGP Now post some D3 numbers. |
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-25-2005 05:57 PM ] |
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I'm working on installing all the shit back on my PC. I had to build my friends identical rig last night. Now I got to get everything done tonight before the LAN party tomorrow. D3 numbers soon.
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| Author: | YourGrandpa [ 02-25-2005 06:25 PM ] |
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Again, no O/C yet. Here's some D3 numbers. Ultra High Qualiy 1024x768 Time demo1 75.2 fps. |
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| Author: | Kills On Site [ 02-25-2005 06:28 PM ] |
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YourGrandpa wrote: Again, no O/C yet.
Here's some D3 numbers. Ultra High Qualiy 1024x768 Time demo1 75.2 fps. nice, think you could try 1152x864 at High? That is what I use and I get 80 
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