the time is near and i

Post by **Mr Late** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:34 am

better get my shit in order

6600gt or plain 128 take a chance unlock pipelines 6800?

its only a tie-me-over solution for now.

Post by **D'Artagnan** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:45 am

Go 6800...or better...

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:44 am

eyo runt :droool:

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:58 pm

Just to piss you off... I just built my new q4 pc.
Asus A8N SLI Delux
AMD Dual Core (Venice) 3800
1GB Corsair XMS DDR 400
2 x GF XFX 7800 GT (SLI)
2 x 250GB 16mb cache SATA HD's
16x DVD/RW
Coolermaster Praetorian case

In Q3 runs at 33c

When the price of the dual 4400s come down ill get one of those but its like doubling the price of the 3800 almost, cunts.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:26 pm

Looks like the system I just ordered, except mine has 2 gb ram and only one 7800GT. Can't wait to see how it does. :icon14:

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:34 pm

With a system like that you might as well have gotten 2gb of RAM, chris.

2gb DDR 533...

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:41 pm

Yeah quasars i intend to up it to 2/3gb its just i got work to pay for all that and i couldnt really push the cost any further as it was roughly £900 exc vat and they said no more than 850

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:43 pm

R00k wrote:Looks like the system I just ordered, except mine has 2 gb ram and only one 7800GT. Can't wait to see how it does. :icon14:

We'll have to see how effective SLI is and compare some timedemos, see how much notiecable the difference is between an SLI machine and one that isnt.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:49 pm

Yea, I'd definitely like to know too. My parts get here sometime this week (Wed or Thur), so this weekend I should be able to run some timedemos/benchmarks.

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:50 pm

Well one thing i did was buy some decent/expensive thermal paste and made sure i covered it properly and used a decent case.. in games im looking at 33/34c which is pretty low so something to bare in mind :P

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:56 pm

I've been running an Athlon XP 3200+ for a while, and my system never gets hotter than about 31C. I wonder how much warmer it will run with the dual-core 64-bit and the 7800.

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:58 pm

Thats what i was worried a bout, especially with SLI so i got a decent case and basically made sure it was vented right. I'm pretty pleased with the result!

Post by **Fjoggs** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:58 pm

I believe I speak for the entire board (with shitty pcs) when I issue this challenge to chris.
Take a dive, but leave your system behind!

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:59 pm

chris wrote:Yeah quasars i intend to up it to 2/3gb its just i got work to pay for all that and i couldnt really push the cost any further as it was roughly £900 exc vat and they said no more than 850

If you can afford 3gb, even better, but insure it's the faster 533Mhz ram.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:00 pm

...otherwise a very nice system

Post by **iMoose** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:12 pm

hmmm, Would I be correct in assuming that my 128mb ATI Radeon 9200 won't quite cut it?

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:20 pm

It would probably run it on low detail, albeit not very well.

That's obviously just an educated guess though.

Post by **Mr Late** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:26 pm

:lol: still bitter ey rook

so hey chriss what card would you go with if you were me?

hehe ive never been jelus of anybodys stuff ever

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:04 pm

Bitter? You know me better than that runt.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what you were saying in your original post, so I can't really offer much advice.

Post by **iMoose** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:54 pm

R00k wrote:It would probably run it on low detail, albeit not very well.

That's obviously just an educated guess though.

Yeah thats what I was thinking. I mean it ran doom3 pretty well, it wasn't until towards the end of the game when things got choppy in some areas. Time will tell...

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:53 pm

I just ran some benchmarks, and it seems like it's my old 2600+ that's holding me back. I cannot get more than 58.1 FPS, no matter if I turn everything down to low @ 640x480.

So just getting a new graphics card is useless - I need a new CPU too, and undfortunately, that means getting a new motherboard and some RAM too. Plus, I need a larger HDD, my 80GB IDE drive just won't cut it anymore.

Fuck, this is going to be expensive.

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:40 pm

Massive Quasars wrote:
chris wrote:Yeah quasars i intend to up it to 2/3gb its just i got work to pay for all that and i couldnt really push the cost any further as it was roughly £900 exc vat and they said no more than 850
If you can afford 3gb, even better, but insure it's the faster 533Mhz ram.

Pretty sure the AMD mobos that support SLI can't do more than 400mhz, i'd have to check.

But im definitly going to be seroiusly upping the ram at the weekend when i can get chance to get to the shop.

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:40 pm

Fjoggs wrote:I believe I speak for the entire board (with shitty pcs) when I issue this challenge to chris.
Take a dive, but leave your system behind!

If i go the pc is coming with me!!

Post by **chris** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:41 pm

Mr Late wrote::lol: still bitter ey rook

so hey chriss what card would you go with if you were me?

hehe ive never been jelus of anybodys stuff ever

Really dude it depends on a few things.

a) how much you wanna spend
b) what your current cpu/mem/mobo are etc

Post by **Mr Late** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:52 pm

well its a transitional period for me with comps right now.

the machine the card will go in is a agp , p4 . 2.5

the price diff between these 2 cards doesnt matter because they are so close in price.

i just cant justify 400-500$ on a supercard for this agp no sli machine .

so its all a temp fix for q4 only.

i dont play at high res or with mega -high visual quality.

but i want rock solid smoothness.