Arkan Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I love the way all my fellow 6800 owners pimp out their card to the max like there's no tommorow. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hell, it's still a good card. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I love the way all my fellow 6800 owners pimp out their card to the max like there's no tommorow. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> technically, i'd also have to speed up the DACs and memory to have TRUE ultra performance. however, doing so is not good for the card's expected life and the difference is minimal. the primary boost in performance comes from the added pipes, which are easy to turn on and don't (shouldn't) really hurt anything. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I've never OC'd a DAC. I didn't even know you could. But unless I couldn't get my resolution with refresh rate, I'm not sure I'd even see the need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Instead of what I posted in the upgrade thread, I went and got an XFX Geforce 7600GT, much to the dismay of my bank account. Feel the budgety power of my 375 "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuerkek Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Instead of what I posted in the upgrade thread, I went and got an XFX Geforce 7600GT, much to the dismay of my bank account. Feel the budgety power of my 375 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 That system gives me 45 frames per second in Oblivion with HDR on plus those nifty texture mods. That's all I need. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkan Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 That system gives me 45 frames per second in Oblivion with HDR on plus those nifty texture mods. That's all I need. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've heard that processors have less of a throttling effect on graphics cards nowadays, anyway. "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Graphics cards seem to be the bottleneck almost regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkan Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Graphics cards seem to be the bottleneck almost regardless. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Huh? Seem to be the bottleneck or cause the bottleneck? "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuerkek Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Actually, it will depend from game to game. Far Cry, for example, saw about a 3 fps increase after the processor upgrade + tripling the RAM (1.5 GB). Clearly it's more GPU-based, and the X700 is but only decent for it if it's on full. CSS and JKA both saw right about 150% increase (60 to 90 and 100 to 150, resp.). Also I can now play Dantooine on KOTOR I/II without disabling vertex buffer objects and still get a decent 20 fps, as oppose to about 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Errr..., that's not a 150% percent increase, it's a 50% increase. Still great, of course. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I was saying graphics cards are the bottleneck regardless of CPU, particularly in today's graphic intensive games. Not surprisingly, the older games listed two posts above saw improvement since they aren't as graphically intense and don't choke the card. Hence, CPU improvements make more of an impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Actually, in games like Civilization 4, Rise & Fall and the like, the CPU can severely bottleneck the system, long before the GPU reaches its limit. Well, unless you have a really weak GPU and insist on using only 2560x1920 or something ) Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 My card gave me a huge boost on Civ 4. Before it I could, forget about playing Civ on huge or even large maps, and on standard maps things could chug quite a bit. Now, all runs fine with everything cranked up. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Actually, in games like Civilization 4, Rise & Fall and the like, the CPU can severely bottleneck the system, long before the GPU reaches its limit. Well, unless you have a really weak GPU and insist on using only 2560x1920 or something ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Fair enough, there are exceptions. Civ4 doesn't fall into the "OMGOMGOMGOMG Graf1XXxes" school of design. Still, that CPU dependency only really comes when you click End Turn doesn't it. I wonder if the HDD is more of a bottleneck in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionavar Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 SD37P2 INTEL CORE 2 Duo SHUTTLE XPCIntel Core 2 Duo Dual Core E6600 2.4GHz, 4MB 1066FSB Boxed Processor (Conroe - 65nm) 2X1024MB OCZ DDR2 PC2-5400 Special Ops Edition - OCZ2SOE6672GK Thermaltake 50cm UV Reactive SATA Cable - Green Seagate 120 GB (7200) 8MB Cache - Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ SATA2 MITSUMI 1.44 Internal 3.5" Floppy Drive & 6 in 1 USB2.0 Flash Reader (Black) Lite-On 165H6S Dual Layer Lightscribe 16X DVD+RW/-RW X48 CDRW (Black) XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 (Quad SLI) Extreme Edition PCI-E 1GB DDR3 DUAL DVI-I HDTV I-Rocks XSlim w/Backlights - Black Windows XP Professional Logitech MX1000 Well thanks to everyone for their help - heres the new rig. Delivery next week and then back to HL2 and general gaming. The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 I thought you were gettin an XTX Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionavar Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I thought you were gettin an XTX I spent a lot of time online last night researching that ... and it seemed to me (in regard to future-proofing) that the GX2 made more sense. Most issues (in the thread to which you linked) has a work around and most new games (especially intensive ones are being coded for dual core/SLI style set-ups). So hiccups may be there, but there seems to be enough inertia to address them that it seemed to make sense. The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 Okay well have fun with the new rig Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 (edited) Oh great! This will be like the second computer you've purchased since I bought mine. Go on! Show off your massive ammounts of money by buying another computer. See if I care! :'( Edited August 30, 2006 by Deraldin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionavar Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Oh great! This will be like the second computer you've purchased since I bought mine. Go on! Show off your massive ammounts of money by buying another computer. See if I care! :'( Hey it's been three years (well not including the notebook) The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Oh great! This will be like the second computer you've purchased since I bought mine. Go on! Show off your massive ammounts of money by buying another computer. See if I care! :'( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey it's been three years (well not including the notebook) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm still running on the computer that I purchase 4 years ago this October. In that time, I've added a sound card, swapped the video card once (W00T! Go 9600 Pro! ), swapped the hard drive (30GB>160GB) and swapped the CD-RW for a DVD Combo drive. All the computers (or rather almost all) in this thread make my computer cry. :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarna Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I'm still running on the computer that I purchase 4 years ago this October. In that time, I've added a sound card, swapped the video card once (W00T! Go 9600 Pro! ), swapped the hard drive (30GB>160GB) and swapped the CD-RW for a DVD Combo drive. All the computers (or rather almost all) in this thread make my computer cry. :'( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :D If it makes you feel any better, I'd still using a P3 550 Mhz as my internet computer. It's 6-7 years old and a piece of crap. I'm about to put a bullet into it and rebuild it to a 3000+ ( old parts left over from another rebuild ). Much as it's been a continuing frustration, I've learned a lot by limping this turd by over the years. Ruminations... When a man has no Future, the Present passes too quickly to be assimilated and only the static Past has value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarwinElMaco Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 P4 3.6GHZ 3GB RAM 320GB HD 6800GT 20" TFT G15 Keyboard 5.1 And a CPU cooler from hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalimeeri Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Solid middle of the road, but stability>cutting edge always for my main machine. This thing runs from 6 a.m. to midnight every day--and I hate paying the electricity company any more than I have to. Coolermaster mid with filtered mesh front panel and TT 430-watt PS Athlon64 3500+ w/TT silent heat-pipe/fan Asus A8N5X 2 x 512 Corsair XMS 0dB 7600GT 'skyscraper' M-Audio Revolution 7.1 with Monsoon planar MH-505's Logitech Lazer M1000 Northgate Omnikey 102 (circa-1992?) Pioneer + Plextor DVD-RW's Pair of WD200 gb IDE's; 1 x WD 250 gb SATA; external USB WD200gb 'just in case' WinXP Pro 19" Samtron CRT; APC 700w UPS System draws 172 watts (including monitor) and idles air-cooled at 34C o/c, video 51C; has run everything I've thrown at it and never broke a sweat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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