Bokishi Posted September 10, 2008 Author Posted September 10, 2008 Get 1600w PSU 4870 X2 Crossfire!! Current 3DMark
Deraldin Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Get 1600w PSU 4870 X2 Crossfire!! Even if I had the money I think that would be just a little bit overkill.
Gorth Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 So far acquired... Antec Performance One P182 Antec TruePower Quatro 1000 PSU Samsung Spinpoint F1 1 Terabyte HD Asus P5E3 Premium WIFI - X48 chipset 2 x Corsair (2 x 2GB) PC-10600 (1333MHz) XMP DDR3 (8GB total) Intel QX9650 CORE 2 Extreme Quad Core Zalman Reserator 2 Fanless Water Cooling System with cpu and vga (not used yet) block Asus 2400pro 256 mb silent video card - *Snigger! 50$ and it runs DirectX10 and Vista Aero* No dedicated sound card yet. No "real" gfx card yet. No fancy peripherals yet (throw away keyboard/mouse) Running Vista Ultimate 64bit Putting in an on-line order for a "Creative PCI EXPRESS X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series [22C-XFITFC]" and two "Samsung 500GB 'HD502IJ' HDD - SATA II 7200rpm" to set up in a 1TB RAID 0 (no idea what HDP is, they claim that the HDD is 20% faster). I plan on reusing my old 5.1 speakers for the sound card for a while. One, because they are decent and Two, because I wouldn't know how to fit 7.1 speakers into my office anyway. Through some clever shelf and furniture arrangement, nobody is tripping over the speaker cables as it it It still leaves me with the headache of deciding on a gfx card and a monitor. I am probabling going for the Sapphire HD4870X2 ATI card, but I want to wait until the first production runs have been passed over the counter. Somebody might also finish and bring a watercooling solution to the market for it in the meantime. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Illunder Posted September 14, 2008 Posted September 14, 2008 Actually got this system back in April so a bit late: E8200 @ 3.2 AC Freezer Pro 7 Ga-p35-ds3l 4gb OCZ pc6400 Asus Xonar D2 7.1 ATI HD4850 PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610w Antec P182 Vista HP x64
WITHTEETH Posted September 14, 2008 Posted September 14, 2008 I think im going to wait until he next windows to upgrade my system. Hopefully then everythign will be standard 64bit. and ill get another couple gigs of ram, and bumpr up my graphic card along with a new CPU. The E8400 probably. Who knows whats going to be the best graphic card for the money in the future, all i know right now is that the 8800GT i have niow is great except the cheaop onboard ram it has occasionally over heats which is super lame. Always outnumbered, never out gunned! Unreal Tournament 2004 Handle:Enlight_2.0 Myspace Website! My rig
Pidesco Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 ASUS P5L-VM 1394 Pentium 4 631 3.0 GHz 2 GB Kingston DDRII667 RAM Gaiward 9800GT Onboard Audio (my old SB Live! died on me a while ago Samsung 80GB 7200RPM Samsung 320GB SATA2 Samsung 17" 795MB Gamepad XFX XGear Dual Reflex New graphics card for 112 "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I 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.
Magister Lajciak Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 Pentium M 760 2GHz ATI Mobility Radeon X700 2GB DDR2 533MHz RAM 100 GB HDD 15.4" WXGA
Magister Lajciak Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 Luckily, the above rig is about to be replaced!
Magister Lajciak Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 New machine to arrive this week: Intel Core 2 Duo P8100 2.1GHz 4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM 500GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 17" WUXGA
Deraldin Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 You know, you could have put that all in one post...
Theseus Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 P965 Mobo E6600 2.4 CPU 8800GT 2 gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 Ram Creative Xfi Sound Card Its has handled any game I've thrown out it so far with great resolutions. Maybe in the summer time Ill upgrade the CPU to a Quad or Dual E8400. And get another GPU whenever there will be another bargain with a substantial performance increase like the 8800GT was... Whatever happened to Physic cards? lol ... bok
Magister Lajciak Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 You know, you could have put that all in one post... Good point... I usually don't go back to edit my posts to insert more stuff in (at most to correct spelling or grammar), but it is a practice I might have to start implementing.
Magister Lajciak Posted November 9, 2008 Posted November 9, 2008 New machine to arrive this week: Intel Core 2 Duo P8100 2.1GHz 4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM 500GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 17" WUXGA I made a mistake. The NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX should read NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS.
Deraldin Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 Asus M2A-VMAMD 5000+ Black Edition OC @ 3.0Ghz Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Heatsink 4GB OCZ PC-6400 RAM Diamond Radeon 4850 Corsair 450VX PSU WD 320GB Hard Drive Coolermaster CM 690 BenQ 24" G2400WD LCD Just pulled the trigger on a new monitor. Will post more pictures when it get's here.
Tigranes Posted December 16, 2008 Posted December 16, 2008 Oh yeah, should post here too. HP dv5-1131tx Intel Core2Duo P7350 (2.0 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB) 3gb ram DDR2 320gb HDD 5400RPM GeForce 9600M GT 512mb (dedicated) 15'4" screen WXGA Let's Play: Icewind Dale Ironman (Complete) Let's Play: Icewind Dale II Ironman (Complete) Let's Play: Divinity II (Complete) Let's Play: Baldur's Gate Trilogy Ironman - BG1 (Complete) Let's Play: Baldur's Gate Trilogy Ironman - BG2 (In Progress)
Gorth Posted December 16, 2008 Posted December 16, 2008 My computer eventually ended up being "complete" Antec Performance One P182 Antec TruePower Quatro 1000 PSU Asus P5E3 Premium WIFI - X48 chipset 2 * Corsair (2x2GB) PC-10600 (1333MHz) XMP DDR3 (8GB total) Intel QX9650 CORE 2 Extreme Quad Core (water cooled) Zalman Reserator 2 Fanless Water Cooling System Creative PCI EXPRESS X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series 1 * Samsung Spinpoint F1 1 TB 2 * Samsung 500GB 'HD502IJ' 2 * Seagate 640GB 'ST3400320AS' Sapphire ATI Radeon 4870X2 w. 2 Gb DDR5 ram (tore off the stock fan (and the warranty) and equipped it with a cooling block from EK Water Blocks, Slovenia) Samsung 30" SyncMaster 305T+ Running Vista Ultimate 64bit Various peripherals: Wacom tablet, Microsoft LiveCam, Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard, Microsoft 5 button mouse (very old), Saitek X52 Pro flight stick, various external HDD and USB sticks, old 5.1 Speaker/Amplifier set from Creative. The latter is probably the only part I intend to replace in the near future with some nice 7.1 surround set. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Rosbjerg Posted December 16, 2008 Posted December 16, 2008 After some upgrades this is my new rig. Asus P5Q Pro Motherboard (onboard Realtek HD audio) Intel Core2Duo 8400 3.0 Ghz 2 GB Corsair DDR3 RAM ATI 4870 1GB DDR5 250 GB Maxtor HDD (will be upgraded to a 1TB SATA in january) 19" ACER 1951 LCD (max resolution is 1280*1024 but I actually like that) Logitech MX 700 Mouse and wireless keyboard. Altec Lansing 2.1 speaker system (somewhat old, but a really realiable setup with great sound) XP Pro 32bit Fortune favors the bald.
Theseus Posted December 16, 2008 Posted December 16, 2008 Ros, didnt you mention you wanted to play GTA IV? Because your Dual core isnt going to hold a candle against a quad core unfortinately with the poor programming R* did.
Rosbjerg Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Actually I have GTA IV and I'm running it quite decently.. I play the game at 1280x1024 with settings on high and I only experience minor lag when there's explosions, shootings and about a dusin police officers after me (at the same time mind you).. The biggest problem is bugs however - I had one that caused the game to go double speed (still not lagging) and then the patch came and fixed that, only to introduce a new bug - no sounds.. so I still can't play any missions, but I can run around and cause havoc. Fortune favors the bald.
taks Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 <snip general specs in the interest of space> holy shemoligans. nice rig. what's up with the ATI gfx card, however? Samsung 30" SyncMaster 305T+ so what do you think of this monitor? i have a syncmaster 21T at home (i think that's what it is) that i really like. for $1000 at newegg i hope it's worth it. of course, 72 out of 89 reviews give it a 5 out of 5. i recently switched my office one to a 24" dell widescreen POS. i can't get the colors right. grrr. i'm tempted to switch back to my original 4by3 monitor. taks comrade taks... just because.
Gorth Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 holy shemoligans. nice rig. what's up with the ATI gfx card, however? Uhh. whats up? My only problem with the card was that it sounded like 737 taking off when I put a bit of stress on it. In the current setup, I can't hear it at all. It *does* generate a lot of heat though. When I put my cpu under full load (all 4 cores), I can't feel much of a difference on the radiator. If I try to run The Witcher (giving the gfx card something to do), I can keep a cup of coffee warm on top of the radiator It does perform very nicely though and surprisingly few compatibility issues. The few things I've had with older games could be either that or Vista. Samsung 30" SyncMaster 305T+ so what do you think of this monitor? i have a syncmaster 21T at home (i think that's what it is) that i really like. for $1000 at newegg i hope it's worth it. of course, 72 out of 89 reviews give it a 5 out of 5. So far, it has been a good value for money thing. I have an aversion against widescreen for computer monitors, but there was just no getting a 4x3 in this size range Just like the gfx card, it does generate quite a lot of heat, but I get colour ranges that I didn't get on my 19" samsung. Particularly noticeable on a couple of websites that use pale/pastel like colours, where you can suddenly spot the texture and subtle gradients “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
taks Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 sorry, taks<-nvidia fan. hmmm. i'm going to upgrade my home monitor soon though i'm waiting for prices to come down before doing it. since 4x3 is my preferred aspect (for a computer) as well, i need something big to get the same feel in a 16x10 (or 16x9). as you note, 4x3 in anything even remotely close just don't exist. i'm guessing 4x3 is a goner in general within a couple years. sigh. i have a buddy that did a 35" 4x3 CRT monitor back before monitors that large were affordable, like in 1996. he dropped a bundle on it, but it looked good (the only furniture in his living room, actually). taks comrade taks... just because.
Gorth Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 i have a buddy that did a 35" 4x3 CRT monitor back before monitors that large were affordable, like in 1996. he dropped a bundle on it, but it looked good (the only furniture in his living room, actually). That lucky bastard I used to be a Matrox fan until they gave up competing with Nvidia and ATI on the 3D high performance market. Still the darn best image quality I've seen on a computer screen though. I've had two Matrox cards, one Nividia and now one ATI card. I've been happy with all of them so far. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Deraldin Posted December 25, 2008 Posted December 25, 2008 I just ordered a new computer for my dad thanks to a couple boxing day deals. Coolermaster Centurion 590 Seasonic M12 600W ($50 after rebate! $100 off regular) Gigabyte EP43-DS3L Intel Core 2 E8400 4GB (2x2) Mushkin PC-6400 DDR2 (CL5-4-4-12) HIS Radeon HD 4870 ($220! $90 off regular) Seagate 1.5TB HDD ($140! $70 off regular) He actually ordered the 4870 for me. It's going to be swapped out with my 4850 which will go in his computer since he really doesn't need the extra power, but it was just too good of a deal to pass up. Ordered the PSU and HDD separately because they were limited stock items, then went searching for the rest with him. The Seasonic was a damn good deal. I was going to grab one myself, but they ran out of surprise special stock before I got my dad's second order (everything but the PSU and HDD) through.
Bokishi Posted December 26, 2008 Author Posted December 26, 2008 Core 2 e8400 @ 3.8 GHz EVGA nForce 680i 3x EVGA GTX 280 Triple-SLI 8GB OCZ nVidia SLI DDR2 800 Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty 150GB RaptorX 2x 1TB Hitachi Deskstars 1.2kw SilverStone Decathlon LG Blu-Ray Burner CoolerMaster Stacker 830 30" Dell 3007WFP-HC Windows Vista x64 SP1 Current 3DMark
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