J.E. Sawyer Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 New RIG (not that great) Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU 4 gigs of Patriot Viper DDR2 RAM (one stick is probably bad because I keep getting BSoD IRQL crashes) EVGA GeForce 8800GT WD Velociraptor main drive WD Raptor secondary drive Dell 24" LCD monitors Samsung Super Writemaster DVD burner Antec TruePower 2.0 550w power supply Windows XP SP3 onboard audio, LAN, etc. twitter tyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pop Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 How will that setup handle Alienz? Join me, and we shall make Production Beards a reality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 I'm guessing the 8800GT will struggle with Aliens on a 24" screen. "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...
Morgoth Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) I hope Aliens does run fine with a 8800GT on a 22" screen. If the 360 can handle Aliens, a Core2Quad with 8800GT should handle it as well....hopefully. Edited December 26, 2008 by Morgoth Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samm Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 CPUOoh, I smell wasted money (only half kidding, price/performance ratio on the fastet dual core isn't great at all, here that is, don't know about the US) Citizen of a country with a racist, hypocritical majority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I hope Aliens does run fine with a 8800GT on a 22" screen. If the 360 can handle Aliens, a Core2Quad with 8800GT should handle it as well....hopefully. Well, on the same detail level, hopefully it will. But I'm guessing(praying?), Aliens will look considerably snazzier maxed out on a PC than on a 360. I have a 8800GT myself, but my screen is a 17" CRT so let's see if I can max it out completely. "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...
Bokishi Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 Update 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 1200w Thermaltake Toughpower (Tri-SLI 280 Certified) LG Blu-Ray Burner CoolerMaster Stacker 830 30" Dell 3007WFP-HC Windows Vista x64 SP1 Some pics Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theseus Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Wow bok, nice use of space. I cant believe your mobo had room for a audio card. If only you had a quadcore to help your framerate with GTA IV! Sharp machine. I might upgrade my CPU and Ram this summer with a Q9550 and 6 to 8 gigs of ram. Is it worth it if im running windows Vista 64? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Bok is clearly an evil man. "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...
Bokishi Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 Wow bok, nice use of space. I cant believe your mobo had room for a audio card. If only you had a quadcore to help your framerate with GTA IV! Sharp machine. I might upgrade my CPU and Ram this summer with a Q9550 and 6 to 8 gigs of ram. Is it worth it if im running windows Vista 64? Yeah, the only thing a quad will help me with is GTA 4. e8400 and the i7 are still pretty much equals in most game benchmarks, so I left it alone for now. And yeah gets lot's of DDR2 Ram it's cheap, you can probably get 8GB for under a hundred dollars these days. DDR2 performance compared to DDR3 in games is still only 2-3 fps, not worth the price premium for now Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 How hot do those 280's run? Can't be too much air flow around them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theseus Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 He actually has fans on the acrylic glass that force air around them, plus they blow most of the heat outside the case which is a necessity. Im guessing its still very hot though, i wouldnt overclock them past whatever the factory set them at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 They idle at 40-50C. I haven't measured in game yet though. If you look to the right of the cards, there's two 90mm fans stacked on top of each other that push air through the front, this helped me lower temps drastically last summer with the triple 8800s. The fans on the acrylic door are positioned so one blows in cool air, and the other is reversed so it can be like an exhaust for the hot air inside the case, this should help with air circulation around the cards I think Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoM_Solaufein Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 You need to clean the dust out of your CPU fan Bok. Looks like the same fan cooler I have. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is StrengthBaldur's Gate moddingTeamBGBaldur's Gate modder/community leaderBaldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition beta testerBaldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition beta tester Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition beta tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Believe me I tried cleaning it, I really did Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.E. Sawyer Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 CPUOoh, I smell wasted money (only half kidding, price/performance ratio on the fastet dual core isn't great at all, here that is, don't know about the US) It seems to be a reasonable price::performance ratio to me. The i7 motherboards and CPUs weren't really necessary for how I'm using my home machine. Here's the whole desktop layout for doing mod work at home: I'm trying to set things up so I run modules on the XPS laptop and do all of my toolset work on the desktop. I'm hoping I can cut down on iteration time this way, but it may not pan out. twitter tyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 It seems to be a reasonable price::performance ratio to me. The i7 motherboards and CPUs weren't really necessary for how I'm using my home machine. Here's the whole desktop layout for doing mod work at home: What he means is that you can get the exact same chip (the E8400) for a LOT less, just slightly factory underclocked. A quick tweak in the motherboard BIOS and you'll have a normal E8400 up and running a good 10-20% faster than a E8600. Of course, you can overclock the E8600 too but you'll reach the same results as with the E8400.. which is cheaper. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Is that The Black Hound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samm Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Great keyboard Citizen of a country with a racist, hypocritical majority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.E. Sawyer Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 What he means is that you can get the exact same chip (the E8400) for a LOT less, just slightly factory underclocked. A quick tweak in the motherboard BIOS and you'll have a normal E8400 up and running a good 10-20% faster than a E8600. Of course, you can overclock the E8600 too but you'll reach the same results as with the E8400.. which is cheaper. Oh, I see. This may sound pretty dumb, but I haven't overclocked anything in a long time. I've been out of PC building for so long that I was sort of lost when I was putting this new system together. I tried to pay attention to all of the important data, but I guess I missed overclocking flexibility. [quote name='H twitter tyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 [quote name='H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.E. Sawyer Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Skill checks, for Intimidate and Diplomacy. twitter tyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 That keyboard looks like it's 20 years old. "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...
J.E. Sawyer Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 The design is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_Keyboard Mine is color-coded for WordPerfect. http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/f...tid/0/id/181992 twitter tyme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Amber Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 That's a very patriotic keyboad. I need to put together a new machine soon myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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