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I finally have my new computer up and running.

 

E6600 Core 2 Duo

EVGA NVidia 680i SLI motherboard

2 gig of DDR2 RAM

2 250 gig hard drives!

 

It does seem to have grounding problems when I have my speakers plugged in. I need to have that worked on and see why, but yay! NEW COMPUTER!

Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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I finally have my new computer up and running.

 

E6600 Core 2 Duo

EVGA NVidia 680i SLI motherboard

2 gig of DDR2 RAM

2 250 gig hard drives!

 

It does seem to have grounding problems when I have my speakers plugged in. I need to have that worked on and see why, but yay! NEW COMPUTER!

Does it have a video card, Hades? In my experience, it helps to have one.

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The video card I am using is from the old computer. Its a X1900 Radeon. I will be upgrading, hopefully by the end of the year, to 2 Nvidia 8600 GTSes in SLI mode. I am also using the old Soundblaster Xi-Fi. The older computer died... painfully. The plastic covering of the PCI-E slot fell off and the processor was close to being fried after running Vista for as long as it did. The old Sempron just couldn't handle it.

Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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Don't congrats me yet. It seems that after I got vista installed and started to mess with it it turned off by itself. BOOM! Now it won't start up. I powers up[ but it doesn't boot to anything. I am taking it back to the techs tonight to see if they can do anything and if not I am going to send the motherboard back to Newegg for my money back. Maybe I should have gotten an Assus board instead of EVGA. :(

 

Good news, my old computer isn't as dead as I thought. I was able to get an old Nvidia 6200 graphics card and a Audigy1 soundcard to work in it so I have at least that. I can play Baldur's Gate but I would hate to see NWN2 to run on it. *shudder*

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Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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The video card is completely dependent on the monitor size (and hence resolution); you'll not see any benefit from a beefy GPU unless you have a big screen to run.

 

I'm saying he could just get an 8800 rather than two 8600s, it's probably cheaper, got the same power, and no hassle dealing with SLI.

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What about two 8800s?

Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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Hmm... I might someday...

 

Well, if I do need to get a replacement board I will focus on getting a good single PCI-E slot. It seems that EVGA isn't that great of quality. Any suggestions for a single PCI-E slot board that uses the E6600 that is good but not overly pricey?

Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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I would like to have a 24" widescreen monitor. :)

Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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Man, I wish I could browse the internet with that rig.

 

You could probably browse the internet and listen to music at the same time with that rig.

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with my new core2duo i can play most of my games (well, one at a time) while running serious simulations on the second CPU. in fact, i need to get my arse in gear and back to the simulations... procrastinating heavily.

 

taks

comrade taks... just because.

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What sort of simulations if you don't mind me asking, Taks?

Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer.

 

@\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?"

Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy."

Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand"

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