pc processor / vista question[views:7211][posts:94]___________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 12:10pm - Niccolai ""] I have my computer pretty much spec'd out, I'm just not completely sure which processor to go with. I'm buying an AMD, but I don't know what speed would be ideal for a system equipped with Vista. I'm thinking a dualcore 3800: Description: [Socket-AM2] AMD Athlon™64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core processor Specification: Model: X2 3800+ Frequency: 2.0 GHz L2 Cache: 512KB + 512KB Packaging: socket AM2 Thermal Design Power: 89W, 65W, 35W I'm getting 2 gigs of mushkin ram on the pc. should I go with a better processor? I don't game or anything, but I need to be able to make 12x12 300 dpi artwork and run protools without getting any lip from the system. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 12:21pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I'm specing out a new machine also. And for the first time ever.... I'm not going AMD. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 12:21pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] And I said it before in another thread... but these SLI motherboards are fucking killing me. They all have 1 usable PCI slot in them. LAME. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 12:29pm - Niccolai ""] I was thinking of going intel, but I'm going to have a shitty enough time affording the computer as is. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 12:40pm - Niccolai ""] These are the specs I've been kicking around: Case: Eagletech Dragon Aluminium Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply, built-in temp display, and case lighting. processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6320 (2x 1.86GHz/2MB L2 Cache/1066FSB) (I'm not sure ifI'm going with this one or not, I might go AMD) cooling: Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit (comes free with the pc) mother board: Asus P5N-E SLI nForce® 650i SLI Chipset w/6-channel CODEC, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB (don't know shit about motherboards) Ram: 2048MB [1024MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module (Mushkin) video card: Geforce 7300gt 512mb w/ dvi + video out (don't knowshit about graphic cards, but I picked the cheapest 512 one so I could support large resolutions) Hard Drive: 160 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 8M Cache] CD Drive: 18X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive wireless network adapter: Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps PCI Adapter (comes free with PC) |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 12:43pm - timjohn ""] i'm running vista on one of my computers with an AMD 3500 and only 1 gig of RAM currently, and I have been fine so far multitasking. I doubt I could use P shop without problems, but for what I want to do (surf and use some low mem intensive programs) it is fine. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:05pm - Greg D ""] Go with Intel. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:13pm - Niccolai ""] Yea, i figure the E6320 is Intels lowest end processor and it's better then AMDs high end stuff. I'm going with that. any opinions on the motherboard now though? this is what they had for options as far as motherboards go, and I don't know shit about them so I just picked one. Asus P5N-E SLI nForce® 650i SLI Chipset w/6-channel CODEC, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB Asus P5N32-E SLI nForce® 680i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB [+ $138] [New !!!] Asus Striker Extreme nForce® 680i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB [+ $227] eVGA NForce 680i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0 Dual PCI-E MB [+ $121] Intel D975XBX Motherboard 975Xpress Chipset w/7.1 HD Audio, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394, 3x PCI-E MB [+ $107] MSI P6N SLI-F nForce 650i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, PCI-E MB [- $5] MSI P6N Diamond nForce 680i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, PCI-E MB [+ $178] MSI P965 Neo-F i965P Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA, USB 2.0 PCI-E MB [- $18] MSI 975X Platinum i975X Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB [+ $63] |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:30pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Check out some reviews. Some of those motherboards are reviewed here and others are talked about / benchmarked against other ones. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/ |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:36pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] [img] My sweet gaming rig. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:39pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Here's what I'm looking at for a setup. I'm still comparing the performance of 2 geforce 8800gts's in SLI against 1 8800 ultra. Case: NZXT LEXA Black ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 750watt Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Motherboard Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 Memory: OCZ Flex FLC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 PC2-6400 Memory Graphics Cards: 2 EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Cards Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series System Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive Storage Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Crappy DVD+- Burner: SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black SATA Model SH-S183L (until I'm able to rent BluRay discs from blockbuster or the drives come down in price, fuck em) Crappy Floppy drive: (I still refuse to build a PC without a floppy drive) SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LBL1 And probably some UPS from somewhere. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:40pm - Niccolai ""] DestroyYouAlot said:[img] My sweet gaming rig. Hey man, I heard you deleted your system32 folder on that beast and it started going insanely fast. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 1:51pm - Niccolai ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:Here's what I'm looking at for a setup. I'm still comparing the performance of 2 geforce 8800gts's in SLI against 1 8800 ultra. Case: NZXT LEXA Black ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 750watt Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Motherboard Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 Memory: OCZ Flex FLC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 PC2-6400 Memory Graphics Cards: 2 EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Cards Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series System Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive Storage Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Crappy DVD+- Burner: SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black SATA Model SH-S183L (until I'm able to rent BluRay discs from blockbuster or the drives come down in price, fuck em) Crappy Floppy drive: (I still refuse to build a PC without a floppy drive) SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LBL1 And probably some UPS from somewhere. jesus christ, that's gotta be close to 3 grand. I can only imagine how sick that thing will run once you delete the system32 folder. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:03pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] It'll be 2. Shitty things about it though: 1) Can't fit my current PCI tuner card in there. 2) My OLD PC is still fucking awesome in my opinion. The only department it lags behind on is games. And I don't play that many games recently. I justify this though by realizing that I will be wasting vast ammounts of time playing the new Enemy Territory. And perhaps I will turn the old PC into a server. Old PC stats (it will be 3 years old come august) Case: Aspire X-Dreamer II(Black) ATX Mid-Tower Case With 350W Power Supply Power Supply: Antec 480W Power Supply with Blue LED Fan, Model "TRUE480BLUE" Motherboard: MSI nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 CPU, Model "K8N Neo Platinum" (MS-7030) Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512k L2 Cache, The Only 64-bit Windows Compatible Processor (haha that description was on Newegg.. it's a little dated now) Memory: Mushkin 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3500 Level One Dual Pack Video card: BFG nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Video Card, 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, TV-Out/DVI, 8X AGP, Model "BFGR68256GTOC" This was the fastest motherfucker available at the time. The 6800's came out like 3 days before I bought this. The 6800 Ultra was nearly impossible to get. Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS PCI Sound Card, Model "SB0350" TV Tuner: Hauppauge PVR 500 MCE Dual Analog TV Tuner System Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD740GD, OEM Storage Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 3.5" Serial ATA150 Hard Drive Optical Drive: NEC ND3550a Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner Shitty floppy drive NEC 1.44MB Black Internal Floppy Drive, OEM The only other shit that changed was the addition of some extra fans, a fan controller, and replacing the motherboard after the MSI one shti the bed. The new motherboard is an Asus board with the same nforce3 250 chipset. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:08pm - ArrowHead is watching you ""] I see so many no-no's in this thread I don't know where to start. Pro-tools? Don't get Vista. Get XP. Furthermore, in my opinion, don't get pro-tools. Niccolai - are you planning on getting memory? You list none. Video card - getting a card because it has 512mb of memory is not the best idea. With a card, it's all about the GPU it uses, not the memory. You could have 900000000mb of memory, but if the GPU is going to bottleneck it will bottleneck Cases with powersupplies included = dead power supply in a month, 9 times out of 10 Hard drive - Get a drive with 16mb cache, not 8. ESPECIALLY if you're planning on running pro-tools or other recording software. That cache effects read/write speed greatly. Niccolai and MSD - Memory - never heard of Mushkin. Heard of OCZ, and I've heard decent things about them. However, Tiger Direct runs a sale on Corsair like every other month, and you could pick up 2 gig for around the same price. I have to say, it's the best memory I've ever used. MSD - Memory again - that processor you are getting is awesome, I got the same one. However, it can handle up to 1000mhz. Why get 800mhz memory? Like I said, wait for the sale at Tiger and get the 1000mhz corsair if you can. Same money, and you avoid one potential bottleneck. Also, and this may just be the intense jealousy talking, why run 2 8800's in sli? It's an awesome setup, but if it's the route you want to go wait a few more months. As these DX10 cards are coming out the 8800's have been dropping in price, and you'll probably be able to get a top end 8800 for under $300 a piece. And yes, SLI mobos seem to all suck ass. The cards cover the fucking PCI slots, so they're pretty much useless. You're lucky to find a mobo that had one slot still open and usable. And finally: LIGHTSCRIBE is NOT fucking WORTH IT! You can get a better, faster non-LS drive for the same money. Lightscribe is crap. 30 minutes to burn one single label. On DVD's, the labels come out so faded and blurry you need to burn it at LEAST 2-3 times to get one that looks decent. On top of that, the shit is buggy and sometimes will run the full 30 minutes without DOING anything. Add to that that the cheapest you'll find the damned DVD discs is about $1-2 a disc (a 25 pack spindel cost me $30, I've seen cheaper online, but at a rate of 3 bad discs out of 10 with the HP brand still not cheap enough). Lighscribe is shit, get a printer that can print to disks instead. You can get printable DVD media for around 20-40 cents a disk, depending on the quality of discs you're willing to use. (crap for 20 cents, high quality TY discs for 40 cents.) One more thing: look into that x-fi gamer sound card. From what I've heard, it's not worth the money. Read a few reviews first. You might be better off throwing a nice e-mu card or something more geared towards sound production in there for half the price. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:09pm - Niccolai ""] can a nigga get a DXdiag screen cap of your current system? |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:12pm - ArrowHead is watching you ""] One more thing for niccolai, you said you want a graphics card to run higher resolutions. Resolution is determined by your monitor, not your card. (unless your talking about gaming). If you're not planning on playing games, you can get a crapo $50 card from wal-mart and never know the difference. |
| _____________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:26pm - Uh ""] http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/cpus/index.x?pg=6 Old article bench marking dual core chips all running Vista. Basically every Intel chip is better than its comparatively priced AMD counterpart. I still don't get SLI. I guess if you truly need the best possible graphics and want to spend $1000+ whatever on buying two top of the line video cards it's cool. But I thought benchmarks were showing that two cards are as good or worse than just a single better card which would be cheaper, less hardware to fuck up and way easier to upgrade. Maybe I'm just pulling that out of my ass though or basing it on old info when that shit just came out. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:29pm - Niccolai ""] I will definately choose a different power supply then. Is it important that i get one that's SLI ready? Memory will be 2 1gb muskin DDR2-800 PC6400s with heatspreader: Capacity: 1GB x 2. Frequency: 800MHz. Latency: 4-4-3-10. Parity: Unbuffered. Voltage: 1-9V-2.1V. Pins: 240. Module: 128Mx64. Chip: 64Mx8. Vista claims you need 512 MB+ for greater resolutions such as 2560x1600 (to run aero's glass interface), which I would like to run once I get my new monitor. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:30pm - ArrowHead is watching you ""] Uh said:http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/cpus/index.x?pg=6 Old article bench marking dual core chips all running Vista. Basically every Intel chip is better than its comparatively priced AMD counterpart. I still don't get SLI. I guess if you truly need the best possible graphics and want to spend $1000+ whatever on buying two top of the line video cards it's cool. But I thought benchmarks were showing that two cards are as good or worse than just a single better card which would be cheaper, less hardware to fuck up and way easier to upgrade. Maybe I'm just pulling that out of my ass though or basing it on old info when that shit just came out. Intel has always outperformed AMD, although by less and less as the years go by. That's why AMD is always cheaper. two cards in SLI will SHRED a single GPU setup. Most benchmarks show at least a 25% performance boost. And you said it exactly, " I guess if you truly need the best possible graphics and want to spend $1000+ whatever on buying two top of the line video cards" This is a niche market, most people would never need an SLI or Crossfire setup. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:34pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I'm still researching my planned SLI setup vs. a single high end card. The difference is price is pretty close though. the 2 cards I'm chosing for SLI have the GTX's and Ultra's above them. |
| _____________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:36pm - Uh ""] I'm still running on gforce fx 5200. I'm overdue for an upgrade. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:37pm - ArrowHead is watching you ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:I'm still researching my planned SLI setup vs. a single high end card. The difference is price is pretty close though. the 2 cards I'm chosing for SLI have the GTX's and Ultra's above them. I read a few benchmark tests that preferred the sli setup. I will try to find them for you. These tests were done pre 8800 ultra, though, I believe. |
| _____________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:48pm - Uh ""] Shit, they have DDR3 ram out already. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104003 That's it, fuck computers. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:49pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] ArrowHead is watching you said:Cases with powersupplies included = dead power supply in a month, 9 times out of 10 Yup, I always replace the PSU's. ArrowHead is watching you said:Niccolai and MSD - Memory - never heard of Mushkin. Mushkin is good. They're always used in the same class as OCZ and Corsair and the others when reading benchmarks and shit on tech sites. My old PC had Mushkin memory and I've never had a problem. Great timings too. ArrowHead is watching you said:MSD - Memory again - that processor you are getting is awesome, I got the same one. However, it can handle up to 1000mhz. Why get 800mhz memory? Like I said, wait for the sale at Tiger and get the 1000mhz corsair if you can. Same money, and you avoid one potential bottleneck. I'm researching this as well. I did TONS of research on my last build 3 years ago. Truthfully though, I haven't had the time lately to keep up on hardware tech articles at the same rate I had 3 years ago. EVERY single CPU and motherboard review I read though is using various DDR2 PC800 DIMMs for testing the Core 2 Duo E6600's and its siblings. I'll have to keep looking around. I know the motherboard I picked out only oficially supports up to DDR2 PC800 but I know it can overclock higher. How fast is the memory in your Core 2 Duo E6600 setup? ArrowHead is watching you said:Lighscribe is shit I agree. The drive I picked out is capable of doing litescribe but I will never use it. Honestly, they're in all the burners now. You're not really paying anything more for it. It's similar to how all the burners will burn dual layer discs. I've had a dual layer burner for a while now and I've never burned one. Fuck that. Single layer discs are $0.20 each. ArrowHead is watching you said:One more thing: look into that x-fi gamer sound card. From what I've heard, it's not worth the money. Read a few reviews first. I've been reading up on that stuff. If you're going Vista, then getting a dedicated sound card isn't worth it. Audio drivers aren't in Ring 0 anymore and this Universal Audio Architecture shit is changing everything. I'm still using XP Pro though and a bunch of the games I play still use EAX. It seems as though all new games in development are developing the sound architecture to go with the Vista way of things now, though, so this will probably be the last SoundBlaster card I'll ever buy :( |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 2:51pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] ArrowHead is watching you said:menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:I'm still researching my planned SLI setup vs. a single high end card. The difference is price is pretty close though. the 2 cards I'm chosing for SLI have the GTX's and Ultra's above them. I read a few benchmark tests that preferred the sli setup. I will try to find them for you. These tests were done pre 8800 ultra, though, I believe. Yeah I read up on articles heavily when SLI made it's debut. The results didn't look good, so that's why I was skeptical when researching this build. It looks like things are quite different now, though. SLI's looking pretty good it seems these days. I still have to do reading to confirm this though haha |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 8:33pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] bizump. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 8:37pm - Niccolai ""] ( @ )( @ ) |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 10:12pm - handinjury ""] Niccolai said:..... I need to be able to make 12x12 300 dpi artwork and run protools without getting any lip from the system. If your gonna run PT LE then I sugest you do some research on the DUC(digi user conferance) PT is prolly the most pickest software DAW. There are so many incompatablitys with hardware, and it is a huge cpu hog. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 10:20pm - ArrowHead is watching you ""] Back to my first post: Don't buy protools. It's crap. Unless you got the mics, room, and equipment to justify needing to adhere to the "industry standard" it's not worth the headaches. Programs like logic, Cuebase, and Sonar are just as capable of providing the home recording enthusiast with enough power to do what they want. It's cheaper, or free if you call your buddy on his cell phone, and will be far more likely to play nice with your system. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jun 27,2007 10:22pm - ArrowHead is watching you ""] but of course, with the above options, you'd need to provide the hardware. Last I looked you can scoop up a good firewire interface for $500 or less. |
| ______________________________ [Jun 27,2007 11:13pm - Uh ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:ArrowHead is watching you said:menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:I'm still researching my planned SLI setup vs. a single high end card. The difference is price is pretty close though. the 2 cards I'm chosing for SLI have the GTX's and Ultra's above them. I read a few benchmark tests that preferred the sli setup. I will try to find them for you. These tests were done pre 8800 ultra, though, I believe. Yeah I read up on articles heavily when SLI made it's debut. The results didn't look good, so that's why I was skeptical when researching this build. It looks like things are quite different now, though. SLI's looking pretty good it seems these days. I still have to do reading to confirm this though haha That was my take on the situation. I guess thats what I get for not keeping up with the reading. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 12:11am - Niccolai ""] My bad, I didn't mean protools. I meant to type protouch, which is an animated gif program. |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 1:27am - Conservationist ""] I second the Corsair, suggest an Intel board, and also suggest waiting till 2009 for Vista. |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 1:46am - thegreatspaldino ""] DestroyYouAlot said:[img] My sweet gaming rig. we will have an oregon trail and number muncher marathon. |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 1:48am - thegreatspaldino ""] also... run XP and windows x's vista transformation pack. looks just like vista... uses MUCH less memory to run. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 9:21am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Niccolai said:My bad, I didn't mean protools. I meant to type protouch, which is an animated gif program. haha you've started a huge shitstorm and then just walked away. thegreatspaldino said:also... run XP and windows x's vista transformation pack. looks just like vista... uses MUCH less memory to run. Why would I want XP to look like Vista? I already force XP to look like Windows 2000 :spineyes: |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 9:51am - thegreatspaldino ""] vista looks sexy, thats why |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 11:35am - Niccolai ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said: haha you've started a huge shitstorm and then just walked away. That's kindof what I do here. teehee. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 11:36am - Niccolai ""] Conservationist said:I suggest waiting till 2009 for Vista. Service pack 1 will be out in the next couple months, that's good enough for me. |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 1:10pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Niccolai said:DestroyYouAlot said:[img] My sweet gaming rig. Hey man, I heard you deleted your system32 folder on that beast and it started going insanely fast. Shit yeah - it runs Quake 4 like it ain't no thing, now. thegreatspaldino said:we will have an oregon trail and number muncher marathon. Bitch, you gonna get dysentery (and raped). |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 28,2007 1:43pm - thegreatspaldino ""] well since im in dysentery... i might be immune to it. |
| _____________________________ [Jun 29,2007 3:39am - Uh ""] http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/pricevperf/index.x?pg=1 (update from my other link) Shit, with the price drop AMD did a couple months ago or so, AMDs are looking better than Intel now. E6400 is about the price of the 5600+ instead of the 5000+ now. |
| ___________________________________________________ [Jul 3,2007 2:59pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I'm finally getting to more research. Some benchmarks of Quake4 (which will be comparable to ET:QW) at the highest qualites, 4x AA, 8x AF, and 1600x1200 show a 6.5fps difference between 2 8800gts running in SLI and a single 8800gtx. I don't think six and a half frames per second is worth $200 haha. I'll probably be going for a single vid card after all. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 3,2007 3:02pm - the_reverend ""] I bought a E6400 the other month. |
| ___________________________________________________ [Jul 3,2007 3:09pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I want you to urinate in my mouth. I mean, how is it? What kind of motherboard / memory you get? |
| ___________________________________________________ [Jul 4,2007 7:17pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Now I'm thinking about a faster processor. I didn't take into consideration H.264 decoding. I think an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 and a Geforce 8800gtx would JUST barely cut it. I want to be able to do this shit if I get a bluray drive down the road... also my new camcorder records everything in H.264. I can't even play that shit on my current system. |
| ___________________________________________________ [Jul 5,2007 9:12am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Hi. |
| ___________________________________________________ [Jul 9,2007 1:04pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Now I'm just stuck on which case to get. All these cases are gay and have stupid fucking doors on the front. This isn't a server, and I like to use my optical drives. Fuck you, door. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 9,2007 1:19pm - the_reverend ""] get the case that I got, it's a box with a handle. |