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Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)
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AfterDawn Addict
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17. January 2008 @ 12:56 |
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A 965 chipset board? A very outdated chipset for a new build... Can I not recommend something along the lines of a P35-DS3R instead?
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kardson
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17. January 2008 @ 12:56 |
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I've already exceeded my price limit.
doing that would force me to get a different motherboard because is a different die size.. and to find one with the features and a brand I just at the price I need would be absolutely impossible.
The Q6600 is setting me back $260.00
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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17. January 2008 @ 13:43 |
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I would have thought a Gigabyte board would probably be cheaper than one from DFI...
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17. January 2008 @ 14:05 |
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It seems the DFI board is 80.
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17. January 2008 @ 14:09 |
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Fair enough. Old tech DFI boards never seemed to come down in price, but that one obviously has. NF4 Ultra Ds are still worth loads over here.
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17. January 2008 @ 14:19 |
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Anyway I just checked and it seems only the wolfdales are coming out in January, but the yorkfields are March now. Also they have a measly 7.5x multi. You would need some fast RAM to OC it as much as the Q6600.
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17. January 2008 @ 14:30 |
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400FSB for 3GHz, so PC6400 for 3Ghz, PC8500 should still suffice for 4Ghz right though?
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17. January 2008 @ 14:42 |
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My pc-6400 can manage 3.8 ghz, so it would be 3.52 ghz on the Q9300. Trade offs, Trade offs.
While the Dual Core wolfdales have a 9.5x multi!
EDIT: On my RAM that's 4.5 Ghz! I'm still not gonna get a dual core for my new build though, I believe the time for Quad Cores has finally come.
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17. January 2008 @ 14:57 |
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Indeed, but I'd still only put on in my PC for futureproofing purposes. Nothing yet has made me go "I wish I had a quad core CPU" - eventually that'll change, but it hasn't yet.
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17. January 2008 @ 15:08 |
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Crysis seems to use more than 2 cores. I believe many games will be based off from that now. The time that you will see quad core programs is near. Think of it as a watershed moment, when things wont trickle through, but many programs will announce support at the same time.
Plus it sounds more impressive and I have to make sure that my computers sell.
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17. January 2008 @ 18:10 |
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I still don't see why you don't just keep a PC of your own, separate from ones you sell, you must have made enough money for that to be possible now. You can use additional money you make to perpetually upgrade your own system. It's far less hassle that way, at least that's the way I'd do it (if I could, if there was a market!)
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17. January 2008 @ 18:18 |
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Because I haven't made enough profit yet for that. Right now I've sold several PC parts and one whole PC. This new one is about to go soon hopefully.
I'm not doing this to make money per-se. Each time I make a little bit more money I put it towards the new PC. So slowly I'm upgrading to the point where I have a quad core crossfire machine. Similar to Rays, except with a "real" case(lol I mean a full tower), no watercooling, and 2-3 gigs of PC-8500 ram.
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17. January 2008 @ 18:31 |
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Sounds like a real man's crossfire build lol.
Well, best of luck with that endeavour, hope you've got a decent enough monitor to make good use of it!
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17. January 2008 @ 18:35 |
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Haha yeah I'm still on the 17inch CRT. It's decent enough for now.
I have a question. Do you have to mess around with stretching the image and centering it on LCDs? Is there an easy way to do it on CRTs? I still haven't gotten it just right. When i increase the resolution in a game it gets all screwy and it doesn't use the whole screen.
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MaccerM
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17. January 2008 @ 18:43 |
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Pretty much all TFTs will have an auto-scale that will re-adjust the picture to fill the screen at each different resolution you select, so no stretch or positioning, it'll do it within a second or two at each res change.
Q9550 @ 3.4Ghz-1.275v & TRUE, Asus P5N-T Deluxe, 4Gb Dominator 1066 (5-5-5-15), Inno3d OC 8800GTs in SLi with TT Duorbs, 580w 5.1 Setup, 2x DVD-RAM, 320&160Gb SATA2 HDDs, 17" 3ms Hyundai TFT, 700w Jeantech PSU.
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17. January 2008 @ 20:02 |
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Abuzar: Unfortunately the downside of CRTs being analog is that there's no way of getting the image perfect, you just have to play around with it. LCDs fit the picture exactly right all by themselves, so you don't have to worry about it.
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17. January 2008 @ 20:04 |
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17. January 2008 @ 20:08 |
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I prefer the Dell LCD monitors mainly because the have a USB hub and many inputs on them like VGA, DVI, SVIDEO, Compsite, 4USB and the quality of it is amazing.
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17. January 2008 @ 20:29 |
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I want that antec 1200!!!! Either that or a Antec P182, the silver kind. (With a mod for a window of course!)
Twelve-Hunder pics:
I hear it will be out soon. Unfortunately I will have to buy more coolant and tubing as I am out of tubing and have about .5 liter of coolant left...
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17. January 2008 @ 20:35 |
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Why? It looks kinda Ugly. Try these instead:
IF you want something flashy and gamingish looking, this is what I have.
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17. January 2008 @ 20:43 |
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Ahh, I was considering a Cosmos, but I dont like the outer look - it's not a "flashy gamer" look. The Thermaltake is more like it, but I dont want the Watercooling to come with it as I wont be using that, and that just adds onto the price. I also am not sure how things will fit inside of it. I was looking at the Kandof, or maybe a Lian Li V2000, although thats not that flashy either.
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17. January 2008 @ 20:57 |
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It doesn't come with water cooling. You can buy a special edition that does but the regular one doesn't.
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harvrdguy
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17. January 2008 @ 22:52 |
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Kardson popped back!
Hey Travis, I thought you were going to get that mobo that would take your gecube along and allow you to upgrade your cpu to one of the core twos. Now, instead, you're getting a whole new rig, and saving the gecube rig for your 4 year old son. (What about your 3 year old daughter - doesn't she get a computer?) Was it the announcement about the 3850/3870 family that did it?
Anyway, you'll soon be pushing 10000 3dmarks like most of these guys I guess - you say you can't wait - so when is all this going to happen?
Rich
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18. January 2008 @ 08:16 |
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18. January 2008 @ 10:20 |
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Damn sam, I think you found my next case! That thing is freakin awsome! What kind of a case is it??? I see the Cyberpower badge on it, so maybe its a prebuilt custom case?? That is more like it!
EDIT: Nvm, it is a NZXT CS831, around the $400 price mark, and is suppose to ship Q1 2008... so soon!
Anyways, I've been following a guy by the name of "maxishine" on youtube for a little over a year now, and he has the SICKEST pcs you will ever see. He just recently put up a video on youtube in which he bought 3 8800Ultras, and coupled them with the new 780i board from ASUS. This thing f*cking screams! I must say that although he currently only has part 1 of the series on there now, he will have Crysis benches, 3DMark06, and a lot of other crap! Here's his link: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=maxishine
He inspired me to put building series videos of my pc on youtube as well, but his pc far exceeds anything I have ever even seen.
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