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help needed with building a pc
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AfterDawn Addict
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18. January 2008 @ 12:46 |
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Changed it, happy now? lol
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18. January 2008 @ 12:49 |
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Better.
LOL
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gryse616
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18. January 2008 @ 15:10 |
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ok thx.
Well, if i play wolfenstein, i don't really watch the graphics, cuz they aren't that good, but i like the gameplay so much and that's why i need a good graphic card, cuz im lagging so much =s.
Nvidia 8800 GT:
Texture Fill Rate (per second) 33.6 billion
Maximum Memory Bandwidth 57.6GB/s
Memory Size 512 MB
Microsoft DirectX 10
HDR Lighting 128 bit
ATI Radeon HD 3870
Specificaties Reviews Kopen Algemeen
Merk ATI
Productnaam Radeon HD 3870
Chip-codenaam RV670
Interface PCI-Express 2.0 x16
Geheugen 512 MB
Kloksnelheid - Chip 775 MHz
Kloksnelheid - Geheugen 1125 MHz
Geheugencontroller 256 bit
Type geheugen GDDR4
DirectX versie 10.1
Vertex Shader versie 4.1
Pixel Shader versie 4.1
Unified Shaders 320
Pixel kleurprecisie FP32
Extra Power-connector
Chip - Transistors 666 mln
Chip - Productieprocédé 55 nm
SLI-compatible
Geïntegreerde H.264 videodecoder
Geïntegreerde VC-1 videodecoder
so i think im getting further with Nvidia 8800 GT on a long period of time. so i don't have to buy a computer every 2-3 years.
But now only one thing.. the price.. i already mailed several computer stores and none of them reacts..
If somebody could give me a price with :
19/20/22 inch screen
keyboard
Nvidia 8800 GT
2GB Ram
and the rest of the parts that are normally in a computer and that can run the nvidia 8800 GT in it smoothly.
dries degryse
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gryse616
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18. January 2008 @ 15:24 |
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grrr and now i read about the ATI RADEON HD 3870 that it's a good card, but they never compare 8800 GT or 8600 GT with the ATI RADEON HD 3870.. grr, dang it, hard choice..
dries degryse
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AfterDawn Addict
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18. January 2008 @ 15:57 |
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Typically the HD3870 is 10-12% slower than the 8800GT. That's pretty much irrelevant though, since by the time games are unpleasant to play, you're looking at a difference of 2 or 3 fps, hard to notice.
Because of the better rendering quality, PS4.1 and DX10.1 support of the radeon, it's the better choice.
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18. January 2008 @ 16:50 |
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18. January 2008 @ 16:52 |
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Don't forget that's also the 256MB HD3850, not the 512MB I recommend.
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18. January 2008 @ 17:12 |
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Well they have the 3870 on there which is what he was looking at.
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18. January 2008 @ 17:18 |
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Also note that all the benchmarks are flawed - Since when is a 7800GTX faster than an X1950XTX or HD3850?
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18. January 2008 @ 17:23 |
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Some games have anomalies I guess.
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18. January 2008 @ 19:52 |
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But only all the ones used in the THG benchmarks? I like THG's professionalism, but comparisons are useless because their benchmark format changes day by day.
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18. January 2008 @ 19:58 |
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Yeah and so does their test system so I guess that's why they aren't that consistent. It's still a good baseline graph to go from.
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gryse616
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19. January 2008 @ 04:18 |
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Oo..
I heard from my friend that his brother is selling his pc.
It has a Radeon x1950 Pro graphic card with philips HD 19 inch screen, boxes, keyboard, mouse.
He says that call of duty 4 runs smoothly on it.
His brother is graduated for computer.. dnno what but he knows how to build a computer.
Should this computer be worth 750 euros? he says his brother payed new over 1200 euros.
But i can take out the x1950 pro and put a radeon 3870 in it so it's even better then =)
dries degryse
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19. January 2008 @ 05:11 |
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What you've got to consider is that my PC originally cost me £1250. Even though I've upgraded it quite a lot since it was new it's now not even worth half that much. That PC's probably not quite worth 750 euros, but it's not a bad deal, depending on what CPU it has and how much RAM it's got. A 3870 would certainly be better than an X1950Pro, but he is right in saying that it can run COD4 smoothly, on a 19" screen anyway!
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gryse616
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19. January 2008 @ 05:13 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
What you've got to consider is that my PC originally cost me £1250. Even though I've upgraded it quite a lot since it was new it's now not even worth half that much. That PC's probably not quite worth 750 euros, but it's not a bad deal, depending on what CPU it has and how much RAM it's got. A 3870 would certainly be better than an X1950Pro, but he is right in saying that it can run COD4 smoothly, on a 19" screen anyway!
Their family knows alot about computers, and i completely trust him that he says that his computer runs smoothly on it but i think i'll just have to ask him to place a radeon 3870 so i don't have to buy a new graphic card within every 2 years.
dries degryse
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19. January 2008 @ 05:19 |
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Put it this way, the X1950Pro is about 20% slower than my card. Up until about 6 months ago I could play almost every game out there on max settings at at least 1920x1200, if not 2560x1600. Since a 19" screen will be limited to either 1280x1024 or 1440x900 resolution, you'll have no trouble running pretty much any game except crysis on at least high settings, if not max. Of course in time that'll change, but for now the X1950pro isn't a bad card, Provided that you have a decent version. There were some pretty bad versions of the X1950Pro made, some decent ones too, but if he has a Powercolor or Gecube version, expect issues. Usually though they were so bad you would have heard about them already.
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