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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: TrashMan on October 03, 2007, 04:15:31 am

Title: New Rig!
Post by: TrashMan on October 03, 2007, 04:15:31 am
Thermaltake Armor
Silverstone 750W (I'll take a  550W one insted)
Asus P5B Deluxe
intel Conroe 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
2*2GB Corsair Dominator C4 800MHz
320GB Seagate 7200 SATA II
250GB Seagate 7200 SATA II
PoV nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB

This thing runs Crysis multiplayer beta and World in Conflict Demo on all details high (1600xsomething resolution) wihtout problems ;7 ;7 ;7 ;7 ;7 ;7
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: Ashrak on October 03, 2007, 04:55:28 am
go for quad
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: Nuke on October 03, 2007, 10:16:38 am
quads havent reached the peak of their evolution yet. so theres severe bottlenecks to anything not designed to use a quad core. they do come in handy for running renders in max or working in photoshop though. or anything else that requires severe number crunching.
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: asyikarea51 on October 03, 2007, 11:08:34 am
Wonder if quads have anything to do with CS: Source acting real jerky (even though there's no lag). :sigh:

Corsair Dominators :eek:
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: Nuke on October 03, 2007, 11:18:17 am
i got some kingston hyperx which was supposed to be 800 but only clocks 666.666. :D it could be overcloacked if you change the timing and up the voltage, at least thats what they told me to do. it didnt work too stable so i had to downclock it. id be careful about what memory you buy and read reviews thoroughly :D

Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: CP5670 on October 03, 2007, 11:58:45 am
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This thing runs Crysis multiplayer beta and World in Conflict Demo on all details high (1600xsomething resolution) wihtout problems

What exactly is "without problems?" I have seen many reports of people with similar systems averaging a paltry 30fps in the Crysis beta on max settings at that resolution. :p
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 03, 2007, 02:39:17 pm
Wow! Nice system! If you don't mind me asking, how much did that set you back?
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: TrashMan on October 03, 2007, 02:53:58 pm
Actually, very little.. My best budy is selling me his rig (the one above). He's allways changing something every 3 months..

The HDDs and the box are 1 year old, everything else is 3 months old.
He now has his sight set on SLi.. Yup, he's planing on getting two GeForce 8800 is SLI mode. That's why he's selling me this one. the motherboard cna't make full use of hte SLI (despite the fact that it's one sweet peace of hardware), his current graphics card isn't a sLI model, and he's got his sights set on a quad processor (I dunno why, perforance boost is small).


All in all this is gonna cost me 9500 Km (or roughly 1850 $ ) which is NOTHING compared to it's real worth. I sure has good friends, don't I ;7
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: Ulala on October 03, 2007, 03:33:30 pm
nifty. *goes back to lurking*
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: CP5670 on October 03, 2007, 04:47:29 pm
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All in all this is gonna cost me 9500 Km (or roughly 1850 $ ) which is NOTHING compared to it's real worth. I sure has good friends, don't I ;7

That depends. It's a good setup, but you can get a similar one for about $1200 around here, so he might have actually ripped you off a lot. :p Although the prices may also be higher where you live.
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: Davros on October 04, 2007, 02:05:44 am
i got some kingston hyperx which was supposed to be 800 but only clocks 666.666.



Return it now its the devils ram :D
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: TrashMan on October 04, 2007, 04:21:18 am
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All in all this is gonna cost me 9500 Km (or roughly 1850 $ ) which is NOTHING compared to it's real worth. I sure has good friends, don't I ;7

That depends. It's a good setup, but you can get a similar one for about $1200 around here, so he might have actually ripped you off a lot. :p Although the prices may also be higher where you live.


the same configuration here costs approximately 15.000 Kn .. :ick:
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 04, 2007, 12:54:16 pm
Actually, very little.. My best budy is selling me his rig (the one above). He's allways changing something every 3 months..

The HDDs and the box are 1 year old, everything else is 3 months old.
He now has his sight set on SLi.. Yup, he's planing on getting two GeForce 8800 is SLI mode. That's why he's selling me this one. the motherboard cna't make full use of hte SLI (despite the fact that it's one sweet peace of hardware), his current graphics card isn't a sLI model, and he's got his sights set on a quad processor (I dunno why, perforance boost is small).


All in all this is gonna cost me 9500 Km (or roughly 1850 $ ) which is NOTHING compared to it's real worth. I sure has good friends, don't I ;7
I wish I knew that guy!
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: TrashMan on October 04, 2007, 01:38:31 pm
I wish I knew that guy!

*smacks colecampbell666*

Get your own firends with amazing rigs they want to sell! :lol:
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: jr2 on October 04, 2007, 08:13:34 pm
@TrashMan: Go to the F@H thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48484.0.html) & pitch in... get the SMP core... ;7
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: ZmaN on October 05, 2007, 07:47:04 am
i got some kingston hyperx which was supposed to be 800 but only clocks 666.666.



Return it now its the devils ram :D

LMAO

Thats right it is!
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: ZmaN on October 05, 2007, 07:48:02 am
Actually, very little.. My best budy is selling me his rig (the one above). He's allways changing something every 3 months..

The HDDs and the box are 1 year old, everything else is 3 months old.
He now has his sight set on SLi.. Yup, he's planing on getting two GeForce 8800 is SLI mode. That's why he's selling me this one. the motherboard cna't make full use of hte SLI (despite the fact that it's one sweet peace of hardware), his current graphics card isn't a sLI model, and he's got his sights set on a quad processor (I dunno why, perforance boost is small).


All in all this is gonna cost me 9500 Km (or roughly 1850 $ ) which is NOTHING compared to it's real worth. I sure has good friends, don't I ;7
I wish I knew that guy!

Why?  we have newegg, remember?
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 05, 2007, 01:05:57 pm
That reminds me, does Newegg have a better selection than NCIX, or better prices?
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: CP5670 on October 05, 2007, 04:10:39 pm
The selection is easily the best of any reseller out there. As for prices, Newegg is consistently the best only for video cards and memory. Other stuff may or may not be cheaper than at competing stores. Mwave tends to be slightly better with motherboards and processors, OEM hard drives and optical drives are about the same everywhere, and everything else (cases, PSUs, monitors, etc.) varies widely with hot deals coming up all over the place.
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: colecampbell666 on October 06, 2007, 09:11:58 am
Do they ship to Canada?

EDIT: Mwave doesn't, and Newegg doesn't. :(
Title: Re: New Rig!
Post by: ZmaN on October 07, 2007, 09:14:04 pm
well dont shop at micro center.  theyre jerks there.