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Sigh. You haven't been around on the innuhneh very long, have you?Originally Posted by renegade master
Have you considered using Google and/or checking what the relevant reviewers are saying about the state of the art in computer equipment?
No?
Didn't cross your mind?
Funny, that.
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The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
ive been looking at peoples builds on the net, but you can't ask them questions about them.
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Iiimbecile-baiting since 2007
If I post up today's top spec (which I'm not going to, as I simply can't be arsed to research it), it'd be out of date and obsolete by tomorrow.
Before spending hideous amounts of money on a gaming PC, resign yourself to the fact that whatever you buy will be cheaper and out of date within a month. It doesn't matter how long you wait, there will always be something better and faster released the following week.
This is what I've got at home (please bear in mind the only game I play is Freecell):
Most of the rig's about a year old. It'll run virtually any game on the market acceptably well and although down on power compared to today's best gaming rigs, with my enhancements and tweaks to the OS (Vista Enterprise x64) it wfeels faster, mainly 'cos I don't load 35 random bits of shit in the system tray every time I boot the thing up.
- 700W PSU in a Silverstone case
- ASUS socket 775 motherboard - can't remember the model number, but it's got dual channel memory, onboard 7.1 sound, dual on-board gigabit NICs, no onboard video, shed-loads of USB ports and 8 SATA ports; four on Northbridge-connected Intel Matrix RAID and four on some other shitty SATA controller.
- 3.4GHz Pentium D (dual-core 64-bit compatible) overclocked to 3.55GHz. Running a sodding-great CoolerMaster heatpipe heatsink with a 12cm fan, and two more 12cm fans in the case; one intake, one extractor.
- 4GB GEIL DDR2 (can't remember what speed) RAM
- 4x Seagate 250GB drives arranged as RAID 1+0 (mirrored stripe-set)
- Some random brand PCI-E NVidia 7900 card with 256 MB onboard VRAM.
- A 23" widescreen and a 19" 'square' monitor; both Philips LCDs.
- Microsoft Wireless Desktop 6000 keyboard and mouse
In the riders seat
His earlier books were good, Vixen 03 would be my favourite, although Iceberg, Raise the Titanic and Night probe are all up there
His later books are pretty average and some of the story lines pretty ridiculous
The movies they made of Raise the Titanic and Sahara sucked big time
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
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Smart move. When you've got your money in your hand, come back to us then. Assuming you don't want a screen, then you'll want about $1800 to get a kick ass system. An xbox360 would be fine if you were interested soley in driving or arcade games, but isn't a patch on a PC for FPS or RTS games, obviously.
As an aside, the new 50 series C2Ds came available on Monday. Last night we had a 6850 up to 4ghz, which gave a superpi of 12.5 seconds, on a stock cooler. Under a phase change rig (probably this weekend) we're hoping for closer to 10 seconds, and under dry ice (hopefully the weekend after) we're looking for under 10 seconds, although we have sourced some LN2 which might be necessary for that sort of overclock. Bottom line, the 'ultimate' isn't obtainable off the shelf, but I could source you a high performance phase change cooler for about $1200 (it's not worth the hassle in reality).
Aargh, photos!
I agree with you there. I think its normal though, I have never found a book series or seen a movie/tv series that has got better with age.
I havent seen Raise the titanic but I have seen Sahara and wasnt too impressed. I'll take your word for it and not hire it out.
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Hardcore Biker
Dont listen to these chaps telling you your machine will be "obsolete by tomorrow" you can play plenty of new games on a 3 year old machine, say a 3ghz single core with a nvidia 6600gt and a gig of ram.
You CAN have too much ram, its too when you have idle ram not being used, however windows does do some strange missleading things with the ram & swap. 2gig will do you fine, for now, when its time to upgrade it'll be better and cost you half the price.
Buy hard drives when you need them, sure get a raid 0 setup but dont get to excited about mirroring.
Consoles, are shit, if you want real gaming you want a pc.
I suggest you get something modern, decent but not the very expensive top of the line stuff.
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your core 2 quad cpu is going to cost you $1800 for a start then theres that Nvidia 8800 ultra vidieo card try $1300 Oooh lookey you have already busted your $3,000 buget.
Best Frenemy you could have!
My rig:
- 550W Acbel PSU
- Icute s901 Case (9x 5.25 bays only, nice and flexible)
- Gigabyte M59SLI-S5 Mobo
- AMD 4600x2 AM2 CPU (the 6000 now costs less than my 4600 when I bought... ouch)
- 4GB Transcend 667Mhz Ram (had 2, upgraded to 4, and windows stole half a gig) - was dual channel, still is, all slots are full now
- ASUS EN7950GT gfx card
- 3x 320GB drives, normal arrangement, primary drive has 2 partitions. I will be buying another 3 drives soon enough, and having a RAID1 with 2, and a RAID5 with 4. Using over 600gb of the current space
- Couple of Pioneer DVD writers, and a couple of Philips 17" B6 LCD screens
No o/c, no aftermarket cooling... its tempting, but temps are down very nicely, usually sits between 30-50 degrees, doesn't go higher...
Rest In Peace
whats sort of games do you want to play? If you want to play something like red alert dont bother, but if you want to play something like wow of bf2 then your gunna want to cough up for it.
Never let your enemy see your emotions, for it is the one weapon they will value most.
Hardcore Biker
wow min specs
# Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800 MHz
# 512 MB or more of RAM
# 32 MB 3D video card with Hardware T&L or better
yea coughing up that whole $2.50
Forum whore
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
No, no
The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
wow takes up the resources bad. I'm not sure if I should start playing that again
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Rest In Peace
The original red alert was the shit, I loved that game.
Never let your enemy see your emotions, for it is the one weapon they will value most.
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If you like RTS games, you don't want to miss this!
Coop multiplater, nukes, what more does an RTS need?
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