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ty3c

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

23 Apr 2008 at 03:40 - 401

Quote:

Originally Posted by Admael

It's a good machine. Futureproof and plenty of room to upgrade.

yea, and ive checked other gamming rigs, and this price you just cant beat

even tigerdirect doesnt have a rig with that much for under $1000

however I plan to add an HP 22 inch LCD to it, so the cost is at least 1300

lol, but I bet this machine is insane in speed and will play guild wars better then ANY Pc ive ever owned

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

23 Apr 2008 at 06:38 - 402

get a quad core or extreme core if you want insane speed.

or wait around half a year-1 year and buy hexa-core.

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

23 Apr 2008 at 06:43 - 403

just checked that computer, the motherboard is pretty bad, it isn't sli ready.

IsoArt

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2007

23 Apr 2008 at 07:27 - 404

Quote:

Originally Posted by bulletsmile

here's mine, i'm thinking about getting a new one, but nah...

Maybe an upgrade like this would be well suited..lol

gone

Guest

Join Date: Jan 2007

23 Apr 2008 at 09:40 - 405

Quote:

Originally Posted by ty3c

this is a computer im thinking of buying

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883227061

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400(3.0GHz)
Processor Main Features 64 bit Dual Core Processor
Cache Per Processor 6MB
Memory 4GB DDR2 800
Hard Drive 500GB SATA
Optical Drive 1 20X DL DVD+/-RW Drive
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB Video Card
Audio Realtek ALC662, High-Definition Audio CODEC
Ethernet Built-in GB Ethernet LAN
Power Supply 580 watt power supply
Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Special Features Xion Hydraulic Gaming Tower + Blue Color Lighting

just wondering if I should.

build one, you'll be more sated, I promise.

ty3c

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

23 Apr 2008 at 22:18 - 406

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tamuril elansar

just checked that computer, the motherboard is pretty bad, it isn't sli ready.

how is the mobo bad?

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

23 Apr 2008 at 22:42 - 407

Mobo isn't bad. Not everyone goes SLI. That's a stupid conjecture to base the quality of a mobo on SLI capability.

Draconis Blackbow

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2007

3 Little Fishies 었었었

R/

24 Apr 2008 at 00:03 - 408

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ (Dual)
Power Supply: Rosewill 1000w (SLi Ready) (don't know exact name)
Graphics: 8800 GTS SSC 640mb (in SLi)
Graphics: 8800 GTS SSC 640mb (in SLi)
Motherboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
Memory: 2x GSKILL 2gb (4gb total)
Case: XBlade CS859BK Black
Monitor: ACER 22"

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

24 Apr 2008 at 00:46 - 409

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tamuril elansar

get a quad core or extreme core if you want insane speed.

or wait around half a year-1 year and buy hexa-core.

No such thing as hexa-core, octacore or bust. Unless you're AMD, leave it to AMD to come up with something weird like a hexa-core.

AMD's quadcore Phenoms have one buggy core, so they disable it and sell it as a triplecore

BLUESHIFT

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Legion of Losers [LOL]

24 Apr 2008 at 01:39 - 410

Quote:

Originally Posted by Admael

No such thing as hexa-core, octacore or bust. Unless you're AMD, leave it to AMD to come up with something weird like a hexa-core.

AMD's quadcore Phenoms have one buggy core, so they disable it and sell it as a triplecore

I think he is referring to Dunnington, a six core CPU by Intel.

AMD's X3's are basically what Intel did with selling Core 2 Solos. It is very common to disable cache, cores, and lower the rated clock of a processor so they can be sold without a loss.

"Dunnington - the last CPU of the Penryn generation and the Intel's first multi-core (above two) die..." (Wikipedia).

arsie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2007

N/

24 Apr 2008 at 02:04 - 411

Pentium 4 3ghz
Asus P5PE-VM
1gb of DDR 333
80gb HDD 5400rpm
nVidia 6600GT AGPx8
Windows 2000 SP4

Hahaha, time for an upgrade methinks.

Serafita Kayin

Exclusive Reclusive

Join Date: May 2005

Tuscaloosa, AL

Seraph's Pinion (wing)

R/Me

24 Apr 2008 at 03:14 - 412

My setup is NOT matx. That's a K9A2 Platinum V2, 8 GB DDR2 PC6400, 4 Radeon HD3850 in CrossfireX, powered by a PC Power & Cooling 750 Silencer Crossfire Edition. CPUs change as I'm developing waterblocks with this patform, but ATM it's an OCed 4600x2.

Ruku Carrin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

In a box. =D

Darkmass Templars

A/E

24 Apr 2008 at 03:34 - 413

MY computer is a asus laptop I love it lol.

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

24 Apr 2008 at 05:58 - 414

Quote:

Originally Posted by Admael

Mobo isn't bad. Not everyone goes SLI. That's a stupid conjecture to base the quality of a mobo on SLI capability.

its not only that, i don't trust ASUS mobo's, gave me to lot of trouble (had 3 different ones in the past, all 3 had errors).

and my computer store gave me wrong information about the chipset, thought the chipset of the mobo was beyond ancient.

Serafita Kayin

Exclusive Reclusive

Join Date: May 2005

Tuscaloosa, AL

Seraph's Pinion (wing)

R/Me

24 Apr 2008 at 06:09 - 415

Wait till AMD's dodeca-core monster hits the shelves...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=184890

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

24 Apr 2008 at 06:45 - 416

I lol'ed so hard. Let's hope it's not a total bust like Barcelona.

Intel can compete right? They have Sandy Bridge, 8 cores, 12 threads.

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

24 Apr 2008 at 06:53 - 417

let's just wait till there are any games needing all that speed

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

24 Apr 2008 at 07:03 - 418

Crysis is a trilogy.

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

24 Apr 2008 at 07:18 - 419

sounds very promising XD,

lets wait till sandy bridge cpu's with 4GHz a core

Hyper.nl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Defending Fort Aspenwood

E/

24 Apr 2008 at 08:54 - 420

My system specs
3DMark06 PCMark05

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

24 Apr 2008 at 13:04 - 421

erhm small qeustion

how did you get SLI working on a mobo with a crossfire chipset? is that posible? o.0

Serafita Kayin

Exclusive Reclusive

Join Date: May 2005

Tuscaloosa, AL

Seraph's Pinion (wing)

R/Me

24 Apr 2008 at 16:33 - 422

Doesn't happen. nVidia has locked drivers to only work if a driver poll shows an nVidia chipset string ID.

absolutcrobi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Naked Pagans

Rt/Me

26 Apr 2008 at 22:19 - 423

My setup:
The case

the guts

(yes that is dual power supplies)
desk and monitor

ty3c

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

28 Apr 2008 at 04:55 - 424

my computer

22 inch HP LCD Monitor

500GB HD
2.5GHZ core
Nivida Geforce 9800 GTX
3GB memory
Mouse and keyboard

Zamorakk

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2007

Team of the North

W/

30 Apr 2008 at 19:11 - 425

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tamuril elansar

its not only that, i don't trust ASUS mobo's, gave me to lot of trouble (had 3 different ones in the past, all 3 had errors).

and my computer store gave me wrong information about the chipset, thought the chipset of the mobo was beyond ancient.

Thats why Gigabyte owns

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

30 Apr 2008 at 20:42 - 426

Quote:

Originally Posted by absolutcrobi

(yes that is dual power supplies)

Why 2 PSUs? Planning on installing a dozen DVD burners and making a pirate farm?

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

01 May 2008 at 01:20 - 427

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snograt

Why 2 PSUs? Planning on installing a dozen DVD burners and making a pirate farm?

The main reason for multiple PSUs is to take the load off the first. Same reason you'd SLi/Crossfire GPUs. Some other reasons may include the need to power up your +12volt accessories, fans, lights, pumps, etc and combining the wattage of two lesser (including, but not limited to cheaper and generic) power supplies to feed those newer, more energy demanding graphics cards.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyper.nl

My system specs
3DMark06 PCMark05

You can do a lot better than that, don't put us QX users to shame!

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

01 May 2008 at 02:19 - 428

Hmm, nice though. QX9650 Processor, X38 moederbord, 4GB of DDR3 geheugen, and the videokaarten are a pair of 8800GTX.

With the rest of that, I'd have thought you would have gone for that GX2 monster. Or two ^^

Also, did I mis-read that, or did you really get 4 Terabytes of harde schijven?

(PS - I love Dutch, it's just like English spelled wrong

)

Pasha the Mighty

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2007

South Park, Colorado

OtDL

D/A

01 May 2008 at 13:28 - 429

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snograt

Hmm, nice though. QX9650 Processor, X38 moederbord, 4GB of DDR3 geheugen, and the videokaarten are a pair of 8800GTX.

With the rest of that, I'd have thought you would have gone for that GX2 monster. Or two ^^

Also, did I mis-read that, or did you really get 4 Terabytes of harde schijven?

(PS - I love Dutch, it's just like English spelled wrong

)

Lol, I was wondering how you had learned dutch, or if it was just some weird translation-option I had accidentally clicked on.
Anyway, my new rig has arrived!
Asus p5k-e /wifi-ap
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 (overclocking later), with stock cooling, changing that soon
Corsair Twin2X8500c5d (2gb, maybe i'll switch to 4 in a while, vista 32bit can recognize it with sp1, right?)
Corsair tx650eu psu
xfx 8600 gts 512 (don't need anything better right now, with a 17 inch screen)
A Coolermaster cm690
Primary hdd for os and programs= some OEM 250gb wd, came with my pavilion, I'm planning on upgrading that to a seagate/wd single platter 320gb, anybody know the exact model?
Secondary HDD= wd mybook essential, 500gb, usb. I'm going to take off the casing and just connect it with SATA later on.
All of this running on Vista Enterprise 32 bit (I would have gotten Ultimate, but my friend get's them for free from his uncle, so this is much easier and way cheaper

)
And a samsung 720n 17" (I know, but I'm not going to buy anything better anytime soon, maybe when the 9900 gpu's come out.)
I have to recharge the camera, so I'll be uploading the pictures in a day or so.

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

02 May 2008 at 10:51 - 430

Just arrived... my new gaming laptop:

Dell XPS M1730
Intel X9000 Core2Extreme 2.8ghz (OC's to 3.4 out of the box)
NVidia 8800M-GTX SLI video + Aegia Phys-X processor
1920x1200 display
4gigs RAM
200gig 7200rpm freefall sensing HD
Illuminated keboard w/ Logitech mini-LCD
BT/802.11a/g wireless
DVD RW / BluRay ROM
wireless remote
Windows Vista Preimum

Got it for 50% normal price from the Dell Outlet

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

02 May 2008 at 12:38 - 431

Wow - a Phys-x in a laptop? Is that as standard, or an option?

It's invariably an option for desktops - and nobody ever opts

Nice lappy, though - very nice.

whiteyboy

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Buckinghamshire

Guildless

W/Mo

02 May 2008 at 13:27 - 432

Pretty nice

chuxanator

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

N/Mo

02 May 2008 at 16:06 - 433

Quote:

Originally Posted by lord_shar

EDIT: My XPS laptop (photobucket might be flakey, please bear with me)...

backside:

nice

chuxanator

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

N/Mo

02 May 2008 at 16:19 - 434

Oukanna

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

Ancient Shaolin Guardians

E/D

02 May 2008 at 17:26 - 435

OK here is my PC set up ^^
Mine is smaller than usual, i wanted to make a pc small and portable-ish, but i didnt want a laptop xD

Here are my mons ^^ and guild wars mouse (the keyboard isnt too special)

These next pics are of my BF's set up :-)
He recently upgraded to a quad core, and i bought him the razer death adder mouse and stealth keyboard for x-mas.

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

02 May 2008 at 17:54 - 436

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snograt

Wow - a Phys-x in a laptop? Is that as standard, or an option?

It's invariably an option for desktops - and nobody ever opts

Nice lappy, though - very nice.

I'm guessing that the Phys-X board is standard in the current M1730's since it can't be modified as a component.

This is also my 2nd XPS Laptop. I've had very good results with the M1710, so I had no problems moving onto the M1730 once my wife's old desktop needed replacement. The M1730 is very fast... 60FPS in UT3 @1920x1200. The M1710 couldn't handle this resolution very well, but the M1730 had no problems with it.

Queenie

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

05 May 2008 at 07:50 - 437

I want a new desk. >_>

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

05 May 2008 at 21:48 - 438

Quote:

Originally Posted by Queen Christie

...<SNIP>...

I want a new desk. >_>

Hey, you edited out the most important part: your PC!

ty3c

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

07 May 2008 at 18:26 - 439

This is mine:

what it has:

500GB HD
2.5GHZ
9800 Geforce GTX video card
3GB Memory
DVD drive and burner
RW CD drive
LED lighting
door
logitech mouse and keyboard
22 inch LCD flat HP Monitor

Brianna

Insane & Inhumane

Join Date: Feb 2006

07 May 2008 at 18:42 - 440

Here's mine again, I took the divider out of my desk so I could fit two screens onto it.

The desk is ghetto, I know. But I'll have a new one eventually, it's much longer and considered a real computer desk.