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  • #13861
    XDC Minti
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    OK New PC ordered here’s the spec, not sure it’ll improve my game much only the experience. I just might see MADMAX a bit more often, before he shoot’s me in the head dead again.

    CPU
    AMD® ATHLON® 64BIT FX57® (San Diago) 1MB L2 Cache (939 pin)

    Memory
    4096 MB DDR400 PC3200 WITH LIFETIME WARRANTY!

    Motherboard
    ASUS® A8N32-SLI DELUXE: DUAL DDR, S-ATA, 2 x x16 VGA, 3 PCI

    Hard Drive 1
    SATA II 250 GB HARD DISK @ 7200rpm 8mb cache

    CD Writer/Combi Drive
    16X DVD ROM WITH 48X CD ROM

    CD/DVD Writer
    16x +/- DVD WRITER (8x +/- Dual Lyr) (5x DVD-RAM) (40x CD-RW) (£24)

    Graphics Card 1
    512MB GEFORCE 7900 GTX PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

    Graphics Card 2
    512MB GEFORCE 7900 GTX PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

    Sound
    HIGH END ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL SOUND

    Network Facilities
    2 x 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORTS (1 PORT ON A8N-SLI SE)

    Firewire
    1 x FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD (A8N-SLI DELUXE ONLY)

    Plus other usuall extra’s PSU etc..

    #22641
    Zulu
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    😯

    that is a beast! I’ve got a reasonable rig but that is awesome!

    going to post it over at Rat centre to let them know not to play the same servers as you, you’ll be on and finished before everyone loads in, lol.

    8) very, very nice.

    #22642
    TurksMeister
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    and the price is…?

    #22643
    XDCiNSANE
    Participant

    pffft SLi … Crossfire is the way to go.. ask the old skool McQueen SLi queen who saw the light and got Crossfire.. he’s never wanked so much 😀

    but if you like nvidia, that is one sexual machine ya got there 😀

    nice swan guv

    #22644
    xdc magicker
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    sli is a farse

    just wait another month and a new gfx card will be released that will be as fast as 2 from the previous generation for less cost and use less power and therfore less noise. so why bother

    #22645
    XDCNeonSamurai
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    @=xdc= magicker wrote:

    sli is a farse

    just wait another month and a new gfx card will be released that will be as fast as 2 from the previous generation for less cost and use less power and therfore less noise. so why bother

    The 32 y/o is correct. I’ve never understood why people bother linking up two GFX cards. Sure, you’ll have the fastest rig for about a month, but it seems like a really expensive way to go about it.

    Says the guy with a GeForce 6600 AGP card…

    #22646
    XDCNeonSamurai
    Participant

    Nice rig all the same Minti.

    Any chance you give me your address and leave the front door open?

    #22647
    xdc magicker
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    oh and did you get windows to accept that you have 4 gig in it – mine still insists i only have 3 gig in

    #22648
    xdc the doc
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    @=xdc= magicker wrote:

    sli is a farse

    just wait another month and a new gfx card will be released that will be as fast as 2 from the previous generation for less cost and use less power and therfore less noise. so why bother

    Ive been saying this for months! NVIDIA and ATI are pissing themselves laughing just now I swear!

    4Gig of RAM? WTF? Please dont tell me that is necessary nowadays. Im gonna have to buy a desktop when I get back to blighty so I can kick all yer arses again (except max’s 😳 ) but I aint shelling out for a cray supercomputer ! Although…. would 4gig make my ogame screens load faster??? Then I might think about it 😉

    #22649
    XDC Minti
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    Four gig not really needed for Windows XP 32 bit. but as I’ll be running other OS’s on this box as well I got four anyway.

    The answer as to why 3GB is only seen check out this url.

    http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?no=D06D6034-D5C9-49C4-5E1B-CF724DB5C000&SLanguage=en-us

    This is also likely to be my last upgrade for another 5 years before the mrs will let me spend another £2000 so I thought i’d make the most of it. 😛 😛

    Still need to buy a descent TFT 19 or 20″ any sugesstions? not more than £300.00

    #22650
    xdeathknightx
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    look for a samsung with 4 to 8 ms response time

    #22651
    XDC-snell
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    @xdeathknightx wrote:

    look for a samsung with 4 to 8 ms response time

    Agree samsung, and you don’t need to spend all £300 😀

    #22652
    itchinads
    Participant

    All that funky goodness, and then onboard sound 😯

    #22653
    XDC Minti
    Participant

    What will I gain by putting another sound card in?

    Can you recommend something and why it’all be better than what I’ve got already?

    Cheers.

    #22654
    Wipers
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    @=XDC= Minti wrote:

    What will I gain by putting another sound card in?

    Can you recommend something and why it’all be better than what I’ve got already?

    Cheers.

    Creative X-Fi m8 😀 The dogs danglies. You free up system resources like cpu cycles and memory usage by buying a separate card that handles the sound processing for you.

    Thats a nice rig Minti and I dont want to confuse you even more but isnt a SLI setup like that going to be wasted on a 19″ monitor?? The whole point of SLI imo is to drive large resolution monitors like the Dell 24″ with an acceptable fps. A 19″ monitor with a 1280 x 1024 resolution will be handled without a prob with just one of those 512mb 7900 GTX beasts for all current games and those to come for some time. Unless you are going to get a bigger monitor i’d save the money from one of those cards and put it toward a next generation card whenever that comes out.

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