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| NCC-1701D |
alright i started the geek topic for comps....we have topics that asks age and type of cars that people drive....
i will start ...i have an athlon 1600+
asus A7V266 MB
768 pc2100 ddr ram
40g and 80g maxtor HD @7200
64mg gForce video card
just finished building other comp athlon 2100+
asus A7V8X MD
512 pc2700 ddr ram
80g maxtor HD @7200
128mg Radeon pro 9000 video card... |
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| Genki |
this is what i have now
Dell 8100 with:
p4 1.4 Ghz
398 mb of rambus ram
40g and 60g HD 7200 rpm
128mb radeon 9000 Pro
17" Panasonic short box monitor
Hey did u buy the radeon pro at Future shop?? they had the ti4200 on sale too! still on sale i think tomorrow is the last day... 200 bux 128mb too. |
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| NCC-1701D |
| Genki --> i know i know about future shop......i went to bcom and bought the video card...i was going to build another comp...but my plan was to pick and find parts when they go on sale (so i was thinking a month to build) ..so i went to bcom and bought the 80g HD ($145) and i found out there was alot on sale for good prices...so i bought more than i originally intended to(but no video card) i assembled the comp at home and all i was going to do was swap the video card in my other into the new comp to test everything...then the itch got to me and without checking prices anywhere else i bought the video card from bcom for $215 only to see the same card for $180 at future shop the next day... |
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| Genki |
its actually $150.. there was a $30 mail in rebate on top of sale!
can u return it to bcom? |
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| NCC-1701D |
| i'm not sure ...i already opened it and installed...i guess i have to take the loss...the only thing that i'm thinking of is that i got such a great deal on everything else that it makes up for the video card... |
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| HavoK |
well my comp aint as good as the ones u posted...but hey :P
Duron 850
256 DDR ram
30 gig HD
32 meg geforce 2 mx
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| BlueBlur |
whooo yeah!..
I have the ghetto computer... (in the ghetoooo........)
P3-550 overclocked to 616
abit BE6 mb
ATI Radeon 7200 64Mb SDRam
512 MB pc133 RAM
Disks:
- 40Gb
- 12Gb
- 8Gb
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| dogstar |
athlon xp1600+
ecs k7s5a motherboard
512 pc133 overclocked to about 180 (crucial ram is good:D)
16x dvd rom
16x cdrw
soundblaster live
64mb gf2 mx400 (shite...)
2x 40 gig hdd
80 gig hdd (yes, thats 160 gigs total)
15" lcd monitor
and some other junk in a modified alienware/antec case
its coming time for an upgrade soon, mostly video card.
how do you like the 9000 pros? what kind of nvidia cards are they comparible to? do they run pretty much everything on the market game wise??
and last question, how are the drivers? as bad as they used to be? :| |
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| Benny |
POS!
P3 600MHz
512 RAM
GeForce Titanium 128MB DDR
1X30GB 7200RPM HDD
2x120GB 7200RPM HDD
DVD Writer
CD-RW |
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| Genki |
quote:
Originally posted by dogstar@Jan 14 2003, 10:26 AM
how do you like the 9000 pros? what kind of nvidia cards are they comparible to? do they run pretty much everything on the market game wise??
and last question, how are the drivers? as bad as they used to be? :|
I like my 9000 Pro w/ 128mb. I htink its fairly close to a NVidia GeF3 Ti series. The 9000 Pro is basically a scaled down version of the 8500 Pro. My CPU is too slow to run games at high/full detail (1.4 Ghz).
But i know wc3 runs faster witht eh card compared to my crappy mx200 w/ 32mb ahha. Also i can get about 35fps at 640x480 res on doom3 Alpha, compared to 10fp on my old card.
Drivers are pretty good no problems so far. One annoying thing though when i play NOFL2, during the menu screens (not in game) i can see a box around my cursor.... its like the transparency isnt rendered correctly, but that is only for that one part. The game runs and looks great. The catalyst 3 drivers just came out. But i have yet to play any games since I installed the newest drivers... it was suppose to fix some stutterign in openGL games. For $150 bux I think it was a good buy.
oh on more benchmark.. i ran the ffXI online benchmark thing.. i got abt 2465 on it with my computer...
more info on that bench mark here |
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| dogstar |
| well, i got a 1643 with a bunch of crap in the background... maybe i shoulda turned that off, lol, but oh well, time for a new vid card i guess. |
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| RF134A |
quote:
Originally posted by Genki@Jan 14 2003, 10:48 AM
quote:
Originally posted by dogstar@Jan 14 2003, 10:26 AM
how do you like the 9000 pros? what kind of nvidia cards are they comparible to? do they run pretty much everything on the market game wise??
and last question, how are the drivers? as bad as they used to be? :|
I like my 9000 Pro w/ 128mb. I htink its fairly close to a NVidia GeF3 Ti series. The 9000 Pro is basically a scaled down version of the 8500 Pro. My CPU is too slow to run games at high/full detail (1.4 Ghz).
But i know wc3 runs faster witht eh card compared to my crappy mx200 w/ 32mb ahha. Also i can get about 35fps at 640x480 res on doom3 Alpha, compared to 10fp on my old card.
Drivers are pretty good no problems so far. One annoying thing though when i play NOFL2, during the menu screens (not in game) i can see a box around my cursor.... its like the transparency isnt rendered correctly, but that is only for that one part. The game runs and looks great. The catalyst 3 drivers just came out. But i have yet to play any games since I installed the newest drivers... it was suppose to fix some stutterign in openGL games. For $150 bux I think it was a good buy.
oh on more benchmark.. i ran the ffXI online benchmark thing.. i got abt 2465 on it with my computer...
more info on that bench mark here
It's time to tweak that system with Speedfan and Powerstrip.
I've got an old AMD1400@1500Mhz, Radeon 8500 128MB, 384 MB DDR ram. Running at stock speed (275/275 mhz), I get 3960 on the FFXI benchmark but it goes up to 4480 with the Radeon 8500 running at 301 GPU, 320x2 memory. |
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| PraxRX7 |
Here are my ghetto specs:
800 MHz PIII (overclocked to 900 Mhz)
384 MB RAM (Turbo'd Gate A20 Option)
32 MB Nvidia Gforce 2 MX 400 (modified cooling system for extra horsepower)
80 GB HDD (partitioned to 2 drives)
50x Cd-ROM (stock)
SUPA MEGA FAST 4x CD-R/RW writer. (can use to back up just about any cd)
Soundblaster Live! X-gamer
SOYO VIA CHIPSET motherboard
It is a piece of crap, but it works and runs any of the new games.
Some day I will pick myself up a faster computer, somthing with a little more power. Car comes first! |
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| Genki |
quote:
Originally posted by RF134A@Jan 15 2003, 09:42 PM
It's time to tweak that system with Speedfan and Powerstrip.
what are those?!?!? |
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| RF134A |
quote:
Originally posted by Genki@Jan 15 2003, 10:31 PM
quote:
Originally posted by RF134A@Jan 15 2003, 09:42 PM
It's time to tweak that system with Speedfan and Powerstrip.
what are those?!?!?
Speedfan allows you to change your FSB on the fly, without rebooting. And you can control your fan speed from 0%(fry your cpu speed) to 100%. Powerstrip allows you to change the speed of the cpu on your graphics card and the memory speed, the video-out timings, refresh rates, etc. All on the fly, without a reboot. Do a google search for them. They are awesome! |
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| SRBURG13 |
| I have a TV screen, a thingy that I clicky on, whatever this is called that I am pounding on right now, and some box that I'm running a cable or two from my dads den. :P I think he calls it a computer. |
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| 1mns13 |
| Aaron, with your setup I don't feel so bad. 433MHz 15" monitor and a CD Rom drive that doesn't like to eject. -_- |
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| FingerPuppet |
quote:
Originally posted by NCC-1701D@Dec 31 2002, 08:07 AM
Genki --> i know i know about future shop......i went to bcom and bought the video card...i was going to build another comp...but my plan was to pick and find parts when they go on sale (so i was thinking a month to build) ..so i went to bcom and bought the 80g HD ($145) and i found out there was alot on sale for good prices...so i bought more than i originally intended to(but no video card) i assembled the comp at home and all i was going to do was swap the video card in my other into the new comp to test everything...then the itch got to me and without checking prices anywhere else i bought the video card from bcom for $215 only to see the same card for $180 at future shop the next day...
Bcom is actually expensive, I know other places to get cheaper parts. |
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| FingerPuppet |
quote:
Originally posted by dogstar@Jan 14 2003, 10:26 AM
athlon xp1600+
ecs k7s5a motherboard
512 pc133 overclocked to about 180 (crucial ram is good:D)
16x dvd rom
16x cdrw
soundblaster live
64mb gf2 mx400 (shite...)
2x 40 gig hdd
80 gig hdd (yes, thats 160 gigs total)
15" lcd monitor
and some other junk in a modified alienware/antec case
its coming time for an upgrade soon, mostly video card.
how do you like the 9000 pros? what kind of nvidia cards are they comparible to? do they run pretty much everything on the market game wise??
and last question, how are the drivers? as bad as they used to be? :|
Here ya go. In my expirience Radeon still really sucks for driver support and is ok with everything else. I personally would go with GeForce
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| FingerPuppet |
My system;
Athlon Xp 1700
80 Gig 7200 Maxtor
512 DDR RAM
Radeon 7000 Video
SoundBlaster 512
19" Flat Hansol
It runs good, but I'm getting a new Video card right away so I can play Unreal2
Good!! |
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