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MindOfOrderedChaos
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09 Oct 2006, 5:51 pm

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my compaq 7470

AMD k6 533mhz,256 mb ram (shows 248 mb ram for some reason),trident intergrated video
20GB hard drive,intergrated sound
IT is junk.
I play games on my moms dell,My future pc will have
Core 2 duo E6600
2 GIGs ram
160gb hdd
7900GTX or 7950GT or 7950GX2 (I need at least 512mb+ Video card.)
Creative sound blaster audigy sound card.



A 7900GTX? Thats massive over kill. My 7600gs runs all the latest games on max settings with no lag at 1280x1024 resolution. Oblivion, need for speed most wanted etc. If your moving from a AMD k6 or some sh***y dell to that computer you will be blown away. Im amazed at the performance difference between my 2.4ghz Pentium 4 and this Intel Core2 duo.

How far away are you from getting your new computer? Intel I think is going to release quad cores within a years time i think.


7600gs CANNOT BE DAT POWERFUL.I WANT 2 be blown away!! ! 8) .Whenever i get the $$$ I will build it hopefully soon.


A 7600GS is that powerful. Or though if you want a really great graphics card a 7600GT is 30 % better. But the high end graphics cards are more for high resolutions. If you have any thing less than a 19 inch monitor. Your monitor will be the bottle neck not the graphics card. With a 7600GT for games like Oblivion. But any way next gen graphics cards are coming out soon in a month or two. So maybe get a 8800GT so you can play next gen DX10 games.

I would say a 7600GS would blow you away. They are darn good cards.

This is a screenshot. From my 7600GS. My old computer with a 6600 is not that far off doing this as well.
http://www.wrongplanet.tv/upload/image/187.jpeg
http://www.wrongplanet.tv/upload/image/188.jpeg


Whats the best card for A 19 inch at 1280x1024 LCD Note:I want high Frames Per Second (50+).


For you computer.

Motherboard = Asus P5B Deluxe
CPU = Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
GPU = XFX or eVGA 7600GT

If you want to be compatable with future games you will have to wait until geforce 8 comes out with there DirectX10 cards. But if you cant wait until then get a cheaper card to last until geforce 8 comes out and then drops a little in price.

The geforce 8800 is surpose to come out in November. But it will be a little while after that that cheaper cards come out. And the price of the geforce 8 will drop.


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09 Oct 2006, 7:14 pm

E6400? I want E6600 cause of 4MB L2 cache.I'm getting a P5L mobo.



Okay IF THIS 7600GT IS DAT POWERFUL HOW MANY FRAMES DO YOU THINK I CAN GET WITH THE FOLLOWING GAMES:

Rome:total war
Empire earth II
Medieval 2:total war

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10 Oct 2006, 12:12 am

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E6400? I want E6600 cause of 4MB L2 cache.I'm getting a P5L mobo.



Okay IF THIS 7600GT IS DAT POWERFUL HOW MANY FRAMES DO YOU THINK I CAN GET WITH THE FOLLOWING GAMES:

Rome:total war
Empire earth II
Medieval 2:total war

Respond ASAP.


I wouldnt get it but if you want to get the 7900GTX and have the cash. I guess you could go ahead. If you really feel that is nessicary. Since you dont seem to be conserned about the cost of your new computer.


Also I found this discussion that maybe worth a read. Related to your choice of processor.

http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/122 ... ost1321229

You do seem to be going for the whole overkill PC thing from the looks.


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10 Oct 2006, 12:51 pm

MindOfOrderedChaos wrote:
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E6400? I want E6600 cause of 4MB L2 cache.I'm getting a P5L mobo.



Okay IF THIS 7600GT IS DAT POWERFUL HOW MANY FRAMES DO YOU THINK I CAN GET WITH THE FOLLOWING GAMES:

Rome:total war
Empire earth II
Medieval 2:total war

Respond ASAP.


I wouldnt get it but if you want to get the 7900GTX and have the cash. I guess you could go ahead. If you really feel that is nessicary. Since you dont seem to be conserned about the cost of your new computer.


Also I found this discussion that maybe worth a read. Related to your choice of processor.

http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/122 ... ost1321229

You do seem to be going for the whole overkill PC thing from the looks.


Maybe...i'll get 7950GT instead but how many frames with medieval 2 do you think i can get with a 7600GT?


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10 Oct 2006, 3:14 pm

I dont know. Maybe this link will help.


http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthrea ... 041&page=2

According to this thread people think it will only run high settings at 1024x768 hmm. That game requires some stupid performance.


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13 Oct 2008, 9:52 pm

CPU: AMD Turion X2 TL-60 2.0GZ
RAM: 1GB DDR2 667 MHZ
HDD: 120GB SATA
GPU: ATI HD MOBILITY RADEON 2600 E(PCIE on a Laptop)
WIRELESS: 802.11N GIGABYTE AIRCRUSER N300 SERIES
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14 Oct 2008, 7:13 pm

I'm lazy so I'll let this do the explaining for me. Courtesy of Mactracker (w/ my commentary on it).

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Yes, I know, it's 6 years old and there are a few times here and there I move at a snail's pace. Regardless, I'll take this running the nice Mac OS X operating system any day over using anything else that runs Windows.



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14 Oct 2008, 7:24 pm

I can't remenber if I posted in this thread or not.

ANYWAY:

OPERATING SYSTEM

Windows Vista Ultimate 64 SP1

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) soon to be 8.10 the day before halloween


Two Hitachi Deskstar hard disks 164 gb SATA
One Western Digital Caviar 120 Gb SATA
one IBM Deskstar 60GB SATA

MSI K9A2 Socket AM2+ motherboard with AMD 790FX northbridge

AMD PhenomX4 9950 Black Edition 3.0Ghz

2 VisionTek ATi Radeon HD4870X2 video cards

BFG Killer N1 gaming network card

Agea PhysX physics card

4 Gb Patriot DDR2-SDRAM 1066Mhz RAM

LG Blu-Ray/CD-+R/-+RW/DVD-+R/-+RW/HDDVD combo burner SATA

52-in-one multimedia card reader (manufacturer unknown) SATA

Razer Barracuda AC-1 sound card

Altec lansing VS3251 70 watt 5.1 speaker system

Samsung Synchmaster 22inch Widescreen monitor

COOLING: Thermaltake ProWater 85i liquid colling system for AMD processor and Thermaltake CL-G0102 VGA Cooler X2

CASE: red Thermaltake Xaser case (full tower)

Thermaltake 800 Watt PSU

KEYBOARD: Razer Lycosa

MOUSE: Razer Lachesis

Loghitech G25 force feedback racing wheel.

Microsoft XBOX360 controller for Windows


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14 Oct 2008, 7:40 pm

Macbook 3,1 Santa Rosa (Winter 2007)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.20 GHz processor.
1 GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
160GB hard drive space.

Dual-boot Mac OSX Leopard and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, though I am temporarily stuck in OSX because I did something to screw Ubuntu up pretty badly. Might be scrapping Ubuntu for Arch sometime soon, and will hopefully be adding Windows XP as well.


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14 Oct 2008, 7:51 pm

The power computer:

AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800 @ 2.01GHz Socket AM2
DFI Lanparty UT 590 SLI M2R/G
2x 1GB 667MHz dual Channel memory
MSI nVidia GeForce 7300 LE 256MB PCI-E (Was cheap upgrade from my last)
S-ATA 500GB Hard drive with partitions for games and saved files, etc
Windows 5.2(Windows XP x64 Edition) Windows 6.0 (Vista Ultimate x64) SuSE Linux x64 11.0
80GB Seatgate Barracuda hard drive 7,200rpm
DVD-RAM drive on standard parallel IDE
Realtek on-board sound with 7.1 potential, digital sound out
Multi-card reader with USB out, E-SATA out, extension from the rear (sound out and mic-in)
Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports capable of a maximum output of 256MBps
Run with 650w PSU

The Router computer:
AMD Athlon 3000XP+ @ 2.17GHz
MSI KM4M with on-board S3 Unichrome graphics (disabled)
2x 512MB RAM in non dual channel memory set up.
Parallel standard 20GB Hard Drive
Windows 5.1 (Windows XP Professional)
nVdia Geforce 4 MX 128MB x8
DVD-RAM drive
2x SATA RAID configuration
On-board Ethernet 10/100Mbps
Via Rhine III Ethernet PCI card
IDE RAID set for JBOD with 1x 80GB Hard drive for network storage
CD-RW doing nothing
450w PSU



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15 Oct 2008, 7:41 am

MacBook

2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Penryn)
1GB RAM (I'll upgrade it soon)
120GB HD
Mac OS X Leopard and Vista Basic (need it for certain programs)
Bluetooth
WiFi 892.11n
DVD player/CD player and burner drive



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15 Oct 2008, 1:23 pm

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15 Oct 2008, 2:57 pm

NEC Desktop

Processor Cyrix M 2(tm) Cyrix Instead ~225 Mhz
System Manufacturer NEC but when I check though the Help and Support it said AST
OS name Microsoft Windows ME
Version 4.90.3000 Build 3000
System Type X86-based PC
BIOS Version v.1.03
A CD/DVD player (DVD reader broke so only CDs can be played)
4 gig jump drive (that acts like and external hard drive)
Memory card reader
Made when 98 was around
Can make/receive phone calls
Game controller port (stops working way to often)
Video card S3 ViRGE-DX/GX PCI



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15 Oct 2008, 4:02 pm

arch is a kinda small and specialized distro, dont you think?


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15 Oct 2008, 5:14 pm

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arch is a kinda small and specialized distro, dont you think?

Specialized for what? I know it's intended to be very lightweight, but I view that as generally a good thing. I may even go all-out and ditch GNOME for a simple window manager.


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15 Oct 2008, 5:38 pm

You could just recompile anything you need from other distros, but that gets silly. You end up with a hodge podge of software with no repositories, so security beomes a real issue. I understand there isnt a lot of software for it?

Maybe not so bad. Here wikipedia speaks on the matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux


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