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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
on the bright side they are selling i3/i5s duals quite cheap :O! | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On January 09 2010 12:24 KOFgokuon wrote: It's nice to be a student and get windows 7 for free lol :D Seven pro <3 | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
On January 11 2010 08:25 mahnini wrote: microcenter raised their prices on quads on the bright side they are selling i3/i5s duals quite cheap :O! noooooo | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14893 Posts
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1799167 | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
So worth the $300. Also, is anyone else excited about this new EVGA board that supports dual Bloomfield cores and has 7 pci-e slots? Seems exciting. | ||
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semantics
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 12 2010 12:31 ghermination wrote: So i just upgraded to tri-fire (5970+5850) The benchmarks aren't really that much more impressive than crossfire 5870's. I went from ~40fps in Crysis maxed to ~44 fps in Crysis maxed. So worth the $300. Also, is anyone else excited about this new EVGA board that supports dual Bloomfield cores and has 7 pci-e slots? Seems exciting. That wouldn't be a good gaming thing it be a great render farm shove 6 quartos in there and bam render farm. | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On January 12 2010 13:12 Virtue wrote: corssfire and sli don't work too well when the cards aren't the same speeds. Cuz modes like sizzor and alternative frames are capped by the slower card. I have all three GPU's at 800 core/1100 memory. I realize this isn't a very huge overclock and i plan on installing water blocks whenever i get around to it. I've got lots of things to do for the next week, but once i do i plan on overclocking the crap out of these cards. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
it makes no sense whatsoever | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
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Salaf
United States9 Posts
E6750 @ 3.2 GHZ 4GB DDR2 800 MHZ 8800 GTS 640 mb superclocked (576 standard unless oced) 500 GB 7200 rpm Sata ABit IP35Pro some 500-700W PSU lolz ~~ | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 12 2010 13:14 ghermination wrote: I have all three GPU's at 800 core/1100 memory. I realize this isn't a very huge overclock and i plan on installing water blocks whenever i get around to it. I've got lots of things to do for the next week, but once i do i plan on overclocking the crap out of these cards. Well there is also the very diminished scaling when you get to tri-sli/quadfire etc, esp under crossfire setups, sli profiles give nvidia the advantage in that area but less use as not as many games can do sli as they can do crossfire. Also you're only getting 40 fps with a 5970 hum must have a 2k resolution cuz i saw reports of getting 60 ish fps at 1920x1200 with a 5970 with enthusiast shaders on. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On January 12 2010 15:21 Virtue wrote: Also you're only getting 40 fps with a 5970 hum must have a 2k resolution cuz i saw reports of getting 60 ish fps at 1920x1200 with a 5970 with enthusiast shaders on. Nope. http://www.hardware.fr/articles/777-11/dossier-amd-radeon-hd-5970.html ~ 40 fps AAx4 ~ 30 fps AAx8 1920x1200 You get 60 fps with "gamer" shaders. | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On January 12 2010 15:43 Boblion wrote: Nope. http://www.hardware.fr/articles/777-11/dossier-amd-radeon-hd-5970.html ~ 40 fps AAx4 ~ 30 fps AAx8 1920x1200 You get 60 fps with "gamer" shaders. This The 40fps i get is only 8xAA anyway, but with everything else maxed. There's no visible difference between 8x and 16x and even if you enable it's just =\. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
Generally 4xSSAA vs 8xMSAA is about the same and there are the little Aa types that are specific to graphics cards and game engines. I'm sure crysis at 1920x1200 AA past 4 make little dif as the models are just so well rendered to begin with. | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
 i hope this question is not redundant with the previous 60 some odd pagesi expect at least an answer from Ghermination | ||
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Dav_
Hungary236 Posts
On January 14 2010 00:09 intrudor wrote: im planning to upgrade strictly for SC2 and strictly when SC2 comes out (Q2 ~~Q3 2010) excluding the monitor and peripherals, whats the minimum do you think ill have to pay in USD's to get a comp that runs SC2 on competitive settings? (whatever settings serious SC2 competition will entail, so not necessarily uber-maxed-out settings but nothing below serious competitive settings) and what type of hardware are we talking about i hope this question is not redundant with the previous 60 some odd pagesi expect at least an answer from Ghermination CPU: intel E5200 64$ MB: asus P5K 60$ VGA: GF 9600 GT or HD4670 80$ PSU: 400 watt quality PSU 50$ case: 25$ ram: 2gb 45$ or 4gb 90$ (i think 2gb will be enough if you are on XP or win 7) 325(or370)$ a PC like this runs RA3 and DoW2 on high with 30+ fps and SC2 system requirements will be similar | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On January 14 2010 00:09 intrudor wrote: im planning to upgrade strictly for SC2 and strictly when SC2 comes out (Q2 ~~Q3 2010) excluding the monitor and peripherals, whats the minimum do you think ill have to pay in USD's to get a comp that runs SC2 on competitive settings? (whatever settings serious SC2 competition will entail, so not necessarily uber-maxed-out settings but nothing below serious competitive settings) and what type of hardware are we talking about i hope this question is not redundant with the previous 60 some odd pagesi expect at least an answer from Ghermination SC2 can be played easily on a $400 computer, or so. I'm fairly sure that with an Athlon II x2 (hopefully overclocked to add a bit of speed), or an Athlon II x3 (once again overclocked) and hopefully something like a 5670 (which will be released soon, at around the $80 price point), or 4670, just about any game would run fine. I'm estimating that the system requirements of SC2 will be rather like Red Alert 3, so with those specs it should be fine. An AM3 motherboard can be had for $38 after rebate on Newegg (with overclocking features) and 2 or 4gb of DDR2-800 is only like 40 or $70. Cases don't really matter, but once again i'm a newegg fanboy and the cheapest case located therein is $17. On January 14 2010 00:42 Dav_ wrote: CPU: intel E5200 64$ MB: asus P5K 60$ VGA: GF 9600 GT or HD4670 80$ PSU: 400 watt quality PSU 50$ case: 25$ ram: 2gb 45$ or 4gb 90$ (i think 2gb will be enough if you are on XP or win 7) 325(or370)$ a PC like this runs RA3 and DoW2 on high with 30+ fps and SC2 system requirements will be similar You've overpowered that system just a bit too much. The Athlon II x3 or even the x2 overpowers an e5200, doesn't require an aftermarket CPU cooler (which you've neglected, stock intel coolers are shitty), and can overclock way higher. As far as PSU, the Diablotek PHD series 450 watt psu is probably the best bang for buck power supply in existence. Made by a very high quality company, 22a on the+12v rail, >9000 connectors for the wattage, and only $27.99. My local store carries them, but once again they can be found on Newegg. I agree about the 4670, but i think a comparable nVidia card is more like the Gigabyte gt220, even though it has 16 less SP than a 960gt it's only $64, with 128-bit ddr3, making it by far the cheapest (and fastest) gt220 with it's aftermarket cooler. The 5670/4670 will be faster however. | ||
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
It is better than a E5200 and you will be able to uppgrade to something better ( Phe II x4, the next x6 etc .. ) However i would spend some extra bucks on the case because it is so convenient to have a good or at least decent case ( and if possible good looking ) furthermore they don't get outdated as fast than GPU or CPU so you could use the same for years. For the GPU atm i think the best choice is a 4870 / 5770 or if you are a little poorer a 4670. Dunno when the 5670 will be released | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On January 14 2010 01:25 Boblion wrote: I would go for an Athlon II x3 too. It is better than a E5200 and you will be able to uppgrade to something better ( Phe II x4, the next x6 etc .. ) However i would spend some extra bucks on the case because it is so convenient to have a good or at least decent case ( and if possible good looking ) furthermore they don't get outdated as fast than GPU or CPU so you could use the same for years. For the GPU atm i think the best choice is a 4870 / 5770 or if you are a little poorer a 4670. Dunno when the 5670 will be released 5670 supposedly comes mid February. | ||
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