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Vedic
Profile Joined March 2008
United States582 Posts
July 04 2009 04:08 GMT
#41
On July 04 2009 12:06 Manifesto7 wrote:

No idea, havent bought a monitor yet. A... good one?


The Samsung 2233rz is 22" with near-CRT response. One of the best you can get without using a CRT.
I tried to commit seppuku, but I accidentally committed bukkake.
Igakusei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States610 Posts
July 04 2009 04:21 GMT
#42
Brand loyalty, I know, but I have never once (not even once!) had an ATI card that wasn't absolute trash. I think I'm 0 for 5. Maybe they've improved in the past few years, but I've simply never not had an experience where the NVidia card didn't have way fewer issues.
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
July 04 2009 04:26 GMT
#43
On July 04 2009 12:57 mahnini wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2009 12:45 Etherone wrote:
On July 04 2009 12:32 mahnini wrote:
hmm any reason why people are recommending the gtx260 over the 4870? they are around the same price from what i see and the 4870 is the better performer.


because he is going for a 512mb 4870 which is worse than a gtx 260. if he were to get a 4870 1gb i would easily back him up, i am an ati fanboy to some extent. ^ ^

edit: omg i didn't mention the CPU.

go find a Q6600 QUICK, i heard it went out of production, and i will be all you'll need for quite some time. the overclock-ability on it is insane. it's reliable and really cheap.

ah. so the gtx260 core 216 is on par with the 1gb 4870 but the old gtx260 is not?

q6600 actually jumped up in price for some reason. it's 199$ on newegg now when it used to sell for $189 i think. also mani said he wouldnt be overclocking.


honestly the difference between the 192 and 216 were pretty negligible, except price that is, but since they pretty much discontinued it, it doesn't matter.

no i meant that the 260 is better than 4870 512mb, but on par with the 1gb, each having their game biases. Mani stated that the gtx260 is 70 dollars cheaper than the 48701gb so it is better to save $70 and spend it elsewhere.

ForTheSwarm
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States556 Posts
July 04 2009 04:27 GMT
#44
Ha ha, from the title, I thought this thread was going to be about that stupid 9 zeal rush the computer does against zerg. Ha ha, I read somewhere that a progamer lost to it once when he was warming up against a comp, haha.
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maleorderbride
Profile Joined November 2002
United States2916 Posts
July 04 2009 04:35 GMT
#45
Also mani, you've been good for over a grand in cash before, so if you want me to ship you any parts and you pay me afterward that is completely fine with me.

4GB 1066MHz kit of RAM here is $48. THe 4870 512MB for $105 is OOS already, it was a pretty amazing deal. The next best deal on one is the 4870 1GB for $145. 1TB samsung is $80, that motherboard is about $106.

I have no idea how much shipping to japan is, but I shipped everything except a case and PSU to the netherlands for $60 with $900 USD in insurance on it.

I can even assemble the mobo/cpu/ram/fan, not that it is very hard ;p
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ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
July 04 2009 04:39 GMT
#46
On July 04 2009 12:11 phase wrote:
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On July 04 2009 11:44 ghermination wrote:
you might want to go for a 10,000 rpm drive and then just get a cheap external drive, because 1tb is only i think 120 USD, and a 300gb 10,000rpm drive is also about 100 USD.


since when did that happen? a 300GB velociraptor for 100 USD?!?!?! cheapest i've seen is 220$

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On July 04 2009 11:58 faseman wrote:
Yeah I don't think fast hard drives are worth it. What's the point of loading a few seconds faster than your opponent, when you have to wait for them anyway? They are snappier in loading apps and all that, but if you look at purely SC2 performance, they're not really worth the money.

Well, my friend has an i7 PC, hd4870, running windows 7 and he says his performance bottleneck is most definitely his 7200RPM HDD. So like you might load faster in SC2, but I mean, you'll notice that loading everything else is faster too.

I'm doing an i7 build, and I'm opting for hd 4890 + the 10k RPM hdd. I don't want any slow downs in my build


I bought a 300 gig 10,000 rpm drive for 700 kuna (roughly 140 USD) at a computer store 4 months ago. It wasn't on sale, so i assume prices like tat can be found elsewhere.
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maleorderbride
Profile Joined November 2002
United States2916 Posts
July 04 2009 04:43 GMT
#47
prices like that are normal. however 10K RPM drives are dying out. SSDs are far far superior, especially in RAID 0.

Just wait for a 120GB SSD to cost $150 and get one, or ideal two and RAID them for an OS/Programs drive.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27172 Posts
July 04 2009 05:03 GMT
#48
You guys are awesome, thanks a lot for your advice. I think I've got a good list to work off of, and I will post a "making - of" when I am doing it. Cheers!
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