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Get an ATi X800 XTPE if you are on a budget. Seriously, with X850XTPE out, and the R520 coming soon, they are budget cards. They also beat 6600 GT in so many ways.
I won't give out any details, but it was a nice card. I can't compare it to a 7800GTX since I haven't used one yet, but it's still alot faster than an X850XTPE.
http://www.m0px.net/A100/IMG_0087.JPG
Nothing too amazing at the moment. I'm getting a new case soon, Lian-Li PC-70b. At the moment I have a PC-65, and it's kinda boring. I'm thinking of, black case, green lighting, and blue UV reactive shit (Molex connectors, IDE cables, dye in my w/c setup). I'll post pics when I finally get around to building it. Oh and a couple more pics to finish my post off:
http://www.m0px.net/A100/IMG_0040.JPG
http://www.m0px.net/A100/IMG_0049.JPG
Nothing too amazing at the moment. I'm getting a new case soon, Lian-Li PC-70b. At the moment I have a PC-65, and it's kinda boring. I'm thinking of, black case, green lighting, and blue UV reactive shit (Molex connectors, IDE cables, dye in my w/c setup). I'll post pics when I finally get around to building it. Oh and a couple more pics to finish my post off:
http://www.m0px.net/A100/IMG_0040.JPG
http://www.m0px.net/A100/IMG_0049.JPG
With stock cooling, after 2 hours of Far Cry, my R360 would reach 96C.
OLD. I saw that thread 2 hours after it waa posted.
Power regulation components failed. I am under an NDA and can't release anything detailed about the card.
Well, if you won't be doing any office work or encoding video, mainly gaming and benching, definately Dothan. But I'd say an A64 X2 would be more versatile while still being half-decent at gaming, also tons better for video encoding and multithreaded work. But for gaming, Dothan is the best chip out there right now.
Looks to me like artifacting. Feel the heatsink on your 9800's core, and feel the ram with your fingertip. Is it very hot? Might I recommend you invest in some OCZ Copper BGA Ramsinks and some Arctic Silver Adhesive (to glue them on). When I first got my 9800XT I was using stock cooling and got artifacting in some games. Or alternatively you could invest in an Arctic Silencer. You will be able to get some overclocking out of it, and keep it very quiet (the fan is silent). Just make sure you buy the correct revision. There is about 10 different ATi Arctic Silencers out there for different cards. I was getting a similar color phenomenon like you were getting in BF2, but in HLDM once. That was a driver issue. As for the polygon problem, that is a form of artifacting. You might notice onscreen models appearing in random places untextured or golden colored. I used to get that in Far Cry when I was overheating. The CSS issue looks like RAM artifacting, or it could be GPU.
The point is, it's the card's way of saying "you fucking idiot I'm 10000C you stupid cunting moron put some better cooling on me you shithead".
BTW: Seventh and M_Gargantua, Kazoo has activated your accounts on HWA.
The point is, it's the card's way of saying "you fucking idiot I'm 10000C you stupid cunting moron put some better cooling on me you shithead".
BTW: Seventh and M_Gargantua, Kazoo has activated your accounts on HWA.
Got a very very early sample ages ago and had to send it back. It died on me after a week.
The only decent P4EE's were the old 3.2/3.4 ones on Socket 478 and the 3.46GHz one on LGA775. The 3.73GHz one is just a prescott with lots of cache, and the smithfield EE is just a dualcore 3.73GHz EE. The old EE's however weren't related to the P4 family at all, they were based on the Xeon.
Then find something interesting to do 
HL2 will run fine on an AXP Tbred 1700+, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce Ti4600, I've seen it done. Runs smoothly at 2x AA/Trillnear filtering at 1280x1024 with everything at max and world reflection.
50cent never got fucking shot, and if he did, the shooter deserves an award. He's a talentless retard with the brain of an amoeba.
Steve Vai & Frank Zappa - Fuck Yourself.I love that song too, it's gotta be the funniest song ever written.
Urghhh, is gimp your favorite word or something?
Then why waste all that time typing out those 4 words and clicking reply? You just wasted 10 secs of your life.
Even a fucking idiot can overclock a Pentium-M if you get an Asus board. Is it that difficult to select an item, raise it a couple of times, then select another item and put in a number? Fuck no. Just because I don't use a Dell with Windows XP doesn't mean I'm a nerd 
GIMPshop is an old version of GIMP (2.2.4, kinda old), with a new interface that is reminiscent of Photoshop. I personally think it is a bastardization of a perfectly good program.
The gamepc thing is slightly biased btw. P-M sucks in anything FPU intensive, such as video encoding, etc. But in gaming and 3DMark/Aquamark, it is the best you can get if you overclock it (which is easy with Asus boards!). At stock it sucks donkey balls, btw. But most P-M's will do 2.6GHz incredibly easy 
Yeah should be.
If anyone wants to discuss the more "finer" points of graphics cards, sign up on hardwareasylum.com forums (and tell the registration "masterofpuppets" referred you ;)) and take a look in the 3D section. The admin wants me to kinda spread the word and help the site grow a bit, and as this is a graphics cards thread, I thought this would be a good place to spread the word [/advertise]
[/advertise]It's describing why AGP still has life left in it.
No, GIMP is better than photoshop, it's not an alternative.
I rather liked the later chapters, such as "forget about freeman" and "lambda core".
jaardsi, that's BS. Just buy a P-M 780, and an Asus CT-479+P4C800-E and an ATi R520 (when they are released). Overclock the P-M (good ones hit 2.7GHz on stock cooling, and make sure you set multi low so you can run your RAM at higher speeds). That setup will beat any AMD64 setup to death. If you don't believe me, read benches. There is alot of life left in Intel i875P/AGP/Socket478 thanks to Asus's P-M socket adapter. AMD64 is a huge hack. It's not even "true" 64-bit processing.
HL1 was an amazing game (and still is, even though the gfx are very outdated), but HL2 is an average game.
But most of rock music is just shouting and saying life sucks.You just contradicted yourself. Most "commercial" rock/metal is like that.
You can upgrade RAM, CPU, HDD, and recently GPU in a notebook. They are still very proprietry though. They need to standardize it somehow, I wouldn't mind building me own laptop if they standardized a motherboard form factor.
@Mister Plod: BF 1942 was nice, but BF2 is so fucking overrated. Hell the released version would be an alpha in the eyes of most devlopers. The pile of junk uses 999MB of RAM! Now, I bet if they gave me their source code I could get it to use half of that. The graphics look outdated too.
No Neo, I am not the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but I use it often Use the edit button! Plus, you really can't expect to be taken seriously when you are using noobspeek. Use a comprehensible language form or expect to get laughed at.
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien
Use the edit button! Plus, you really can't expect to be taken seriously when you are using noobspeek. Use a comprehensible language form or expect to get laughed at.Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien
CS sucks.
I bet America has consumed over 50% of the world's oil supplyin the last 100 years. Hogging bastards, I wanted that oil!
Haha I might adopt your anti-thief system
Urghhhhh, Neo, your musical tastes (if you can call that ear offending noise, music) is incredibly poor.
Cacophony - Images ftw!
Cacophony - Images ftw!
HL2, as a game, is pathetic. It's extremely repetitive, and isn't very "HL" at all. Although, the engine is nice (even though it uses DirectX, of which I despise). But yeah, the SP game, well, sucks.
As a bus, there is no speed advantage of PCI-E. There is only a tiny difference in speed between AGP 4x and 8x on the ATi X850 and the nVidia 6800Ultra, showing that carrds have only really just saturated AGP 4x. The only consumer advantage of PCI-E is motherboards that support crossfire and sli.
Seventh, the reason it doesn't make any difference is because the XT has a beefed up core as well as faster clocks. XT is r360, and Pro is r350. The XT has a bit extra onchip cache, as well as faster memory (faster timings).
Well, SP2 has had "mixed" results.
Nope no lag at all. Settings:
Texes: High/AF 2x
Shaders: High
Models: High
Reflections: Reflect All
Res: 1024x768
AA: 2x
This is with a 9800XT at 460/420(840).
Texes: High/AF 2x
Shaders: High
Models: High
Reflections: Reflect All
Res: 1024x768
AA: 2x
This is with a 9800XT at 460/420(840).
on a 9800XT, HL2 is fully playable with everything @ max with 2x aa and af. performance should be similar on 9800pro.
Give me an example of compatability problems then. If it is a DOS game, neither XP or 2K support 16-bit (most old DOS games) DOS apps.
I recently "downgraded" to 512MB of RAM for overclocking. No performance hit at all so far.
I've played every new game out there on Win2k and it works fine. Including: Doom3, HL2, F.E.A.R (demo), Riddick, and a few others. No problems at all. Windows XP just sucks so hard 
Heh I'm not gonna go and recommend LN2 to just anyone.
Petroleum isn't fucking gas. Stupid americans.
Damn Elon, learn to spell. Fileplanet.
FFS Elon, even for most gamers 9600 is average. It's a fact. Don't be moronic.
Win2k is faster in games than WinXP. It's a proven fact. Windows XP is a subset of Win2k rather than a superset as Microsoft call it.
Mehh, average card. The rest of the system is half decent though. If you wanna hit over 4GHz on air, might I suggest you go for some decent air cooling? Thermalright XP-90 coupled with a high CFM fan is an excellent choice.
Viruses are for nubs. I have Win2k on another partition and that never has a virus problem, then again, I don't visit dodgy sites that you all probably visit.
Service Pack 2 is a joke. You should be using Windows 2000 actually, it's alot more stable and suprisingly slightly more secure, considering it is NT 5.0 (XP is NT 5.1). No compatability issues with and Windows XP applications. If you can't live without the tellytubbyland theme and the my first computer icons though, you should avoid it