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The Chatterbox => Computing => Topic started by: Spectere on April 14, 2008, 10:03:03 PM
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It's mostly built right now...currently running memory and CPU tests on it. All seems well so far.
Here be specs:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300, 2.5GHz, Yorkfield (45nm) core
- Asus P5N-D motherboard (nForce 750i)
- 4GB Corsair XMS2 DHX DDR2 RAM (4-4-4-12), 800MHz
- nVidia GeForce 9800GTX, 512MB GDDR3 (THIS CARD IS FRACKIN' HUGE)...I'm seriously considering getting another one
My hard drives should arrive tomorrow. I ordered three 750GB SATA drives. I plan to put them, as well as the one currently in my enclosure (swapping it with the 400GB drive in my current system), into the new system and RAID 1+0'ing it. That should give me 1.5TB of fast, redundant storage. I'm also going to slap the DVD+RW and DVD-ROM drives in my current system in there. One of these days I'll probably pick up a BD+RW drive for it, but I don't have a need for it right away (I wouldn't mind using it as a backup medium, but it's still a little pricey right now, and I don't absolutely need it -- I'd rather spend my money on Vista x64 or something I would have an immediate use for).
3DMark scores are probably going to have to wait until Wednesday...not sure if I'm going to have enough time to install XP and run all of them tomorrow (I have to work late). Besides, right now there aren't actually any drives in my new computer. The only storage storage connected to it is a USB memory stick with the Ultimate Boot CD on it. :P
Oh yeah, here's my case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811103019 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811103019). It's HUEG, roomy, pushes a ton of air (thanks to the massive fans), and is very quiet. The only time the system gets louder than my current one is when my video card's beastly fan spins up.
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hay blackie send me old video and sound cards and shit D:<
To be serious, the computer sounds pretty badass. I wish I had enough money to whore around to get nice computers like that.
edit: send me some rambus rimms too fgt :D
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hay blackie send me old video and sound cards and shit D:<
I already promised my GF6600GT to my dad. I'm going to take his GF6200 and probably use my current machine as a dedicated Linux box. I'm also going to hold onto my SBLive! just in case the Intel HD onboard thingie in my new machine is as noisy as the onboard SoundMAX AC97 whatchamacallit in this box. I hope the HD Audio is relatively quiet; I'm getting sick of holding onto this SBLive...it's really not doing a damn thing for me at this point other than being clear (and failing to have a good Vista driver [or a good official XP driver, for that matter...yay kX Project], which is going to be a big deal relatively soon).
As for the hard drives...well, I need as much space as I can get. ;) Now taking bets as to how long it'll take me to fill 1.5TB.
Long story short, no wai gtfo n00b lol.
To be serious, the computer sounds pretty badass. I wish I had enough money to whore around to get nice computers like that.
YOU WILL WHEN YOU GROW UP, SONNY. ^^
edit: send me some rambus rimms too fgt :D
Let's just say, from the beginning I had the foresight to avoid Rambus with a fiery passion. Therefore, I have no RIMMs. sry ;(
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Yeah, Rambus kind of PHLAIELD but my "best" computer at the moment only has rambus slots so I'm kind of fuxxored
I didn't actually pick out the computer, it was donated to me, so i don't mind TOOO much.
but still 256mb ram gay
what the fuck am i going to do with 256mb ram
seriously
i probably can't even run my severely mod packed UT99 install anymore
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Okay, guess my computer isn't the leetest around anymore :(
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Fuck spec, what are you going to use that beast for? That is one BEASTLY computer.
YOU WILL WHEN YOU GROW UP, SONNY. ^^
:/ I'm grown up... more or less.
:/
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He's going to max out some fuckin Crysis, i bet >:O
/me tries to get UT2004 to boot with 256MB ram in his poop computer :(
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Yeah, Rambus kind of PHLAIELD but my "best" computer at the moment only has rambus slots so I'm kind of fuxxored
I didn't actually pick out the computer, it was donated to me, so i don't mind TOOO much.
but still 256mb ram gay
Yeah, I know someone who got stuck in a similar situation, except that her computer only had 128MB of Rambus.
It doesn't help that it's always been ridiculously expensive RAM.
Fuck spec, what are you going to use that beast for?
Making games look beautiful.
Compiling things very quickly.
Pushing large amounts of a data around a bit quicker.
It's going to be awesome.
Also, bear in mind that I haven't had a truly up-to-date computer since 1997/1998. It's going to be nice not having to look at minimum requirements for a while.
He's going to max out some fuckin Crysis, i bet >:O
If it plays anything like Far Cry, no thanks. :(
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Actually, Crysis seems pretty good. I've got it on my computer (running at fairly low specs, lol.)
I don't know anything about Far Cry, but Crysis looks to be a pretty solid game. Only thing is that it requires some pretty beefy specs to play at high quality.
Oh, and how much is this system costing you anyway?
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The system cost just under $2000.
Also, 3DMark05 score on my old computer (default settings): 3027. 3DMark05 score for my new compy: 15751. I was rebuilding my RAID array when I did the test (long story)...not sure how much of an impact that would have. Maybe I'll test it again when it's done.
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Oh wow. Your old score has officially been PWNT.
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...yeaaaah.
Like I said, this is the first computer I've had in many years that's actually been built from modern hardware.
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im gonna need pix of the innards of that beast, something to fap too
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I took a couple before I slapped the hard drives in...maybe I'll poast'em. <3
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141052 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141052)
Hay guise i'm going to get this for a video card, also that $19 SB16 eventually
u liek or no :>
srsly my current card won't even handle fuckin KotOR, it like blows up or something
look up sum pix of chernobyl reactor 4's innards (post 1986) and you'll no wat i mean
lol jk
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I'd shoot for the 6200 at least. It'll cost a bit more but it'll yield better performance, especially when it comes to DirectX 9 stuff.
Edit: Oh, in regards to the sound thing. As it turns out, the Realtek onboard HD sound isn't just quiet...its output is actually considerably less noisy than the SoundBlaster Live! Holy shit.
If anyone's building a system and wants to save some green, don't bother getting an X-Fi or whatever overpriced crap Creative is peddling these days (that they'll no doubt refuse to support at all a year or two down the road...), give your onboard sound a shot.
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- nVidia GeForce 9800GTX, 512MB GDDR3 (THIS CARD IS FRACKIN' HUGE)...I'm seriously considering getting another one
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT. I thought I could wave my E peen around, but not around you. Also I just realized my processor was a quad core (thought it was a dual, probably should have gone with dual). Also you could effectively use that as a time machine.
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If anyone's building a system and wants to save some green, don't bother getting an X-Fi or whatever overpriced crap Creative is peddling these days (that they'll no doubt refuse to support at all a year or two down the road...), give your onboard sound a shot.
I'm using my onboard sound right now, lol. If I was ever going to buy a soundcard for this, it would be a high grade recording soundcard, and not a creative one.
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Ditto, onboard sound for me as well. I don't see much of a reason to buy a soundcard anymore, these days.
Also: Crysis is pretty sweet, I really enjoyed it. It's short, but it's got some pretty epic moments, especially towards the end of the game. Crysis also had one of the best boss fights I've seen in a long time, I actually felt like I was playing a real old-school fps-style boss fight, instead of the modern ones where it's like "HAY INSTEAD OF A BOSS FIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A ROOM FULL OF LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF GUYS, AND THEN WE'LL END THE GAME!".
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Also: Crysis is pretty sweet, I really enjoyed it. It's short, but it's got some pretty epic moments, especially towards the end of the game. Crysis also had one of the best boss fights I've seen in a long time, I actually felt like I was playing a real old-school fps-style boss fight, instead of the modern ones where it's like "HAY INSTEAD OF A BOSS FIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A ROOM FULL OF LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF GUYS, AND THEN WE'LL END THE GAME!".
Really, I played threw the beginning and it sempt like a weaker Far cry (which I "had" to delete due to this computer LOL RUNNAN OUT OF SPACE). How far is it in to the game when you get to the dig site and you have to run away from those Koreans at night?
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Only a couple levels in. The running away from Koreans at night level was awful, retardedly hard D:
I think the game gets significantly better after that point, when the entire taskforce attacks the island, and it becomes a massive battle. At that point you start to get the cooler weapons (Gauss rifle, minigun, incendiary ammo for the AK), and enemy difficulty ramps up. The tank level is pretty badass as well, especially if you try to blow up tanks by foot by attaching C4 to them, that's hilariously awesome. Once aliens show up, the game gets preposterously badass, the alien ship part of the game is amazing, although it's horribly disorienting. But that's the intended effect.
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Far Cry left such a sour taste in my mouth that I think I'd find it hard to enjoy Crysis, especially considering I heard that the gameplay is remarkably similar (confirm/deny, anyone?). Nothing quite like having psychic enemies that do fairly high amounts of damage and are positioned in such a way that it makes them hard to kill, not to mention ridiculously tough mutant creatures that kill you in a few hits on easy. No thanks; I'll stick with games written by people who know what the word "balance" means so I don't find myself doing the same carefully constructed section time and time again until I do it absolutely perfectly (only to die repeatedly at the next clusterfuck of enemies, since that's how all "good" games seem to do it nowadays).
In case it isn't obvious, I loathe Far Cry.
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I liked farcry, but from what I've heard a lot of people say "DON'T PLAY THE ENDING PART". Also as far as Crysis is concerned I'm on normal and haven't had much trouble with anything. Besides this one part were you HAVE to walk into this "base" surrounded by land mines and C4 that will kill you DESPITE having shot all the land mines and C4 around.
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back on topic:
BIOSTAR V6802XA21 GeForce 6800XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141038R)
It's open box, though, which is why i'm asking: would this be a better idea than the new biostar 5200?
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One thing that you'll definitely want to check before ordering it is whether it'll actually work in your system. That board only supports 1.5V and 0.8V operation (given by the way it's slotted). If your motherboard only supports 3.3V, it's not going to work.
If you want to know for sure, check the slot on the motherboard itself. The AGP slot should consist of two sections -- a larger one and a smaller one. If the larger one is toward the back of the case, ORDER IT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOU WILL LOVE THAT CARD. If the larger part of the slot is closer to the front, you're SOL...you'll have to get the 5200 (or any other similar card that's either double-keyed -- i.e. has three sections on the slot rather than just two).
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Confirmed, the missing divider is towards the back of the computer! Always wondered why most of my AGP cards were double keyed when all of my AGP slots only had one key, guess that's why. Can't order the card right now though, I have to get my job first, not sure how much longer that will take.
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Yeah, I wondered why they were like that myself.