I broke down and upgraded my shit

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I broke down and upgraded my shit

Postby Tingtong » Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:58 pm

Intel Core2 Duo 2.13Ghz OC'ed to 3.4Ghz 1.37v 30C Idle/40C under Load
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6819115016

Thermalright 120-Extreme CPU Heatsink w/SilentX 120mm 90CFM Fan
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835109140
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835226013

2GB Corsair (PC2 8500) XMS2 Oc'edd to 1160mhz on 5-5-5-15 Timings
fsbhttp://www.newegg.com/product/produc ... 6820145033

Asus P5K Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131180

EVGA 8800Gts (320mb)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6814130082

LiteOn 20X DvD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6827106057

Enermax Liberty 500Watt PS
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6817194003

2 Raided- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148136

YEA, 150-200fps w/16000X1200 in wow with max settings on rocks the socks. COMON warhammer beta!

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Postby TrollFunk » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:14 pm

Looks good Ting :D

I myself am far weaker it seems has i broke down almost 2 months ago and went all out and got some deals and hardware together.

Processor: AMD64 X2 4600+

Harddrive:Seagate Barracuda 250GB(my old HD, no point in getting a new one since i've never come close to using up all its space)

GPU: Asus Nvidia 8800(320mb)

Motherboard: MSI K9N AM2 SLI Premium

Sound: Creative X-fi Soundblaster(bought this one last week along with a new 5.1 system.)

Memory:2GB of Corsair 5300mhz

Case: Apevia Midi-Tower Silver Case with Air-flow Filter for CPU fan, 80mm fan in the back and top)

PSU: Raidmax 450watt

Case upgrades:

-New 120mm fan in the back and 2x 80mm fans in the front sucking air in.

-PCI slot fan placed under GPU to accelerate the passing of air through he GPU(works fairly well).

-Cable velcro straps to contain and free up space inside the case.

Future plans:

-Aquire Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10.000rpm Harddrive

-600watt PSU

-2nd 8800 320mb

-20 inch Flat screen.

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Will see if i can take some pictures of it. Has a nice blue LED glow over most of the case. :)
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Postby Tingtong » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:00 pm

NICE!

Honestly I would get 2 500gb seagate raided for the same price as 1 raptor. you get faster burst rates for data, the only thing a little slow is the seek time on the drive which were talking 2-3milaseconds if that. There was an article I'll find for you the does and outright comparison and benchmark that whoops raptor's ass.

Also if your getting only a 20" I wouldn't even bother SLI 2 8800's That kind of GPU power I would save for running more then a 24" with a crazy buckwild resolution.

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Postby TrollFunk » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:46 am

Honestly don't know what setups you can do with your harddrives, its one of this things that have eluded my understanding; Raid-1 / Raid-0 / Serial ATA / Serial SATA and i could get even more dizzy. But if you say that two 500GB seagates could do that then i say my preference has just shifted.


Has for the 20 inch, its more for a 2nd screen project. Got a 17 inch and its perfect for the range im sitting at, arms length if you will.

And has for the GPU, well its still the fantasy, first time in my life im capable of going SLI so its more of a "gief" situation then a necessity really :p
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Postby Augomatic » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:09 pm

Don't think you can run two monitors running SLI. I haven't tried myself, and find it incredibly weird that when running two vid cards, you can only use one monitor, but that's what I've heard.
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Postby Twystyd » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:44 pm

Augomatic wrote:Don't think you can run two monitors running SLI. I haven't tried myself, and find it incredibly weird that when running two vid cards, you can only use one monitor, but that's what I've heard.


That is strange man. You think it would be easier w/ two cards.
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Postby barbos » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:07 pm



It would really depend on the game. Games with huge map files and large textures would definately benefit from the higher throughput of the large capacity drive. But for those games that insist on placing every single animation, texture, graphic, sound, text, and thought in a seperate file, the IO performance of the raptors would pull through.

They actually revisited this just a few days ago with the Western Digital 750gb drive, which is the highest throughput performing sata drive available today (according to their site).

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/06/ ... hard_disk/

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Postby Twystyd » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:29 am

WTF are you guys talking about? I don't see any discussions about tits or gaming here so I must not be on the BWC boards!
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Postby barbos » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:47 pm

Talking about a few big tits vs lots of small tits.... in a game....

Does that cover it? ;) :tellme:

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Postby Beratuul » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:21 am

tits are for kids.
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