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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

*Exactly*

Though, deject will probably argue about 3% somewhere in a synthetic benchmark.
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Post by deject »

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:*Exactly*

Though, deject will probably argue about 3% somewhere in a synthetic benchmark.
:roll:

whatever...
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Post by mrbobbins »

deject wrote:
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:*Exactly*

Though, deject will probably argue about 3% somewhere in a synthetic benchmark.
:roll:

whatever...
Talk to the hand sister!!
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Post by Nickface »

mrbobbins wrote:
deject wrote:
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:*Exactly*

Though, deject will probably argue about 3% somewhere in a synthetic benchmark.
:roll:

whatever...
Talk to the hand sister!!
Cause the face ain't listening!

that's right, I'm not listening. LALALALALALALALALALALALLALALALAA

Oh no you didn't!
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Nickface wrote:Cause the face ain't listening!

that's right, I'm not listening. LALALALALALALALALALALALLALALALAA

Oh no you didn't!
OH YES I DID WHAT U GO DO?
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Post by Roman Totale »

Hooplah! I'm getting a new PC! :excited:

Intel Pentium 4 processor 570 (3.8 GHz)
MS-7058 PCI-Express mainboard
1 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 RAM 533MHz
250GB SATA 7200rpm Hard Drive with 8MB cache
256MB DDR ATI Radeon X800GT PCI-Express graphics
19" TFT thingy
:cheese:
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Post by Stoat »

Rock!
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Stoat wrote:Rock!
What he said. Plus :cheese:
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Post by Lateralus »

Couple of new bits added since last time:

AMD XP 2200 cpu
ASRock K7S41GX mobo
ASUS 9600XT 128Mb (Which I just got on eBay for £34.50 and am awaiting delivery of, replacing my old 9550 128mb)
1GB RAM
DiamondMax Plus9 80GB UDMA133 HD
Old 20GB HD
NEC 3540 DVD RW Drive
LG DVD ROM Drive
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Post by Bazzle »

3200+ Athlon xp
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 v2.0
GeIL CL25-3-3DDR 400 512mb x 2
ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360)
Western Digital SATA 120gb
Maxtor PATA 160gb
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Post by Fred Woogle »

ohhh, I havn't posted here yet,

Pentium 4 3.2ghz
2gb's PC3200 DRR RAM stuffs
GeForce 6800GT
120GB HDD
200GB HDD
15GB HDD (boot disc)
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Post by Lateralus »

Panowie!

New computer am go:
Athlon 64 3000
Asus A8N-E Motherboard
2 GB RAM (4 x 512MB - I think in dual channel too)
Geforce 6600 GT 128 DDR3 RAM. PCI-E slot
80 GB Western Digital SATA (Which I was unable to get windows running properly on - so just using the IDE drive. Boo hiss)
80GB DiamondMax Plus9
NEC 3540 DVD RW Drive
LG DVD ROM Drive
2x 120mm fans (One of which has blue LEDs in it. Not my choice either! pimp my 'puter)
17" Gateway CRT
500 Watt PSU
Creative speakers
Logitech MX510
Microsoft Multimedia keyboard
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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

but, does it work? :)
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Post by Lateralus »

Yes it does. I must admit that its quite annoying not being able to get the OS working properly on the SATA disk, but its something I can live with. And thankee very much for the help Berk, was much appreciated.

Out of curiosity I ran a 3DMark05 test on my old setup and just tried it again on the new one. Whilst I have no real point of reference for the results, I'm guessing that an improvement in score from 953 to 3378 is quite good! Installing HL2 and CS:S again now - FPS above 20, here we come!
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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

Lateralus wrote:Yes it does. I must admit that its quite annoying not being able to get the OS working properly on the SATA disk, but its something I can live with. And thankee very much for the help Berk, was much appreciated.

Out of curiosity I ran a 3DMark05 test on my old setup and just tried it again on the new one. Whilst I have no real point of reference for the results, I'm guessing that an improvement in score from 953 to 3378 is quite good! Installing HL2 and CS:S again now - FPS above 20, here we come!
the OS thing is odd, but short of some oddities, and the possible NF4 sata issue, i dunno
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Post by Lateralus »

Meh. I can live with it. A sata drive was beyond what I'd intended (originally planned just to get CPU, mobo and GFX) but since I got this lot for 300 quid its just a bit of a bonus. I'll just have a fast data and paging file drive! :boogie:
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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

Lateralus wrote:Meh. I can live with it. A sata drive was beyond what I'd intended (originally planned just to get CPU, mobo and GFX) but since I got this lot for 300 quid its just a bit of a bonus. I'll just have a fast data and paging file drive! :boogie:
Paging Or Reliable Ninja Drive. :)
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Post by Woo Elephant Yeah »

Now all you need is a faster graphics card :P
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Post by Lateralus »

To be exact, what I need is the money to buy a graphics card! I'm going to sell my old computer (Probably for around £150) and I could sell my 9600XT, but to be honest the money is needed more to try and beat down my overdraft just now. Just had to quit my bar-job too because the final few months of my degree are going to be pretty intense, so its belt-tightening time!

However, if this setup doesn't run Oblivion properly, then I may reconsider! :)

/Edit: Just noticed I'm a penguin now! Been racking up the posts recently

/Edit 2: Basically, what I mean is that the money I could possibly justify spending on a new GFX card would buy me one marginally better than the one I've got now, but as Deject says, I'd be better off waiting for prices of 7800GT to drop and getting something like that in the future.
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Post by FatherJack »

Lateralus wrote:To be exact, what I need is the money to buy a graphics card! I'm going to sell my old computer (Probably for around £150) the money I could possibly justify spending on a new GFX card would buy me one marginally better than the one I've got now, but as Deject says, I'd be better off waiting for prices of 7800GT to drop and getting something like that in the future.
For cards currently available at that sort of sum the benefit over a 6600GT is not worth the expenditure.

While (in my case) games take ages to initialise and load maps, once in-game the 6600 performs remarkably well for a sub-£100 device.
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