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Dog Pants wrote:Those 24" OCUK specials might be cheapy, but mine's doing great.

fucking awesome monitors for the money, especially given they have VA panels, rather than TN ones

FatherJack wrote:Can you properly use 4GB of RAM without Fista/64 bit? Or is that what the "Performance" edition does - I'm not familiar with it.

Don't know if that was answered, but XP Performance is just a really cut down version of XP, off a fresh install, depending on which version, its uses about 80mb of RAM.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
fucking awesome monitors for the money, especially given they have VA panels, rather than TN ones

My friend got one and likes it.

Its nowhere near as nice at my Dell 2407 Ultrasharp though.

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:My friend got one and likes it.

Its nowhere near as nice at my Dell 2407 Ultrasharp though.

I must say, the actual build quality is crap, it's a lousy enclosure with a nice panel.

time to build your own enclosure, yes?

I've been tempted, but I'm pretty limited in tools/workspace at the moment.

Some shiney black chrome CM 1000W PSU, I forget the name...
AMD Phenom 9950 - no o/c normally, but it has been to 3.06GHz stable on air cooling.
4GB OCZ "platinum" DDR2 1066, dual channel
BFG OC GTX280
ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Mem Heatpipe
System drive is Seagate 320GB Barracuda 7200.10 - temporary until I can get a fixed 7200.11 drive (>100MB/s woo!).
500GB Barracuda 7200.11 500GB drive (with non-duff f/w)

CPU: 2.6GHz
FSB: 4GHz (2GHz DDR)
MEM: 1066MHz

All inside a Coolermaster Stacker 832

new machine delivered and installed
Also installed my old 80G HDD in a spare bay and have a 320G external NAS/USB drive for back-me-ups. Monitor is a Samsung Synchmaster 225BW running at 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (59Hz)

Really fucking fast?

compared to the old one .... fuck yeah!

's funny though, I always expect to enter some new realm of computing loveliness with a new PC, only to find that the software etc has managed to suck that much more resources and so end up with what feels like an incremental improvement rather than some sort of paradigm shift.

Still, in this case it's a pretty fekking big increment

'kin hell, that's a full top spec machine there Bomber!

Yup.

That's always disappointing, but I has a crackpot theory for it;

I reckon you always end up using your computer to the point it starts going a bit slower, or your brain does, hard to tell. so rather than 3 old apps open on your last machine, you'll end up with 6 new apps open on your new one, and it suddenly feels slow.

Especially true for gaming I think, because you're always inclined to set stuff as high as possible.

Nice PC Bomber.

Might aswell post my new specs too, I've went from a 3.4ghz pentium 4, 2gb ram and a 7900gs to this:

Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.5ghz
Akasa Nero cooler
Asus P6T
OCZ 6gb DDR3 @ 1400mhz 7-7-7-24
Zotac Nvidia Geforce GTX260 @ 729/1458/1269
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1tb
Coolermaster Silent Pro 700w PSU
Creative X-Fi Titanium
Samsung DVD-RW
Lian-Li PC-7F
BenQ FP241W Monitor

Huge performance boost over my old one

Both of you are spawny bastards.

Thought I'd better post my new one, seeing as it's now working

ASUS P6T SE Mobo
Intel i7 920 D0 @ 2.66GHz
12GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz (9-9-9-24)
Zalman CNPS10X Cooler (get a big case for one of these, it just fits)
BFG 260GTX OC2 Graphics
Gigabyte 3D Aurora case
A broken DVD-writer
2x 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB HDDs
Logitech G15 and MX518
BenQ V2400W and FP222Wa Monitors

Er, I think that's it. Need to overclock and get a faster OS drive next

Gigabite GA770-Dseries3 AM2 Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ (Over clocked Black Edition @2.8ghz)
4gb (2x2gb) DDR2 PC6400 800MHz Corsair Ram
160gb SATA boot drive
1tb SATA data drive
2x SATA LITEON DVD writer
Geforce 8800 GT 512mb display
Sound balster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty w/front panel and remote
(connected to my PYE stereo amp etc)
2x AL1912 19" monitors (4:3 mind I have a distaste for widescreen atm)
bog standard logitech kb
Logitech cordless laser 620MX mouse

Wiggy wrote:12GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz

so I assume you are using Fista
do you find you have trouble with the 64bit version? drivers, support etc.

RedStar wrote:so I assume you are using Fista
do you find you have trouble with the 64bit version? drivers, support etc.

Obviously, I'm not wiggy, but I used vista64until pretty recently. (I think there's more threads on the subject)

It's a bit sluggish in places, due to being Fista, not really an issue on modern machines though.

Driver support was fine, and I use slightly odd hardware (ati graphics, highpoint RAID card, auzentech soundcard)

All told, it's a functional, working OS, with few major problems, but Windows 7 takes the solid base and makes it fast.

Again, remarkably few problems, despite it being pre-release (only thing worth mentioning is punkbuster, because punkbuster are cunts)

My biggest problem with Fista 64-bit is the complete shutdown of unsigned drivers. You used to be able to type in some codez to get around it but now it's just 100% shutdown, meaning you can't run apps like RivaTuner, PeerGuardian, or DVD43. (RivaTuner supposedly has some signed drivers out there but it never worked for me.)

deject wrote:My biggest problem with Fista 64-bit is the complete shutdown of unsigned drivers. You used to be able to type in some codez to get around it but now it's just 100% shutdown, meaning you can't run apps like RivaTuner, PeerGuardian, or DVD43. (RivaTuner supposedly has some signed drivers out there but it never worked for me.)

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo

used to work pretty well, site isn't loading atm.