5punk

w00t! upgrade worked on first boot!

New specs:

AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (AM2, 2.6GHz)
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 w/ AM2 CPU EZ Upgrade
2x1GB DDR2 800 Transcend aXeRAM
X1600 Pro 256MB (DDR 2 ) AGP 8x
Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10 SATA 3Gb/s
Hitachi 60GXP 40GB 7200RPM
Samsung 48x CD-RW
Mad Dog 16x DVD-RW
Auzentech X-Mystique 7.1 soundcard
D-Link 802.11g Wi-Fi
TV Tuner

I like, but why an AGP card?

Hehulk wrote:I like, but why an AGP card?

Because it's what I've had for over a year and I'm waiting for the 8800GT to come out to replace it.

Ive upgraded/downgraded my main rig a little over the weekend.

now running:
AMD X2 4200+ 6400+
2 4gb Corsair DDR2 800
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
2 x WD Raptor 150 RAID 0
500gb storage drive
2 x NEC DVD-RW drives
2 1 x EVGA 7900gt 256mb PCI-E (Wasnt using the second card, so thats now in my work machine. Yay for lunchtime TEEF!)

Now running XP Pro "Performance" edition. And it is speedy

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.

I thought all types of xp were capable of 4. But I'm never sure, you always read things that confirm and deny.

HereComesPete wrote:I thought all types of xp were capable of 4. But I'm never sure, you always read things that confirm and deny.

Nope. No 32-bit OS can address that much RAM. Also, Windows uses the same pool of memory addresses for both main system RAM and the graphics RAM on your videocard, further reducing the amount of system RAM 32-bit OS's can use.

So how much can the OS address? If you had a coupla gig of system ram, and a 1Gb gpu, would the 1Gb gpu ram be a waste of time that impacted on the system ram's performance?

edit- Oops, missed some typing there.

HereComesPete wrote:So how much can the address?

Yes.

usually 3.3Gb-ish, I think, but that number goes down the more hardware you have (even if it's just usb devices)

http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm

So what your saying is, KV went out and bought a card that will actually slow his system down because it has 1Gb of on-board ram?

Plus the cards an expensive piece of crap, that must really annoy him.

Yup, not only did he waste a fuckton of money on a laughably poor card, it'll slow his machine down notably, not to mention that the ATI cards are barely capable of using 512mb of onboard memory properly, the extra 512 is dead weight.

Awesome i can actually put a spec up lol. My 1st ever build most of this copied from my xfire rig.

Mobo: ASUS P5N32-E SLI plus
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM Corsair pc6400 xms yada yada
Hard Drive: 320 GB maxtor 7200
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320mb, 580mhz core & 1700mhz mem
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor (27" HDTV i need help with)
Sound Card: Speakers (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio)
Keyboard: Digital media pro MS
Mouse: MS Habu

ooh, nice machine that

tinkyou very much kind sir

I'll be diving into some servers with you lot shortly!

It's been a long time coming

Indeed it is a nice machine, you bastard!

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Yup, not only did he waste a fuckton of money on a laughably poor card, it'll slow his machine down notably, not to mention that the ATI cards are barely capable of using 512mb of onboard memory properly, the extra 512 is dead weight.

not to mention that HD 2900's take a nose dive when you turn on AA.

deject wrote:not to mention that HD 2900's take a nose dive when you turn on AA.

however, I've heard they are really good for electricity companies, and save you money on heating

Well, there's a bona fide bonus, KV's house is cold in the winter, he'll be able to heat his room up with a bit of crysis.

Yays, it finally came:



Fista sez:



up from 5.3 from the Dual, all running at stock speeds or lower.

Q6600? yay.