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Sir Latch
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 Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Starting next year... |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | ... maybe even late December. I have put off purchasing a new computer for, I don’t know, 8+ months at least and I have decided enough is enough.
My current shrubber runs all of the games that I currently play (WoW and DDO), so I don’t really need a gaming rig at this time. Down the road I will probably upgrade my new machine to be a gaming rig, but that will be mid-fall next year, maybe later. |
ooooo which realm are you on? horde or alliance?
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KWSN Im Not Dead
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: Re: Starting next year... |
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| Sir Latch wrote: | ooooo which realm are you on? horde or alliance?
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Silvermoon, Alliance.
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KWSN Im Not Dead
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I have almost totally reworked this PC. I have decided that I will purchase a PC with todays parts using slightly older technology (so no PCIE 2.0, no DDR3, etc...).
This should give me a much improved gaming machine (compared to what I have now) and when I purchase a new machine late next year, all of the new goodness will be out and hopefully at a more reasonable price.
With that said, lets have a list:
CPU - Intel Q6600 Quad 2.4GHz 1066 FSB - $280
RAM - Corsair 2x1GB dual channel 1066 FSB - $121
Motherboard - ASUS PK5-E 1066FSB - $142
CASE - Cooler Master Mid Tower - $50
PSU - P&C Cooling 610w - $130
Now my question is this for those of you that know video cards:
The new GeForce 8800 GT, I know it will work in a PCIe x16, but will it out perform a GeForce 8800 GTS? I ask because the GTS is designed to work in a PCIe x16, however the GT is designed to work in a PCIe 2.0. So when the GT "scales back" to run in the PCIe x16, will it still out perform the GTS?
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Sir Papa Smurph
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I don't know about 2.0 or 16x but I beleive that I would not buy a gts at all unless the price were about 1/2 and I could buy two for SLI
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KWSN Im Not Dead
Prince
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Ok got the new shrubber on its way:
CASE - $70
MB - ASUS P5N32-E - $200
CPU - Intel Q6600 - $280
RAM - Corsair DDR2-800 2x1MB Dual Channel - $47
HD - Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0 GB/s - $60
PSU - 610w, 49A rail - $130
GPU - GeForce 8400GS 256MB - $40
AS5 - $6
OS - Windows XP Home - OEM - $90
DVD Burner - $38
Totals out at $961. This gives me plenty of shrubbing power, motherboard is ready for the new Intel chips, cheap video card gets me going until people actually have the 8800GT's in stock, SLI allows me to run two of them, and should I go to a 64bit Vista down the road I can get two additional sticks of ram for 4 gig total.
This allows me a pretty good deal of upgradability plus gives me a pretty darn good shrubber for the time being  . I did not, for the time being, buy an aftermarket heatsink. If I see that things are getting too hot, then I will pick one up at that time. I intend to use my existing monitor (which is cool that the cheap video card I got actually has VGA output), and will use the provided sound card for the time being.
When I decide to go Vista 64bit in roughly a year or so, I will replace the GPU with 2x8800GT SLI, add two more 2x1GB Dual Channel ram, and probably bump the Q6600 to the Q6800...if not one of the new Intel chips.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Got everything but the case in. I am excited . I hope to have it up and shrubbing, err running by Sunday night :0
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Lloyd M.
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Sir Furry Mark wrote: | The usual justification for the PS/3 is the Blu-Ray DVD player...  |
This is true, but I am not going down that road until either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is dead....which may leave me waiting a while given the companies/studios behind each one. |
Why wait - there are machines that play both HD and Blu-Ray, and they're getting cheaper all the time
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:47 am Post subject: |
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At this point I would not go with HD DVD. Blu-Ray appears to have "won". Time will tell of course.
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An "update" on this system. I went from just over 200 shrubs a day on an old P4 2.8, to almost 1900 shrubs a day. This machine, using these parts and this OS, grants me 1700 shrubs a day. I am sure if I went with a flavor of Linix, Over clocked the CPU/Ram, or didnt play games on it while it is running I could get more. I would imagine this machine could be pushed into the 2300 land w/o too much effort...but im too lazy for all of that. When Intel finally launches their new chips, and the current Quads drop in price, I will probably build me another one .
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | At this point I would not go with HD DVD. Blu-Ray appears to have "won". Time will tell of course. |
And Blu-ray has won:
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2008_02/pr1903.htm
Im 1-0 on predictions this year so far
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Prince
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: Starting next year... |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Sir Latch wrote: | ooooo which realm are you on? horde or alliance?
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Silvermoon, Alliance. |
Wish me luck, I am trying Age of Conan tonight for the first time. Being the first day of general public access I am sure the servers will be very stable
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Ignore this post, this is a test for a new macro I am writing:
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Top KNi!ghts --- kwsn sir cadcam - Al Dente - KWSN_Vesuvius - bpowe - KWSN-SpongeBob SquarePants
Last Month --- Al Dente - KWSN-SpongeBob SquarePants - teaman2000 - Pooh Bear 27 - kwsn sir cadcam
Last Week --- Al Dente - Pooh Bear 27 - KWSN-SpongeBob SquarePants - teaman2000 - kwsn sir cadcam
Yesterday --- Al Dente - KWSN-SpongeBob SquarePants - Pooh Bear 27 - teaman2000 - kwsn sir cadcam
Top Shrubbers --- Al Dente - KWSN-SpongeBob SquarePants - teaman2000 - Pooh Bear 27 - kwsn sir cadcam
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Cow_tipping
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What post?
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Wow, 9600+ views to this post....wonder if I can get it to 10000.
Would I hold a record if I do?
Would ducks serve me bacon?
Would pumpkin write a lymric about it?
Would Phast Phred go back to his motor cycle Avatar?
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10,000+ views. I should win a prize for this!
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Here is your prize, another viewing...
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Well at least I got something 
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