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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Skaw gently hums:
A reasonable amount. Nothing exuberant.
You have exuberant money? Mine hasn't been happy at all since gas went up and the dollar went down.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
That looks great Kegwen, gutting what I didn't need from the middle of the road set up, I dropped it down to about $675. Thanks bud.
Blackened fucked around with this message on 09-14-2008 at 01:04 AM.
time to upgrade
e8500 core 2 duo
evga geforce gtx 260
asus p5q-pro
8GB corsair ram (shits cheap as it is at $84 for 4GB, and it has a $20 rebate until the 15th)
250gig seagate barracuda
im going to DESTROY.... warhammer, which looks like a game from the year 2000 
$752 when all said and done (live.com 3% off of newegg)
nem-x fucked around with this message on 09-14-2008 at 06:23 AM.
http://forums.evercrest.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=073089
quote:In the meanwhile, does anyone know of any foolproof guides to overclocking an Athlon64 X2 3.8 ghz?
Blackened.
I just looked up this "Nehalem" and now I'm excited. I've been thinking my computer needs some serious CPU/mobo upgrading for a few months now.
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Naimah postedStupid Nehalem having an integrated FSB and forcing me to buy a motherboard to upgrade my CPU again.
Unless you're already running DDR3, you'll need new RAM, too--as far as I know, there are no plans for Nehalem chips with DDR2 support.
It's not really designed as an integrated FSB, either; the memory controller is coupled far more tightly to the cores than that.
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ACES! Another post by Alidane:
Unless you're already running DDR3, you'll need new RAM, too--as far as I know, there are no plans for Nehalem chips with DDR2 support.It's not really designed as an integrated FSB, either; the memory controller is coupled far more tightly to the cores than that.
Same effect.
I'm New fucked around with this message on 09-27-2008 at 08:16 PM.
Question - When playing Warhammer I frequently get slideshowed when there are more than 15 people on the screen, or when I'm about to see them on the other side of the cliff. I am using a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT with 256MB . Would this be the throttle? Or would it be my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz?
I think war just has real shitty texture management right now. The fact that they have a slider in the UI for how much vram to utilize kinda strikes me as a bad sign.
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Maradon!'s fortune cookie read:
I'm using a 9800 GTX+ with 8mb of RAM and even I frequently slideshow in WAR in the cases you describe.I think war just has real shitty texture management right now. The fact that they have a slider in the UI for how much vram to utilize kinda strikes me as a bad sign.
How is this? I'm running a 9800gtx and 6 gigs and I only a slideshow when I first load in and move the camera bit. After that, it's smooth.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Maradon! thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
I'm using a 9800 GTX+ with 8mb of RAM and even I frequently slideshow in WAR in the cases you describe.I think war just has real shitty texture management right now. The fact that they have a slider in the UI for how much vram to utilize kinda strikes me as a bad sign.
It's kind of snake oil, but try this. When it was linked on SA, I didn't really give it a lot of credit, but it made my average MacBook go from horrendous to decent, and my workstation go from great to jesus16xaf4xfsaaomgwtfbbq.
Also if you're forcing graphics through nvidia, use multisampling instead of supersampling.
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I'm New spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Edit: Scatch this shit I had before.
Question - When playing Warhammer I frequently get slideshowed when there are more than 15 people on the screen, or when I'm about to see them on the other side of the cliff. I am using a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT with 256MB . Would this be the throttle? Or would it be my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz?
If you are shopping for a sub $200 upgrade I'd get a Radeon 4850. Beefy card at a lightweight price. Course then you're completely out pacing your CPU but it should help quite a bit. One thing you can do to get a more accurate picture is run perfmon, or system monitor for that matter, in the back ground and watch your CPU utilization, when a slide show starts up check your graph, if the CPU is pegged you need to upgrade your CPU, if you see abunch of paging you need more RAM, none of the above means a graphics card.
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nem-x had this to say about (_|_):
What exactly would be the difference between the beta and retail cd clients?
Also if you're forcing graphics through nvidia, use multisampling instead of supersampling.
Not the client bullshit, the nVidia profile.
