The (new) Official PC building thread!

greensman,

Then you better hope you live long because the Striker IIs are 780i and 790i. The Striker Extreme is a 680i!

Russ

 

what the heck is that used for? a new aged disco ball?correction DISCO BOX..lmao

abuzar
look at this fan. i know its a little more in price but it is a sweet fan.3speeds and moves some good air.plus its nice and quieton medium speed. its where i run mine.even on high speed its not to loud

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209013

edit:
after haven my puter running about 95% of the time for the lastweek since i OC'd it(just some normal restarts for updates and such) i shut it down lastnight and left it off all night. its been up and running now for a few hours. here is a shot of everest just taken.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/everest-8.png

 

Some nice temps there Rob...

The Antec Tricool fans are pretty decent - on medium speed they match the noise level of the SFF21Fs, don't push quite as much air, but glow nice and red...

 

SiSoftware Sandra

Benchmark Results
Dhrystone ALU : 32377 MIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 : 25718 MFLOPS
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : BIGREDMACHINE on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 9:28:48 AM
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 2
Multi-Core Test : Yes
Cores per Processor : 2
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : P0C0T0 P0C1T0
System Timer : 3.5GHz
Number of Runs : 64000 / 640

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Speed : 3.51GHz
Performance Rating : PR11934 (estimated)
Cores per Processor : 2 Unit(s)
Type : Dual-Core
L2 On-board Cache : 6MB ECC Synchronous, ATC, 24-way set, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing

 

Too late.

I got it for free anyway.

 

GTR35 was kind enough to send me this link...
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=287373

I'm very suspicious but if these numbers are remotely true this could be a very interesting one for AMD.
Some basic number extrapolation of a real world benchmark (yes i know, extrapolation of an unapproved benchmark, don't shoot me!) shows that the following could potentially be possible:

Quake Wars, 2560x1600 with AA/AF: 50fps with HD4850, 90fps with HD4870x2
UT3, 2560x1600: 60fps with HD4850, 70fps with HD4870.
HL2:Ep2, 2560x1600 with AA/AF: 45fps with HD4850, 90fps with HD4870X2
COD4, 2560x1600 with AA/AF: 50fps with HD4850, 80fps with HD4870X2
Crysis, 1920x1200 (High): 30fps with HD4850, 35fps with HD4870 and any multi-GPU setup.

 

well its an AMD graph, who knows that drivers/setup they are using for the 9800GTX.


if its true, sign me up for the one thats under £150 (unless the 4870 is just £170)

 

From reports I'm reading the 4870 should be more like £250, and the 4850 about £180.

 

$229 for the 4850....

id say about €180 = £145.

 

Hmm, I thought it was $269...
229USD = £116.66
*VAT@17.5% = £137.08
add typical 20% markup = £164.50

 

if thats the price and it can play vod4 4xaa/16af max settings at 1920 x 1200 then im getting one with a TN film 24"

 

The 8800GTS G92 can pretty much pull that off, so a 4850 should certainly manage.
By the way, who are TN Film?

 

a cheap type of LCD panel. it has a lower resonase time than VA panel so better for FPS gaming, but has lower colour representation and viewing angles.

for eample the Dell 24" that boozer got was cheap = TN, where as the ultrasharp series are amazing = S-PVA

 

http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/lcd-panel-types.php

 

Right, that makes sense. My monitor has an S-IPS panel. That explains its response time - thanks for the link, interesting read.

I do get the 'purple haze' when I view the monitor from a wide angle, always thought that was a bit weird... Still, if it's supposed to be the best kind of panel available, I'm happy.

 

np.

for colour vibrance and qulaity S-IPS cant be beaten, and for TN film, response time cant, then you have the in the middle VA panels (MVA, PVA, Samsung-PVA (best VA ))

 

It's interesting, as the sole complaint against S-IPS other than the purple hue (which is really only present on an all black screen if you stand looking down on the monitor) is the response time, and I have to say, I haven't seen any ghosting in any games, at all - and hey, the screen's big enough to notice!

What's interesting is that all the Dell 30" monitors use S-IPS, but the Samsungs use S-PVA - fortunately the Samsung 30" still uses a very good quality PVA panel, so the shortcomings of colour accuracy aren't much of an issue - that said though, there was something seriously up with the gamma on the one I saw - here's hoping it was his graphics settings.

 

sammorris,

If you noticed, the nVidia numbers never move on the graph, which is pure BS! There's no way that all the games tested didn't change any of those bars. I'm not questioning The Ati's numbers, but I am questioning the validity of the reported nVidia's performance! as it stands, those numbers are pure BS!

Cincyrob,

When are you going to join the 21st Century and post pics. Typed results are meaningless! Show us the Porn.. er, pics! ROFLMAO!!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

here ya go Russ. i just dont want to clog up the thread with the porn i mean pics of these test..lol
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/672713/4092857

 

cincyrob,

You need to use the scroll bar so the processor speed shows in the pic. Your performance is about the same as mine except you kick my butt in SuperPi, but I kick yours in memory bandwidth with the 1066 memory!
CPU Math
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7193/061108cpumathab4.jpg
MB
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7843/061108mbgq0.jpg

What do you have the Performance Enhance set to in the MIT of the Setup? If it's set to Standard, change it to Turbo. If that works all right change it to Extreme and see what it does. Your PSU will click on-off-on on the restart, so don't panic! LOL!!

sammorris,
Did you ever sort out the speed with AVG? Just disable the link scanner and the problem goes away! LOL!! 7.5 didn't have it, and I got no viruses of any kind with it so I don't see disabling it doing any harm!

Best Regards,
Russ