The (new) Official PC building thread!

Russ

my preformance enhance is set at standard right now. when i first put it all back together it was on turbo, i changed it to standard.
what will setting it up to turbo or extreme get me?

 

cincyrob,

It should improve your memory bandwidth a bit. I'm not sure but the default setting is Turbo, so I would at least set it back to that!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Doesn't Turbo just OC the CPU a bit? I think it's recommended to set it to standard when OCing.

 

Lol come on Russ! It's showing the comparative performance of the cards - those aren't fixed figures!

Interesting point about AVG though, I simply resorted to starting to use NOD32 instead - approaching the end fof my free trial, but I'm reformatting soon, so I'll have another month to decide what I'm doing!

Also, the Gigabyte boards I've had have printed in large letters "If overclocking, select 'standard' for better stability".

 

sammorris,

You can call me a senile old bastard if you want, but please lose the phrase "Senior Moment". I don't like it and I find it insulting!

I know what it means, it just the way they present it. The scale is meaningless unless you know what it represents. I know it shows the scale of improvement over the nVidia, but what do those numbers mean? If they just showed the actual performance on a scale that was meaningful it would be a little less Biased and a lot more informative. Someone who's thinking of buying the 9600GTX might actually think that the 8800GT is just as good or a better deal for the money. They certainly don't make the chart all that clear!



I only included the one pic as I don't think you will need the other to understand what I'm saying. AMD has done everything to show their product in the best possible light, and yet not show any real performance numbers! Good Advertising!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Sincere apologies Russ, I was trying to find a suitable way of saying that in a light hearted tone - suppose I didn't hit the right one....

I agree with you on the sentiment of the graphs though, they're designed in a very odd manner, but one that AMD have been using for some time now - this is the first graph I've seen from them in a long time that hasn't had the scale cropped to make the results look even better!

 

thats exactly what nvidia did with they GTX280 graph. cut off the bottom, and started with 1. then they stretched out every 0.1 massively, so it looked like the gap was huge.

and Russ, if you were promoting your product you would do the same. i know i would.

it indicated the 4870 is 1.4x 9800GTX.

frames dont need to be shown, its been normalised. at 1920 with 4AA 8AF on average the 4870 is 1.4x the 9800GTX. IMO amazing. esp for around £230

 

Assuming it is actually £230 - I was thinking of waiting for the 1GB version, but looking at the benches of Diamond's 3870 1GB, I'll pass, it's less than a 4% difference in all games.

 

with the texture fill rate with GDDR5, the 256 bit buss wont be limiting. im sure 512 will be fine upto 24" even with AA/AF.

 

butbut... 30"...

 

ahhh.....





GTX280 in trisli on a 790i DDR3 ASUS/EVGA board


its your only option.

along with a Q-tec 20000W PSU

 

question fellers. im looking at a 500gb hdd its a WD caviar gp drive are these any good? reliable?fast?noisey??? here is a link to it
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/453765/Western-GP-500GB-Internal-Hard-Drive/

any ideas?
Tia

 

They aren't the world's fastest drives, but they're not slow, have excellent power efficiency and are the quietest large drives around - reliability seems to be pretty good, and they're also rather cheap.

 

cincyrob,

It's an all right drive, but I would humbly suggest you take a look at this one first.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148294
500GB, 32MB Buffer, $109.99! One of the fastest drives around! Need I say more! No? I'm done! LOL!!

Russ

 

cincyrob.. U can get a Seagate 4 less shop around the net 99.00 & less, also 5yr warranty
or samsung 3yr warranty
I just bought a 750 gig seagate 4 119.00 newegg

But if U truly want a W/D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136150
Western Digital Caviar GP WD7500AACS 750GB 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $119.99 Free 3 Business Day Shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $84.99 Free 3 Business Day Shipping..3 years limited

ALL HDD... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&Subcategory=14&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=

 

anyone seen my friend JASON Vorhees? it is his B-day Friday the 13th



LMAO... my idle

 

OK guys the PC shop sold all my stuff i have ordered since i was down and out with my back. the only thing i can't find is the link to the Thermalright Ultra-120 CPU Cooler? and sammorris this works in my Antec 900 ok right?

heres what I'm ordering again lol

1. E8400 or maybe the E3110

2. ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard

3. CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)Ram

4. Thermalright Ultra-120 CPU Cooling

4. Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA


I already have this vvvv

1. Antec 900 gaming case

2. Thermaltake 750-Watt PS

3. NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2,1 GB of GDDR3 Memory

anyone see any conflits? and thanks all!!

 

ZOSO
hey take a look at these HDD. a comparison between the 250gb and 500gb only $10 difference for twice the HDD.

Hard Drives

tiger direct has the E8400 in stock and on sale for $189. thats what i paid for mine.
E8400
opps just checked newegg has it for $189 with free shipping even better deal
what ever you do dont get crucial ballistix mem... they might be compatible with the ASUS board but i wouldnt chance it.

 

ZoSoIV,
Looks excellent to me!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

take a look

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article843-page1.html

F1 1TB drive. AMAZING