The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

That depresses me. I paid £67 or so (a little over $100) for my 2x2GB PC8500C5 Dominator, and its valuer has increased even though it's used. I'm still keeping it though, it's brilliant memory, it's 1066 that for once, does what it says on the heatspreader

 

That's precisely why I use Mushkin RAM. If you look at their product line they basically don't make budget memory kits. Everything they make is more performance oriented so you know you're getting what it says.

 

Well, I suppose you could say that lower speed memory never really presents a problem and top-speed RAM tends not to come in 'cheap' form, but still, certain companies seem pretty adept at messing it up... Corsair and Mushkin at least are not in that group.

 

The thing that pisses me off right now is the fact that today's RAMs are overpriced! For example, my friend bought this http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3404049&csid=_21] ram last year for $19!!!!!! And now, it is $94!!!! WTF right?! But yea, I'll just get either the corsair or the nvidia 2x2gb ram

 

BTW sammorris, will I be able to run that corsair memory(the one that you reffered) on my pc2-3200 ddr2? Is it compatible? Please tell me it is, coz I just purchased it -_-

Here's my computer specs:
-HP - Compaq Media Center m7100n series Desktop/PC
-my computer supports dual-channel system
- http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-media-center/1707-3118_7-31492344.html

I hope this helps

 

Sadly, memory prices have increased substantially. DDR2 used to be the mainstream memory type. However, when DDR3 took over with the recent advent of AM3 AMD systems, and Core i5 and i7 systems for Intel, demand for DDR2 plummeted, but there was massive supply. It was priced cheaply to sell all the excess stock, and production was massively ramped back - this is why memory was so cheap for a while. Now that DDR2 production is very low, it costs more than it did before the price cut, therefore the prices have been increased substantially. The same thing happened to DDR1 when DDR2 was popularised.
I can't say that 800mhz will be compatible with your system. Many of the oldest DDR2 systems that came with 400 or 666mhz memory only supported a maximum of 666. You could try using Corsair's memory compatibility checker to see what it comes up with:
http://www.corsair.com/configurator/

 

nivida ram? do want

 

LOL! I think I have spare DDR2. Would probably be willing to sell...CHEAP too I have 8Gb in my secondary, and my primary is AM3, so I can part with some...

 

Well, just ran a 3dmark06 with everything stock, IM client still open etc. Just to get a baseline:



I daresay that's not bad for an all-stock system

The CPU score (again, remember there are IM clients open) is 4330. Consider that a 4.93Ghz E8500 got 4338.

 

how does the system feel? and gaming benches!

 

Thats exactly what I'd ask too All the speed in the world amounts to nothing, when it just doesn't FEEL right LOL!

 

I'm in love


Took a while to get on her feet, but now in windows is running pretty well. It's too difficult to draw a tangible conclusion about how it runs when you're looking at upgrades of this sort of magnitude, I keep wondering if it's a placebo or not. Suffice to say though that Left 4 Dead 2 ran as well as it normally does before the overclock, so afterwards should be nice. It's worth remembering that there's only 16x worth of PCIe bandwidth at play here too.

 

I can't find my motherboard model in the corsair website. If anyone is willing to help me determine whether the Corsair XMS 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz (2x2048MB) ram is compatible to my system or not, I listed my motherboard for everyone to see. Guys, I badly need your verification on this one coz I just ordered one today :\

My Motherboard:

Manufacturer - ASUSTek Computer INC.

Model - LIMESTONE 1.04

Chipset - Intel i945G/GZ (Rev. - A2)

Soutbridge - Intel 82801GB (ICH7/R)

LPCIO - SMSC

 

The Limestone 1.04 is also known as the P5LP-LE.

 

^you mean P5PL2-E? Coz I couldn't find P5LP-LE..

 

No, P5LP-LE.

 

Very very true. But surprisingly - there were some guys on the U.S. team that had kill ratios even higher than that - and of course guys that were getting killed right and left, lol. It wasn't exactly a total rape - but definitely the best team I've played on for quite a while.

Holy moly Jeff - you guys take it to a whole new level - even beyond that chinese team I was on.

So for how long does the artillery stay destroyed? That would be lovely - a break from that pounding "artillery death from above" on top of the normal hell from tv guided missiles and bomb runs.

Look for the servers that require mics? Sounds like a great idea. I'll try to increase my sophistication level on BF2 and learn from you. No kidding - what a great game!

Wow - you're in a clan. Man! So you're talking about the big helicopter with the mini guns on each side - right? I was always trying to get guys to jump on with me piloting, but invariably found myself piloting alone - sometimes I pressed F2 or F3 and manned one of the guns, but then the unpiloted helicopter starts spinning around - so usually I just go parachute out, before some jet or attack helicopter blows me up.

I'll be back on the forum here in a few days, but next time I game, I'm taking the whole weekend off. Not sure when that will be - I'm REALLY trying to get the real estate started......

..... especially since Sam keeps rubbing it in that I'm still stuck on the P4. LOL

I might put that gaming weekend off for a few weeks. I have it pencilled in on the calendar for the first of March, but I'm not sure I can hold out that long. Hahaha.

Rich

 

Its not on the corsair lists :\ This worries me...

Here's my current RAM
http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/viewscanbyid.aspx?id=1DD4D44331D926C3]

 

That page tells you what you need to know - your PC supports up to PC5300 speed memory, i.e. 667mhz, no higher.

 

oh crap. So it only supports up to PC5300 eh? What will happen then if I put the PC6400 (the one that I just purchased)? Will it not work at all? Or at least work but I won't get the full capacity of 4GB? Should I just return it and get a refund???

In addition, I found out that I'm only running 32-bit. That sucks.