The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

Ah ok, it's set to be enabled during Phase 8 though (Dec11-Jan12), so you shouldn't have too long to wait.

Omega: £42/month.

 

http://techreport.com/articles.x/21404/1

intresting

not to mention its a nvidia game

 

Wow. 70 USD would be an agreeable price for that connection. I already pay 46.99 for a measly 5Mbps. I think I'm being ripped off.

 

Could be less, but FTTC connections are pretty heavily metered, because they use BT's infrastructure which seemingly, is rented to the ISPs by how much bandwidth they need.

My package allows me to use 45GB a month during 0800-2000 Monday-friday, and unlimited usage outside these hours. The cheapest package with my ISP is 15GB a month during 0800-2359 Monday-Friday, unlimited outside and costs £24/month, but obviously that's not suitable for me.

BT's own FTTC service is only around £25/month and allows 300GB/month any time, but does not permit the use of bit-torrent or similar services, and often becomes congested during peak hours, hence me not using it.

 

that is a rip off, I'm getting 25/5 for 50 bucks

 

Heavily metered...wow. There's just no privacy anymore. I easily stream a great deal of netflix and youtube a month. Hope they don't think I'm doing something illegal :S

 

I guess this thread is infected with the "New Page" bug...

 

well i get 4.5Mb for £8, i cant really complain. so wait sam, you are not using BT? what company are you going through? well when imoved to this house last august, the time set was december 2010, then march 2011 then sept 2011 now dec 2011, god knows when itll actually work.

 

Omega: It's hardly an invasion of privacy, all they monitor is how much data you send (which every ISP actually does, they just don't always tell you. Most ISPs will send you a letter of warning if you use more than a certain amount in a month that breaches their fair usage policy). When companies have to pay for each GB of bandwidth they use, they have to pass that policy onto the customers unfortunately. If you thought bandwidth monitoring was bad, look up the IWF and packet-shaping schemes most ISPs employ.

Shaff: http://adsl24.co.uk/broadband/business/
Fibre 45 Office Pro package.

Our RFS date here was June 2010. It eventually got done in late july / early august of that year, but with being away in York, I couldn't justify the extra cost during the months I was away at uni, so I waited until I moved back in full time, had my line fitted on August 1st.

UK Online: Sync 4500kbps-6100kbps, throughput 470KB/s-630KB/s down, 75KB/s up, ping: 6ms
Be Unlimited: Sync 4700-6700kbps, throughput 510KB/s-730KB/s down, 132KB/s up, ping: 31ms
ADSL24: Sync 40,000kbps, throughput: 4665KB/s down, 1045KB/s up, ping: 8ms

 

Hey guys I'm looking for a good video card with HDMI output.a friend is looking for one to hook his TV up to his rig(my old E8400 rig). Any advise on which to look at? He doesn't game just wants to use it for his tv. Hows a HD5770? ??

 

why not go for an ever cheaper card then if no gaming at all?

somethign around $50 should suffice.

 

For just HDTV, an HD6450 will do.

 

I concur, LOL! Though as one of the reviews said, make sure the case has adequate cooling. The passive cooling may not be very good...

 

Well, if you want a passive one, get a case with a fan. If you don't have a case fan, there are actively cooled versions.

 

Currently getting 8Mb for $40/month with no bandwidth caps. At night when everyone is sleeping I can get maybe 10-11Mb. Thats' 1MB/s lowest, 1.3MB/s+ highest, maybe 1.1MB/s average.

The connection is generally limited to 8Mb but they can be generous on given days. They do throttle torrent traffic but easily fixed with protocol encryption.

 

Just had our ISP come out. He recommended dropping our downstream to 3Mbps. We're outside the city limits, so it's just too far for a stable connection. Apparently congestion has worsened things

 

Well its in the coolermaster RC690 case and has 6 fans in it. It is very cool and plenty of air.so something like a 5770 would be overkill for what he wants then. Ill have him look at the 6450 then

 

Loking at the 6570 that has a fan and a descent price as well

 

Well if he ever wants to do some gaming it can come in handy. Even if you don't use it heavily it never helps the situation to have slow hardware.

 

I'm not much of a gamer, but I have to have the option! At the time, the GTX 260 was no slouch. It's rather outdated now though Though it can play many games at an agreeable framerate. Though agreeable framerate is an argument in itself. Some say a minimum of 30, others say 60. I think that GTA IV ran pretty decent at 30 - 45Fps. Though it often would rise above that. That was with fairly high settings mind you. I'm probably gonna reinstall it here in the next week. I need a fix LOL!

Of course with Grand Theft Auto 4, the CPU is the most important factor.