The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

Mannnnn!

Sam and GTR - we're totally on-thread. The talk about new games is relevant, because that's why we need the graphics cards.

The talk about ventilating cases is relevant, otherwise the card burns up.

The talk about cricket is totally irrelevant and should be banned!! Lol

 

mmmm cod5 has me stunned, jack bower is on it!

i want it NOW!!!

 

Shaff, I'm trying to catch up on the PC builder thread - you guys are on page 120 since June - I'm on page 4. What a lot of info!! I also noticed the permanent ban - loco is running loose over there! How'd you get him pissed off this time???

Hey, who is this Jack Bower dude - is he the guy who got nuked in COD4? Lol

 

dude jack bower from the program 24!!!!!

i dunno, im not banned am i?

 

I think he meansone of your older accounts...

 

umm oh yeah lool....

the REAM one i left, didnt get banned, then the shaffaaf one, umm what did i do again??? i cant remember lool, i think it was alot of things, with like suspensions every week and then i said the shorter work of pakistani, and that was the final straw, i came back as ream, but they realised, and banned that, and then, made the spamual, a play on sams name and 20k+ spams on aD

still how cool is it that aD bought us together in real life !

 

You said what?

So you have actually gotten together with Sam? Cool! You guys both live in London, right?

 

no i moved to york, 200miles away and ruined my life, no offense but york aint london, and if i can ill get transfered to a london uni next year.

 

So is it a multi-branch university - like the University of California with branches in LA, San Diego, etc. Isn't the whole of the British Isles about the size of California - something like that no?

 

no its not, ill be transferred to a london uni.

i hate sam though, his 30" is very very tempting, as is playing crysis on enthusiast with a 4870X2, how i hate him

and his million HDDs. haha

 

Hey Shaff,

Why does Sam have all those hard drives? Lol

Man, in preparation for the new build, I'm over on the PC building thread - 201 pages and I'm on page 4. It will be a year before I post anything LOL.

If I read two pages a day, and you and Sam and greensman and boozer and gtr and ray and cincy and sophocles and all the rest of the geniuses over there post one page a day, that works out to be about 200 days and I'll be caught up - 7 months from now!!

By then you'll be banned 5 more times and your user name will be Sperbie - a combination of Sam and Permanent Newbie!

Catchy name, I like it!

See you guys, Sam and Sperb, a little later!

 

HAHAHAHA!!!

dont read the old ones, got any Qs fire away

 

Dude, if you want info just post it here in this thread. I think most of us are decently qualityfied by now to answer most of your questions.

Hey Shaf! Cricket is NOT BORING. Who are you to talk anyway? I'm better at both Cricket AND Football than you!!! hahahahhaha

 

Hey booze, easy for you and sperb to say (I'm going to start using shaff's new name to get ready for the inevitable . . . . LOL)

Just kidding!

If I start posting I'll feel like a retard. All you dudes are so far ahead on southbridge, northbridge, front side bus, 775 socket, chipsets, sata drives, oc'ing versus loose memory, Nehalem architecture ..... WHUUUTTTTTT?????

Ok fine. Ask questions. Great! Here's my first question: What's a front side bus, and can I take it down to the beach from here?

Let's face it - I'm behind the times. I'm out here drilling holes in my case and getting ready to perform a major system upgrade on . . . . . my P4 . . . . hahahahahahah
-Rich

 

FSB is the pathway that carries info between CPU and northbridge. It runs at a certain frequency and CPUs have multipliers that determine what frecency the CPU will run at. For example the FSB is running at 400Mhz and the CPU multiplier is 8x. Then the CPU frequency is 3200Mhz. This is also how we OC. By messing with the FSB and Multiplier.

And yes you CAN take it to the beach. Just don't get it wet haha.

 

Hmmmmmm.

That was very nice boozer. Helpful.

And actually, I AM thinking of oc'ing . . . what else . . . my p4 . . . . hahahahaha.

No seriously. With the new psu - the corsair 450 with 33 amps on the 12 volt rail, I'll move the 20 amp allied 500 (fake 500) to the 'green' computer with the top exhaust fan, stick the x850xtpe in that, and have another cod4 mp computer (but only 533 bus, 2.8ghz p4, 1gig memory.

The gaming rig with 3.2 ghz P4 will get the 3850, new psu, and 2 gigs of faster memory - and on Newegg, some of the reviews talked about increasing their 3.2s up to like 3.6, 3.7? I'll have a lot of ventilation in the case and I think I can get rid of the heat. So I WILL be talking to you guys about oc'ing the P4, since you are all saying that it will be the bottleneck with the 3850 goes in.

So in a month or so, I'll be asking for some help on FSB and multipliers, and BIOS, and memory timings.

Sounds good dude!

So - like - no bus huh? - I gots to WALK to the beach per normal, is that what you're saying? Lol

 

What kind of motherboard do you have? Only good motherboards can support good overclocks.

 

the FSB connect the CPU to the memory through the NB actually

and the higher the FBS the higher the bandwidth between the CPU and memory, but it has a limit of about 10GB/s where as DDR3 is hittin well over that, so there are no differences between DDR3/2 in games atm, thats where nehalem and deneb come in, with their intergrated Memory Controller (IMC) they dont need an FSB, and can reach huge bandwidth, esp with triple channel ram.

 

You're seriously going to transfer to a London university? Leave it a few months, your decision will probably change...

 

next year maybe, going to york, i has made me loose the best friend i have had whos the love of my life, it cant get more depressing than this

but i guess time can heal.

(talk about OT)