Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)

Ok, well its working...

What config is it? Also what time is it there now?

Its 20:12 here now.

 

It was 1:03am when I made that post. When you say what config I assume you mean which mod so to speak, it's the modifed 'Ultra detail' patch for XP.

 

Oh, wow thats pretty late sam.

Anyways, the only way to reverse that is to delete all of the cvar files you modified, run the installed and choose the "repair" option, or you can just uninstall/reinstall. I usually keep backups of that but dont need to anymore.

 

Heh, the uninstaller doesn't work! My fault for not buying the game really. I'll have to sort out a reinstall at some point.

Couple more questions for you, what Vcore do you run your Q6600 at? What sort of overclock can you achieve without going above 1.4V and what 3dmark does that earn you?

 

Well I'm at 3.6Ghz now @ 1.392v if I remember correctly - thats prime stable too. I believe I score around 18k with that.

Most of the time I just leave the voltage to "auto" in the BIOS and let the CPU take the volts it needs. It usually takes more than it needs though, so now I'm on 1.392 @ 3.6 and so far so good.

 

That depends if you're going to use the free delivery (which takes 1 week) or not. If you want it next day, it might be slightly cheaper here:
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=44J8

 

wrong thread?


xD

 

wrong thread?


xD

 

Well that looks good, but I prefer the 150GB model

 

Heh, my bad, got caught out by the server errors, seems you did too.
Waymon: nah, the 150GB drives have proved very unreliable for a lot of people, even tom's hardware commented on that, so I tell people to only use the 36s and 74s.

 

Oh, well mine has been fine so far....

 

Seems my posts didn't work.

Anyway I was saying it's amazing that you can get a Q6600 stable at less that 1.4v at 3.6ghz when mine cant even do that at 1.52!

I might get a ASUS P5E X38 motherboard along with a 1GB 8800GT.

 

What I want to know is why they didn't make a 1GB 9800GTX, that would make much more sense...


From what I'm reading the P5E seems to have a crappy BIOS pre-fitted, so you'll need to be comfortable with BIOS flashing to make good use of that board. The X38-DS4 has been pretty good to me, but by the looks of things you can't overclock the new EX38 revision if you fill all four RAM slots, so that's a bit crap really... Try and find the original X38-DS4 though, it's been a good board for me so far, although I do have to admit, the BIOS is rather slow compared to the P35C-DS3R it replaced.

 

I'm totally comfortable with flashing the BIOS. I've done it lots of times before and it doesn't really bother me.

Yeah I could get the X38-DS4. They are about the same price. What's the BETTER motherboard though? The Asus one seems to have better cooling.

 

The X38-DS4 is the coolest running chipset board I've ever had, so I wouldn't mark it down for that. I didn't realise the boards were the same price, $225 is almost as much as I paid for my board in the UK! ]
All I can say is I've been doing fine with my DS4, the P5E may well be a good board too...

 

The X38-DS4 is 140 and the Asus P5E is 138.55. So yeah almost the same price.

 

is that UK currency? because I paid £120 for my X38-DS4, including delivery. In the US the figures I see for either boards are in the 200s...

 

Nope US dollars. Getting it refurbished though. Doesn't matter they will work. If they don't I will RMA them.

 

140 dollars? where the hell from, ebay? That's a sick price!

 

Newegg.com my man.

Open Box. I don't care though. My first motherboard(GA-965P-DS3) was an open box and it's still going strong.