Birdman

I'm a big fan of the folding at home. Been folding for the MaximumPC team for a couple years now.

That's is the worst idea for a controller ever. LOL. I guess I'll have to try it to be sure though, I actually enjoyed the N64 controller.

I'd go 6600GT.

A lot of people are gonna miss that guy. I really liked his act.

154.58FPS If i dont follow the directions and run it like people did up top.

72.23FPS

No love for EKU We almost had the upset.

So im guessing the server needs an update.

What motherboard do u have man? I would replace that processor with something faster if your motherboard can handle it.

Good News! Version 3 has SATA support! http://global.shuttle.com/Product/barebone...iew.asp?B_id=42 I wouldnt recommend the socket A platform, but it's an option.

Dream Hack http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw04/dhw04.1_100.en.html Here's some huge pictures of the place where they have the event. http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw03/foton/031125_panoramabak.jpg http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw03/foton/03112..._mot_sovsal.jpg http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw03/foton/031125_panoramafram.jpg Lan War is about 500 people. MML is around 1,000. Dream Hack in around 5,000.

Million Man Lan is even bigger. It's the biggest Lan Party event in North America who's only purpose is lan gaming. Other attractions like Quakecon and CPL bring more numbers, but the purpose for those events aren't just lan gaming. That's what makes MML impressive. I'll try to find some pics of the largest lan party in the world. I think it's held in Germany, and it's crazy large.

Nice. I really like my AV8 motherboard so far. Very stable from the get go, and it seems to have no problems overclocking if you've got the ram to handle it.

True. I have one in a shuttle pc that hits 2.5GHz stable at like 1.65 volts or something silly like that. I haven't messed with it in awhile so I can't remember the exact numbers. Great processor though. For 50 dollars more though you can get a 939 pin athlon 64 winchester 3000+ processor. So the mobiles aren't the deal that they originally were.

Well. To start. You can lower the latency of your RAM by running the tightest stable timings possible. A lot of people will run something close to a 3-3-3-8 timing. But if you crank some voltage to your ram and run tighter timings like 2-2-2-5 you'll boost 3dmark scores. Another is to try benchmark runs with AGP fast writes on and off. Most of the time this won't make a difference, but in older systems having it on will speed your scores up some. You can always slide your video card driver image quality bars to performance for about a 300 point improvement in 3dmark 2001 too. A good defrag seems to help at times, and even if it doesn't help your score it should help regular windows performance. I always like to shut every program I have running down while running a benchmark. No firewall or antivirus. Close my IM services. Turn the screen saver off, and set my back ground to a plain black wallpaper, that is, no 5MB jpeg's for a desktop. Setting windows to 16 bit color used to make a difference for me too, but i havent tried it in awhile. A lil' overclock on your video card or processor never hurt either. You don't need anything too radical at first. Just try it with a 5-10MHz increase in speed. Nice motherboard btw Mini. It is a great board for tweaking.

ak had some of this ram before. Maybe he can helps yah. Did u lower your multi before you upped your FSB to make sure your processor wasn't holding u back>?

That is a bit low. I got another new high. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8346915 23,117 in 3dmark 2001. Here's my setup. [431w Enermax Power Supply]-[AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @2.5GHz@1.55V]-[ThermalRight XP90 w/ 92mm Sunon]-[ABIT AV8]-[1024MB Corsair PC3200XL]-[Radeon 9800XT]-[180GXP w/8MB cache HD]-[Pl3xt0r Plexwriter 24/10/40]-[Pioneer 106/S DVD Drive ]-[NEC 22" MultiSync FE2111]- [sB Audigy]

New best for me.

I've had this happen a couple of times. My puters were booting up becuase of the network card tellin' it to. You can disable this in the bios if you are using built in ethernet. And i think you can disable it on network cards in windows xp too.

? I'm loving me some CS: S right now. To me, it seems it's the server boxes that need upgraded to fix some of the problems you guys are talking about. This game has very high server side demands and I think some people running servers need to figure that out. I've set up some lan servers and the game runs perfect when you have low ping. This is a perfect replacement for CS 1.6 in my mind. Can't wait for CS 2.

You've prolly listed them before, but can we have a detailed list of your parts you have now? Something like this. [AMD Athlon XP 3000+@2.25GHz]-[ABIT NF7-S]-[1024MB Crucial PC3200]-[Radeon 9800XT]-[120GB Hitachi 180GXP w/8MB cache HD] I agree that it's gonna cost about 400 bucks to get a noticable jump in performance, but lets make sure you have no bottlenecks. And if you are gonna be mainly playing source based games im gonna have to tell you to stick with ATI. Seems they are really tight with Valve.

I get around 20 fps if an explosion goes off around a reflective surface. You could try turning off reflective surfaces I guess. But anything over 30 fps is money. try 800x600 if 1024 is a lil choppy.

I dont think you guys realize what steam is all about. Once you get a cd key how are you going to use it? You are gonna get on steam and sign up for an account. Your steam id becomes a cd key. You can't get around this fact.

Good werk fellas. I like de servers. The game aint to bad either.

If you are a CS player, then Steam is the way to go. If not, just wait for the HL2 box in stores sometime in the future.