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    lanwar 25 louisville

    in What's Up?

    · Edited by Birdman

    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

     

    031125_uppbyggnad.jpg

     

     

    Lan War is about 500 people.

     

    MML is around 1,000.

     

    Dream Hack in around 5,000.

    lanwar 25 louisville

    in What's Up?

    · Edited by Birdman

    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.

    overclocking

    in Tech Reviews, Support and PC Builds

    · Edited by Birdman

    i bought a mobile barton 2500+ for my parents PC.  put it in, cranked it up to 2300mhz easy.  i havent even tried going any further.  they are great chips i would highly recommend them for mid-line PCs.

     

    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.

    Post your 3DMark and PCMark scores here

    in Tech Reviews, Support and PC Builds

    · Edited by Birdman

    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.

    Post your 3DMark and PCMark scores here

    in Tech Reviews, Support and PC Builds

    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]

    Have to Say.....

    in Midwest FF CS:S - RECRUDESCENCE - Chicago

    Since it took them so long to release it.

     

    ?

     

    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.

    From 9600pro to where?

    in Tech Reviews, Support and PC Builds

    You tell me.

     

    My fps is now average.  50-70 range at 1024, with med to high settings...no orthoscopic (joke) filtering on...

     

    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.

    CS:S Rushed?

    in Midwest FF CS:S - RECRUDESCENCE - Chicago

    · Edited by Birdman

    i spend 50 dollars on a game, i dont want to have to have it tied to my steam id. i'd rather have the cd, the cdkey, and all that jazz.

     

    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. :rolleyes:

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