Fatty September 13, 2003 Share Fatty GC Founder September 13, 2003 Ok, it's time. First question: Anyone have a link to one of those graphics that compares the performance of video cards? TY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gond September 13, 2003 Share Gond Member September 13, 2003 Ohhh...do we have a budget? Is there an AMD/Pentium preference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty September 13, 2003 Author Share Fatty GC Founder September 13, 2003 Wanna talk video cards first. NCC is building this PC at his place of employment. Yes, there is somewhat of a budget, but lets not worry about that right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty September 13, 2003 Author Share Fatty GC Founder September 13, 2003 Hmmmm......1.6 seems to run ok now...wonder if i need to do this... <pretends he didn't say that since he got OK from wife for pc already> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBugs September 13, 2003 Share TheBugs Member September 13, 2003 im waiting for my parents to say OK to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters September 13, 2003 Share gOOters Member September 13, 2003 ive heard 9500Pro~$200 & 9800Pro~$400-$500 are the two best choices. Didn't you just build a comp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty September 14, 2003 Author Share Fatty GC Founder September 14, 2003 I'm overclocking a 566 to 850...been doing so for ~3 years. At one point, I was generally the first in the game almost every time...it's gotton to the point where I'm lucky to make the pistol round. <---cs benchmark test, copywrite 2003 Fatty B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet-401 September 14, 2003 Share bullet-401 Member September 14, 2003 I just bought a FX 5600 Ultra for 200$ it's an asylum BFG. Ill tell you how it runs once i put it in my comp. Im at my parents house right now and ill install it tommarow in the morn'. cya guys later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish September 14, 2003 Share rackish Member September 14, 2003 Hmmmm......1.6 seems to run ok now...wonder if i need to do this... <pretends he didn't say that since he got OK from wife for pc already> Like I said to gOOt, if all you're gonna do is play cs, then wait for the bigger and better games that are worth upgrading for, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gond September 14, 2003 Share Gond Member September 14, 2003 Well, I love my 9500 pro. ZD recommended it and he was right. I got it back when the 9700's had just come out for about 270. It ran great in my P3-600 but absolutely rocks in my P4-2.4. I peg a solid 99 fps in CS. I'm generally one of the first 3 or 4 in the game. It also plays the new games great. 1942 and the new Call of Duty demo...I've not tested many others yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage September 14, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests September 14, 2003 Fatty, I am assuming you will pick up HL2 when it comes out. SO let me put it to you lightly, the Geforce cards suck playing it. Nvidia is on a trend of making their cards look better than they really are at DX9 games. HL2 is the first real true dx9 game. Avoid touching an nvidia card right now. Wait till later when they decide to stick with Microsoft's standards for DirectX rather than make their own. Also, you can pick up a 9800 pro for around 300 bucks on newegg. You do not really want the regular 9800 if you can get the 9700 pro instead since it is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa September 14, 2003 Share Playaa Member September 14, 2003 yeah I'm with ZD....stear clear of nVidia really......ati is where it's at. bought my 9700 pro when it was $400 (dumb decision I think) and it's the 128mb one. I do not regret owning this card but I do regret buying it before I needed it. however I have a 1.4ghz athlon and 512mb of ram and with this video card I can run EVERY game on the market (and some not yet on the market) at AT LEAST 1024x768 res with every video setting as high as possible. Most games I can run at 1280x1024 res (my monitor doesn't go higher) with zilch in the way of trouble....the fact that I am bottlenecked by a 1.4ghz processor and can still run games like that amazes me. I ran the DoomIII Alpha (the leaked one that made ppl scared for DoomIII) at a constant 40fps....(believe me that's good for that thing, most ppl would run between 2 to 20fps on it) I can run the Halo PC beta 1.5 at 1024 res with no problems........... uumm....I rambled. basically, get ATI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX September 15, 2003 Share NOFX Member September 15, 2003 woah where you get halo beta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa September 15, 2003 Share Playaa Member September 15, 2003 uuuuuuuuuumm.........this place called the world wide web......... get bittorrent and go here except I can't get past a certain part because the game won't let me out of the dropship and it's beta so it has problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL September 15, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member September 15, 2003 SuprNova is no more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiZad September 15, 2003 Share RiZad Member September 15, 2003 A working suprnova link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa September 15, 2003 Share Playaa Member September 15, 2003 suprnova.tk that's the link that will automatically select a mirror for ya...don't know why they stopped using .org.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX September 15, 2003 Share NOFX Member September 15, 2003 how do I get these downloads to work? I click them i get garbage text in Explorer, i right click save as I get a 2kb file that is done downloading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa September 15, 2003 Share Playaa Member September 15, 2003 you need a program called bittorrent there are many versions of the program on the web. here is the one I use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa September 15, 2003 Share Playaa Member September 15, 2003 the only problem with bittorrent is that you will have trouble getting older files you can only get 100% of the file if SOMEONE out there is sharing 100% of it....what frequently happens is folks download the whole file and immediatly close the BT client....if everyone has done this and the 'seeder' (the first person to put the file online) has closed his too....then no one else will be able to finish the file.....so out of courtesy when you finish a file, if you're not doing anything important......leave it open....and if you right click and save the .torrent file (the link on the website) you can rerun the torrent and then share it days later again if you aren't using your pc..... with that said I'm going to reseed Halo since I have it 100% and I can't garauntee it's still out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty September 15, 2003 Author Share Fatty GC Founder September 15, 2003 Here we go: EXTREME GAMER CASE COPPER AMD ATHLON 2600+ GIGA BYTE GA-7VT600L SOCKET 512 MB DDR PC2700 333MHZ (2 of these) 80GB 7200RPM SAMSUNG HARD DR ATI RADEON 9600PRO 128MB AGP WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish September 15, 2003 Share rackish Member September 15, 2003 Here we go: EXTREME GAMER CASE COPPER AMD ATHLON 2600+ GIGA BYTE GA-7VT600L SOCKET 512 MB DDR PC2700 333MHZ (2 of these) 80GB 7200RPM SAMSUNG HARD DR ATI RADEON 9600PRO 128MB AGP WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION Nice. :prop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters September 15, 2003 Share gOOters Member September 15, 2003 Lookey here! I just got almost the EXACT same thing Fat. Still waitin on the video card though. What made you decide on your mobo? I like your system btw...good choices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty September 15, 2003 Author Share Fatty GC Founder September 15, 2003 I'm giving NCC some business over at his place. He set it up, then I bumped it up. I'm not up to putting one together right now either, so it all works out nice! Also, my current 2nd PC is going to become my daughters full-time gamer, so I needed to do a complete system.....so you got me in cost by LOTS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeK September 16, 2003 Share TeK Member September 16, 2003 U need windows XP Professional fatty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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