[Mmmm]Homer February 27, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 27, 2004 Wooohooo! I just ordered the A64 3000+ and the Gigabyte motherboard at the top of the list in the Mainstream Gaming System. I also got: Black Antec Case Thermaltake 420 PSU Black floppy drive Black CD-RW Black removable drive tray & spare tray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilco February 27, 2004 Share wilco Member February 27, 2004 =) I have mine up and running too....now I have to ditch this gf4 ti4200....looking at radeons right now....newegg is a calling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyklik February 27, 2004 Share Cyklik Member February 27, 2004 It's a beautiful thing homer, believe me... You'll enjoy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman February 27, 2004 Share Birdman Member February 27, 2004 You guys are impressing me with all these AMD 64 systems. AMD thanks you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flux February 27, 2004 Share flux Member February 27, 2004 Homer,Feb 27 2004, 01:22 AM] Black floppy driveBlack CD-RW know where i can get these in green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 27, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 27, 2004 RT Wilco. I've got a Ti4600 that will be replaced this spring at some point, I'm hopeful that PCIe cards start coming out and I can get something good on the cheap. Right now, I'm looking for the Radeon 9800 Pro to dip below $200. I think it's the hot value right now. The XT's offer only a few % more performance for double the price. Sorry to all you 9800XT owners. I also need to get another stick of 512mb DDR. Then Windows64 later this year. Hmmm, and my IDE WD 80gb pair - I'd like to use those for storage only and get a pair of SATA drives to put in RAID 0. Raptors would be extremely nice, but I'm wavering on them. I have alot of movies now and 160gb just isn't cutting it. A pair of 120gb or 160gb 7200rpm drives may fit the bill. So let's see here.....in order: $150 Corsair XMS PC3200 512mb (March) $200 Video card (April-May *cough*Farcry*cough*) $250 2 hard drives (June-July) $200 ? Windows 64 bit (August-Sept) ================= $750 Yes, it seems to be around $100 a month. Anyone want to buy a GF4/Ti4600 within the next couple months....$100 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 27, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 27, 2004 Homer,Feb 27 2004, 01:22 AM] Black floppy driveBlack CD-RW know where i can get these in green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman February 27, 2004 Share Birdman Member February 27, 2004 Homer,Feb 27 2004, 10:39 AM] ...The XT's offer only a few % more performance for double the price... I challenge any 9800pro user to compare any benchmark to my card with the following settings... 1600x1200 4xAA and 8xAF bet it's more that a few % better. In fact i would say a game at those settings is smooth and playable on a 9800XT and not on a 9800pro. Green stuffs can be found here if you dont like to paint http://shop.harddrive.com/cgi-bin/showcat....004022710360287 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 27, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 27, 2004 Keep telling yourself that you didn't overpay for your video card! UT2003 Quality benchmarks, bottom chart on this page. 4xAA, 8xAF 1024x768 9800 Pro = 75.8fps 9800 XT = 82.7fps difference = 8.8% Call of Duty and Nascar had similar percentages at 1024x768. I'll grant to you that the gap at 1600x1200 would be a greater %, but the question is that if an XT can do game X at 1600x1200 at 50fps and the Pro is 20% slower, then is 40fps unplayable? Do you play at 1600x1200 4xaa 8xaf ? On a 21" monitor? For us 19" monitor users the question is moot, 1280x1024 or 1024x768 are much more realistic resolutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman February 27, 2004 Share Birdman Member February 27, 2004 I didnt buy a 22" monitor to play new games @ 800X600. Nor did I buy a 9800XT to play games @ 1024x768 with no AA or AF. If you dont have at least a 19" monitor that can do 1600x1200 @85Hz (which I used before my new one)then you have no reason to buy a 9800XT. Ive seen the difference between a 9800pro maxed out and a 9800XT maxed out at lan parties and the 9800pro will become uplayed(dipping to the teens in FPS) before the 9800XT will(in newer games). Full Direct X 9 games will help make the 9800XT futher distance itself from the plain 9800pro. Course I have no proof to back this up so I guess youll have to take my word for it(Unless someone out there posts some Colin Mcrae 04 benchmarks) Bottom line. XT's are overpriced, but the performance that they can produce @ higher resolutions with AA and AF cranked up allow them to out perform any previous ATI card, and that's why it was released. Guess XT's cant win the battle of the F bucks. But they can produce max image quality with FPS that dont tend to stay or dip into the teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 27, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 27, 2004 gg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman February 27, 2004 Share Birdman Member February 27, 2004 gg what's the ETA on the big 64bit 3000+ ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 27, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 27, 2004 Well, it will ship today and with the weekend I'd say maybe Tuesday, but for sure by Weds. I did tell my wife I ordered it (she does the books anyways and she knows to keep an eye out for the Newegg purchases. ), but I've been busting my buns on side work and just got paid on a job so she couldn't argue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman February 27, 2004 Share Birdman Member February 27, 2004 hehe. So next thurday we can have PC mark benches then! w00t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 28, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 28, 2004 Just concentrate on the CPU score, I still have a Ti4600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman February 28, 2004 Share Birdman Member February 28, 2004 Yeah true dat. Thats what i was gonna be interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilco February 28, 2004 Share wilco Member February 28, 2004 I pulled the trigger on the 9800 pro....hoping to have it on tuesday or wednesday. Than I can buy nothing more for a few months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Kill3r February 28, 2004 Share All Kill3r Member February 28, 2004 nice Wilco. with that new setup i dont think you need to be spending any more cash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer February 28, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member February 28, 2004 I'm taking the same path, but I think I'll be ending up with a total of 1gb of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer March 2, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member March 2, 2004 Ordered last Thursday late-night, shipped Friday, Fedex says it gets here today. It will be running tonight! On my current system I can install WinXP in 18 minutes, I'm looking forward to a new personal record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilco March 2, 2004 Share wilco Member March 2, 2004 Just got my radeon 9800 pro !!! Gonna install now Congrats homer.....I know youll have fun getting it all setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer March 2, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member March 2, 2004 See now you're gonna post up those 9800 Pro scores and make me all jealous & impressed, so I'll have to skimp and save for one asap! BTW, what sort of HD setup are you running Wilco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Kill3r March 2, 2004 Share All Kill3r Member March 2, 2004 nice guys, enjoy the new hardwares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman March 2, 2004 Share Birdman Member March 2, 2004 Alright men.... all talk and no benchmarks means i have no reason to try and overclock higher. Lets see de numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer March 2, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member March 2, 2004 Birdman, can you post your PCMark2002 and 2004 scores so we can compare? I'll be video card limited so I'll be more interested in CPU, HDD, and MEM scores atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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