i need hardware help

[Tigatron]

hey people, i need help, im buying a new compy and am haing a lil trouble deciding what to buy
add my MSN if you are willing to help me out, plz help me out
Squirrel_Commander@hotmail.com

[AncientAnubis]

How much are you willing to spend?

[FreeSpirit]

go ahead and add my msn happy_hardcore_freak@hotmail.com

[Tigatron]

im not buying it all at once, im buying processor, mother board, power supply, vid card, and im keeping my 2 gigs o ram

[Tigatron]

tats already in teh mail

[AncientAnubis]

8800 GT FTW

I have one of those. Get a Quad core processor too if you can. I have one of the Intel quad cores, and it's awesome, I haven't run into a game yet that makes a blip in the radar. I also have 4 gigs of RAM though, so that may have something to do with it...

[~Phoenix~]

I added you this si kind of my speciality, ill get you sorted no probs.


AncientAnubis try crysis, thatll knock your card out of the loop lol.


4GB of ram, Physx and quad core atm are a waste of money. 4gb does nothing unless you are using dual monitors or something, quad core has too lower clocks, unless you overclock, which I doubt most of you do. Physx, not physics, its 100% useless, hardly no games support it and eth ones that do offer hardly no improvement.


EVGA 8800gt though... not a good choice of brand for this card imo... there are cheaper yet more overclocked ones available.

[~Phoenix~]

Its not bad for overclocking, nothing compared to a core2 though. Oc'ing is actually pretty simple loads of people do it for benches etc, here is my last bench that I did with a 3ghz quad core overclock and a gpu overclock, waiting for water to go higher though until the I cant see the point of spending hours and hours to find the max when itll be upped in just 24days time.

8800GT at 700core 1720shader and 1950memory:

(sry for small pic)


(link to bigger one)
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/8456/1 ... k06da9.jpg

Actualy score will be 200 - 500points lower then that using teh official drivers and usin 1280x1024, rather then 1280x720 like I used, have tested it yeh, but it wil still be 14.5k+ top 99% of systems, im quite pleased with it



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Whats your motherboard called and Ill tell how ya how it overclocks

[~Phoenix~]

I thought that was like a onboard graphics chip or something?? If not then its old.. you'll need a new one

[~Phoenix~]

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php ... &card2=388


try not 2 cry

[~Phoenix~]

Oh pls thats everyones excuse, a great decent upgrade for u would cost £60 with £100 upgrade getting u basically high end graphics, thing have changed a lot recently.

[~Phoenix~]

$80 by the time you take out UK inflation prices and VAT...

[~Phoenix~]

Its not really that much, I know my 8800GT just cost me £192, and the water block for it £56, gotta pay money for a PC to get teh best performance, atm even good ol' crysis runs fine on my rig on high with 4x aa.

Just about to buy tons of UV cables and cables wraps. 3x UV sata cables, wrapping for my PSU cables which is UV blue, will look immense when its done.


Also 2x spillter thingys to make one connector into 4 ann then plugging in 4x 10cm uv lights, gonna rock

[~Phoenix~]

Just tested OC'ing on my 8800GT briefly, works fine at 720core 1950memory 1750shader, just about to bench, may get my cpu a bit faster the brake 16k..

[Solus]

My GPU is overclovcked, though I'm a noob at it.

I do not believe that it is possible for me to over clock my CPU, I'm using a "stock" intel board, which is a pitty because my CPU, a Pentium D 820, is apparently ripe for overclocking

lol a pentium D? cool. i have a Pentiium D 950. aparrently theyre good for overclocking if we can get over the heat issue. Pentium D's seem to generate more heat. its cos the core is basically previous model cores shoved together... but hey, im happy with mine! (srsly... 3.40ghz without overclocking, dual core 64bit, ihh is good... i would like to upgrade processors but my board wont handle much other than C2Ds... the problem if i was to buy a new motherboard? i want something that can take a Q6600 and still use ATI crossfire. with the p35 northbridge chip, intel processor boards are only able to use NVidia SLI. gotta find a slightly older board with intel processor and crossfire...