good starter. most people go for the traditional p bass. but with a p bass you only get the split pickup. i like basses with both p and j pickups. you can get a wider range of tone. ive been playing for about 15 years and i played one of these at my local guitar center and was surprised with the quality. i play mostly washburn custom basses but if i was looking for something just to beat around with i might go with this one. as far as a theme song check out my myspace link below and check out the song out of the night. its something my band wrote for some crappy b movie that was a war of the worlds spin off.
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then you need to register http://account.ea.com/commerce/bf2bp/code-entry.jsp just like it says on page 1 of the manual
after you installed the expantions did you get the latest patch?
i played bf2 for a long time with a bfg 5500oc agp card a amd 64 3700 and 2 gigs ddr400 (pc3200). i could play at low/med settings with the draw distance set to 100%. i had no lag or frame rate problems. i think fraps was telling me i was getting around 35 to 40 fps average. as someone posted above its really less about the video card and more about your memory and CPU. i have since upgraded to a rig that is pure overkill for bf2 and 2142.
i have been playing for over a year now . Ive only played with 1 hacker and i only knew this because he told the whole squad. he was pulling off some amazing shots from over 300 meters with a support kit( 1 bullet 1 kill kinda stuff). I myself have never cheated or hacked in bf2 or 2142. I like the fact that my stats are my stats not some aim bot or hacking software. If you want to use a keyboard with marco keys more power to you. Someone or myself will drop you along the way. I play in a server where the admins will kick/ ban hackers or cheaters and excessive team killers. LONG LIVE TTP
looks like a killer. dont worry about your psu its fine. Ive used rosewill for years with no problems. my rosewill outlasted and outperformed my ocz gamestream. Ive rma'd 2 of them. you shouldn't have to reformat just install the drivers on your mobo disk. you will probally have some old unused drivers for your old set up. but it is always best to do a clean install of the OS. one question why use a 7950 when you could do a 8800 gts or 2 8600's for about the same price and you would be dx10 ready when and if you go vista. and your hard drive will get you by for now but you should look for something better in the future.(sata with perpendicular recording) but other than that it looks good.
my specs
amd fx 60 dual core @ 2.6 (939 Socket)
4 gigs corsair xms pro c2
2 seagate 250 gb hard drives running in raid 0
Asus a8n32-sli deluxe mobo
roswill 600 watt modular psu
2 xfx 7900gs ( soon to be an 8800gtx)
M-audio delta 1010Lt sound card ( i need it for my home recording studio)
cooler master stacker case
lite-on sata DVD-ROM
samsung sata cdrw-dvdrw drive
3 aero cool 120 mm fans
3 aero cool 80 mm fans
xp pro
vista ultimate un opened on the desk
my specs
amd fx 60 dual core @ 2.6 (939 Socket)
4 gigs corsair xms pro c2
2 seagate 250 gb hard drives running in raid 0
Asus a8n32-sli deluxe mobo
roswill 600 watt modular psu
2 xfx 7900gs ( soon to be an 8800gtx)
M-audio delta 1010Lt sound card ( i need it for my home recording studio)
cooler master stacker case
lite-on sata DVD-ROM
samsung sata cdrw-dvdrw drive
3 aero cool 120 mm fans
3 aero cool 80 mm fans
xp pro
vista ultimate un opened on the desk
it looks like your cpu is an amd 3000. and it also looks like your motherboard has a pci express slot. but you have intergrated graphics. NO video card. thats the first problem. your second problem is you only have a 250 watt power supply. most video cards today need arond 350 to 500 watt powersupplys. so heres basicly what you will need. a pci e video card of your choice form the list in a post above and a power supply that meets the requirements of the video card. this card will run in your machine without having to upgrade the power supply http://www.bfgtech.com/6200_256_PCI.html but performance will be on the lower side of things. most game detail will be set at low to medium. and last you should have a full gig of memory. your motherboard supports pc3200 ddr 400 memory. and its best to upgrade in matched sets . you will need to look through the white papers on the hp site or call them and ask about the details of your machine to be sure how upgradable your machine is. hope this helps some but do your research before your purchase
http://www.pc-diagnostics.com/pc_diagno … _bus.shtmlEnder2309 wrote:
link? that sounds like a useful piece of hardware.leftoverkiller wrote:
i had almost the same problem on my old IBM. just add a few blue screens of death. after days of testing memory and hard drives, removing different components and a few OS re installs i took the whole machine apart and found a burnt spot on the back of the mobo in the area of dimm slot 1. your problems sound just like the ones i had. that machine could pass every test i through at it. so i bought a FlipPOST (PCI & ISA Bus Motherboard Test Card) and it gave me a code that told me mobo failure. the tester has saved me hours of headaches when i get service calls for machines that wont boot of has intermittent problems during start up or random shut downs. if the machine passes on the tester or no codes are displayed i know I'm looking for an OS problem or a bad hardware config. then its back to the basics that i learned in school.
i had almost the same problem on my old IBM. just add a few blue screens of death. after days of testing memory and hard drives, removing different components and a few OS re installs i took the whole machine apart and found a burnt spot on the back of the mobo in the area of dimm slot 1. your problems sound just like the ones i had. that machine could pass every test i through at it. so i bought a FlipPOST (PCI & ISA Bus Motherboard Test Card) and it gave me a code that told me mobo failure. the tester has saved me hours of headaches when i get service calls for machines that wont boot of has intermittent problems during start up or random shut downs. if the machine passes on the tester or no codes are displayed i know I'm looking for an OS problem or a bad hardware config. then its back to the basics that i learned in school.
i have verizon dsl. i live in upstate NY . when i run this test from cnet http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html my speed is 1100-1300kbps. when i play bf2 online in Texas team players server my ping is about 80-90 never spiking to more than 100. ive had little to no problems with it. the dsl also works great for surfing the net or file sharing. hope this helps some
here is one place to buy http://www.ibuypower.com/mall/lobby.htm . like others have beat like a dead horse you should build it yourself. but i know you said you cant. just if anything you take from this post stay away from alienware. they are really not the best. like others have said they lock parts of the bios of the machine. at times in machines in the price range you are looking they will use very low end parts. one i opened had some cheap power supply and memory so generic and cheap it couldnt be identifyed as far as a manufacture. there are lots of better options out there . just go buy a pc gamer magazine and look. places like i buy power at least tell you exactly what parts they use. alienware dosnt. they will tell you the specs on there parts but they wont tell you who made them.
i have had some real lucky shots like at kubra dam and just firing in to the supervisor base from the top of the dam and getting a kill. or a few times ive got 2 kills with one bullet from the m95. i dont cheat my stats will show that. my rank would be much higher if i didAcromos wrote:
I know my blind luck when I see it. I get lucky myself from time to time, one-shotting some poor unfortunate. I also know that skill makes luck more likely - for instance, up close I always seem to lose, because I tend to aim for the chest, so the guy who aims for my head wins. Because he is more skilled than I - and afterwards I curse myself, not him.KardiacKid wrote:
.... be another explanation or blind luck but there was a game when the person had to be using a cheat. I was on Karkand as MEC and ....
But blind luck does not happen consistently, over and over again. This is where the word 'blind' comes in.
Even skill doesn't allow you to consistently pull of impossible shots over long rang while moving. I've actually played some tournament teams, and what I find is - I do better against those guys, provided I'm in a decent squad, than I do against useless random twats on too-loosely admin'd servers.
try here http://www.ibuypower.com/mall/lobby.htm they make and sell some great pc and laptops
here is some info on the nvidia 8 series of cards to come http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4834
it sound like a ram problem. here is a link to another with the same problem heres how it was corrected. http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=50130 . as far as the video card goes i have seen first hand bf2 run on a bfg fx 5500 at low mid settings with no problems. even though the specs say you need at least a 5700 series card. if you only have on stick of memory try running some memory tests. and when all else fails try google searching it lots of others have had this problem and found multiple awnsers to it.
id hold off on the video card cheaper dx10 cards on there way. $150 to 180 in late march
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4834
other than that good rig
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4834
other than that good rig
i have both the g15 and the eclipse 2. and the eclipse 2 is better. heres why. the g15 decreased my fps in most games i used it with. (about 20-30 fps in bf2) . i have a asus a8n32-sli mobo with an amd fx-60 and 2 7900gs's and 2 gigs corsair xms 3500LL memory. so i know that its not my system. the g15 didn't really fit my hand all that well. its like thy kinda stretched the keyboard layout in length. the g 15's keys seemed more clickity clackity. and the LCD screen have very limited support. you can use LCD studio to make your own displays but i rather be gaming. the only place i saw the g 15 was better is the back lighting. its brighter then the eclipse 2's. it shows through the keys better. oh yea when you turn off the back lighting on the g 15 the keys are almost black. so you kinda have to keep the lights on all the time. i wish i had bought the g11 instead. i bought the g15 a best buy and they wouldn't return it because i wasn't happy with it only if it was broke. seeing i cant return the g15 so its off to ebay. the eclipse 2 offers 3 colors. blue red and purple. and feels better to me . its a standard keyboard layout. and most important no fps hit. all of my game controllers are saitek and Ive put them through hell and they are still kicking. my logitech game pad died in about 6 months or so. choose for yourself but thats my experience with the 2. if you do have a g15 and get a fps hit just go into your device manager and disable the hid human input device for the keyboard and it disables the LCD screen and fps comes back to normal
i was taught that windows only supports 3.75 gig's. this was something Microsoft nerfed with sp2. sp1 should run a full 4 gig's. lots of apps need sp2 to run correctly . if your mobo supports dual channel memory heres how it works
one 1 gig stick = single channel
two 1 gig sticks = dual channel
three 1 gig sticks = single channel
four 1 gig sticks = 3.75 seen by windows = single channel ( the other .25 is used as virtual memory)
Some people have said that 4 512 MB sticks of memory perform better than 2 1 gig sticks of memory.
I have never tested this but it dose make sense. 512 should open up more "lanes" for memory bandwidth.
one 1 gig stick = single channel
two 1 gig sticks = dual channel
three 1 gig sticks = single channel
four 1 gig sticks = 3.75 seen by windows = single channel ( the other .25 is used as virtual memory)
Some people have said that 4 512 MB sticks of memory perform better than 2 1 gig sticks of memory.
I have never tested this but it dose make sense. 512 should open up more "lanes" for memory bandwidth.
bush and rummy are like noob commanders in bf2 they just don't listen and they cant see what they need for themselves. id have to say give our troops all the support they need to do there job efficiently and effectively. then get them home. the us fought there own civil war why cant they.
if this is your board then no it wont "bottleneck" things. http://www.pcclub.com/clearance_details … o=A4830955 . if i were you id get this 7600gt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150190 . i think its one of the best agp 7600 cards out there. plus xfx give a double lifetime warranty. you have a good amount of memory. your motherboard isn't bad. but its still only a socket a board...specs... http://www.pcclub.com/clearance_details … =A4830955. your processor is really the weak link . you could upgrade a socket a chip very cheap if you can find a faster one. i know newegg is out. but there are others out there. game performance in my opinion is going to be limited to the next 5-6 months before you need a complete rebuild. if it were me id save my cash. you can play bf2 right? then id just hold out for as long as i could and let some of the prices come down on the new stuff. then build a mid to top end machine. lots of info sources are saying that once vista comes out more product will hit the market lowering prices of the stuff we can get now. save you money and use it toward a direct x 10 machine. nvidia's 8800 is expensive now but you know that another card is in the works. when it comes out the 8800 wont be so expensive. i have put lots of money into machines that should have been retired just to build a new one in a few months after i realize I'm beating a dead horse so to speak
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just one of the creepy crawlies in Iraq
just one of the creepy crawlies in Iraq
using fraps it says i get an average fps of 87.4 . in game unlocking fps in never goes below 80. im running the game all on high settings at 1024 x 768 with no aa on a 64 player map right in the thick of it
my specs
amd 64 3700 2.2 ghx
2 gigs corsair xms pro c4 ddr 400
xfx 6800 xt agp
2 seagate hard drives 1 80 gig 1 250 gig
gigabyte k8nsc-939 motherboard
my specs
amd 64 3700 2.2 ghx
2 gigs corsair xms pro c4 ddr 400
xfx 6800 xt agp
2 seagate hard drives 1 80 gig 1 250 gig
gigabyte k8nsc-939 motherboard
you can get one here for 21.99
http://www.sundialmicro.com/cooler_mast … 8_798.html
or just google Centurion 5 side window and there are lots of places to sell you one
http://www.sundialmicro.com/cooler_mast … 8_798.html
or just google Centurion 5 side window and there are lots of places to sell you one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814143046 this is the biggest card for agp slots. from some benchmark tests Ive read its not the best. in my opinion get this one by xfx. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150210 xfx also has a double lifetime warranty. the 7600 has a higher core clock . and in most tests Ive seen it performers with in a few points of the 7800. just make sure your power supply is powerful enough. id say at least 450 to 500 watts at no less than 20 amps. i have a 7600 and it plays bf2 and 2142 all in high settings with 2xaa. i get an average of 80-90 fps in bf2. i haven't seen a 7800 agp run in person but I'm sure that it would smoke the 7600 when really put through its paces. xfx dose make a 7800gs. and like the rest of there video cards I'm sure its aw some. but its still like 300 bucks. so for the money you got id got 7600gt
my agp machine specs
amd 64 3700 2.2 ghz
2 gigs corsair xms pro c2 memory
2 Seagate sata 1.5 hard drives
xfx 7600 gt
rosewill 600 watt power supply
gigabyte GA_K8NSC-939 motherboard
my agp machine specs
amd 64 3700 2.2 ghz
2 gigs corsair xms pro c2 memory
2 Seagate sata 1.5 hard drives
xfx 7600 gt
rosewill 600 watt power supply
gigabyte GA_K8NSC-939 motherboard
just put it in a 5.5 drive bay and follow the directions in the box. it will work on 20 or 24 pin motherboards.
my specs. just built using my old video cards for now
asus crosshair mobo
amd dual core am2 2.6 ghz
2 gigs corsair xms pro c4 memory
thermaltake tough power 750 watt psu
2 xfx 6800 xt video cards
2 seagate 250 gig sata 3.0 hard drives
1 Plextor sata dvd-rw rom drive
1 lite-on sata cdrw/ dvd combo drive
all in a thermaltake armor case
when i get the 8800's im also going to get a TOPOWER TOP-1000 watt quad rail power supply
my specs. just built using my old video cards for now
asus crosshair mobo
amd dual core am2 2.6 ghz
2 gigs corsair xms pro c4 memory
thermaltake tough power 750 watt psu
2 xfx 6800 xt video cards
2 seagate 250 gig sata 3.0 hard drives
1 Plextor sata dvd-rw rom drive
1 lite-on sata cdrw/ dvd combo drive
all in a thermaltake armor case
when i get the 8800's im also going to get a TOPOWER TOP-1000 watt quad rail power supply
here is a good tool for figuring out your psu needs. http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psuc … #footnote4
and if you can upgrade your psu here is a supplemental video psu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6817153037
the video card you are listing above is ok but is is only a ddr2 card. you really wont get the bang for your buck out of it. its out performed by lesser cards.
if id have to pick a 7600 card it would be this one plus xfx has a double lifetime warranty
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150182
but bottom line a 350 watt psu isnt going to cut it with any newer card. even though from experience in the past if the card manufacture says 350 watts you still will need more power for the rest of the needs inside your case. fans, CPU, CD Roms etc.... so try to get a psu the is 150 to 200 watts higher than your needs. nothing worse than a computer crashing in the middle of some intense gaming because your system doesn't have enough power and becomes unstable.
in my system im using 2 of the xfx 68ooxt's in sli . http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150182 and in most benchmark programs the 6800's preform just as well as the 7600's. i think its the 256 bit memory interface they use over the 128 on the 7600's. when i first built my machine i put one card in and could play bf2 on all high settings and with 2 it is seamless.
now just saving up for 2 of the 8800gtx by xfx.
my specs. just built using my old video cards for now
asus crosshair mobo
amd dual core am2 2.6 ghz
2 gigs corsair xms pro c4 memory
thermaltake tough power 750 watt psu
2 xfx 6800 xt video cards
2 seagate 250 gig sata 3.0 hard drives
1 Plextor sata dvd-rw rom drive
1 lite-on sata cdrw/ dvd combo drive
all in a thermaltake armor case
when i get the 8800's im also going to get a TOPOWER TOP-1000 watt quad rail power supply.
and if you can upgrade your psu here is a supplemental video psu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6817153037
the video card you are listing above is ok but is is only a ddr2 card. you really wont get the bang for your buck out of it. its out performed by lesser cards.
if id have to pick a 7600 card it would be this one plus xfx has a double lifetime warranty
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150182
but bottom line a 350 watt psu isnt going to cut it with any newer card. even though from experience in the past if the card manufacture says 350 watts you still will need more power for the rest of the needs inside your case. fans, CPU, CD Roms etc.... so try to get a psu the is 150 to 200 watts higher than your needs. nothing worse than a computer crashing in the middle of some intense gaming because your system doesn't have enough power and becomes unstable.
in my system im using 2 of the xfx 68ooxt's in sli . http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814150182 and in most benchmark programs the 6800's preform just as well as the 7600's. i think its the 256 bit memory interface they use over the 128 on the 7600's. when i first built my machine i put one card in and could play bf2 on all high settings and with 2 it is seamless.
now just saving up for 2 of the 8800gtx by xfx.
my specs. just built using my old video cards for now
asus crosshair mobo
amd dual core am2 2.6 ghz
2 gigs corsair xms pro c4 memory
thermaltake tough power 750 watt psu
2 xfx 6800 xt video cards
2 seagate 250 gig sata 3.0 hard drives
1 Plextor sata dvd-rw rom drive
1 lite-on sata cdrw/ dvd combo drive
all in a thermaltake armor case
when i get the 8800's im also going to get a TOPOWER TOP-1000 watt quad rail power supply.
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i have a Xdrum http://www.xdrum.co.kr/english/product/ … 1_info.htm that is older but is awesome and my wife has a Sandisk e280 http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(2057)-SDMX4-8192-Sansa_e280_MP3_Player_8GB.aspx both are great. the san disk will let you watch movies on it. whatever you buy get one with more space than you think you need. if you can get one that has a SD micro memory slot. you can simply add more memory to them or keep different music on different SD micro cards. have fun choosing there are so many. lastly id say to avoid i pods all together to much hype and not enough performance compared to others for less money
true i forgot about buying a controller. and a sata cd rom combo drive ( cd-rw / dvd rom about 30 bucks and a sata dvd burner about 100 bucks from newegg( dvd burner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6827249006 cd rom combo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6827106040 ) they are almost 3 times as fast as the ide units and can be a bit tricky to install on a new system. i would recomend at least 1 to use for installing large progroams from a dvd disk Ect... bf2141. only took anout 10 min. to install
if your motherboard has sata ports you need to find out are they sata 1.5's or 3.0's. if your board supports 1.5 sata the benefits are very little. ( my gigabyte board is about a year and a half old and only supports 1.5) i changed over to sata drives and the only real benefit was the smaller cables over the wide ide cables giving me better airflow. i have heard some rumors of a faster sata 4.0 coming out after the release of vista. don't know if its true but a few months ago PC gamer had a small article about it. but after building a friends machine with sata 3.0 hard drives and sata CD ROM drives i am convinced that sata is the way to go . his machine is fast as hell. put a disk in the CD ROM drive and the installation of games was cut in half. the pairing of sata CD and hard drives is amazing. remember a sata hard drive can only take in as much as it is supplied by the CD ROM drive. once the program is installed it is also faster on game loading times. like someone said above "why not buy a SATA drive rather than a PATA one?" is true. if you are building a new system GO SATA IDE IS ALMOST DEAD . but if your board doesn't support it you are stuck with the IDE style.
save up to build a new PC. Ive invested alot into old technology only to say to myself . self why did you buy that old memory and video card you could of spent a few bucks more and built a nice new gaming machine. if you can play bf2 or 2142 on it well keep using it till its dead. just save the cash.
Leftoverkiller. the leftovers the band i play bass for and killer is what i do.
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Everyone is worried about ea collecting info on the in game ads you look at. why is everyone so bent on this. yes it is by definition spyware. but did you know that thousands of other company's put "spyware" in there software. hell Microsoft collects info about your machine every time you check for an update. if you use some file sharing networks you have spyware. example if you use kazaa you have spyware that is the most dangerous kind. its spyware can slip through most spyware checking programs.it lets most programs find some of what they instlled but from reparing others machines there is more that lurks deep inside your machine and passes right through most spyware checks. if you have any other company's search bar in your Internet explorer you are constantly being monitored on what sites you search and visit then that list is sold to the highest bidder to fill your mailbox with pure crap. if you are worried about ea you must be scared as hell from real life spyware. ever hear of domestic eavesdropping. a friendly little piece of real life spyware. if your calls from home fit the profile of a terrorist cell you are being monitored. ( that profile is simply this. you call one person who call two people and those two people each call two people and so on....) this profile can be found in many places. churches in prayer chains schools use this to let teachers know school is canceled. so in the big picture what ea is doing is harmless. it wont destroy your computer, it wont give you viruses, and they are not giving this info to other company's. hey at least they told you about in in the box on a piece of paper and again when you installed bf2142. most just slip it right by you without even telling you. if you say you got spyware from 2142 id tell you to stop looking at porn, stop accepting and downloading strange request to install active x controls. if you still believe you got spyware from 2142 the best thing for you to do is turn off your computer and smash it with a hammer because the rest of the real threats out there must keep you from sleeping at night, and let the rest of us play our games in peace.
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sounds like a good deal they are really upgrading you to a better faster card. you just need to make sure your rig can suppory it. mostly on the power supply side of things.
Externally Accessible
Video: 1 DVI, VGA and 1 S-Video (with add-in PCI-Express video card)
IEEE 1394 (optional) - 1 6-pin serial connector
USB: 7 Ports (2 Front, 5 Back) + 1 internal
Audio: Audio – six back-panel connectors for line-in, line-out, microphone, rear surround, side surround, SPDIF interface in rear, two front-panel connectors for headphones/microphone, integrated 7.1 channel sound
Network: Integrated Ethernet
Integrated 10/100 network interface
Expansion Slots
PCI: 2 Slots
PCIe x1: 1 Slot
PCIe x16 (Graphics): 1 Slots
Chassis
305 Watt DC Power Supply Backup battery: 3-V CR2032 lithium coin cell
3.5" Bays: 3 bays (one external; two internal)
5.25" Bays: 2 bays
Memory DIMM slots: 4 available
yes it is upgradeable. but did you buy it from dell with a video card? or dose it have integrated video. your memory is ddr2 533MHz and according to dell it is upgradeable to 4 gigs . but here lies your problem. your power supply is only 305 watts. i cant tell how many amps your 12 volt rail or rails your power supply has. lets say you buy the bfg 7950 256MB video card . you will need at least a 350 watt power supply with a 22 amp 12 volt rail. id go more toward 500 watts if you plan to max that rig out.and you also need to know if this is a dell with a non removable power supply. yep the did that to there machines. here is the address to you machine at dell. http://www.dell.com/content/products/pr … &cs=19
so bottom line you are looking for some new memory ( its best to buy matched sets id start with 2 1 gig sticks of good memory.) a new video card and a new power supply. hope this helps some. and if all else fails call dell on it 1800 number . after all you paid for tec support.
if you are looking for a good gaming rig you will probably have to build it yourself of buy one out of the may places in places like PC gamer magazine. the of the shelf stuff is to hard to say definitely if you can build them up.
Video: 1 DVI, VGA and 1 S-Video (with add-in PCI-Express video card)
IEEE 1394 (optional) - 1 6-pin serial connector
USB: 7 Ports (2 Front, 5 Back) + 1 internal
Audio: Audio – six back-panel connectors for line-in, line-out, microphone, rear surround, side surround, SPDIF interface in rear, two front-panel connectors for headphones/microphone, integrated 7.1 channel sound
Network: Integrated Ethernet
Integrated 10/100 network interface
Expansion Slots
PCI: 2 Slots
PCIe x1: 1 Slot
PCIe x16 (Graphics): 1 Slots
Chassis
305 Watt DC Power Supply Backup battery: 3-V CR2032 lithium coin cell
3.5" Bays: 3 bays (one external; two internal)
5.25" Bays: 2 bays
Memory DIMM slots: 4 available
yes it is upgradeable. but did you buy it from dell with a video card? or dose it have integrated video. your memory is ddr2 533MHz and according to dell it is upgradeable to 4 gigs . but here lies your problem. your power supply is only 305 watts. i cant tell how many amps your 12 volt rail or rails your power supply has. lets say you buy the bfg 7950 256MB video card . you will need at least a 350 watt power supply with a 22 amp 12 volt rail. id go more toward 500 watts if you plan to max that rig out.and you also need to know if this is a dell with a non removable power supply. yep the did that to there machines. here is the address to you machine at dell. http://www.dell.com/content/products/pr … &cs=19
so bottom line you are looking for some new memory ( its best to buy matched sets id start with 2 1 gig sticks of good memory.) a new video card and a new power supply. hope this helps some. and if all else fails call dell on it 1800 number . after all you paid for tec support.
if you are looking for a good gaming rig you will probably have to build it yourself of buy one out of the may places in places like PC gamer magazine. the of the shelf stuff is to hard to say definitely if you can build them up.
no you cant flash the video bios. they are set by the manufacturer. i use 3dmark 03 and my score was 14,902 with no over clocking in sli
8763 no overclocking and sli disabled
Gigabyte K8n pro-sli
AMD Athelon 64 3700
2x 6800 xt extreme xfx 256
Rosewill rp600s-2mk
4 gig of ram (4 x 1gig sticks) corsair xms w/ leds for activity. ( they only look cool)
8763 no overclocking and sli disabled
Gigabyte K8n pro-sli
AMD Athelon 64 3700
2x 6800 xt extreme xfx 256
Rosewill rp600s-2mk
4 gig of ram (4 x 1gig sticks) corsair xms w/ leds for activity. ( they only look cool)
you say that they are the same cards but are they. do they both have the same BIOS? i built a sli machine with one card at first. i bought a second card later. it didn't work. they had different BIOS so it wouldn't work. so i bought 1 more card that was the same as the second card and sold the first on ebay. my machine uses 2 6800xt xfx 256 and my friend has the same machine with 2 7800 xfx 256 and his 3dmark is only about 1000-1700 point faster. your temp is fine. i just noticed that your machine is the same as mine but I'm using the amd 3700 and 4 gigs corsair xms. same board power supply but i just have the 2 6800xts. look in nvidias sli zone. lots of good info there. but try removing both cards and run one and then the other in a single card config. remember to flip the sli chip to single card mode. when you boot up the machine look in the upper left corner to see the bios info. make sure they are the same. hope this helps some.
your power supply is perfectly fine for your set up. and 52 is a good temp for the setup. mine runs about 48 idle and 52-54 after gaming. any temp up into the high 60s to mid 70s is alittle much but will work. when you get into the 80s you are doing some damage to the cards. you probally wont get the life expectancy out of those .
your power supply is perfectly fine for your set up. and 52 is a good temp for the setup. mine runs about 48 idle and 52-54 after gaming. any temp up into the high 60s to mid 70s is alittle much but will work. when you get into the 80s you are doing some damage to the cards. you probally wont get the life expectancy out of those .
it sounds like one or more is wired out of phase. check to see that all of your connections are right . positive on the amp to positive on the speaker. red to red black to black. i had the same thing with my home theater system. one of my surround channels was reversed. fixed it and the hiss and distortion went away. hope you find it soon .
I'm running an agp system as well. i got a gigabyte k8nsc-939 mobo with an amd 64 3700+ running at 2.2 ghz with 2 gigs corsair xms pc3200 pro memory ( 2 1 gig sticks) and a xfx 6800xt 256 agp video card. i can run the game on all high settings with 4x aa. the game runs smooth and flawless. about 60-70 fps on the ground and 70-80 fps in the air. when i first started playing bf2 i was using this system with a bfg 5500oc 256 agp video card. it ran on medium settings with no aa flawlessly. even though the box of bf2 says you need at least a 5700 series nvidia card to play.
id say that your system should be able to play the hell out of this game . I'm assuming that your 7600gs is a 256 mhz card. id say based on my experience and and educated guess is its your memory. I'm guessing that you are using 3 512 MHz sticks of memory. that would stop your machine from running in a dual channel memory setup. i say to try pulling 1 512 stick out and try that out. if you need you may have to change your BIOS settings to run in dual mode. if it doesn't auto detect it on start up. or buy 1 more 512 MHz stick . that would put you to a full 2 gigs of memory. and it should be running in dual mode. ( providing your mobo supports it.) performance gains are huge when you run in dual channel memory mode. my system didn't run bf2 great with 1 gig in single channel mode. but 1 more gig and it was great. better than expected. my fps are up there with some pci-e and sli machines. please post more info about your system and someone may get a better idea of whats wrong with your set up.
id say that your system should be able to play the hell out of this game . I'm assuming that your 7600gs is a 256 mhz card. id say based on my experience and and educated guess is its your memory. I'm guessing that you are using 3 512 MHz sticks of memory. that would stop your machine from running in a dual channel memory setup. i say to try pulling 1 512 stick out and try that out. if you need you may have to change your BIOS settings to run in dual mode. if it doesn't auto detect it on start up. or buy 1 more 512 MHz stick . that would put you to a full 2 gigs of memory. and it should be running in dual mode. ( providing your mobo supports it.) performance gains are huge when you run in dual channel memory mode. my system didn't run bf2 great with 1 gig in single channel mode. but 1 more gig and it was great. better than expected. my fps are up there with some pci-e and sli machines. please post more info about your system and someone may get a better idea of whats wrong with your set up.
my specs.
gigabyte k8nsc-939 ,amd 64 3700 2 gigs corsair xms PC 3200 pro , a xfx 6800xt agp 256 video card. yep thats right an agp system. i can run bf2 with everything on high with 4x AA and it runs smooth as silk. haven't even overclocked this thing yet. the game looks awsome. i wish a had a SS or 2 to show off . mine looks and plays as good as you guys with sli and crossfire . about 80 fps on the ground and 90- 100 while flying.
gigabyte k8nsc-939 ,amd 64 3700 2 gigs corsair xms PC 3200 pro , a xfx 6800xt agp 256 video card. yep thats right an agp system. i can run bf2 with everything on high with 4x AA and it runs smooth as silk. haven't even overclocked this thing yet. the game looks awsome. i wish a had a SS or 2 to show off . mine looks and plays as good as you guys with sli and crossfire . about 80 fps on the ground and 90- 100 while flying.
71c idle is to warm. had a similar problem when my 7800 was idling about 70c. after about 10 min of bf2 it would warm to about 78-80c. cut holes in my side case and put 2 80mm fans in them and temp droped to 50c idle and about 60-64c after hours of gaming. and no more crashes.
the only thing i found that really matters is having a CPU that can run the game on 100% draw distance. the rest just adds realism. shadows and other effects. i have seen bf2 on my machine amd 3700 2 gigs corsair xms ram and a xfx 256 6800xt agp video card. then i ve seen it on a friends CPU a amd 3700 2 gigs corsair xms and 2 xfx 256 6800xt running in sli mode. both machines play the game with all settings maxed out with little or no lag at all. Ive played on both and the sli machine seams to let me line up my shots quicker from the ground and choppers.
if your machine can only run on 70% draw distance you are at a disadvantage to others that are playing at 100%. Ive tested this a karkand with a friend. i played at 60% and he played at 100%. he was starting at the square and i started at the hotel. he could see me before i could see him.all i saw was fog where he was standing. but as stated above the best hardware in the world wont help you against a great player. but a great player with the best hardware will dominate the game. both machines were built off of new egg and neither machine broke the bank. the sli machine we build for about $900 and the agp machine we built for about $650. both use high end mobos CPU memory and video cards n power supply's . nothing was the cheapest parts. all good brands.
if your machine can only run on 70% draw distance you are at a disadvantage to others that are playing at 100%. Ive tested this a karkand with a friend. i played at 60% and he played at 100%. he was starting at the square and i started at the hotel. he could see me before i could see him.all i saw was fog where he was standing. but as stated above the best hardware in the world wont help you against a great player. but a great player with the best hardware will dominate the game. both machines were built off of new egg and neither machine broke the bank. the sli machine we build for about $900 and the agp machine we built for about $650. both use high end mobos CPU memory and video cards n power supply's . nothing was the cheapest parts. all good brands.
i used to be a die hard asus fan. i bought 1 gigabyte board and that was it gigabyte won me over. some of the asus 939 amd mobos wont let you run a dual core Right away. you have to go single core then upgrade the BIOS from the web then reinstall your dual core chip. with gigabyte no problems right out of the box. some of the gigabyte boards have dual BIOS and other nice features that make you feel warm and fuzzy. but its tasters choice. do your research look at customer reviews on new egg and make an informed decision. i haven't used either gigabyte or asus with amd new am2 socket but will be soon.