when i was a noob at ocing i had a lanparty ut ULTRA-D and i thought it was quite easy....
Badvock's PC pwns!!!! i bet its 4k+
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (haven't OCed yet)
eVGA 256mb 7800GT 256-P2-N517-AX
2x Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT (4 matched 512mb sticks)
SB Audigy2 ZS
Maxtor 120GB PATA HD (6Y120P0)
Maxtor 200GB SATA-I 16mb cache HD (6L200S0)
Plextor 740A-SW-Black DVD±R/RW burner
17" CRT Sceptre monitor (the next to be upgraded, to a LCD)
Thermaltake Silent PurePower 680W PSU (W0049RUC)
Antec PlusViewII Tower case
All hand-picked and built with a cost/value around $2000.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (haven't OCed yet)
eVGA 256mb 7800GT 256-P2-N517-AX
2x Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT (4 matched 512mb sticks)
SB Audigy2 ZS
Maxtor 120GB PATA HD (6Y120P0)
Maxtor 200GB SATA-I 16mb cache HD (6L200S0)
Plextor 740A-SW-Black DVD±R/RW burner
17" CRT Sceptre monitor (the next to be upgraded, to a LCD)
Thermaltake Silent PurePower 680W PSU (W0049RUC)
Antec PlusViewII Tower case
All hand-picked and built with a cost/value around $2000.
why are people posting specs here!
Chuy I see some iron on your desk tsk tsk
Once you start to apply yourself to understanding how overclocking works, you will kick your self for NOT having all available options. You can always run at default setting and not oc at all but know that when you are ready your mb will be as well.sixshot wrote:
I'm scared of DFI motherboards after hearing about their LANPARTY series. The amount of BIOS options they provide sounds like it'd be too much and too overwhelming for someone who only requires some of the basics but with enough to get things going -- the middle of the two extremes.
P4 3.0GHz OCed 3.52Ghz (I know Intel!! AHH)
512 x 2 Corsair XMS PC 3200
80 GB Maxtor HDD
Generic DVD drive
Raidmax 260 Case (Lian-Li knockoff) w cheapie Cooler Master Heatsink
485 watt Vantec iON 2
ABIT AG8-V Mobo
ATI x800xt 256 Mb
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro
512 x 2 Corsair XMS PC 3200
80 GB Maxtor HDD
Generic DVD drive
Raidmax 260 Case (Lian-Li knockoff) w cheapie Cooler Master Heatsink
485 watt Vantec iON 2
ABIT AG8-V Mobo
ATI x800xt 256 Mb
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro
That topic is making me want to OC my processor even more. By the sound of it, I can get it to 4.2 from 3.6.
dont forgot though that the cpu could die in a year from extreme ocing, get good cooling
Marconius, am I really the first to spot that you haven't got a cat in hells chance of running BF2 on the rig you posted? Do I win a prize?
wew I saw many Systems in the other Thread with good Hardware except the Soundcard, many people still using onboard Sound.... why? They spend a lot of money in CPU + Graphiccards but the most important thing after this - the Sound quality - is b*shit.
With a good Soundcard and a good 5.1 Sourround System you'll never play Doom3 longer then 10mins.
With a good Soundcard and a good 5.1 Sourround System you'll never play Doom3 longer then 10mins.
guess sound card isn't one of most peoples priorities
tbh i was pretty impressed with the nF2 onbaord sound (Nvidia soundstorm) but am a bit disapointed with the realtek onboard sound that you get on the DFI nF4 SLI-D
might look at getting an X-FI, but they aren't exactly cheap
for anyone saying the lanparty boards have complicated bios the major settings are all the same, just has many more options for things you can't normally adjust, i havn't played with mine much, but i am very impressed with it compared to the asrock dual939 sata2 that i RMAd after 1 week :S
tbh i was pretty impressed with the nF2 onbaord sound (Nvidia soundstorm) but am a bit disapointed with the realtek onboard sound that you get on the DFI nF4 SLI-D
might look at getting an X-FI, but they aren't exactly cheap
for anyone saying the lanparty boards have complicated bios the major settings are all the same, just has many more options for things you can't normally adjust, i havn't played with mine much, but i am very impressed with it compared to the asrock dual939 sata2 that i RMAd after 1 week :S
Last edited by [OvC]_AMD_Man (2006-06-05 08:59:30)
defitnantly get an XFi, i have one and it totally pwns!
I am just amazed that some people are using RAID hard drive system, that realy i completly pointless unless you are afraid of losing crutial data. It the sort of thing large organisations have for their back up strategy, some large business dont even have RAID lvl 1 or lvl 5 because of their lack of IT knowledge.
wrong topic mate, this is the comment one not the system one. lol copy and paste yourself across.xGBlitzkrieg wrote:
Maker: My stoned Self
Operating System: MCE 2005/Vista / I want is now the beta just anit enough!
Cpu: Amd 64bit x2 4400+
Motherboard: Asus A8n32 deluxe SLi
Case Cooler Master
Video Cards: 2 * Nividia 6800 gs
Ram: 4 X 512mb Crucial
Drives
Dvd Drives
Liteon 16X Dvd burner
Hp Light Scribe 16X Dvd burner
HDD total space 1.34 Tb Currently used Space 900GB
3 X 160Gb 2 Western/ 1 maxtor
1 X 5000gb sata Hitachi
1 X 400gb Sata Seagate
1 X 80Gb Sata Seagate
Monitors: Apple 23" HD Display and a 51" samsung HD TV As second monitor.
If you got a good board, forget the sound card. I dont see a point with on board sound.
i believe the order goes CPU, GPU, PPU, then sound card atleast it would for me, sound card realy aint that important for me even with me running music, teamspeak and BF2 at the same time.Frytrixa wrote:
wew I saw many Systems in the other Thread with good Hardware except the Soundcard, many people still using onboard Sound.... why? They spend a lot of money in CPU + Graphiccards but the most important thing after this - the Sound quality - is b*shit.
With a good Soundcard and a good 5.1 Sourround System you'll never play Doom3 longer then 10mins.
Too me its CPU GPU RAM HD S and ppu. but hey i have a xfi : )
btw. you know that the "X-Fi Soundcard Extreme Music" isnt better then the normal audigy 2 ZS? Yes you can enable "X-Fi" in Games, but it costs so much CPU Performance and you dont have the same sound like the fatality edition and the Elite Pro version? Its the same quality then the Audigy 2ZS!
If you dont believe me read some Hardware Tests and Reviews.
So if you want to have good Sound spend your 50 bucks in a audigy 2 start playing Doom 3, FEAR and HL2 in EAX 4 and you cant believe that you played these games before with onboard Sound
If you dont believe me read some Hardware Tests and Reviews.
So if you want to have good Sound spend your 50 bucks in a audigy 2 start playing Doom 3, FEAR and HL2 in EAX 4 and you cant believe that you played these games before with onboard Sound
RAID level 0 can be a bit of a performance boost, but as said above RAID level 1 and 5 are pretty much pointless for your average home user
Striped RAID FTW![OvC]_AMD_Man wrote:
RAID level 0 can be a bit of a performance boost, but as said above RAID level 1 and 5 are pretty much pointless for your average home user
I on particular servers I can often cap a flag before most of the players have spawned, even though I don't have a very high spec PC in the RAM/CPU/GFX departments... and getting the commander spot is far too easy for my rank. Some servers see to have a longer pre-round delay... although according to a few admins I've asked about it they don't control that variable on ranked servers, so it might have to do with how long the server takes to load the map...
Yeh, i am hoping to pickup a pair of 36Gb Raptors myself and run them in RAID0
wouldn't normall bother with raptors, so damn expensive, but the 36gb ones are pretty reasonable now, and all they will store is OS, drivers, AV, firewall, games
also got another gig of ram on the way, just generally fed up of long load times and lag
wouldn't normall bother with raptors, so damn expensive, but the 36gb ones are pretty reasonable now, and all they will store is OS, drivers, AV, firewall, games
also got another gig of ram on the way, just generally fed up of long load times and lag
Last edited by [OvC]_AMD_Man (2006-06-15 03:30:31)
And it's the only way BF2 will let you put your sound settings on "Ultra high".cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:
defitnantly get an XFi, i have one and it totally pwns!
Last edited by _j5689_ (2006-06-25 12:54:37)
*points* I see Guild Wars! o_o And boy, ya got enough Logitech equipment around? And that giant ATI logo... kinda figures you'd be running one for a video card. Actually it'd be more amusing if you were running a nvidia card instead.Nyte wrote:
Here's mine:
AMD Athlon64 4000+ Winchester CPU
2x1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinums 2-2-2-5 DDR RAM
DFI nForce4 SLI UT Motherboard
ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512MB Video Card
SoundBlaster Live! 24Bit Sound Card
OCZ Modstream 520W Power Supply
CoolerMaster WaveMaster with Window Modification
Logitech G5 Mouse
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech Rumblepad Vibration Feedback x2
Logitech Force3D Pro Joystick
Logitech Z-3 Speakers
fUnc1030 Mousing Surface
Grado SR125 Headphones
Plantronics Audio .80 Headset
BenQ FP937s 19 Inch LCD
No, there are ATi fanboys believe it or not.
Wow, lots of rich people around here.
Here is my cheap rig.
P4 3.2Ghz HT
1gig PC2700(DDR333)
Ati Radeon 9600SE ( huge bottleneck )
Well thats everything performance based.
Here is my cheap rig.
P4 3.2Ghz HT
1gig PC2700(DDR333)
Ati Radeon 9600SE ( huge bottleneck )
Well thats everything performance based.