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Topic: April Computer Build Thread (Read 113470 times)
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Trippy
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Are you planning on overclocking? Nope. Hmm...X38 MBs are still painfully expensive. |
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Engels
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One of the things that ticks me off about ATI is their lack of support for Linux. I know, not that big a deal to most, but it bothers me immensely that ATI, always touted as the hard working underdog trying to get a chance against the limelight shown on Nvidia are actually total lazy slackers when it comes to providing Linux support, while on the other hand Nvidia has a very good track record of working with many Linux distros.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evolution&num=1Well lo and behold. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Ozzu
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One of the things that ticks me off about ATI is their lack of support for Linux. I know, not that big a deal to most, but it bothers me immensely that ATI, always touted as the hard working underdog trying to get a chance against the limelight shown on Nvidia are actually total lazy slackers when it comes to providing Linux support, while on the other hand Nvidia has a very good track record of working with many Linux distros.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evolution&num=1Well lo and behold. Linux benchmarks of the new ATI cards. Seems like Nvidia cards run better in Linux if you aren't using AA/AF, but if you are, the ATI cards are better. So uh, since I never run without AA/AF, my next card for my Linux box will be ATI. Most interesting indeed. |
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Lantyssa
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Also, re. disparaging comments about ATi: This generation ATi is the underdog. A couple generations ago you might have gotten stung by a lame ATi product. I could say exactly the same things at different times about NVIDIA - it doesn't mean I can't appreciate the value of the NVIDIA offerings. It's just the nature of hardware: examine the data, buy what's best for your price and performance needs at the time you're building. My ancient desktop is still running a ATi 9800 pro that I flashed to an XT - the thing's a champ and still gets up to run team fortress 2 fairly well.
It's not the hardware I'm disparaging. My 9800 Pro was a great card. The drivers, however, were absolute crap. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Dtrain
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It's not the hardware I'm disparaging. My 9800 Pro was a great card. The drivers, however, were absolute crap.
Debatable - not that I want to debate it. I'll just say that for my needs I never had an issue with my drivers on pretty much the same card. |
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Engels
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Here's the latest remodeling I did after purchasing a Lian Li case:   This case allows me pretty decent cable management, considering I'm generally impatient and hopeless with that.  Here's the awsome-est cooling corridor I've built.  Here's to give you an idea of the size of the CPU cooler.  |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Lum
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Well, I spent July 4 going to Fry's and seeing what they had on sale, and got pretty much everything on the list from my earlier post... didn't get a CPU cooler (seemed superfluous since Intel CPUs come with a heat sink + fan as standard), got 2 2GB DDR2 sticks of RAM, got a 1TB hard drive for a touch more, got an Antec Sonata 2 case solely because it came with a 500w power supply bundled with it, and picked up an OEM copy of Vista 64 (Home Premium).
All told it was about $850 (the OS drove the price up from my earlier estimate, but I had no copies of Vista 64 around and XP64 is a nonstarter for a gaming rig). Vista is actually zippy now and I get rock-solid 60FPS in WoW with every setting jacked up, even during raids. I realize WoW is not exactly a stress test, but I cancelled my AoC account (maybe when they get patching under control I'll see what it looks like when you can actually run it). Under the benchmarks that came with Vista, everything maxes out at 5.9 except for my RAM speed, which is at a pokey 5.5. I'll live with it. :D
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Engels
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Lum, might want to run a Prime95 torture test to see how well that CPU stays cool with the standard heatsink; I was fine with my standard till summer hit, and since I don't have AC, the ambient temperature in my apt got into the 80s, and the Intel factory sink and fan were just not cutting it at all.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Lum
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and since I don't have AC If I didn't have AC in Texas, I would have worse problems than my CPU. |
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NiX
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Random question, but do they still make those cases that were pretty much a fridge?
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