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billyfridge:
OMG...........Tex is turning into a computer geek :D
texasboy:
--- Quote from: billyfridge on May 19, 2008, 09:36:53 pm ---OMG...........Tex is turning into a computer geek :D
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;D Just an old mans hobby. Would never have got this far without the great help offered by other members.
cheers
Synbios:
I'm glad you decided to go with the 64bit version. I think it's better to start moving toward 64bit these days and as Quantum said it can handle larger amounts of RAM much more efficiently. The 9 series geforces are a complete waste in my opinion.
The 9800 GTX doesn't even outperform the 8800GTX in some of the tests. Nvidia really screwed up their whole numbering system. The 9800 GX2 really should have been an 8900 GX2. Why they never had an 8900 I don't know. It's good to see you got an 8800GT though, that's a damn good card.
I guess mass production variables come into play a lot with motherboards. I had a lot of problems with Gigabyte's top of the line models back in 04. I have heard some good things about gigabyte but I don't see what people saw in them. Their customer service is horrible too and I ended up having a totally dead board, waste of money. I switched over to Asus and I've been using Asus mobos in all machines since. Never had a problem once and I also recommended it to three of my friends who are all new system builders and love them.
Corsair is my favorite RAM. I have always used corsair and right now I'm also using the DDR2-6400 XMS pairs (DDR2-800Mhz).
By defauly my board had the RAM set to 533Mhz to be in 1:2 ratio with my 1066FSB. I had to manually change the RAM over to 800Mhz. I would just double check that your ram is running at full capacity. I also had to change an option for my system to utilitze all 4 gigs of my RAM.
Quantum:
--- Quote from: Synbios on May 25, 2008, 04:06:32 pm ---I'm glad you decided to go with the 64bit version. I think it's better to start moving toward 64bit these days and as Quantum said it can handle larger amounts of RAM much more efficiently. The 9 series geforces are a complete waste in my opinion.
The 9800 GTX doesn't even outperform the 8800GTX in some of the tests. Nvidia really screwed up their whole numbering system. The 9800 GX2 really should have been an 8900 GX2. Why they never had an 8900 I don't know. It's good to see you got an 8800GT though, that's a damn good card.
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The 9000 series really started with the 8800GT, but they still wanted people to buy the left over bulk of their 8800 cards so they called it an 8800.
I really hate the phrase of "x doesn't even out perform y in specific test z". Certain Pentium 4's out perform Intel's latest Quad Core offerings in certain tests, this is the nature of modern chip design.
Synbios:
But that also means that P4 is better than a quad core for certain applications. My computer before this was a 3.6Ghz P4, and now I have the QX6700 (2.66 quad core)
Was my old computer faster than this one sometimes? Yes! If I am going to buy a new product then I want it to be faster in every nature. I got a quad core so I can do more multitasking, but I still wish I had waited until the processor speeds got up a little higher.
I do agree the 8800GT should really be a 9 series considering the design of the GPU. I think it's stupid to buy a 9800GTX over an 8800GTX though, simply because the 8800GTX can do most of what the 9800GTX can.
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