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texasboy:
;D Did like the P4. seemed to run pretty decent with good card.
Presently running Q6600 Quad on XFX Nvidia 780i Sli Mobo(can run 3 cards in SLI) Running 2x8800GTcards in SLI, 2x1GB Corsair black heat shield 800 mem.
Have slightly Overclocked CPU to 2.65GHZ and cards from 600/900 to 650/946. Havent needed to adjust voltages as Thermal Take 750 w has a built in 20% +/- tolerance built in.Runs from 1.36 v up to 1.46v. Futuremark 3D bench marks over 14,500. But having some slight problems with nvidia graphic card drivers which sometimes quits and recovers during testing on Futuremark. Have submitted details for better Ram.
It maybe that nvidia needs to do more work on drivers for Vista 64 Ultimate.
Using PC as I type
cheers
Synbios:
sounds good. Yeah PC6400 (800Mhz) is not a bad deal but you could use 4 gigs man. 2 is just not cutting it these days.
texasboy:
--- Quote from: Synbios on May 30, 2008, 11:29:55 am ---sounds good. Yeah PC6400 (800Mhz) is not a bad deal but you could use 4 gigs man. 2 is just not cutting it these days.
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Stole some ram from other PC. Now running 2x2GB. Mobo FSB at 1333 and memory at 990. Slightly upped GPU on 8800GT SLI to 663/940. Dont even have a chance to get my finger off the keys before process is complete. Graphics are excellent. Perhaps Quantum can advise me before I start a game ,which came with Mobo. Ghost Recon advanced warfighter. Not sure if this game has any stress levels on my PC. CPU running at 3.0GHZ (The fans are running ,lol) Temps not a problem
cheers
Quantum:
--- Quote from: texasboy on June 03, 2008, 08:28:53 am ---
--- Quote from: Synbios on May 30, 2008, 11:29:55 am ---sounds good. Yeah PC6400 (800Mhz) is not a bad deal but you could use 4 gigs man. 2 is just not cutting it these days.
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Stole some ram from other PC. Now running 2x2GB. Mobo FSB at 1333 and memory at 990. Slightly upped GPU on 8800GT SLI to 663/940. Dont even have a chance to get my finger off the keys before process is complete. Graphics are excellent. Perhaps Quantum can advise me before I start a game ,which came with Mobo. Ghost Recon advanced warfighter. Not sure if this game has any stress levels on my PC. CPU running at 3.0GHZ (The fans are running ,lol) Temps not a problem
cheers
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Huh... games that come with components don't tend to stress those components on purpose so you think you've got good stuff.
The only good game I've ever seen come with anything is the Half-Life games with ATi cards, but ATi cards always performed spectacularly on Half-Life and Half-Life 2 series and they've never been stressful games anyway.
If you want pretty:
Crysis
Call of Duty 4 (How cinematic and how well voice acted this is is amazing)
Oblivion still stresses cards out on maximum settings, especially get texture mods and tweaks to improve the graphics a lot!
Unreal Tournament III is unlikely to stress your set-up on maximum settings but will look very pretty!
I highly suggest any of the Orange Box games for an enjoyable gaming experience. If you like the concept of puzzling solving in games, get Portal! It's about the best game of recent times, and it looks so pretty and so clean in maximum settings with 16 x AA, very very funny game as well.
One of the beauty of such a powerful system isn't always playing new games, but going back to 2 - 3 year old games and breathing new life in to them by playing them on super high settings with a fantastic frame rate. The game F.E.A.R plays like a cross between a traditional FPS and Japanese Horror movie, absolutely fantastic in high graphics if you're in to that sort of thing.
Edit: Oh and apparently the new Tomb Raider games (Legend and Anniversary) are supposed to be really good, with British voice actors and a lot of British sense of humour involved.
texasboy:
;D Just happen to have Tomb Raider Anniversary.lol Full version, came with Mobo. More familiar with this game since daughter was always on the previous versions. No wonder she was trying to steal from me. >:D. It says 16+ moderate violence, so I guess I can try. Finding better Graphics and speed when I lower multiplier from 9 to 8 and increaseFSB and Mem. Still having occasional shut downs due to display driver nviddmkm but always recovers during benchmark testing. Still playing with various settings and no doubt I will find the best one for the set up.. CPU figures are well above average, its the graphics I have to sort out.
TKS
cheers
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