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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 16, 2008, 09:50:35 am »

So what monitor do you have?

When I next build a computer I'm going for at least a 24 inch 1920 x 1200 monitor.

Also, demand screencaps of some high end game like Crysis from your final set-up!

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 14, 2008, 08:40:50 am »

Seems like 2.765ghz on CPU is close to max using nvidea tune . Upped the graphic card a little and benchmark up with the e8440 core 2 duo boys.
http://service.futuremark.com/home.action;jsessionid=3D6BF220EB92C91CD4030A983E13DA7D.
But just look at the proffessionals with the quads.lol
Temps 42 deg max during test gpu temps 45max.  Got a great airflow through case. Have room to add an 80mm fan on side to blow directly on freezer 7 pro heatsink. Will get another card this week and run the Sli .Quantum  you have been a big help through my learning curves. TKS.
cheers

ps. did you notice that they are mostly on Vista

Cool, I'm going to save up about £1500 and make something really nice at some point. Funnily enough my old computer still stands up pretty good against modern stuff though. If I'm going with Intel (which unless AMD pull something out of the hat in the next year could be pretty likely), I'm waiting until they've dropped the outdated Front Side Bus concept.

Vista gets all the new drivers and shiny graphics. If you want something low weight, just switch to Linux, Ubuntu 8 is coming out in about a week, it's a really easy install, worth a try. Assuming drivers are sorted out for it o.k you can play a lot of games fine in it after just installing Wine.

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General Discussion / Re: Members Pictures.

« on: April 14, 2008, 07:51:26 am »

Couple of photos of my girl atm:



At the top of a hill we walked 



At work.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 13, 2008, 10:40:04 am »

GPUs can get to a lot higher temps in the short term than CPUs.

I wouldn't be too worried if a GPU peaked at 85 C for a bit. The GPU itself will be fine, it's stuff like the GPU's memory exposed to long term heat that suggers.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 12, 2008, 09:03:06 pm »

It would be the exact same card added. Its nice to see that the bridge piece is included with card.Is there much difference between the fanless cards and those with built in fans?
cheers

Fanless cards obviously produce a lot more heat inside the case, so this is something you need to be very wary of, make sure the case is well aired and that you keep check on the GPU / CPU / Mobo / HDD temperatures.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 12, 2008, 12:02:56 pm »

A little update on project.
Processor running at 2.7ghz  1,535 FSB. Graphics card 694mhz core 940x2 (1880)mem. Gives 11,551 3D Marks. Seems  bench marks from the pro`s on graphics card are 705 core and 951 mem. I picked figures slightly below these . Temps at moment  36deg for CPU and 32 deg for mobo(on freezer 7 pro).  Quantum, would another card and SLI  Produce better results?
cheers

Another curious thought is that my 8800gt is fanless and bench marks as above are for cards with fan.

Of course adding another card in SLi would produce better results, but not very cost effective ones as you need to buy the same or near the same card for ~40% the gain. The specs of SLi are always set by the lowest performing card, so you can't just add another cheap one and expect better results, at least not until Hybrid SLi has matured and it's not even been launched yet.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 11, 2008, 01:39:07 pm »

REF your speakers Quantum, lets hope you dont have the same problems as these guys had.http://forums.logitech.com/logitech/board/message?board.id=stereo_20&message.id=3110.

Probably a limited manufacturing process fault, never heard this problem from anyone else before.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 10, 2008, 10:42:18 am »

OMG Tex...that stuff is easy 

After much thought, and research, I've decided to dispense with my two free standing speakers on my desktop PC and use the built in speakers in my monitor.thereby freeing up room on my desktop for more important things like coffee cups, my mobile phone, porn CD's, and my signed pic of Wayne Rooney.
To do this I had to buy a audio extension lead off ebay (99p + postage £1.26p) I thought 'bugger the expense, it's worth it' so you see Tex, yer not the only one doing a 'major project'.


 

Built in speakers make me sad 

Their quality is so low, I got shinny new Z4 logitech 2.1 speakers this year as a birthday present, I've not been able to hit maximum volume on them and my computer playing something loud because it hurts my ears so much!

And the quality remains fantastic at any volume, it's really got me in to high quality audio files which you couldn't really tell the difference before on standard PC speakers.

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General Discussion / Re: Coming soon: superfast internet

« on: April 10, 2008, 09:43:20 am »

Well this will vastly improve the infrastructure of the internet (which is very badly needed). Unless the wires which go to out very homes are improved significantly, you shouldn't expect to ever see more than 50 MB/s.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 10, 2008, 09:41:34 am »

Sata HDD and PIONEER Sata DVD/CD optical drive are so much faster than the IDE drives.

No, they are not. HDDs and DVD/CD drives don't yet have a high enough I/O to make the technical specifications of SATA any more useful than that of IDE. However, new hard drives which are a bit faster, bit quiter, more reliable and have higher platter density tend to be SATA based, so if you've got one of those then it'd be very good, but it's not really to do with that it's SATA.

Point taken Quantum. Running 160GB Hitachi s-ata 7200rpm.
Messing around very slowly, running cpu at 2.56 ghz(2,33ghz stock),fsb slightly over 1400, temps went up to 38deg for cpu and33 for mobo.(stock intel heatsink) will change if temps get too high.
3D benchmark now up to 10,714. Havent touched the 8800gt yet.
Tks for input.
cheers

Upped the CPU TO 15%  2.683GHZ fsb 1533 (766x2) very stable so far. temp up to 40-41deg. Can you recommend a good heatsink cooler  for core2 duo ?

To be honest, you should be able to push it to 3 GHz without too much trouble. However I'd be careful to run extensive tests like 2 Prime95 torture tests running on each core for several hours.

There are a myriad of good Core2 heatsinks, the best is the Thermalright 120 Extreme, but you need to really buy a very good 12 CM fan to go with. Another fantastic one is the Noctua NH-U12P.

If you read through this review you'll get to a chart comparing all the major heatsink players: http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3268  in terms of noise, cooling at idle, cooling at stock, maximum over clockability and highest stable over clock.

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Computers - Technology / Re: My new project

« on: April 07, 2008, 10:53:23 am »

Sata HDD and PIONEER Sata DVD/CD optical drive are so much faster than the IDE drives.

No, they are not. HDDs and DVD/CD drives don't yet have a high enough I/O to make the technical specifications of SATA any more useful than that of IDE. However, new hard drives which are a bit faster, bit quiter, more reliable and have higher platter density tend to be SATA based, so if you've got one of those then it'd be very good, but it's not really to do with that it's SATA.

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: Is the 'Guevara' edition using the newer Bit Che core?

« on: April 07, 2008, 04:49:09 am »

Guevara edition and normal edition uses the same code, just more of the code is enabled for Guevara edition.

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Language Translations / Re: OLD - Re: Bit Che - Translators Wanted!

« on: April 05, 2008, 12:07:23 am »

Oh and English (British) version 

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Language Translations / Re: OLD - Re: Bit Che - Translators Wanted!

« on: April 05, 2008, 12:04:44 am »

I downloaded the newest version and translated it to Afrikaans...I put the Afrikaans.ini in \bit che\languages, but when I restart Bit Che, there is no sign of Afrikaans...any suggestions?

Chris

You sure your putting it in the right place?

Go to Start > Run

Then copy and paste this in:

%appdata%\convivea\bit_che\languages

and hit enter.

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General Discussion / Re: Firefox 3 Beta 5

« on: April 02, 2008, 04:17:18 am »

Updated to the final beta, the first release candidate is now being worked on. Firefox 3 final release is expected to be released in June.