just added another gb to my mobo (asus k8n) bring my total to 1.5 gb beer:

still waiting on those test screenies gerv... sleeping: happy:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.mar ... scores.jpg


Doom 3 @ 1680x1050 16x hq af and 2 x fsaa.

Cpu's an opteron 165 @ 2.8ghz dual core (fx62 speeds) rock:

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/14/62.jpg[/img]

WOW...nice

Anyone want to help me choose a good laptop? Looking for a big screen (17 inch) with a gig of ramm and a decent video card and about 120-160 hard drive space. Any thoughts on who makes the best laptop?

Thought about getting a mac but I'm so used to windows.

Depends really what you want it for, not really gonna need a good video card if you don't play games or anything on it, the better the vid card the more juice it sucks up and the shorter ytour battery life.

Dell laptops usually are good, (thats saying something), acer notebooks are meant to be good, usually cost mroe though

Thanks gerv. rock:

well since my computer took a shit im selling what i can and building a whole new system. im going to wait until conroe comes out and as soon as it does...cant wait. gerv..do you know anything about it? when it gets released do you think the EE of it will be released at the same time, or shortly afterwards? are there going to be crossfire motherboards released for conroe? i dont want to have to wait TO long for it and i plan on getting 1900xtx and a crossfire mobo and eventually get anoter xtx when its required.

Conroe or "core 2 duo" cpu's are due out july sometime (think the 23rd). Intel are working with ati and getting out a lot of crossfire boards as well.


[img]http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/1023_large_conroe_pricing.jpg[/img]

Thats what the pricing is meant to be (only the 4 with CNR in the left hand column are conroe cpu's). Extreme editions are meant to be around 3ghz or more and cost $999. Probably be hard to get one of the cpu's though since the supply is meant to be limited for the first few months.

shiiit..thats pretty expensive. i was hoping it wouldnt be $999 for like .5 more GHz or something like that

Get the 2.67 and clock it higher, people already have samples of these cpu's and are getting good overclocks on air with them.

a friend is selling his western digital raptor harddrive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822144160). I'm wondering if I use this as a primary, will I notice the speed significantly, or will it only be a minor upgrade?

yeah himm, i heard that you'll be able to get that conroe up to 4.1 ghz!! but im sure youre gonna a good cooling system for your pc

Be minor, raptors can be pretty noisy on it as well, 2 of them in raid 0 would give a more noticable bump in hard drive performance 1 on its own isn't much to shout about.

i had 2x raptor in raid 0. i wouldnt recommend it, total waste of money for the like 1% performance increase i got. just get a bigger hdd for the price

Gonna get a new monitor for fathers days

Looking at this Dell.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... u=320-4426

220.15 -25 dollar coupon

or this one
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 0393958039

Im intrigued by the widescreen but I know the dell is quality.
think im gonna run down to the store and check it out tomm while Im at work.

see how pretty it looks in person.

get the dell..you wont be disappointed.

my wife has that dell now...I know its pretty nice..I'm going tonight to eyeball the other one.


You have 14 day return policy from bestbuy, I might pick up the widescreen one and set it up head to head and see the difference

you should splurge a little bit and get the 2005fpw. pure sex, they might have something newer called something different now though. its the 20" widescreen.

Bought the 19 inch wide screen LCD....it is fucking 1337 tits

1440x900 resolution for desktop and COD2 supports it as well rock: rock: rock:

ok so i got my artic cooling ati silencer 5 for my x800gto2, but im wondering what happens to my current pci-e power connector that connects to the card, does that still stay on? or does it get in the way eeee.

http://accessories.gateway.com/Accessor ... ?ref=merch

that's what i have, fucking games are awesome on that bitch rock: rock:

It'll still plug in.

i want the new conroe! gerv? how about it??

Conroes (core 2 duo) kicking the shit out of everything at present, already know some people that got engineering samples on ebay for next to nothing ffs. spank:

Yeah, I'm thinking my next upgrade is going to be Intel. Kinda funny how things flip flop like that. AMD used to be the price+performance leader. Of course they still have time to respond to Conroe. Some rumored Pricing for Conroe:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2531

AMD's price cut's supposedly on the way:

http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2800

Since both platforms have moved to DDR2, PCI-Express, etc it really does come down to CPU performance and price. Seems like Conroe will be the way to go

Question:

I "found" a copy of Win XP Corp which has SP2 already with it. Can I turn on automatic updates?

The reason I ask is I also "found" a copy of Norton Internet Security 2006 and it has that X in the norton box unless you turn on automatic updates. It kind of bugs me and I want to know if its OK to get the updates or not.

Thanks.

LOL, yeah it's cool man. My bro gave me his cd of win xp pro and the cd didnt work so i just "requested" a copy of it and it worked, updates too. and But i have a question, what else have you "found"? happy:

automatic updates will work but you wont have access to the windows update site

I know it will work, i mean should I be doing it because I have a "found" version?

if you do, they will track you down, grant you us citizenship and send you to iraq.



I think it just does not allow you to download updates, they don't send stuff and delete your HD or find out where you live

My "found" version of corperate works ok atm but I turned off auto updates
due to poss probs with the new gen advantage thing.

Genuine advantage stops "found" copies of XP access to the microsoft update website. It does however allow access to automatic updates, unless they havent changed something between now and 3 months ago. Automatic updates only downloads the most critical updates, for example - security updates.

The reason being is that if "found" copies of XP have holes in the software, its easy for hackers to target them, and then dish it out to legitemate windows users.

cool thanks

K, Gerv... happy: These are my stats:

Processers: Dual 2.8GHz Intel Pentium D
RAM: 2.0GB
CPU Speed: 2.80GHz rated at 4.20GHz
Graph. Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200SE TurboCache

K, so obviously the rest of my computer can run BF2 fine (and probly maxed out), with teh exception of my graphics card. So, what's the cheapest graphics card I can get that can, say, max BF2 out?

you got the conroe snipes?

Can probably buy an x800xt for cheap enough now which would run with most settigs on high, check ebay an you cna usualy find them.

How's this, Gerv?

[url:52719]http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10 071793&catid=10524[/url:52719]

I don't want to cheap it out ... Like I want a graphics card to last me a while, but I'm not goign to buy every new one that comes out - but I just don't want my games to look like utter shiite either.

And gtboys: ??

Thats ok if you have pci express slot, if you;re on agp you;re pretty limited by what you cna get in terms of the card lasting. If you do have pci express might want to look at a 7600gt.

ugh im pissed w/ no computer. cant wait for conroe..... cry: cry:

Already up for preorder over here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... _Duo2.html