[geRV]

[quote="Short Hand":e1d48]

Originally Posted by geRV

Look at the benchmarks, the top end amd is getting its balls rolled with ease by the new intel chip. Im suprised theres that much of a gap between them, they were intel controlled benchmarks but i doubt they'd intentionally sabatage the amd system as it would be discovered when reviewers get their hands on the new chip and mobo a few months down the line.

Its not a matter of "fuck this company or that" its a matter of getting the best performance for your money. Looks like the tide is swinging back in favour of intel for a while anyway.

As i type this im on a pc with 2 gigs of ram, x800gto 2 with an amd 4400+x2 cpu i just built for my uncle. pretty nice system at that. happy:

Isn't the new AMD family coming out soon ??... Will they not roll over the new Intel chips ?[/quote:e1d48]

Socket am2 is just an upgrade to ddr 2 for amd, performance wise i dunno if there will be much of a difference.

[Akuma]

Conroe is pretty sweet.

Too bad it's over half a year away and intel is still for fags. happy:




It's not like AMD is going to sit idly by and let goliath take the performance crown again, even if they have to pull an intel and release insanely overlocked processors that are unstable and run too hot.


Glad to see there is some competition in the market again.

[elitecloud]

Originally Posted by elitecloud

fugging computer is locking up on me

cod2 will just freeze or just down at times

nothing major installed - drivers and games really - and wifi app

shuttle AN35-N Ultra
1 gig 2x512 Kingston DDR
Maxtor 40 gig HD
Western Digital 200gig secondary hd
Lite-on cd burner
amd mobile barton 2500+

could it be the hdd? i don't think it's the ram cuz i just rma'd it for soem new ones like a month or so ago

sometimes before the system freezes, i hear a spin up sound in my headphones - much like a cd is spinning up or somthing to that nature

kthnx

help - imma kill the system!

[Forte]

Originally Posted by Milla

To the 10th degree.

Fucking Geek Squad ROFL! Those guys are all high school kids happy:

I just decided to send the powersupply back. If I had them look at it for 5 minutes it would cost me some rediculous price. hake:

[geRV]

Seen the nvidia reviews yesterday of the 7900gtx and gt, seem to be pretty good boards. Not phantom editions like that 512mb over priced pos either happy:

7900gtx or 1900xtx hm....

[Forte]

Originally Posted by geRV

Seen the nvidia reviews yesterday of the 7900gtx and gt, seem to be pretty good boards. Not phantom editions like that 512mb over priced pos either happy:

7900gtx or 1900xtx hm....

depends on which games you will be playing with it. ATi tends to do better with DX games, while nvidia is great in OpenGL.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Forte

depends on which games you will be playing with it. ATi tends to do better with DX games, while nvidia is great in OpenGL.

Theres a big debate about that raging on some forums, seems now the only reason nvidia is faster in open gl is due to driver optomisations that are still enabled.

[Himmler]

Originally Posted by Forte

depends on which games you will be playing with it. ATi tends to do better with DX games, while nvidia is great in OpenGL.

dont mean to be a dick but i am pretty sure that gerv knows this already among hundreds of other things about these cards we have no clue about happy:

[geRV]

Not much to know about the new 7900 series, far as ive read theyre the same as the 7800 series with a smaller core size and speedbumped ram and core clock speeds.

[geRV]

fx57 and quad sli 7900gtx benchmarks

F.E.A.R, 2560x1600, soft shadows enabled
47fps - 7900 GTX 512 Quad-SLi
26fps - X1900XTX Crossfire

Chronicles of Riddick, 2560x1600, 4xAA/8xAF
82.9fps - 7900 GTX 512 Quad-SLi
53.5fps - X1900XTX Crossfire

Doom3, 2560x1600, 4xAA/8xAF
108.9fps - 7900 GTX 512 Quad-SLi
84.0fps - X1900XTX Crossfire



Hardly what i would call impressive considering the price premium for quad sli, in the region of 25-30fps faster give or take. Nvidia are for some reason whoring this like its something special though. eek:

Hands on benchmarks

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3314&s=1

that dell renegade to me for some reason looks so cheaply put together.

[gtboys34]

Gerv what are you're pc specs?

[geRV]

At the minute

3.2 pentium 4 @ 4ghz
ati x800xt-pe
1 gig pc3200 ddr
sonic fury audio
40 gig quantum fireball
80 gig maxtor
hp lightscribe dvd-r


Soon to be (hopefully)

amd fx 60
x1900xtx (or 7900gtx depending)
2 gig pc 4000 ddr
western digital raptor 74 gig (for windows and some programs)
western digital 320gig (games,other shit)
Hp lightscribe dvdr

all in a shuttle sn25p small form factor. happy:

[Himmler]

i hate you. biggrin:

[Pyro]

intel > amd

[Forte]

Originally Posted by geRV

$$$$$$$$$ happy:

jesus christ how can you afford that?