Try ebuyer.com, you can get the parts cheap, and get someone to build it up. A majority of us tend to go for customized pcs to save money from a PC straight off the shops like PC World.

Hack him back and you'd set yourself not only as low as him, but a reputation of known to hack. I advise against that.

For a change .

Awesome, thanks lads .

Might as well suck up the stutter FPS for the time being lol.

Quote from garph :

The 8 series cards are DX10 ready now and games that use DX10 are just starting to come out now.

I know you were recomended that card as a stop gap until later for any updated DX10 cards/games or price drops in DX10 cards in the new year.

Just wait and see or if you can't, save up £180 or so for the 8800gts (320) best price and performance.

I'm gonna wait for now. Christmas is coming, might ask the family for a 500GB SATA Hard drive and 8800GTS 320MB PCI-E graphics card .

Quote from rc10racer :

Games or gfx cards?

Crysis is coming out friday which is dx10 but some people have been modding that game so the ultra gfx setting looks good in xp as it does in vista.

The graphics cards. I bought the 7600gt to keep me in bay until the DX10 is on the cards next year. Saved myself a bit of money from that .

Quote from garph :

Dave I'm pretty sure it is the graphics card. I have a much lower spec system than you except for my graphics card (7950GX2) and I ran the demo on max with no problems at all.

You have one of the highest processor AMD currently do and 2gig of DDR2, your weak link is the 7600GT.

Plus if the min spec says an 7800GT then it kind of answers the question for you.

Yeah . Might as well save up for the 8800GT, when do the DX10s come out?

I don't think it is the graphics card that is holding me up. *even though you need 7800gt or higher for the minimum requirements on COD4*

I think I know what it is, but I'd rather not post it on here incase I'm wrong and I make myself look like a fool in front of you guys *the computing experts, except for wannabe harjuin*

Thanks for the help, and the experience in overclocking. It worked, but didn't make much difference, at least 1-2 fps.

Should we make up a petition to ban Harjun?

Not only is he a waste of our time, he just causes havoc in the topic he posts, and completely brings the original topic "Off topic" And its not fair for the topic creator.

Quote from Intrepid :

what do u want though? some half baked cars, and tracks.... and apparently karts???

Anything but karts, we'd never hear the end from the two of you.

I tried installing the setup Widdow, but it seems to only support nForce2 motherboards, such and such .

Quote from garph :

I'd try different settings before you start overlocking. The first one would be turning off the AA and trying all the other settings on high(er) or at least have it on 2AA. AA is what will lower the FPS the most. Could also try a higher screen resolution.

If you do try a little overclock go with the ATItool, it's very simple and easy to use. You won’t get any warning messages (from the card) come up if you overclock it too much either but the ATItool can find the best/safest overclock and scan for artefacts, these are graphics glitches on screen, you'll know them when you see them.

Overclocking that card might take away and lag or stutter that you have already come across on the settings you have, just extra FPS to smooth things out, I don’t know if it will be enough to crank up any settings though

Yeah I had a go, went to 1280 x 960 *max option* and it ran smoothly until it got to bushes and sniping through the bushes. Don't want to go back to 1024, now that I like the 1280 res lol.

I'll give the overclocking a go tonight after I have done my sport activities for the evening. Got the settings that I require, just need to get that extra FPS, and problem solved... hopefully. If it doesn't satisfy me, I'll go back down to 1024 to save the hassle .

Oi!!

Quote from hrtburnout :

"Cynics see the world as it is, not the way people want it to be."

That sounded very wise, didn't it?

Indeed it did. *smokes pipe*

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

While imo you should overclock just to get the extra 'free' performance, it is unlikely to really improve the performance noticably. You'll go from 30 to 33fps or something, unless the 7600s of today are extreme overclockers..

I.e. don't expect to really be able to make it look better and keep framerates.

Thanks for the heads up.

Quote from Jakg :

I'm not a fan of RivaTuner, much prefer ATiTool (which works on nVidia cards - Inbuilt Artefact scanner is a life-safer)

The one "misconception" about cooling is that if you have a lot of fans and cold air the card must run cold - actually the most important part is the quality of the heatsink (ie is it actually exchanging any heat) and the link between the cooler and the core, ie the TIM.

Cards don't give any warning of running too hot, however you will need to Artefact test, and if it's going to cook it'll do it then.

Where can I do the Artefact test?

Thanks, I'll have a play with that tonight, after I try out the settings again tonight.

How much of an improvement/difference does it make when overclocking a graphics card? Particulary the Nvidia 7 or 8 series?

This should spice things up for Honda next season.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I heard they've got some new Egyptian driver who's got a really badass helmet design.

Lol.

First things first. *puts a Harjun free zone sign infront of topic*

I acquired Call of Duty 4 the day after its release. And I really enjoy the game, to the point that I want to start all over again. And I noticed on wikipedia that the graphics on that screenshot had more additional features that I would have turned off in my game. Shadows, and such etc, tiny things, but would require the CPU and Graphics card to work harder.

Screenshot on how I would the game to look like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cod4_captain_price.jpg

I got the game in 1024 x 768 Resolution, with X4 AA, with automatic texture settings (they were on high settings) And the game runs nicely. But don't have the other tiny features, because it may lag the game up.

Here are my specs that I use for the game.

Dual Core 2.8ghz AM2
AM2 2GB RAM
Nvidia 7600GT 256MB PCI-E

I tend to go for the 8 series graphics cards next year when the DX10s are out, which was why I bought a 7 series *this card was a bargain, so I bought it* to keep me at bay until next year.

And I thought of overclocking today, because of the winter season, I have my PC literally right next to a window, and with the fan sucking in the cold air when if I wanted to open the window.

What would I need to do to overclock my graphics card slightly, to use the other additional details and prevent the game from lagging? With a lot of cold air breezing through the window, and plenty of fans to suck it in, I shouldn't have any problems with temperature wise. Graphics card have a warning message when it comes to cards becoming too hot don't they?

Cheers.

Last edited by BigDave2967, Mon 12 Nov 2007, 12:09.

Quote from harjun :

overclock it to death

*smack*

Quote from DJMOZ :

Lfs Is Full Of Idiots, Like The Other Day I Was On A Drag Server, I Was Winning Them And They Asked For A Few Of My Setups Then Fukin Banned Me For **** All, Cheeky Pricks They Are

If we are full of idiots, why are you still here?

Lose the hard man attitude kid, this is the internet.

Lmao, brilliant!

Quote from tristancliffe :

I've already mentioned that if you 'make it' (even just as far as being paid to drive almost ANYTHING) then I will be jealous. I'm not pretending otherwise. And I'm not rating your driving ability, because there is nothing to rate that on.

But.

I am willing to put a three figure number (£xxx) on you NEVER getting a paid drive in anything I would consider decent - FBMW, FRenault, F3, F1 etc... Sorry, but you have the wrong attitude, a complete lack of experience (Irvine was racing at quite a young age, and Hill was a decent bike racer whilst still young), no money, no realisation that no company will give you ANY money until you are winning...

But if you prove me wrong you have my envy.

Well put.

Get well soon fella!