Listening to Jak list his PC specs makes me horny :hide:

Ok now i post my specs:

Dell something or other, all you need to know is its crap and i don't have a clue what stuff is in it, infact, seeing all the posts above make me go cross eyed with confusion

Got new graphics card. (still gotta send 4870 back for return rma :shy Also have two western digitals; have 30 days to send back old one . Thanks for reminding me to take pics of setup, jak. I'll probably do it in a month as I seem to procrastinate a lot.

CPU Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.7|1.5v
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P
Memory 2x2gb Crucial Ballistix @ 1060
Graphics Card Evga GTX 260 core216
Hard Drive 250gb Seagate 7200.10 | 1TB WD Caviar Black
Sound Card Onboard Sound
Power Supply Corsair 450vx
Case Antec Three Hundred
CPU cooling Xigmatek HDT-S1284EE
GPU cooling Stock
OS Windows 7 RC
Monitor Samsung 953bw 19"

I'm surprised that there aren't more people running a triplehead setup. All you need is a low-end pci-e x16 secondary video card and SoftTH! (And a few monitors, but CRTs cost nothing now anyway).

Dont have the room for it, And im not a hardcore sim driver

Quote from Jakg :

Link in the sig as always, but PC #2 (Uni PC) is now running:

AMD Phenom II 920,
HIS ATi 4830 512 MB,
2GB Crucial Ballistix (4GB once faulty sticks come back from RMA),
Foxconn A7DA-S 790GX,
Hiper Type-R 580w PSU,
Seagate 7200.12 500GB,
Windows 7 x64 RC.

ATM it's got a temporary optical drive which I may or may not keep.

All I need now is a bloody case to put it in - atm it's just running on my desk...

3DMark06 - 11773.
SM2 - 4580,
SM3 - 5147,
CPU - 3993.

SuperPi 1M - 24.975 Seconds.

wPrime 32M - 13.649 Seconds.

Seems ok-ish.

Quote from Jakg :

3DMark06 - 11773.
SM2 - 4580,
SM3 - 5147,
CPU - 3993.

SuperPi 1M - 24.975 Seconds.

wPrime 32M - 13.649 Seconds.

Seems ok-ish.

24s for the 1M? aint that quite slow for ur proc?
EDIT: omg.. i got 21s for the 32M in wPrime :P

Yes it does seem very slow - but SuperPi has always favoured Intel and this is just a plain install of Windows 7 - I haven't even tweaked the services yet.

Quote from Jakg :

Yes it does seem very slow - but SuperPi has always favoured Intel and this is just a plain install of Windows 7 - I haven't even tweaked the services yet.

okey.. well i do superpi 1M in 11.8 secs :P thats enought for me.. but wPrime sux on my comp...

tweaked services? i have a standard installation of 7 here.. no need for tweaking :P

Hmm I got 19.999 for 1m. Windows 7 RC, also.

17.195S in Vista. Will it go down in 7? or up.

lolol.
SuperPi - 1M - 50.5 s
AMD Athlon 3500+ @ 2,21GHz - 2x512MB DDR-400 DIMM

and it wasnt idle.

Edit: 42,9s in HyperPi after setting the priority to realtime.

My rig

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3,0GHz
4x 1Gb GeIL CL4-4-4 DDR2 800
Asrock Pennryn 1600SLI 110dB mobo
Zalman 7000AL/Cu cpu-cooler
Coolermaster M520
XFX 9800 GTX+ 512mb

1x Samsung F1 1,0 Tera
1x Samsung F1 0.32 Tera
1x extern Maxtor 80 Gb
IIYAMA Prolite E2201W 22" LCD
IIYAMA Prolite E431S 19" LCD


Logitech G25 mounted on playseat

Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Quote from Fuse5 :

lolol.
SuperPi - 1M - 50.5 s
AMD Athlon 3500+ @ 2,21GHz - 2x512MB DDR-400 DIMM

and it wasnt idle.

Edit: 42,9s in HyperPi after setting the priority to realtime.

i get 16.2s in HyperPi @ REALTIME.. which tells me that this program sucks :P

and 11.something in SuperPi mod 1.5x

Quote from David_Tiger :

GFX - Xpertvision GeForce 8500GT Super+1GB

Why did you underlined it? It ain't special at all.

Quote from MijnWraak :

Got new graphics card. (still gotta send 4870 back for return rma :shy Also have two western digitals; have 30 days to send back old one . Thanks for reminding me to take pics of setup, jak. I'll probably do it in a month as I seem to procrastinate a lot.

CPU Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.7|1.5v
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P
Memory 2x2gb Crucial Ballistix @ 1060
Graphics Card Evga GTX 260 core216
Hard Drive 250gb Seagate 7200.10 | 1TB WD Caviar Black
Sound Card Onboard Sound
Power Supply Corsair 450vx
Case Antec Three Hundred
CPU cooling Xigmatek HDT-S1284EE
GPU cooling Stock
OS Windows 7 RC
Monitor Samsung 953bw 19"

Very good GFX card choice

Quote from Shadowww :

Very good GFX card choice

Why is that?

Quote from Bose321 :

Why is that?

Because NVidia FTW.

Quote from Shadowww :

Because NVidia FTW.

Nice fanboy term. So you're saying if he chosen a FX5200, it's still a good choice?

Quote from Shadowww :

Because NVidia FTW.

Even though ATI has the best £ value and performs right up there with Nvidia?

Quote from Bose321 :

Nice fanboy term. So you're saying if he chosen a FX5200, it's still a good choice?

Dude.
BFG Tech GeForce GTX 260 - $169.99
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 4850 1GB - $154.99

Yeah, ATI card is cheaper. But GTX 260 is like 30% faster!

mclarenmatt, you know, I better spend $15 more, than will have problems with drivers (which are getting updated once per year) after every OS reinstall

The next useless graphics card arguement, awesome.

Quote from Fuse5 :

lolol.
SuperPi - 1M - 50.5 s
AMD Athlon 3500+ @ 2,21GHz - 2x512MB DDR-400 DIMM

and it wasnt idle.

Edit: 42,9s in HyperPi after setting the priority to realtime.

Still got my 3500+ with me but never use it anymore, here is my score when i was using it about 16months ago (check picture), but when i first got the cpu on crappy hardware i only got 42s @ 2.5

Quote from Shadowww :

mclarenmatt, you know, I better spend $15 more, than will have problems with drivers (which are getting updated once per year) after every OS reinstall

Ahw come on "Anton"...

I am not a fanboy or anything but ATi and Nvidia are both good, i don't know who came up with the ATi drivers are shit "problem" but there are driver updates regularly.

And WTF its a ****ing piece of a PC, why argue about stuff like that!?....

What issues are ATi meant to have?

So far there have been no problems with PC#2...

Me neither, works great here.

I have had both ATI and Nvidia graphic card's and had no problems with either.

At the moment I just feel ATI have better cards for the £, sure they are slightly slower than Nvidia but only by a few %!

I just hate fanboyism.