r34l RoLeX diskountz

Shouldn't be hard to buy a cheap 17+ inch CRT for cheap money nowadays, they're practically throwing them away at some places.

Edit: mine, atm

Quote from Bawbag :

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/1502/p1010004pt7.jpg

Nothing special at all, shity old monitor, looks better now with the DFP though.

That desk looks identical to mine, minus a shelf thingy on top of it (but I'm still not as fast ) Maybe it'll be more streamlined if I take the top off (the desk)

Quote from illegal :

r34l RoLeX diskountz

Shouldn't be hard to buy a cheap 17+ inch CRT for cheap money nowadays, they're practically throwing them away at some places.

Edit: mine, atm

That really makes me miss having two screens. One is so hard to work with.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7024/deskyiy0.jpg
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8630/desky2ts7.jpg

I need a bigger desk, I have nowhere for my laptop >.<

Hi all,

here is mine.

Updated rig:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache)
ASUS P5B Deluxe
2GB (2x 1GB) DDR2-800
7900GT 256MB
Seagate 7200.9 250GB PATA
SB Audigy2 ZS
Coolermaster Centurion 534 case

This system flies.

Quote from Forbin :

Updated rig:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache)
ASUS P5B Deluxe
2GB (2x 1GB) DDR2-800
7900GT 256MB
Seagate 7200.9 250GB PATA
SB Audigy2 ZS
Coolermaster Centurion 534 case

This system flies.

Wow! Nice, new system!!! Are you going to run it through the lfs benchmark at some point? I'd love to see some numbers on a new core 2 duo system like yours.

Quote from Forbin :

Updated rig:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache)
ASUS P5B Deluxe
2GB (2x 1GB) DDR2-800
7900GT 256MB
Seagate 7200.9 250GB PATA
SB Audigy2 ZS
Coolermaster Centurion 534 case

This system flies.

I just built an almost identicle system to that.

mmmmmm..... Core 2 Duo

/me dribbles

Strangely enough, performance under LFS did not increase as dramatically as in other games.

Driver Settings (ver. 91.31)
Image settings: Best Quality
AA: 8x
AF: 16x
Transparency AA: Supersampling

LFS S2 T Alpha
Standard LFS Benchmark MAX cfg.txt
Standard LFS Benchmark replay

2006-08-19 21:43:15 - LFS
Frames: 7068 - Time: 102609ms - Avg: 68.882 - Min: 45 - Max: 91

Turning off AA, AF, and Transparency AA resulted in an average framerate of 70.852 fps.

I've felt for a long time that a lot of people are either lying about their framerates on the LFS Benchmark site or just aren't using the standard config file (or the wrong one for that matter).

UPDATE:
Overclocked the CPU to 2.66 GHz with a 333 MHz FSB. RAM was underclocked to DDR2-667 (from 800) but with slightly faster timings. Note how well the minimum framerate scales with the clock speed (25% increase in clock speed = 24.4% increase in performance).

2006-08-19 22:23:38 - LFS
Frames: 8047 - Time: 102625ms - Avg: 78.411 - Min: 56 - Max: 104

updated somethings in my rig.


AMD 3800+ 939 socket
Asus A8N-SLi deluxe
2gb of ram
80gb
500watt ATX PSU

XFX Geforce 7900GT Extreme, 256mb.


yay

thoes framerates seem a little low there forbin... Mine dont drop under 70 behind a full grid. 1280x1024 8xaa/16af with everything on high.

Ive upgraded MY Graphics cards but thats all. I changed from a single XFX 6800 GS XXX To two BFG 7600 GT OC cards. With my system It never drops below 72FPS in a full grid.

BTW Where do I find the LFS benchmark?

Quote from steve30x :

Ive upgraded MY Graphics cards but thats all. I changed from a single XFX 6800 GS XXX To two BFG 7600 GT OC cards. With my system It never drops below 72FPS in a full grid.

BTW Where do I find the LFS benchmark?

the benchmark!
http://lfsbench.iron.eu.org/

wow, Forbin, i'm a little surprised by those numbers, with the overclock they jump right up there. It seems lfs might still favor amd, or it really is graphics that limit the benchmark on max settings. Either way, without going under 45 or 50 fps even at the start = a very nice playing experience.

2006-08-20 22:55:37 - LFS
Frames: 12517 - Time: 159688ms - Avg: 78.384 - Min: 41 - Max: 130

Graphics settings: 2048x1280, 8x AA, 16x AF, Supersampling transparency AA, max details in LFS

That's from an online race at Redline Racing (FOX at BL1, 12 racers). I spectated the guy who started from the back and started the framerate log on the third red light, ending when he crossed the line after the second lap. The first lap, most of the field was in view the entire time, with the framerate on the starting grid at 45 fps. Once he was on his own on the second lap with no one in sight, it was a pretty steady 90-100 fps down the back straight, later spiking to 130 fps somewhere in the twisty section of Blackwood.

I know it's not my video card driver settings, I played around with them earlier and it didn't make any difference at all. I'm entirely CPU limited.

EDIT: Hmm... did the LFS Benchmark again, this time in 2048x1280 instead of the standard 1024x768 and got this:

2006-08-20 23:09:04 - LFS
Frames: 4158 - Time: 102406ms - Avg: 40.603 - Min: 25 - Max: 58

Considering how fast the 7900GT is, I'm very surprised.

I'm not. That's a huge resloution, with a lot of data being pushed into the card. Such resloutions hammer the RAM. And unlike 1024x768 which is hugely CPU limited, a resloution like that is only limited by your graphics card and how fast it can deal with the data.

[edit: On card RAM that is.]

I remembered I had a screenshot in another thread at 2048x1280 with 8x AA and 16x AF with my old Athlon XP system (with 6800GT 128MB) in a particular spot in a replay. The framerate shown was 85 fps. With the new Conroe system, with the same settings, I'm getting 75 fps. I suspect that the old system was actually defaulting to a lower AA level, since, on the new system, as soon as I turned off AA, the framerate was 190 at the same point.

Indeed it did. A cleaver feature nVidia put in place, if you go over 1280x1024 (I think it was) the card would roll back the AA setting to a lower one in an attempt to bump frame rate back up, and as you couldn't see the difference at such resloutions anyway it wasn't a problem. The only fix for this was high ammounts of RAM on the card.

Yeah you need a X1900XT crossfire or 7900GTX SLI (or 7950GX2) to take full advantage of on of the new Conroes (the faster ones anyway).

Surprisingly, the 7900GT isn't really that fast anymore.

I retested at the same spot in that replay with 4x AA and got 160 fps. With other cars on the screen, though, the framerate drops dramatically. Maybe I'll try limiting the framerate and see if that helps the CPU to keep up.

Online with just a few guys on the screen, I'm getting about 60-70 fps. First lap T1 it dips down to 42 fps.

I get between 9 and 10 fps on the grid and it's playable so I wouldn't worry if you're going down to 40

Here is my from AMD X2 updated PC Conf.

Monitor - 2x19" 'Viewsonic VX924/Toshiba TLP Beamer
Motherboard - Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Processor - Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3200Mhz
Ram - 2048MB OCZ DIMM 2 GB DDR2-800 Kit
Video cards - CF Sys: 1xSapphire Radeon X1900XTX/1xSapphire Radeon X1900 CrossFire

Here is...
Pc is not so good...
Pentium 4 2,53 GHz
Ram : 512 Mb
Video card: ATI all-in-wonder 64 Mb

Thermaltake Soprano - Black
OCZ Modstream 520w PSU
AMD Athlon64 3500+ (2.2ghz) ClawHammer CPU
ASUS A8N-E Motherboard
OCZ Gold 2x512mb PC3200 2-2-2-5 Dual Channel Kit
XFX GeForce 6600GT 128mb
Western Digital 250gb SATA2 16mb
SB Augigy SE 24-bit 7.1
NEC 16x DVD-R/RW and LG DVD-ROM

Samsung 730b 17" 8ms LCD
Logitech Driving Force Pro
Logitech Premium Headset 350 USB / Plantronics Audio .90
Logitech Z-2300 2.1 THX-Certified Speakers
Logitech G5 Mouse
SteelPad QcK+ (17.7in x 15.7in) Gaming Surface

and a Genericly ugly white keyboard!

Runs everything I want perfectly fine. Probably just grab a new video card later on down the road.

Chieftec Dragon case
Enermax EG465AX-VE psu
A64 3000+ (E6) @ 9*300 @1,57V
Abit AN8 Ultra
Geil One S 2*512 @ 600mhz, 2,5-4-3-7
Sapphire X800GTO (gpu+mem vmodded) 640/1460
DD watercooling (cpu+vga)
Plextor PX712-A dvd writer
Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP tv tuner
integrated sound :P (tubes block the remaining pci slots :P )
4x Seagate 200GB sata hdd's
2x Seagate 160GB sata hdd's (just sitting in the case)
2x Samsung 120GB sata disks died a month ago
1x Seagate 60GB just for fun

Samsung 930BF 19'' lcd
Logitech Momo racing wheel (its a total wreck for now)
Onkyo TX-SR501E amplifier + home made 3-way speakers
Sennheiser RS65, HD485, HD515 headphones
Logitech MX1000 mouse
2x Saitek P3000 wireless gamepad
1x Saitek P2500 rumblepad
Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard

i also have a 2nd pc (A64 3200+, 9600pro, 1gig ram) which i use for local lan partys

A+ Case Qubic (Cheapest ok one I could find )
Chieftec GPS-350EB-101A power supply
Asus M2N-E motherboard
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4600+ with standard boxed fan
OCZ DDR2 PC2-5400 Value Pro 2GB Dual Channel kit
Asus Extreme N6600TOP SILENT/TD/256M graphics card
Samsung SpinPoint P120S 250GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM
Samsung 17" LCD, Syncmaster 730BF
BenQ DW1640 PRO 16X DVD±RW Dual
QPAD Gamer MidSense mouse pad
Koss SB45 headset
and a Logitech keyboard and mouse