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shadow boxer
The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
in Zocalo v2.0
I finally HAVE MY PC ! yay ! Uberwewt ! Exclaimations of excitation etc !
The final build stats are as follows for those that get wide-ons and hard-ons about hardware.
Lian Li 'Silent' PC 6070 Case
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo
AMD 3200 Barton core 400FSB
Zalman CNPS7000CU heatsink
3 x 512mb Kingston DDR400 memory
Two (x2) Mitsubishi Diamondtron 19" CRT's
Zalman 'silent; Power supply 400w
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
Liteon CDRW x52x32x52
2x80GIG seagate drives
Altec Lansing 5.1 surround speakers
It runs Homeworld 2 at 1600x1200 at max settings at a totally seamless framerate... it also runs both monitors without a hitch at 1600x1200 dual head.
Su-weet.... :)
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talk about guilty pleasure, such PC sinnage, Steve will cast me out... I am Sith...
The final build stats are as follows for those that get wide-ons and hard-ons about hardware.
Lian Li 'Silent' PC 6070 Case
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo
AMD 3200 Barton core 400FSB
Zalman CNPS7000CU heatsink
3 x 512mb Kingston DDR400 memory
Two (x2) Mitsubishi Diamondtron 19" CRT's
Zalman 'silent; Power supply 400w
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
Liteon CDRW x52x32x52
2x80GIG seagate drives
Altec Lansing 5.1 surround speakers
It runs Homeworld 2 at 1600x1200 at max settings at a totally seamless framerate... it also runs both monitors without a hitch at 1600x1200 dual head.
Su-weet.... :)
~~~~~~~
talk about guilty pleasure, such PC sinnage, Steve will cast me out... I am Sith...
Comments
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incidentally, dont use the shitty mobo nuts supplied with the case, they suck, badly, I ended up making my own replacements, when of course you get it..:)
I have a working case for now, so I get it when I get it. Actually, I'm glad to hear you have your stuff now... How much of a hassle was it to get it?
;)
By the way, I would direct my ire at Sanfam, but I never see him anymore, so it's kinda pointless... :D
Cheers!
But good thing is that you seem to like it, and nothing else matters.
Unless you turn up AA and AF...thats the whole point of having a 9800.
get the Omega drivers, right click on a shortcut and choose "RadLink"
then you can have game/program specific AA and AF settings.
like, for UT2k4, I have 2AA and 8AF, but with blender, I have both OFF.
Congrats on getting your stuff though man!
[B]By the way, I would direct my ire at Sanfam, but I never see him anymore, so it's kinda pointless... :D[/B][/QUOTE]
I'll direct it for you, if you like. :)
[B]You could try running HomeWorld2 with full detail AND a huge map with 5 good AI players and then see if it's still seamless :) [/B][/QUOTE]
it would be. If it was at all optimized code anyway. Homeworld just isn't that detailed. low poly models, no really special effects...
it would prolly run on a 486.
[B]And here I was thinking we [i]weren't[/i] Homeworld. I'll be damned. ;) [/B][/QUOTE]
We still arn't. They were allowed to finish. ;)
...still, with all the lighting/shading effects and subtle shite, it IS pretty hungry, 1600x1200 isnt small... etc and it was glassy... I mean super glassy...even the sometimes slow switch between views was quiksnap.
and I hope you were being sarcastic when you said my machine was 'banal' Eclectionaut... or you better freakin' explain yourself..:)
HW2 should start showing up in the $10 racks pretty soon somewhere...
:D
:D
[B]and I hope you were being sarcastic when you said my machine was 'banal' Eclectionaut... or you better freakin' explain yourself..:) [/B][/QUOTE] Banal was the magical word and I meant it from the bottom of my heart. So many people have chosen Asus A7N8X Deluxe, R9800Pro, Kingston memory, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 hard drive, Liteon CD-RW, Altec Lansing speakers and Zalman heatsink & PSU that they really haven't impressed me much for a long, long time. The only things that differ from a basic set of components are that you have two 19" CRT's and an additional 512MB of Kingston VR/HX memory (you can't use dual channel mode in full speed with three 512MB modules).
Btw you would have saved some money if you had bought Athlon XP-M 2500+ instead of XP 3200+.
P.S. of course your computer is better than average, but it is so... banal. =)
I've noticed that in recent years as I've played less computer games due to them being more cloney, and particularly ever since I got my PS2 (for which I have only a few specific games), I've really stopped caring about having the fastest computer or being able to overclock by some ludicrous amount. I think this is a good thing. I've actually put [b]more[/b] effort into getting older computers going so I can play my old games.
I have to agree with Eclecticonaut. It is a banal computer. :D
Good god, it's nearly 7 a.m. here now - gotta get some sleep somehow. Variatio delectat. :D
I dont think the 2600 has as wider FSB as the 3200... everything I bought runs at a stated 400mhz FSB, and yes I am aiming to grab another 512mb of RAM. There are no bottlenecks in the above specs, which is the way I like it.
Dual head is the way to go for serious digital imaging and sound, which is what I want to do... desktop real estate is King. Nothing improves productivity as much as more room to work. I love running Photoshop with one screen as basically one big pallette/click box, you never have to drag a freakin pallette again, cos you have every freakin one of them open at once while you work on an image.
It will be very interesting to see how big I can make an image file before it falls over. I estimate I'll get to about a 500mb image file before it keels over. The rule of thumb for nice safe image mainpulation is generally supposed to be :
image size(mb) = 25% of installed RAM (mb)
ergo
250mb file = 1000mb RAM ( 50% is asking for hangs and snafus..:) )
I'm also interested in seeing what it does with Lightwave rendering and mixing some serious audio, and maybe even rendering video.
I can tell you this much... this bitch is going to get RIDDEN ! :D
Ive also got a Cyborg 3D joystick, a 128mb flash drive, an oldish Wacom stylus pallette, a HP printer and a dead HP scanner (blown lamp), external 250mb Zip. Sony Digital Vidcam, Sony MZR-900 MD player... a AA cell maglite........ :D
[B]Ive also got a Cyborg 3D joystick,[/B][/QUOTE]
Just one? I've got two Cyborg Evos. I bought 'em specifically because they're reversible, and playing IFH with two joysticks just rocks.
I dont think the 2600 has as wider FSB as the 3200... everything I bought runs at a stated 400mhz FSB, and yes I am aiming to grab another 512[b]mb[/b] of RAM. There are no bottlenecks in the above specs, which is the way I like it.[/QUOTE] You misunderstood me. The Athlon [b]XP-M[/b] 2500+ (mobile processor) uses lower voltage than the desktop model and can easily be overclocked into a XP 3200+ and even higher with the Zalman heatsink.
And what the heck is a "millibit"? ;)
Ambient tempratures in AU are often 30+degC indoors, therefore I go for big ass cooling on standard clockspeed chips...
and youre also a terrible pedant..:D
Mb ok...
MEGAbyte
and youre also a terrible pedant..:D[/quote]
Oh thank you. :)
[quote]Mb ok...
MEGAbyte[/quote]
Nonono, B = byte and b = bit. So MB is the correct unit of memory capacity in this case, not Mb.
It makes msuing my system anywhere really easy, as the mouse and KB are one and the same. Plus, I can almost type while mousing, so it's ok.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by shadow boxer [/i]
[B]Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo
3 x 512mb Kingston DDR400 memory
[/B][/QUOTE]
Why did you get 3 sticks of ram? You can't run in dual channel mode and up to that boards potential with 3 sticks.