Grafx cards...........

[Anonymous]

who's got what?
i shouln't buy what?
what is useless??

playing farcry and my on geforce mx440 is obviously struggling

[FraG]

How much u looking to spend?

Best bang for buck without "hacking" are the 9600XT radeons, the 9800Pro or better yet 9800XT are the top dogs.

Nvidia have had a few probs with preformance recently so I wouldn't bother at the moment.

[Anonymous]

yeah i just got very basic geforce mx440 at moment, with 1 x 512 ddr ram... got farcry game and just cant handle it........mate has 3dfx card with 2 x 256 ddr ram and runs sweet...........
yeah was looking at a 960o/9800

[Masda74]

um i got a 9800xt and it still can't handle it that well.
I am starting to suspect that the ide hdd can't handle it and not the graffix card. i need to get a sata drive and maybe then the game will play better.

[Pete]

masda what else you running

[FraG]

um i got a 9800xt and it still can't handle it that well.
I am starting to suspect that the ide hdd can't handle it and not the graffix card. i need to get a sata drive and maybe then the game will play better.

What cpu have you got?
what ram?
what speed ram?

what drivers?

A 9800xt is best performing card currently on market.
But to feed such a beasty gfx card you need a beasty cpu and fast ram.

[FraG]

actually i do lie, farcry is one of those weird games actually faster on Nvidia cards .. i think.. meh check places like www.anandtech.com or even www.tomshardware.com

[Masda74]

um i got a 9800xt and it still can't handle it that well.
I am starting to suspect that the ide hdd can't handle it and not the graffix card. i need to get a sata drive and maybe then the game will play better.

What cpu have you got?
what ram?
what speed ram?

what drivers?

A 9800xt is best performing card currently on market.
But to feed such a beasty gfx card you need a beasty cpu and fast ram.

I got an AMD xp2500 overclocked to 3200 speed. I have 2*256 ddr pc3200 ram running in dual channel mode. I have an Audigy sound card.
I have onboard lan. I have a powercolour radeon 9800XT with the latest drivers.
I have a K7N delta 2 msi motherboard. with all the drivers installed. when the game stutuers the only thing i can rule out is that the hard drive led is flashing big time. it doesn't stuter that much, only when i have like all these monsters there. I have it running at like 1024x768 with everything on full by the way
I need to get a SATA hdd and it should sort it out.

[Anonymous]

MINE DOESNT STUTTER IT JUST HAVE MOVING GRASS AND ALL HUTS ETC ARE OVER CONTRASTED, AND SCENERY APPEARS AS YOU GET CLOSE TO IT.................ONLY BEEN LIKE THIS SINCE SINCE I INSTALLED THE AUDIGY ES CARD????????????????????????????

[Deza]

um i got a 9800xt and it still can't handle it that well.
I am starting to suspect that the ide hdd can't handle it and not the graffix card. i need to get a sata drive and maybe then the game will play better.

What cpu have you got?
what ram?
what speed ram?

what drivers?

A 9800xt is best performing card currently on market.
But to feed such a beasty gfx card you need a beasty cpu and fast ram.

I got an AMD xp2500 overclocked to 3200 speed. I have 2*256 ddr pc3200 ram running in dual channel mode. I have an Audigy sound card.
I have onboard lan. I have a powercolour radeon 9800XT with the latest drivers.
I have a K7N delta 2 msi motherboard. with all the drivers installed. when the game stutuers the only thing i can rule out is that the hard drive led is flashing big time. it doesn't stuter that much, only when i have like all these monsters there. I have it running at like 1024x768 with everything on full by the way
I need to get a SATA hdd and it should sort it out.

If your gona get SATA get a couple drives and run them in RAID 0 that orta speed up a few issues specialy slow loading times

[Dubs]

NET NERDS



DUBS

[Nick7r]

I got an AMD xp2500 overclocked to 3200 speed. I have 2*256 ddr pc3200 ram running in dual channel mode. I have an Audigy sound card.
I have onboard lan. I have a powercolour radeon 9800XT with the latest drivers.
I have a K7N delta 2 msi motherboard. with all the drivers installed. when the game stutuers the only thing i can rule out is that the hard drive led is flashing big time. it doesn't stuter that much, only when i have like all these monsters there. I have it running at like 1024x768 with everything on full by the way *
I need to get a SATA hdd and it should sort it out.

hey Mas .. i got xp 2500 only running at 1.8 how u crank it to 3200 ? doesnt it get to hot?

and i got 512, and a 9600xt .. runs fine i found so far... but i got sata .

DAZ: i got a 9600xt the other day dual monitor and tv out works sweet as.. porn is even better on the big screen ... "im seeing things i never saw before.. flabeears, labears, libears, and this non stick keyboard is great"

[ChOOkiE]

Nick.. I think he means running at an XP 3200 speed.. because as you know AMD name their chips based on ROUGHLY how they perform next to pentiums.

[Nick7r]

yeh i know

but 3200 is bit extreme isnt it ?

just wondering how u keep it cool and is it stable ?

[Masda74]

hahahha.
Well it is running at 3200 speed cause i got this pipe that comes out my case which i blow in, real hard all the time. when i get tired i get me Hoe(shit i just got a blue eye) to blow in it too.
Nah just yanking your chain. I got a Koolance water cooling system. Has radiator and fans and all. My cpu is currently running at 31deg celcius.
The joys of water cooling.

[Taz]

all this shit makes my laptop look more like a kiddies address and fun book

[mattah]

Farcry is notorious for needing large amounts of memory. To whoever had the beasty machine that noticed their HDD flashing all the time, the game is running out of useable memory. Upgrade to a gig and apparently it should be alot better.

I haven't got it yet though, just repeating what I've heard elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

MY BEAST ALSO HAS WATER COOLING, THIS MORNING WAS RUNNING AT 81 DEGREES TIL A FEW MONO'S ON FREEWAY BROUGHT THE BEAST UP TO 95 DEGREES.............COMPUTER COOLING SYSTEM = OPEN WINDOW AND DESKTOP FAN FIRED INTO OPEN CASE

[Nick7r]

hahah

MAz: my CPU is at 70 oC is that to hot ??