Graphic cards

[Enigma]

I’m just curious about everyone’s graphic cards…

Please post, I haven’t seen a 8800GTX yet… and that would really surprise me if someone did…

[blu3]

Starting playing CS:S again when I got the last upgrade for my AGP-based system, the X1950XT. Playing 1680×1050 on an X850XT PE didn’t give me acceptable frame rates. I was/am locked into AGP because I have the Athlon FX-51 (bought it when it was first available at $1000 bucks for the processor) and 2GB REGISTERED RAM (screw you early FX-51).

 

Upgrading my system to my satisfaction will run between $3200 and $4400, and I have other places to spend that money right now.

[Liam]

I’m running an ATI X1650 at home and an sli GeForce 7900 gtx in my laptop

[Enigma]

blu3 said:

Starting playing CS:S again when I got the last upgrade for my AGP-based system, the X1950XT. Playing 1680×1050 on an X850XT PE didn’t give me acceptable frame rates. I was/am locked into AGP because I have the Athlon FX-51 (bought it when it was first available at $1000 bucks for the processor) and 2GB REGISTERED RAM (screw you early FX-51).

 

Upgrading my system to my satisfaction will run between $3200 and $4400, and I have other places to spend that money right now.

 

LOL, i feel sorry for you blu3…

AGP (8x) is old school now…

You can upgrade your mobo (depending on your socket) for about 100 bucks and get an PCI-e slot (16x)

[Liam]

blu3 said:

Starting playing CS:S again when I got the last upgrade for my AGP-based system, the X1950XT. Playing 1680×1050 on an X850XT PE didn’t give me acceptable frame rates. I was/am locked into AGP because I have the Athlon FX-51 (bought it when it was first available at $1000 bucks for the processor) and 2GB REGISTERED RAM (screw you early FX-51).

 

Upgrading my system to my satisfaction will run between $3200 and $4400, and I have other places to spend that money right now.

 

You do know that ‘registered’ memory is only truly useful for servers, right? Same goes for ‘ecc’ vs ‘non-ecc’.

[blu3]

1. The Athlon FX-51 required registered memory.

2. No manufacturer currently makes a motherboard that supports my processor.

[rainefardreamer]

nothing like going to the site of the manufactor of your graphics card for drivers and find out they don’t support your card any more… those rat *edited*s…

[Liam]

I thought nvidia and ati were using a “generic” driver now for each series of their cards? You could also ‘yahoo’ it. I found some great ati mobile and geforce go drivers online that are better than the manufacturer’s have released.

[blu3]

Yes, the drivers from nvidia.com or ati.com will work for any card, and there are plenty of third party drivers that also work. Manufacturer’s drivers are worthless.

[Cacophony]

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000.

 

Dunno, it came with the computer.

[Outie5000]

ati 9600xt 256mb agp runnin 1440×900 (max res on this 19” widescreen)

 

I play with most settings on high, no HDR, no filtering or aa or any of that fancy crap.

[Enigma]

blu3 said:

1. The Athlon FX-51 required registered memory.

2. No manufacturer currently makes a motherboard that supports my processor.

 

Umm.. FX-51 uses ECC memory but unbuffered

FX-51 uses the Socket 940, which are expensive alright but here’s a couple you might be interested in:

http://www.anitec.ca/product/5805/asus_k8n…40_motherboard/

http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails….;categoryid=272

http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails….;categoryid=272

 

Theoretically speaking, all these mobos should support your processor and they all have PCI-e x16.

[blu3]

There are some dual Opteron motherboards available through Newegg, but for $260+ I would have doubled the cost of the upgrade. The X1950XT (AGP variety) gives about the performance I’d get from the card if it was PCI-e; anything faster may be bottlenecked by the processor.

 

My next upgrade will be significant, and that’s why it will be expensive. For now the X1950XT works well enough at 1680×1050.

[Fascist Flakes (Jagr)]

Cacophony said:

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000.

 

Dunno, it came with the computer.

We’re building you a computer this semester, yes?

 

I’m running an x800XL PCIe right now, but my new system is going to have a 8800GTX in it, seeing how they’re only $350 or so. Once Intel drops its prices on the 22nd of July I’ll make a decision on either the e6700 or whether I’ll go AMD. So far though, Intel it will be once more:

 

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2014649,00.asp

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1996946,00.asp

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel…?i=2963&p=8

 

And with the new P35 chipset coming out from Intel, it’ll only be better:

 

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showd…?i=2995&p=2

 

But if the prices on the Intels drop enough I may even try to sneak in some SLi on the 8800GTX, just depends on budget.

[cameron crazie]

ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 in a dell inspiron 600m. *edited*ty for sure, but more than good enough to run 1.6 at 100+ fps, and that’s all that matters.

[Kuros]

Jagr said:

We’re building you a computer this semester, yes?

 

I’m running an x800XL PCIe right now, but my new system is going to have a 8800GTX in it, seeing how they’re only $350 or so. Once Intel drops its prices on the 22nd of July I’ll make a decision on either the e6700 or whether I’ll go AMD. So far though, Intel it will be once more:

 

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2014649,00.asp

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1996946,00.asp

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel…?i=2963&p=8

 

And with the new P35 chipset coming out from Intel, it’ll only be better:

 

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showd…?i=2995&p=2

 

But if the prices on the Intels drop enough I may even try to sneak in some SLi on the 8800GTX, just depends on budget.

 

Still don’t see any Opterons. Opterons will beat your Intel *edited* *edited* back to pansy land.

[Hannah Montana]

Eh, I dunno…. radeon something 9200 is that one? Something or other.. old though i think, i guess..

[Cacophony]

Jagr said:

We’re building you a computer this semester, yes?

 

Yes, please.

 

Quote:

Still don’t see any Opterons. Opterons will beat your Intel *edited* *edited* back to pansy land.

 

What makes these Opterons better than the Intel’s he’s using? (Genuine curiosity here.)

[Fascist Flakes (Jagr)]

Kuros, you’re comparing a server CPU to a desktop CPU. Your Opteron would fail at gaming.

 

Opteron IS NOT supposed to be “better” than Athlon 64. Opteron is targeted to network servers and thus to a complete different market in mind. They can have two features not present on Athlon 64:

 

– Virtualization technology

 

– Memory controller supporting ECC memories, which provide error correction capability – a feature desirable to have on servers (in fact ECC memories are slower than regular memories due to this feature).

 

Regarding the difference on HT bus, this is also a problem, because the same thing can have different names. To summarize:

 

800 MHz HT = “1,600 MHz” HT = 3,200 MB/s HT

1,000 MHz HT = “2,000 MHz” HT = 4,000 MB/s HT

 

In this context 1,000 MHz and 2,000 MHz are the same thing. A detailed explanation is given on this tutorial:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/19

 

So the difference between the two CPUs is that Opteron has virtualization technology and supports ECC memories while Athlon 64 doesn’t. All the other specs are just the same.

 

Here’s also a funny fact, the specs on the Opteron 1220 that you linked in IRC and then the Athlon 64 x2 6000+ ARE EXACTLY THE SAME. Well, except for 200mhz more on the 6000+, but who cares about that. Either way, I’ll then bring your attention back to here and say, good game fanboy.

 

Fact, as of right now:

INTEL HAS BETTER PERFORMANCE IN GAMING AND MOST OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAN AMD.

 

Good game AMD fanboys.

[Davey – T]

mmm im probably the only person who plays css this much that doesnt know anything about computers….. which would be why i chose other

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