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Kuros said:
I’m done with this. It’s obvious that you are now the all knowing with your new job in networking.I really don’t want to get into an ATI vs nvidia flame war here but I will say that both can experience problems under certain circumstances and both companies constantly roll out new drivers. I own an nvidia card as you know and I like it but ATI simply has nvidia beat in the $175-300 price point with the 4850s and 4870s.
As for the personal comment there, I would have said the same *edited* thing regardless of what my current job is and I don’t consider myself the “all knowing”, though clearly you know much more about everything than i do.
MasterP said:
No waiBtw, don’t discredit the hard drive. Installing them in the G4 is a pain in the arse and requires you take the thing half apart. It was quite humerous watching Joe do it 4 times in 1 night.
yeah it takes nearly an hour just to change hard drives.
Dice said:
i think my post are invisible,, what is the negative effect of having it on and set it so you can not run through the enemy only teammates?3ed times a charm? <_>
plus people like giving each other boosts to get to certain areas of the map and the such.
yousillyGoose said:
what is the advantage of going the faster Dual core as opposed to a Quad core?Good question. It all comes down to applications being designed as multi-threaded. Even now, many games and other apps only take advantage of one core. Recently, more programs have been designed to run on 2 cores instead of one, but there are VERY FEW programs that take advantage of more than two cores, especially relative to games. Thus, running 2 high speed cores at 3.16ghz with 6 mb total cache (3mb per core) will be faster than a quad core cpu at 2.4ghz with 8mb cache (2mb per core) in programs that aren’t designed to use more than 2 cores simultaneously. Of course there is always the flip side that programs designed to use more than 2 cores will be noticeably faster on the quad core, so that decision is up to you of course.
yousillyGoose said:
And what is the advantage of an ATI card?Quite simply, the price vs performance ratio for the new ATI cards is unchallenged by nvidia’s current offerings.
yousillyGoose said:
Also, I run linux!!!! Big key part. Something makes me think I’ve heard Nvidia linux support > ATI but I could be crazy.Hmmm… you may be right; I don’t have much experience with Linux so I can’t really comment on that, but make sure you do your homework (i.e. googling) first if this is a priority for you. An alternative to that ATI card would be something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16814130376, which offers similar performance, albeit at a higher price.
yousillyGoose said:
I also am all for the dual boot when I have the pc to make life easier but I have some fun with my linuxMaybe you should get dual hard drives if that is the case? depending on your storage requirements, obviously, but using separate hard drives for installs is always a nice way to go (as opposed to partitions)
yousillyGoose said:
Thanks again for the hard workYou’re welcome.
Kuros said:
Enjoy NO DRIVER SUPPORT with your faildeon. Someday you people will learn that building computers means looking at more than benchmarks and price tags.I love taking advice from someone that has used nothing but nvidia cards for years.
ATI releases updated drivers EVERY MONTH; where is the lack of driver support exactly? And forgive me for looking at the two most important things when choosing a videocard: price and performance. MajorMajorMajor has the same card and says its epic win.
Cacophony said:
You should put one of these in it:
Though you’ll need a power supply of roughly 1.21 jigawatts to keep it running.
I must revise my original configuration to accompany this.
Also, rofl at $120 in rebates.
Also forgot to mention that if you need more graphics performance (unlikely), you can add another one of those cards and run them in crossfire.
Ok here is what I came up with for you based on the price level you put.
Of note: there is no keyboard or mouse in that build; I personally like products from ideazon and use:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…bmerc%2bstealth
for my keyboard. If that is too weird for you, then the G11 I picked for Major would work (here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…logitech%2bg11)
Mice are also opinionated but I guess the G5 is a pretty safe bet. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16826104076
Also some justifications on the parts I selected compared to Major’s build
The E8500 processor instead of the Q9300: That was a tough one but the E8500 is going to be faster in games TBH even if only slightly, plus its like $60 cheaper so I couldn’t go against the E8500. The Q6600 is actually the same price but it makes no sense to put that in there because its built on the older 65nm process and not 45nm (I.E. the e8500 runs cooler)
The rest of the differences (RAM and PSU mainly) were just because of price fluxuations and the two are pretty comprable.
If any of the people reading are like ZOMG a radeon??? Nickname is MAD!!!, please read this and this
Also I can email you the shopping cart if you give me your email.
Dice said:
i’ll give you 50% more than what you payed.. so.. $3
Actually that’s not true because it came w/o a hard drive. Also when I got it the thing wouldn’t even power on and it took me several hours of tinkering to get it to turn on. Then I had to get a copy of OSX to put on it. So yeah… worth a lot more than $3.
Unless you have a really good internet connection with a static IP its not worth it; unless you are paying someone else to host it.
MasterP said:
Too late…lol
Next time perhaps you could read all the responses before you make a ginormous response of links that I will never open lol.
I was j/k about wikipedia anyhow. I actually used it as a source for a research paper before lol.
Another great site for news: theonion.com It even says right there under its name “America’s Finest News Source”.
MasterP: that was a joke.
MasterP said:
You missed my point…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart
He changed his name b/c he didn’t think Jews could succeed in Hollywood.
Second, idc who makes his jokes, my point remains. He’s going to run out of rebulican material if Obama wins and he’ll have to make fun of democrats, something most of his audience will not like.
As for Rather/Couric, good point. They fail at life.
Jon Stewart won’t have nearly the problem that Stephen Colbert will. Not even close.
Also, love the reference to wikipedia. Talk about reliable sources.
MasterP said:
My sis got a 4.81 GPA in HS and passed all six of her APs with 3x3s and 3x4s.pffft, not impressed by 3x3s and 3x4s; I only took 3 AP classes (can’t help more didnt fit in my schedule!) but I got 5’s on all of them.
MasterP said:
LoLYou do know he wasn’t born John Stuart, right? He’s the least reliable source of what you might call information as any of them.
BBC used to be terrible but they’ve been getting better over the last few years, mainly because they aren’t based over here so they have to do at least a little research before running with something.
If you’re counting comedians and talk show hosts, the two you listed are in the lower half of the “has the most informed audience” list. When Bush gets out of office he’s going to run out of stuff to make fun of so idk how much longer his show will run. If McCain doesn’t get elected he’ll have almost nothing to talk about.
First, it’s John Stewart; second, he doesn’t make up the jokes. Maybe that makes him a bad comedian, maybe not. That isn’t the point; nor is whether or not the audience is informed. I would rather get my news from Jay Leno than Dan Rather/Katie Couric/etc anyday
