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Yeah, the 7600 was on low with textures objects sound and physics on high being playable at 1024x768... but the GTX 260 is running 2 monitors at a higher res, and a ton more eye candy as well as DX 11. Compared to the 260, the 7600 could play it... but the GTX does the game justice. It needs the eye candy because that's like it's biggest feature, lol.

And is the 9600 GSO overclocked? And by max do u mean crank it all to high on XP, or the Very High you could push it to on XP. My 9600GT was doing High on a 1280x1024 screen, no AA... dropped a bit when I got a 1920x1080 primary though.
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I mean very high on Vista. I don't believe I've done any overclocking, and I'm using the TripleC pack. (Modifies settings to optimize them and such) In gunfire scenes, I get an average of 20fps, sadly. >_>
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Oh yeah, but playably is another story, lol. What's the GSO? I've never heard of that variant.
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I've heard of it, granted I don't know much about it. I think it's the mid-range card of the 600 line.

Anyway, here's a link. :P
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It's basically a rebranded 8800GS. ;)
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Wha?

What's with all these watered down cards we don't get? lol We just have the 9600GT here for $110
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Do you really want them? To me it just seems like more confusion. ;)
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Rig build is well under way:

-Supercase PC375
-2x 120mm foil bearing cooling fans (pillaged from a spare server at work)
-Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard
-PC Power & Cooling 750w Silencer Xfire edition (quad PCI-E)
-Dual-layer DVD-RW drive
-Blu-Ray drive
-Gainward Gefore 8800GTX GLH
-3x 74GB 10K RPM Maxtor Atlas HDDs (SATA)

Still waiting on
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-8GB DDR3-1333 OCZ Reaper HTC RAM (4x2GB)
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-1x 500GB 7200RPM Seagate HDD (SATA)

Considering
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-Some mental overclocking!
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Looks good, but why three 74GB 10k disks? Surely you are not considering RAID-5 for a system drive (RAID-5 has very poor write performance though the 10k disks might compensate a bit for that) You'd be much better of with RAID-1 setup; no performance hit, slightly improved read speeds and same level of fault tolerance (that is, one disk failure tolerant).

RAID-5 is good for big storage arrays where speed isn't a critical issue.
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Thought about SSDs?
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SSD prices are still through the roof compared to conventional HDD's, unless of course you're caring military grade classified absolutely cannot-lose information on your computer... but for movies, music, and games, conventional should be just fine. (Especially 10k's.)

If you really did want the added speed, you wouldn't really need more than one - to run the OS on. (Granted, two could be understandable for RAID1. Not entirely sure I would want to go RAID0 on a main drive.)
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People... I don't care how good onboard sound is... $100 for an Asus DX is bloody worth it if you have a decent set of speakers ad love your music!

A bit of a performance boost, no interference from all your processor (it was bad in the i7 build), 192 khz output, all these dolby features (7.1 shifter, Prologic 2X, headphone), 7.1 support, all these extra game and VOIP features, DS3D GX2 (X-Fi emulation)... and the sound quality is so much better anyway. You can hear the difference... especially in the bass. The range is much larger and you get earth shaking lows rather than woofs.

That is all.
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Oh don't say that, I already have enough trouble keeping my music in the legal limits... D=
(What? I have b*tchy neighbors.)
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vellu wrote:Looks good, but why three 74GB 10k disks? Surely you are not considering RAID-5 for a system drive (RAID-5 has very poor write performance though the 10k disks might compensate a bit for that) You'd be much better of with RAID-1 setup; no performance hit, slightly improved read speeds and same level of fault tolerance (that is, one disk failure tolerant).

RAID-5 is good for big storage arrays where speed isn't a critical issue.
The drives aren't going to be in RAID, they're just individually connected. They're left over from an old PC that went pop- it was a mate-built rig and he had the three drives set up to act in IDE mode through SATA connectors rather than in RAID.

I've also got a standard 250gb 7200rpm Maxtor drive that's going to act as a storage drive (can't be bothered to get a 1/2tb when I can just re-use my old drive...), with two 10ks for programs, one as a boot drive. If it works, then I'll be sailing. If not, then I'll be disappointed. It's the first time I've ever really fettled with my HDD layout- my old homebuilt rig just used the 250gb and the old rig with the super-fast drives isn't mine, I just inherited the parts.
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Okay, but if possible/supported by your motherboard, you could consider a RAID-1 system drive for increased failure tolerance. Especially considering the drives are not new...
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I've been toying with the idea of doing a RAID-1 with the program drive- I mean, everything on the data drive will get backed up daily on a 320gb Sumo detachable HDD automatically, so that's covered. Boot drive will only contain windows/drivers/system data so can be resorted given a few hours, a stack of CD's and a working internet connection. The program drive will be much more hard work...
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Fair enough, a decent level backup though not quite RAID level. Much better than most people though, I would imagine. Very few people (home users) make full drive backups daily.
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My OCZ Reaper HTC turned up today...


Too bad it's the DDR2 version rather than DDR3. Going to kill the monkeys at Pixmania.

Also got my CPU. Becoming gradually more concerned that the 160-odd mm-tall Core Contact Freezer won't fit in my case without be dremeling a chunk out the side.
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Major bump, but figured this would be the best place to post my new rig.

HP Pavilion DV6-2120TX

Intel i5-430M (2.27GHz with TurboBoost to 2.53GHz)
4GB DDR3 RAM
500GB HDD
15.6" HD Widescreen monitor (1366x768 resolution)
nVidia GT230M With CUDA (1GB dedicated)
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit

The OS is a little disappointing because it's not 64-bit but hopefully it'll still run pretty damn quick. Good buy considering the sticker price of AU$1247.
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Is that a laptop? :O
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Yes it is.
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That's a very beastly laptop. I have to say though, gaming - even if only light gaming - laptops are the greatest thing ever invented... at least in the world of gaming. My Dell XPS1640's maxed out everything I've thrown at it at 1080p, with the exception of GTAIV. Not at all bad for only a Mobility Radeon 4670.

Have fun with it man! Must say I'm loving the 500GB HDD and i5. :P
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Currently the only game that I can't run on full without frame-rate stutters is Just Cause 2. Everything else runs very breezy at its native 720p res but I'm yet to put it to the test on the 47" Full HDTV using HDMI out.
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