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Monday, Jun 11, 2007

Link to Pic's of my PC and it's placement : http://www.gamespot.com/users/knut-am/images

Monitor : Eizo 24" LCD FlexScan S2410WK TCO-03 black,Wide (1920x1200),8ms,1000:1, VGA/DVI.
Computer Case : Silverstone Temjin TJ09 black, Aluminium, 6 fan's.
Powersuply : Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W Modular.
Motherboard : ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI.
CPU : (temperarly) Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz. 4MB. with ZALMAN CNPS9700NT CPU cooler.
Ram : 2x, Corsair Dominator TWIN2X6400C4D 2048MB,DDR2,2x1GB(KIT),DHX,E.P.P, CL4-4-4-12T, 4gb total.
Harddrive : 2x in raid 0, Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SATA 16MB 10000RPM. + 1x Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB.
Graphics : Gainward Radeon HD 4870X2 2GB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI Sound : Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Champion Edition.
DVD : NEC DVD-burner AD-7173 Duallayer,LabelFlash,Multirecorder
Data bacup : Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 250GB USB2.0.
OS :Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit in Raid 0

Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Logitech Trackball Mouse and TrackIR 4Pro.

I am for the most part using a Logitech G25 weel for driving games, at times a Logitech Momo racing but also others weel's on rare ocations are in use. CH-Products's Flightsim Yoke Pro and Pro Rudder pedals for Flight simulator X. an old Microsoft FF Joystick do the trick in most games that require a joystick to be played.

09.25.2007 : I have changed power suply on my rig from the Corsair 620W to a 1200W Thermaltake. the old one was good but after a period of new games that had some unforseen crashes on 1920x1200 res. i felt it was the easyest way to seek out the root of the problem. Nvidia drivers are now starting to get so good overall that i was begining to suspect that my power suply was a bit on the week side. the 1200W solvedthe problem and games like World in Conflict now sparkle among the other games in 1920x1200 with AA and evrything turned on max. 1200W also givesome future compability with next generation cards, all though for me next, it is the CPU that first has to go. another thing i have done is to skip the dual boot OS, in practice i discovered that i was in Vista all the time anyway, and will just use secondery computers for eventual XP games that Vista cant handle. My experience on this are that those games are few and far between. my Vista64's biggest problem are not the old games but the old Starforce versons those games some times use.

11.25.2008 : I have thought that my next change on my computer would have to be the CPU. However, as it turn out to be, the CPU keep on going and show no real sign of becoming too week. Witch i guess prove that as Long as it is doo'ing the job, changing it will not do much for performance. oh, yes, Performance , I love the word, specially when it is up to my requirements, which means all my games in native 1920x1200 res with minimum 2x AA and all details set to max level. Obviously, anyone who might read this and have some basic "know how" of games like Crysis and Fallout 3, (that is the latest hog for those of us that keep track of them as they go by), know that Crysis stopped that dream a long time ago. BUT fact is on my rig, as it stand with specs above but with my old graphics card, the XXX version of 8800gtx ultra, i have been able to play Crysis at 1680x1050 with 2x AA and max detail at perfectly playable fps. not 40-50fps of-cause, but absolute fine fps, even for someone picky on the subject like myself. I have been ok with this in Crysis, specially considering the well known steep requirements the game and it's expansion pack has when it come to system specs. Games like the newer Far Cry 2, (witch is a bit of a let down, sadly), run perfectly on my rig at my native 1920x1200 w. 2x AA and everything on max, all this with only tiny and really insignificant signs of slow-downs. Fallout 3 was bought at the same time and that really made it all clear to me that it was time to do something to my Computer again. the new graphics card i have invested in is the Gainward Radeon HD 4870X2 with 2GB of GDDR5 Ram, the "Goes Like Hell" edition. It is factory clocked at 790mhz core speed and memmory speed at 950mhz. Part from the added background noise in my computer after putting it in, the graphics card seem to "go like hell" just as the name predicted. I will need afew days now to check this out in practice on different games. I will be fair to you all who might read this, and post back in here in case the card should prove to be trouble. We all know how terrible it is when our gaming turn into a wrestle match with the bug devil at the hardware department. I will let you all know in a few days if the change was a good one. If nothing is posted it mean I'm happy with it. Thanks for reading so far .

Category: Computers
Posted by knut-am, 2:33am
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very nice specs. may i ask how much you paid for it? have you already benchmarked it?
Posted Jun 11, 2007 10:11 am PT
impressive! i built new PC as well but it's not as powerful as yours. damn, why don't i live in country where people are rich.
Posted Sep 15, 2007 12:33 pm PT
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