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  Posted 5th Sep 2007 6:18pm |
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lol, I'm waiting before I upgrade 
True the Core2Duos are nice, but not as much since the cutback of early week E6600s. Since the E6600s stopped production, the E6550s are ok... But the overclockability on the E6600s were simply amazing. I was able to reach 4.2GHz(Still wasn't as far as it could go) stable on a VapoChill Lightspeed phase change unit, 2GB (2x 1G g.Skill DDR800, and eVGA 680i A1 motherboard all on a test bed. Testing the newly released Ex550 series chips I've only been able to attain 3.6GHz-3.9GHz.
Meh, I'll just blame Intel for messing with the dies in the wafers
As for laptops, buy something that will last. What Garner has is something that will last quite a while using DX10 as well. |
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Posted 5th Sep 2007 7:08pm |  |
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Yeah, you can skimp on a desktop PC as you can always upgrade the bits later... but you might as well get a decent laptop if you're looking at one purely because upgrading is rarely an option for them.
Looked at several brands... Alienware had worse machines for a lot more cash and Dell had an almost identical XPS laptop to this one for an extra 25% (£200) more than I paid.
Pays to shop around... |
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| Ghostkid |
Posted 5th Sep 2007 10:39pm | |
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As for your problem, Ghostkid you're going to be more specific than "it won't work." |
Well, i get the splash screen with an EA game, then screen goes black for about 1 sec, then crashes to dekstop, i updated drivers,deleted folders in my documents, removed video's, reinstalled, reseted, checked system requirments, going back to the shop to ask-without results..
so i gave up  EDIT : Could Upgrading to vista help ?
Anyway, its a Toshiba, having a intel chipset. will post more specs if needed.
On a side note : What actually is good at overclocking ?
On another Side note : I recently bought an extra 512 MB liek you guys advised me, (to run Vista)
so now i should have 1024. but my computer tells me i only have 768 ?  |
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Posted 5th Sep 2007 10:48pm | |
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| Quoting Ghostkid |
Well, i get the splash screen with an EA game, then screen goes black for about 1 sec, then crashes to dekstop, i updated drivers,deleted folders in my documents, removed video's, reinstalled, reseted, checked system requirments, going back to the shop to ask-without results.. |
The problem is most likely your video chipset; laptops are rarely made with gaming in mind due to the fact that they're awful at it. Your video chipset is most likely Intel, which is one of the worst for gaming IMO.
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so i gave up EDIT : Could Upgrading to vista help ? |
If anything Vista would only make it more difficult to fix your games.
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On a side note : What actually is good at overclocking ? |
Overclocking is pushing computer hardware past it's recommended settings.
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On another Side note : I recently bought an extra 512 MB liek you guys advised me, (to run Vista)
so now i should have 1024. but my computer tells me i only have 768 ? |
Your video chipset is hogging a good deal of it for itself. |
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| Ghostkid |
Posted 6th Sep 2007 4:37pm | |
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Thanks For that [/b]Assman[b], but with the RAM i was talking about a desktop, not a laptop.
And my mom is planning to buy a new desktop/laptop. mostly for me and my games. can you guys give me some advice. i have a budget till € 1100 . could i afford something good with it ? i allready have windows, so i dont haver to spend money on that. |
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| goober |
Posted 6th Sep 2007 6:25pm | |
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You can get a fairly good PC on that budget... But I'm not very educated on hardware specifics... Mabye ask someone like Garner or Sobe.  |
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| Ghostkid |
Posted 6th Sep 2007 6:28pm | |
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I was aiming my question at him actually |
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| Assman15 |
Posted 7th Sep 2007 1:59am | |
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| Quoting Ghostkid | | Thanks For that [/b]Assman[b], but with the RAM i was talking about a desktop, not a laptop. |
| Quoting Assman15 | | Your video chipset is hogging a good deal of it for itself. |
Regardless of whether of not it's a laptop; if you have 1024GB installed and it's not showing all of it then your video chipset is hogging some. |
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| Ghostkid |
Posted 7th Sep 2007 6:18am | |
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Anyway i can reverse that ? or dont i want to ?
its a Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT, the budget one
Should it be strong enough to run Bioshock ? its on the minimum requirments. but if its minimum, does it run smooth then ? |
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| sobe |
Posted 7th Sep 2007 7:09pm |
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heh, I'd try to etch for something more from the 7xxx series era... lol.
7600GT is still a rather good "budget" gaming card buy. I purchased an eVGA 7600GT KO to replace a failing 7900GT, and... I am actually amazed at how well it holds up in games. |
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| Ghostkid |
Posted 8th Sep 2007 10:01am | |
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Oh , Sobe thought you said 7xxx series suck because they are full of bugs ? beacause i can get a 7xxx card for €150 |
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Posted 8th Sep 2007 6:31pm |
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Laptop:
17" Screen
AMD Turion 2.4GHz 35W L2 512KB ML-42
1GB Dual Channel DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2 x 512MB
Seagate 100GB 7200RPM SATA NCQ
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Posted 8th Sep 2007 11:26pm |
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The 7xxx series cards are excellent, just don't go for an 7800series, they had issues with their memory. Namely meaning leaking/failing memory. |
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