Look at my gaming setup

by Piegie • 9 Jun 2010, 17:46 • Journals
Thinking about the journal Kevin made, I tought, let's also make 1. So here's my setup, could you guys give your opinion about it ?

image: setupf

Thanks in advance

Pietn
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im a tree 9 Jun 2010, 18:47
Can't see shit.
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Piegie 9 Jun 2010, 18:50
fixed
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im a tree 9 Jun 2010, 19:03
why are you getting a microATX board?
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Piegie 9 Jun 2010, 19:22
No id, found it on a recommendation site :D Could you perhaps propose a good one ?

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Quote by PiegieMobo : - Memory: 4x DDR3 DIMM 2133(OC) / 1333 / 1066 MHz (Max. 16GB) / Dual Channel

Should I still buy the Corsair ones then ?
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im a tree 9 Jun 2010, 19:27
sorry, don't know much about AMD socket motherboards and too busy to really research it right now

but atleast get a regular atx board, microatx = nerfed
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mini 9 Jun 2010, 18:49
Wow, that is quite the setup you have there :-)
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carlito 9 Jun 2010, 18:49
56k ahoi
image: 520400screenie2
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squalli 9 Jun 2010, 18:56
w7 64
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ENSJQM 9 Jun 2010, 18:57
he has 4 gb of ram
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Boss 9 Jun 2010, 18:58
why is it better? (I'm interested, no flame involved, I even have it on my laptop)
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Ati_ 9 Jun 2010, 19:00
32bit doesn't support more then 2GB of RAM memory
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Boss 9 Jun 2010, 19:02
aha :) ty
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im a tree 9 Jun 2010, 19:04
false
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Boss 9 Jun 2010, 19:09
correct him then, I'm intersted
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Cupra 9 Jun 2010, 19:11
3.2 If I'm correct, adding 4 GB of RAM would get you 3.2?
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duKe_ 9 Jun 2010, 19:37
nope, XP can only handle 3.2 gb of memory overall. this also include graphic memory on your gfx :)

Litte example:

If you got 4 GB onboard Ram and a gfx with 1gb ram you can only use 2.2 Ram of your onboard memory
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samAel 9 Jun 2010, 20:27
more than 3 u nooooob
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im a tree 9 Jun 2010, 19:11
32bit = only 2^32 (=4 294 967 296) memory addresses can be registered, which is ~4GB of address space

ram isn't the only thing that takes up address space, bios roms & video cards also take up addresses and these have to be allocated before RAM

for example if you have a 512mb graphics card you should have somewhere around 3.4GB of RAM addressed/usable

personally i don't mind losing .6GB of ram for the convenience of running 32bit apps natively, but as more and more applications begin to run natively in 64bit it will probably be worth switching
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Zw3i 9 Jun 2010, 18:56
wtf? do you go to buy a OS? :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Piegie 9 Jun 2010, 18:57
Actually, I won't, I'll get it from my dad's work. It's just to see what the budget would be like.
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INSTi 9 Jun 2010, 18:58
lookin fine
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immoo 9 Jun 2010, 19:02
(CPU1) Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.40GHz @ 2396MHz ( P4i65G mainboard) (RAM) 1GB, 682.2MB free (HDDs) 149GB, 116GB free

(VGA1) NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (128MB), 1680x1050x32, 60Hz (OS) Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP3) , 1h 38m 41s uptime, 16h 29m 42s uptime record

mine > urs !!!
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INSTi 9 Jun 2010, 19:06
when did you buy that, 2005ish? :D
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immoo 9 Jun 2010, 20:30
2003 and it costed me 600 €!
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Deactivated5718 9 Jun 2010, 19:10
powersupply could be usefull
change de harddisk for the samsunf spinpoint F3 it's faster!
And try the hawx version of the 5770 it's the best
rest looks good
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Piegie 9 Jun 2010, 19:13
I'm not good enough for you ? :<
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Piegie 9 Jun 2010, 19:21
Mobo : - Memory: 4x DDR3 DIMM 2133(OC) / 1333 / 1066 MHz (Max. 16GB) / Dual Channel

Should I still buy the Corsair ones then ?
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unblind 9 Jun 2010, 19:50
for a start ebuyer prices are better

i dont know why you are buying win7 and getting a phenom you might as well find windows somewhere else(!) and spend the extra money on getting an i5 ;X
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Bartichello 9 Jun 2010, 20:18
i7 <3 :p i've had it tbh with amd cpu's myself cuz they are way behind on intel these days
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unblind 9 Jun 2010, 20:28
i'd like to get an i7 but it's a bit overkill at the moment : D
and by the time you get a game thatll use it fully you'll probably need a new gpu again anyway \o/
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Bartichello 13 Jun 2010, 13:33
can buy a new gpu later then ;p
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Bartichello 9 Jun 2010, 20:18
are those phenoms running better since the first series? i have a first gen of it and it's craptastic to play et on... for all else it's pretty decent except dragon age which is totally fucked up beyond belief with long loading and starting to hang when many npc's appear..though with mass effect 2 i never had any problems
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