Geek porn

by jetro • 28 Jul 2010, 17:58 • Journals
Time for some hardware.

I'm thinking about purchasing a new system to play some games once in a while.

Should be nothing too fancy but still run most games (especially ET) pretty smooth so me (and zenix) put together the following specs (click to enlarge).


image: Schermafbeelding%202010-07-28%20om%2018.59.38


Any second opinions?
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dEzIrE 28 Jul 2010, 18:59
gtfo hacker
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:02
with that shit, u wont play even ET with stable 71 :D
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RedoX 28 Jul 2010, 19:03
ur retarded tbh
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:03
because i know about pc's? :> hard insult without reason there : (
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RedoX 28 Jul 2010, 19:05
you can easy get 125 stable on every map with those speccs... wtf are u saying :D
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:07
well i assume that u don't want to play with r_mode 2 and shit graphics :D and that cpu isnt good enough, I would put something better instead of x2 :( i had that cpu and its shit if you play ET :/ and why take ddr2 when u get dd3 with same price ;/
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Burneddi 28 Jul 2010, 19:21
Since when has a game released in 2003 using an engine released in the 90's used multicore rendering? Also DDR3 is overpriced and such things don't matter in ET.
The CPU is more than enough powerful to run ET @125 @ every map (except shittily optimized ones like sw_goldrush_te)

gtfo with your trolling
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:23
u have obv read sum articles from 4chan : D
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:24
and ey, maybe he wants play something else too than just ET? :D
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Burneddi 28 Jul 2010, 19:25
True, in that case it might struggle with some newer games - shit like CoD4 and Source-engine games would still work quite fine on that.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:30
mä sain about 400 eurol kasattua x2 555 BE,2gb ddr3, HD4850, 450w ja 500gb WD :E imo parempi setti
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Burneddi 28 Jul 2010, 20:23
Varmaan onkin.. Phenomit on vissiin tehokkaampia ku athlonit ja ihan turha ottaa tota directx 11 korttia mikä tossa alotusviestissä on.
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 19:50
that graphics card is better than HD3850 for example, and that was mid end 1/5 year ago.
I doubt it will have any problems, and especially on higher resolution 1920x108 of 192x1200. You know on higher resoluitons ( higher than 1280x1024 ) your cpu has not much effect on your FPS.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:56
any card that has made in 2008-> works best with high resolutions, u will drop fps if u play with r_mode 4. i cannot play anything below 1680x1050 since there would bee too much information goin' -> fps lag. and no matter of resolution, if game-engine is designed to use more cpu (ET is afaik cpu game) situation wont change with higher resoluton.
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 20:06
That doesn't make any sense. So you say the GPU will perform less on lower resolutions? It's only the cpu that MAYBE wont be fast enough to keep up with the GPU in low resolutions. And what you say is throttling. And i doubt that will happen with ET. With this CPU

I wonder why you had any problems getting 125fps with that CPU.
I allready had 125FPS with my AMD Athlon XP 2200+ in 2004.
Most of the problems are between the desk and the chair.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 20:12
well if developers say so, i believe them more than you =)
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 22:52
I dont think you understand me.
I just think you are talking shit. Because you dont base anything on facts. Unlike me.

And the setup you gave to jetro is far from his pricerange. If he wanted to have something for 430 euro. I would have chosen something else.
Also really nice advice on power supply B brand is the best choice if you want too see your PSU blowing up and taking some parts. I have seen that enough.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 20:16
i would like to explain to you how it is possible but i have prac to play, youll understand these things maybe someday =)

e: just let you know CPU throttling aka Dynamic frequency scaling has nothing to do with these things :D
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jetro 28 Jul 2010, 19:05
Not everbody needs an i7, 8GB RAM and some high end GFX-card to play ET.

Mr overkill.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:08
true that but i get better pc for that price :)
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jetro 28 Jul 2010, 19:09
Give me some alternatives then, especially if you think the CPU is that bad.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:11
working on it atm :)
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:31
my setup @ ur inbox
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 19:41
make sure you make it at alternate.be like i did. And not any euro more than mine. Good luck with that.
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:45
well i give them parts, he can check local prices himself. there is not that much difference and i think we got @ finland bigger prices anyway :(

e: and if i put asus model and there is cheaper club3d model, ofc u can use that other. just suggestions.
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Panda 28 Jul 2010, 19:06
I get stable 71fps on a 5 year old pc :=/ wut
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lahq 28 Jul 2010, 19:05
Would go for an I3 its only slightly more expensive.
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 20:00
He didnt want to spend more than 350, i allready went a bit over his budget.
And i3 is not below 100 euro, sadly.
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kReSti 28 Jul 2010, 19:11
JETRO BACK OMGAT!
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hattivatti 28 Jul 2010, 19:12
I, too, need a new computer but I'm shit with hardware, so I need someone to help me!
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Roach 28 Jul 2010, 19:12
''most games'' ???
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jetro 28 Jul 2010, 19:13
- RTCW
- ET
- Quake Live
- COD4

That should do it.
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Roach 28 Jul 2010, 19:48
This should be enough although I don't know if you are willing to play anything else in the future.
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cuttyP 28 Jul 2010, 19:26
was going to ask why you only take 2GB of RAM, but then I saw the prices for RAM these days :O
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Heselaittaa 28 Jul 2010, 19:36
i payed about 200 euros about my 8 gb ddr3 1333 so imo not that bad :D
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Nemesis- 28 Jul 2010, 19:41
45 euros for 2 GB, and only DDR2... damn
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 19:42
yes, thats why i only took 2GB. Else we would have needed to take another GPU, and i didnt want to do that. It's mainly for ET anyway. And 512MB is allready enough for ET.
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MerlinatoR 28 Jul 2010, 22:31
yea really strange that ram prices pretty much doubled within 2 years.
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H0m3 28 Jul 2010, 21:42
Jetro amd2+ socket doesnt fit a am3 thats a different socket.
And why not ddr 3 that's giving more power to your am3.
Because ET doesnt run on graphics but on 1 core and ram.
So its better to get nice high clock and good ram for best fps.
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 22:46
it works.
am3 works on am2+
am2+ works on am2
am3 doesnt work on am2

Also i told jetro ddr3 is an option.
But its a little bit more, and the difference between ddr2 and ddr3 are not much in that pricerange.
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MerlinatoR 28 Jul 2010, 22:31
link to the site you got these prices from?
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zenix 28 Jul 2010, 22:45
he wanted from alternate.be
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