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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:31 am
by Jif

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:44 am
by Jif
now download some real games i couldnt run on my phone (maple story).

Crank up the settings on TF2 and L4D
Crank up WAR (youll notice it doesnt look much different then before...)

Games you need to buy:
CoD5 (nothing special but lots of foliage and debris make it look decent)

games you need to buy or simply acquire:
Crysis
Crysis Warhead (both have the best current gfx quality available)
Far Cry2 (stop when it starts getting boring and repetitive)
Stalker: Clear Sky (didnt like but looks nice)
Fallout 3 (looks OK but good gameplay)
Bioshock (looks good and good gameplay and story)

i'd start by maxing quality on every game and only lower settings if its choppy. 1st setting to lower is FSAA aka AA aka MSAA, usually designated 2x-8x, some have 16x settings. the setting called Ansiosotropic Filtering aka AF should be @ 16 for every game in the world and never lowered ever. textures, models, level of detail, etc should all be maxed in every game except Crysis. Crysis will be a PITA to adjust for best settings since it has dozens of variables.

youll want your desktop and every game set to 1680x1050 and youll never want to lower it, ever, unless it's a very old game that doesnt support widescreen. you want to keep the resolution at max if at all possible...lower quality settings if its choppy, not the resolution. shouldnt be a problem for your setup and any game out there.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:49 am
by Jif
it's almost like our wittle baby is growed up

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:52 am
by Darkfoxx
Congrats man!

I see you only have 2 GBs of ram. What happened there?

Could you also do me a favor? Download and run this: http://www.wprime.net/?q=download&f=wprime_200.zip

Right click on the exe and Run as Administrator on Vista. Make sure the thread # is set to 4 (Click on Set Thread Count, but should be automatic).

Run 32M.

Post the resulting # of total seconds.

I'm just curious because the CPU you got is the replacement for the Q6600, and I just want to see how much of an improvement it is.

Hopefully you learned a lot and will be able to do the actual building next time. We're always here for hardware questions!

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:25 pm
by Centari
Brian intended to give me 4 GBs of ram... but ended up with two, so either it was a mix-up, or I just need to buy more ram. And after the amount of money I just spent, that isn't happening anytime soon.

I'm at school now, so I'll run the whateverthefuckthatis when I get home.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:41 pm
by Centari
UPDATE:

I ran the CS:S benchmark test and maxed the fps in several sections.

overall, the games that I've fired up look simply amazing compared to what I'm used to, and in short, I'm extremely happy with my new build.

I want to take this oppotunity to thank everybody that helped me out:

Brian: two sticks of ram and helping me build the damn thing.
Foxx: The the hard drive and being on call to look up specs on shit when me and Brian were in the store.
Tenken: the kick-ass graphics cards and the Vista OS.....and the condoms.
Jif: recommending some good shit and letting me know what kind of case I'm looking for.
Reid: being a huge faggot.

I just want you guys to know how much your donations and support concerning my new build means to me. This is truly one of the greatest gifts I can remember receiving, and I am very grateful.


Thanks again, and see you all on tonight,

Mike.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:53 pm
by Jif
did you play all the games i listed yet??

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:54 pm
by Jif
you can ADD 4GBs ram for like $45

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:16 pm
by Centari

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:20 pm
by Harness
Congrats Centari! isnt the whole building a comp. process cool?

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:25 pm
by Centari

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:40 pm
by Darkfoxx
Centari's 32M wPrime score: 15.672 sec (2.5 GHz Q9300)
My 32M wPrime score: 22.401 sec (2.4 GHz Q6600)


That's a pretty big increase in speed for .1 GHz and a higher frequency.

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:06 pm
by Jif
make sure youre using the exact same wprime versions. the difference between 1.55 and 1.6 1024 scores was about 25 seconds for me without changing anything. make sure youre both using 2.0

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:19 pm
by Jif
btw my 32m score is 13.4s and 1024m is 402.8s

in these types of tests, # of cores is most important, followed by raw clockspeed, then advanced instruction sets unless there's a big discrepancy b/w then like SSE2 and SSE4.1.

Q9300 support SSE4 or 4.1, i forget. Q6600/6700 only supports SSE3, by the shear clockspeed of my CPU trumps both until you OC the Q9300 to the same 3.6ghz

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:48 pm
by Darkfoxx