- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Hensai
My build must be a friggin' mutant or somethin'
I gots
Asus P5N-E SLI - Which doesnt seem to like OCZ RAM
Pentium D 940 3.20Ghz - Which gets hot as hell =/
Corsair XMS2 Dual Channel 2x512 Kit (1024MB)
XFX GeForce 8600 GT 256MB - Murder for a budget price.
Western Digital 250 GB SATA HDD
Coolmax 450W PSU - Stays REALLY cool.
As for cooling, I got 3 case fans by PowerUp which suprisingly came with the case,
ThermalTake Silent 775D w/ Copper Heatpipes - No lie about "silent"
OCZ Silver Thermal Paste - Scary stuffs.
I put a bit too much thermal paste on the contact that sits on top of the processor, and
overheated it... thank whoever for the auto shutoff.
I can run H2 Single Player at around 50-60 FPS no AA, sometimes with crazy snags 'cuz
Vista's a ram-hungry whore, but oddly enough when I crank up the AA, the framerate rises...
Multiplayer is a different story though, at 4x AA, the performance plummets whenever someone
fires off a sniper round, but at 2x it just gets crazy at 100+ FPS on 1024 x 768 and only drops about
2-6 FPS per higher resolution. I'm gonna SLI with this card. It does pretty well on Lost Planet with AA off.
When you have AA and all the other stuff on low, you are bottle necking the card apparently. (looked into it myself, I have the same card) So the same thing happened to me. I up'd resolution, detail level, and AA and it runs awesomely. For some reason I play multiplayer better then Single Player and in multiplayer there is usually way more action going on (I stick to bigger parties).
My new machine!!
EVGA nForce 590 SLi
Amd Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.8ghz (soon to be overclocked)
Kingston Valueram 2x 1Gb DDR2 pc2-4200 (older and kinda crappy)
nVidia e-Geforce 8600 GT (Only have 1...for now :)
Western Digital 250 GB Sata HDD
Antec Trio 550w SLi certified PSU
P.S - I feel that this thread needs to be resurrected. There are too many people once again asking the same dumb questions. Just come to this thread for help to try to eliminate repetitive and dumb threads!! If at all possible, would a mod please sticky this?