Recent content by philo-sofa

lol. Sorry to bump this old thread, but exactly what do you think he's going to get by lying about this? Might he have been making an offhand comment about local availability when requesting information on a certain product? Jeez... Aha! A fellow kiwi! :) For those still...

That memory (512mb) will hold you back a bit gaming @ 1920 x 1200, even now. Definately get a ~1GB (per die) card such as the 4870 1GB, X2, or GTX 280 or (in a few weeks possibly) the GTX 290 or 295.

I'm pretty sure AMD would have been well placed if they'd put a dual core 45nm Phenom on sale in January - there is still quite a market for them you know and when you have a thermally sensetive design like the Phenom II you could potentially give them some tantalising clocks.

I like a lot of the posters above ^^ am a fan of Vista and generally find peopel liek it after giving it an extended go. Still as Silent said, doesn't want it to be 'one of those' threads, would also vote for Server 2008 as an alternative if needed; have heard only good things.

As in my sig, my XFX xXx edition GTX 260 runs @ 700 Core, 1490 shader and 2400 mem 24/7, haven't really pushed it for benching tho.

Looks like it'd exhaust a fair bit of hot air into the case..

Your OP was sarcastic, or more formally an 'Argumentum Ad Logicam', it isn't really irony. You would have a good point to make though, barring such issues as microstuttering, scaling issues and often barely changing frame rates with multi-GPU cards, which aren't present with large cores.

I have to admit I lol'd. But still, feeding trolls is bad...

Yeah, very impressed with mine too, overclocks like crazy and gives a very impressive performance boost over my previous 8800 GTS 512.

It's somewhat like calling a Canadian an American. But secretly we tend to just be happy when someone know roughly which corner of the globe we come from ;) The price difference is somewhat more important when you take into account that we earn on average six tenths what an American does...

Well I'm in sunny old New Zealand, and we pay a premium on technologyt 5-12% over the U.S. (though here that seems largely due to the very small size of the market and the resulting lack of competition). A GTX 280 is about $US 80 more here than you guys get. Petrol prices in Europe are...

That wasn't what I meant - I'm suggesting that you should be able to do both as a GPU is inherenty multi-threaded and that if they're not allowing the user to do so it would be blatant marketing ploy to get us to slap extra dollars down on the table for a second card (and even an Nvidia mobo if...

Why in the heck did they do that? The whole design of GPU's is inherently multi-threaded! I'm assuming it's so that have to buy and low range card for physics...

AFAIK the mobo Thermal Monitoring option uses the (wildly innacurate but probably more functional than 45nm DTS') motherbaord sensor, so that will definately be fine. As far as the sensors go, in this case it looks very likely the lower one is the one to trust.

I have to say I'm a little more ambivalent about the Dual vs Quad thing - in my experience it's the case that going above 3.0 returns quite large benefits, and that's all the more true when dealing with SLI. At 3.8GHz my PC is noticably faster in general, and Crysis.. well, it actually works...