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I will vote for Tuniq too. Although as said above it is a pain in the arse to install and good luck if you have to take the back plate off your mobo....

looks like a good deal

You really have to give this game sometime before you can understand it and have fun with it. Even if you have played T1 and T2 before it takes quite a few hours before you get used to the new skiing and weapons.

I have 2 MX700's right next to each other. There are 2 different channels that you can use. Just make sure each is set to a different channel or they do interfere with each other.

Haha of course. I thought we were talking PC here.

Seems strange to compare a P4 C 800 fsb to the much cheaper Athlon XP. A more fair comparison is to Athlon 64s which are closer to P4s in price.

It is pretty much accepted even by intel fan boys that Athlon 64s are superior to P4 in gaming. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/prescott-tests.html

1. The Sims 2. Half-life 3. Myst

Yeah thats great. I would have taken a more compelling storyline, better gameplay, or a game with multiplayer over the nice graphics.

How much cash do you have? What I would probably do is buy: CHAINTECH "VNF3-250" nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU - $75 AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache 64-bit Processor - $172 Then I would wait until the supply of 6800 GT's increased and the price falls to...

Yep it doesnt matter at all, it will get transmitted either way.

Except very few if any servers can support that. It is near impossible to find a good 8 player server right now.

The closed T:V beta test has been going on for about a month now. The open beta test will hopefully be out at the end of this month or early september. If you are a Fileplanet subscriber you are supposed to get the beta test a week before everyone else, which should be anytime now.....

Halflife Tribes Tribes 2 Starcraft Warcraft 3 u2k4 Pretty much every game I buy for multiplayer expect madden, and Doom 3 which sucked anyway.

Yep, can't wait for open beta.

T - 10 minutes before djnes comes in here and starts riping OCZ to shreads.

Hahaha, I was laughing about that too. That is great logic Mav.

OCing that with PC3200 just involves changing your memclock multipler. Lets say you want to OC to 2400MHz. You change your memclock to run 5:6 (240 * 5 / 6 = 200) to run your ram in spec. I think I remember seeing a good guide about OCing A64’s in the AMD forum.

Oops forgot about your other questions 2) Yeah you can do more than mild overclocking with that setup. You can run at 2.2 ~ 2.3 no problem 3) Yes. Check out some of the video card benchmarks at hardocp, www.anandtech.com, and www.xbitlabs.com. The 6800 blows the 256MB 9800 XT out of the...

The Antec power supply should handle it just fine. My friend is running a similar setup with a 6800 GT, and it powers his just fine. His 3.3 and 5 V rails are very constant, his 12V rail fluctuates a little more but is fine. Antec makes very good PSUs, thermalflakes are not quite as stable...

Fixed. Doom 3 uses well over 512 mb of ram on my system. But you are right, graphics card is by far this most important component.

ANTEC Life Style Series Black Case With 380W Power Supply, Model "SONATA"- $100 CHAINTECH "VNF3-250" nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU – $82 AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache 64-bit Processor – Retail -$175 2 X Mushkin 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 – Retail - $158 Leadtek...

For gaming it is A64 regardless if you are overclocking or not. An AMD 64 3000+ will out perform a P4 3.2, and even a P4 3.4 in some games.

Doesnt change the fact that he is right. A64 3000+ and 754 is best price/performance.

In your scenario both those systems would have very similar fps because they are both GPU limited with the 9700 PRO. Anandtech used a 6800 Ultra during their cpu tests to try to make the cpu the limiting factor. No one is lying.

I am a big A64 supporter but it is not worth the upgrade. If you are playing at 1600X1200, which I am guessing you are then you are still GPU limited anyway.

You don’t need a 480W power supply, you just have to make sure you get a quality power supply. Since there are no defined ratings for PSUs you can’t really look at the wattage you have to judge the rails. Try to get a PSU with at least 20 amps on the 12V rail. My friend is running his 6800 GT...

Drop a 6800 GT in that system and it will run Doom 3 beautifully. I would buy the 6800 GT as soon as I found a good deal on one.

Get a 3000+ and make sure you get 1 gig of ram even if you have to get value ram.

Doom 3 is just ok. Yeah the graphics are great. Yeah it is scary (if your idea of scary is having the lights turned off every other second annoying the hell out of you and making you switch to your flashlight). The storyline and gameplay are just ok. And with no multiplayer (no 4 player does...

As said above if you arn't overclocking get a gig of 3200. When using windows XP I would take a gig of value ram over 512 of performance ram any day.

It is not called Forever for nothing.

Step 1: Buy MSI K8N Neo Platinum Step 2: OC to 2.4 ~ 2.5 Step 3: Be happy.

I have a 36 gig raptor right now. I was running 2 in raid 0, but the performance couldn't justify the price for my applications. The only raptor that is might be worth it in my opinion is 1 74 gig raptor for $158 at newegg, and this is only if you have some money to burn. Otherwise there are...

NewC, for $170 its a steal.

If gaming is your #1 priority then you should allocate your money a little differently. 1st paying $318 for that ram is unnecessary. Getting a gig of Corsair value select for $166 will perform just a little slower (almost negligible) in games. You can also get a 3000+ ($170) and K8N Neo...

As said before the 3000+ and MSI K8N Neo Platinum combo is popular. You can get a really nice OC out of it.

If I can find it for around $40 I will. I just don’t really like single player games anymore. I need competitive multiplayer for a game to be fun now.

A64 3000+ is the best price/performance cpu right now imo.

Usually $178.