New PC help.

From: Username19 Oct 2007 10:23
To: Dave!! 16 of 21

Show a piccy.
Im using a 550W (shudders) Q Tec, I bought about a year ago (Only been used solid for 9 months).
I thought my only concern would be PCI-E power cables. But I can remidy that with a molex adpater.
PSUs are so bleedin expensive I see. Not for me.
Iv been looking at a 2.6 64 X2 CPU 2mb cache.
Whats the deal with 1000mhz FBS CPUs and no mobos or ram to support it.

From: Username19 Oct 2007 10:26
To: Dave!! 17 of 21

GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB <- nice!

 

What games/demos you been throwing at it?
What Res you playing it?
What games you been enjoying atm?

From: Dave!!19 Oct 2007 11:43
To: Username 18 of 21

Should be alright then I'd have thought as it's new enough. It's also certainly powerful enough. My system has a decent 500w supply for instance and runs fine.

 

Regarding 1,066MHz FSB CPUs, there are motherboards around to support them?! The RAM also doesn't have to match the FSB speed these days - particularly not on AMD systems, although faster is obviously better.

 

Graphics wise, my card runs nicely. Handles Oblivion at 1280x960 with all the detail cranked up and it's smooth. Can also play Bioshock at that res with most of the detail fairly high. I've recently played HL2: Episode 2 with all detail to maximum and AA/Ansitropic Filtering cranked up and it's run nice and smoothly. So yes. It's a nice card :)

From: Username19 Oct 2007 11:53
To: Dave!! 19 of 21
How come you aint bought a TFT yet?
From: Dave!!19 Oct 2007 12:03
To: Username 20 of 21
No need to. My 19" CRT is big enough and works fine. If it dies, or I move house and don't have enough room for it then I may replace it. For now though, why replace something which works and does its job?
From: Username19 Oct 2007 12:20
To: Dave!! 21 of 21

Dunno.
You without a TFT is like cheese without crackers.