Hmmm, never heard of it before. Sounds interesting, the wiki said it was royalty free. Does that mean it could be noticeably cheaper than say either HDMI or DVI connectors? One of my big concerns with those two formats is the ridiculous prices that are associated with them. Like the DVI cable that came with my current monitor is somewhat faulty, if I don’t have it positioned perfectly my monitor gets no signal at all. So like, if I plug the cable in, put the screws in, it doesn’t work, so I have to keep the cable partially unplugged for it to work. Everytime I move the monitor/computer I always have this problem… The only reason I don’t replace the DVI cable is because they’re more expensive than I deem necessary.
Because I work as a Cox Comm. CSR, I know they sell 6ft HDMI cables for 30, then 12ft cables for 50, it’s just generally a ripoff to comply with a video/audio format when there are cheaper alternatives.
So the reviews show that the 5870 is a beast. A single GPU that’s as powerful, and sometimes more so, than the two current high end dual-GPU cards GTX 295 and HD 4870X2. Not to mention support for several new technologies such as DX11 and Eyefinity and a 40nm fab. All for $370.
This is probably going to be the choice for my next rig.
The 5850 is an appealing option as well. More powerful than a GTX 285 for only $260.
On another note, I upgraded to a 4870 1GB a couple weeks ago and I’m loving it. Plays Fallout 3 beautifully at 1280x960 with graphics settings on ultra and 4xAA. I haven’t played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky yet. I still need to install it.
Mmmm, tasty fried PSU. That’s right, my computer is dead… At least, I think it’s the PSU, as the computer doesn’t turn on at all. There are still lights on on the mobo, so it might be something like the CPU or the ram… hmmm.
It turns out, it’s my fcking GPU. The terrible fcking HSF that came with it, fried it! Or at least, my computer seems to run fine without the GPU inserted… so I’m probably going to end up using my friends 7300 for awhile while I look for another…
[quote]It turns out, it’s my fcking GPU. The terrible fcking HSF that came with it, fried it! Or at least, my computer seems to run fine without the GPU inserted… so I’m probably going to end up using my friends 7300 for awhile while I look for another…
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Hmm, never heard of a stock 4850 frying. Regardless, depends on what you’re willing to spend.
It’s probably due to a lot of things, like ever since I installed the newer drivers for the card, my temp monitor stopped working, and refused to work with the newer drivers. So I stopped monitoring that stuff, and my fan sounded pretty loud so I figured it was cooling things…
Installing nvidia drivers on my computer right now, while in safe mode, because the damn thing didn’t want to start up in windows after I uninstalled the ATi drivers…
Whats out that’s between 150-200 right now? I know they’re coming out with the 5000 series pretty soon if they haven’t already… I’m pretty out of touch as far as GPUs go right now. Also might consider Nvidia instead this time around since I want to dabble in their stereophonic stuff… should probably do more research into how that works and what’s required to us it before I let that make a decision.
When I got this computer it of course came with no printer cable. The usual gimme in package deals to get you to spend more in Beastly Buy. I did buy one a little cheaper at Circuit Bankrupt, but returned it after I looked on eBay and saw that instead of spending $30-$40 for like a 6+ foot cable, I could get a 2-foot for like five bucks shipped to me.
If you could stretch the budget to $260 somehow, I’d highly recommend the HD 5850. More powerful than a GTX 285, lower price, cooler, newer tech and lower power draw.
If you want to go with Nvidia, make sure you completely remove the ATI drivers. The easiest way to avoid issues is usually a fresh Windows install. Then I’d say don’t bother going for a GTX 260 and just get a GTX 275. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162038 for $205 would be a mighty fine choice.
I’m gonna be upgrading soon. Well, that is to say that I’ll be upgrading my CPU, mobo and RAM.
I’m trying to decide whether to go the cost effective route and get an AMD Athlon II X4 620 and Asus 790X mobo for $190 or just get the Phenom II X4 955 and Asus Crosshair III. The latter combo would cost more like ~$380.
Of course, there’s always Intel. The Core i5 750 and P55 mobos don’t seem too bad at all. It’s a tough call.
Well, as it stands, I am definitely going with an Intel Core i5 750 in an Asus P7P55D PRO mobo. The low cost, high performance, overclockability and low power consumption are all just great.
What’s the difference between the i5 and i7s? Or is it just a name for lower clocked CPUs? i5 just kinda appeared one day too me…
Also, computer fixed, but I swear my computer lags my gpu to death just because it’s a higher resolution than I’d otherwise run on something like 7300GT, even though there is probably no reason why it wouldn’t be able to…
Core i5 750 and i7 860/870 are the the Lynnfield chips. They are the “mainstream” offering based on the Nehalem microarchitecture. I use the quotes because they are phenomenal performers. Besides, the i7 870 performs almost as well as the Core i7 975 EE, and I’d hardly call the i7 870 ‘mainstream’ at a $562 price point. The Lynnfield processors run on P55 chipset motherboards. The only major difference between the i5 and i7 (Lynnfield i7, that is) is a slightly lower clock and no hyper-threading. They just came out last month, so they’re still pretty new.
7300GT is a pretty bad card. I wouldn’t be much surprised if it couldn’t handle a higher resolution. Depends what you mean by ‘higher resolution’ too though.
Lol, just wanted to know the specific differences between i5 and i7, I’d like to see the performance difference between a similarly clocked i5 and i7, to see if hyper-threading makes any difference at all. Since we haven’t seen hyper-threading since the p4, there’s been nothing to really show us as of late how it affects performance.
Entrance high resolution, 1680x1050 is my monitor’s native. Still, the 7300gt chokes, and the drivers apparently don’t support wide screen resolutions, except for my native and 1600x900. So I’ve lowered my resolution to 1600x900 to see how that fairs, if not I’m probably going to go to 1280x1024.
Hyper threading makes a pretty large difference in applications that take advantage of extra threads. However, in many benchmarks, the i5 750 performs equal to or better than an i7 920. Turbo mode is more effective on the Lynnfields as well.
I’m surprised you didn’t just jump straight to 6gb. DD3 memory seems to be getting better deals than DD2 memory as of late. I looked at how much DD2 1066 rated ram was for the 2x2gb arrangement. Just a month or two ago hovering around 60-70, and I was waiting for it to go down before I upgraded it, it’s 100 now. Regular price.
Yeah, a lot of people have been complaining about rising prices of RAM lately. Just about 6 months ago you could pick up 4gb DDR2 1066 kits for like ~$35. Now, like you said, they’re up to around $100 for the same thing. Which is pretty ridiculous considering that you can get 4gb of DDR3 1600 for the same price, give or take.
I’m going with 4gb cause Lynnfield uses dual-channel memory. :silly:
It’s jaw dropping how ram has done the exact opposite of what I thought it would do, given the usual style and progress of pricing in the computer section of things.
