My Pc Setup -my Turn My Turn

UZiUZi Eight inches of C4 between the legs. Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13767Members
edited July 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">DEWM!!!</div> Ok How am I going to afford DOOM 3 anyway?!?

I Recently picked up a new 200 gig Western Digital hard drive, 1 gigs of Kingston 3200 and a GeForce FX 5700LE 256meg DDR, Im planning on obtaining a Abit AV8 Deluxe Socket 939, with a Athalon64 3500

<a href='http://www.bzboyz.com/store/product4639.html' target='_blank'>http://www.bzboyz.com/store/product4639.html</a>

Any Suggestions?
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  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    You'd think that by now you would know that nvidia is evil <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Better video card. That current card will be the biggest performance bottleneck.

    The motherboard looks okay, though I've never used an ABit. I'd almost recommend an MSI Neo2-FISR board instead.
    You might consider dropping the CPU slightly (Fry's is running a package deal at the moment on the MSI board in question and an Ath64 3000+ for literally half the cost of BZBoys... $310.)


    Return the video card if you can. Best Buy is currently running a sale on the R9800 Pro 128MB for $179, which will give you a SHARP performance increase.

    Also, the same forewarning I give to anyone... if you have a Creative SBLive, Audigy/Audigy2 (which are all essentially the same damn card anyway) you will not be able to use it in your new Ath64 and maintain system integrity. Creative botched the drivers, insists it's Microsoft's fault, when they are the ones responsible for catching the problem that makes the system crash-blackscreen-reboot.
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  • UZiUZi Eight inches of C4 between the legs. Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13767Members
    I don't think it will matter much, it's got 256 megs of ram.

    Along with the fact i've had sickening stories with ATi,

    And I know, I know that they have gotten alot better over the years. But I've never had any real problems with my Nvidia cards.
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  • UZiUZi Eight inches of C4 between the legs. Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13767Members
    Im not planning on using Microsoft's OS when I get SUSE running on my hard drive. So I hope things get settled in.


    And yes I have an Audigy 2 EAX, I got it for free.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Well then, the SBLive will work just fine. It's just the windows side drivers that bork. The EMU10K1 module is perfectly happy, given that they're all the same card, in essence. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Also, don't swap out for an ATi then... they still don't provide a 64-bit Linux kernel module, which is somewhat irksome. Double-check that nVidia DOES, and that SuSE provides a 64-bit computing environment or you'll pretty much be wasting the machine. Though I do love my ATi, and have been showing long-term nVidia fanboys that they <b>have</b>, in fact, surpassed nVidia by quite a bit in terms of speed (instead of only image quality), waiting around for them to finally release the 64-bit module may be unacceptable to you.

    If SuSE doesn't, Fedora Core 2-64 seems to work quite happily, and is free. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Might be easier, rather than having to recompile everything to use the extended architecture.
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  • MrPinkMrPink Join Date: 2002-05-28 Member: 678Members
    edited July 2004
    RAM doesn't mean as much as most people think on a video card these days. Clock speed is more important. Although I haven't tried an abit board, I've heard they are decent boards with the best overclocking capabilities. That is probably a moot point though because even if you wanted to overclock a processor that fast, the A64's don't OC well.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Actually, for OCing the Ath64s the K8V is pretty much king... or at least the K8T800 chipset. The nForce boards can OC a little, but lose stability quickly at about 221MHz FSB. The K8V can power up to 237MHz with no problems.

    And yeah.. that '256 megs of ram' on your video card is a lure to get stupid people to buy it. NO GAME (aside from Tron 2.0 and about two levels of UT2004) ever actually utilizes over 128MB. And the card is already dropping to the 'low end' range.. by the time a game comes along that WILL use all the RAM, it'll be giving bargain-bin performance.
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  • UZiUZi Eight inches of C4 between the legs. Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13767Members
    Talesin I think I will take your word for it, and go with the 3000 Ath64 from Fry's, along with RMAing back the Video Card.

    Im not stupid it's I just haven't messed with buying computer parts in 4 years.

    Talesin thanks for all the help, i will make the according changes.
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