The PC Thread

[Extralife]

It's a massive resource hog, MS are really kidding themselves when they suggest 1MB being enough to run it on. I don't really consider the performance I'm getting to be an acceptable minimum.

[$ilva $hadow]

Windows 7 in its beta or RC form is better than vista. You're better off with the beta now and letting them work on stuff under the hood rather than paying for it right away.


Just join the bandwagon and start using Windows 7 for free.

[Rightey]

I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256 MB) which is actually the first graphics card I've ever owned (old system had virtual graphics ).

You might be able to do medium settings, I used to have a 6800GT, and Crysis actually looked far worse than Far Cry.

[Extralife]

The beta ended.

[SEP]

The beta ended.

It's still available, if you kow where to look. Although if you're going to do that, might as well go for build 7057 instead.

[$ilva $hadow]

The beta ended.

What? Did no one even think about reading my post at the top of the page? You can get official serial keys, that are not registered to anyone else, they are brand new.


All you have to do is download the RC1 from torrents or rapidshare and et voila, you're now part of the testing process as those cd keys are valid and one per email address.


Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually posting useful information which people will read and appreciate. But no It just goes over your heads.

[Fatal Exception]

[Rightey]

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2758 ... 9large.jpg

That Heatsink on the CPU looks with the fan going that way, what kind is it?

[Fatal Exception]

Its a freezer 7 Pro. Pointing it towards the extraction fan means my CPU idles at 27C

[John Matrix]

Fatal Exception uses the same contact lens solution as me.

[$ilva $hadow]

Fatal Exception uses the same contact lens solution as me.

That's hand moisturizer. I would know because I use that same brand to counter the radiation when wanking.

[Fatal Exception]

Fatal Exception uses the same contact lens solution as me.

Its actually glasses cleaner.

[tomvek]

I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256 MB) which is actually the first graphics card I've ever owned (old system had virtual graphics ).

You might be able to do medium settings, I used to have a 6800GT, and Crysis actually looked far worse than Far Cry.

Ta dude, I might nab myself a copy if I see it cheap.

[Lex-Man]

I got a AMD 4800+ it's a 939 though not a AM2 I'm having a lot of problems playing new games. I've got two gigs of DDR ram clocked at 400Mhz. I've Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 can play them for maybe half to an hour and a half till the game crashes back to the desktop. Anyone got any ideas what I can try to improve performance. By the way I have a 3850.

I tempted to get a couple more 250 gig hard drives and run a raid array, as well of upping my ram to 4 gig but don't thing it will help.

[Fatal Exception]

I got a AMD 4800+ it's a 939 though not a AM2 I'm having a lot of problems playing new games. I've got two gigs of DDR ram clocked at 400Mhz. I've Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 can play them for maybe half to an hour and a half till the game crashes back to the desktop. Anyone got any ideas what I can try to improve performance. By the way I have a 3850.

I tempted to get a couple more 250 gig hard drives and run a raid array, as well of upping my ram to 4 gig but don't thing it will help.

Isn't socket AM2 backwards compatable with Socket 939? (I could be wrong about this but I heard it somewhere.

To be honest you'd be best off saving up for a new PC wit that rig.

[Lex-Man]

I got a AMD 4800+ it's a 939 though not a AM2 I'm having a lot of problems playing new games. I've got two gigs of DDR ram clocked at 400Mhz. I've Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 can play them for maybe half to an hour and a half till the game crashes back to the desktop. Anyone got any ideas what I can try to improve performance. By the way I have a 3850.

I tempted to get a couple more 250 gig hard drives and run a raid array, as well of upping my ram to 4 gig but don't thing it will help.

Isn't socket AM2 backwards compatable with Socket 939? (I could be wrong about this but I heard it somewhere.

To be honest you'd be best off saving up for a new PC wit that rig.

There is no backwards compatibility between AM2 and 939. I would buy a new machine but I don't have the cash ATM.

[Fatal Exception]

I got a AMD 4800+ it's a 939 though not a AM2 I'm having a lot of problems playing new games. I've got two gigs of DDR ram clocked at 400Mhz. I've Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 can play them for maybe half to an hour and a half till the game crashes back to the desktop. Anyone got any ideas what I can try to improve performance. By the way I have a 3850.

I tempted to get a couple more 250 gig hard drives and run a raid array, as well of upping my ram to 4 gig but don't thing it will help.

Isn't socket AM2 backwards compatable with Socket 939? (I could be wrong about this but I heard it somewhere.

To be honest you'd be best off saving up for a new PC wit that rig.

There is no backwards compatibility between AM2 and 939. I would buy a new machine but I don't have the cash ATM.

Sorry about that, never believe some random rantings on other forums I think the best thing you could do would be to format and start again. It should stop your crashing.

[Fatal Exception]

Anyway, the specs of my rig are:
Asus P5QL Pro
Intel Q8300+ (stock atm because I've no need to o/c it, I've taken it to 3Ghz with not problems when testing)
4Gb DDR2 1066Mhz
Asus ATI 4850 1Gb
WD 500Gb HDD
Sony DVDRW
Windows 7

[melatonin]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4ghz
Corsair 4048Mb 6400 DDR 2 RAM
Asus P5B Deluxe board
896Mb BFG GTX260 OC2 (the 216 core version)
640Gb HDD (2 x 320GB Seagate Barracudas in a RAID 0 array)
Windows strawberry floatin' Vista 32-bit edition

Upgraded the card and doubled the RAM at the end of last year, which I think is about the extent of the fiddling I'll be doing with this rig for quite some time now. It eats up pretty much everything I throw at it with relative ease, and very stable too. Also - yes, I am aware that running the 32-bit edition of Vista essentially means 1GB of my RAM is doing precisely strawberry float all. strawberry floatin' Vista.

[Lex-Man]

I got a AMD 4800+ it's a 939 though not a AM2 I'm having a lot of problems playing new games. I've got two gigs of DDR ram clocked at 400Mhz. I've Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 can play them for maybe half to an hour and a half till the game crashes back to the desktop. Anyone got any ideas what I can try to improve performance. By the way I have a 3850.

I tempted to get a couple more 250 gig hard drives and run a raid array, as well of upping my ram to 4 gig but don't thing it will help.

Isn't socket AM2 backwards compatable with Socket 939? (I could be wrong about this but I heard it somewhere.

To be honest you'd be best off saving up for a new PC wit that rig.

There is no backwards compatibility between AM2 and 939. I would buy a new machine but I don't have the cash ATM.

Sorry about that, never believe some random rantings on other forums I think the best thing you could do would be to format and start again. It should stop your crashing.

I have it didn't help. I've installed the latest ATI drivers for my card and things have got a bit better. I managed to get all the way through No Mercy in Vista(It did freeze once but came back and then it BSOD when I dropped back to windows) which I never been able to do before, my comp normally crashes around the loud door opening bit. Going to try playing under XP to see if it's any better.