Guest IguanaKing Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Well, after several hours of working through install f-ups (and it was mostly just the floppy drive...that damn thing kicks my ass EVERY TIME) I have my X6800 Conroe rig on its feet. If I wasn't seeing what I am, I wouldn't believe any of it. My old rig: P4 Northwood @3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM, and ASUS A9800XT gfx card. With that rig, I got a high score in 3DMark03 of 6,656. In LOMAC I had to turn scenes to medium, use a water tweak with "medium" water, turn canopy reflections off, and use Tommy's 1.12a tweak to get an average of 30 FPS in the A-10 instant mission. My new rig: Core 2 Extreme X6800 @2.93GHz, 4GB RAM, and HIS X1950XTX gfx card. With the new rig, my first 3Dmark03 attempt yielded a result of 21,961. In LOMAC, scenes are high, water is still not "very high" because that setting actually looks pretty nasty...but "high" looks SWEET, canopy reflections on, no tweaks, and I have actually turned heat blur and civilian traffic on. Civilian traffic actually let me see a Lada driving down the road, and I thought it was only yellow buses. :D With all of that turned on, I average 55 FPS in the same mission, going as high as 250 in some views. I have finally found the Holy Grail...and it is Conroe. :D Edit: Oh, BTW, I even re-downloaded FC from this site based on my purchase when it first came out, and it friggin' WORKS! :D Granted, I just burned my final SF activation, but I couldn't believe how easily I was able to, again, download and install something I paid for over a year ago. I'm selling my old PC, so that HD is definitely getting zero-filled before being re-formatted and re-XPd, so I am still only going to have FC installed on one PC.
Pilotasso Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Well, after several hours of working through install f-ups (and it was mostly just the floppy drive...that damn thing kicks my ass EVERY TIME) Floppy drive is an apendix from the past, much like remnants of legs on a snake. :D I have none on my PC's for the last 6 years. Never needed them since anyway (was also because I was counting on every penny for the purchase LOL :lol: ). Enjoy your new PC! :) .
Guest IguanaKing Posted October 1, 2006 Posted October 1, 2006 Thanks buddy. :D As for a floppy drive being a vestigial organ...hardly...I take it you haven't configured very many RAID arrays in Windows XP on a new machine. Psst...the floppy drive is kind of a critical component in that process, otherwise the Win XP install disc says "I have no idea where I'm supposed to install myself. I don't see any hard drives." :smilewink: That's exactly the detail that I forget EVERY TIME I build a new machine...I knew I needed to install a floppy, but couldn't quite remember its key role in bringing the machine to life. :D
G3 Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 it would be nice to loose the floppy, but i occassionally use it for doing such things as drivers or memory tests etc, although i think today these are able to be placed on bootable cd. they are getting beyond it but you sure are glad you put one in if its ever needed. i have pc's with and without, things are rarely missed until required :D iguana king, great news on the joy you have found with the new conroe, as even your old system was no slouch, and masive amounts of ram, i hear the full 4gig won't be fully utilised or recognised by a 32bit o/s, yet the momery controller will actually make use of it, once we go to 64bit things wil be different. would be interesting to see the difference between 2gig and 4gig, if you get board please try this out for us, 2gig being the new standard i feel. 1 gig is so 2005, haha :)
Guest IguanaKing Posted October 7, 2006 Posted October 7, 2006 Who said anything about a 32-bit OS? :smilewink:
Kuky Posted October 10, 2006 Posted October 10, 2006 I also just recently upgraded to E6600 / P5W DH Deluxe / X1950XTX / 2GB DDR2 PC6400, and I have E6600 running at 3GHz with no problems at all... but what I wanted to add here is that these 2GB of RAM are more than enough for gaming. I have disabled virtual memory completely, and even when I manually set for lock-on to use 500Km preloading (in graphics.cfg) after being in game and ALT/TAB-ing into Task Manager... it shows about 1GB of physical memory being used, so that's still 1GB remaining. I don't thing having 4GB of RAM would have any benefits at all. PC specs: Windows 11 Home | Asus TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D + LC 360 AIO | MSI RTX 5090 LC 360 AIO | 55" Samsung Odyssey Gen 2 | 64GB PC5-48000 DDR5 | 1TB M2 SSD for OS | 2TB M2 SSD for DCS | NZXT C1000 Gold ATX 3.1 1000W | TM Cougar Throttle, Floor Mounted MongoosT-50 Grip on TM Cougar board, MFG Crosswind, Track IR
Pilotasso Posted October 10, 2006 Posted October 10, 2006 It will if you plan to use VISTA later on. .
Kuky Posted October 10, 2006 Posted October 10, 2006 Well I don't know about that since the O/S is not out yet and I haven't tried ti :) but anyway, I'm sure there are previes on it out by now since it's close to release, so... what would be so special about Windows Vista and why would it need so much RAM? And thankfully getting from 2GB to 4GB wuold be easy, just costing more money :D PC specs: Windows 11 Home | Asus TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D + LC 360 AIO | MSI RTX 5090 LC 360 AIO | 55" Samsung Odyssey Gen 2 | 64GB PC5-48000 DDR5 | 1TB M2 SSD for OS | 2TB M2 SSD for DCS | NZXT C1000 Gold ATX 3.1 1000W | TM Cougar Throttle, Floor Mounted MongoosT-50 Grip on TM Cougar board, MFG Crosswind, Track IR
Prophet Posted January 30, 2007 Posted January 30, 2007 Thanks buddy. :D As for a floppy drive being a vestigial organ...hardly...I take it you haven't configured very many RAID arrays in Windows XP on a new machine. Psst...the floppy drive is kind of a critical component in that process, otherwise the Win XP install disc says "I have no idea where I'm supposed to install myself. I don't see any hard drives." :smilewink: That's exactly the detail that I forget EVERY TIME I build a new machine...I knew I needed to install a floppy, but couldn't quite remember its key role in bringing the machine to life. :D Just an FYI. I dont use a floppy, and had to install RAID drivers. There is a program called nLite, that lets you make a new WinXP install CD and slipstream in anything you want. From what I have heard, even programs.
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