SixGun-65 Posted June 15, 2007 Posted June 15, 2007 I am interested in the forum members opinions of a new system I am looking at purchasing. I am posting the basic info and hope that it is enough for you to point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance for your comments. I want to get back into LOMAC with high settings and other games as well. AMD 4600 Dual Core processor NForce SLI MB 4 GB DDR RAM Dual GForce 7600 (256 Meg) Vid Card (SLI) 500W power supply 320 SATA 7200 RPM HD 20x DVDRW XP Media Ctr Extra cooling fan I am ok with the sound card, ect. I already have a 22" wide screen monitor and a X52 stick setup. Price $1118.00 Tnx Six
Psycho_909nl Posted June 15, 2007 Posted June 15, 2007 i didn't look at the complete system but i just noticed the video cards, i have 2 7600gt video card and i'm not really happy with it ( actualy i'm not happy at all, it has a great bug in the firmware without support from the vendor) combine that with nvidia's great driver support and bug fixing (change log list a known bug in lockon for at least a year now) i'd recommend choosing a ati card and loose the sli (it won't help you get more fps in lockon anyway )
diveplane Posted June 15, 2007 Posted June 15, 2007 yes i like ati..over nvidia https://www.youtube.com/user/diveplane11 DCS Audio Modding.
diveplane Posted June 16, 2007 Posted June 16, 2007 my findings win xp 32bit platform sees 3 GB ram when i was running older 533mhz ram.. https://www.youtube.com/user/diveplane11 DCS Audio Modding.
Ven Posted June 16, 2007 Posted June 16, 2007 Regardless of whether the system will recognize the RAM or not, if you're running 32bit OS, 4GB of RAM will be a waste. All 32bit OS has inherent limitation of 1.4GB per process. That's the ceiling. Doesn't matter if you have 200GB of RAM. It'll only use 1.4GB. 2GB will be plenty for 32bit OS. Let's say your OS is taking up 500MB of the RAM, then you still have 1.5GB of RAM for your application. Sure, you can run 2 or 3 process simultaneously to use up all that 4GB... in theory that is. But your CPU wont be able to handle that many process taking up full 1.4GB each in reality. If you're getting 4GB to upgrade to Vista64 later, then just wait and upgrade later. I've never considered myself as nVidia fan but I've always used nVidia because ATI has always had issues with professional 3D applications. But I'm sure it'll work great for gaming. If you still want to stick with nVidia, go for single card solution rather than lower card in SLI. Get 8x series. Oh, and get 2 smaller drives and set it up as RAID-0. There's absolutely no reason to go single drive.
SixGun-65 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Posted June 16, 2007 Thanks!! Thanks to all who responded. I really appreciate it! I will definately take your suggestions to heart when I make my final decision. Six
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