Intel Core i7

[Groove]

Are you planing to overclock or want a real silent PC ?

[hitman]

My Corsair XMS3 PC12800 1600mhz ram just came in. Glad I still have my corsair dominator ram fan still...monday I get my video cards, and tuesday I get the rest. Hope its big enough. Now I sure as hell hope that Vista X64 doesnt act as retarded with this stuff as it did last time I had it installed.

[Groove]

Running Vista 64 bit Ultimate without any issues. What kind of problems did you have?

[hitman]

Vista SP1 wouldnt install because of my raid array. Oh yeah, I troubleshot that thing for days.

[Prophet]

Stock settings, idle and loaded. The TIM isnt cured yet either.

 

Groove, overclocking wont make it any louder. This baby is going to get some juice :D

[hitman]

Whats your 3d score at stock?

[Prophet]

I usually dont care for benchmarks. I tend to look at how it performs how I use it, in games.

 

I can tell you right now I have been able to really up the settings in ArmA. I havent got to BS yet.

[Groove]

Cool pics Prophet, i had a watercolling system years ago.

 

Now i have a zombie PC case with all the stuff hagning around, will post some pics tomorrow :)

[Pilotasso]

Your system look armed and dangerous :D

[hitman]

I just jacked my knee up today...its going to suck too cuz my tower weighs in at around 60lbs.

[Pilotasso]

Dang...it seems buying hardware brings a curse upon you? I think practicaly everything bad has already happened to you :D

[hitman]

Nah I got 3 lazy roommates...2 of which need something to do.

[hitman]

My GTX260 Core 216s came in today...freakin' HUGE!!!! Each card weighs in at 4lbs. Im almost scared to put these on the motherboard I have coming in tomorrow. Gonna have to find a way to brace these things...Ill get some pics put up this evening of these things.

 

 

And yes, it will run Crysis Warhead at full res, maxed graphics. Got a LOT of plumbing to do inside this case if I want to run these in sli. Turns out my pump is in the direct way of the bottom card.

Edited December 9, 2008 by hitman

[Pilotasso]

Yap, these cards are as big and heavy as bricks. I got one like that though fortunatly a sigle card for me is SLI. I dont have to have 2 of them. :D

[hitman]

Motherboard was DOA. Thought I had finished this with asus! Now I have to wait till I get this thing RMA,d.

[rapid]

Shame on Asus, cant you just send it back to the company you brought it from and ask for a replacement surly you shouldn't have to RMA it as you have not had it that long?

[hitman]

No its a Gigabyte board, and I have to send it to RMA because Newegg sucks.

[funcionando]

Core i7 is highly a multi-core CPU, DCS is only single core (dual core with the hack) you'll be getting about the same performance as an E8500. I hope you didn't buy it just for DCS

 

Hi, so could you tell me what hack is that of dual core in dcs.

 

Thanks in advance

[JG27_Arklight]

Hi, so could you tell me what hack is that of dual core in dcs.

 

Thanks in advance

 

1. Alt-tab out of Black Shark.

 

2. Open Task Manager.

 

3. Right-click DCS.exe in "Processes".

 

4. Select "Affinity".

 

5. Select all the cores (check the boxes) and press "Ok" or "Apply".

 

6. Close Task Manager.

 

7. Jump back into Black Shark.

 

8. Enjoy higher performance (with Vista).

 

9. Throw a BBQ party in JG27_Arklight's favor.

 

**10. Donate money to JG27_Arklight.

 

 

 

** This should be done before and after each step.

 

:)

[funcionando]

1. Alt-tab out of Black Shark.

 

2. Open Task Manager.

 

3. Right-click DCS.exe in "Processes".

 

4. Select "Affinity".

 

5. Select all the cores (check the boxes) and press "Ok" or "Apply".

 

6. Close Task Manager.

 

7. Jump back into Black Shark.

 

8. Enjoy higher performance (with Vista).

 

9. Throw a BBQ party in JG27_Arklight's favor.

 

**10. Donate money to JG27_Arklight.

 

 

 

** This should be done before and after each step.

 

:)

 

Hehehe ok thanks, i knew this hacks already ........the money is on its way ;)

[crazysundog]

My GTX260 Core 216s came in today...freakin' HUGE!!!! Each card weighs in at 4lbs. Im almost scared to put these on the motherboard I have coming in tomorrow. Gonna have to find a way to brace these things...Ill get some pics put up this evening of these things.

 

 

And yes, it will run Crysis Warhead at full res, maxed graphics. Got a LOT of plumbing to do inside this case if I want to run these in sli. Turns out my pump is in the direct way of the bottom card.

 

Yeah I hear ya... I dont know wether i'll put another of these on my MObo cuz not enough room.

[Slayer]

Just a stupid question , whats the diff between a standard 260 and one that is core 216??

[hitman]

Standard 260 has 190 some odd cores...the 216 has 216 cores...or something like that. Its basically a GTX270.

[qrazi]

192 cores to be precise... :)

[JG27_Arklight]

Actually, it is 216 stream processors vs 192 stream processors.

 

Performance wise, there is not a lot of difference between the 192 and the 216.