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The gt240 I can understand, but why aren't you purchasing their GTS250 they have on sale instead?
I don't buy cards that require power connectors, don't bother asking why.

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XP 32 bit and 8gb ram?
You have been on TPU for a while, please dont tell me you don't relize that 32bit cannot address (use) 8gb ram
UK2 you are just kidding with us right?
Its not uk2, its u2k. Also, i have 4GB install, relax. I am not a newbie when it comes to computers lol.
 

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Please upgrade to 64 bit!!


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Hey its all good.

Now you have a quad gaming machine, you didnt build by yourself, thats used, and a bit overpriced kinda, but its all good. :)


I wouldnt care What XP you have, but i would be using the XP 64bit for the 8gb of ram.

I would have baught the q8400-8500 for 120-130 dollars, 1tb hd for 70, Corsair 450-500watt for 60-80, 4gb of Ram for 80, and case with cpu cooler and fans for 80ish, and a 1tb for 60-80 dollars, and Then sell the 9800gt, buy a HD 5770 and play tf2 maxed out at 1920x1080 with some AA added to it.

Also i would have baught a LGA socket 775 motherboard with USB 3.0, and some pci-e x1 slots so i can put sata 3.0 controllers on that.
 
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u2k can has 64 bit?
 

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Unfortunately they aren't

I'm not convinced. I mean while he's at it he could use a motherboard with out a power connector too. Get just about as much use out of the 8GB ram anyway. :p
 

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im pretty sure in one thread awhile ago he said he was like 15-16 the kid is just trolling. and no he isnt playing around. he really builds his systems this way..and i bealive makes these threads to get attention.
 
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I don't buy cards that require power connectors, don't bother asking why.


Its not uk2, its u2k. Also, i have 4GB install, relax. I am not a newbie when it comes to computers lol.

mi sorry, i usually never repsond to these posts, but your not a newbie hey do you plug your psu into your motherboard, better not....LOL! aint no fricking diffrent plugging your psu into your graphics card. do youi power your cd drives...BETTER NOT!!!...

not a noobie....ohhhhkay
 

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Congratulations on your quad-core.

Please, not another "I'm celebrating shittyness" thread which ends up being flashing colors to epileptic normal people.
 
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Leave the guy alone.. jeez.

It's not even his stupid (yes I said it) thread subjects that get them closed, it's the people flaming him in it. Just don't reply if you think he's trolling.
 
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Then makes wild claims about their performance (such as running crysis on high settings) and results in most of his threads being closed.

Single Core LE-1620 4670 1GB XP all High 1280x1024 AAX2, easily 30-60 frames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihSxBmrabM

Go to my Channel , click on playlists, click on " single core videos" and watch every crysis video and warhead video and checkout the settings i have them on
http://www.youtube.com/user/DualCorePower

You say i make up wild claims, but funny thing you guys never bother to check it, and when you do, you say i am somehow lying about that too lol. Now thats on a single core.


im pretty sure in one thread awhile ago he said he was like 15-16 the kid
I never said. I already said i am 28.

just saying
Thats all good and well, but i don't build. I thought about it a few times, but i am just going to stick with the prebuilt scene. But now that i have my gaming rigs, i am not buying anymore rigs for years to come............ My next buy is a GT240 , 5670, and whatever else i see.
 

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Single Core LE-1620 4670 1GB XP all High 1280x1024 AAX2, easily 30-60 frames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihSxBmrabM

Go to my Channel , click on playlists, click on " single core videos" and watch every crysis video and warhead video and checkout the settings i have them on
http://www.youtube.com/user/DualCorePower

You say i make up wild claims, but funny thing you guys never bother to check it, and when you do, you say i am somehow lying about that too lol. Now thats on a single core.



I never said. I already said i am 28.


Thats all good and well, but i don't build. I thought about it a few times, but i am just going to stick with the prebuilt scene. But now that i have my gaming rigs, i am not buying anymore rigs for years to come............ My next buy is a GT240 , 5670, and whatever else i see.

See i know you stick to the prebuilt scene, but your gonna get flamed by these dudes,

Build your computers, pre-built is the worst choice you can make in my opinion, when i finally learned how to build my computers at age 13, i realized that every connection, is keyed and identified, every part has a clip or key to it, and you couldn't put anything in backwards, wrong, upside down, and have a chance of your rig burning out(if you built it yourself).

Basicly to sum it up, a kid with the right parts and some if any smarts can build a computer, no joke. I remember my BIKES being more complicated then building a computer, and now im with these old guys building at a young 17 of age,(i still skate and rock out with my freinds) I FIND THE BEST DEALS, HAVE THE MOST FUN, and its a great bragging right to know that you have epic smarts in computers and you saved more cash then could be thought of while your at it. :D

Its just some advice, and its a really fun hobby to have a couple of drinks by your work bench, and have a fully running new machine, with nice cooling, and nice leds running for the first turn you push the button.
Sitting there looking at the machine checking out its corners as it installs its operating system and you get ready to install drivers, Then after you messed with over clocking a bit after a hour you have installed the operating system you go ahead and slam in crysis, and see a 50%+ gain In FPS at the same resolution in crysis and experience a WHOLE new power from a computer and smoothness of gaming when it comes to systems.
 
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Single Core LE-1620 4670 1GB XP all High 1280x1024 AAX2, easily 30-60 frames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihSxBmrabM

1. there is no proof those videos were recorded on the system specs you mentioned.

2. the information states that you get 20-25FPS in fraps, and a solid 60 without it - thats outright BS. if you arent recording, fraps doesnt lower your FPS.
 

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1. there is no proof those videos were recorded on the system specs you mentioned.

2. the information states that you get 20-25FPS in fraps, and a solid 60 without it - thats outright BS. if you arent recording, fraps doesnt lower your FPS.

Im sorry what? Im trying you understand your tense of english.

Fraps does lower your FPS when you are recording and on a single core machine like that it should drop to very low numbers.

Without fraps his processor free'z up and he is able to see a nice rise in FPS while not recording, and he said 30-60 in his video. There are CPU/GPU Intensive PARTS in the game, and not every second there is even fps. You can turn and see a 50% decrease in fps in crysis due to AI and long scenery(triangles) Which puts humongous load on the CPU then makes the GPU suffer while the cpu gets loaded at 100%.
 
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1. there is no proof those videos were recorded on the system specs you mentioned.
Well i don't think anyone goes around lying about how they got a eMachine le-1620 single core system lol.

2. the information states that you get 20-25FPS in fraps, and a solid 60 without it - thats outright BS. if you arent recording, fraps doesnt lower your FPS.
I do because i was recording at 30 frames with fraps. Also, fraps do decrease the frames, i mean if your system/card can't keep up with recording. On my dual core, i have the frame limit to 50 limit, but games like timeshift runs between 30-40 when recording. You keep forgetting i am not using high end video cards with high end systems
 

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my english is fine! you just speak ameriglish!

I may have misunderstood what he meant in that message, i read it as "when i run fraps, my FPS drops" - not "when i RECORD with fraps, my FPS drops"
 

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I say if you got the RAM go for Windows 7.

XP was the best but Windows 7 is now the king. XP is a good OS now if you have about 1GB Ram or lesser.If you got 2GB or more, its best to go to Windows 7. But your performance in Windows 7 will be better than XP because your hardware performance is limited in XP. (ex: GT 240 wont be able to use DX10 and all four cores in your Quad Core wont be used) Specially since your using a 32bit OS.
 

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I say if you got the RAM go for Windows 7.

XP was the best but Windows 7 is now the king. XP is a good OS now if you have about 1GB Ram or lesser.If you got 2GB or more, its best to go to Windows 7. But your performance in Windows 7 will be better than XP because your hardware performance is limited in XP. (ex: GT 240 wont be able to use DX10 and all four cores in your Quad Core wont be used) Specially since your using a 32bit OS.

+1

And also games will stop supporting XP sooner or later. Just Cause 2 doesnt support Win XP.
 

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All Hail the might u2k, whose holiest of 4670's outperforms even the venerable GTX295 in Crysis. It's a real David and Goliath matchup.

Newsflash, we all know you are lying. Those are NOT high settings. If you move absolutely any single setting off of high, you are no longer at high settings.

:rolleyes:

Man, I should unsubscribe from this idiocy before I get an infraction.
 

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Newsflash, we all know you are lying. Those are NOT high settings. If you move absolutely any single setting off of high, you are no longer at high settings.

:rolleyes:

he could also be running 640x480 with all the CCC settings set to lowest - "performance" settings as it were.
 

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he could also be running 640x480 with all the CCC settings set to lowest - "performance" settings as it were.

Or a tweaked cfg that he's lying about.
 

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