what's next

BarbaricSoul · Apr 28, 2008

any recommendations as to my next upgrade? Check my system specs for my current rig.

BTW, I don't have any intentions of going quad sli

wolf · Apr 28, 2008

why the hell upgrade? your system is win, wait at least 6 months for new generations of cpu's ram and gfx to hit the market.

choppy · Apr 28, 2008

yeah...buy a soundcard you cheapskate lol (j/k!)

Azazel · Apr 28, 2008

i think someone just wanted to show off lol JK

choppy · Apr 28, 2008

^^ yup! its a nice rig man your sorted for a while!

wolf · Apr 28, 2008

4GHZ of core 2 and 2xG92 should be enough to satisfy just about any gamer, with just about ANY game (naturally crysis excluded) you should be able to play at 2560x1600 +4xAA +16xAF. whats to upgrade?

choppy · Apr 28, 2008

wolf said:
your system is win

wolf · Apr 28, 2008

lol thats classic

BarbaricSoul · Apr 28, 2008

I was just wanting to make sure I wasn't missing something.

A soundcard isn't necassary. I live with my elderly grandfather who goes to bed very early(5 pm sometimes) and usually use my headphones to prevent disturbing his sleep.

Darknova · Apr 28, 2008

Replace your 2 x 512Mb sticks with 2 x 1Gb sticks, and tighten up your timings

Gam'ster · Apr 28, 2008

Darknova said:
Replace your 2 x 512Mb sticks with 2 x 1Gb sticks, and tighten up your timings

+1 was thinking the same thing, or maybe a 2X2GB kit of red ballistix if u can find them that is

.

Cheers
Gam

jjnissanpatfan · Apr 28, 2008

Onboard audio sucks even for headphones!Start with a 30 creative card and you'll never go back for games with headphones or music and speakers!!Also is you have cheap headphones you might not hear the difference.

BarbaricSoul · Apr 30, 2008

Darknova said:
Replace your 2 x 512Mb sticks with 2 x 1Gb sticks, and tighten up your timings

I'm running 32 bit OS's, they dont recognize more than 3 gigs of ram, so why spend the money on a extra gig my OS can't use?

OzzmanFloyd120 · Apr 30, 2008

Jet propulsion

PaulieG · Apr 30, 2008

BarbaricSoul said:
I'm running 32 bit OS's, they dont recognize more than 3 gigs of ram, so why spend the money on a extra gig my OS can't use?

Agree with the 3 gigs (though I do run 4). You can definately tighten up your timings though.

Azazel · Apr 30, 2008

BarbaricSoul said:
I was just wanting to make sure I wasn't missing something.

A soundcard isn't necassary. I live with my elderly grandfather who goes to bed very early(5 pm sometimes) and usually use my headphones to prevent disturbing his sleep.

man i was just messing with you

craigo · Apr 30, 2008

it would seem you researched and built wisely...a while ago i splashed and built a nice rig (see sig) and i knew it would last me a while and have good upgradability, for now it seems your rig is pretty complete for some while to come...start looking at your imput peripherals,desk and chair and headphones, if they do not reflect the quality of your system spec make them.
i tend to worry less about upgrades and am able to get on with the task/game at hand better from my comfy velour perch than if i had the latest whatever and was sitting on a crate (not to imply you sit on a crate) also whilst basking the warmth of a high specced rig for a while its time to start thinking(obsesivley) aboout case optimization,airflow,choice of colour,metallic,gloss or satin...is my monitor high enough off the desk,room acoustics,power and lan cable tidyness...and the list goes on.

Darknova · Apr 30, 2008

BarbaricSoul said:
I'm running 32 bit OS's, they dont recognize more than 3 gigs of ram, so why spend the money on a extra gig my OS can't use?

2 reasons.

1. You may upgrade to 64-bit later on.

2. it's a lot harder to tighten timings with 2 sets of sticks of differing densities. Tighter timings = better performance. At the moment you are running ridiculously loose timings for 950. I'm running 1200 at 5-5-5-15, quite a bit tighter than yours.

DaedalusHelios · Apr 30, 2008

BarbaricSoul said:
any recommendations as to my next upgrade? Check my system specs for my current rig.

BTW, I don't have any intentions of going quad sli

Liquid cooling.

BarbaricSoul · Apr 30, 2008

I guess water cooling and a new case to mod will be my next step.

I got to reasearch tightening up my RAM timings before I start to mess with it. I am new to OC'ing.

Don't worry azazel, I didn't take what you said in the wrong way. It's all good

magibeg · Apr 30, 2008

You know they might be onto something about a soundcard though. It would actually increase performance a little by taking some of the load off of the CPU. You do have a hungry GPU to feed after all

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