To close this debate, I think it is useful to understand the user's mentality. I have no interest building rigs, fiddling with BIOS or setting any "K" parameters myself. I know how to, but it bores me to death. If a stylish superquiet rig satisfying my requirements was available off the shelf...
@cerb
If you read my original post, you know that the "beyond a wall" location is what I currently use.
I don't buy your recco for a "K". I will not overclock, my fanless PSU is limited to 500 W, and AnandTech Tests (they had a special on "S" chips a few weeks ago) show that they are ample...
I appreciate suggestions to look at Asus' Strix version of the 980, of which I was not aware. I will certainly try it if not satisfied with the reference 980 that I already own.
As for Dry Martini's, I did not know they existed in Scotland. Give me a good single malt everyday...
Hi. You make good points.
I only play with headphones when PVP'g with my guild. In that case I route Beethoven (or other...) through the monitoring Sennheisers with low game audio and just enough TeamSpeak to have crisp conversations. In that case, of course, box noise is less of a problem...
I am a musician. Not Garage or Rap, more Brahms & Bach. And in my sound-proofed music room, I also like to play video games.
I demand a state-of-the-art picture so I use a Dell 30inch monitor with 2560 x 1600 definition. And I roam Tamriel listening to Beethoven, Clockwork Orange style, on...
Mem :
You are very kind to post all this which may be useful to many. In my case as I am a retired scientist with a grounding in IT you can bet I knew it, and have gone much further in my testing, using two identical rigs one with V64 and the other V32. When using very high end settings and...
Mem. I never joke.
Go to :
http://www.microsoft.com/windo...le%20Playing&os=32-bit
And click the 64 bits tab.
However, I may be wrong and my crashes may come from conflicting mods. They tend to happen when exiting towns, in particular Bravil. I'll do more testing.
I tend to be an early adopter, and I made the mistake to go Vista 64bit, thinking 64 would open up the future (and more RAM as we all know) After changing countless drivers I've got a good top end system now, that really delivers FPS on all the later games tested in AnandTech... except Oblivion...
Until last month, the top GPU power in a laptop came from twin Nvidia 7950 cards which are nearly two years old as desktop hardware. In the past Nvidia took about four to six months to come out with the mobile version of their cards. But the wait for the M 8800 GTX has been nearly a year and a...
The advent of the Mobile 8800 GTX has created a new category of uberlaptops that can now be seriously considered as desktop replacement for finicky gamers. They are heavy 17 inches 1920 x 1200 machines with processors such as the E 7900 or X6800 and two 8800 M GTX in SLI. Battery life is a joke...
Resolution is the key factor. I always use 2650 x 1600 on my Dell monitor, and AA becomes a non-issue because pixel size is so small. Crysis, Witcher, Oblivion, are all better at high resolution and no AA, rather than lo res and high AA.
Yes and No.
This indeed is the usual workaround (with the KB 929777 installed when in two bars of RAM) and from my experience on 4 machines, it has worked twice. On the other two I was never able to re-boot Vista 64 when adding the two other sticks.
Now the Striker Extreme mother boards...
Yes, I know that plenty of configs do not have the problem, and I know about KB 929777 which does solve the problem some times, but not all of times.
However with :
Asus Striker Extreme (a classic well respected 680i mobo)
QX 6850 processor (ditto...)
4 bars of 1g memory (ie all slots...
There imust be some major name calling going on behind the scenes between Microsoft, Nvidia and Mobo and Memory stick manufacturers over this unresolved issue.
Thz thread at MS :
http://forums.microsoft.com/te...7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=17
has been alive since the spring of 2007 and seen...
When I audited all my rig for V 64 compatibility, I found the only problem would be my, excellent, 2006-purchased, Canon 9900 scanner. Shame on you, Canon.
Mem, do not misunderstand me : I probably did not express my thoughts well. I am a fan of Microsoft and of Vista. As a retired marketing guy, I believe it is in Vista's self-interest that MS help landmark games makers. And I am sure they in fact do, as Nvidia and others do : witness the thanks...
I am not looking at this from a technical point of view, but from a marketing one.
I of course know all about the work done to try and overcome the problems (reported in various forums that can be navigated to from the Witcher's official site).
My take is that I am not blaming a small...
The Witcher is currently one of the most avant garde and fabulous games. Vista is supposed to be the ultimate OS. And yet the two won't meet, leading to incessant crashes on saving, the most irritating of all times, since it means endless re-runs.
How can Microsoft allow this to happen in...
OK. So :
(A) Another idea is two have both the 32 and 64 Vista versions installed on different drives or partitions, and boot on 32 when wishing to use old apps. Is it legal with one Vista copy purchased that comes with both 32 and 64 discs ? And, frankly, is it practical ? Predictable...
Before taking the plunge to 64 bit, many of us are worried about loosing the possibility to run old favourites, some of them orphans with no current support. I would much appreciate knowing if somewhere on the web you can find a list of applications or games with 64 problems.
Here are my very...
Nvidia is scandal late on Vista, and its beta 100 drivers release two days ago (Feb 17) won't even support SLI (their own cherished ATI-busting invention) on anything but 8800's. Too bad if you upgraded to Vista with twin 7950's you bought last year, not five years ago !!
Thanks very much for the info. I think nVidia is being really uncouth, particularly as I did not even have the choice to buy an XP OEM OS after Feb 12 and had to go Vista !!!
I just set up a would-be powerful new rig using an ASUS P5N 32 SLI SE DELUXE board, an Intel 6700 core duo CPU, and a couple of NVIDIA GTX 7950 graphic cards. A new SATA hard drive and fresh OEM Vista (not upgrade) completed the rig.
The problem is that the Nvidia display control panel (now...
I am interested in any experience people have with Inmarsat's or other providers of BGAN connections to a laptop. My particular interest is R-BGAN, which is cheap and convenient (although a bit slow at 144). It is apparently not for sale in North America and seemingly reserved for operators...
The 8800 is so superior to the 7950, even when not SLI, that it seems stupid to buy an outrageously expensive portable gaming machine from Alienware or Dell right now. Any idea on when the mobile type 8800 (GO is the prefix used by Nvidia for mobile video cards) will be out ?
I guess a lot of people have computers on boats and want to keep battery drain to a minimum (particularly on sailboats). I am not interested in using an DC to AC inverter, and going back to DC again in the machine, as I think it is inefficient nonsense. I would appreciate some feedback on the...
It's very simple. Drill a 40 mm diameter hole in the wall and put the case in the next room. Thread every cable thru and you can plug with cotton if needed. I had a closet built by a carpenter friend of mine and it's all dandy. Total silence. Nothing else really works.
Added benefit : no one...
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Lets face it : If CO2 emissions are not acceptable, the only fuel available in the future will be Hydrogen (unless someone comes up with really compact batteries devoid of nasty heavy metals when disposed of), emitting harmless H2O.
Whereas the Hydrogen engine will be of the cell-type or...
On my boat there is plenty of 12 Volts DC available, so it seems ridiculous to go thru an AC inverter to power my gaming laptop, who like most such beasts from Dell or Alienware is a greedy 20 Volt / 10 Amp feeder.
Lind has such an adapter, but at 7.5 Amp it is a little insufficient. Any other...
The real issue to worry about is : Do you plan to ever change CPU's on your motherboard ? Be advised that some of these goos cure so well that your CPU will be bonded to its radiator, and if you can't lift the radiator off the CPU there's no way you can access the release lever from the...
With Oblivion testing our hardware, there's been a lot of talk about systems for the 'filthy rich'. The reality is that many adults with a little money can put together a FX 60 and a couple of 7900 GTX on a SLI board and watch a 30 inch Dell. We're not in mega-yacht territory. But the real...
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