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How many frames per second is enough?

I agree with Rand mostly, In RTCW 60 is smooth and clear, if I move it to somewhere in the 40s, I can feel the lag in the game a bit. Anything above 60 is clear, I've gone past 200fps, no difference. FPS games are by far the most demanding on a high frame rate.
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- Post #7
- Apr 21, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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please evaluate my future system

your link shows the 1800 losing by 0.1 in mp4 encoding, and leading by a bit in the mp3 encoding.... it leads in general use graph, and only really on internet content creation, which isn't what he is doing, is it? Your comments were true when talking about a Tbird, but not an XP, the SSE in...
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- Post #13
- Apr 21, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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What does IBM produce?

IBM has a lot of business side stuff, thats where the money, they don't want to deal with a moron learning to not delete the windows directory on their pc. IBMs research in amoung the best as well, while their HDs may not be great now, the technology behind them is ahead of many others, always...
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- Post #11
- Apr 21, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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In Search Of Custom Motherboard Manufacturer

You might make a stable bios, but you won't get the bioses updated monthly like from a mainstream board. Support for future hardware is also a problem, once the boards are paid for, you won't go back and waste your own money developing bios support for 500 boards. I don't care how much pride...
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- Post #7
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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Mac Motherboards???

no, thats the whole point of a mac, closed hardware
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- Post #2
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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Is FPS the only thing that video cards can be mesured with?

unfortunately most reviewers aren't good enough to measure more than fps, so the comparisions are few and far between. A good brand of nvidia cards will have good 2d quality as well, but stay away from a GF2. In terms of DVD, tv out, and other features in the chip, ATI is still ahead. The...
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- Post #6
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD cpu Rendering Errors

AMD +opera is ok mozilla ok IE nope.. looks like MSs screwed up browser rendering. When you use proper html, and don't customize if for IE, you will see problems. The only AMD file problems I know is of a very tiny % of CPUs and MS products relating only to jpgs.
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- Post #33
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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The adventures of dude8604: The video card fan replacement

Shouldn't have bought a Thermaltake fan, they don't know what quiet is. Zalman makes a nice quiet video HSF, but its costly, $28 for the heatsink, not sure how much the fan is.
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- Post #3
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Which motherboard is best of these...

I don't trust Azza for a bunch of reasons, so I'd throw those out. For the people that want the options, the Soyo board is nice, but the Gigabyte is cheaper. The Aopen board for the p4 is using a good chipset, and Aopen is making decent boards now, but they are overpriced, imo.
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- Post #6
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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In Search Of Custom Motherboard Manufacturer

the cost would be horribly high, and even if you could get it done, I would highly question the stability of the board which could be made as fast, and cheap as possible. They won't spend time tweaking memory timings to make things stable. Bios updates? forget I couldn't see any application...
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- Post #5
- Apr 19, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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K7S5A Arrived yesterday....and *EDIT - I'm a Dork!*

I've beem building and troubleshooting PCs longer then 99% of the people here have. I do large amounts of troubleshooting. The power issue is far more common then you would believe. PSU upgrades are just a quick fix. 250W PSUs easily can handle the load of a system, even the most powerful...
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- Post #46
- Apr 15, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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New to AMD - building a video editing workstation.

The newest XPs don't seem to be dual capable anymore, the earlier ones were. I'm not sure if its possible to get them with smp or not still. For video editting, either get the Iwill XP333 or something with a new SiS745 chipset for a single solution, and it shouldn't matter much for dual, they...
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- Post #3
- Apr 15, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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K7S5A Arrived yesterday....and *EDIT - I'm a Dork!*

actually the people that upgrade their motherboard twice a year are an extremely small minority. The majority of people use them until they are too slow for bloated MS code... I help people all the time, I just state what happens to certain boards. I have no agenda, my recommendation to avoid...
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- Post #42
- Apr 15, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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K7S5A Arrived yesterday....and *EDIT - I'm a Dork!*

You know, a board might work for you, or for some people, but the shear number of complaints coming from this board is not normal. It is poorly built. If you have any doubts, just look at other ECS reviews and see how badly they make their boards. Yes, house wiring is a factor, weather you...
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- Post #40
- Apr 15, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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**World Exclusive** Abit AT7 Review *UPDATE* Another review up

I use turtle beach because onboard Cmedia uses too many resources still, they aren't making them complete solutions, just cheap. If you want to use your IBM ps2 ancient keyboard go ahead and use it on your 486, but don't get a Hammer when they come out and complain about saving a buck.
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- Post #55
- Apr 13, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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When will we be able to build our own laptops ?

laptops are different, their heatsinks are just a stand alone HSF, they are integrated into the structure of the notebook. There is no way a small HSF can remove that heat, so they spread it throughout the entire notebook be connecting the cpu to a metal structure.
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- Post #15
- Apr 13, 2002
- Forum: Laptops
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K7S5A Arrived yesterday....and *EDIT - I'm a Dork!*

yes, it is picky about PSUs because it is a poorly designed board. It is cheap, and that price cut makes you pay. Only two motherboard manufacturers design boards that are picky about PSUs, ECS and Epox. ECS boards are nothing special, they are just designed badly, epox at least overclocks...
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- Post #12
- Apr 13, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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Is a Radeon 32mb ddr the flashed LE verison better tahn a geforce 2 mx 64mb by msi with tv out

by far
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- Post #2
- Apr 13, 2002
- Forum: TVs
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**World Exclusive** Abit AT7 Review *UPDATE* Another review up

you have to get with the times, this is a new motherboard, which means you don't put your pentium 2 crap inside it. Dual vid card? ya, they have those on one card now, and they are cheap. TV card? wait... those are on one card too.... whats a modem? ps2 screws up just as much as usb, don't...
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- Post #52
- Apr 13, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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K7S5A Arrived yesterday....and *EDIT - I'm a Dork!*

AMDs recommended list is a joke, if a board won't work with a generic psu, return the board, shows how poorly its been designed.
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- Post #9
- Apr 13, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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**World Exclusive** Abit AT7 Review *UPDATE* Another review up

There are several advantages to go USB. 1. common connection type, already mentioned. 2. You can add a device to your computer, and not have to reboot to get it to initialize, major major plus for me. 3. usb devices have a higher refresh rate then normal ps2 things, noticeable for mice. 4...
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- Post #48
- Apr 12, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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The $350 Computer

nforce is the only good on board audio solution that doesn't sacrifice cpu time, cmedia, and abits newer solution are horrible on the cpu utilization.
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- Post #17
- Apr 12, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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riva tnt... does it suck that bad?

<< as long as it's not a piece of crap ATI >> way to show your intelligence most people would prefer a rage 128 to a riva tnt for numerous reasons.
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- Post #5
- Apr 12, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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vid temps

nobody?
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- Post #2
- Apr 12, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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**World Exclusive** Abit AT7 Review *UPDATE* Another review up

the board is awesome except the onboard sound. What crap is that, cmedia sound uses a load of cpu, but that sound is the worst I've seen.
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- Post #17
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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Radeon 8500 question

truform is best when incorportated in the game from the start, that way there are few rounding errors. RTCW single player is sweet. In games like CS, there are many things that are too round. The quick add on truform isn't great. Quake 1 may have a patch for truform, but it will likely be...
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- Post #3
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Ati FireGL 8800 128MB gfx card - any good?

I will work, but don't expect the gaming of the 8500 to be there, it doesn't have the driver tweaks and d3d emphasis.
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- Post #6
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Dead Northbridge Fan

http://quietpc.com/vgamb.php no fan on those, there are various places you can get them. Well work the price.
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- Post #5
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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Wow, Epox has FAST tech support

epox has the best support hands down, responses are in minutes, always. And it isn't BS response, its real suggestions based on your problem, not a copy and paste answer
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- Post #3
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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AMD's recommended mobo's- No Abit?

the worst part is it is very common to find bad hardware on that list, many with known problems that aren't fixed.
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- Post #3
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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Need Advice about Motherboards

http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?articleid=16 It won't tell you specfic boards, but it is a good trend.
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- Post #8
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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The $350 Computer

my opinion, get the MSI nforce 420 board. It has video, audio and NIC already there. You can upgrade the video if you want later. The audio on this board is very good, and the video is better than anyother else onboard. 1Ghz Tbird 256 DDR HSF whatever, go quiet $30 HDs are cheap...
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- Post #8
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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AMD Thoroughbred's Cool and Quiet Technology.

yup, I've overheated my XP numerous times on purpose, the board always checks it fine.
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- Post #4
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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r250/r300?

I'm confused on ATI's future cards. nvidia cards don't seem to be able to take use of the extra 64 megs of RAM, but many ATI benchmarks show some signifacant improvements. Now I don't know if its a hardware design thing, or just inefficient drivers, but I'm leaning to the drivers side. The...
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- Post #11
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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vid temps

Anyone know of a program that can read video card temps for ati and nvidia? I know some nvidia cards have a bios which lets you see these things, but I don't think ATI does.
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- Apr 11, 2002
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Why does XP pro run so much hotter on my xp/win 98 dual boot?

my temps are fine on XP with my board, 50Cish. win98 was similar, you must have something set wrong, or the program is screwed up. Try another program, like motherboard monitor 5
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- Post #7
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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MHz readings

mbm is probably reading the real mhz, while the bios is reading the rated mhz. The FSB is rarely exactly 133.33 Mhz, and the cpu clock will be different.
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- Post #4
- Apr 11, 2002
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMDZone Resorts to Disgraceful Name-calling

I can't stand Chris Tom, had an email conversation with him once, all he did was try to make money off of it. Personally, I don't care if intel is the fastest right now. I don't care if nvidia makes faster cards. I couldn't give a damn if the audigy uses less cpu power then the other sound...
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- Post #14
- Apr 10, 2002
- Forum: Computer Building
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simple poll for AMD XP heat

Comparing temps will only work once everyone uses the thermal diode. My asus board says 52C, but there is no way its that hot. The board itself is 22C
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- Post #18
- Apr 9, 2002
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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T-bred heat question

Are there any firm number on the T-bred heat situation? I know AMD releases spec for the max of the XP, and Tbird, but I'm not sure if the T-bred is out yet. I'm writing an article, and would like to include the data for those CPUs. I may end up trying to calculate the new CPU wattage, and...
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- Thread
- Apr 9, 2002
- Replies: 1
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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