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Posted by RedWood on Thu Mar 22nd at 7:26pm 2007

I've got a x1600 also and I'm running a sempron 2400. I run HL2 Ep 1 on the settings cranked all the way up. except antianalising is on like 4x or something. It's a good card (right?). Do you think it's time to upgrade already? Although i wouldn't mind having an x1900 myself, if i had money to burn.



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Posted by reaper47 on Fri Mar 23rd at 12:42am 2007

Don't burn money. I'd wait a little more. I don't know the exact background of the hardware details but I can only recommend the "what game do I need it for" tactic. Buying a graphics card before the next big game comes out you consider buying is a waste of money because every month you wait can be 25 bucks or 25% faster/better graphics cards.

x1600 should run most games today at good enough quality to stand the waiting time.


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Posted by Naklajat on Fri Mar 23rd at 2:02am 2007

I'll probably upgrade to a PCIe motherboard and a 7950GT 512 once they come down to $200 (only ~$250 now), that is, if I've got $300-350 to blow on an upgrade at that point =/ Either that or I'll just wait till UT3 or HL2:Ep2 is out and upgrade accordingly. My 6800 Ultra is starting to show it's age, but it's by no means slow.


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Posted by Crono on Fri Mar 23rd at 6:17am 2007

A 7950GT can run either of those at maximum (or very close to it) settings as far as graphics go. You may want to look into a multi-core cpu however, to really allow them to perform well.


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Posted by Junkyard God on Fri Mar 23rd at 6:30am 2007

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I've got a x1600 also and I'm running a sempron 2400. I run HL2 Ep 1 on the settings cranked all the way up. except antianalising is on like 4x or something. It's a good card (right?). Do you think it's time to upgrade already? Although i wouldn't mind having an x1900 myself, if i had money to burn.


How many RAM do you have? And what kind of motherboard? Since my pc won't run hl2 with the settings cranked I think.


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Posted by RedWood on Fri Mar 23rd at 7:36am 2007

I have a gig of cheap ram and the mobo is a socket 462 of a low quality ( i assume)

Do you end all unnecessary processes before you start your games? I end mine every time i start my computer. I even end explore.exe when i play Doom 3 or F.E.A.R..



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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Mar 23rd at 7:40am 2007

do you end explorer.exe redwood. I thought that was like needed for your computer to run. Oh well <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/bandit.gif">.


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Posted by RedWood on Fri Mar 23rd at 7:50am 2007

Ya, without it you have to start every program by finding it in your programs folder. I usaly restart my comp afterworlds. When i don't feel like starting explore.exe manually.



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Posted by Junkyard God on Fri Mar 23rd at 9:10am 2007

Hehe, I don't close explorer, but depending on the game msn etc. are shut down.
I just updated my GFX drivers, because hammer was playing up, maybe it was that <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Mar 23rd at 10:41am 2007

Dam man. Just goes to show that there is soooo much still to learn for da_killa.


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Posted by Junkyard God on Fri Mar 23rd at 12:04pm 2007

I don't even like halo man! <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
Naah I just forget to do alot of things untill they become problems, after a re-installation of me pc.


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Posted by Naklajat on Fri Mar 23rd at 12:11pm 2007

@Crono
I'm really waiting for the low-end Core 2 Duos to drop to around $120-150, but I guess a CPU upgrade makes sense if I'm switching motherboards. Depending on my financial status when I need an upgrade I may spring for a cheap C2D (E6300 probably) and overclock it, as I've read they do that fairly well. Hell I'll probably just save around $700 and build a mostly new system in a few months/maybe fall-ish, my AMD64 is having trouble keeping up these days. E6300, decent mobo, 7950GT, 2GB DDR2, 160-200GB SATA 3Gb/s drive (I'm using two ATA/100 drives now, not exactly ideal =/)...


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Posted by reaper47 on Fri Mar 23rd at 1:43pm 2007

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E6300, decent mobo, 7950GT, 2GB DDR2, 160-200GB SATA 3Gb/s drive


I'm waiting for pretty much the exact same system to drop in the <700 range, too. I'm quite excited about getting a new HD, too. Nobody mentions HDs but the extra speed/space should make quite a difference.


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Posted by Crono on Fri Mar 23rd at 3:12pm 2007

You can run explorer.exe again through the task manager "run" option. If you get that annoying as s**t "file in use" garbage when it isn't, killing explorer and running it again should clear that up.

But to note, some games may need explorer.exe to link to dynamic libraries. I'm not 100% sure, but that'd be my guess. Generally, I think that's one process you may want to keep running.

I don't personally turn much of anything off when I play games ... because I don't have to.

Intel chips will always cost more ... always. I don't know if you'll get away with using DDR2 memory either. It depends on the board. (could be wrong though, but I thought they used even more expensive memory)

Geez $700! That's how much my current computer cost to build from scratch. It isn't weak either and it doesn't sound like you're replacing the case and power supply either. I doubt it'd cost more than $500 (or maybe not even that much) to get the parts you want (unless you're set on an Intel chip, that is), the most troubling part would be the memory. Even 400GB - 450GB HDDs with SATA 3.0GB/s and 5-Year warranties are in the $150 range.

Examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136032

Wow, they have an AM2 X2 4600+ for $126 (those were $210 just a little while ago)


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Posted by Junkyard God on Fri Mar 23rd at 4:37pm 2007

I need an upgrade hehe, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. only runs real smooth on minimum <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> :P


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