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Offline Capcom
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« on: December 15, 2004, 09:05:05 AM »
« Last Edit: December 15, 2004, 09:11:36 AM by Capcom »
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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2004, 09:13:34 AM »
Nice stuff man. Congrats! :D
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2004, 10:18:07 AM »
looking good, all except the case imo, too flashy.

Still, congrats
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2004, 10:26:49 AM »
great purchase.

what surprises me the most is the cost of the CPU.  $300 for this CPU must be something.  You usually gets for what you pay for.  Imagine the test benchmark where this one will blow other CPU out of the water in term of speed and performance. *me drools*...

I wonder if it will cut down the speed to encode my home video into DVD MPEG-2 because mine took 5 hours and hopefully this powerful cpu will cut it down to 1 hour....
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2004, 10:50:36 AM »
Plan on changing out the case eventually. Was half awake when it was ordered. Will also add another gig of ram in a couple of months. I just hate spending this money at once.

As well will add a sound card. Not sure on that as of yet. Any suggestions?
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looking good, all except the case imo, too flashy.

Still, congrats
« Last Edit: December 15, 2004, 11:01:58 AM by Capcom »
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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2004, 11:36:59 AM »
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...As well will add a sound card. Not sure on that as of yet. Any suggestions?


I own Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum.  Its can output and record up to -106 dB.  The frequency response is great too.  from 20 Hz - 20 kHz with with about -/+.5dB.  Just make sure when you record, don\'t go pass the 0 dB where it will clip and causes distortion.

Creative Labs Soundblaster new soundcard with similiar performance that i own has drop the price tag down greatly.  Say around $50 - $150, depending on what you need...
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« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2004, 11:45:32 AM »
nice rig.... pretty close to what I built a little while back.  Why did you go for the 395 eVGA when they have one (without D3) for 388?  I guess if you don\'t have doom 3 then that\'s cool.

Only issue i\'ve had with my system is my BFG 6800 GT gets a little to hot for my tastes.  I\'m averaging 53C idle & 80C @ load.  I just bought the Arctic NV Silencer 5, so that should help a bit.

you gotta post some aquamark and 3dmark scores when you get it together.  I just scored a 5202 on 3dmark05 last night

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« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2004, 12:25:38 PM »
Did not have doom3. My laptop was not good enough to even try to play it.

Also picked up a pci fan so hopefully that will help keep it cool.

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nice rig.... pretty close to what I built a little while back.  Why did you go for the 395 eVGA when they have one (without D3) for 388?  I guess if you don\'t have doom 3 then that\'s cool.

Only issue i\'ve had with my system is my BFG 6800 GT gets a little to hot for my tastes.  I\'m averaging 53C idle & 80C @ load.  I just bought the Arctic NV Silencer 5, so that should help a bit.

you gotta post some aquamark and 3dmark scores when you get it together.  I just scored a 5202 on 3dmark05 last night

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« Last Edit: December 15, 2004, 12:26:47 PM by Capcom »
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« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2004, 01:49:45 PM »
so far doom is fairly disappointing to me, but i\'m still playing it here and there.  It\'s hard not to like a game that can run @ 1600 x 1200 without nary a hitch.  What really impresses me so far is FarCry.  It\'s really hard, and most of the vehicles and locations are pretty nice.  Plus the graphics are beautiful... so bright and colorful.  

If you decided to try out farcry make sure you have Direct X 9.0c and the SM3.0 patch installed and you\'ll get full detail out of this game.  

I wasn\'t impressed at first until I found the advanced tab in the graphics menu and jacked everything up to the max.  1600 x 1200 was a little laggy, but 1280 x 1024 is pretty smooth & decent to look at.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2004, 01:57:23 PM by JBean »
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« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2004, 02:00:46 PM »
Bastard - your\'s will kick mine\'s ass. :D

Seriously though, congrats and I can\'t wait to see it up and running.
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« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2004, 02:46:25 PM »
ugliest fookin case, ever
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« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2004, 07:56:24 PM »
I wish i could dish out this much for a pc. Its definately nice, but theres no way id get a case like that. My last custom pc looked so plain, but hey, at the time it was incredible.
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« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2004, 08:18:00 PM »
again, ugliest fookin case...ever
and you paid almost 90$ for it
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« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2004, 08:29:13 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2004, 08:45:33 PM »
I just got that same Mobo with a athlon 64 3400 and I love \'em both.
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