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Hows my pc looking?

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  • 11-12-2008 9:55pm
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    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭


    How's my computer looking at the moment, is there anything you'd reccomend for increading performance/gaming?

    Windows Vista 32bit Home Premium
    AMD Athlon 5600+ (2 cpus) running at 2.8GHZ
    Nvidia 9800GT 512 MB
    4 gigs of Ram (although only 3.5gigs recognised)
    SoundBlaster Audigy sound card


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    ricka05
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭ricka05


    what monitor do you have ?


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    Lockstep
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    A Dell 17" I believe.


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    Solitaire
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    Seems plenty fine to me :)


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    Sqaull20
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    Sweet setup, maybe a 22" Samsung to top it off.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    Definitely a bigger monitor - it makes the world of difference in gaming. :)

    I went from a 17" to a 20", then to a 24". I honestly wouldn't be able to stand playing on anything smaller now!

    Monitors are so reasonably now as well....like everything else they're really dropping in price fast.

    The only other thing would be a kick ass set of speakers - that also makes a difference you wouldn't believe! Otherwise the PC looks pretty good. :)


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    PogMoThoin
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    Pointless buying a 22" monitor these days, 22" don't have their own native resolution but use the resolution of a 20" (1680x1050) stretched. Buy a 24" as they got the resolution of 1920x1200 which is higher than full HD and would be perfect for use with consoles or if You add a blueray player.


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    Blazer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,435 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Yep those 24" monitors are the way to go.

    However it's just like women and cock.
    They're happy with the size at first but after a while they keep wishing for a bigger and bigger one :D


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    Anti
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    Not to piss on your parade, but its 1 cpu with 2 cores ;)

    But unless your a serious gamer who wants to play the latest eye candy game with everythign turned up its a sweet machine, should keep you going for a while yet !!


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    KamiKazi
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    Any particular reason you're going with AMD?


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    leninbenjamin
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    KamiKazi wrote: »
    Any particular reason you're going with AMD?

    he already has that. it's a Dell he's just done a bit of upgrading to afaik, he's just looking for info on whether he should upgrade anything else.

    one thing i'll mention is that if it's an older PC, or one that's got a fair bit of use, it can be worth looking at upgrading the HDD. I'm stuck to working with some very dodgy HDDs in college and they are getting to the stage where they seriously cause a bottleneck (they really should be binned, but you know what these institutions are like). Probably not needed in your case, but can be worth keeping in mind.


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    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Manties wrote: »
    Not to piss on your parade, but its 1 cpu with 2 cores ;)

    Ah yeah, I know it's just a dual core/


    I was just copying the stats of thr DXDIAG which said 2 cpus.


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    BaRcOe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭BaRcOe


    Nice pc, wish mine was something like that.

    Other than the monitor upgrade, maybe if your going all out get the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium.

    Intel Core 2 Dual and Quad are out-pacing AMDs current Athlon64 X2/FX processor families so I recommend going with Intel rather than AMD. dual and quad core processors are the king of the heap!

    You will be the ultimate gamer then!


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    PogMoThoin
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    BaRcOe wrote: »
    Other than the monitor upgrade, maybe if your going all out get the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium.

    Have to disagree here, although I own a Creative soundcard myself, it'll be the last Creative product I'll ever own after their Vista driver & Daniel_K thing.

    BaRcOe wrote: »
    Intel Core 2 Dual and Quad are out-pacing AMDs current Athlon64 X2/FX processor families so I recommend going with Intel rather than AMD. dual and quad core processors are the king of the heap!

    Thats about to change with Amd's Phenom II Deneb, Amd are coming back in the race as it outperforms i7 and overclocks like fcuk. Hopefully we'll see something similar to what we're seing in the gpu war. All for the good of the consumer.


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    KamiKazi
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    Yeah, creative drivers are pretty ****ty on Vista, but to be fair X-Fi's are awesome on XP

    Although I know of a cracked XFi driver that makes it sound almost as good as XP.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Thats about to change with Amd's Phenom II Deneb, Amd are coming back in the race as it outperforms i7 and overclocks like fcuk. Hopefully we'll see something similar to what we're seing in the gpu war. All for the good of the consumer.

    Really? I haven't heard much of the Phenom 2s. Great news because we'll benefit more than anyone else.


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    PogMoThoin
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Really? I haven't heard much of the Phenom 2s. Great news because we'll benefit more than anyone else.

    Ya, there are a few threads on XS forums, hand picked engineering samples mind you, but there was a thread with a screenshot of one at 6Ghz, here............lets hope its true and not just hype


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    #18
    Sqaull20
    Registered Users Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    Grab it while you can OP.

    Dell Full HD 1920 x 1080 23" Monitor €186 Delivered

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055440564


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