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| Re: My new computer [message #215175 is a reply to message #213826] |
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Im doing just fine with my single core at the moment. But i wouldnt mind a dual core.
| HORQWER wrote on Tue, 18 September 2007 20:47 |
this is not a real renegade forums ,some one made it up
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| Re: My new computer [message #215491 is a reply to message #215227] |
Sun, 27 August 2006 04:52 |
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| mision08 wrote on Fri, 25 August 2006 23:01 |
| Blazer wrote on Fri, 25 August 2006 15:04 |
I have zero desire for a quad core, and neither should anyone else who isnt doing graphics rendering or something like that. Quad cores are designed for servers, not gaming machines.
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You can say that about dual core too.
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Dual core is actually fairly useful, since you can do something like play a game, and simultaneously run FRAPS to record a game video, with no loss of FPS. With a quad core, you could do that and also...run Seti@home, and also render a 3D landscape all at once! Really...how likely is it that the average person is going to be doing something like that 
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| Re: My new computer [message #215492 is a reply to message #214867] |
Sun, 27 August 2006 04:54 |
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| Renx wrote on Thu, 24 August 2006 11:04 |
I would get a couple 120mm Vantec Stealths for your case too if you like silent fans. They're very quiet and move a lot of air. With a fanless heatsink like that you're going to need great airflow for doing things at continuous full load.
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It's not fanless...it has a fan sandwiched in the middle. Here's a pic of it while it's powered on, taken directly from the side.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that my case also has a huge 5" silent fan in the rear, a fan in the top, and a fan in the side. That combined with the bottom and front being mesh, I would dare say this is one of the most ventilated cases you could have.
EDIT2: I stuck a crappy 1MB PCI Trident video card in tonight, just so that I could boot the system and install all the motherboard drivers etc. Besides the shitty video, the system is very nice and fast. I also updated MBM (Motherboard Monitor) to my new board and was pleased to see the temperature of the CPU is literally 30F cooler than my AMD 3000+ was (under load too,with WCG running and maxing out both cores), and the case temp is equally low. So I'm quite pleased so far with the thermal efficiency of the case and CPU cooler.
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| Re: My new computer [message #215594 is a reply to message #213826] |
Sun, 27 August 2006 11:58 |
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With something that pretty does it really matter how efficient it is? I knew this would happen. I had some audio from a video game developers conference a year or more back. I swear I didn't recognize the speakers name and can't remember his resume, but I do recall it was an impressive one. I don't think he was there for the money. What stood out to me in his speech was an overall theme to run for the hills. He made the dual core sound much like dual channel memory, with signals going in different directions and arriving at various times. As game developers (I guess all developers) want the signal there. It obviously has to travel, so the next best thing is to get them in a timely manner and in order. Basically dual cores blow this all to hell, and quad cores even worst.
I added the quad core part myself. After years of processor design and gaming development I think I'm qualified to do that.
Looks good so far, keeping it cool.
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| Re: My new computer [message #219035 is a reply to message #213826] |
Tue, 12 September 2006 14:22 |
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hmm. I was just wondering since you had a whole lot of memory and a powerful processor, but didn't have a really good video card. Usually people with those kinds of computers are into something else other than games.
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| Re: My new computer [message #225546 is a reply to message #213826] |
Sun, 08 October 2006 14:09 |
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 AMD are mostly concentrating in getting ONE core proccessors as fast as possible for gaming computers. on the other hand they are also making multicore proccessors for people like me that like to do a million things at a time.
if you live in england and have seen a pc-world advert you will here them say "Dual Core, so you can do 2 things at a time like burn a cd while watching a movie" well you can do that with a single core proccessor, so why do they say it? is it to impress all of the dumbasses that already own a single core computer that can already do that? i don't see why people don't see the logic in this stupid advertizing, i mean, most of the people on this forum could see though that.
im blabering off topic here, but you ever heard of "AOL"? well they seem to think that "wireless broadband" is actully real, how? not at the moment anyway, you can't get a wireless signal from a ISP, so why do they say that? also that seem to think that the broadband going to a router that supports WiFi is anydiffernt from a router that doesn't. if you hear their addverts on tv they say "Wireless broardband, now the same price a regular broadband".
one other thing with AOL is that if you get dial-up(years ago, but still active) they want you to install their software that include "antivirus(no better that norton), parental controll, and a firewall(again no better than norton)" and the whole thing is so resource hungary that you cannot surf with it!
i have said this before but when you buy a computer (from a commercial company) everything else is comprimised by the $10 motherboard my advive is to ask someone to build it for you. it works out cheeper and faster, and will last longer. my "know-how" on computer is fairly limited but i know how to build one and it is pretty easy, someone that watched me do it once went and did it themselves no problem.
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Even with the coin in the picture for reference, the photo still does not truly reflect just how huge that cooler is...holding it in your hand it like holding a loaf of bread or a pineapple.
