The PC Builder's Guide

[hyde]

Hahahhahahah I never saw bigger bullshit in my life.
Are Blizzard spec that tarded that they specify graphic quality settings to VRAM ? fuck me... hahahahahahahaah
I am completly sure that with the HD 4850 or the GTX260 I would max the shit out of the game. Pure tardness.
Blizzard have really "Good tech people".
All other games have attached Ultra settings for DX10 graphics...but Blizzard had to be diffrent.
I really don't know with what path they set the option menu...wow I am ...just wow...maybe it's because all of GPU's with 1GB of RAM support DX10... I don't know, there is alot of graphic cards that have 256MB or 512MB of VRAM that support DX10... Blizzard never cease to amaze me.

they already have some performance issues, my i7 920 does not run it as fast as it could on the load.

Yup a HD4850 or GTX260 would max the shit out of this game. The graphics don't seem to be better than C&C4. Well I imagine they just put in high res textures, you can run it all on ultra except ultra textures then. Otherwise texture thrashing or whatever occurs? Happens all the time with FPS Games.

iD software put in 1GB textures in Doom3. This was back in 2004~ or whatever , on the basis of "Future proofing it".

And from the looks of it, they really do need 1GB textures . The game is not that pretty. The unit portraits are um...disappointing ..to say the least..

[spychi]

Xordiah writed that the i7 CPU's might work slower than usually

[Xyvik]

@hyde : . I have eleven computers running, between home and office, all with ATi cards, including onboard ones, and have had it that way for the last five years. Not a single problem. So I honestly don't know where people get "bad ATI drivers" from. It is based in urban legend, methinks.

nVidia, on the other hand, has always given me problems with my drivers, and in addition to that, their current cards can't hold a candle to the 5000 series. No, spychi is right on this one...if Fermi isn't up to speed, nVidia will continue to lose ground very rapidly.

The current state of nVidia is this: even when they DO release Fermi, ATi has the research headway and the money headway from the 5000 series, so ATi will drop a bombshell on Fermi that will defeat it, months after its release.

Right now nVidia is playing catchup, and they have a history of not doing that very well. Ever heard of the FX chips? Essentially rebranded Geforce 4s that were slower, hotter, and more expensive. That was their "catchup" to the 9700/9800pro. It took them...two years, three? to finally catch up. I fear that is their current situation. They could prove me wrong, but they have to actually release something for that to happen.

Fanboys have no place in the world of computers. Every company has good years and bad years, good products and bad products. When you forget that, you forget the very basis of computing: it's always changing.

[hyde]

@hyde : . I have eleven computers running, between home and office, all with ATi cards, including onboard ones, and have had it that way for the last five years. Not a single problem. So I honestly don't know where people get "bad ATI drivers" from. It is based in urban legend, methinks.

nVidia, on the other hand, has always given me problems with my drivers, and in addition to that, their current cards can't hold a candle to the 5000 series. No, spychi is right on this one...if Fermi isn't up to speed, nVidia will continue to lose ground very rapidly.

The current state of nVidia is this: even when they DO release Fermi, ATi has the research headway and the money headway from the 5000 series, so ATi will drop a bombshell on Fermi that will defeat it, months after its release.

Right now nVidia is playing catchup, and they have a history of not doing that very well. Ever heard of the FX chips? Essentially rebranded Geforce 4s that were slower, hotter, and more expensive. That was their "catchup" to the 9700/9800pro. It took them...two years, three? to finally catch up. I fear that is their current situation. They could prove me wrong, but they have to actually release something for that to happen.

Fanboys have no place in the world of computers. Every company has good years and bad years, good products and bad products. When you forget that, you forget the very basis of computing: it's always changing.

I don't think I ever said I liked nVidia. I used to be an ATIFANBOI myself.
But ever since AMD took them over, I've had nothing but driver problems with my X1600 which I returned for a GeForce 8800. Now my 5770 is being a bitch with drivers.

But yah, I've always liked ATI's cheaper price and superior performance since the 9800 days. Though I don't like the idea of ATI no longer building their own cards. The one thing that really brought me to ATI was that they designed and made their own cards.
My friend's BFG nvidia cards blow out all the time.

But so far I've had no physical problems with this HIS brand Radeon 5770.


But hey if nvidia decides to stop being dumb and offer a better product, I'll jump boats instantly. Fan boy'ism leads to consumer foolishness and goes against free market competition.

[ALFM09]

I've seen a few mentions of getting a sound card, and thought I should ask in this thread.

What are some good examples of sound cards for gaming/listening to music? My hopeful budget for this is 50 bucks, but if I need to go higher, then I don't mind doing so for awesome sound.

[screw_ball69]

Creative Technology Sound Blaster X-Fi its 30 dollars

[Rashed801]

I was thinking... Would this GPU max the game out and run smoothly?

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...390&CatId=3585

[screw_ball69]

most likley

[AdmiralMengsk]

Just built my new rig and I'm having a problem with getting windows 7 to install fully.

Once I get past step 2 and the comp restarts I get a message saying:

"Unexpected restart or error occured. Please restart to finish installation."

Everytime it restarts I get the same message. How do I get 7 to install correctly? Help!

Specs:

MSI 790x- G45 mobo

XFX 5670 1gb Graphics card

2x2gb Corsair DDR3 1333 ram

Windows 7 home premium 64bit

My mobo says it supports DDR3 upto 1200. Could the 1333 be causing the problem maybe?

[spychi]

DVD? or downloaded OS?
could be memory kit broken

btw I am building right now my new rig
I've got the Asus Xonar DX 7.1 sound card
soon I will get the i7-860, bought it today
and I will be waiting for the Sapphire 5870 1GB Vapor-X



ain't she a beauty?