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4runner · Dec 28, 2005, 07:55 PM // 19:55

I was curious to know what kind of machines people use to play GW, how many monitors,video cards, etc, etc, etc. Ill start with mine, Now i know you can write anything in here, perhaps a rig you would like to have or a dream machine but lets be honest and post about your current Weapon of choice for playing GW....

MIne i recently created this rig about 6 months ago!!!:

1.AMD DUAL CORE 4800
2.3GIGS OCZ MEMORY
3.DUAL 78OOGTX PCI-E
4.DUAL RAPTOR 74GIG RAID 0 10,000RPM
5.DUAL iBM DESKSTARS 1TERA BYTE RAID 1 7200 RPM
6.AUDIGY 2ZS/BREAK OUT BOX
7.WAVE MASTER CASE
8.QUIET COOL 850 SLI PSU
9.4 20MM FANS
10.LIQUID COOLING ALX
11.WIRE MANGEMENT
12.DUAL PLEXTOR P7-A DVD/COMBOS
13.AND 3 23" VIEWSONICS 6MS/800:1 CONTRAST monitors
14.ASUS MOBO SLI

This is my general gaming rig, i play BF2, battlefront 2, Cs.s, quake 4, and a few other online games, i know this is overkill for GW, but dam if they would only support 8x or higher AA, the graphics would be even more insane lets hope the expansion pack will allow for higher details settings for ultra high performance rigs!!!

Oh my rig is completely stock!!! no overclockin needed!!!!

Thanks,

Ayrtris · Dec 28, 2005, 08:47 PM // 20:47

With a system such as that, I'm going to need pictures to take you seriously.

This is my gaming PC. I have another three used for Linux and a home network server, the third being in pieces currently in a box under my desk.

AMD 64-bit 4000+
ASUS A8N-SLi Premium
Two 7800GTXs in SLi
1gb Corsair RAM
Raptors in RAID 0 (waiting for another WD drive to go with a spare for 0+1)
2 80mm Akasa fans
600w Seasonic S12

with my own wire management in an Akasa Eclipse case.

Josh · Dec 28, 2005, 09:48 PM // 21:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4runner

I was curious to know what kind of machines people use to play GW, how many monitors,video cards, etc, etc, etc. Ill start with mine, Now i know you can write anything in here, perhaps a rig you would like to have or a dream machine but lets be honest and post about your current Weapon of choice for playing GW....

MIne i recently created this rig about 6 months ago!!!:

1.AMD DUAL CORE 4800
2.3GIGS OCZ MEMORY
3.DUAL 78OOGTX PCI-E
4.DUAL RAPTOR 74GIG RAID 0 10,000RPM
5.DUAL iBM DESKSTARS 1TERA BYTE RAID 1 7200 RPM
6.AUDIGY 2ZS/BREAK OUT BOX
7.WAVE MASTER CASE
8.QUIET COOL 850 SLI PSU
9.4 20MM FANS
10.LIQUID COOLING ALX
11.WIRE MANGEMENT
12.DUAL PLEXTOR P7-A DVD/COMBOS
13.AND 3 23" VIEWSONICS 6MS/800:1 CONTRAST monitors
14.ASUS MOBO SLI

This is my general gaming rig, i play BF2, battlefront 2, Cs.s, quake 4, and a few other online games, i know this is overkill for GW, but dam if they would only support 8x or higher AA, the graphics would be even more insane lets hope the expansion pack will allow for higher details settings for ultra high performance rigs!!!

Oh my rig is completely stock!!! no overclockin needed!!!!

Thanks,

Can't you only have 1 Graphics Card in your Machine? ;x

4runner · Dec 28, 2005, 10:22 PM // 22:22

NO not true you can run 2 video cards in pci-e slots, configured in SLI mode using an ASUS AN8 SLI MOBO, It is the Shit there is currently no game out there that i cnat run 1600x1200 8xaa,4xat at max detail settings!!! Totally awesome!!! GW just cant take advantage of my video Cards!!

Scotty we Need More SPEED, WarpSPEEDDDD LOLOLO

Ill try to get some srceenies up of my RIG!!! For those Who need Proof!!!!

Narada · Dec 28, 2005, 10:25 PM // 22:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4runner

I was curious to know what kind of machines people use to play GW, how many monitors,video cards, etc, etc, etc. Ill start with mine, Now i know you can write anything in here, perhaps a rig you would like to have or a dream machine but lets be honest and post about your current Weapon of choice for playing GW....

MIne i recently created this rig about 6 months ago!!!:

1.AMD DUAL CORE 4800
2.3GIGS OCZ MEMORY
3.DUAL 78OOGTX PCI-E
4.DUAL RAPTOR 74GIG RAID 0 10,000RPM
5.DUAL iBM DESKSTARS 1TERA BYTE RAID 1 7200 RPM
6.AUDIGY 2ZS/BREAK OUT BOX
7.WAVE MASTER CASE
8.QUIET COOL 850 SLI PSU
9.4 20MM FANS
10.LIQUID COOLING ALX
11.WIRE MANGEMENT
12.DUAL PLEXTOR P7-A DVD/COMBOS
13.AND 3 23" VIEWSONICS 6MS/800:1 CONTRAST monitors
14.ASUS MOBO SLI

This is my general gaming rig, i play BF2, battlefront 2, Cs.s, quake 4, and a few other online games, i know this is overkill for GW, but dam if they would only support 8x or higher AA, the graphics would be even more insane lets hope the expansion pack will allow for higher details settings for ultra high performance rigs!!!

Oh my rig is completely stock!!! no overclockin needed!!!!

Thanks,

ALX? woo *whistles* You went all out eh mate?

Here's my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
DFI LANParty UT nF3 250 Gb mobo
2 x 512 Corsair XMS series PC 3200 DDR SDRAM
ATI Radeon X700 256 MB
2 x 250 GB Maxtor MaXLine III's 7200 RPM 16 MB cache in RAID 0
52x24x52 CD-RW
12x DVD RW
Thermaltake Xaser III "Skull" case /w Hardcano 10 cooling unit
4 x 80 mm fans controlled by Hardcano 10, 3 x stand alone fans
19'' Samsung SyncMaster 192MP monitor/TV
Creative ITRIGUE sound system with 80 Watt subwoofer

4runner · Dec 28, 2005, 10:30 PM // 22:30

ALX? woo *whistles* You went all out eh mate?

Well No becuse theres a better Liquid cooler out there, this is a version of the Alienware Alx setup it just doent cost $1100.00, which it what it would cost if you went alienware!!! Newegg.com!!!!!!

Josh · Dec 28, 2005, 11:08 PM // 23:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4runner

NO not true you can run 2 video cards in pci-e slots, configured in SLI mode using an ASUS AN8 SLI MOBO, It is the Shit there is currently no game out there that i cnat run 1600x1200 8xaa,4xat at max detail settings!!! Totally awesome!!! GW just cant take advantage of my video Cards!!

Scotty we Need More SPEED, WarpSPEEDDDD LOLOLO

Ill try to get some srceenies up of my RIG!!! For those Who need Proof!!!!

You'd need 2 Monitors then, to make use of them at all. ;s And what's the point of 2 Monitors? ;\

And you only need to use 1 Graphics card anyway...

4runner · Dec 28, 2005, 11:19 PM // 23:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josh

You'd need 2 Monitors then, to make use of them at all. ;s And what's the point of 2 Monitors? ;\

And you only need to use 1 Graphics card anyway...

I think you miss the point of dual videos cards in SLI mode, the cards wiil act as one unit, even though there are to videos cards, So no you dont need 2 monitors to view the image in fact you can have 4 monitors pluuged in to the 2 video cards but they would all have to be the same refresh rates or specs>> I currently have three Monitors all the same running off this rig 2 LCDS are synced together to make a 46" screen (thin bezeled LCDS work the best dell and viewsonic make some really good LCDS for cheap) and the 3rd one is used for watching dvds or surfing the net!!

Well if you perfer to run 1 video card thats your choice but i on the other hand want the best possible graphics from any game i buy, and my rig reflects my taste!!!

Humbly,

Dex · Dec 29, 2005, 01:07 AM // 01:07

4runner is right, Josh. The idea behind nVidia's SLI technology is similar to what 3Dfx did back in the day with the Voodoo2 cards. You could run 2 Voodoo2 cards together in SLI and they would alternate rendering even and odd frames to give you around 1.6 times the fill-rate. Since video cards have lighting and geometry processors now the even/odd line trading doesn't work (the geometry and lighting need to be rendered per-scene), so nVidia's version of the SLI concept involves 2 GPUs taking turns rendering entire frames. As one frame is being displayed the other card is busy rendering the next frame, and so on. Depending on the game, you'll see as much as a 70% frame rate increase and as little as 0%.

@4runner, 3GB of RAM? Do you know that your RAM is running in single-channel mode? You need to use an even number of modules for the Athlon64 memory controller to operate in dual-channel mode.

Josh · Dec 29, 2005, 01:59 AM // 01:59

You mean, if I put in 2 (not that I would, let alone try afford it) Sapphire X1800 XT 512MB PCI-E cards onto my Motherboard, it'd run my Computer with both of them and 1024MB instead of the 512?

Alias_X · Dec 29, 2005, 02:38 AM // 02:38

SLI Technology. google it.

4runner · Dec 29, 2005, 02:53 AM // 02:53

Dex Quote:@4runner, 3GB of RAM? Do you know that your RAM is running in single-channel mode? You need to use an even number of modules for the Athlon64 memory controller to operate in dual-channel mode.

Thanks! I did not know that Oh shit now i need to find 4 1gig matching sticks!!! The quest is oN!!

Good lookin out DEX!

Dex Voodoos Huh Old School! NIce! LOL

Mustache Mayhem · Dec 29, 2005, 03:27 AM // 03:27

not many real world applications- your fine 4runner

• Dual channel memory makes little performance difference with the Athlon 64. The only place you will really see a performance difference is in synthetic memory benchmarks. Most real applications just do not use memory in a way that can benefit greatly from dual channel memory.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page4.html

LifeInfusion · Dec 29, 2005, 03:33 AM // 03:33

lol. If I posted my <1000 dollar computer's specs you would fall off your seat from laughter, mainly because it is 4 years old...

cannonfodder · Dec 29, 2005, 06:42 AM // 06:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Josh

You mean, if I put in 2 (not that I would, let alone try afford it) Sapphire X1800 XT 512MB PCI-E cards onto my Motherboard, it'd run my Computer with both of them and 1024MB instead of the 512?

No Josh, well not kind of..., umm here goes, SLI technology is purely Nvidia, So your X1800XT's(if you ever get any

) wont work, HOWEVER, you can now get ATI CROSSFIRE Boards that will allow you to use 2 ATI cards(pretty similar to SLI), The beauty of Crossfire is that you don't need identical cards, they can be mixed and matched, i'e you can have one X1800XT and one X1600XT, pretty good in theory, how well it works is another question for another day.

DEX, mate you dont need equal matching sticks of ram for dual channel, this PC my old one has 3 sticks(2 512's and 1gig stick), The 2 512's are in the dual channel slots, and the 1gig one is in the last slot, it works fine in dual channel, just as long as 2 sticks are the same it's fine, Well it works on my old Asus A8V...

M1h4iL · Dec 29, 2005, 09:19 AM // 09:19

My rig is:
2500+XP AMD Athlon
512MB Corsair Ram
Sparkle 6600GT AGP8
420 Thermal Take PSU
ASUS mobo (forgot name)
Antec 1000AMG case
120Gig Seagate sata HD
MS keyboard, X518 Logitech mouse, 17" CRT monitor and a few led and UV fans (5 in total)

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8464/dscn02893dg.jpg

Built this rig my self beginning of 2005. It plays all of todays games with generally good fps. I mainly play CS:S and GW and it does fine in those. I am however lookign to upgrade to a 64bit CPU and 7800gt along with 1gig ram soon.

Dex · Dec 29, 2005, 10:04 AM // 10:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

DEX, mate you dont need equal matching sticks of ram for dual channel, this PC my old one has 3 sticks(2 512's and 1gig stick), The 2 512's are in the dual channel slots, and the 1gig one is in the last slot, it works fine in dual channel, just as long as 2 sticks are the same it's fine, Well it works on my old Asus A8V...

Interesting. I've never seen a board that does that. Then again, I've only had 3 Athlon64 boards, but all of them switch to single-channel if I put in an odd stick regardless of which slots I use.

It's true that you probably won't notice a tangible difference gaming between dual-channel and single-channel mode. I wouldn't go out and buy new memory for that reason -- I was just pointing out that you may not be squeezing every ounce of speed from your hardware -- something you seem quite interested in doing.

EDIT:
I misspoke. One of my Athlon64 boards is socket 754 and isn't dual-channel capable. However, I tried every possible combination of modules in both socket 939 machines this morning and could only get single-channel mode when I use an odd 3rd module. Also, if all 3 modules are not exactly the same I can't even get the system to POST -- I just get beeps and a memory error code on the LED on the motherboards. Not sure yet if it's the motherboards that won't do it or if it's the Corsair XMS Platinum Series RAM I'm using in both systems. I'll have to do more research and get back...

Josh · Dec 29, 2005, 11:45 AM // 11:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

No Josh, well not kind of..., umm here goes, SLI technology is purely Nvidia, So your X1800XT's(if you ever get any

) wont work, HOWEVER, you can now get ATI CROSSFIRE Boards that will allow you to use 2 ATI cards(pretty similar to SLI), The beauty of Crossfire is that you don't need identical cards, they can be mixed and matched, i'e you can have one X1800XT and one X1600XT, pretty good in theory, how well it works is another question for another day.

DEX, mate you dont need equal matching sticks of ram for dual channel, this PC my old one has 3 sticks(2 512's and 1gig stick), The 2 512's are in the dual channel slots, and the 1gig one is in the last slot, it works fine in dual channel, just as long as 2 sticks are the same it's fine, Well it works on my old Asus A8V...

Ooh, I'm more of an ATI Fan anyway, 'never' used any nVidia items, I've always been ATI.

Sounds good, thanks for the info.

Narada · Dec 29, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by M1h4iL

My rig is:
2500+XP AMD Athlon
512MB Corsair Ram
Sparkle 6600GT AGP8
420 Thermal Take PSU
ASUS mobo (forgot name)
Antec 1000AMG case
120Gig Seagate sata HD
MS keyboard, X518 Logitech mouse, 17" CRT monitor and a few led and UV fans (5 in total)

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8464/dscn02893dg.jpg

Built this rig my self beginning of 2005. It plays all of todays games with generally good fps. I mainly play CS:S and GW and it does fine in those. I am however lookign to upgrade to a 64bit CPU and 7800gt along with 1gig ram soon.

Lookin good.

Eldin · Dec 29, 2005, 05:18 PM // 17:18

Mine is a tad old (at least I believe my speakers are), but the rest I upgrade now and then.

Windows XP Pro
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.20GHz
Nvidia GeForce 5500 FX (Driver 78.01)
1GB RAM
Samsung SyncMaster 793DF/793MB
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
ACPI Uniprofessor PC
Microsoft PS/2 Mouse (Wired Laser)
Standard 101/102-Key Or Microsoft PS/2 Keyboard
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B
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Purely NVidia graphics cards since the dawn of time. Since the latest generation of games (BF2, CoD, etc) are starting to get more demanding, won't be long until I may be getting a 6800GT or something.