Got My Faster Comp Going! Sweetness It's So Fast!

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Originally posted by Wolfmight+19 April 2003 - 16:45--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Wolfmight @ 19 April 2003 - 16:45)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--fallenknight308@19 April 2003 - 05:09
@WOLF

If you don&#39;t mind my asking what did she run ya? :o

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Not sure what you mean. You talkin about a benchmark test or applications?

I downloaded the latest Geforce drivers for windows xp/2000 and i changed the antialiasing to 4x, added texture sharpening etc. Then i went and tried some games. I played Quake 3 with full qual settings and highest res at normal rate. I played Americas army at 1024x768 with full qual in game settings at a normal speed. and I also played tribes 2 at 1024x768 with best qual settings and it ran.

Pretty nice. The antialiasing at 4x gives games a really slick look. You dont see those jagged edges with it that high ;) [/b][/quote]
lol where you from wolfmight?
he means money :lol: how much? ;) :)
ps. IS YOUR REFRIGERATOR RUNNING? :P

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Originally posted by sred2003@19 April 2003 - 07:18
do the right thing and get at least 512 mb of ram in there

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judging by your sig you&#39;re a little bit of a ram freak,but I agree 512 is a minimum for a computer nowadays :)

Well also yea..i thought of that too.
I got the AMD 2400 chip for &#036;100
and I got the Gigabyte K7 Triton for &#036;70

There was a AMD2400+ECS motherboard deal for &#036;115, but ESC MOBO SUCKS&#33;&#33;

yes... you should be running at least 512 ddr...

what&#39;s the diff between DDR and SDRAM?

sdram works on only one cycle of the ram. basically, the ram is only doing something usefuly either when it&#39;s on an up cycle or a down cycle. ddr ram works on both the up and down cycles, hence Double Data Rate (DDR)

so DDR is better for say? or is Sdram better because it keeps things organized?

If your board supports DDR, go with that, the higher the mhz memory the faster. I use PC2700 DDR (333MHz).

on the ddr speed subject, i stupidly bought corsair xms3500 ddr ram. it&#39;s marketed to be able to run at 434MHz and i was running it at 400MHz. however, there&#39;s no real point running your ram faster than the fsb of your processor, the ram just basically sits waiting for something to do
i suppose the benefit of me buying such good ram is that i can run at very tight timings (2-2-2-5) at 333MHz

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There was a AMD2400+ECS motherboard deal for &#036;115, but ESC MOBO SUCKS&#33;&#33;

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Absoloutley nothing wrong with ECS mobo&#39;s. I&#39;ve built several machines using them and all have been extremely stable and reliable, not to mention reasonabaly fast, for the price. I actually recommend them along with MSI boards.