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

["The Avatar Man"]

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?

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 how much?
ps. IS YOUR REFRIGERATOR RUNNING?

["The Avatar Man"]

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

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

[Wolfmight]

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;

[Schmiggy_JK23]

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

[Wolfmight]

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

[amphoteric88]

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)

[Wolfmight]

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

[CornerPocket]

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

[amphoteric88]

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

[Prozac]

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

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.