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MikelsGoat said:
Its just scary, wires everywhere.
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there are about 4 different type of connectors to plug into bits on the motherboard. You can't put them on the wrong socket as they are all different shaped. You should have 2 for motherboard power, fan, pci-e 6-pins and molex connectors. It is actually really hard to mess up a PSU install.
 
I think the worse thing that will happen is it doesn't give it enough juice, which means games will lock up. No damage will happen, damage comes from using too much electricity. It looks like a decent psu so you should have to worry about it spiking, the test result shows low, low deviations of the rails.
 
My next question is, the new Cod isnt out till Novemeber, so I might just wait till then to spend my money, are the other cards likely to drop in price? I heard that there are new cards coming out soon, so maybe the older 1s will drop in price? Or am I wrong.

Its not urgent, so I could wait if need be.
 
There are always new cards coming out.....my card, an 8800GTS still plays it all at 1920x1080 resolution with AA with great frame rates. It won't run crysis, but everything else is fair game.
 

Get a mid-mid range card. It will run everything. You don't need a card that runs games at 180fps. The high end cards battle over a couple of benchmarks. One runs at 178 fps and the WINNER runs at 180.

You can't see the difference, get a mid range card. Plus you will NEVER get money back for your card, so why chuck a massive wedge at it?

Get a GeForce 260GTX or a Radeon HD 4870. Cheap and powerful, the both of them.
 
MikelsGoat said:
Thats it, my PC ran Cod4 not bad, but then I got this new WS Monitor and had to whack my RES up, so it starts to struggle, mainly when feckers throw smoke!!
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My gfx card (that 512mb 8800GTS) runs COD 4 at 1920x1080, with 8x Anti-aliasing and 16x antistropic filtering at around 60fps. Looks lovely and never any slow down.

If you get newer than an 8800GTS then you are already a generation ahead of the xbox360 and ps3. Get a 9800GTX and you are 2 generations ahead and the 200 series are 3 generations ahead of the consoles.
 
I wish we could see all your specs on your PC MG...you said you're running a dual core but there's a fair gap in watt usage among models depending on the manufacturing process that was used for that model. My Core2Duo E8400 only uses 65W even though it's running at 3GHz whereas the Athlon 64 X2 uses up to 125W at the same speed because they were built with the older 90nm process (45nm is the standard now). It's little things like this that can make or break what you're trying to do here.

Dylan's spot on with his recommendation of Corsair as they use a well-respected OEM and 90% of the time their PSU's have one dedicated +12V rail (there's been a trend to split this rail, I've seen upwards of 4 of them FFS, but this has been knows to cause issues with older PC's).

PSU's are a bit funky in that not many of the brands actually make the internals themself, that's left to OEM manufacturers like CWT (ChannelWell Tech, one of the better ones) and others, so it can pay to do a little homework on who actually makes the guts for the PSU before you buy.

Let's put it this way, I'm only using a 380W Antec (EarthWatts model, that's the crucial bit because of who makes the internals in those models) in my PC right now and I'm running a Core2Duo (OC'd to 3.6Ghz), a Radeon 4850, 3 320GB hard drives (two in a RAID-0) and a burner...all on 380W and I have no hiccups, Crysis or no Crysis. PSU's are not unlike audio watts in respect to RMS vs. Max. Your home receiver or car stereo amp might say 1000W but it's only 650 RMS, almost half...once you hit 650, weird things can start to happen (ie. audio distortion vs. ripple/spikes/OS crashes in the case of PSU's). Total wattage is only one part of it but that's what they push on the box...it's the main selling point but not the whole picture.

But yeah, the main thing that can happen if you buy just the card is either your PC won't boot up at all or you'll get into Windows but when you start fraggin' away you'll either lock up or blue screen.

As far as waiting, GFX cards always go down in price (then back up, once they reach their lifespan and they know they can bleed people who don't have any other upgrade path, plus supply is running short because they're not making them anymore...same bollocks happens with RAM). With nVidia, the only reason the 275 is such a good deal is because of what AMD/ATI did with the 4800 series price/performance. Price drops are really going to depend on how their new cards stack up to nVidia's and how much better they perform to the last series.

Sorry for the long post...I try to explain myself the best I can so it's as clear a picture as possible.
 
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GwladysStGlory said:
I wish we could see all your specs on your PC MG...you said you're running a dual core but there's a fair gap in watt usage among models depending on the manufacturing process that was used for that model. My Core2Duo E8400 only uses 65W even though it's running at 3GHz whereas the Athlon 64 X2 uses up to 125W at the same speed because they were built with the older 90nm process (45nm is the standard now). It's little things like this that can make or break what you're trying to do here.

Dylan's spot on with his recommendation of Corsair as they use a well-respected OEM and 90% of the time their PSU's have one dedicated +12V rail (there's been a trend to split this rail, I've seen upwards of 4 of them FFS, but this has been knows to cause issues with older PC's).

PSU's are a bit funky in that not many of the brands actually make the internals themself, that's left to OEM manufacturers like CWT (ChannelWell Tech, one of the better ones) and others, so it can pay to do a little homework on who actually makes the guts for the PSU before you buy.

Let's put it this way, I'm only using a 380W Antec (EarthWatts model, that's the crucial bit because of who makes the internals in those models) in my PC right now and I'm running a Core2Duo (OC'd to 3.6Ghz), a Radeon 4850, 3 320GB hard drives (two in a RAID-0) and a burner...all on 380W and I have no hiccups, Crysis or no Crysis. PSU's are not unlike audio watts in respect to RMS vs. Max. Your home receiver or car stereo amp might say 1000W but it's only 650 RMS, almost half...once you hit 650, weird things can start to happen (ie. audio distortion vs. ripple/spikes/OS crashes in the case of PSU's). Total wattage is only one part of it but that's what they push on the box...it's the main selling point but not the whole picture.

But yeah, the main thing that can happen if you buy just the card is either your PC won't boot up at all or you'll get into Windows but when you start fraggin' away you'll either lock up or blue screen.

As far as waiting, GFX cards always go down in price (then back up, once they reach their lifespan and they know they can bleed people who don't have any other upgrade path, plus supply is running short because they're not making them anymore...same bollocks happens with RAM). With nVidia, the only reason the 275 is such a good deal is because of what AMD/ATI did with the 4800 series price/performance. Price drops are really going to depend on how their new cards stack up to nVidia's and how much better they perform to the last series.

Sorry for the long post...I try to explain myself the best I can so it's as clear a picture as possible.
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What is this I don't even
 
This site will tell you what games you can play with current setup.
Can You RUN It?

This is a good site for comparing stuff ( in this case cards )
Benchmarks Gaming Graphics Charts Q3/2008

With 550w psu, you will not be able to run any x2 cards such as the ATI HD 3870x2 for example. x2 is basically 2 cards in one. I used to have an OCZ 1010 psu and the 3870x2. The 3870x2 gave a score of 10,000 more than the 8400gs I'm currently using (long story) in the 3DMark test to give you an idea of the differences in cards, yet fps wise, in Cod4, the 3870x2 gave me about 125fps and the 8400gs 75fps, and my rig is slightly better than yours , though I believe Cod generally has an fps cap anyway. So your card alone won't give you huge fps if that's what you're after.

If you play Cod4 etc, I can probably sort you out a cfg that will increase your fps etc as the clan I used to play with had loads for each type of pc.

BTW, are you on Vista 64?
32 bit systems only recognise about 3gig anyway regarding memory.
 
BB, a 32 bit system will recoginze 4gb of TOTAL memory. SO if you had 4gb ram and a 512mb gfx card, then windows will give of half a gig of ram to make space for the gfx card ram.

In a brief nutshell.


And Gwladys, I am almost on the same setup....E8400 oc'd to 3.6, 2 gig corsair dominator, G92 8800GTS and a Samsung Spinpoint 500Gb hdd (that is about to get replaced by a couple of fancy new 1tb drives in RAID)

45nm chips really rock!

And MG, the E6600 is a stellar cpu (even though it is a 65nm die......) :)
 

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