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Intel i7-950 with 2x4 GB DDR3-1333 memory, Win7 64-bit, Radeon 5770
video card. Price: $1235 (which is pretty darn close to the individual
components I priced out separately, so the place that built it either
does it almost at cost, or gets components a lot cheaper than street price).
Can play Portal at 1920x1200 with all settings maxed out no problem.
(That and Thief 3 are probably the only two games I have that the Radeon
won't giggle at me behind my back for using it to run...)
Now the not-so-off-topic stuff:
running a render in POV 3.5 (since I use Moray to build scenes), not
even a quarter done after four hours
get fed up, load the .pov file in POV 3.7 beta 39...it renders in 28
minutes.
!!
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
a bit washed-out, though. probably the gamma setting? really need to
learn how to use naked POV without going through Moray for purposes of
animation.
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Tim Cook
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Can play Portal at 1920x1200 with all settings maxed out no problem.
> (That and Thief 3 are probably the only two games I have that the Radeon
> won't giggle at me behind my back for using it to run...)
Get Crysis and run it with maximum settings.
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On 25/10/2010 07:26 PM, Warp wrote:
> Get Crysis and run it with maximum settings.
I think "crysis" is an accurate description of what it does to your GPU,
yes. (Not to mention all your other hardware, of course...)
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Warp wrote:
> Get Crysis and run it with maximum settings.
I see a couple of "demo" versions floating around. Are these legit, do you
think? Was there ever an official demo release?
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On 2010-10-25 17:46, Darren New wrote:
> I see a couple of "demo" versions floating around. Are these legit, do
> you think? Was there ever an official demo release?
Yeah, I'd got it before and managed to max out at 4 fps with an average
of under 1 (that was when I didn't have any kind of decent graphics
card, and hadn't managed to getting around to trying it when I had one
for a while...). Am downloading it now, will report on how that goes.
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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:4cc50f54$1@news.povray.org...
> Intel i7-950 with 2x4 GB DDR3-1333 memory, Win7 64-bit, Radeon 5770 video
> card. Price: $1235 (which is pretty darn close to the individual
> components I priced out separately, so the place that built it either does
> it almost at cost, or gets components a lot cheaper than street price).
>
> Can play Portal at 1920x1200 with all settings maxed out no problem. (That
> and Thief 3 are probably the only two games I have that the Radeon won't
> giggle at me behind my back for using it to run...)
>
> Now the not-so-off-topic stuff:
>
> running a render in POV 3.5 (since I use Moray to build scenes), not even
> a quarter done after four hours
> get fed up, load the .pov file in POV 3.7 beta 39...it renders in 28
> minutes.
>
> !!
>
> XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
>
> a bit washed-out, though. probably the gamma setting? really need to
> learn how to use naked POV without going through Moray for purposes of
> animation.
>
> --
> Tim Cook
I did a simlar thing about 6 months ago. Previous computer pov render took
5 hours, new computer bits do the same scene in 45 minutes, tidy.
Crysis? at 1080p and every single option turned on I get a minimum of
30fps+
Metro 2033 is what brings my PC back to reality and at 1080p with everything
maxed out, the fps can drop to 20 (which is still ok) in a couple of intense
battles. Otherwise, its totally fine.
Intel QX9770 quad core extreme, 1600mhz FSB
8GB 1600mhz ram
Nvidia GTX480 extreme
Cheers Dre
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On 10/24/2010 10:02 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
> Intel i7-950 with 2x4 GB DDR3-1333 memory, Win7 64-bit, Radeon 5770
> video card. Price: $1235 (which is pretty darn close to the individual
> components I priced out separately, so the place that built it either
> does it almost at cost, or gets components a lot cheaper than street
> price).
>
> Tim Cook
Course.. Had you bought the components yourself, you would *know*, in
principle, what quality they where. Betting, no matter what the box
said, that your $1235 was probably $200 more than what the parts are
actually worth. Mainly due to the fact that they probably stuck in MB
that cost $50 more than needed, without the features you could have
gotten from someone else's, and/or adding in some "high name" product
for something else, which, it turns out, isn't as good as the cheap
version from someone else.
Someone today gave an example of that. Two Blueray players, one from
Sony, and one from Magnavox, where the former "high end" one took
several minutes to start up, and produced poor output, the later took 15
seconds, didn't have the splotchies in black areas, and cost half as
much. Same with computers. I don't trust anything someone *else* put in
to a box. If I buy something I regret, at least it was my mistake, not
some other ass lying to me about how great the thing was. lol But,
that's just me. ;)
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if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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On 2010-10-26 18:01, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> If I buy something I regret, at least it was my mistake, not
> some other ass lying to me about how great the thing was. lol But,
> that's just me. ;)
That's my problem. It blows up on me, if I built it myself I'm out that
money (as I've had happen once before). Someone else builds it, it's
under their warranty so I get it replaced.
And $1200 just isn't something I can shrug off, with my finances the way
they are nowadays.
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Tim Cook
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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> That's my problem. It blows up on me, if I built it myself I'm out that
> money (as I've had happen once before). Someone else builds it, it's
> under their warranty so I get it replaced.
Individual components always have a warranty.
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On 10/27/2010 10:07 AM, Warp wrote:
> Tim Cook<z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> That's my problem. It blows up on me, if I built it myself I'm out that
>> money (as I've had happen once before). Someone else builds it, it's
>> under their warranty so I get it replaced.
>
> Individual components always have a warranty.
>
Yep. And, odds are, you will get better support on those, than what ever
run around you are likely to get with the whole machine (not to mention
stupid things they might do to it, or your data, in the process).
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void main () {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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