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Convenient excuse! At least my excuse started at the top of the thread...
But it's invalid anyway, as it's just installing Crysis at the moment. Doesn't take long with 4x 15k SAS disks.
I would.
If I could get the chunt to boot. It's stuck permanently restarting now, rather than just doing it a couple of times before deciding to go to OS.
Scrap the original plans... The board I want has finally arrived!
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-338-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1283
That or a boned optical drive. If you've got a USB optical drive (CD drive) and it will boot from that, there's an excellent starting point.
However 9/10, I'd say HDD.
Another vote above then that an 8800GTX can't run Crysis at maximum settings... But an 8800GT (the slower, smaller frame buffered-cousin) can?!
As for car - I'm currently shopping for an Exige S, although what relevance that has to computers I'm not entirely sure! I did look at car...
Well I'm not going to discuss income - some people seem a shade sore about it so I'll keep myself to myself, but yes I do have a passion for computers. I do it all day every day because I enjoy it, and I like to have the latest wizardry to play with just so I'm in touch with what's going on...
FPMSL.
I've got an 8800GTX at the moment, and it sweats when I do medium settings and 2x AA. With a Q6600 clocked beyond Q6850 speeds. And 8GB RAM.
Sorry, fail. In fact, everybody in this thread that's called your bluff has better kit than an 8800GT.
I had a Dell Latitude D630 ATG (essentially a heavy D630 with a couple of flashy lights shining on the keyboard) and it lasted 9 hours actually working, and separately 16 hours just running RDP over 3G.
TBH, the E-series Latitudes are possibly the nicest business laptops I've ever seen - short...
Liking Vista/Server 2008 SP2 at the moment - just IE8 to install and a 'compatibility pack' update and it's all done.
No matter how hard you try, there always seems to be one or two updates that linger after doing a slipstreamed image.
Please feel free to post proof of that, because my bullshit detector has exploded. Allow me to demonstrate the only card known to be able to play Crysis at 'max' settings out of the box:
http://www.evga.com/articles/364.asp
Oh, wait, no. That can't...
But the Alienware are huge. He wants a portable. They also have awful graphics life. Which is made worse by a £5000 price tag!
You considered the Dell Latitudes? I really quite like the E4300 (portable) and E4200 (ultraportable) laptops. Just had a Lenovo X301 at work, but wasn't...
Even with Acceleration, it sucks the lifeblood from it. I can run 1920x1200 with full detail but no AA, and I can't put too much in the way of traffic on - at that point it s***s itself!
AMD fanboys,
Do any of you have any idea if there's anything on offer in the mid-term future to try and stop the Nehalem rampage that currently is?
Ta.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-003-ZT&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1436
Not too far off I don't think? Epic stuff for my plans of doing a car computer!