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06-24-2008, 12:25 PM
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| is a maverick pirate. Yarrrrr  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California
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| While its been shown that Nvidia does have TWIMTBP on a lot of MMOs and games, the 4850 has shown it can beat the 9800GTX even in those games. The only real game that is biased heavily towards Nvidia is Lost Planet, but ATI has Call of Juarez for that to make up. Otherwise, ATI does seem to take a bit longer to get their drivers up to par for each game, but in the end they age well. Preliminary 4870 results shown it beating the GTX 260 across the board actually... methinks Nvidia is in need of a price drop. |
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06-24-2008, 08:14 PM
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As for your other issues, I would just wipe your system completely and do a fresh reinstall of Windows. Download all the latest drivers for EVERYTHING (chipset, video, audio, etc. and from the chipset manufacturer not the manufacturer of the component [example: get the Realtek audio drivers from Realtek and not from, say, Gigabyte]) beforehand and install those right after Windows finishes installing. Reboot after each driver install, by the way. Don't install them all during the same session. Last edited by Lefazz : 06-24-2008 at 08:17 PM. | |
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06-24-2008, 08:36 PM
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| Alright... I'll get a new DVD-ROM... I have a question though... while I was looking for the DVD-ROM I came across this: Newegg.com - LG Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 4X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM DVD-ROM: 16X Blu-ray DVD-ROM: 6X HD DVD-ROM: 3X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R 24X CD-RW 4MB Cache SATA Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner - CD / DVD Burners Is there any reason why I should not get that? I have been wanting to get a Blue Ray player since I am subscribed to netflix and I have a monitor that supports 1080i.... I didn't know if I should get this or just buy a PS3/wait for an Xbox360 blue ray to come out. Also, I wonder if there is any way to stream blue ray quality from my desktop, to the laptop, so I can watch it on the TV (no way I am going to move my desktop every time I want to watch a movie  )
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06-25-2008, 11:45 AM
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| If your card has an HDMI out you could run that to your TV, I'm not sure if there's a simpler way without more hardware. Also Hachima for that build, is there any reason to get the X48 over a P35? I forget what the differences are now, but I seem to remember them being questionable since the X48s cost more than twice as much as most P35s.
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06-25-2008, 12:12 PM
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| Well, my laptops does have HDMI out, which is why I want to stream it to that computer in order to get the HD quality... But the laptop doesn't have a blue ray drive... I want to know if I can watch Blue ray movies through my laptop by getting a blue ray on my desktop. Maybe.... rip the blue ray movies, then stream em to my laptop? I can probably do this... but I would like to know if I can do this without having to rip the movies.
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06-25-2008, 12:23 PM
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| I just meant a straight HDMI cable from your desktop to the TV. I think also ripping them on the desktop, then copying it to the laptop and watching it on the TV through a DVI cable (since it doesn't have HDMI out) would work, but I'm not 100%.
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06-25-2008, 01:30 PM
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P35 uses PCI-E 1.0 x48 uses 2.0 Intel® X48 Express Chipset - Overview Intel® P35 Express Chipset - Overview The biggest thing is X48 has the 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots for crossfire potential (I think SLI/Crossfire still suck for a lot of things but that potential is there) P35 is a great board too though and may be even better for overclocking potential P45 has PCI-E 2.0 Even then, X48 still looks like it can perform better at least with crossfire. Intel P45 Vs. X48 Crossfire Performance :: TweakTown The biggest thing is "While both boards carry two physical x16 slots, when two cards are installed the electronics behind the slots on the P45 tune back to x8 on both slots. " | |
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06-25-2008, 01:53 PM
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| I seem to remember that PCIe 2.0 wasn't really necessary at the moment as PCIe still had plenty of bandwidth. I couldn't really remember but Tom's seems to kind of back it up: Conclusion - Tom's Hardware : PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Cards Tested Not too much of a difference between the x16 and the x8 speeds at all. I agree with you about SLI/Crossfire and probably won't go that route ever, but the potential is helpful. So I guess the biggest benefit is the 1600 FSB. Damn I don't like thinking about this.
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06-25-2008, 05:50 PM
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| Today was release day for the ATI 4870 and it looks like its been a clean sweep for the 4870.. it matches the GTX260 across the board and with 8xAA on, it even beats the GTX280 in almost all setups. Games where CrossFire scales well, the 4850's and 4870s seem to scale up towards 80%. |
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06-25-2008, 06:17 PM
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-50 for going with 2GB Ram, -350 for going with a $200 Dual Core -100 for going with a P35 MB Last edited by Hachima : 06-25-2008 at 06:21 PM. | |
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