Thanks for the advice. I will definately tweak my cooling systems minimum temperature to a crisp 12c insted of the 20c it is at now...(i have had it below 12c before lol)

Tomorrow afternoon i will definately upgrade teh power supply for added insurance with the voracious appitite for power these little guys have ( i am assuming that over clocking raises the power consumption a bit...i am pretty mew to OC stuf) Either way, the cooling will be boosted with minor adjustments to the system and i will purchace the 600w or a larger one if the store has one tomorrow. Thanks again and we'll see what happens

"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

12 deg C. I hate you so much!

*recovers slowly from deep faint after having read

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AMD FX-55 CPU attatched to a
MSI K8N Neo4 Sli Mobo (MS-7100-020)
4gb DDR400 Kingston RAM
2 MSI GeForceT 7800 GTX PCI-E GPU's in SLI config. (MS-V801-010)

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wow - but why on earth do you even consider to overclock such a system ? Does your monitor have more than 1600x1200 ?

Dark_Shadow, don't even think of overclocking that. One card pretty much cost more than my entire system. Anywho, here's my specs:

Athlon 64 3500 (2.2 Ghz) 2000 mhz FSB
1 GB Ultra 400mhz RAM
Geforce 6200 256 mb PCI-Express (soon to get a 6600 for like, $20)
200 GB Maxtor something-or-other hard drive (cost me $40)
SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit

Built the whole thing for $700 earlier this summer. Not too shabby, considering I have craploads of software and get paid by other people for doing something so simple as removing spyware. I once got four movie tickets (excellent seats, saw Star Wars and several other movies with the gf on them, thanks to the "I'm already in the theater" discount) just for installing a video card.

And Esky, I have a 486 you can upgrade with. It's only a year or so older than myself.

I wanted to OC the cards just to see if it really affects the preformance. BUT with these cards no game i have played yet on my system experiances ANY form of lag even on their most highest settings. So i will save the OC stuff till a few more installations of the Geforce series come out and my cards are a few releases behind lol

But i did buy 600watt power supply a day ago just so that the power sonsumption was't ever gonna be an issue so its all good...

and i am not sure what the monitor is rated at for its highest resolution but i do "believe" is is highrer than 1600. I'll look at it later (i am at work right now)

"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

Esq would love a 486, he's never seen a 33mhz processor before just think of all the half-a-dollar bargain bucket pre-loved games he can play...

This is a great idea having this forum, but I feel compelled to put out this disclaimer...

Any advice provided here is squarely on the individual to decide what is best for them. The Lancers Reactor takes no responsibility for anything that may go wrong on a computer based on information given in this forum.

We're not paid professionals here. We have tons of knowledge in this community and are willing to offer advice, but it's just that....FREE advice.

Rob "Stinger" Lordier
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old Favorite saying - No good deed goes unpunished

quite right too. just cos you read it here doesn't mean we're responsible if you frazz your PC. everything written here is just our own opinions gained from experience, nothing more. you do everything at your own risk!

where can I get a good anti-cheat program for my server?

See me for who I am, not for who I look like.

we'll think of some uber-expensive stuff to make you buy, DS!

My system seems to fall under the mid-range category according to PC Gamer Mag and several other related mags and websites. Now from the years of research, time, money, and computers I've built or helped build, I have learned quite a few things about what works for me and what defintely doesn't work for me

My current system specs...
Pentium 4 @ 3.0 Ghz w/ HT and Stock Cooling + normal thermal paste
1 Gig (2 x 512mb modules) of Dual Channel DDR400 RAM
Gigabyte Mobo (fits up to 3.4 P4 with HT, onboard 7.1 sound, gigabyte lan, agp 8x/4x, and some other stuff)
Sapphire Radeon 9600xt with 256mb of vram on AGP 8x
Sound Blaster Audigy LS 5.1 Sound Card (PCI)
2 Floppy Drives (a black sony and a white mitsumi)
Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM
Lite-On 12x DVD+/-RW DL (Dual Layer supported)
4 Channel Vantec Fan Contoller (very handy but annoying blue leds)
Thermaltake (Tt) 480 Watt PSU (black and gold, and has 2 fans, one sucks from inside and the other vents to the rear outside)
Raidmax Black/Black case with 7 mounted case fans total (all 80mm, 4 front, 1 side top of cpu, and 2 rear)
Samsung 2nd gen 15" LCD Monitor
$3 black/silver two tone keyboard
$10 2nd generation 3 button scroll wheel logitech optical mouse
Logitech 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers (i think it's the Z-650 model)
^ right before they changed the model on these and the design (new design sucks..satelites aren't as good)

Now originally I was planning on having 2 Gigs of dual channel "high-performance" RAM, but ran into a money costing problem. Before this I had never dealth with Gigabyte mobos, I have dealt with their video cards, and they were reliable like 50% of the time. So after consulting with several other "geeks" (close friends) on whether or not to use GIgabyte, I went ahead and used it. Now this is where the fun began. I wasn't able to get my system to stop rebooting after POST or after logging into Windows XP. So I ran through the list of various problems it could be. That took me 3 weeks of heavy troubleshooting. I got frustrated and contacted GIgabyte support. Found out that the mobo shipped with a outdated bios, so I updated the bios. Now my ram either wouldn't work or couldn't dual channel. Found out that the 2 pairs I had bought were defective (Corsair go figure). So I bought a 3rd pair and a pair of kingston xtreme (still can't get to boot with). Have heard good things about kingston ram since I ventured into computers. All in all, personally GIgabyte would be my second choice at best for a mobo. So to sum of this paragraph...

1) Had to use proprietory (not high performance) ram. Problems booting with Corsair and Kingston ram.
2) Wasted $300+ in shipping costs trying to get the ram and mobo to work.
3) Ended up with most of what I wanted, but disappointed by intel...

A little explanation on the last one. My first cpu was a intel pentium 1, second a celery (celeron), and then amd, and now back to intel. The pentium 4s are extremely hot. I mean running half-life 2 or doom 3, with stock cooling and basic thermal paste has caused my p4 to go from 45C to 59C (sometimes beyond the 60C mark). Now mind you I have enough fans to make my PC fly...but not cool my cpu.

I am now almost broke and won't be upgrading this thing for a long time. College is draining me dry...

But two things I've learned while researching for parts for this rebuild, building it, and now using/torture testing it. I'm not going back to intel unless I have to (heat issues are very annoying and costly) and I will use whatever ram or part that gets the job done. Screw the "performance" parts, not enough of a boost for me.

EDIT: forgot to mention the 3rd pair of corsair ram is also defective (too late for returns) and i still don't know if the kingston ram will work or not.


Edited by - Andan on 12/11/2005 3:18:23 AM

Im starting a modded server with some Capital ships in, so... what Hardware should i have??
What do i need to get lagg free server!?

Please help me, gimme ur sugestions!!

Edited by - TrpTore on 12/13/2005 5:25:25 PM

I have a laptop with a mobile Pentium 3 processor but the game don't recognises the computer like capable to play the game, it's any way to sort out this prob?
Thanks.

You need to provide some more stats, Operating system, ram, video cards, ect. Direct X version