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For those who know me, I've had a second rate system for a very long time. Well I've finally upgraded, and I figured I'd post something here with what I've gone with. Now it's not a completely new system, and it's not done yet, but here's where it is currently.

CPU - E6600 @ 2.66
Mobo - P5N-E SLI
PSU - Thermaltake  500W
RAM - 2gigs of Corsair XMS2 800MHz
HDD's - 1 300Gig Western Digital 7200rpm
             1 160Gig Western Digital 7200rpm
Optical - CD/DVD RW 20x/48x
GPU - 8800GTX 768MB (I splurged)
Soundcard - X-FI Fatal1ty (No I/O)
OS - Windows XP Pro. / Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
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Sweeet! Are you using the Stage 3 cooling to get the E6600 to 2.66GHz?
Oh and the 8800GTX is a nice splurge ;)
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It is really cool to see some of the DS guys are normal gamers like the rest of us! 
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Originally posted by Nomad

Sweeet! Are you using the Stage 3 cooling to get the E6600 to 2.66GHz?
Oh and the 8800GTX is a nice splurge ;)


Nope, stock fan. I just got lucky with the CPU. Thumbs%20Up
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how much more work you have on it?
 
When will we see you in COD4? Wink
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Originally posted by ed1371

how much more work you have on it?
 
When will we see you in COD4? Wink


I'm going to be upgrading the Mobo to one of the new 780i's with DDR2. Then I'll be upgrading the CPU to a Q6600.

As for when I'm going to be on COD4... Soon. I'm finishing up the Witcher and Jericho right now, but soon...
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le sigh, talk to me when you get a real system ;)
 
 
Just kidding!!!!
 
 
Night and day difference from going from 8500 to an 8800GTX, huh?
 
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Originally posted by Dashuu

Originally posted by ed1371

how much more work you have on it?
 
When will we see you in COD4? Wink


I'm going to be upgrading the Mobo to one of the new 780i's with DDR2. Then I'll be upgrading the CPU to a Q6600.

As for when I'm going to be on COD4... Soon. I'm finishing up the Witcher and Jericho right now, but soon...

That's cool!

I heard Jericho was meh, but the Witcher sounded pretty sweet Big%20smile

I'm still debating whether I should get CoD4 for $50 or GoW for $40 Confused
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Wow man, you must be stoked! I don't know how long you had that old P4, but as someone else that did everything but administer CPR to keep an old system chugging along...

 
Big%20smileBig%20smileBig%20smile Congrats!!! Big%20smileBig%20smileBig%20smile
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Nice! How does the performance feel versus your old computer? Quite a jump.

My new DS replaced an AMD Barton/Geforce FX-5900 computer with 1GB of RAM, so somewhat of a similar jump.

I'm pretty surprised Oblivion ran on that thing (although it was painful)....

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The performance jump was incredible! I haven't played a game this smoothly since Doom 2! 
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lol painfull?? i have to run right now half life 2 on medium texture settings and low model settings, because my computer jumps from 15 to 20 to 5 fps sometimes.... and im running it in 1024x 768
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Originally posted by Church

lol painfull?? i have to run right now half life 2 on medium texture settings and low model settings, because my computer jumps from 15 to 20 to 5 fps sometimes.... and im running it in 1024x 768

Oh yea? I have to run CS:S and Halo on med/low settings running it in 800x600 and I still get bad frames so as you probably expect, I can't wait for my DS rig! =D
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when is digital storm going to have the new 780i motherboard available in the configuration options
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They aren't released yet ~-~
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