The Personal Computer Thread

[Aryan]

^^Cool purchase man! Congrats!
How about a complete tech review?

I am hardly a techie! I just know that this is one heck of a GPU which is performing what I am asking it to, and then some!

[gold_heart007]

^^Cool purchase man! Congrats!
How about a complete tech review?

[Aryan]

Finally, the problem is solved! Got a brand new Cooler Master 700W Power Supply today and have coupled that with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX260. Absolutely mind blowing performance! Playing the game at an godaweomsly resolution with all the effects cranked up to the maximum settings, with full anti-aliasing is simply 'just another day' for the card!

Trememdous! Now, I just can't help but wonder when is Diablo-III going to be launched! Or GTA-IV, for that matter..

[waseem46]

Is anyone at xBhp using the 9800GTX from NVIDIA? I have read the umpteen reviews over the net, but a first hand experience with the said card would be real good.

Thanks.

i have 9800 GTX... awesome card.. no need to overclock it. coz it play all d games on FULL sttings on stock.

[prakash_mvpa]

itdepot guy's disclaimer - has anyone read that? Mr.Shanmugavel yogan got some ridiculous take back policies.apart from horribly priced products.

warranties; all products sold "as-is" or "with all faults"

Theitdepot - Terms and Conditions
^you will be panicked!
while TheITWares - Buy Computer Hardware , PC Components , Laptop Computers - One Stop for all Gizmos!! (bombay) guy is regular in most tech forums.

Just for All your information!
you people can get good deals for graphics cards ,coolers etc in sites like techenclave(dot)com,erodov etc where people does group order and imports etc .

[nightwing]

I Do not have an idea as to which graphics card to buy right now...budget is 6k stretchable to 8k. The idea is to play the games at decent settings and to watch HD movies at kick ass settings

Get this :
Theitdepot - EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT 512MB KO “Knock-out”
OR this
Theitdepot - SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON™ HD 3870 512MB DDR4

I reckon they will be cheaper in Chennai.

[MavericK46]

Another 'Help Me' plea from me

Im gonna be in the market for a new desktop soon.
Do i wait for the AMD Phenom prices to creep lower or should i consider Intel's quad..?

NOTE : Im a hardcore AMD fan thanks to the Athlon i have been using on my desktop since the past 5 years
Also, Ive read that the Phenom is architecturally superior to Intel's..

[sai_ace]

What graphic card are you going to buy? If you want to run Vista smoothly you need a dedicated graphic card and a fair bit of RAM.
Yes,their is a Windows XP 64bit.
Most of the applications can run on Vista 64 and so will the newer games like Crysis and Bioshock. But make sure you get the right drivers for your components.

I Do not have an idea as to which graphics card to buy right now...budget is 6k stretchable to 8k. The idea is to play the games at decent settings and to watch HD movies at kick ass settings

[prakash_mvpa]

I have upgraded my Ubuntu GNU/Linux installation yesterday via net to latest version :Interpid Ibex 8.10.
Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu for more details.

[nightwing]

thanks for all the info Nightwing!

My MoBo is Asus M2NPV-VM

Processor is AMD 64 X2 4400+

HD is Seagate

So now...will Vista 64 run comfortably? Also is there Win XP 64?

Another question..... After the installation of 64 bit Os will all the programs that I currently have, run without any problems?

Thanks!

What graphic card are you going to buy? If you want to run Vista smoothly you need a dedicated graphic card and a fair bit of RAM.
Yes,their is a Windows XP 64bit.
Most of the applications can run on Vista 64 and so will the newer games like Crysis and Bioshock. But make sure you get the right drivers for your components.

[winzeee]

Guys im goin to buy ATI 4670 HD.What about it ?
Does it need extra cooling fan etc ?
And is ther any issues with it,And what should i look out for ?


Cheeers W

[sai_ace]

In case you are going for Vista 32 don't go for 4 GB of RAM.Vista wont be able to use all of it and you will lose about 642 MB.Instead you can go for 3GB in the following configuration.
2 x 1 GB and 2 x 512 MB DIMMs.
Here's an article explaining it:
Coding Horror: Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?

Install it in the following way:
1.The RAM slots in your mobo will be having 4 slots in pair of two,each pair will be of different color.Let's say green and blue.
2.Put the 2 modules of 1gb in the green slots.
3.Put the 512 modules in the other two slots.

Tadaaa.....you now have three gb running in dual channel.
Of course you can go for Vista 64 if you plan to use 4 gb.The driver support is all right if your PC's components are of reputed brands.

thanks for all the info Nightwing!

My MoBo is Asus M2NPV-VM

Processor is AMD 64 X2 4400+

HD is Seagate

So now...will Vista 64 run comfortably? Also is there Win XP 64?

Another question..... After the installation of 64 bit Os will all the programs that I currently have, run without any problems?

Thanks!

[anvancy]

@gold:
the electronics industry is one big happy family..
everybody shares with everybody.
i think the dvd player of philips is that 5996k.but what the hell.you know everything.i am a fan of yamaha acoustics.
for me any of these would do.
Comparison Detail

@aryan:may be in your new system the space is congested.buy one of those cooler masters 120mm fans.

[Aryan]

Another little experiment (if it can be called that) which I did last night was, I took out the graphics card (GeForce 7900GTX) from my newer system and put it on the older system which I used to run before I got the new one (relatively speaking, of course). The 'old' system runs on a P-4 with 4GB of RAM.

Surprisingly, after I installed the GPU on that machine, and booted up GRiD, Crysis, BiA-Hell's Highway, they ran without any kind of texture artifacts or locks/ freezes, albeit slow frame rates (probably the CPU is a bottleneck). But, this baffles me, really. I thought probably the GPU was getting overheated because of which the games were crashing on the newer PC, but then if the GPU was really overheating, then how come the old PC is able to run these games without any problems!!?? Damn!

So, that brings me to another probable conclusion - Is the cooling of the new system not enough? Is it possible? Or is there some kind of incompatibility between the motherboard and the graphics card? I am really confused at this moment..

[Aryan]

@gold heart: I know that the GTX is not "just another model". Infact, it was the top of the line 7 series card when it was launched. However, because of the problems that it has been giving me recently, I am thinking of upgrading the GPU to a better one; perhaps a 9800GTX or even the GeForce GTX260 (although I am pretty sure the 260 would cost upwards of 25k which is a little over my budget, really)...

As for the display settings are concerned, I generally play the games (any game) at 1024X768 with all settings cranked to the top; display driver version is 178.24.