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#41

If it’s late at night I’ll use headphones so as not to wake housemates and neighbours. And I only use headphones for games where I need a mic, so pretty much only in CS, CSS, CoD4 and L4D. All single player games I use the speakers.

With movies, like I said, only late at night, rest of the time I let the Z-5500Ds decode the lovely, lovely dts and AC3.

#42

I’m pretty sure it hasn’t happened yet. He’s just sprouting shit from his fingers.

Fair enough.

#43

I’m puttin this one together atm :wink: :

Case: HAF 932

CPU: i7 920 @ 2.66 Ghz (Planning to overclock)

Mobo: GA-EX58-Extreme

Cooling: Watercooling for CPU + Mobo

PSU: Coolermaster 1000w Modular

RAM: 6BG Corsair dominator @ 1600 Mhz w/ Cooling fan

Monitor: Samsung SM2433BW 24"

Speakers: Logitech X-240

Graphics Card: Some Craptacular Card as i’m gonna wait for the Nvidia GTX 300 Series

#44

You’ll be able to OC it easily to like 3.2, will really help your video card stretch it’s legs. When you get one that is.

#45

Indeed.

I was thinking something like a 9600GT to be going along with but alas, this is not the place to talk about it.

@ Randomspoon: 10/10, and the computer sounds pretty good as well

#46

Here you go: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220527

#47

It’s a Macbook Pro that I play Steam games on. It’s a laptop. Pretty indifferent stuff.

#48

Awesome. I’m not the only one after all who owns a Mac computer. Now then, this is the computer I had before I bought the Macbook:

Case: Hewlett Packard
Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8 Genuine Intel ~ 1396 Mhz
Total Physical Memory: 256.00 MB
Total Virtual Memory: 2.00 GB
Display: Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family

#49

better than a mac

#50

This has the GMA950 graphics core, which means pretty much the same graphics power as your new macbook.

#51

CPU: 1.9 GHz AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core (D :slight_smile:
Graphics card: Nvidia Geforce 8200GT
OS: Windows Vista SP1
DX Level: DX10

Notes: I have EVERYTHING to run Crysis on medium, except for a shitty ass processor, that makes it lag so hard on Low.

#52

Nope. The 8200M is the bottleneck. An Athlon64 X2 at 1.9GHz isn’t great, but it’s plenty to run something like Crysis. A budget-level notebook GPU, however, is pretty sucky for Crysis, especially since it’s probably using shared system RAM rather than dedicated VRAM.

My PC’s CPU is not much faster than yours (same architecture and core count, around 25% extra clockspeed) and I can run Crysis fine at medium settings. The difference is that I have a mid-range graphics card with a decent amount of fast, dedicated VRAM.

#53

You should seriously consider upgrading that video card, Dax.

2/10 if that’s a desktop you purchased recently, it was a huge waste of money.
5/10 if that’s a cheap laptop.

I would give it a 7/10 if you install XP pro on it.

#54

Naw, the processor does very little to affect the graphics in a game, that’s all the GPU. Processors and RAM affect the loading times (generally), and the GPU does the brunt of the video graphics.

And no, you can’t run crysis on medium with that, just because crysis says you can, it doesn’t mean you can. My 8600 in my laptop can’t barely run it on medium as well.

#55

Q6600@3.5GHz with Xigmatek S1283 cooler
2GB DDR2800
8800GT with 512MB VRAM
500GB Samsung HDD + 160GB Seagate return from RMA
LG DVD burner
Logitech Z-4 speakers
Logitech MX400 laser mouse
Some 10+ year old generic Diamond Touch keyboard

#56

The CPU is actually fairly important too - it handles processing-intensive aspects such as AI and physics calculations, all of which have an effect on framerate. You’re not going to run Crysis well on a single-core Celeron, for example.

#57

Didn’t even see you ninja me 2 hours before hand.

True, but like you said, the 8200 is the bottleneck, the CPU is important, but the one he has isn’t holding him back.

#58

Hehe :ninja:

Just noticed the DX10 bit as well - you might want to try running it in DX9 mode, I found the performance went up a fair bit.

#59

Windows Vista Home Premium 32 BIT
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU E4500 2.20GHz
2.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

I know the graphic card sucks because it’s an inbuilt one.

I can play Crysis Warhead on medium except shaders/shadows.

#60

I spent my money on Crysis and Crysis Warhead, so I could pick up Koreans and throw them into shacks, watching the shacks fall down. Hopefully though, whenever I manage to get my broke ass some $15, I’ll buy myself a cheap ass computer that can run Crysis. At least, that drug dealer down my street told me that computer I bought could.

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