Xx-ToXiCaTiOn-xX Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 What computer is the best, like the processor, and all that stuff etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reticulatingsplines Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 You might have to be a little more specific. What's your budget? What will you be using it for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 It depends on who you talk to. Some say AMD is better than Intel, or vise versa. Some say nVidia is better than ATI, or vise versa Some say one harddrive maker is better than the handful of others, around the horn that story goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riccbhard Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 I'd like to add a little. First, I like AMD better than Intel, nVidia better than ATI, and Western Digital over Maxtor. anyway. I'd go with a Dell or HP. I'd personally stay away from other brands. The AMD Athlon XP processor is nice. my Pavilion a320n has one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forfit Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 What computer is the best, like the processor, and all that stuff etc. The best? I believe Intel and NASA designed and built it....So yeah its pretty dang fast. anyways, a good home computer IMO would be something like... AMD64 Nvidia 7800gtx mobo with PCI-Express nice soundcard lcd monitor big hard drive 1gb+ ram and stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyl Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 The best right now? Simple... It's what I got: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual eVGA Nvidia 7800GTX's quad SATA II 500 gig Hitachi drives and a dvd burner & stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riccbhard Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 I just picked up a Supermicro 370SSM (Apparently that's a motherboard AND computer model from what I see online) that has a 1Ghz Pentium III and 128MB of RAM. It does run Vice City smooth; however the textures are garbled and any text like the menus flicker and jump around the screen. So it needs a newer video card and maybe a 128MB RAM upgrade to boost it to 256 to run San Andreas. Seems to be working quite fine for now. Dual-boots XP Pro and ME on 2 seperate drives. I got it for a steal at $60. Used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 The best right now? Simple... It's what I got: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual eVGA Nvidia 7800GTX's quad SATA II 500 gig Hitachi drives and a dvd burner & stuff... BFG's come sligthly OCed Proud of everything but the mobo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyl Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 The best right now? Simple... It's what I got: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual eVGA Nvidia 7800GTX's quad SATA II 500 gig Hitachi drives and a dvd burner & stuff... BFG's come sligthly OCed Proud of everything but the mobo? I forgot about that, I was tired. I'm running the new eVGA MoBo, which has jumperless and switchless SLI capability it has 3 PCIE slots on it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reticulatingsplines Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 The best right now? Simple... It's what I got: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual eVGA Nvidia 7800GTX's quad SATA II 500 gig Hitachi drives and a dvd burner & stuff... BFG's come sligthly OCed Proud of everything but the mobo? I forgot about that, I was tired. I'm running the new eVGA MoBo, which has jumperless and switchless SLI capability it has 3 PCIE slots on it . You sir, are a bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Well obviously 2 of those are PCI-E 16x, but it's my guess that the 3rd is PCI-E 1x Got a model number of it laying around over there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyl Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Actually, two of them are PCIE 8x and one is PCIE 16x It also has 3 standard PCI slots & 1 PCIE 1x slot. Here's a link: click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 WTF? No it doesn't work that way. You have 2x PCI-E 16X slots. When you run SLI then each of those slots run at 8x. You then also have 1 PCI-E 1x slot, along with 3 standard PCI 2.1 slots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyl Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 (edited) WTF?No it doesn't work that way. You have 2x PCI-E 16X slots. When you run SLI then each of those slots run at 8x. You then also have 1 PCI-E 1x slot, along with 3 standard PCI 2.1 slots Once again wolf, I hate to disagree with you but here's how it works on this board: On normal SLI-capable boards, you have to use a bridge or jumper setting (either physical or BIOS) to use TWO PCIE video cards on TWO PCIE 16x slots, which drop down to 8x PCIE when using TWO cards. With the eVGA board, there are THREE PCIE video card slots. The BLUE one (which runs at full 16x PCIE for one card) and the TWO yellow ones (which run at 8x PCIE already for TWO PCIE video cards) . oh let me add this: Newegg has the slot info wrong BTW. Edited September 19, 2005 by Devyl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Then I guess eVGA has the wrong info as well http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=133-K8-NF41-AX Expansion Slot SLI: 2 x PCI-Express x16 slots (x8 effective bandwidth in each slot) Single card: 1 x PCI-Express x16 slot I/O: 1 x PCI-Express x1 slot 3 x 32-bit PCI, support for PCI 2.1 But in truth newegg.com has it right. They get the info from the product. So unless the the maker screws it up then it's rare that newegg will get it wrong. So like I said, when you run SLI the slots run 8x. But if you run single it'll run 16x. Trust me I know how SLI works, even if I don't have SLI. Check with Everest. More than likely right now it maybe saying that your PCI-E GFX slots are running at 8x. Now turn off the SLI and look in Everest again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyl Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Then I guess eVGA has the wrong info as well http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=133-K8-NF41-AX Expansion Slot SLI: 2 x PCI-Express x16 slots (x8 effective bandwidth in each slot) Single card: 1 x PCI-Express x16 slot I/O: 1 x PCI-Express x1 slot 3 x 32-bit PCI, support for PCI 2.1 But in truth newegg.com has it right. They get the info from the product. So unless the the maker screws it up then it's rare that newegg will get it wrong. So like I said, when you run SLI the slots run 8x. But if you run single it'll run 16x. Trust me I know how SLI works, even if I don't have SLI. Check with Everest. More than likely right now it maybe saying that your PCI-E GFX slots are running at 8x. Now turn off the SLI and look in Everest again. That's exactly what I said, the thing i'm talking about is this board has three PCIE slots for video cards instead of two that you have to bridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxman Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Whoever said you guys get to hijack a topic? Yeah. We'd need to know your budget, and if you're willing to actually *Build* it, or getting a prebuilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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