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You have me in the gfx card realm, I have an 8600, but I have Core II Duo *2.4* ghz and 4 gigs of DDR2 ram. Still can't run DX10 effects worth shit. And that is why I play my 360 more than my pc. Edited by Geiseric
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QUOTE (Geiseric @ Dec 25 2007, 01:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You have me in the gfx card realm, I have an 8600, but I have Core II Duo 2 ghz and 4 gigs of DDR2 ram. Still can't run DX10 effects worth shit. And that is why I play my 360 more than my pc.


What chipset are you running on your mobo? Despite having alot of power elsewhere, people sometimes negate to purchase high-end mobos with high-end chipsets.
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Intel PM965 Express,yes, its a mobile chipset, and the gfx is a 8600m gt. Its the mobile version, so yeah, it is a little underpowered, but I have heard the same issues with the non-mobile version. DX10 is just a resource hog.
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QUOTE (Scheetz @ Dec 25 2007, 02:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
need more ram. At least thats what I would do.


I don't believe he could address more than 4gb without running a 64 bit version of windows. Or is that just XP?

The mobo is running the 680i chipset from nvidia. I haven't done much gaming on it yet, I'm actually installing the CoD4 demo now.
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QUOTE (Scheetz @ Dec 25 2007, 02:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
need more ram. At least thats what I would do.


I don't believe he could address more than 4gb without running a 64 bit version of windows. Or is that just XP?

The mobo is running the 680i chipset from nvidia. I haven't done much gaming on it yet, I'm actually installing the CoD4 demo now.



You running Vista? If its XP then 2gigs is fine, 3 would be better though biggrin.gif . However, if its Vista, 1gig barely cuts it, 2gigs IMO barely makes it as well.
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QUOTE (Scheetz @ Dec 26 2007, 04:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (lonasindi @ Dec 25 2007, 07:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Scheetz @ Dec 25 2007, 02:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
need more ram. At least thats what I would do.


I don't believe he could address more than 4gb without running a 64 bit version of windows. Or is that just XP?

The mobo is running the 680i chipset from nvidia. I haven't done much gaming on it yet, I'm actually installing the CoD4 demo now.



You running Vista? If its XP then 2gigs is fine, 3 would be better though biggrin.gif . However, if its Vista, 1gig barely cuts it, 2gigs IMO barely makes it as well.


I ran vista in 768mb of ram for several months without too much of an issue.
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"I don't believe he could address more than 4gb without running a 64 bit version of windows. Or is that just XP?"

32-bit OS's (Any, MS made or *nix based) can only hit the 4 gigs of memory mark TOTAL, so your system ram cutoff is usually at 3 gigs. You can get around this by allocating the remaining 1 gig to non-dedicated video ram (most bioses will set it up like this by default. I run 64 bit with 4 gigs, but something a lot of beta testers noticed back when we were testing it (I was an early beta tester) was that vista seems to by nature hog about 3/4 of whatever resources you throw at it. Its just poorly designed. Add that to the resource hog of DX10, which is ALL that Vista will run, no option for a downgrade, which would be more than welcome, considering how filled with issues DX10 is, its like they are using us as beta-fucking testers when we paid for a finished product. Ugh.

BTW, Sceetz is right, You need more ram to compliment that 8800. Wish I had the 8800, the mobile 8800 blows the the mobile 8600 out of the water. Don't go to Vista yet, though. Give it a year or so to become stable, because it fucking blows right now.
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QUOTE (Geiseric @ Dec 26 2007, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Don't go to Vista yet, though. Give it a year or so to become stable, because it fucking blows right now.


I'm telling you man, I ran vista for several months on my old desktop and haven't had any issues with it.

QUOTE (Geiseric @ Dec 26 2007, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
BTW, Sceetz is right, You need more ram to compliment that 8800.


I might get some more RAM at some point if I notice any bog, I haven't yet in any of the games I've tried out yet. I left my big storage drive with most of my games on it at my apartment when I came home for christmas, and I'm kicking myself for it.
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QUOTE (entrailsgalore @ Dec 27 2007, 08:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Very nice. But yes you should have atleast 3 GB if youre using 32 bit windows. 4 gb if youre on 64 bit.



I got the 2 gigs I have now for $20 on sale at tiger, I figure I see a deal like that again I'll pick up another 2 gigs.


that works, Im just going to wait and get 4GB of Dominator ram then OC it to like 1200MHz. 20 bucks is a deal though. Is it DDr2?
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