Hello all,

Member mliv introduced me to the forums, looking forward to sharing some of my experience with you all...

My rig:

22" Acer Widescreen LCD AL2223W
Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz OC'ed to 3.0GHz
BFG GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256bit video
3 x 160gb WD Caviar SATA 3.0 in RAID 5 array (soon to be dismantled)
Apevia Iceberg 680W power supply
ASUS P5B Deluxe
Corsair XMS2 2x1GB DDR2 800

I'm sure visiting these forums will urge me to upgrade soon... any suggestions? I was thinking a bigger screen :lol:

Let me be the first to say welcome then!!

Good to see ya aboard!

This is a great site, you'll enjoy it.

If you want a bigger lcd just bring that 50" lcd tv you have in the living room to the pc room. lol

Any friend of mLiv's is...someone we need to keep an eye on.




Welcome to PCApex!

pfft. I have no accomplice. I work alone.

Quote: Originally Posted by davidryder Hello all, Member mliv introduced me to the forums, looking forward to sharing some of my experience with you all... I'm sure visiting these forums will urge me to upgrade soon... any suggestions? I was thinking a bigger screen :lol:

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You really should fix that typo in your copy'n'paste greeting T2

Quote: Originally Posted by Dex You really should fix that typo in your copy'n'paste greeting T2

You talking about this link I fixed it

Quote: If you don't already know about this little thing called Folding@Home here is some info about it. Here

Nope, hadn't noticed that. Look again

Caught the typo, I guess this site is all about building chest muscles.

Welcome, new member. Your Acer monitor is adequate, but you need to upgrade that 7900GS so you can push that monitor like it is meant to be pushed.

Thats why I signed up

I have to agree with BA, a better GPU will let you push native res properly in games with eye candy on, I remember my old 7900GS couldn't even handle 1280x1024 on some games with eye candy on full.

Welcome to PCApex davidryder.
Being a friend of Mliv - we're basically neighbors i guess....

Quote: Originally Posted by BigAkita Caught the typo, I guess this site is all about building chest muscles. Welcome, new member. Your Acer monitor is adequate, but you need to upgrade that 7900GS so you can push that monitor like it is meant to be pushed.

...push it real good.

We are talking about benching that monitor to generate some larger pectorals, right?

Quote: Originally Posted by Dex Thats why I signed up I have to agree with BA, a better GPU will let you push native res properly in games with eye candy on, I remember my old 7900GS couldn't even handle 1280x1024 on some games with eye candy on full.

Strange - I got ~118fps on Counterstrike: Source's video stress test. However I ran 3DMark06 at 1680x1050 and scored under 5000... I wonder if the switch to Vista had that much affect on performance... oh well, I was thinking about adding 2 more GB of ram and possibly a new GPU after watching how bad my pc perfomred on 3DMark.

Welcome to PCApex davidryder. Have Fun :-)

You got a good score on the Source test because its an incredibly well built engine and scales very well with older hardware (HL2 and CSS run fine on my Moms PC, a 1.8Ghz Athlon with Geforce 440MX).

Vista will certainly be affecting your gaming performance, its a total waste of time and nothing more than a resource hog with security pop-ups every 10 fricken seconds.

4Gb of RAM will certainly be useful if you plan on lots of video editing and imaging work, but I can't really see games using that much (anyone correct me if im wrong). I frequently use Avid for video editing and could certainly use an extra 2Gb!

Quote: Originally Posted by Dex You got a good score on the Source test because its an incredibly well built engine and scales very well with older hardware (HL2 and CSS run fine on my Moms PC, a 1.8Ghz Athlon with Geforce 440MX). Vista will certainly be affecting your gaming performance, its a total waste of time and nothing more than a resource hog with security pop-ups every 10 fricken seconds. 4Gb of RAM will certainly be useful if you plan on lots of video editing and imaging work, but I can't really see games using that much (anyone correct me if im wrong). I frequently use Avid for video editing and could certainly use an extra 2Gb!

I have XP Pro and Ubuntu that run in virtual machines so I can login through my laptop on different OS's. I also need IE6 to check web pages when I change/add/edit existing pages as IE7 and IE6 render HTML differently.

Running two virtual machines pretty much crushes 2GB of ram - not to mention all the other programs I run on top of that - photoshop & zend primarily.

As far as UAC in Vista - that was the first thing I disabled and it took about 5 clicks. I haven't had any problems with Vista outside of the additional resources it uses. But I think that will be moot when WinFS comes out - and besides, what's the point of buying awesome hardware and having it just sit around