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    Default Re: This Is Not A Pimp-My-Rig Thread

    From what I've read neither AMD nor Nvidia is going to introduce a new architecture for their vidcards this year. So what will be happening is clock increases, die shrinks, maybe sticking more cores onto a board. Nothing Biblical.

    Take a long look at the 4870 and the 260, 'cause that's basically what we have for the year.

    (Also, I would like to throw in my vote for stepping back from the I7, and going with an LGA 775 chip instead. Big money savings, no performance penalty.)

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    (Also, I would like to throw in my vote for stepping back from the I7, and going with an LGA 775 chip instead. Big money savings, no performance penalty.)
    Ouch. That hurt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    Ouch. That hurt.
    If I may be pardoned for hurting you further: Not only will an LGA 775 board be cheaper, and not only will a Core2Duo or Quad be cheaper, but you can populate your motherboard with DDR2 instead of the much pricier DDR3. Once again, cheaper with no performance penalty. The only reason to go with an I7 is if you have plans to swap out the proc withing the next two or three years.
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    Default Re: This Is Not A Pimp-My-Rig Thread

    Wait, have you already bought the I7 components? If so that's not a big deal, and you have the option of upgrading your proc in a year or three, which is great. There's nothing wrong with the I7, and a lot that's fantastic. I'm only throwing this info out there in case you've yet to buy the parts.

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    I've already bought'em, sire. Although the current rig somehow feels like there's something clogging up the flawless performance (such as more RAM, a better GPU or newer HDDs), I'm fairly pleased with what i7 can do.

    This is the first time in my life that I can (almost) max out settings in games like Company of Heroes, HL2 (yeah it's oldened a bit but hey) or Colin McRae Dirt.

    Thanks for your precious concerns.

    Btw, should I go with changing my current OS (XP SP3 32-bit) to better benefit my rig? Say, Windows Vista or XP 64-bit ?

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    Well, the next logical step would be to move to 6 gigs of RAM rather than 3 (I7 is optimal in multiple of 3, so a move to 4 or 5 gigs is out of the question), and taking advantage of the Windows 7 64-bit demo. You could fill the time between now and May 5th by finding and downloading Vista 64-bit drivers for everything and popping them onto a disc.

    I would also recommend keeping your current XP install, perhaps creating a new partition for Win7, or slapping in a new HD for it. Should be good fun all the way around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
    From what I've read neither AMD nor Nvidia is going to introduce a new architecture for their vidcards this year. So what will be happening is clock increases, die shrinks, maybe sticking more cores onto a board. Nothing Biblical.
    That mirrors my fears, and going by the current rumours about doubling the ALUs and what not I'd guess even wirth a DIE shrink they're going to use even more energy and will come with 3 or 4 slot thick cooling solutions.

    What surprised me a bit though is that from what I've seen, Nvidia cards are a tick faster and use a tick less energy overall, plus the additional physics and mathematics abilities and I'd clearly say go NVidia if it weren't for Whacker's scary stories which mister Whacker might want to comment on here as well just to be sure.


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    I am hearing a lot of rumours about the Radeon HD870, which will be a .40nm DX 11 card possibly with up to 1280 shaders (up from 800 with the current gen), and the rumours are saying July announcement.

    I think this is credible, and will be about the same time as the 800 series AMD chipset.


    If you wanted to buy right now on the budget discussed above i'd get the following:
    AMD PII 945 socketAM3 - 180 GBP
    AMD 790GX m/b - 110 GBP
    nVidia 275 GTX - 270 GBP

    If you were buying in August i would suggest:
    AMD PII 955 socketAM3 - 180 GBP
    AMD 800 series m/b - 150 GBP
    AMD HD870 series GPU - 270 GBP
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