Throbble's New Computer

[420]

Here are the specs on Throbble's brand new computer:

CPU: Intel Core 2 E8400 (3.0 GHz, 1333 FSB) w/ Dual Core and 6MB cache
RAM: 4GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800 MHz
Video: EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+, 512 MB DDR3, PCI-E 2.0x16
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
HD: 500GB NCQ SATA (7200 RPM) w/ 16MB DataBurst Cache

And then all the other unimportant shit including a new all-in-one HP printer.

Not counting the printer or monitor (didn't get a new one) the total came to: $1649.09 USD

-420

[Mo]

Nice box! Enjoy it.

[420]

Spent a few hours last night watching Throbble play Bioshock at 1280x1024 with no lag whatsoever. The graphics are really amazing, especially the fire and water.

Throbble's comment was, "Hey, I'm actually good at this game when I can see what's going on."

-420

[Mo]

heheh now you need a 24'' 1900x1200 display

[Soul Sojourner]

heheh now you need a 24'' 1900x1200 display

Nobody needs that except movie pirates and porn addicts.

Ha, 420, I know what you're saying. My fiance' hasn't been trying to run anything as graphical as Bioshock, but the specs on the computer she was running were absolutely terrible. She had a hard time playing Gaia and games with SNES graphics quality. I built her a rig for Christmas from some of my old computer parts and some new stuff from Newegg and what she said about Gaia was very similar to what Throbble said about Bioshock.

That's a nice rig, anyway.

[cuchulann]

Shiny! 

Heh i felt teh same way about Bioshock when I upgraded my vid card from a 7300 to an 8800. Made a big difference when i got the 20 inch widescreen too.

[Mo]

Nobody needs that except movie pirates and porn addicts.

pfft.  Who are you calling a porn addict?

[Soul Sojourner]

pfft.  Who are you calling a porn addict?

People who need 24" widescreen monitors?

[Mercy]

Don't worry Mo, we who possess the 24" Monitors only watch porn half the time.

[Meclar]

yeah half the screen while the other half is the video game

[Tyrael]

Yeah, that happened to me with oblivion when i went from ati 9200 to x1900gt, when i passed from x1900gt to geforce 9800gtx+ didnt notice much change except that i could run games with AA and AF.

i have kinda the same setup exept my quadcore is amd but dont remember the numbers, my graphic card says 9800gtx+ 1gb but when i check in dxdiag, it says the graphic card has 1907mb of memory o_o.

The only thing i have to change in my pc is the HDD, i only have 2 160gb HDDs and both getting full so yeah :0.

[Tea-cup]

pfft.  Who are you calling a porn addict?

People who need 24" widescreen monitors?

2xA4 fits on it, it's portable, 15" 1900x1200.  Excellent for taking notes during a meeting if you aren't a blind mole.

But to be honest, I'm just a pixel junky.  And you'd be too if you saw how fallout 3 looks like on this screen.

- Mel

[420]

And you'd be too if you saw how fallout 3 looks like on this screen.

Is 1900x1200 "widescreen" and do you get more peripheral vision when you are running widescreen in Fallout 3? I always assumed widescreen in computer games would be like widescreen on TV, same picture except everyone looks squat and fat.

-420

[cuchulann]

I got more perhiperal on HGL when i switched from the old CRT to a widescreen. Even the old NWN has a resolution setting to correct the aspect ratio on a widescreen so I would expect Fallout 3 to have one.

[Mo]

Ya you would get more peripheral vision with a widescreen.