The only bad thing about the 1GB 4870 is it's cooling fan is noisey! That thing dominates all the other noise producers (fridge excluded, but that can be turned off while watching movies) in my room. Without it, my computer and and amps are whisper quiet. The next step is going with a Thermalright GPU cooler and quiet 92mm fan.PoorManQ45 wrote:4870 is where it's at.
The 512MB card goes onsale for ~$105.The 1GB for ~$135
What did you use to OC? When using the built in ASUS tools, if I bumped up the multiplier, it'd drop my frequency.pflicht wrote:Just got an upgrade... hehe!
AMD Phenom II 550BE X2 unlocked to Quad core and running @ 4Ghz hehenot bad considering the Quad version running i think at 3.1Ghz runs about $245... hmmm
This thing is a monster. Installed Portal, cranked ALL settings to max (except resolution, which is of course at my LCD's native 1440x900) and came away with a framerate bouncing from 250 to 300fps. With portal render depth set to 9 (i.e. the game renders instances in 9 successively deep portals looking into each other before starting to draw "blanks" instead of full renders) looking into the portals cripples the framerate all the way down to ~75. Half the portal render depth to 4, though, and framerate hovers at about 110 looking into successive portals.MinisterofDOOM wrote:Posting now from my new rig.
Core i7 920 2.66 ghz9GB DDR3GeForce GTX260 (960MB)
i dont give a s*** what it does... , this is defined in wikipedia under "ricer".NismoDriver240 wrote:because they're just for looks... ricer
Dano wrote:
Biggamehit wrote:
no wonder no one on NICO can afford to keep their cars running, theyd rather build supercomputers for social networking (dont try to argue that online-gaming is NOT a form of social networking).Hoffman5982 wrote:
is snow leopard faster??krash wrote:SHUT UP. YOURE MAKING ME FEEL BAD.
Still a beast though! Just put Snow Leopard on it!
Yes, but seeing as the Covet/Vanilla M6400 is incapable of utilizing SAS drives... you might have an issue! SATA II would choke on an Zeus (Their SAS 3Gbps model chokes on itself!), since it is limited to ~300MB/s. The HDDs in the M6400 share a single SATA Phys, so you're essentially sharing that, which further limits things. Unfortunately, they were short-sighted as far as upgrades are concerned and put the HDDs on one Phys and the Optical and eSATA port on another. However, the M6400 is being phased out and will be replaced by the next model in Q4 of this year, though shipments should not be expected until 1Q/2010.PoorManQ45 wrote:I am looking for a pair of their 2.5" Zeus drives. 350MBps Read/Write, 80,000+ random IOps. That is one by itself. Imagine those in a Raid 0