Author Topic: My New Gaming Rig (for < $1000) (Read 6916 times)

jitspoe · « **Reply #20 on:** January 07, 2006, 01:00:17 AM »

Got it to fit with some minor surgery. This thing looks cool. I'll post pics later.

jitspoe · « **Reply #21 on:** January 07, 2006, 05:31:40 AM »

Everything's working well so far. Paintball2 runs at 1000fps, pretty much nonstop, lol. If I do a timerefresh, I can exceed 3000fps in some areas.

agent-hwk · « **Reply #22 on:** January 07, 2006, 11:39:36 AM »

jitspoe · « **Reply #23 on:** January 08, 2006, 01:10:45 AM »

Amazingly, no problems so far, aside from the drive I tried to use from a friend not working. Hopefully it's the drive, not the SATA ports...

This thing smokes in games, though. I tried Doom3 at ultra settings, 1280x1024, and it never went below 60fps... 'course it stayed at like 63, so I think there's something capping it somewhere. It the console, it'll got to 4000fps sometimes, hah.

Eiii · « **Reply #24 on:** January 08, 2006, 02:49:40 AM »

Doom3 at 60fps? Sign me up.

ukm · « **Reply #25 on:** January 09, 2006, 03:15:11 PM »

Doom 3 (and quake 4 incidentally since it uses the same engine) caps game updates at 60/sec, so it caps the FPS at that as well since you'd just be rendering duplicate frames and wasting processing power if you went above 60. It might actually be 63 I'm not sure if thats a bug in the FPS display or they actually capped it at 63 but shrug.

jitspoe · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2006, 06:24:19 PM »

Carmack should have done what I did.

Though it gets pretty convoluted and I'm still working out bugs. :\

ukm · « **Reply #27 on:** January 10, 2006, 03:05:14 PM »

Yea I really don't know why they hardcapped it in the engine, I guess so that people who have amazing rigs and can run the game at amazing framerates don't have any sort of advantage :\ How did you do it in DP?

jitspoe · « **Reply #28 on:** January 10, 2006, 05:46:01 PM »

I've decoupled the framerate and packet rate, so it only actually sends packets at a specified rate, otherwise it "pretends" to send them, in order to allow you to move between packet sends. It also sends packets immediately upon input (such as key presses), so you wont screw up your jump timing and whatnot.

jitspoe · « **Reply #29 on:** January 16, 2006, 01:32:06 PM »

Back to the main topic:

Some more goodies just came in. I didn't like the fans that came with the case. They were noisy and had 3 different colored lights. I got a bunch of blue fans instead. I also got this cool looking thing that monitors the temperature and has fan voltage control and stuff. A also voided the warranty on my power supply because I'm modding it to make it transparent.

I don't know why it is, but all the cool looking power supplies are cheap, and all the high-quality ones are bland, and, well, the mod was a buck or two, so I figured "Why not?" Now I just have to get the guts to cut the wires to the power supply fan and solder on a new one...

Also, I decided I'm gonna go all out and get the best gaming mouse: The Razer Copperhead. With all the sniping necessary in new games these days, my old MX500 just isn't precise enough.

XtremeBain · « **Reply #30 on:** January 16, 2006, 07:36:27 PM »

Post some pics of your old case please

They're always such a treat to see.

Eiii · « **Reply #31 on:** January 16, 2006, 08:48:14 PM »

Pros:
Tracking quality
Light
Grip
Shape
Slick feet
Buttons and mouse wheel <- It having buttons- Definitly a pro.

Cons: Side buttons are hard to reach
Durability?
Learning curve <- Mice are so hard to learn how to use...
Price

jitspoe · « **Reply #32 on:** January 17, 2006, 01:11:31 PM »

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Learning curve <- Mice are so hard to learn how to use...

Well, I touch it and it shoots across both screens on my system... Considering it's 5x's as sensitive as a traditional optical mouse, that's a valid concern.

I got the mouse, by the way. I haven't had a chance to play with it much because I've been "tricking out" my new case.

By my old case, do you mean this?

jitspoe · « **Reply #33 on:** January 23, 2006, 01:03:26 AM »

I must say I'm really impressed with this machine. I'm glad to have an nVidia card again. Not only does everything run fast and look nice, but it's stable. It has yet to crash, even after a good 24 hours of gaming.

It certainly helped me kick arse in the CCGA F.E.A.R. tournament:

XtremeBain · « **Reply #34 on:** January 23, 2006, 06:01:18 AM »

Quote from: jitspoe on January 23, 2006, 01:03:26 AM

I'm glad to have an nVidia card again.

I can wait until this day returns for me

I'm having the worst experience with the Radeon 9550-256MB card I bought to replace my fried Ti4200-128MB. I can no longer achieve a solid 60fps even in PB2 @ 1024x768 without frequent hiccups and if I have firefox or photoshop open and using >70MB RAM(of 768MB) I can expect framerates dipping into 30s most of the time.
This was amplified when I was using Linux as my operating system, and as result I had to switch to WinXP just so that PB2 was playable.

Oh, btw what does CCGA stand for? Is that LAN at the same place DPCON was held or didn't that place close down?

S8NSSON · « **Reply #35 on:** January 23, 2006, 07:46:29 AM »

http://www.carolinagaming.com/game_info.asp

jitspoe · « **Reply #36 on:** January 23, 2006, 12:01:00 PM »

Or http://www.carolinagaming.com/news.asp -- the game info page is really outdated as they've kinda quit updating it.

nXe · « **Reply #37 on:** January 23, 2006, 09:29:13 PM »

Quote from: XtremeBain on January 23, 2006, 06:01:18 AM

Quote from: jitspoe on January 23, 2006, 01:03:26 AM
I'm glad to have an nVidia card again.
I can wait until this day returns for me
I'm having the worst experience with the Radeon 9550-256MB card I bought to replace my fried Ti4200-128MB. I can no longer achieve a solid 60fps even in PB2 @ 1024x768 without frequent hiccups and if I have firefox or photoshop open and using >70MB RAM(of 768MB) I can expect framerates dipping into 30s most of the time.
This was amplified when I was using Linux as my operating system, and as result I had to switch to WinXP just so that PB2 was playable.

Oh, btw what does CCGA stand for? Is that LAN at the same place DPCON was held or didn't that place close down?

Get a 6600 GT 128mb. Best value card i've ever purchased ($140 these days?) Plus, it's an nVidia -- yeah I'll admit I'm a nVidia fanboy...

TM · « **Reply #38 on:** February 05, 2006, 02:38:08 PM »

I ordered my new PC 2 days ago! Nothing amazing, Athlon 3200+ 1GB RAM, DVD Dual Layer Burner, basic graphics and sound. For £450 thats quite good and compared to my current P3 1Ghx and a measly 256mb RAM that is constantly crashing it will be a lot faster

I'm looking forward to it

.

XtremeBain · « **Reply #39 on:** February 11, 2006, 01:05:31 PM »

Quote from: TM on February 05, 2006, 02:38:08 PM

I ordered my new PC 2 days ago! Nothing amazing, Athlon 3200+ 1GB RAM, DVD Dual Layer Burner, basic graphics and sound. For £450 thats quite good and compared to my current P3 1Ghx and a measly 256mb RAM that is constantly crashing it will be a lot faster I'm looking forward to it .

Do you know what graphics card specifically?