ALL GAMERS!!! GO HERE NOW!!!

you gonna give us a link or do you want it here? and what good will motherboard driver version and the like do you? is a 1.33ghz with version 1.5 mobo drivers powerful but version 1.4 isnt? anyway:
AMD Athlon Tbird 800 o/c 945 (105*9)
Asus A7V rev1003 with 1.07 BIOS flash and build 33 promise drivers
256MB PC133 CAS2
Maxtor 45GB 7200RPM ATA100
ATI Radeon 32MB DDR
Sound Blaster Live MP3+ 5.1
D-Link 10/100 NIC w/ WOL
Toshiba 40x UDMA
Plextor 12/10/32a IDE

do i win a prize now?

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P4 1.4
Intel D850GB mother board with latest drivers & bios
512 mb pc800 rdram
usb ethernet adapter
3dfx v5 5500
Promise ultra ata 100 IDE controller
Hitachi dvd rom
Sony cd-rw 8x4x32x
IBM 14 gb HD Ata 100 7200 rpm
IBM 13 gb HD Ata 100 7200 rpm
iomega zip 100 (ide)
creative soundblaster live
Altec Lansing ADA-305 speakers
Generic 17" monitor
and of course the old floppy

I have at&t @home cable. I have one ip with a netgear router & hub with a couple more systems.

So what about you, what are your specs since your asking everyone else for there's.

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Here is may strictly gaming rig..

MSI KT7Pro - A
Amd Duron 750@900
Leadtek GeForce2 Pro
128mb PC133
Onboard Crap Sound (I used headphones so it's not too bad)
20GB ATA100 Drive
Using Via 4.29 Mobo Drivers

Running a Cable Modem.



If you take a truth and follow it blindly, it will become a Falsehood and you a Fanatic.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Pettytheft on 05/01/01 12:38 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

I have A7V with 28 build ata/100 controller, but downladed build 33, what does build means and how did you flash the conroller in order to get biuld 33 ata/100 BIOS? My computer seems to suck compairing to yours:
AMD Athlon T-Bird 800Mhz
Asus A7V
448Mb pc133 of CAS2.5 RAM
Maxtor 30Gb hard drive (7200rpm and ata/100)
SounBlaster Live! Value
CardExpert GeForce2 MX Golden Sample 32Mb video card (overclocked from 175/166 to 250/250 that gives NO less then 60fps!)
3D surround Spekers and Samsung Syncmaster 955df flat 19inch monitor! If anybody wants a new moniotr GET 955df!!!!
The Antipop OYU WON A PRIZE!!!!! Right now you can go to the nearest computer store and buy a game for NO more then $50!! And you can ship to my house for NO more then $15!!
Enjoy the prize!

AMD 1.2 GHZ Athlon(266)
Biostar M7MIA w/ DDR & latest drivers
ASUS Geforce2 GTS PRO 32mb w/ Detonator 3 drivers(ver. 1080)
40GB Maxtor HD 7200RPMs
@home internet
256MB of DDR RAM
Some Generic 8X DVD drive
4X4X24 HP CD-Writer

This is silly but here goes

Duron 600@950
A7V rev 1.02 bios 1008Beta Promise 35
512MB PC133 Cas2 Crucial
64MB GeForce2 Ultra 11.01 Drivers
20GB ATA100 7200RPM Maxtor
Linksys NIC + cable modem
SBLive Full
H+ DVD Card
10X Acer CDRW
4.8X Toshiba DVD
450Watt Enermax PS
17" KDS Monitor
DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks Speakers
Logitech Mouse
Microsoft Keyboard


Back off man, I'm a scientist

hey bubba, are your speakers the digital kind? if so, do you hear noise interferance on them, because ive heard that a lot of people do with digital cambridge SW. i have the non-digital 1500's or something like that and they kick ass.

also, whats your guys' highest 3dmark<b>2001</b> scores on 1024x768 32bit color? Mine is 3014.

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Yes, they are digital with a DD 5.1 reciever. I hook the reciever to my SBLive (full with the daugher card) using the Digital DIN cable. And I hook the AC-3 port from my Hollywood+ DVD card to the AC-3 port on the reciever. So when I play games or listen to music the sound goes through the sound card. When I watch DVD movies, the sound goes through the H+ card and I get true 5.1 DD.
I must say, I really love it.
People say that the subwoofer on that setup is not very powerful, but I have already been busted several times by my neighbors in the next apartment for it being too loud so I don't think I could really get anything more powerful than that.

As far as distortion or interference, no. I had pretty bad crackling problems with the SBLive and the socket7 VIA chipsets but since switching to the A7V and the KT133 chipset, I haven't had any problems.
You probably shouldn't take my word for it because I am biased, but honestly, I have yet to find a set of computer speakers that sound as good as mine.
I really love my sound card / DVD card / speaker setup. I plan to keep it as long as possible. And I don't plan to upgrade my motherboard anytime soon because I hear there are problems with the SBLive and the new VIA chipsets. I just want to get a 1.3GHz 200FSB chip. Other than that, I don't plan to upgrade for a long time.

Back off man, I'm a scientist

I've had distortion with my Altec Lansing. It wasn't the speakers though. I suppose they could have better shielding, but all I needed to do was plug them into another wall outlet. I'm not sure if it has to do with grounding or bad wiring, but one of the plugs at my place sucks. Now they're perfect, although nothing near the setup Bubba has. I have a stereo system for that.

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Ah....you mean distortion can be caused by plugging monitor into bad walll outlet? Are you sure? I have speakers next to the monitor. Should I try to move subjects away from the monitor and plug it into different wall outlet?

No, it's not 256+128+64, it's 512-64! I thought everyone knows how to get 448Mb...

So how is your cable modem service tweaked?


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"I was goin to ask the same myself?? How did you do that."

go to www.speedguide.net, they have a bunch of stuff you can do to make your connection faster. The patches they have basically tweak the windows registry to optimize it for faster connections. This helps all windows platforms, but especially the win9x series. By default windows is not optimized for broadband connections. Once I applied the patches, I saw about a 20% increase in speed according to the bandwidth meter on msn.com.

"Also why did you pay the extra cash for ECC ram? All that speed and you buy the slower ram. How come?"

I wasn't aware that the ECC (error correcting) RAM was slower, where did you get this info.? I bought the ECC because I use my computer as a server for other computers I have. ECC RAM is great for this as it can free up your memory once it is not being used and seems to be more stable if there are problems. I have 4 64MB modules at $65 a pop for a total of $260. When I bought this about a month ago, it was cheaper than buying two 128's of the same caliber and not much difference in price with the regular PC-800 RAM.

thanks for the info. on the ECC RAM, I was not aware of how it exactly worked. I don't see 3% as a "performance hit". When you are talking nanoseconds, 3% is unnoticeable.

that is a good idea, I will try it out and let you know.

As for the 12xx drivers, I have downloaded them but not installed them yet. It seems when I use nvidia's drivers over the Asus drivers, the machine doesn't seem to work as well. But maybe this will be different. I will try it out tonight and let you know on that also.

Hmm, I've read somewhere that people use different driver for certain games. I know the 12xx is supposed to be good for D3d on the p4.
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This is where I get all my drivers from. Also check out there forums here alot of folks post on the effects of different drivers.
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If you take a truth and follow it blindly, it will become a Falsehood and you a Fanatic.

HOW HOW HOW AND HOW DO YA ALL OVERCLOCK SO HIGH???? I have FOP38 which is a powerful HSF (I have thermal paste Arctic Silver 2), but can't reach even 950Mhz with my 800Mhz Athlon!!! I don't wy am I so unlucky!!! I always get low quality core...by the way does anybody know if I want 1.2Ghz processor should I wzit until next year(don't need it yet, but will get like on Cristams )cause I know prices go LOW in summer (I can buy now 1.2Ghz Athlon for only $140!) For CardExpert GeForce2 MX Twin View what Golden Sample what is the best driver??? And if 6.50 proved to be the fastest why would they make others? features? I don't think people care about them... I gotta know all that stuff! Do I need to upgarde my Video Card until next Christmas(I need just 30fps for games)? I need to KNOW!!!

OK I'm in
ASUS CUSL2-C 1006-A
P3 550E@869 air cooled 158 fsb
256mb Infinion@158 Cas2
Creative Annihilator GTS2 32 mb 240/380 12.10 driver
Aureal Vortex2 3.12 driver
52x CDROM
Creative Modem
Floppy
Western Digital 10 gig 7200 rpm ATA66
17 in. Sony Multiscan 17se1 BNC5 connector
3279 3DMARK2001 default settings
Labtec 5 speaker Surround


I aint signing nothing!!!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by rick_criswell on 05/09/01 08:14 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

1.33AthlonC AXIA Week 12 running at 152FSB 10.5x for 1596Mhz, aircooled Delta80mm/Swiftech462.

Asus A7V133 mobo rev 1.04, braziliantech 1005X bios. Via4in1 4.29
Herc. GeForceUltra64Mb, DVI/S-VHS. Det vers. 12.01
768Mb Hyundai PC133CL2
320GB 4 x Maxtor 80GB UATA100 5400RPM on Raid10 for 150GB useable.
Win2K SP1, fully patched.
Coolermaster ATC201, with uprated Sunon fans, 450W Enermax PSU and 2 x Coloolermaster CoolDrive.
Yamaha 16/10/40 CD-RW IDE
Hitachi 6x DVD
Sony Floppy Drive
External Maxtor 80GB Firewire Drive
HP970CXi Deskjet
aDSL 1.6Mb single user service behind Linksys Cable Modem/aDSL router (3 PCs.)

Internal 11Mbs Wireless LAN setup plus 10/100 Switch.

Pete.

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2.6 Ghz Intel E6600 Dual-core
1 x 300 GB Seagate HD, 1 x 200 GB Maxtor HD
EVGA 8800 GTX 786 MB
4 GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
22" Acer Widescreen LCD
600W Antec Power Supply

Have any of you guys tried playing Crysis yet? Because it really looks like you guys are using really low-end computers...

Zombie thread ungunguhgungubhg groarorarar chomp chomp

lets consider the possibility that we have just travelled back in time to 2001... OMG YOUR COMPUTER IS FAKE, theres no way it can be that fast, 8800GTX where'd you get that from your ass?


thank you and goodbye

*wanders back down to the basement, mumbling obscenity's

A bit after the Making of this thread, i built one of my most expensive machines. Witch i doubt ill ever surpass than number.

Athlon XP 1500+ (Palomino Core)
3x 512mb SDRAM PC133
MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition
Western Digital Special Edition 80Gb ( Still my boot disc, freaking fast for a ide HDD)
Yamaha 16x10x40
Chieftec 450 Watts (Case and PSU, Think the good old classis Antec i think)
Voodoo 5 5000 128 VRam ( i had this one before, still works, just no drivers )

Windows XP Pro (A nice "final beta" that came around about a month before release)

oh the memories.

EVGA 780I Motherboard
Q9300 Quadcore Yorksfield processor running 3.0ghz
4 GIG OCZ RAM
EVGA 9800GTX Videocard Latest drivers running 1400 X 900 resolution
Running raid 0 using two 500gig Barricudas
650WATT OCZ PSU
Windows VISTA HOME PREMIUM 32 bit

Thinking about selling my 9800GTX and getting the 4870 Radeon card. I Not sure yet. I am still doing a little more research on that card.

I hear the Hercules Kyro II is going to dirty AND mop the floor with the ATI Radeon X9900X2S and the Nvidia HDG4Ti, there's going to be so much flames for these cards to overheat in the graphics forum..