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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| arama wrote: |
hey eamo, where did you get your 5xxx card from? Korea or the US?
I'm thinking of upgrading my i7 rig now (brought it almost a year ago) it has two 4870 xfire in it and thinking of getting a 5 series card (or two), and one SSD to run my OS from. Maybe a 6GB tri channel pack too... (damn there's alot of money there....) |
Are the SSD's even fast enough? I thought they had pretty disappointing transfer rates, although I haven't looked at them much in a while. |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Intel i5 750 @ 2.79ghz
Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L mainboard
2 gigs of ram (Can expand to 8 gigs max)
2 Seagate HDD: 250 GB and 500 GB
Nvidia GeoForce 9800 GT video card. 1680x1050
1 LG Super Multi drive
1 LG CD RW/ DVD ROM Drive
500 Watt power suply (don't know the name)
20" Samsung Sync Master monitor
Korean Windows 7 running in English
I can upgrade to an i7, but don't feel the need to at the moment |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Mish, you should add at least another 2 gigs of ram before you even think about doing anything else. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| arama wrote: |
hey eamo, where did you get your 5xxx card from? Korea or the US?
I'm thinking of upgrading my i7 rig now (brought it almost a year ago) it has two 4870 xfire in it and thinking of getting a 5 series card (or two), and one SSD to run my OS from. Maybe a 6GB tri channel pack too... (damn there's alot of money there....) |
I ordered the HIS 5850 from a dealer (11st.co.kr) through the enuri.com site here in Korea. 388,000. That's actually just $10 more than the same card on Newegg.com.....so for once we're not getting too ripped off in Korea.
But then again, the price in the US is a bit high right now for the 5800 series because of a short-supply and crazy demand.......when there's no supply problems and the new Nvidia cards come out in a couple of months, you can bet the 5800 cards will nose-dive in price. I'd guess 5850's will be $240 in the US by around March. Will they go down by 100,000 won in Korea?? Ha! No chance.
I've been doing a lot of GPU research recently and have been reading some interesting opinions on the tech sites.......a lot of people are complaining about the non-reference GPU's made by the Nvidia and ATI partners. We expect these cards to be better than the first version, but they often aren't. Cheaper components, cost cutting. No tolerance for overclocking.
The reference cards are made strictly to ATI specifications so they tend to have a lot more consistency and better components. After a certain period the partners, EVGA, XFX, ASUS etc are allowed to manufacture the cards any way they like. Only the chipset still comes from ATI/Nvidia.
So, the point is, the first version of any GPU will probably be the best. Buy the reference-spec card. Especially if you have the incredibly complex ability to open the overclocking tool that comes with GPU's and slide the frequency rate up a bit! Any fool can OC a graphics card nowadays.....why people wait and pay more for factory OC'ed cards I don't know. |
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arama
Joined: 28 Oct 2009
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Ah thx for that, i had heard low supply of the 5 series cards had bumped prices up. Maybe i'll wait until the nvidia cards come out and choose a gpu upgrade path then and stick with my 4870's for now.
Meh more money for ram I guess... which begs me to ask
What are some good 6GB triple channel kits. I mean high-end to stupidly-high-end stuff higher than 1333 (1600 and up), best i've found available in Korea is Corsair Dominator on gmarket (best price i found) wicked timings 7-7-7-20 sounds amazing (I've got some random samsung crap in there, good ram was too expensive when i built this system) http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=173670351 but i don't know about sellers on there, and its almost 100,000 won more than in the states.
 (sorry for thread jack op) bass or eamo, can you point me in the right direction? |
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arama
Joined: 28 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| mishlert wrote: |
Intel i5 750 @ 2.79ghz
Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L mainboard
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I can upgrade to an i7, but don't feel the need to at the moment |
it will NEVER be a REAL i7!  |
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seonsengnimble
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Location: taking a ride on the magic English bus
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:03 am Post subject: |
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I'm too lazy to clean off my desk, fire up my camera and upload photos, so I'll describe my rig and how it looks.
I've got a damson white and red case. Intel Core 2 duo 2.8ghz, ATI HD 4670, 3 gigs of ddr2 ram, a 320gig 7200rpm hard drive(I forget the manufacturer), 500watt power supply, an lg dvdrw, some cheap mother board, an imation usb keyboard, a logitech usb optical mouse, logitech ls11 speakers, and a 22inch tg lcd screen. I have also decorated the side of the computer with kart rider stickers from corner store pastries.
It's not the greatest rig, but it was fairly cheap and runs most games pretty decently. Although, I couldn't run borderlands because I needed to install some nvidia software, and then the nvidia software screwed up my ati drivers, and I'm going to have to reformat in order to get my catalyst software to work again. |
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languistic
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| Q9550, P5K, 4GB, 4850, 24" LCD, 2.5TB storage. |
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