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| Thread ID: 47505 | 2004-07-28 07:39:00 | pc build advice | bigbadsi (5942) | Press F1 |
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| 256217 | 2004-07-31 05:28:00 | so Metla......what is the price on ya doominator?? | dipstick01 (445) | ||
| 256218 | 2004-07-31 14:16:00 | Roughly 4 grand,or just over 5 with a syncmaster,speakers and OS. | metla (154) | ||
| 256219 | 2004-08-01 02:54:00 | On the MX440 bashing.. I have one, been using it now for just over a year doing normal GUI, Video and gaming. It does not excel in any particular area, but it is no slacker in any area either. It seems to be a good "middle of the road card" and I don't feel guilty recommending it for normal PC usage. Also it seems the gaming industry has adopted it as a "baseline" for the engines and I do not doubt that will change in the near future. The "game heads" do not seem to care much about anything else but the size of their MHz :D At the price the MX440 cards are at the moment buying one for a new system until you figure out what fancy card is needed is not a bad idea in my mind as it beats any on board video. |
ugh1 (4204) | ||
| 256220 | 2004-08-01 03:12:00 | There are still people out there that think the MK2 Cortina is a good handling car with excellent performance,or that the 4.1 falcon motor is a good piece of eginering.....Maybe back in 69,Times have changed. Because people don't know any better does not make them correct,and you should not be recommending the g4mx to anybody,the very lowest card worth buying is the 5700,Especially as the price difference is the equilivent of 1 game. |
metla (154) | ||
| 256221 | 2004-08-01 06:01:00 | > There are still people out there that think the MK2 > Cortina is a good handling car with excellent > performance,or that the 4.1 falcon motor is a good > piece of eginering.....Maybe back in 69,Times have > changed. Hay, if it gets you from A to B what more do you need? even with the high cost of petrol at the moment I do not see people running out to buy cars with better fuel economy, I wonder why? > > > Because people don't know any better does not make > them correct,and you should not be recommending the > g4mx to anybody,the very lowest card worth buying is > the 5700,Especially as the price difference is the > equilivent of 1 game. What is the point of spending hundreds of dollars on a graphics card that someone is only going to use for GUI and Video playback? If I had a choice to pay <$100 or $300 for a graphics card to show a desktop I know which one I would get. Also for the few times I play UT2004 the mx440 does the job. If the size of your MHz is important then spend $$$$$ on a card :D |
ugh1 (4204) | ||
| 256222 | 2004-08-01 10:02:00 | >>What is the point of spending hundreds of dollars on a graphics card that someone is only going to use for GUI and Video playback? Whats the point of spending $99 on a graphics card when the comp is only to be used for windows and video? Might as well buy a $999 Dell if your gonna restrict it to tech from 1998. |
metla (154) | ||
| 256223 | 2004-08-07 15:23:00 | Crikey, Someone has almost talked me into a 939 chipset. Future expandability, or some such expensiveness madness. This is how it goes Asus A8V Deluxe VIA K8T800Pro Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz Socket 939 Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb 673.88 512Mb PC3200 DDR400 SDRAM x2 Total: about $2,600 (Ouch!) Is this INSANE, or at all reasonable given I'm now prepared to spend some pinga. Someone please tell me that this is lunacy. Si |
bigbadsi (5942) | ||
| 256224 | 2004-08-07 15:33:00 | Oh, $2,600 includes Win XP, HD and a DVD-writer. Si |
bigbadsi (5942) | ||
| 256225 | 2004-08-07 16:11:00 | Doesn't seem outrageous, Remember what Terry Patchett, noted IT consultant and Games Fiend said on the subject. > But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who > could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry > in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would > have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have > wet feet. > This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic > unfairness. > > "Men at Arms" R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 256226 | 2004-08-07 23:03:00 | I think you have been given good advice,The intel offerings at the moment don't have any of the performance offered by that chip and are about $1400 more expensive.....and that is only comparing the cpu's. I think anybody looking at buying a new comp would do well to see if they can afford a 939 pin setup. AMD have raised the bar by a large margin. |
metla (154) | ||
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