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Thread ID: 47076	2004-07-15 06:05:00	Buying a gaming beast...cont	Bigb88 (5876)	Press F1

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252487	2004-07-15 09:15:00	> Good night all, maybe except KIKI :-), nah just > joking, thanx all for your guys input. I am highly offended by your comment. Right from the start I knew you wouldn't be making the most of your money. The fact that you just ran for DTC and ordered a system, then following the advice of one person wasn't the best idea. DTC is not the best shop around in my books. Kiki has put a lot of time and effort to help and yet, you don't seem to make any reference in appreciation. "nah just joking"? I can't take a joke? Well this is no joke. Why did you target kiki? I must say I agree more with kiki. Please remember PressF1 is a user-friendly site as stated in the rules. You may want to refer to it seeing as your new.	~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
252488	2004-07-15 09:20:00	Guys guys guys.....sure he could have waited a bit longer and got newer this and faster that but we all know that technology doesn't stop and what is hot today is crap tomorrow. So he's got no choice but to buy the system that suits his needs best at the present time. RAID 0+1: Seriously we all know that RAID 0 should not be used for mission critical data and if it is you should be employing some external backup. RAID 0 + 1 is not much better. OK if one drive fails you can rebuild the data and you're sweet. But if one drive writes faulty data, it is mirrored to the other. So really for the price of an extra two HDD's you are only protecting against one drive failure....not sensible IMHO. Far better to use RAID 0 only for non important data like games (which you can easily reinstall) or video editing (where you still have all source tape/DVD) or music etc. Just don't keep your financial statements on it without a reliable backup. Realistically, some serious money and a better system could have been made for less money. But as he indicated it was not the right time and not in his interests to attempt a build. So given that he hasn't done too bad at all really, cut him some slack.	Sb0h (3744)
252489	2004-07-15 09:21:00	i really cant be bothered debating this tonight, but there is nothing wrong with socket 754, AMD have commited to providing new chips for a long time to come, bar dual channel ram socket 754 has everything else socket 939 has they even use the same chipset. Skt 754 might not get the fastest chips straight away but eventually they will get faster and faster chips. If moneys not an object then wouldnt RAID 5 be a better optoin Kiki? Or is that beyond your level of thinking. Read one article and then treat it like the bibel. Have you actually ever used RAID? Last time i checked Philips use the Apeture grill, and at the end of the day CRT are the gamers choice for a screen. LCD's are gettin better but you still cant beat a CRT for gaming. Could you please provide a link to a LCD with response time of 10ms that 17' or bigger and cost under $1000? We're talking about a quality brand aswell not CMV or sum crap brand like that. You could buy PCIe or you could wait for dual core CPU to arrive. You can wait forever for something to arrive, sometime you just have to bite the bulllet. AGP is going to be around for ages anyway. Perhaps you havent noticed but there arent actually any chipsets that support PCIe for AMD64. Nothings expect for atleast another 3months.	Pete O'Neil (250)
252490	2004-07-15 09:28:00	Not what you asked for but the Samsung Syncmaster 172x 17in LCD is fine for gaming and has a response time of 12ms, but it ain't cheap...$1000 last check and a healthy back order queue as well.	Sb0h (3744)
252491	2004-07-15 09:35:00	No No Kiki claim LCD's with 10ms response times were avaliable, $1000 ant exactly cheap either.	Pete O'Neil (250)
252492	2004-07-15 09:40:00	No definately not cheap, but nice to have the extra space and it's a drop dead sexy screen. :)	Sb0h (3744)
252493	2004-07-15 10:36:00	> If moneys not an object then wouldnt RAID 5 be a better optoin Kiki? Or is that beyond your level of thinking. Read one article and then treat it like the bibel. Have you actually ever used RAID? Meh. Raid1+0 would still be faster. He's a newbie, such logic and expensive equipment would be wasted anyway. > Last time i checked Philips use the Apeture grill, and at the end of the day CRT are the gamers choice for a screen. LCD's are gettin better but you still cant beat a CRT for gaming. Could you please provide a link to a LCD with response time of 10ms that 17' or bigger and cost under $1000? We're talking about a quality brand aswell not CMV or sum crap brand like that. Really? Ok well the one he has chosen is not apeture grill (www.ascent.co.nz). If you want apeture grill you will have to pay for it (www.ascent.co.nz)! > Last time i checked Philips use the Apeture grill, and at the end of the day CRT are the gamers choice for a screen. LCD's are gettin better but you still cant beat a CRT for gaming. Could you please provide a link to a LCD with response time of 10ms that 17' or bigger and cost under $1000? We're talking about a quality brand aswell not CMV or sum crap brand like that. I saw it a few months ago on some review site. Though I can't remember if they were combining the rise and fall time for the 10ms. Use google, I can't be bothered looking. Definitely not fiction either. You seem unable to have a decent discussion, but rather turn the argument into personal attacks right from your first post. Oh well I can't be bothered with people like that. They can go back to school and learn how to spell properly.	kiki (762)
252494	2004-07-15 10:58:00	as other have said............ not the most upgradeable system but it is so kick ass that you wont need to for a good long time anyhow.... have fun with the new toys.	robsonde (120)
252495	2004-07-15 11:59:00	>Should be pretty good but who knows how long AGP will be around for now. All manufacturers stopped producing AGP cards q2:2004.... make way for pci express!	willie_M (5608)
252496	2004-07-15 12:15:00	Utter Bollucks,	metla (154)
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