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| Thread ID: 76114 | 2007-01-21 07:01:00 | Which Pc Is Better!!! Help Me! :mad: | meat eater (11805) | PC World Chat |
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| 517990 | 2007-01-21 07:28:00 | Well...yes you should, Though I cant imagine that would account for a 20fps differance, Especially as your PC packs a fair bit more punch. Still Its as good a place as any to start. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 517991 | 2007-01-21 19:48:00 | i have installed drivers that i got off the discs that came wth the hardware and i know hes downloaded totally up to date drivers for all his software so i should do this too? Yes!!! You'd be surprised at the difference that makes, I tried it, yes it does. And clean up Windows, turn off unnecessary services, take stuff out of startup, run it clean, lean and mean. A lot of software including parts of Windows is bloat. Make sure you have plenty of protection - 3rd party firewall, antispyware etc, a naked WinXP install will collect spyware like flies on a dungheap without any. Yours wins, I don't care who gets what framerate, you have quality hardware and he has generic unreliable stuff. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 517992 | 2007-01-21 20:38:00 | A question for Metla and Pctek. Would it not be better to have a seperate user account for games which could be totally stripped down of everything except the basic's? | plod (107) | ||
| 517993 | 2007-01-22 03:12:00 | Why 768mb ram anyway? Doesn't that mean that it's not using dual channel? Or can you still have dual channel with 1x512, 1x256? | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 517994 | 2007-01-22 05:57:00 | A question for Metla and Pctek. Would it not be better to have a seperate user account for games which could be totally stripped down of everything except the basic's? I have the only account which is stripped down regardless. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 517995 | 2007-01-22 21:58:00 | You didn't mention HDD either... I dunno about nowadays, but back when BF42 came out, a mate of mine couldn't play it with an identical spec'd machine to mine... the only diff was he had a 5400RPM HDD and mine was 7200RPM. He installed it over on his 7200RPM drive and things were fine from there on in. Possibly a difference in HDD? Not sure... just giving suggestions! | IRMoon (11746) | ||
| 517996 | 2007-01-22 22:02:00 | Or can you still have dual channel with 1x512, 1x256?Nope. | Greg (193) | ||
| 517997 | 2007-01-23 03:16:00 | Palit is actually GAINWARD, who make exceptional graphic cards, I wouldnt be surprised if it has high factory clocks. As for dual channel RAM, that wouldnt make much of a difference. I would say he has better drivers installed, and less applications loaded into memory. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 517998 | 2007-01-23 03:36:00 | Palit and Gainward are not the same at all but are now owned by the same parent company. Yes an HDD makes a difference, I found this with my IDE oldish Seagate compared with my friends new 250Gb SATA - when we both had similar other hardware. His was better as far as drive access. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 517999 | 2007-01-23 06:50:00 | well, yours should be better by a LONG shot. why did he go for skt 754? it's obsolete and it doesn't properly support pci-e! why the odd number of ram ?! purely for cost? you should get all the latest drivers for everything, turn off any unnecessary crap, and steal his 256MB stick without telling him. that'll fix it! |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
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