Recent content by Illissius

This may be of interest. (Unlike the Asus, it actually costs less than a GT.)

Lian-Li PC-V1000? superlanboy/P160/praetorian/centurion are also nice

Specs are beautiful, mouse is ugly. Very, very ugly.

I'll just pitch in that I'm really liking Gentoo. You have to install it from scratch, but they have a very straightforward, step-by-step guide to doing it which I had zero trouble with, and I went in knowing practically nothing (I had installed Mandrake a few weeks earlier, and removed it after...

That's plausible... do newer ATi drivers really improve performance that much (I'd assume nV's didn't get slower)? I mean, that's pretty damn impressive, if they do.

Hmm. According to AT's benchmarks, the two are very close at SM2.0 without AA/AF, and the GT falls behind somewhat with AA/AF on, but it's not a very huge difference. Maybe you should try different drivers or something, dunno, but it should probably be performing faster than it is.

I agree with most things said in this thread, but one thing is a little bit odd... From every review with Far Cry I've ever seen, the X800P and 6800GT are always neck and neck, with the GT usually faster sans AA/AF, and sometimes falling slightly behind with them on, sometimes not (I think this...

Clock speeds and memory indeed look to be identical (though one is DDR2 and the other 3), but the architecture is wildly different. 6600GT - 8x1/16x0 pipes, SM3.0, rotated grid AA 5800U - 4x2/8x0 pipes, SM2.0(b?), ordered grid AA, horrible at DX9 and bigger performance hit with AA/AF

Get the 3.4GHz Extreme Edition. It makes the Internet faster! All joking aside: - I believe, but am not certain, that the vanilla IC7 doesn't have onboard LAN. Either get a seperate card for it, or get an IC7-G or AI7. - GeIL doesn't have the best reputation. Get Crucial, Corsair, Mushkin...

Stick with the RAM, more expensive stuff is only negligibly faster and not worth the money (unless you already have an FX53 and don't have a faster processor to spend it on instead ;) ). And I don't think 6800/GT prices will come down much, not lower than $250 and $350 respectively, and the...

Well, I'm not particularly good at notebooks, but the GamePC ones look appealing, the CEN3 and 4 particularly. With a 1.5GHz P-M and Mobility 9700, it's roughly the equivalent of a desktop A64 2500+ (which doesn't exist) and Radeon 9600 Pro, which is pretty good and you're not going to get...

nVidia being faster at Doom 3 was expected and logical, as ATi's OpenGL drivers are slow (at least for the X800 series - oddly, I don't see this as much with the previous generation), as has been shown with many other games previously (Q3, COD, that Jedi game), plus nVidia has UltraShadow. With...

I don't know how much time has passed since you posted that as I have never bothered configuring the timezone for the forums, but it's definitely the right choice. EDIT - Now that my post is there, I see it's 9 hours ;).

Here's some benchmarks for you to peruse. If money isn't an object, a 2GHz Dothan + Mobility Radeon 9800 (note: it's nearly twice as fast as the Mobility 9700) would have killer performance (comparable to Athlon 64 3000+/3200+ and Radeon 9800 Pro on the desktop) while still retaining some...

Read his first post, right above the "Thanks guys". ;)