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New homebuilt PC is really nice
It kicks butt !!! Everything is working at top speed,
and all my apps and games look great .. esp the games. I never saw them look this good before. I'm going through Men Of Valor: Vietnam right now, and the game is actually behaving itself. The level of respawning is minimized, and the levels actually end in a reasonable time. I got throught the under ground bunker in one try, because the Cong can't shoot through walls now. Tree cover is actually cover, and I can lean and snipe, and survive the impossible shots coming from nowhere. I also went through Far Cry with my new Wide Screen monitor, and I conclude ... :-) .... everybody should go out right now and buy a wide screen monitor for pc gaming. I'm using an ATI Theater Pro 550 pci-e X1 tv-tuner. Once I figured out the color settings, it gives excellent TV viewing. I especially like the TV-Preview page which will give me thumbs of all 64 channels detected, so that I can actually see what shows are on. That is a nice touch. Also, the X1 pci-e bandwidth has cured the audio-video sync problems I see with ALL the pci tv-tuners. Finally, the system is whisper quiet. I'm using Zalman and Artic fans-heatsinks, and temps are low and stable. case Antec SLK1650B with TruePower 480 mobo GA-K8NF-9 bundle with AMD Athlon 3700 and Kingston ddr400 ... 2 gigs video BFG GF7900 GTO Viewsonic VX2025W DVD/rw ... Sony HD ... Hitachi SATA 160 ( 2 of them ) Modem is INTEL .. a $35 one .. quiet and works backup 160 gig Maxtor IDE USB external floppy Mitsumi with card readers keybd-mouse Microsoft Internet .. clean and simple mouse is small .. good game mouse. Flight ... Logitech Wingman3d .. autodetects in every game, so no setup AV and Firewall ... McAfee Suite .. very smart. Rootkit ... Window Washer .. smashes the hidden areas and does not ask questions Scanner and printer .. I told XP to go on safari and get drivers and apps, and just walked away. Came back and everything was ready to go. Apps: switched from OfficeXP to 2003. I really like the Photo app tools. I can do anything with my jpgs. Engineering CAD apps ... look great on that wide monitor. Very sharp fonts .. easy to read. Only problem: My old system is working so well that I had to set up the new one in the spare bed room .. Hers ... and His :-) johns |
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New homebuilt PC is really nice
"johns" wrote in message ups.com... It kicks butt !!! Everything is working at top speed, and all my apps and games look great .. esp the games. I never saw them look this good before. I'm going through Men Of Valor: Vietnam right now, and the game is actually behaving itself. The level of respawning is minimized, and the levels actually end in a reasonable time. I got throught the under ground bunker in one try, because the Cong can't shoot through walls now. Tree cover is actually cover, and I can lean and snipe, and survive the impossible shots coming from nowhere. I also went through Far Cry with my new Wide Screen monitor, and I conclude ... :-) .... everybody should go out right now and buy a wide screen monitor for pc gaming. I'm using an ATI Theater Pro 550 pci-e X1 tv-tuner. Once I figured out the color settings, it gives excellent TV viewing. I especially like the TV-Preview page which will give me thumbs of all 64 channels detected, so that I can actually see what shows are on. That is a nice touch. Also, the X1 pci-e bandwidth has cured the audio-video sync problems I see with ALL the pci tv-tuners. Finally, the system is whisper quiet. I'm using Zalman and Artic fans-heatsinks, and temps are low and stable. case Antec SLK1650B with TruePower 480 mobo GA-K8NF-9 bundle with AMD Athlon 3700 and Kingston ddr400 ... 2 gigs video BFG GF7900 GTO Viewsonic VX2025W DVD/rw ... Sony HD ... Hitachi SATA 160 ( 2 of them ) Modem is INTEL .. a $35 one .. quiet and works backup 160 gig Maxtor IDE USB external floppy Mitsumi with card readers keybd-mouse Microsoft Internet .. clean and simple mouse is small .. good game mouse. Flight ... Logitech Wingman3d .. autodetects in every game, so no setup AV and Firewall ... McAfee Suite .. very smart. Rootkit ... Window Washer .. smashes the hidden areas and does not ask questions Scanner and printer .. I told XP to go on safari and get drivers and apps, and just walked away. Came back and everything was ready to go. Apps: switched from OfficeXP to 2003. I really like the Photo app tools. I can do anything with my jpgs. Engineering CAD apps ... look great on that wide monitor. Very sharp fonts .. easy to read. Only problem: My old system is working so well that I had to set up the new one in the spare bed room .. Hers ... and His :-) johns I noticed it was HERS before HIS........................ |
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New homebuilt PC is really nice
JAD wrote:
"johns" wrote in message ups.com... It kicks butt !!! Everything is working at top speed, and all my apps and games look great .. esp the games. I never saw them look this good before. I'm going through Men Of Valor: Vietnam right now, and the game is actually behaving itself. The level of respawning is minimized, and the levels actually end in a reasonable time. I got throught the under ground bunker in one try, because the Cong can't shoot through walls now. Tree cover is actually cover, and I can lean and snipe, and survive the impossible shots coming from nowhere. I also went through Far Cry with my new Wide Screen monitor, and I conclude ... :-) .... everybody should go out right now and buy a wide screen monitor for pc gaming. I'm using an ATI Theater Pro 550 pci-e X1 tv-tuner. Once I figured out the color settings, it gives excellent TV viewing. I especially like the TV-Preview page which will give me thumbs of all 64 channels detected, so that I can actually see what shows are on. That is a nice touch. Also, the X1 pci-e bandwidth has cured the audio-video sync problems I see with ALL the pci tv-tuners. Finally, the system is whisper quiet. I'm using Zalman and Artic fans-heatsinks, and temps are low and stable. case Antec SLK1650B with TruePower 480 mobo GA-K8NF-9 bundle with AMD Athlon 3700 and Kingston ddr400 ... 2 gigs video BFG GF7900 GTO Viewsonic VX2025W DVD/rw ... Sony HD ... Hitachi SATA 160 ( 2 of them ) Modem is INTEL .. a $35 one .. quiet and works backup 160 gig Maxtor IDE USB external floppy Mitsumi with card readers keybd-mouse Microsoft Internet .. clean and simple mouse is small .. good game mouse. Flight ... Logitech Wingman3d .. autodetects in every game, so no setup AV and Firewall ... McAfee Suite .. very smart. Rootkit ... Window Washer .. smashes the hidden areas and does not ask questions Scanner and printer .. I told XP to go on safari and get drivers and apps, and just walked away. Came back and everything was ready to go. Apps: switched from OfficeXP to 2003. I really like the Photo app tools. I can do anything with my jpgs. Engineering CAD apps ... look great on that wide monitor. Very sharp fonts .. easy to read. Only problem: My old system is working so well that I had to set up the new one in the spare bed room .. Hers ... and His :-) johns I noticed it was HERS before HIS........................ pussy whipped, eh? |
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New homebuilt PC is really nice
johns wrote:
It kicks butt !!! Everything is working at top speed, and all my apps and games look great .. esp the games. Congratulations! |
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New homebuilt PC is really nice
johns,
What kind of screen are you using? I purchased a dell 32 inch screen and connected it to my comp and it was almost to big. My grapics card doesn't do the tv honors. Holyhalokingdom u305617 these are some games i play. a href=http://www.gamestotal.com/Multiplayer Online Games/a a href=http://www.gamestotal.com/Strategy Games/abra href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/Unification Wars/a - a href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/Massive Multiplayer Online Games/abra href=http://gc.gamestotal.com/Galactic Conquest/a - a href=http://gc.gamestotal.com/Strategy Games/abra href=http://www.stephenyong.com/runescape.htmRunescape/abra href=http://www.stephenyong.com/kingsofchaos.htmKings of chaos/abr |
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New homebuilt PC is really nice
The 7900 allows custom settings, so I took a calculator and reduced the 1680 x 1050 to 80% of that, and entered it as a custom setting. That way, I get better readability in fonts. That is the nice thing about the 7900. I can "dial in" settings that I need, and tell the games to use desktop default. I don't know what I would do with a 32 inch Dell monitor. That sounds like a whole new challenge. I know that the Dell 9150 went to the 7900. I have 2 of them at work. I imagine the 7900 has the ability to handle picture in picture, or other amazing wonders that a 32 incher needs ... That Dell 32 cost more than my computer. johns |
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