Recent content by Nick P!

Things look pretty good but you really need to reduce the filesize on your background image. ~330K is a bit much... Other than that, very nice.

I wouldn't bother with the 960. A 930 is $200 or less and can easily be overclocked with no additional voltage to 3.2 (even with HT and Turbo you reach 2.9 GHz).

4.0 runs just fine with HT turned on. I was hitting temps into the high 50s/low 60s at 4.2 w/ HT. I don't think that's too high, but in the winter with the heat on, my ambient temps are pretty high (24-26C) so a delta of +35/40 is a bit much.

I was trying to get 4.2Ghz stable with HT on but I couldn't so I removed HT (for testing) and dropped down to a stable frequency. I have it on now at 4.0.

Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 GHz EVGA x58 SLI LE BFG GTX 260 (216) @ 590/2000 MHz 6GB G. Skill Pi Series DDR3 PC12800 @ 7-8-7-24 Corsair HX850 850W We can use 3D Mark Vantage: http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9498/cpuscore3dmark.png For reference...

Last night the server was pretty busy. Nightblade and I were in there for a couple hours.

I've been using a Razer Death Adder (3500 DPI) for quite some time now. I love it. It feels great in your hand (lol) and performs well.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/30297-nvidia-geforce-gtx-480-review-32.html I don't know about you, but +13% on average with +19% minimum is a pretty hard pwnning. Even the 470 gives you about 10% better performance than the 5850...

You won't notice much of a performance difference in games with an SSD. If you're putting Windows on it, things will feel speedier but as for raw FPS, there won't be much of an improvement. I still think it's too soon to get an SSD for games as the price/space ratio is too large.

Howcome you're getting 2x 4850? For $160 each or $160 in total? If the former, you might as well buy a 5850 since you won't have to deal with crossfire scaling and you also get better 'future proofing', with the option for crossfire 5850 in the future. I would also say get the Prolimatech...

I game at 1680x1050. I have a GTX 260 and it does its job well, but in some of the 'hardcore' graphical games (Metro 2033, Crysis, etc) it can slow down at times. If I had to choose today and only had a budget of up to $350, I would go with a GTX 470. You can get one for as little as $350...

A good trick is to rite "birthday present" on the box.

Rofl That is almost the same machine I have: Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 GHz | EVGA x58 SLI LE | BFG GTX 260 (216) @ 590/2000 MHz | 6GB G. Skill Pi Series DDR3 PC12800 @ 7-8-7-24 | Corsair HX850 850W I paid about $1500 in total (with taxes, shipping, etc).

Halo Reach looks very interesting. Battlefield BC2 is awesome, better than MW2, although less easy mode and more 'o i haf 2 aim & not n00b tube everywhere' Aside from those two games, there isn't anything that interests me right now...