newuserlol
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i got the same i think? one tb hardrive,8mg of ram,qaud core,some kinda graphics card, but i spilt so many drinks on it half the keys dont work lol
The UK Growers Thread!
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The Yorkshireman
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From personal experience I'd have to advise you against crossfire mate, I had one of the first ever properly working crossfire machines and had it for about 6 years.
This case, PSU and HDD's are whats left.
Crossfire and SLI isn't what it's cracked up to be believe me, it's actually a borderline gimmick.
Your best off with the most powerful single chip card you can afford and with that HD6870 your not far off on the power front.
imcjayt
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hooked on badcompany 2 atm waiting for call of duty ghosts and bf4 in november to come out.....hence upgrading cards lol
The Yorkshireman
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And what's that supposed to mean?
imcjayt
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me browinlaw got bulldozer and hd 7 series crossed in his pc think cos him a few g to build but he had to have topspec everything tho just to show off.....
The Yorkshireman
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7 series is a choice (depending how far up the range) but he's failed on the Dozer, cheap 8 core architecture that can't single thread for shit.
It's crap for gaming, the i5 pisses on it and even a good spec dual core i3 will show it up in the same price bracket.
Bulldozers are budget and midrange, top spec your looking at a hexacore i7 with a Z77 mobo and just those 2 will set you back around £500
The Yorkshireman
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You can get a regular HD6870 dual fan model and flash it with the black edition bios, the only difference between the two cards is the bios software overclock settings.
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thats socket 754, mines am2+ or 3 if i use my ddr3 ram,, thanx tho man, if u come across a power supply would u let me know plz, well that and a sata burner, im just gunna bite the bullet and switch to intel wen harvest comes in, sell my currant cpu n shit, but for now i cant be doing with al this freezing n shit, u know typing and then looking at screen and after 5 seconds ur writing comes up, sumtimes my dvds act like thers no disk in drive, my light on my mousepad flickers and shit dont get recognised wen i plug em into usb, os think its fo sure power related, just dunno how deep down the power issue has gone,,
ya get me? lol
nice n shexy!
imcjayt
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ill have a word with me bro he usualy got lots of bits lying about.....
thats socket 754, mines am2+ or 3 if i use my ddr3 ram,, thanx tho man, if u come across a power supply would u let me know plz, well that and a sata burner, im just gunna bite the bullet and switch to intel wen harvest comes in, sell my currant cpu n shit, but for now i cant be doing with al this freezing n shit, u know typing and then looking at screen and after 5 seconds ur writing comes up, sumtimes my dvds act like thers no disk in drive, my light on my mousepad flickers and shit dont get recognised wen i plug em into usb, os think its fo sure power related, just dunno how deep down the power issue has gone,,
ya get me? lol
nice n shexy!
imcjayt
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yer reason i had it was to overclock but dont think ill need to....
You can get a regular HD6870 dual fan model and flash it with the black edition bios, the only difference between the two cards is the bios software overclock settings.
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bazoomer
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Yeh, I tell the mrs that very same story !, that or chicken soup .
yeh i been looking at the crosshair formula boards, but like i say im fucking AMD off and going intel, tie to grow up i reckon and get the good shit rather than mediocre amd shite,
and overclocking is really unessecery, the grpahics cards are way ahead of game production so liek isay,, no need really
and overclocking is really unessecery, the grpahics cards are way ahead of game production so liek isay,, no need really
The Yorkshireman
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Well the black edition bios core clock is 50mhz faster than the stock giving about a 10% performance gain (which is a lot when your counting frames per second).
The black Edition card is about £50-£60 dearer than just the dual fan one for 50mhz more clock speed, you can flash it for free.
But you can actually rewrite the bios text file before you flash it to what ever stable clocks you know the card will do.
I know those cards will push 1000mhz core (maximum the ATI drivers are programmed to take, they'll need to fix that next year!) and about 1150mhz ram.
This plays COD in 1080p across 6 monitors at a solid 80fps with the eye candy whacked up, providing the rest of the machine can keep up of course.
That's a massive performance gain for free that would normally set you back about another £100 from the factory.
Think about it.......
imcjayt
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i just like the look of the crossfire having 2 cards more than anything.....me browinlaw waiting for this 3d shit to come out now then he usualy sells me his stuff cheep wen he has new....fuking tight cunt never gives it me tho.....and he got 2 of the fukers.....dunno why.....fukin pc nuts