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# Bloomin' heck. I wouldn't even know where to begin deciphering that. I know whats in my PC, but throw a name at me and I'm clueless as to how good it is or what it does.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:15, archived)
# "KEVIN"
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:16, archived)
# TWELVE GIGARAMS AND A UNIT OF KERNEL.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:19, archived)
# *holds up crucifix*
Your vampire tits cannot harm me, human!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:21, archived)
# NEGATORY.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:28, archived)
# no I am defeated!
my feat!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:37, archived)
# what can I say?
I'm a gadget geek. As long as the gadget is not an isomething I'll probably take a look.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:21, archived)
# Ah, I'm a music geek so all my cash goes there. I thought I splashed out on a decent PC this time, but I really HAVE to update my 256 graphics soon.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:27, archived)
# if you tell me what you currently have
www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

I'll tell you if I can upgrade you for free.

I'm surprised nobody has been on my back noticing I have a little Wacom up there doing nothing ;)

I bought musics today. I'm excited but it is not released until Monday.

beta.hedkandi.com/Music/Artiste/HEDK082/Pages/default.aspx
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:31, archived)
# Oh MAN that's funky.
As for graphics... off the top of my head all I can remember is it's a 256 Radeon. Hang on. I'll check.

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT one of them apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:33, archived)
# That's what the link is for GPUZ
if you run that ( totally safe ) and post the screenie I will know what it is ( core revision, mem data rate, mem bit rate, rops or pixel pipelines. These are the important things I need to know.


Edit. Actually that's not bad. HD2600 is middle of the road but it is DX10, SM 3.0 and if you are lucky you have a 256bit DDR3 but evem a 128bit DDR2 is reasonable. XT model probably means the former. Full HD support and hdmi too. Unless you want to spend money on a 4870 ( not the 4850, that's just the DX10.1 sm4.1 version of what you have ) which will be around £170 then I'd wait a while.

The cards I'm getting rid of are excellent and technically better, faster cores. The problem is they are DX9 and SM2.0 so the result is they will blow away the *600 cards in older games, they can't actually run the newer games like Bioshock, Crysis etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:36, archived)
# So much of this means so little to me.


Edit: All I'm really after right now is to be able to play the new STALKER game with HDR, which just isn't going to happen with this card.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:44, archived)
# basically it means you have no reason
to upgrade unless you want to play crysis with all the bells and whistles turned on and pay at least £170 for the privilege.

Wait a while and ask me in 6 months what I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:49, archived)
# Tah, Pasa. I'm happy with the system on a whole (3Gig o' RAMS and a decent Intel Q6600 Quad core) just those three numbers, 256, seem to be staring at me.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:52, archived)
# all you will do
unless you spend big, is to double your memory and slightly less than double your bus bandwidth to around 50GB/s which will give you little noticeable improvement. ( even if you get 256bit DDR3 )

I'd suggest spending £25 on a good Zalman active cooling replacement ( fan ) and overclocking the shit out of it and waiting for the next big thing so that today's big things are cheap on ebay.

edit:// I'll let you into a secret, the human eye can not work faster than 25 frames per second ( it's why PAL TV is 50hz ) so if you have a card that gives you 25+ frames p/s in your games with a display on 75hz, with shader model 4 and DX 10 then you have all the current bells an whistles. You have that so hang fire. I buy this shit because I can but it means nothing more than being able to post big numbers from 3d mark vantage on overclockers.net. It makes no difference to visual gameplay.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:58, archived)
# :) Cheers for all the help and tips, fluffy. I'll keep my fingers crossed for HDR on STALKER 2 :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 3:12, archived)