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what can I say?

I'm a gadget geek. As long as the gadget is not an isomething I'll probably take a look.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 :)

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Ttssattsr, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 3:12, archived)