Birthday Fairy has come early

[FpsSky]

Following upgrades due for delivery Friday 17th Feb ;D

	Old				New
Sky	Athlon XP3000+		>	Athlon64 3700+ (San Diego)
	128mb FX5700 AGP	>	512mb X1600 Pro PCI-E
	1024mb DDR333		>	1024mb DDR400 CL2.5
	17" TFT 20ms		>	19" TFT 8ms 700:1
	120gb SATA		>	200gb SATA2

SoS	Athlon XP2500+		>	Athlon64 3200+ (Venice)
	256mb 9550 AGP		>	256mb X1300 Pro PCI-E
	512mb DDR333		>	1024mb DDR400 CL3
	17" CRT			>	17" TFT 12ms 600:1
	80gb ATA133		>	Recycled 120gb SATA

Mrs Sky as always ends up with the best of what's left  (fairy comes late for her)
	Athlon XP2100+		>	Athlon XP3000+
	128mb Ti4600 AGP	>	256mb 9550 AGP
	512mb DDR266		>	1024mb DDR333
	17" CRT			>	17" TFT 20ms 430:1
	60gb ATA100		>	80gb ATA133

[PIPO]

Good one. This improve your ingame possibilities.

[SEABISCUIT]

OMG 3 new computers. You are multimillionaire or you just bought them somewhere in east Europe. As I gues in UK they cost fortune.
Any way you should invest more on your graphic card I think. That is really big advantage in FC.

With your rest hardware you will get around 4000 I guess. Anyway that's much better than your last card.

[FpsSky]

I had to cut a few corners spent just under £1000 sterling
Cpu should overclock to 4000+ ;D
graphics is easiest to upgrade later when I get some more money
new tft monitors where highest priority ;D

[MaNNeRz]

and he still wont be able to kill anythng ;D ;D ;D

[FpsSky]

Birthday fairy fucked up, Sapphire X1600 is a pile shit that keeps crashing , at the moment I'm using Sos's new Sapphire X1300 which runs fine

[MaNNeRz]

not fair

[LuMbErJaCk]

sos said:

not fair

That depends on who pays it ;D

[K0MPR3SS0R]

Hey sky, you try the 6.2 drivers I suppose?? I heard alot of people been having trouble with this set. Id suggest you try maybe a lower revision such as 6.1 or 5.13 which seem to run very well. That might solve your problem

Otherwise, its regular troubleshooting from that point on...

[FpsSky]

Currently using Omega drivers based on Catalyst 6.1, I'll try some older version but it seems to be a bios problem affecting all Asus PCI-E MBoards as the X1300 does the same but not all the time and it takes longer to crash. I think I'll go buy a couple of Nvidia cards on Monday

[FpsSky]

reading Sapphires forum it seems they fucked up by not including an external power connector & some motherboards (like my Asus) dont supply enough power through the pci-e slot.

Edit: Tried Ati & Omega 5.12 (5.1 doesn't support X1300) (6.1 was the original drivers I tried) and made the situation worse, now the X1300 crashes as soon as you ask it to do 3d.

Edit: Cured the problem now ;D Sent the crappy Sapphire ATI Canadian shit back and replaced them with nice Nvidia 6800GS & 6600GT, worked 1st time with supplied drivers no fucking about ;D

[FpsSky]

All upgrades now complete, got rid of all the ATI trash, final specs as follows:
Sky
Athlon64 3700+ (San Diego) (1mb cache) @ 2.2ghz
256mb Nvidia GeForce 6800GS PCI-E
1024mb DDR400 CL2.5 (Corsair)
19" TFT Samsung 8ms 700:1
200gb Maxtor 8mb SATA2
SB Audigy PCI (aquired from machine at work)

SoS
Athlon64 3200+ (Venice) (512k cache) @ 2.0ghz
128mb Nvidia Geforce 6600GT PCI-E
1024mb DDR400 CL3 (Kingston)
17" TFT Samsung 12ms 600:1
120gb Maxtor 8mb SATA
SB Live 24bit PCI

MissFit
Athlon XP3000+
128mb Nvidia GeForce FX5700 AGP x8
1024mb DDR333
17" TFT AG Neovo 20ms 430:1
80gb Maxtor 8mb ATA133
SB 1024 Live PCI

[MaNNeRz]

ic an now run FC GW CSS HL2 BF2 NFS MW RTCW-ET and uhhh oh ventrilo all in full gfx ;D ;D ;D BF2 im way impressed with and FC is still quite cool.

GRtz
SoS

[FpsSky]

Latest additions
Plantronics Gamecon1 headset for me ;D
Plantronics 90 headsets for SoS & MissFit

[SEABISCUIT]

Any way I am still better ;D