Considering selling and making new

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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what do u use your PC for, just gaming?

[System]

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what do u use your PC for, just gaming?

ya pretty much and I know dual core is all I need for that but I'm in the process of getting a cannon HF10 and will prolly be doing video editing and what not..

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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HD video editing will definately benefit from extra cache and also more cores (depending on the edit suite you use). Also if you plan to use Adobe Creative Suite 4 then an Nvidia card might be a better option as they offer enhanced optomizations for rendering and such(i think this is because of CUDA but not entirely sure).

[Eagle101]

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What about Hybrid cards from Nvidia, or is that just a gimmick? and the new nm chips from Intel are supposed to be power saving.

[Flt. Sgt. Powderhound]

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What about Hybrid cards from Nvidia, or is that just a gimmick? and the new nm chips from Intel are supposed to be power saving.

Hybrid SLI only applies to the low end of the market.

[=98=]

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Hybrid SLI only applies to the low end of the market.

Not necessarily. It saves power when the graphics card is in 2D mode. Although, the power saving is minimal :p

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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It would be a decent saving if you had a beast of a card like a GTX280 or a GX2. Doesnt it also shut the fans on your GPU off, quieting the system down a bit?

[Death Merchant]

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You won't see a massive improvement unless you bought a Radeon 4870 or something.

even then its like 30% improvement, its waste of time upgrading his 8800gtx unless he wants to go to a 4870x2 or something like a gtx260/280 sli

I couldnt justify a cpu upgrade either E6600 overclock usually to about 3.2ghz with no issues if you slap a third party heatsink on them, that would make it nearly on a par with the new 45nm E8xxx chips


Leave it until you can get significant gains I.E 75%-100% framerate increases

[System]

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Hmmm bak again after this discussion yesterday mornning and I'm think now would be the best time to sell when I can still get like 1200-1500 out of this rig and then sit down for a few months until the i7 comes mainstream and build a pimp rig then? It wouldn't really be too bad cuz I use my laptop more than my desktop mainly because of the freedom I have with it and the fact that it don't eat power like no tomorrow and it also plays bf2/cod4 flawlessly.. The only hinderence I'd have is not being able to use my surround sound and 46" tv I think, or I could try it out but I don't think itll work out too good...

Thoughts?

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And I already have oc'd my e6600 death merchant, it hits 3.4 ghz ez since I got it a year agp. I could prolly tweak it up further if I was really nuts about it too and using the zalman 9700 really cuts down the noise but bring the performance up. I actually think I had it @ 3.6ghz a few months after I got it and it ran ok for a while but bf2 use to crash after a duration of time because of it.. I don't even turn my fan speed up at all either - just keep it on low and its cool @ 3.4ghz.

[Hawkers]

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Video Editting Computer / Software = Apple

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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Hmmm bak again after this discussion yesterday mornning and I'm think now would be the best time to sell when I can still get like 1200-1500 out of this rig and then sit down for a few months until the i7 comes mainstream and build a pimp rig then?

Might be a good idea however it hink your asking price might be a touch high and it would be a bit unfair/unreasonable to expect that knd of money. I might be wrong i dont know exchange rates all that well.

It wouldn't really be too bad cuz I use my laptop more than my desktop mainly because of the freedom I have with it and the fact that it don't eat power like no tomorrow and it also plays bf2/cod4 flawlessly.. The only hinderence I'd have is not being able to use my surround sound and 46" tv I think, or I could try it out but I don't think itll work out too good...

If you have a DVI port on your laptop then you should able to run a DVI-HDMI cable to your TV, if your surround sound gear has pro-logic you should be able to get some kind of surround off it but because i think the signal leading to the amp will be stereo i think it will be processed surround

Video Editting Computer / Software = Apple

Whilst i would tend to agree with you and owning a mac + a mac myself i can safely say, there isnt a lot you can do on a mac that u cant do on a PC and visa versa. They do seem better for that kind of work i have to agree however im not entirely sure why.

[System]

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Video Editting Computer / Software = Apple

no thanks. I'm not a video editing professional and nor do I care to learn a totally backwards OS and convert songs to itunes. omg, apple is such a horror story to me it is my worse nightmare if I ever have to convert over to it.

Learning apple to me is worse than learning how to drive a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road back down in bermuda (they do it like the english, left hand side..).

ewww apple... eww...

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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no thanks. I'm not a video editing professional and nor do I care to learn a totally backwards OS and convert songs to itunes. omg, apple is such a horror story to me it is my worse nightmare if I ever have to convert over to it.

Learning apple to me is worse than learning how to drive a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road back down in bermuda (they do it like the english, left hand side..).

ewww apple... eww...

Lol its not backwards! i agree about the friggin converting crap tho does my head in.

And its not us who drives on the wrong side its everyone else laugh:

[Hawkers]

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Final Cut Pro. 'nuff said.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

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well not really, avid is pretty much the same thing and has been around a lot longer - you can get that on both op sys' i think.