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quote ParanahJoe

Well giving her my 8800gt as in selling it to her but I'll pay the difference of the 3870 that will be on her bill I'd obviously sell her the 8800 cheaper cause it's not exactly new anymore and I cant get what I originally paid for it the day it came out. But I'd only think of running crossfire later on down the road when this one card wont cut it, if I do go with the 3870. I keep reading that the ati card has better quality but I dont think I'd ever notice it personally. I game on twitch sensitivity so shit would be blurred to the max or I'd just move by it so fast I wouldn't have time to stand and observe the quality anyway.

If I don't go with the 3870 then it'll be a smaller gpu cooler purchase for this 8800 then. I hate the size of the Accelero even though it works so well passively.

First post!

Now its time to feed and nurture the thread. We should be potty training it in a few pages, then it will graduate, then eventually die of old age and a new one created. They seem to grow up so fast..


ok, back on topic..

Will your sister even use the full power of the 8800? Or do you do what I do sometimes, and when someone in my family needs a new computer, give them some of my old parts?

Well my technically my sister wont need all that power but my nephew will certainly benefit for using it for his games. He sees nothing wrong while gaming on my socket a computer that has a quadro 2 mx gpu in it. But he told me that he'd like to play call of duty 4 and some of the new titles so he'll definitely need something with power. If it's not really necessary I was just going to slap a 7600GT in it and buy a new gpu cooler for my card... that was the main reason I was going to swap it with the 3870.

But that reminds me, what dx10 card is on par with the 7600GT? It could be a bit more powerful doesn't matter. It's just I cant really come to any conclusions after reading benchmarks and it's hard to find one that pits the 7600 against one of the next gen cards in terms of performance.

Well basically on par with the 7600GT would be a 2600XT or a HD 3650 w/ DDR3

I see your coming potentialy back to the bright side of life with ATi. I knew you would come around. Although I can't recommend that you get a 3k series card right now unless you go all out and get the 3870x2 because from what I've been reading the 4k series isn't far off. Might want to look more into this though, I would but I'm no longer in the market for any video card I need a new mobo and cpu first but I think im going to wait for Socket AM3 unless the new B3 Phenoms (April) are good.

PS: AMD is supposedly slashing their prices on all AMD X2 and Phenoms (also Semprons) in early April. Might see sub-$200 quads although they will have the TLB Errata.

i agree and hope that the am3 socket willget amd back in the loop so to speak.
now i have a question:
how do you get the thumbnail images?i have tried and failed.
i use imageshack but cannot get the thumbnail right.

This is how I do thumbnails:

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[img link=*full sized image*]*thumbnail image*[/img]

so i replace the *thumbnail image* with the link from imageshack?and leave everything in the brackets the same as you listed?

To get this:


I used this:

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[img link=http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=motherboardinsideofcasenx4.jpg] http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1523/motherboardinsideofcasenx4.th.jpg[/img] [/div]

On imageshack, I think you can just use the thumbnail for forums 1, and just change out the URL part to [img link].

ok i think i got it. thanks slayer

quote The Slayer

To get this:


I used this:

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[img link=http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=motherboardinsideofcasenx4.jpg] http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1523/motherboardinsideofcasenx4.th.jpg[/img] [/div]

On imageshack, I think you can just use the thumbnail for forums 1, and just change out the URL part to [img link].

is that you're board if so what's with the 24 pin power thing not plugged in

theres no psu there either

Crap, I've been running my computer this whole time with out a power supply?!?

Following your PSU link and than the other link to calculator from there:

That calculator is really quite accurate. It got my Wattage @ full load within 10% (it said 371W PSU) My system uses about 341-350watts at full load. So I've concluded that its good at telling you how much power you will use rather than what you should buy. I'd say add 100-150W (minimum) to whatever it suggests so your not maxing out the PSU at all times

Interesting calc though.

Well I just realized that my anchor links the guide are messed up now . I'll have to fix that later.

And where did you get the PSU calculator link?

In THIS thread in Annonymous' reply

Heres the link for PSU Caculator Surprisingly accurate at measuring full load wattage.