Solids PC upgrade adventure

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:35 am

I fianlly summoned the courage and financial cohones to get new hardware for my comp. And ofcourse i had to make sure im set for the next couple of years out

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* AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+, 3.0 Ghz Dual Core.
* ALIVESATA2-GLAN, Motherboard.
* GeForce 8800GTS, 640MB GDDR3, Dual DVI.

And ofcourse a 650 watt PSU to run the whole thing.

The onboard GFX in the new motherboard is acually as powerfull as the one i have in now.

Faid · Post by **Faid** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:12 am

That sounds mighty tasty and mighty expensive, how much did all that cost?

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:10 am

8000 Danish Kroner

Divide by 5.6 for USD
Or
Divide by 11 ofr GBP

Almost drained out my bank acount but seing as i only pay for my City Of acount i should make it back in half years time.

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:54 am

I took me 3 dayes but ive finally tracked down and killed the last BSOD issue in my new hardware. You should think that when you spend a small fortune on a gfx card it would come with working drivers but aparently thats not the case. Not only does the Nvidia drivers for chipsets 6800 and above cause BSOD's quite consistently the enhanced asus drivers for my specific card causes theyr own BSOD crashes aswell.

DAGGERZ · Post by **DAGGERZ** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:43 am

that sounds real nice that ...i really need to do mine aswell but i need to get my bike done first.

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:03 pm

I figured out about 2 hours after posting that that i hadnt fixed the prob id just made it less frequent and there is infact no fix to my problem untill Nvidia releases new drivers for XP.

Numpty · Post by **Numpty** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:39 am

ive got same setup as above except intel 6600 dual core.

If you think the drivers for the 8800 are bad for XP you should see the shit weve been given for Vista

Krypto · Post by **Krypto** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:59 pm

if ur gunna upgrade, upgrade the gfx to the highest, ur gunna need it for the next games over the next 2-3 years.

get dis http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814133181

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:35 pm

I tryed the vista ones emidiately had to reisntall xp cus vista + 8800 drivers killed all my games. Granted i only had vista beta 2 though.

Oh and CDM the 8800 is the newest gfx card on the market with the GTX version being the most powerfull card ever produced plus you can clip 3 GTX cards or 2 GTS cards together in one machine. The card you linked is barely worthy of licking mines boots tbh. Within the next 2-3 years where gunna see new DirectX 10 games come out aswell witch curently the 8800 is the only card on the market cabable of runing.

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:25 pm

Happy dayes

. Ive gotten my hands on and cracked a full version of vista DK localization. Installed the vista drivers for my gfx card and it performs briliantly. I just need some more RAM cus vista while idling and with Aero interface turned on eats up 370 megs of ram and 410 with earo turned on. And thats when im just siting in the desktop watching the built in ram monitor mind you.

Pantho · Post by **Pantho** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:47 am

Solid, ive lost contact with my m8 that used to get me cracked software, altho i get some of the net, be nice if some1 could point me to a Vista UK cracked

Solid Rock · Post by **Solid Rock** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:18 am

I can zip the one i used and put it in an msn sharing folder for you. You still need to download and burn the vista disk though.