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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: RedTop on October 12, 2005, 06:31:39 PM

Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: RedTop on October 12, 2005, 06:31:39 PM: Well Mrs. RedTop got her a new Dog. A sweet tiny lil female Shih Tzu named Baily. She is a cute lil dog. My Dog Brinkley who is also a Shih Tzu and male will get his first try at the ying yang in a few months. :LOL

I got the approval last night since she got her new lil ball of fur. SO...This is what I plan to order from Cyber Systems. It has a couple of upgrades or so. Anyway....Looking forward to ordering it VERY soon. Then I hopefully will recieve it while I have my next long weekend and get to use it right off the bat.

WHAT DO YALL THINK?

See it here
http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/highendsys...onfigurator_top

CAS: ALUMINUM X-Navigator Server 420W W/ Window & Temp Dis,Fan Control w/ Liquid Cooling (SILVER w/ Blue, Black, & Silver Face Plate)

CASUPGRADE: 12" COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT [+10] (RED COLOR)

CD: 16X DVD ROM (RED COLOR)

CD2: SONY DWQ-28A DUAL FORMAT 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

CABLE: Round Cable Upgrade for Hard Drive, Optical Drive & Floppy Drive [+19]

FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (SILVER COLOR)

FAN: CoolerMaster Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit + 2 EXTRA CASE FANS

FLOPPY: 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE (SILVER COLOR)

KEYBOARD: Microsoft® Wireless Desktop w/ Wireless Internet Keyboard & Mouse

NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/1000 NETWORK CARD

OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional w/ Service Pack 2

PRO_WIRING: Professional Wiring for All WIRINGs Inside The System Chasis with High Performance Thermal Compound on CPU

POWERSUPPLY: Thermaltake Purepower 680 Watt Power Supply - SLI Ready

RAID: RAID-0 (DATA STRIPING)

SOFT: Microsoft® Works 7.0

SOUND: Creative Labs SB Audigy-2 ZS PLATINUM 7.1

SPEAKERS: Creative Labs Inspire P7800 7.1 Surround Subwoofer Speaker System

USB: Build-in USB 2.0 Ports

VIDEO: 2 NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

MOTHERBOARD: (Sckt939)ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIE MB w/Gb-LAN,USB2.0,IEEE-1394,&7.1Audio

CPU: (939-pin) AMD ATHLON64 FX 57 CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology

HDD: Gaming Hard Drive (10,000RPM SATA150) (SATA150 - Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache WD740GD)

HDD2: Gaming Hard Drive (10,000RPM SATA150) (SATA150 - Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache WD740GD)

HDD3: (SATA150) Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Hard Drive
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: MOIL on October 12, 2005, 10:43:38 PM: Not a bad ride Redtop,

RAID: RAID-0 (DATA STRIPING)
Make sure to back up critical data!!!

SOUND: Creative Labs SB Audigy-2 ZS PLATINUM 7.1
If your going to spend decent $$$ and get high end hardware, might as well get the X-Fi sound card instead
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: eilif on October 12, 2005, 11:32:50 PM: gotta watch the sound cards, i got a soundblaster audiology and it hacked my fr to heck.
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: Mr No Name on October 13, 2005, 12:42:32 AM: Just remember that AH does not (Last time skuzzy was asked) yet support SLI graphics, however That sounds like a sweeeeeeeeet rig.

I am running only a 3700+ 939 processor, 2gb ram 256 mb gf 6800 ultra with the WD 74 gb 10krpm drives in striped raid for gaming/OS... you should ROCK... ONE thing that does concern me is that you MUST use nvidia driver version 61.77 or earlier to avoid a stuttering problem (quite severe) In Aces High. The 61.x drivers do NOT support your 7800 cards... THIS is the only problem I see that will give you problems ONLY here in Aces High. Maybe Pyro, Hitech & co. will move on this because SLI is here AGAIN (anyone remember running up to 3 voodoo 12MB video cards in SLI mode in say 1996 to 1998????) And sooner or later more people will have version 7x nvidia cards in their machines and some of those would love to be able to unleash the power of SLI in aces high.

AWESOME system REDTOP! You are one class act in the MA and outside AH, I hope the price of this lil jewel doesnt put YOU in the doghouse sir!!!

Also, if you havent purchased the system yet, look at monarchcomputer.com, their custom systems are very reasonably priced and I know of 4 people who bought from them. they have an amazing reputation in the industry and it IS an All-American company. I only give ya this heads-up because i want to see you get the most for your $$$ and you are one of my favorite ex squaddies.

BEST of luck!
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: MOIL on October 13, 2005, 01:06:34 AM: I use the 7800 and the 78.01 drivers, they work just fine.

Eilif, I would bet $20 that the Audigy S/C was not your problem.
I have used the Audigy2 S/C since it came out and have never had a problem in AH.

I would bet it's a video or some other prob. Just a guess
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: SlapShot on October 13, 2005, 09:25:22 AM: Nice rig !!!

CASUPGRADE: 12" COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT [+10] (RED COLOR)

Going for the BLING BLING eh Red ? ... why the color RED ? ... ;)
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on October 13, 2005, 10:09:40 AM: I wouldn't recommend a raid-0 setup for gaming use. You don't need the extra i/o for games and you more than double your chances of losing all your data.
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: Schutt on October 13, 2005, 10:56:54 AM: It sure speeds up load times and gets the textures in faster.

Game data is not that important that its a problem if you loose any, download again and your back in line. On other games when you loose a saved game its not that big of a deal either, just start over from scratch you play the game to kill time anyway.
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: Curval on October 13, 2005, 03:41:39 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SlapShot
Nice rig !!!

CASUPGRADE: 12" COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT [+10] (RED COLOR)

Going for the BLING BLING eh Red ? ... why the color RED ? ... ;)

Red is going to set off those dogs (don't put yer face anywhere near 'em when they are near the computer, just ask Nuke)...go blue...it denotes COOL.
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: RedTop on October 13, 2005, 05:31:52 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SlapShot
Nice rig !!!

CASUPGRADE: 12" COLD CATHODE NEON LIGHT [+10] (RED COLOR)

Going for the BLING BLING eh Red ? ... why the color RED ? ... ;)

Matches my Tail when I fight the BK's :lol

Hi-lites my naturally Red Hair:D

Also matches my eyes after staring at the monitor playing Aces High for hours......when I do that again:lol
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: Elfie on October 13, 2005, 05:51:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by MOIL
I use the 7800 and the 78.01 drivers, they work just fine.

Eilif, I would bet $20 that the Audigy S/C was not your problem.
I have used the Audigy2 S/C since it came out and have never had a problem in AH.

I would bet it's a video or some other prob. Just a guess

My last motherboard had a VIA chipset, REMOVING the SB Audigy sound card and replacing it with a cheap $15 sound card gave me 20+ more fps.

I read somewhere that there is some sort of conflict with VIA chipsets and SB sound cards.

I am now running the same Audigy card with an nvidia chipset on the motherboard and experience no problems.
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: MOIL on October 14, 2005, 12:02:54 AM: Ahh rgr that, there was a fix for the Audigy S/C & VIA chipset issue.

The Nforce is far superior:aok

Glad to hear it's all good.
Title: This looks like the winner of "Who will I buy from" puter contest :)
Post by: BigR on October 14, 2005, 01:36:47 AM: The audigy will actually IMPROVE frame rates for most people because the sound chips built on motherboards utilize the CPU for calculations far more than the audigy does. The sound quality is sooo much better too. Built on soundcards are terrible for the most part. The new Creative X-FI is freaking awesome, and everyone and their mother should own one. It upsamples everything, so hook it up to your stereo and listen to how much better it sounds than your cd player. It’s a breakthrough in audio technology for the masses. Just a couple years ago, an upsampling D/A converter such as this would cost 1000s of dollars. If it were me buying that system, I would order it without a soundcard, and buy a X-Fi seperate, or ask them if they can install one for you. In any case, thats a pretty snazzy computer, and im sure youll love it.