Graphics card upgrade.

[mike8318]

before you invest in a new system.  which is the logical way to go, perhaps you should give TD a call or build your own.  it will be better than anything that you can buy at a store and it will be money well spend.

semp

Spoke to TD this evening and there will be a new system in my future. Luckily,he lives about 30 minutes away from me. Yeehaw!

[mike8318]

Have one of his Mage III's with a memory upgrade,bigger powersupply,and video card in the works. Can't wait!! Got to see his system run with WOT and it was really impressive.

[guncrasher]

nice dont forget to post pictures .


semp

[mike8318]

Should be ready by the end of next week. Now I just need to pick out a monitor worthy of such a system. Ideas?

[gyrene81]

if you can afford it, a 27in led backlit would be a good fit...if you have deep pockets, get 3.

[mike8318]

I was looking at a 27" Acer. Don't have enough room for 3 of them,yet.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I was looking at a 27" Acer. Don't have enough room for 3 of them,yet.

Do some research on input lags before you buy a gaming screen. Pretty picture won't matter if you keep missing your shots due to your image lagging behind action...

Here's a shot of some monitors and their input lags, there are pretty big differences. http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/3116/7/lg-ips277l-bn-review-lgs-latest-generation-ips-monitor-test-results-response-time-and-input-lag

[mike8318]

I wound up getting the Acer Gamers GD235HZbid 23.6" LCD Monitor - 2 ms . Was going for a 27",but I wanted performance over screen size.
 

[gyrene81]

Do some research on input lags before you buy a gaming screen. Pretty picture won't matter if you keep missing your shots due to your image lagging behind action...

Here's a shot of some monitors and their input lags, there are pretty big differences. http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/3116/7/lg-ips277l-bn-review-lgs-latest-generation-ips-monitor-test-results-response-time-and-input-lag

  all that graph shows is gray to gray response times, where are the input lag measurements? i suppose they are trying to associate input lag with response time...  might want to find a better source.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

 all that graph shows is gray to gray response times, where are the input lag measurements? i suppose they are trying to associate input lag with response time...   might want to find a better source.

Yes I noticed that myself also after viewing the graph more closely. The title is misleading. It's hard to find proper charts for input lag.

Most links seem to confuse input lag and response time. This article has some info: http://www.squidoo.com/new-monitors-gaming

[Drano]

Mike I had an identical rig that wasn't a Dell. I had a 3.4 ghz unlocked P4, 4 Gigs of redline ram, a 4670, 1GB AGP video card all on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo. I had it overclocked to the limit of air cooling and it just wouldn't cut AH at all and that was before this latest graphics update. Junk it bro. There's no shot at going any farther with that rig. It's a museum piece now.

[guncrasher]

Mike I had an identical rig that wasn't a Dell. I had a 3.4 ghz unlocked P4, 4 Gigs of redline ram, a 4670, 1GB AGP video card all on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo. I had it overclocked to the limit of air cooling and it just wouldn't cut AH at all and that was before this latest graphics update. Junk it bro. There's no shot at going any farther with that rig. It's a museum piece now.

lol mike has a new computer that most of us want .  he got it from td.


semp

[W7LPNRICK]

Build your own. It was fun & newegg & lots of other places with help you match up parts, video instructions. I did it & am pleasantly surprised most days running max settings on texture 1024.
I don't want to worry about liquid cooling or Overclocking to the point of endangering my processors... If I had a little money left I would have gotten the i5 2500K model, but I lost money on a bad power supply. I really like the SSD, now the 256gig are the same as I paid for the 128gig. Have fun!!

  4/10/2012
 MSI P67A-G45 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard


SeaSonic X-1250 1250W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

  4/10/2012
ENERMAX FULMO Advance ECA892AG-BL Black SGCC 0.7mm ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

  4/19/2012
EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support ...

  8/6/2012
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM

  8/6/2012
Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.4GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics ...

Sony Optiarc 24X DVD Burner, Bulk Package Black SATA Model AD-7280S-0B - OEM

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Good luck whatever you do. 

[gyrene81]

Build your own. It was fun & newegg & lots of other places with help you match up parts, video instructions. I did it & am pleasantly surprised most days running max settings on texture 1024.
I don't want to worry about liquid cooling or Overclocking to the point of endangering my processors... If I had a little money left I would have gotten the i5 2500K model, but I lost money on a bad power supply. I really like the SSD, now the 256gig are the same as I paid for the 128gig. Have fun!!
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Good luck whatever you do. 

*sigh* it seems your advice is a bit more than a day late and a dollar short...

Spoke to TD this evening and there will be a new system in my future. Luckily,he lives about 30 minutes away from me. Yeehaw!

Have one of his Mage III's with a memory upgrade,bigger powersupply,and video card in the works. Can't wait!! Got to see his system run with WOT and it was really impressive.

[RTHolmes]

http://www.prad.de/en/index.html
 and
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk

are good sources for monitor reviews, including input lag measurements