What do you people game on?

[Sidiouss]

Just curious on what some of you game on.

Me.

Core 2 Due e6600 OC'd to 3.4
EVGA 680i Systemboard
EVGA 8800GTS 640mb
2GB OCZ Memory


22" wide monitor.

[Sol]

Just curious on what some of you game on.

Me.

Core 2 Due e6600 OC'd to 3.4
EVGA 680i Systemboard
EVGA 8800GTS 640mb
2GB OCZ Memory


22" wide monitor.


core 2 duo e6300 @ 1.8
asus p5nsli nforce 570 sli chipset (not overclockable -bad choice)
2gb ram
evga 8800 gts 640mb

20" gateway widescreen @ 1680x1050

I was doing some fraps tests.... when you encode the vids and compress them, how do you do that? I tried using autoGK and using virtualdub. tried divx and Xvid. i got errors. I think they are related to trying to compress a 1680x1050 .avi? but not sure....

[Warcaster]

Dell E1705 laptop
Centrino Core Duo
2GB
nVidia 7800 Go

[Sidiouss]

Easy. Buy fraps. Windoz movie maker. I then save to my computer and make the app choose the best quality.

Also have fraps save the video at 1/2 the size.

[Sol]

Easy. Buy fraps. Windoz movie maker. I then save to my computer and make the app choose the best quality.

Also have fraps save the video at 1/2 the size.

you open the video in windows moviemaker and then choose compression and can you also specify what resolution you want for the video?

thanks, I will try using MS movie maker tonight. :)

i struggled mightily trying to use autoGK and virtualDub... honestly i think they are overkill for what I wanted to do. They are made for like ripping and compressing DVD's and people's anime collections.

[Shizma]

Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 3600
1.6 ghz fsb 1 gig ram (gimp!)
Radeon X1600
17" flatscreen w/wireless mouse and kb.
Audigy silver 5.1 sound

Kind of gimp for a home-build. Myles has the hawt setup.

[Mylen]

Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 3600
1.6 ghz fsb 1 gig ram (gimp!)
Radeon X1600
17" flatscreen w/wireless mouse and kb.
Audigy silver 5.1 sound

Kind of gimp for a home-build. Myles has the hawt setup.


It's because he loves me.

Intel Pebtium Dual 2.66GHz
Radeon X1600/X1650 Series
2 gig ram
17' flatscreen wireless mouse

[Sol]

Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 3600
1.6 ghz fsb 1 gig ram (gimp!)
Radeon X1600
17" flatscreen w/wireless mouse and kb.
Audigy silver 5.1 sound

Kind of gimp for a home-build. Myles has the hawt setup.

shiz, another gig of ram for your box would cost about 10.00

why have you not upgraded to 2gb yet? GO GO GO! its a big performance increase.

low framerates and stuttering due to caching are your enemies. they cost lives!

[Softadin]

Dell XPS Pentium D 2.8 Duel Core
2 gigs 533 ram
GeForce 6800 256MB
19inch flat panel

Logitech mx 518 mouse
Nostromo N52 gaming pad thing

showing its age a bit and wasnt the best at the time, but i got a good deal on it and zero financing, so its worked pretty well for me. can run wow full settings easy enough.

[Shizma]

Aye, this I know. I be a tight arse from time to time. I'm hoping for electronic goodies from the missus.:scared:


shiz, another gig of ram for your box would cost about 10.00

why have you not upgraded to 2gb yet? GO GO GO! its a big performance increase.

low framerates and stuttering due to caching are your enemies. they cost lives!

[Mylen]

Aye, this I know. I be a tight arse from time to time. I'm hoping for electronic goodies from the missus.:scared:
Guess that was a hint on what he wanted for chrismas, about time too.

[Sol]

Guess that was a hint on what he wanted for chrismas, about time too.

RAM saves lives.

[Maelc]

I game on my puter. It is kool. Itza DELL XPS gaming monster but since it is 3 years old I guess it be outta date. As you can tell while I could look up the technical stuff I am more noob than expert when it comes to computers. :nervous:

[Byomage]

Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 5500+ at 2.6 ghz
3gigs Ram
x1650pro vid card 512meg
17" Dell monitor (freebie)

Plays really well. 60+fps in Org, 45+ in Shat

[Shizma]

Byomage is disgusting. He needs to tell the story about the 17" flatscreen :)

[Byomage]

LOL the story might not be that unusual to our IT heavy membership.

1. Buy new Dell hardware for your employer. A lot of new Dell hardware.
2. Sweet talk kind account rep into throwing in 17" flat panel upgrades for yourself and your boss.
3. Give boss his monitor.
4. Misfile paperwork on yours.
4. Acquire free stuff.


I know, I know. I'm a dirty thief. :suspiciou Just don't know how I live with myself.... oh and this was when 17s were hotness. Now I just need to wrangle some big LCDs...

Dell rox... as does CDW. So much swag and freebies!!!!

[Softadin]

i am wanting to go with a dual monitor setup. wow on one, email and chat on another, though i have never really used 1, so i dont know if that would work right or not.

[Sidiouss]

i am wanting to go with a dual monitor setup. wow on one, email and chat on another, though i have never really used 1, so i dont know if that would work right or not.
that would work fine. just run wow in window mode

[Gorrack]

What Sid Said

AMD64x2 4200
4G RAM
MSI 7900GTX 512
ASUS SLI Delux board
SB Audigy2 card
Creative Labs 7.1 Surround Sound speakers
Samsung 22 inch WS monitor (will have this later this week)
19inch viewsonic regular screen

Bult this Rig in Summer 06 while I was home on leave durring deployment.

[Queprur]

Pentium 4 - 3.4GHz over clocked to 3.8GHz
1 Gig RAM
ASUS P4C800E Deluxe
nVidia 6800 GS - 256 Meg - AGP
Audigy 2
Logitech Z-5500 Digital Speakers
Gateway 21" Widescreen

I've had this system for... almost 4 years now with only minor upgrades. I'm thinking it's time for a major overhaul. :)

[Ryndstrum]

Moving to the new Penryn based Quad whenever Intel releases the desktop version. Not so much to upgrade for performance, but to turn my current rig into a dedicated media center PC hooked into the main TV. Until then, running this:


Dual Core e6600
MSI P35 Platinum
2 GB Corsair memory
eVGA 8800 GTX
Assorted junk (Raptor 150 GB Hard Drive, X-Fi soundblaster, Blue-Ray/HD-DVD combo drive, Logitech G7 wireless mouse, Microsoft natural keyboard)
30" Widescreen Dell for main (2560x1600), 20" Widescreen dell for 2nd, rotated 90 degrees, -almost- lines up perfectly (1050x1680).

[Gorrack]

holy crap rynd, thats a LOT of LCD Realestate!

[Phrog]

commadoire 64 with optional cassette tape backup, uber 2 button mouse, and 64k of Ram. Whats this videao memory you speak of?

[Softadin]

commadoire 64 with optional cassette tape backup, uber 2 button mouse, and 64k of Ram. Whats this videao memory you speak of?

u need a special boot disk to access it

[Raban]

commadoire 64

Noob! I have a Commodore 128D with an external floppy drive AND a plug in modem!

It makes good Strip Poker.

[Warcaster]

I think my old TRS-80 Color Computer II is still floating around somewhere. I sold my TI-99-4A to buy it. The TI was @ 25 years ago......

[Gorrack]

I am sure the Apple IIe Super Wozniak edition is around somewhere.

it had 2 count em 2!! floppy drives... AND a color monitor.. thats right, who's bad

[Sol]

I want to get this for NG.... but she keeps saying she'd rather not get any computer parts... blasphemy!

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202892776&adid=17653&dcaid=17653

[Shizma]

That is hotness Sol, and for good kern! Time for an executive decision IMO :)

[Fayadin]

i would think that would increase her healing by at least 3% that might be quiet worth it. well if she does not want it i will humbly take it instead :):)

[Ryndstrum]

A friend picked this 24" up from Office Depot, loves it. And it's only $32 more (provided you don't mind mail in rebates): http://www.officedepot.com/textSearch.do?uniqueSearchFlag=true&Ntt=599355

[Myrcaus]

Powermac G5 Dual 2.7GHz
4GB RAM
ATI X800XT
1 20" widescreen center monitor
2 17" side monitors


ROR. =)

[Warcaster]

Powermac G5 Dual 2.7GHz
4GB RAM
ATI X800XT
1 20" widescreen center monitor
2 17" side monitors


ROR. =)

You need more memory. And a rearview monitor -- at least 24" I think ;)

[Myrcaus]

You need more memory. And a rearview monitor -- at least 24" I think ;)

It only holds 8GB! I need the new one so I can install 16.

I was thinking of just adding more side monitors until I'm surrounded.

[Shizma]

It only holds 8GB! I need the new one so I can install 16.

I was thinking of just adding more side monitors until I'm surrounded.

Would be HAX for F16 Falcon Flight SImulator!

[Raban]

I wasn't real thrilled with my machine's performance when I was running multiple apps. So after a little research I found an "optimizer" program on the AMD website that optimizes your OS for AMD dual cores. You can find it on the AMD webpage. It made quite a difference for me.

[Byomage]

I tried to grab the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer, and the installer faulted out. :( Wonder if that app would really help...


EDIT: Run as Administrator is your friend... now to check improvements.

[Gorrack]

i am gonna try that at home Sabs. I havnt seen any decreased performancein my rig, but hey, every little bit helps.

[Raban]

I'd quit using FRAPS cuz...12-15fps in pvp is bad mmkay. I tried it again last night and it was running smoothly. I've also noticed that when I'm running WoW, ITunes, FRAPS and some system monitors it's all running smooth as silk. It appears that the two cores seem to be playing nice and sharing much more than they did before. Of course, I wasn't graphing it but I've yet to see one core peg out whilst the other is having a sammich.

[Potpie]

Mobo: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon FX-62 Dual Core, runs at 2.8GHz
RAM: 4GB of DDR2/400 (PC6400)
Video: Two BFG Tech GeForce 8800GTX-OC in SLI
Audio: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
Disk: Two Western Digital 320GB SATA/300 in RAID-0
Optical: Two LG SATA Super-Multi DVD Rewriters with Lightscribe
Power: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad (black)
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit edition
Display: Dell 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD, native 1920x1200
Mouse: Logitech MX1000
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard



Edit:
And a highball of Scotch! ;)