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Hoth
Guitarist
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Joined: 10 Oct 2002 |
 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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Cheshire
Hippy Kitty
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Joined: 31 Jan 2005 |
| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: |
Updating window's fixed it. I'm not sure why it started freezing to begin with, but updating fixed it. Thanks Shino! |
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Blackhand - Cheshire - Alliance
Hyjal - Hollysten - Hoard
Hyjal - Diedrace - Alliance
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Recyclables (Gun)
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Shino
Fade into this fantasy, caught in the web of time
Age: 49
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Joined: 15 Sep 2002 |
| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
| Cheshire wrote: | | Updating window's fixed it. I'm not sure why it started freezing to begin with, but updating fixed it. Thanks Shino! |
If you use IE, there are a lot of security issues, you may have had some spyware that was coming in and killing your performance to the point of freezing. MS has their own spyware killer that you can get via Windows update, so that may have been it.
Anyway, glad it's back up and running for ya.  |
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So many games... so little time
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EXP: 11590
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AGI: 1200
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Bianco & Nero (Sabers)
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Terin
Huzzah!
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Joined: 27 Oct 2003 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: |
Hey Shino,
I need to upgrade my motherboard/PCU/Graphics card to accomodate Battlefield 2 and Oblivion, but as anyone would be, I'm on a budget. What's the cheapest way I can upgrade? I'm looking for a board with a PCI express slot. I don't need the best graphics card, but somewhere in the 512 would be nice.
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STR: 850
END: 740
ACC: 1000
AGI: 710
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Magnificent Mace of 1000 Misses (Mace)
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Blackmage
Intragalactic Acquisitions Agent Mew
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Joined: 02 Feb 2004 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: |
Terin if I were you I'd get a socket 939 AMD chip(any speed) an ASUS or DFI mobo and a GeForce 6600GT. 256mb of video memory is all you really need, having 512mb over 256 is like having 2gb of ram instead of 1gb on most machines, It's there but your video card isn't really fast enough to take advantage of it. Or in the case of windows your OS can't take advantage of it. |
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Chain Saw (Saw)
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Terin
Huzzah!
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Joined: 27 Oct 2003 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:25 am Post subject: |
What did you just call me?!??!?
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HP: 2330
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STR: 850
END: 740
ACC: 1000
AGI: 710
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Magnificent Mace of 1000 Misses (Mace)
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Shino
Fade into this fantasy, caught in the web of time
Age: 49
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Joined: 15 Sep 2002 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
Blackmage pretty much gave you what you needed.
| Blackmage wrote: | | Terin if I were you I'd get a socket 939 AMD chip(any speed) an ASUS or DFI mobo |
DEFINATLY go AMD! The 939 socket is great b/c it's very flexable. It can take the 64, X2 or FX chip depending on your price range (usually lowest to highest in the order I have them).
| Blackmage wrote: | | and a GeForce 6600GT. |
Probably the best budget card out there. They pretty powerful. Not sure how they match up with BF2, but you can get them for < $120 now. If I was going for a card for Oblivion though, I would probably push up into the higher end stuff... like the 7800 if you can pull it... or even the higher midrange stuff like the 7600... you can get those for about $200ish...
The 6600GT does well on lower settings, but if you want to turn stuff up.. it starts to chop b/c it's just not powerful enough.
Check out this article for some good comparisons...
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6147127/p-6.html
| Blackmage wrote: | | 256mb of video memory is all you really need, having 512mb over 256 is like having 2gb of ram instead of 1gb on most machines, It's there but your video card isn't really fast enough to take advantage of it. Or in the case of windows your OS can't take advantage of it. |
This is very true. Most of the time the more important thing for a video card is how fast you can get to the ram as opposed to the ram itself. Pipelines are a big thing! You can get off VERY well with a 256M card.
It's not the exact example, but if you go to the CPU/RAM page of the article I sent you... you will see that 1G of Sys Memory and 2G of Sys Memory result in the same performance.
If you have a price range... we could probably help you more. |
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Shandriz
Your Death Shall be Swift
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Joined: 28 Sep 2003 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
So Shino,
Who's the geekiest of them all?
...what? it's a geek question!!
Sincerely,
U <3 /\/\3 |
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Elghinn Riknueth and Ne'Kalsa (Blades)
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Shino
Fade into this fantasy, caught in the web of time
Age: 49
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Joined: 15 Sep 2002 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: |
| Shandriz wrote: | So Shino,
Who's the geekiest of them all?
...what? it's a geek question!!
Sincerely,
U <3 /\/\3 |
Dear /\/\3,
Why, /\/\3, of course! Oh, but what does this mean... /\/\3 the /\/\3 that asked this question... or /\/\3 the /\/\3 that answered this question.
\/\/3 may never know. |
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So many games... so little time
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STR: 1050
END: 1050
ACC: 1200
AGI: 1200
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Terin
Huzzah!
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Joined: 27 Oct 2003 |
| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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END: 740
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AGI: 710
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Magnificent Mace of 1000 Misses (Mace)
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