Computer Jargon

[Whiplash]

i use q tracker now to find games (mainly so i can see where my mates are playing)

my pc's not that happy at the moment so i don't play too often

[Madaz]

yeah lol this thing always loads me in last and sometimes i timeout and have to recon for it to load quick enough

[Cubes]

Thats one nice thing about 4gb+ ram and vista's superfetch.

A lot turn it off but I've found it noticeably improves level loading as well as general windows loading that firefox, thunderbird etc.

[Madaz]

morn Joel

[Madaz]

any one getting GRID by codemasters pretty realistic drifting

Simon does this bring back memories

its available on Steam for $39.99us

[PREISS]

that looks nice man.

what sorta frames u gettin on that GRID game.

[Madaz]

there not screenshots from my game i get very playable frames at 1280x1024 high detail

[PREISS]

nice.

played crysis on high ? very demanding.

i play it on medium. still looks real nice and decent frames.

that with a 8600gt. 512mb.

[andz]

play more COD4 steve

[Madaz]

i get bored of cod4 too many suspects

[Cubes]

My young lad plays GRID at 1680x1080 with the 8600GT fairly well.

[Madaz]

Do you have retail or still demo

it looks like the DD version will be 10gb

at least i will have someone i can beat

My young lad plays GRID at 1680x1080 with the 8600GT fairly well.

[Cubes]

The demo.. $40 isn't bad.. worth while grabbing it.

lol for a 3yr old he's actually pretty damn good. He's really getting the hang of it.

The problem is now I hear from the back car seat; Dad...... do a burnout. The other day out of the blue he stood up while waiting in the car and said to a bloke in his old loud v8 VH... do a burnout.. do a big loooooooooong one.

Must be something in the blood.

But what he really gets in to is MotoRacer3. Going to have to take him to the dirt bikes when they are in Adelaide. I saw something on the tv the other night so should be good.

[Rolls]

Thats one nice thing about 4gb+ ram and vista's superfetch.

A lot turn it off but I've found it noticeably improves level loading as well as general windows loading that firefox, thunderbird etc.

I've got 2gb of ram and agree it really is nice, however is it noticeable better with 4gb? I'm considering upgrading but only if it will net better performance.

[Tangles]

The problem is now I hear from the back car seat; Dad...... do a burnout. The other day out of the blue he stood up while waiting in the car and said to a bloke in his old loud v8 VH... do a burnout.. do a big loooooooooong one.

lmfao

classic cubes, classic

mine wants to live on "boost"

on topic, found a new ageia physx card for 90 from usa, got a space pci slot so why not lol

last pc mod tho - Ive resigned from my job so no cash as of next month

[Cubes]

I've got 2gb of ram and agree it really is nice, however is it noticeable better with 4gb? I'm considering upgrading but only if it will net better performance.

With 2gb I found the hard drive chugged a lot more and when dropping out of games it wasn't as instantly smooth.

The price of ram these days why not.. Initially I was disappointed with vista and 2gb of ram; dropped 4gb in and it felt considerably smoother especially in Crysis and hungry games.

[kralster]

i went from 1 gig to 3 gigs with vista and while it loads a heck of a lot faster, vista is already using all my ram, pain in the arse really. but like cube's said it isn't constantly accessing the hdd anymore.

my pc is about over 3 years old now so it's almost time for a whole new build.

[Madaz]

mine is younger and im hearing that tune

i went from 1 gig to 3 gigs with vista and while it loads a heck of a lot faster, vista is already using all my ram, pain in the arse really. but like cube's said it isn't constantly accessing the hdd anymore.

my pc is about over 3 years old now so it's almost time for a whole new build.

[kralster]

yeah it stinks. And at the time i spent about 350 bucks on my MB at the time, it's a top of the line (well was top of the line) asus A8N-SLi deluxe, one of the first boards to run the nforce SLi chipset. has everything on it, dual pci express 16x ports, 8 sata raid ports, 8 onboard usb ports, and i've never even upgraded the cpu even once. and now the socket and chipset are useless. I'm used to the days where i'd at least upgrade the cpu once before i had to buy a new mobo.

So SAU do you think it's worth going DDR3??? or am i better off with DDR2 and just overclocking that sucker??? i also think i'm gonna go back over to intel. It'll be my first intel based pc in about 8 years as well!!!

[Madaz]

my last pc's mobo was $450 and CPU was like $600 now heaps cheap to build and gfx card was $1000

DDR3 is too expensive for what it does atm