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Originally posted by inark

Mine cost me under 2k and that includes a 19" Flat and Ti4200... :D  

If ur in Melbourne and wanna upgrade... buy ur parts from MSY.

where and what is msy?

is the Ti4200 the card that retails for $800 odd

and i have to say that the AMD kicks ass to the P4 for games!:shake:

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Originally posted by INASNT

where and what is msy?

is the Ti4200 the card that retails for $800 odd

and i have to say that the AMD kicks ass to the P4 for games!:shake:

dont make me post all the reviews and comparisons by most game/hardware sites :D

nah the Ti4200 i got retails for about 330 for the 64MB card (leadtek price) for the XFX card which is the one i got its about 295.... clocks very easily to 4400 speeds and with some extra cooling u can go to 4600 speeds... those cards cost 800

MSY is in Malvern....

***edit

Here INASNT -

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/artic...&aid=481&page=1

read it.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Back again.. :)

Just a little info on the Sparkle card that I looked in to and bought.

It clocks with mem cooling to ~580mem and 330core i think it was.

You do need a new heatsink on the core but, the core doesn't make a huge difference to speed it is mainly the mem so 300core with std heatsink is pretty safe.

Also the card is an exact copy of Nivida's reference board.

The 128MB Sparkle Ti4200 was when I bought it $350.

It uses the Samsung 4ns ram which is good quality ram.

Good value.

Also again.. Don't get the 64mb version it will run slow with the new games that require 128mb of onboard vid ram.

Other wise it will use the AGP aperture that is obviously slow(er).

Just like trying to run Mohaa on a 32mb gf compared to a 64mb GF.

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  • 2 weeks later...

P4 1.3Ghz

384MB 800MHz RDRAM

60GB Primary HDD

20GB secondary

8x Iomega CDRW (shut up, its old, but bloody reliable) :)

Hercules Game Theatre XP Sound card

21" Silicon Graphics Monitor (cost me 300 bucks, bargain or what?)

Creative GeForce2 GTS 32MB (soon to be replaced by a 128MB Radeon 9000)

MS Intellimouse Explorer

Panasonic 52x CD-Rom

Panasonic floppy drive

MS Sidewinder force-feedback Wheel and pedals

full surround sound speaker setup

3Com 10/100 NIC

WinXP Pro

PC #2

P3 800MHz

256MB SDRam

10GB HDD

Creative Labs DVD drive (6x) with DXR3 hardware decoder (TV out plugged into TV, audio out plugged into 5.1 surround sound system)

Built in VGA and sound (only use the sound from the decoder card though)

15" monitor (5 years old and still going strong)

Win98SE

Thats about it for this one, I just use it to play movies which it does very well.

PC #3

P3 450MHz

256MB

16GB HDD

DLink 10/100 Nic (connected to cable modem)

3Com 10/100 NIC (connected to switch)

Creative Labs TNT2 video card

12x CDRom

Modded case (painted it really cool, cut hole on side, neon light inside) (pics here )

no soundcard

no monitor

Win2k Server (this is my net server. Runs as a firewall/router as well as storing some of my files that I really should burn to cd...)

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hehehe my system owns you all...

PII 350

ASUS Motherboard (Supports SDRAM, Onboard Raid n shit)

ASUS 3400 Deluxe vdieo card (S Video + Composite Video In & Out)

SB Live

SB16 (yes 2 sound cards)

80GIG HDD

6 Gig HDD

3 Gig HDD

24x CD Writer

36x CD Reader

Infrared port

56 K Modem

Dirty MS mouse

Dirty Acer Keyboard

Canon IXUS V Digital Camera

17" Monitor

Runs Win2K

Does all my graphic design work.

Don't get me started on the SGI machine with the 22" Sony Flatscreen monitor + 4 Sony 6" peripheral TFT screens (used to put toolbars, file browser, photo catalogue, other images onrespectively) I used to have at my old job :)

Yeah I should get a new PC, but this one does the job, and I'm savin up.

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