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Messages - philo-sofa
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« on: February 06, 2012, 04:22:58 am »
I do need to update these, however not much has changed no. I'd grab the ~$500 HD 6970 given that most modern 6950s aren't unlockable, but that's about it TBH.
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« on: February 03, 2012, 02:37:08 pm »
why do the mods act like they are the big dick playahs Giant wedding tackle mainly. Also sometimes shows up members (pun!) as having no sense of irony, which is mildly entertaining.
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« on: February 03, 2012, 01:35:02 pm »
Is it ok to discuss Mavs in here ? They are apart of BF3 No. The thread is for BF3 spam, FFS why does that need explaining?
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« on: February 03, 2012, 12:22:28 pm »
Nah, you need a second person to lock with the 3rd seat to do extra damage. But if you are alone you can just switch to guided and it locks the vehicle, then fire. Its useful to do a double hit with guided and the main gun. But if you have a 3rd person they can lock the tank while you shell it with main gun, then you can fire the guided (which will do a top down attack which does more damage) then the 2nd person can bail and repair your tank. Not experiemented with CITV much; does the lock last long enough for the 2nd person to paint air vehicles, bail and Javelin successfully?
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« on: September 29, 2011, 01:23:25 pm »
Monpepe chucked up a brief performance link, it basically said >4GB made no difference at all with BF3, so you should be schweeet camy 
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« on: September 27, 2011, 10:54:20 pm »
Yeah, if building new with RAM prices why not. Else just wait, if BF3 does (surprisingly, as Xeno says) need > 4GB then just whack another 4 in there at that point.
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« on: August 28, 2011, 03:31:07 pm »
28/08/2011 - Minor edit to move all SSDs over to the Crucial m4 (cheers to 5loth and others for bringing up the true extent of growing issues with Sandforce-based drives), and to avoid memory which doesn't like Sandy-Bridge or isn't rated to run at its 1.5v (cheers to Aquila for that suggestion) as well as move to schmexy new large 27" monitors, new power supplies (welcome to the NZ PSU market proper OCZ!) and a few other tidy ups and price updates.
Have some fairly severe doubts about Bulldozer if I'm honest, but all will be revealed soon... if AMD don't push back release again.
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« on: August 22, 2011, 08:50:19 pm »
I don't really see the need ever for RAID 10, with the exception of a very few apps like video conversion and SQL etc? Unless you go the whole hog with a ZFS file system you seem more likely to lose your data even with mirroring! Love the Revodrives too seems a pity we have to choose between those kind of speeds and a third GPU tho - one thing X79 might bring is those kind of speeds (via four striped drives) with three GPUs.. not that that's an honest RL dilemma for me sadly lol. There's a $50k PCIe SSD thing on a server at work. AFAIK it's 1.3TB of SLC with a > 150,000 IOPS - I imagine stealing it quite often...
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« on: August 22, 2011, 07:56:47 pm »
Unfortunately by the nature of these things, we'll have to wait till they've been on the market a while before any given SSD can be assumed to be more reliable than another :/ Even if it's the best drive evar for reliability wise it'll take a while to prove itself (firmware wise in the case of the Kingston). It does seem that the issue with the current drives may be that 25nm NAND - if so the Vertex 3 Max IOPS (and for that matter the Kingston you linked) should be pretty solid. Till that's confirmed one way or the other I'm thinking Intel 510 and Crucial m4 series (same controller) drives will take the place of SF-2000 drives completely. As for RAID 10 - the issue isn't throughput it's latency SSD's offer <0.1ms latency vs ~12ms for hard drives. If you're interested I rabbit on about latency vs speed in the first few paragraphs of my old Vertex 2 review.
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« on: August 22, 2011, 02:57:30 pm »
They're broadly comparable CPUs - the Intel is a little faster for gaming, but loses out in other areas. For the same price, I'd rather have a chip that can O/C another 10% with stock cooling or 20% with an aftermarket cooler.
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« on: August 21, 2011, 09:23:28 pm »
That truly is clear as mud. So do I get a 560 ti or a 6950? At a glance the 560's are chePer...
But then my 4830 plays bc2 on low fine, in theory will it play bf3 on low fine? Is an upgrade gpu really only an upgrade to medium settings? And is that even worth it?
Do I already know the answer which is wait for bf3 to come out before I make a call to upgrade?
How many more questions am I allowed? Only one more question is allowed! The 560 Ti and 6950 are both good cards. If you don't want to overclock, go with the 6950, if you do want to mess around with overcloking and BIOS', then either are good. A couple of questions Philo in regards to those builds:
Why the Seagate 500GB over the faster Samsung F3? Also I'm more than sure people can spare an extra $20 for a 1TB.....
The Antec Neo Eco 620W is a good bit cheaper than the Antec HCG 620W while both are extremely similar. The saving on the PSU negates the extra for 1TB, resulting in a better value system. Have to agree on the 1TB hard drive, as much for capacity as speed (there isn't all that much performance difference IRL) have edited the gamer build accordingly (left the 500GB in the ultra budget build tho). Diagree on the Neo Eco 620w, which just isn't as well built, or as efficient (80+ vs 80+ bronze), it also doesn't come with a fucking power cable for goodness sake. I'm aware a lot of people have spare ones, but some don't and frankly I can't be bothered explaining they need to pick up one separartely because Antec are so tight with their Neo Eco series. For a mere $15 extra, the included power cable, better components and superior efficiency of the High Current Gamer is well worth it IMO.
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« on: August 18, 2011, 10:28:16 pm »
I dispute your maths there chief 
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« on: August 17, 2011, 10:03:06 pm »
The cooling isn't needed if you aren't overclocking. However even the 'auto overclock' should give you ~4.4GHz stable, so it's well worth spending a little extra on the cooling, even if you're only going to tell the motherboard to do the work for you. For BF3 - I'd first of all wait, but given the 'demo rigs' for BF3 have apparently been using a mildly overclocked 2600K and a single GTX 580, the uber build should be able to handle it very well yes One the game is out, an dif it really is all that great we'll slap together a build or two specifically for it. However the top end will likely be pretty close to the 'uber build'.
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« on: August 15, 2011, 08:34:48 pm »
Not all current cards can do it, 5loth is right. If you know what you're doing the vast majority should be able to be do it tho (just use a shader unlocker to modify the card's BIOS) and in most cases significantly oerclocked up to 6970 speeds.
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« on: August 15, 2011, 02:26:06 pm »
The gaming build has a 6950 2gig instead of the 560Ti you update the list again since this post philo old boy? Cheers for bringing that up. It wasn't quite a typo so much as my being as clear as mud. At stock (and let's face it that's where the majority of people leave their cards) the 6950 is faster than the GTX 560 Ti and as such it's 'just right' for the $2,200 build. The GPU market is refreshingly competitive - what I was meaning is that Nvidia have pretty much cleared AMD out of the higher end builds - of the four 'gaming' builds the one you mentioned is the only one with an AMD card, however the price vs performance differential is razor thin, so whilst Nvidia is a bit dominant overall it makes sense to have the 6950 in that dollar build - basically I overstated Nvidias dominance a bit, albeit that they are ahead. ... of course that's until the 28nm Southern Islands (including one code named 'New Zealand'!) come out, allegedly before the end of the year and well ahead of Nvidia's new cards. *rubs hands together in glee*
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« on: July 17, 2011, 06:50:41 pm »
Updated 17/07/2011 Tired of waiting for Bulldozer to actually show up, so have updated everything. There are some minor changes to prices and products (such as hard drives, memory and CPU cooling due to availability) as well as a universal movement from Sandforce 1200 to Sandforce 2200 solid state drives where present, with a resultant near doubling of speed. A welcome and easy change is from P67 to the new and superior Z68 motherboards in our very prevalent LGA-1155 (Sandy Bridge) PC's - as a result of Z68, the gaming rigs now all have included SSD's, due to the awesomeness of SSD caching and shome shiny new cases to boot. At the upper end, all PC's now have 8+GB of RAM due to its cheapness and can observe a pro Nvidia graphics movement (with the GTX 560 Ti, GTX 570 and GTX 580 ruling the upper end). In the budget end we also see AMD's powerful new Llano CPU's take up home - increasing cost by $200, but bringing quad core (with each core being much faster) and critically very functional basic gaming capabilities to even our cheapest system. HTPC's stay with Intel for now due to their lower price and power consumption (though this may change with incoming cheaper Llano CPUs and boards) with a few minor changes and speed upgrades. Mmm.. power  Now for AMD to bring out Bulldozer, and Intel Sandy-Bridge E...
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« on: April 06, 2011, 07:46:23 pm »
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I've tried everything I can - even disabling Crossfire, deleting profiles etc etc, just CANNOT get this fucker to work. Will have to sit this one out and hopefully find a way to make it all work for next week, really sorry for the let down guys :/ p.s. could someone post up our TS3 (I assume it's 3) details? Cheers, and have a GG 
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« on: April 05, 2011, 02:06:59 pm »
Fuck, cannot get BF2 to work with my Crossfire setup - will continue to do my best to get it working.
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« on: April 01, 2011, 06:28:15 pm »
Imma play for the underdogs, put me down for this 'unferium' so I can show you all how it's done! Although actually last time I played I couldn't remember what button did what and got a negative KDR....
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« on: March 25, 2011, 07:07:05 pm »
25/03/2011 - Minor update to checking prices.. and changing the hax build to reflect the fact that the AMD HD 6990 (as pop said) is the best card out there right now - in fact cheaper and faster than the GTX 590 (or three GTX 580s when both are overclocked), and that the Corsair AX-1200, whilst a fantastic PSU (possibly the best ever made!) is riding on its name a little - the Coolermaster 1200w gold unit is also frankly amazing Ahh hardware -progress give me a semi - you know that current smallest definable object (sorta a name [kinda] for logic gates - the building blocks of processors) at the 32nm process are ~133 atoms wide? Holy. Fucking. Shit.
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« on: March 20, 2011, 08:54:59 pm »
wats goin on dis thread  no 6990? I've read a few reviews, but I'm not convinced of the benefits of Quad-Fire, particularly with minimum frame rates (in some cases two 6990s lose out to a pair of GTX 580s). Definitely something I' like to include, but I might wait a bit for more mature drivers and definitive reviews. i'm predicting this thread will get rather busy once the BF3 recommended specs get released
BTW anyone seen the new Corsair H60 listed anywhere ? Nah, not even in Aussie as far as I can tell. And yeah, roll on that BF3 would AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition and a cheap 90$ mobo like Gigabyte GA-MA74GMT-S2 be fine? im budget i guess I'd never buy a Gigabyte motherboard without the a 'D' or 'UD' on the end of its product code, as that gives it solid capacitors and other 'durable' features. That having been said it's a good combo, but for the price you may be able to do a bit better. If you're planning a build or half build chuck up a thread with your plans maybe?
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« on: March 18, 2011, 07:48:38 pm »
Updated 18/03/2011 - HTPCs updated ti take advantage of Sandy Bridge's awesome CPU and integrated GPU power. Other than that a few minor housekeeping changes - small processor speed increases in the lower end due to old models being phased out, a change to the 2-platter 1TB Samsung HDD for the midrange and to the 990X CPU for the hax build, as well as updated B3 stepping motherboards and price reductions all round. Oh, and I updated the links in the OP
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« on: March 14, 2011, 12:02:41 pm »
Yeah should get aroubnd to fixing those links sometime soon and cheers! DASA though, seems to know more than me about this sort of thing - no matter how much as it pains me to admit it
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« on: March 07, 2011, 12:48:05 am »
Sandy-Bridge Builds are no longer 'on-hold' Great thread, good work.
I'm surprised more people don't build in this country???
In regard to the Auzentech Xfi, I had one and it never went right, cracks, pops, etc, RMA'd, new card same thing, conflict with rig i guess somewhere, switched to other rig, same issues, now just run G35, which is better imo. Glad you like it Have generally read good reviews but will have a look into the reliability of the Azuntech X-Fi.
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« on: March 06, 2011, 09:45:59 pm »
Just headed down to see some mates in Christchurch for the weekend. Although the city centre was cordoned off and a lot of progress has obviously been made in the affected areas, it was sobering to see first hand the damage, and the random wanton destruction of livelihoods (not to mention lives). It was also palpable that there's a lot of doubt over what what the future holds, but IMO a lot of people will return home once they feel safer, and a lot of people will continue to move to what's still a great city, once we've rebuilt.
Also, your fish and chips are fucking amazing, seriously.
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