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Righteous · Post by **Righteous** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:32 pm

Have you got your card yet YSU?

AstrO · Post by **AstrO** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:10 pm

I have an XFX 7900GT, nothing wrong with XFX. Although a lot of 7900GT's from a bunch of different brands have had issues.

Exar Kun · Post by **Exar Kun** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:45 pm

AstrO wrote:I have an XFX 7900GT, nothing wrong with XFX. Although a lot of 7900GT's from a bunch of different brands have had issues.

Wasn't it issues with factory overclocked examples (from everyone)? I think I remember hearing something about that.

AstrO · Post by **AstrO** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:46 pm

The last post on this page might help http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showt ... e=11&pp=15 (last post http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showp ... tcount=155)

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:32 am

Well I am gonna buy a new box today as my old PC is pretty much fecked.

Intel DualCore 805 (not the fastest but better than my PIII 1.4 ghz machine)
120 gig HD
DVD burner (might as well have another one)
512k Mem (might up that to 1gig for $20)
Onboard audio / video (don't laugh it has to be better than the Gforce 2 Fx5200 I have)
choice of case.

$555 (plus $20 if I up the ram)

AstrO · Post by **AstrO** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:50 am

fourthof5 wrote:Onboard audio / video (don't laugh it has to be better than the Gforce 2 Fx5200 I have)

Even though an FX5200 is crap it has to be better than on-board. With the amount of ram you are looking at getting you would be better off sticking it in so the on-board video doesn't use up your already limited memory. I'd take a guess an say you won't be using this PC for gaming, if that's the case then it should be fine.

PS I'm using an FX5200 at work to drive 2 x 17" LCD's.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:58 am

No I don't do a lot of gaming at all. Usually because my old PC just wont cope with all the new stuff. But your suggestion for using the of FX5200 is a valid one.

AstrO · Post by **AstrO** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:03 am

Well if you do want to play some games then you will need a better video card. The rest of your system would be fine if you added say a 7600 or maybe even a 7300??? Intel Extreme Graphics is not made for gaming

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:17 pm

Righteous wrote:Have you got your card yet YSU?

If you mean the 7800gs, yes I have that for a while now. Pretty quick

Shame it costs so much, but I was in no position to upgrade mobo/cpu/ram/video just for a pci-e card.

Edit: sorry it's a 7800, not a 7900

nneeooww · Post by **nneeooww** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:51 pm

fourthof5 wrote: Intel DualCore 805 (not the fastest but better than my PIII 1.4 ghz machine)

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/ ... ghz_cores/

Have a read of that fourthof5 - i think you will find it interesting...

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:53 am

Interesting indeed. Thanks nneeooww.

Righteous · Post by **Righteous** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:12 pm

For those that are interested, there are 9 left

https://www.nintek.com.au/x/Scripts/pro ... oduct=7306

YnoT · Post by **YnoT** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:55 pm

no more left, i ordered mine 2 weeks ago for the 1st batch and they are going to receive the cards around the 28th of August which really sucks then they are going to ship it out, didn't thought it would take that long