Originally posted by Yshania Not by much though - they run to their optimum and would require I move home to accommodate a fan big enough Cheaper to buy a faster processor...
As far as I can see, the main points to overclocking your Athlon are:
having a futuristic-looking case with tubes sticking out all over the place
being able to take your brand-new XP 2000+ to about 2500MHz, so that it's faster than you can buy a new processor
being able to write XP1500 oc-1800 on techie forums in your signature and gain loads of respect
spending way too much money on your computer
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As far as I can see, the main points to overclocking your Athlon are:
having a futuristic-looking case with tubes sticking out all over the place
being able to take your brand-new XP 2000+ to about 2500MHz, so that it's faster than you can buy a new processor
being able to write XP1500 oc-1800 on techie forums in your signature and gain loads of respect
spending way too much money on your computer
And for the Pentium? To even compare
In a year, (my hubby has been warned) I will be spending the best part of 2 grand (£) on a baby. My only main consideration is whether to go TFT or not...I had included a 19" TFT in that price, but I understand their refresh rates are slow....
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In a year, (my hubby has been warned) I will be spending the best part of 2 grand (£) on a baby. My only main consideration is whether to go TFT or not...I had included a 19" TFT in that price, but I understand their refresh rates are slow....
This sounds a lot like a bizaare collaboration betwenn Lynch and Cronenberg
Avoid TFT, the only thing it really helps is space, however you can get a pretty decent slimline CRT 19" for a lot cheaper than the LCD... *lurks back to fiddle with some techy device*
<side note> there is no point in buying a top of the range computer in the next 6 months because AMD are coming out with a new architecture soon and the Pentiums are just getting faster and faster...better to wait a while and see how it all evolves
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Originally posted by Yshania In a year, (my hubby has been warned) I will be spending the best part of 2 grand (£) on a baby. My only main consideration is whether to go TFT or not...I had included a 19" TFT in that price, but I understand their refresh rates are slow....
Have fun picking out loads of parts! Just make sure that none of them are meant to go with each other and your local computer technician will love you - hardware conflicts are the stuff of wet dreams for them honest
The problem with TFTs is that especially for playing games, you get horrible streaking/blurring effects when the view moves quickly, which is at it's worst for fast paced first-person games like Quake 3. Basically, it can be like having Mouse Trails on...for everything. Having said that, the picture quality on a TFT screen is excellent and if you have a graphics card with antialiasing it looks even better
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This sounds a lot like a bizaare collaboration betwenn Lynch and Cronenberg
Avoid TFT, the only thing it really helps is space, however you can get a pretty decent slimline CRT 19" for a lot cheaper than the LCD... *lurks back to fiddle with some techy device*
<side note> there is no point in buying a top of the range computer in the next 6 months because AMD are coming out with a new architecture soon and the Pentiums are just getting faster and faster...better to wait a while and see how it all evolves
Who?
Which is why I am deliberating...they look cool, but I have a perfectly good Sony Trinitron...
btw, my brother in law works for Sony, their graphic designers stick with 19" CRT...
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Have fun picking out loads of parts! Just make sure that none of them are meant to go with each other and your local computer technician will love you - hardware conflicts are the stuff of wet dreams for them honest
The problem with TFTs is that especially for playing games, you get horrible streaking/blurring effects when the view moves quickly, which is at it's worst for fast paced first-person games like Quake 3. Basically, it can be like having Mouse Trails on...for everything. Having said that, the picture quality on a TFT screen is excellent and if you have a graphics card with antialiasing it looks even better
Of the £2.2k I have spent already (in my dreams), £600 is the screen. I still intend to spend as much in a years time without too much technical compromise whether I have the screen or not...
Nice contribution fitting to the thread!! but this is my baby, and it will work I am not in the business of spending a lot of money entertaining myself purely by keeping the techies happy
This is what I have heard from my friend in Sony - which is why their games graphics designers don't use them...hmmm I wonder what choice of graphics cards I will have in a year
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Originally posted by Yshania hmmm I wonder what choice of graphics cards I will have in a year
*peers into crystal ball*
"Ah, you see the Geforce 7 Ti65535 is doing remarkably well, what with it's 900 gazillion pipelines and 12GB of ODR (Octuple Data Rate) RAM. I would strongly recommend it over the ATI Radeon 150000, which although introducing new XTC4urI's technology still gets lower scores overall on 3DMark 2003"
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Um.. I like flat panels... Sure, they don't have a straight colour range and they're a bit slow, but they are thin, sharp picture with great readability, low power consumption, low heat, no trapezoid, no hourglass, no degaussing... the list continues. Have a look at the new Viewsonic TFT's. They have a much shorter on/off delay due to some three letter acronym.
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