Recent content by Adamseye

I just wanted to stop by and point out that I am very pleased with the 965! I am able to play on better then high settings now. I also noticed a lot less frame stutter, a bit faster load times, and a lot of fun. I am starting to think this old pig has more might then I gave her credit for...

I have done the perfoverlay, and I kinda figured my gpu will only perform as well as my cpu will allow it? But I don't know what the numbers represent. Yea the Pro also has a nicer fan and is cfx ready :)! Thanks for the help! bf3 by Adams-Eye, on Flickr

How can I report to you the level of bottle neck? cpu vs gpu usage, program etc? I am rather curious myself and would love to find out! P.S. sorry double post but I missed a bunch while typing out my last one LOL! @ Skills Thanks! I am really looking forward to a neat case! Gonna order me...

Well after much debate, and changing my mind 700 million times I made an order last night. I probably could have saved a few bucks, but for under $200 to my door I got a x4965be, and 2x2gb sticks of 1066. So I will be report back in a day or two whether or not my old pig can keep up with BF3...

Should I bother getting the SSD for smart response, or get say another 8 gigs of ram?

@ Danny Bui Here is what I came up with, MotherBoard CPU Memory ssd $494 to my door. I would like to get to my game ASAP, and would prefer not to wait for another gen of CPU. If I could play now it wouldn't be such an issue!

First thank you all for the input! Let me explain where I am at in this game lol. I do not think I would need to rebuild to get the performance I desire. I think a 965 and 4 more gigs would get my BF3 smoothed out nicely. That is around $200. From what I have been seeing, a 965 with a 6850...

@ Skillz 2) What's your budget? $150 for a new cpu if the rest of my gear can hang, $500-$700 cause I would like to keep my current gpu so a bit flexible 4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? This is what I am wondering myself. I don't think I need to upgrade my board just yet, and a...

FX 4100 no okay what I have been hearing. That leaves the 965 which I can pop on my board to really keep the cost down. Just not sure if my ddr2 is a bottle neck at all, and if my board will make the most of the cpu gpu combo. I will look at the 2500k's, I have built a few AMD systems, never...

Let me start with where I sit at this moment. board ma790gpud4h memory 4 gig ddr 2 1066 (8500) cpu Kuma 7750 BE x2 cooler Zalman 92mm gpu sapphire toxic 6850 1g psu 500 watt monitor 1600x1050 I can play BF3 but it isn't pretty unless I stay in the campaign. I am not looking to run ultra I...

Actually I used a different mem test program, I am d/ling it now and will post results. UPDATE: Scan complete 0 errors. But now that I think of it, I have my HD's set to optimize for performance, and the power went out not to long ago while my PC was on. This is the only thing I can think of...

Ok well ty for all the replies and here it is. Yes the post screen pops up, no errors, then I get about 30secs to 1 min of blank screen before I get the windows loader. I have a Rosewill 550w performance series PSU. RP550-2 I have tried mem test, and even lowering mem speeds, and it is 2x2 GB...

Hey all you Hard, I am having a issue with my pc. A few weeks ago I noticed my pc would hang after post screen, for about 30 secs plus before seeing windows load screen. First thing I did was remove all my startup items, didn't do the trick. Well after a week, a new hard drive and fresh OS...

Ok I just browsed Alienwares site. They Charge $700 to overclock the i7, thats it just overclock, same cooling. This I think is the machine your talking about. Maybe it's because I can build a system, or maybe it's because I take pride in my work, or this could just be my adult lego set, but...

Wow, can you say good afternoon oh, Master Noob? Rather then bragging about Alienware setups, why don't you just tell everyone that you are not a system builder, and would rather not take on the task. You ask for the real difference, people told you its a ripoff when you can build it...