Recent content by Stetson

I want good performance in Lightroom too, and I hope to upgrade my camera this year, perhaps to a 21 or 24 megapixel monster. Anyway, it's already ordered, so no changing it now. Hopefully developers will learn to squeeze more goodies from the i7 in the future. I'm tempted by a 4870 1 gig...

Yes, I did. To St. Louis. (Order still shows up as charged... I was hoping to get it here by Wednesday, because I'll have a couple of days off to play with it.)

Oh yeah, when I tried to place my order the first few times, I got a notice that newegg.com was having problems, and to try again later. Tried a few times... shipping charge was $25.01 though... So I figured I'd try IE (was using Firefox) and see if that would work... still no go, but...

What resolution are you able to play it at? And do you have to drop any settings?

Thanks, I'd read the first article, but not the second, before I posted. I just placed an order for the cpu, mobo, ram, and case. I'll have to wait for a couple of checks to clear before ordering hd, video, and psu (I'm leaning towards a corsair 650TX?). I'm leaning towards this MSI...

Anybody here play Mass Effect? That will be the first game I play on it, so I want it to run sweet. (I got it a while back and put it on my old Athlon 3200+ with an nvidia 6800 gt oc (pretty hot when I got it, but now one of the fans is dislodged, so if I want to play a game, I have to open...

Yeah, I was looking at 1 gig cards, because some games seem to really benefit from it. Cheapest I see is around $225 at newegg (aside from an open box, which I usually shy away from, though my laptop is a no-box display unit). Maybe something like this...

One more question, how many watts do I need for i7, and one of these cards, possibly 2 later? I'll probably end up with 3 or 4 hard drives, too.

At the moment, it's a 22", 1680x1050. However, I may want to get a bigger monitor later, for blu-ray (I hope to add a blu-ray drive to the system at a later date, and I don't think my current monitor's compatible - and I could use this one for my laptop, anyway.)

Exactly... plus, it'll be a lot easier to upgrade the video card later than the mobo! I guess I should ask if I'll really be getting much more with an i7 than with an older processor? I'm used to spending $300-400 on a card (geforce 3 when it first came out, 6800 gt oc when it was hot...

Thanks, I added it to my wishlist. We'll see how much cash I can round up this weekend!

I'm putting together a new i7 system, and want a card that will play Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, etc., with decent resolution, and features maxed. I'd like to stay around $150 now, but I'd consider adding a second for SLI later if I want some extra kick. I'm upgrading from an ancient...