Benny Blanco
2[H]4U
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- May 4, 2003
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Honda civics were not "built for racing" but even a stock civic can do 125mph on flat highway (ehh, with a little tailwind maybe)Really.. Where do you draw the line.. I mean seriously whats reasonably modern.. thats a matter of perception & my perception is that to be a gaming rig it needs to have a video card that was released new in the last 3 years (which OP's does meet) and that card should be of a gaming class.. Which the 5670 never was. The 56x0 series were upper mainstream where as the 57x0 were low end gaming cards & the 58x0 were full on gaming cards. None of the components in OP's build were made for gaming. So just because you can hodge podge a few components together & play old games on it, that does not make it a gaming rig.
The 5670 has 1gb DDR5 and 128bit memory interface. It does not require supplemental power. It's your honda civic of GPU's. (minus the loud annoying sound of having no muffler)
Yes yes the compaq is not a beast!! it's a human being! lol...the OP calls it a beast and it can take the latest games with ease, at max settings & really good to excellent frame rates the line has to be drawn.
Years ago I had a friend who was a "gamer". I am not, but I know a little about GPU's. When he told me he had an FX5200 in his machine I thought he was crazy, I was like "Did you buy it with food stamps??" But you know what? He was a gamer, and with the FX5200, his PC was a gaming rig. Period. You elitist/beastly gamers that are saying OP's rig is NOT a gaming rig are even more out of control than the OP for saying his rig is a beast lol... but you have made your point that it's not a gaming beast for sure. It's just getting out of control though and some ppl are losing touch with reality, such as BlackMoonWolf. Even though he made some good and valid points, he's also taking cheap shots and being a little too mean/degrading.
I'm wonder if OP's gaming performance reports are based on single screen gaming, not eyefinity. He mentioned gaming at 1600x900, and if I understand correctly, eyefinity w/3 screens should be 4800x900. Correct me if I'm wrong. My gaming PC has a Voodoo2 PCI card with 32mb SDRAM so I really don't know how eyefinity works
So again, kudos to you Dario for posting your setup. Even though Compaq is out of place on this forum, you did well to get your hands in there and beef it up with that GPU and the triple monitors.