Yeah, this is a tough choice. Dropping 1300 bucks is okay for me at the moment, but this is my big purchase of the year, and the last I will be making for myself in a while.
So, price not an issue. Which would you get?
Primary use will be gaming and browsing the web, watching movies and such.
I was set to get the HP, but the lack of a bright pixel guarantee is really, REALLY worrying me. Plus I hear it has flickering and buzzing problems. Also, for only 75...
Yikes. These all sound like someone just read a marketing textbook from the late 70's. It is acronym time!.
That said, I guess SCS makes the most sense, but it REALLY clashes with the super and super super clocked acronyms already used by card manufactures.
I have a Panasonic P50S1, cost 1200 bucks 11 months ago. Link goes to a photo of it. It is awesome and I never regretted the purchase. I hear the G series kicks it up a notch though if money is not an object.
Here is a link to detailed mobo specs:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00757531
Honestly dude there is not much to be done worth doing to that PC. DDR2 is expensive for what it is. and looking for some PCIe 1X GPU's nets me a $100 4350.
Never bothered to fraps it. But with it maxed and 16QAA it definitely dips into the teens often. Something is very wrong but it is the only app that really does that. BC2 seems to be some of those temperamental games, I also get tons of black screen flashing.
Sweet god, I cannot wait to get home. Why couldn't these have been released a week ago when I was off work ><
And mdswish, load up a png to imgur.com so we can see what is going on there. Looks interesting; thanks!
It is hard to test if physx is working on my PC as well. It seems I get standard scores in some tests but not others. You can use Crash n burn in 3dmark Vantage too I believe.