I would imagine if you bought a new retail board now it would come with the BIOS that supports 45nm.
I just bought an Asus Maximus Formula yesterday from newegg, when it comes in i will let you know what BIOS it comes with.
I will be very suprised if it comes with one of the old BIOS's
Planetside
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 - Thats right. The first one
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Grand Theft Auto S.A
Grand Turismo 2, 3, 4
Forza Motorsport 1, 2
It double what they used to have before. Also the R7xx has shader based antialiasing so they don't need as many...
I would agree that is isn't enough, but it is still a huge improvement
So does anyone still play battlefield 2142?
I'm thinking about picking it up. If its anything like battlefield 2 then is has to be still worth playing.... right?
My friends computer wouldn't boot because the mothboard was bending under the weight of the CPU heatsink.
Howerever, its his fault because he only put in like half the screws for motherboard lol
It worked fine a couple screws later :rolleyes:
I don't care if i have to buy a slower chip from AMD,
If i can't overclock it... I'm not buying it
We all know overclocking is half the fun of building a new rig.
Anandtech cpu test.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3293&p=8
Looks like a wash to me.
Games that are heavily multi-threaded prefer quad cores.
Games that aren't, logically prefer the higher clock speeds of the dual cores.
However... quad cores are more expensive...
I already bought the gameXstream.... :eek:
Hopefully it won't be too bad because i won't be putting much load on it
If it makes everyone feel better i only payed $75 for it.
However i am definitely gonna switch to the thermalright ultra 90.
Compact, cheap and cools well. Looks good to...
Antec Nine Hundred Case (Already bought from best buy)
OCZ GameXStream 600W Power Supply (Will be buying off forum)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341001
ABIT IX38 Quad GT
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813127033
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400...
I am interested in buying any dual-core socket 939 processor.
I would prefer to have chips with the 2x1Mb cache
Opterons are also welcome
Willing to pay $105 shipped to $135 shipped for a 2x1Mb cache chip depending on model
I am willing to pay $160 shipped for a 2x1Mb proccessor that...
If anyone has these games please pm me
I am willing to pay $5+shipping per game
These are old games and a part of my childhood i was hoping someone would have a copy