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Computer Setting Up

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IanSMK

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What is going on, heres the story, i moved to NY at the beginning of summer right after i graduated... because my parents wanted to retire up here...im from florida...so they said "i know your going to be upset leaving your friends but we will get you whatever you want"

no i immediately thought how great it would be to have 2...not 1...but 2 bad ass computers to play with my brothers on when i move up to NY because they live there too...

i ordered the 2 identical computers from newegg.com...greatest site ever...everything except the video cards

K8V Se Delux mobo, 3400+ athlon 64 1mb l2 cache, dual 512 corsair pc 3200 ram, SATA 10000 RPM western dig hdd, Audigy 2 gamer edition, the logitech speakers that are 7.1 and around 110..forgot name... arctic silver 5... logitech 510 and elite keyboards... dvd burners...
1 is going to my college when i start, the other is staying home

so thats what i got... now i was going to get the XTPE from gateway for 439 a piece...i waited for a month...and got angry... i immediately assumed the x800 would be better so ordered that...but with the doom3 benchmarks...and the pixel shader stuff.. i decided to go back to nvidia(i have never owned an ATI)

anyways i just ordered 2 Nvidia 6800 Gt's by LeadTech off of newegg...there already shipped should get here tommorow(friday) or maybe sat/monday if im unlucky

now heres my question, wut do i download, what do i do, to get the most out of my PCs...i always would just download video and sound drivers and go at my gaming...but on newegg some guy said "i got my gt and was disappointed with my 3dmark score...but it went up to 12000 after i upgraded my via drivers" whats that all about...i know its chipset drivers but basically you get what im saying, what upgrades and stuff do i need to do to get the most out of my PCs and such, i built one when i got the pcs and put in an old gforce 2 mx and i have used it to start transfering my data...alright im posting this in the video card and general hardware section.. hope im not bashed for being a nub, i went to tech school and got A+ certified but that was a while ago :(
 
To get top performance load the drivers in this order, reboot between each load:
-Motherboard
-Video
-Sound
-Any Other (USB 2.0, etc)
-Windows Updates

After a fresh install of windows it pays to defrag your HD since stuff goes all over with all the installing you do right up front.

In addition look into setting your memory timings by hand in the BIOS, make sure you know what your memory timings are rated for, then set it by hand to get a little extra juice out of your sytem, beyond drivers, w/o overclocking the best place to tweak is in the BIOS, but be careful; if you don't know what you're doing, you could hose up your stuff
 
umm do i have to reformat since on one of the computers ive had it running a while with like the video card update for the gforce 2 mx...

and would it be smart to upgrade to xp 64? i think its free to get the trial that has 360 days but i dont know how stable or worth it getting that to run
 
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