Jager

heh or just run it in windowed, i have a 7600gt, and with the dx10 hack for most of the enhancements, i can run all the high effects except physics and post processing on med and shadows on med. everything else was fine on high. i thought it looked gorgious. granted with 800gtxs it be great, but i even as a pc website dont have the bank for those.

intel Es c2d 6300 evga 7600gt ko 2 gigs ddr2 ram dual boot xp/ vista, no issues gaming in either, frame rates are the same in xp or vista with everything cranked up to max except msaa. i get 40+ fps in any source game. i prefer xp to vista, but overall i dont see major issues these days with vista expect in the aftermarket addon cards. i cant get any of my pci to ide raid cards to work right, even with the correct vista drivers. so xp for my terabyte setup, vista for when i have to play/review dx10 stuff.

ask your recruiter. yopu would be surprised. some recruiters can give incentives for joining to high school students, and those who graduate with a diploma. also if you are going to use the army college plan stay with the HS diploma, if you take harder classes it can save you taking boring gen education courses in college that you dont need in real life.

no i was ending the convo as you said you wanted. so i removed the last part. i can put it back , the point your missing is the proc he had was 2x512kb l2. the one he has now is 400mhz slower and 2x 1 meg l2 cache. given nothing else. by its very nature the doubling of the onboard chip memory makes it that much better overall for a speed loss that i can erase in a few minutes in the bios. i brought down my arguments so that a normal gamers could grasp them, if you wold prefer to get technical we can, or you can feel free to talk to me at my site hardware.gamershell.com either way id love to see what your argument is overall other then its faster. i enjoy a good debate.

no. leave what you have haggard. get it wsetup and ill get bios screenshots, for your mobo. few tweaks and youll be easily running about 2.5-2.8ghz on stock cooler and you will decimate your older dual core.

youll be fine haggard, this isnt like horsepower, and i can squeeze more outa your chip over vent then youll feel the need for anyway. your 8600gt will bottleneck before the chip will in gaming. echo, if you disagree im happy to show you oodles of graphs and review charts showing the setups running as well as repeatable benchmark numbers to back them up. not just from myself, but from every major review site. am2 is slower. even amd admits that.

honestly, its will look weird to your potential employers, homeschooled students get a G.E.D. highschool grads get a diploma from the school that is vevrifiable. while the actual difference in learning is insignificant, there is stilla fairly high level of stigma attatched to a GED in some situations. its a big thing to consider.

er ok first why is anyone commenting on a pentium d processor, its by nature slower then a C2D because its intels older technology called "netburst" its a power hog, its a heat blasting chip, and it sucks compared to amd chips. something you must note this is VERY important. the speed in ghz between one chip versus another means NOTHING these days and it has not for YEARS. the pentium 4 chips at 3.2 ghz were slower in gaming then the amd chips at 2.2ghz. stock for stock. huh you say, its all about instructions per second. thats the bottom line. how fast the chip can work a set group of task instructions. former amd chips were the fastest. intel went and redesigned teh pentium 3 chip and the pentium M. the core 2 duo processors are based entirely on the pentium M's style of high use for low power and high speed and good instructions per second. the pentium M chips BTW on desktop boards with a retrofit kit was the FASTEST and BEST gaming chip until AMD ran out the opteron 939 chips. and still it was neck and neck. it was and is a killer chip. AMD however is NOT the gamers chip either, sorry to those of you who believe so. but unless your only doing high memory bandwidth testing the intel C2d and Qx (dual core and quad core) beat the amd competitor (meaning same or cheaper price range heck even go up one level half the time) EVERY time. its simply the fact that intel has faster instructions per second times. now for those screaming NUH HUH AMD FTW .... well fanboi ? but seriously, the best amd systems are the am2 74 series and thats uber pricey. (processors are over 1k) intels quad cores are cheaper and preform as well and the qx6600 has been known to overclock and beat most am2 systems its price 266 bucks.... ill let you do the math. when amd gets their 8 core chip out we will likely see this reverse, as amd has their memory controller on the chip and intels is on the northbridge, so AMD wont have a memory bottleneck to overcome with 8 processors trying to work in tandem.(hyper transport technology) but bang for buck the intel core duo processors are fast, affordable and for those that overclock almost all of them easily have another 1000mhz in them on air cooling alone.

got you beat, same cost to boot with a full size atx mobo and core 2 duo chip. will kick the ass of that amd chip except in mem to mem contests. you can get all the same other stuff though same price too. mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135059 cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116052 id put alot more money into your PSU though, nothing sucks worse then a bad rig due to crappy power. id get at least a name brand one. but ill talk to you about that later, im yanking my sli approved 550w psu thats modular soon maybe we can work something out

congrats jack

This is a screenshot of the CSS server as we were testing it before showing it to haggard. thought he might enjoy the "baby" photo. Thats zero coming around the corner in front of me, and my nade being thrown.

the second one is lil lisa a very long story follows that one but she is a rescued porcupine puffer fish

have fun just make sure your smart and dont come home with any unwanted presents from europe

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