Dirk

the crazy thing is that i can run 16x AA in cod4 and it runs well over 80fps with all settings maxed and at 1280x1024 but then cod:bo came out and well i have to run at only 4x AA. i guess thats one reason why sli is not as good as one uber card. you dont get any more ram so you dont gain any advantage for high res. or AA for that matter. thats where having one insane card with a terabyte of vram helps.

true but its less than 24 hours old so i think its safe to say you have at least a month.

sweet! the new GeForce GTX 580 came out today. has anybody tried it? as far as i can tell this makes the 480 obsolete. this things got the full 512 cuda cores and a higher clock speed. Hurray for the most advanced GPU ever made!

yeah you can run it. you will not be able to max it but you can run it alright. keep in mind that its the same engine as cod4 and when that came out your gpu was new stuff. plus if it runs on a 360 it will run better on a GeForce 8 series or higher. (most of the time) btw dude get more ram!

hmm 400 all you really can do for that is get a new GPU and some cooling for over clocking. Perhaps you could get faster ram. The only other thing you could do is to buy a new MOBO and CPU then put the old gpu in and ram but that does not seem too usefull as the GPU is whats holding you back the most now.

if you are gona be spending that kind of money you might as well get one GTX 480 instead of two GTX 470s. Its cheaper to buy the one 480, it will require less power, use less space, be easier to OC, and open up the abbility to run two GTX 480s in about a year or so (if you find the one too weak for some reason) Of course no one needs anywhere near that power so it may be smarter to just get one GTX 470.

Ohh mac burn... but seriously mac are ripoffs.

you cant run dx11 without windows 7 and the 9800s ran dx10 fine. but mostly i was providing an alternative to the 9800GT someone suggested earlier. you can still fin the gts 250 and it will eat the 9800GT alive!

God knows how i was able to run CSS on an FX5500.

thanks for the proxy cap tip. it runs better than sockscap did.

If you dont need all that much and dont mind the lack of dx11 support, instead of a 9800GT you could look into a 9800 GTX/GTS 250. (they are the same thing) Yes it is slower than thr 460 but it can be had for around $100 and get about 70% the performance.

ok for the other applications you may need to find a program, such as sockscap, to "socksify" your applications. the only limitations i have run into are related to protocols (like GRE) that are not udp or tcp and, as far as i know, cannot run through a SOCKs proxy.

ah so sorry. my bad yes it is openSSH.

4x GTX 480 you should get some "acceptable" performance out of that.

I have a 9800GTX and a 9800GTX+ running in sli. I currently have the normal GTX as the primary card with no problems but i was wondering if i would benefit from running the GTX+ as the primary card. or would it not make a difference?

oh make sure you get putty with dynamic tunneling as a feature. the older versions dont have it.

what an insane coincidence! I just solved this in the last day at my school. I had been running a pptp vpn to bypass the firewall but they blocked all ports but 443 and 80 after some security breaches. They also blocked gre which is required for pptp so that wont work anymore. soooo..... what i did it set up an OpenSSH server on the pc at home i use as server. (you can find this for windows with a few searches on google.) once i had the openssh for windows installed I forwarded port 443 (HTTPS) through my router. I then connect to my ssh server using a program called putty (once again google it its free) once connected you can use putty as a SOCKs proxy and tunnel through. It works! faster than the vpn too. plus its encrypted so they cant see whats going through. it just looks like normal HTTPS traffic. let me know if you need the specifics of the configuration.

run back to your side Eric Clapton

and this kind of crap is why this is one of the worst administrations ever. If this passes... well shits gona hit the fan.

nevermind. i just deleted the whole server and re installed the latest update. turns out that because my database was started back in the first beta versions it had stuff in it thats not compatible with this one.

ok i have been running my own teamspeak server for 3 years now. the servers are structured with different levels of permission granted to people. it is supposed to work in such a way that a server admin can do whatever the hell he want and a guest cant. a channel admin can kick or ban a guest or "normal" but can be banned by and cannot kick an admin. unfortunately when i updated the server recently... well I, the server admin, can be kicked/banned/moved/anything by a guest with no granted permissions. i have tried editing permissions but it dos not work. apparently anyone can do anything now. it makes the server total dysfunctional. help!

bump.

actually the z3 m coupes and roadsters have plummeted in value because the new z4 has forced the old z4 down in price and that has forced the z3 down. $20,000 will buy you a nice one with low mileage. if you dont mind high mileage you can get em for under $17,000. and i would choose the coupe over the m3 any day because most people wouldn't and that makes it quite uncommon.(though the new m3 is a different story)

yeah im only getting 186HP but its not exacly slow. 255 will move you just fine. i am so wanting to trade up or buy a z3 m coupe and get the 340HP in a 2700 lbs car. m3 engine in a z3 FTW!