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Felon Road to gaming heaven....hopefully
29 March 2005, 16:03 by Felon

Well I decided I needed to get myself some decent gaming gear for a change.

Always played with a ball mouse and a magazine as my mouse mat and never seen the need to change, but now i have decided to actualy build myself a half decent gaming rig.

Out went the trusty ball mouse and its replacement was a Logitech MX510, wow what can I say, totally great mouse with 8 buttons and glides so easily. cant say the 35 quid it cost me (inc del) is value for money but if you want a decent system your going to have to pay for it.
Next I decided to get a mouse mat and after a lot of humming and harring I decided to go for the razer Exact thingy ma jig (25quid). Next, instead of using cheapo 1.99 argos headphones i spent a ludicrous 40 odd quid on some sennheiser headphones. all looking good so far.

atm im looking at Hard Disk drives and with all the help i have had on the forums im as confused as hell so ill leave that bit for another day.
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Mani
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29 March 2005 16:29
We love to confuse.
Rob
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29 March 2005 16:38
thats the aim of the site i thought
JamSam
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29 March 2005 17:46
i tend to just hurt craig's head by picking at it for hardware

Scrappy
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30 March 2005 10:30
Don't bother getting a crappy 6600GT. Go for a 6800GT.
Felon
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30 March 2005 10:41
not at them prices although the 256M MSI PCI-E NX6800TD Tv/DVI seems quite gd value for money at 217.38
Scrappy
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30 March 2005 10:43
link? I think thats the cut down 12 pipe version they disributed originally as GTs, that i got 2 of grrrr.
Felon
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30 March 2005 10:46
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=159923
morkith
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30 March 2005 10:56
Aye it aint GT, plus it aint PCI-E either.
morkith
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30 March 2005 10:59
Or at least its the wrong pic.

Some guy further down on that thread, links to this:-

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro_vga_detail.php?UID=639
morkith
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30 March 2005 11:02
Shane if you do get a 6800GT, make sure you get one that has rotating fans

Scrappy
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30 March 2005 11:03
Yer Shane, I'd steer clear of those cards. Even though they come with the SLI port on them, they are indeed the cards that i first recieved by mistake. And i couldn't get them to run SLI properly.
Felon
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30 March 2005 11:18
thanks for the heads up, gfx card is about 4 weeks away yet anyway, ill look into it more then.
Scrappy
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30 March 2005 11:23
You really need ur own forum for this shit

Jobbie
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30 March 2005 11:25
why are SLI / PCI cards like £100 quid cheaper than AGP?
Scrappy
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30 March 2005 11:44
They shouldn't be. If you're referring to the link that Felon gave, thats not a 6800GT so it can't be compared to the price of an AGP 6800GT.
Rob
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31 March 2005 17:02
surely a 6600 would be better if you hada budget to keep to...or are they just plain shit?
Felon
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31 March 2005 19:05
6600 is a very good card, 6800 is the best on the market atm i think.
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31 March 2005 22:30
just got a 6800 GT playing with the drivers at the moment,theres a big differance between them at the mo, so its a matter of trial and error,ive used omega drivers mostly before they are usually better then oem and they unlocked my ATI 9800aiw
to a pro nicely,but they gave me 1000 3d marks beind the standard drivers with my 6800 GT so working my way through the forceware and standard drivers slowly!.
morkith
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01 April 2005 14:04
Im using the x treme g drivers, there pretty good. If your lucky like Scrappy they will even stop your on board fan from working.
Scrappy
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01 April 2005 15:41
i ain't touching those f***ing xtreme G drivers. I can't believe they would turn off my fans!

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