1. dineitdark

    A Pc For Gaming

    i checked some stuff at tomshardware. 8500 outperforms q6600 in games/RTS... but i think in the long run Q6600 will still be a good investment...? as new games will take advantage from the 4 cores...
  2. dineitdark

    A Pc For Gaming

    when deciding on a processor, is it worth going for a quad ? i mean does many games utilize 4 logical processors? because if many games are still not utilizing it i think i can go for a E8400/E8500?
  3. dineitdark

    A Pc For Gaming

    I AM DOING it right now! cool thing that its under GPL lol :) good work keep it up! ps: you can consider putting it under GNU Documentation License... or something like that. :D
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    A Pc For Gaming

    i will be buying a nividia card most prolly. as ATI is hard to fine(it seems so). :) thanks
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    A Pc For Gaming

    you mean two 9600GT cards would cost me only 34000?
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    A Pc For Gaming

    :D
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    A Pc For Gaming

    from the cards bellow what are available in sl? or most likely to be there in sl? $160 + GeForce 8800 GT 512MB $200 + Radeon HD 4850 HD 3870 X2 8800GTX, 8800 Ultra, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+ $310 Radeon HD 4870 9800 GX2, GTX 260 from ...
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    A Pc For Gaming

    guys if one is to look for ATI cards(newer ones) where would they look? at what shops?
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    A Pc For Gaming

    will there be a significant drop in prices? :eek: then i would wait i guess, money comes hard for me...
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    A Pc For Gaming

    go easy on me guys! im not in touch with H/W stuff at all :( Q6600 4GB RAM MBorad ? VGA ? 500GB HDD (around 15k at Barclays: your choice though) 19" Samsung LCD Do i need to buy some additional RAID controller card ?(or should i go with s/w raid?(if something like that is there in the first...
  11. dineitdark

    A Pc For Gaming

    Hi all! sorry for bringing this thread back from the dead. but i figured it would make more sense to continue the discussion on this thread... i have a budget of 200K now. Building on what anusha proposed in this thread... E6750 4GB RAM MBorad ? VGA ? 500GB HDD (around 15k at Barclays: your...
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    #### PILIYANDALA BOMB BLAST ####

    saaaad :(
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    Last.fm

    Hi anyone already using this site? its really cool(i find it so...) :) take a look. www.last.fm it tracks what you play in your PC with what ever player you use, and reports the stats to a server. there are tons of people doing this. and biased on what you and others listen you can discover...
  14. dineitdark

    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    cooool :) congrats wo/man!
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    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    i my self have never used a 64bit linux system. so i really don't know how things are with it. but a quick search in google gave me a good impression about 64bit linux. http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2114&p=1 the article above 'finds' that suse 64bit performed better over fedora 64...
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    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/06/mount-and-unmount-isomdfnrg-images.html
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    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    ‘mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint’ foo.iso - the iso file /mountpoint - the directory where you want the iso mounted gui: sudo apt-get install gmountiso
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    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    machan ASFAIK apt-get is debian (and debian biased distro) specific. so its not there in suse. he will have to use rpm to install the stuff and not apt.
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    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    @henderson hi, sorry i couldn't keep up with the thread. the command make might not be installed as you said on the live CD. and for you to install it would need your n/w to work in the first place :P so its a bit tricky situation that you have over there. you have some choices here, 1. stay...
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    Professional Linux Help and Support Thread

    after some googling i came accros this page please take a look at it. some guy/girl managed to get it to work in suse(where it didn't work out of the box) http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2533 seems like he had to download the drivers from RealTek's web site and the...

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