Frame Rates and Memory

[Rose]

Originally Posted by _Seth_

Its "cogito, ergo sum" ,AKA I think, therefore i am. It was established by the french philosopher Rene Descartes. It turned the philosophy around, from the "outro-spective" view to the "intro-spective", where the human was in center. Its also called "the cartesian philosophy".

YES, IT'S OT!!

Sorry for continuing to go OT, but he wanted Death Before Dishoner translated, not I think, therefore, I am.

[Potoroo]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Hi Rose If thats latin would you please translate "Death before Dishoner" for me please.

Potius Mori Quam Foedari is the usual translation (note, on the net you'll find variations including foedar and foedare but the passive infinitive seems to me best). A reasonable alternative would be Malo Mori Quam Foedari.

Both literally render as "I rather/prefer to die than be disgraced".

Originally Posted by Roads88

I have to check my power supply. I think its a 300w. A 450w supply will probley be in order.

Total wattage is not a reliable indicator of a PSU's capacity anymore. What matters these days is your total 12v capacity. IOW, there's no point buying a 450w PSU if it's only got 20A on the 12v rail(s) and you need 25A. Get that right and the 5v and 3.3v will follow. That said, you can get a reasonable estimate of your system's power requirements at http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp.

[_Seth_]

Originally Posted by Rose

Sorry for continuing to go OT, but he wanted Death Before Dishoner translated, not I think, therefore, I am.

I'm not good in latin, but i love a little cartesian philosophy in the morning...:rotfl::rotfl:

[Warmonger]

*beep*start OT*beep*

Originally Posted by _Seth_

Its "cogito, ergo sum" ,AKA I think, therefore i am. It was established by the french philosopher Rene Descartes. It turned the philosophy around, from the "outro-spective" view to the "intro-spective", where the human was in center. Its also called "the cartesian philosophy".

YES, IT'S OT!!

According to Wikipedia the Latin original was "Cogito, ego sum", later changed to "ergo" by Descartes.


*beep*end OT*beep*

[Roads88]

Total wattage is not a reliable indicator of a PSU's capacity anymore. What matters these days is your total 12v capacity. IOW, there's no point buying a 450w PSU if it's only got 20A on the 12v rail(s) and you need 25A. Get that right and the 5v and 3.3v will follow. That said, you can get a reasonable estimate of your system's power requirements at http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

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Thanks, I will check it out.

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by stabiz

Go for a powerful single card. It is cheaper, since you will have power-issues, cooling-issues, etc, with a twin setup. Besides, SH3 doesn`t support sli/crossfire, as potoroo says.

Recently, Dual Core GPU are in the horizon...

Two GPU on a single card, with 2x512 MB.

It works the same as a pack in SLI, but into a single slot, and it is cheapest than two cards in SLI.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/382/1/

I think so it is the future incoming....

[Garrincha]

Originally Posted by Warmonger

Wrong order. It's "Veni, vidi, vici."

But back to topic now...

that's why it's bar latin

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by NightCrawler

Now saving money for a new TOY!!!! HAIL AMD 64x2 5000+ with Quad card wooohooo PCI-E BABY and bridged with another PCI card for extra support

Are you talking about Aegya/Ageya PPU PCI card ?
Does it works or is it supported by SH3 ?

Or are you talking of an SLI combo ?

Originally Posted by NightCrawler

quote of vista

" Windows SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of available RAM while Windows ReadyBoost helps make PCs more responsive by using flash memory devices (like USB thumb drives) to boost performance."

Need memories? just buy a 5 port USB HUB and buy some USB 1 or 2GB and use that as a memory for the computer, no more open the case, and pry the regular mem out and slide the new mem in... no more hassle
And for now on(if i have windows Vista) all the background programm will be loaded from the USB sticks, and keep the regular mem free for other things :P

Can you explain that ? Is it a feature of Vista ?

Originally Posted by Respenus

As we all know SH3 is a memory hog.

My advice, get atleast 2GB RAM, preferably DDR II to get THE BEST perfomance. The game works just nice with other comps.

Thats true... i am using 3Gb RAM and still having FPS troubles at "bottle necks", with a 3.4Ghz CPU.

The add of a PCI sound card improves a lot my system, the onboard one, "eats" my resources.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

2. Make sure Windows is controlling your new RAM. I had an issue were I set the RAM usage to my liking and it killed my games. I set it back to Windows control of the RAM and that was that. The swapping of files off the hard drive sucks.

Are you talking about RAM or Virtual Memory ? I use third party little programs to give priority to games on RAM and CPU, but in Virtual memory i manually adjusted ti to its maximun value... do you have better results when windows controls it ?