- 20 hours 2 min ago : Go figure.. 5 minutes after I put a raid of creeps together the freeps go away
- 22 hours 25 min ago : Looks like Scooby has a freep raid out
- 3 days 21 hours ago : Lug is blue
got tired of old out dated comp
Fri, 10/30/2009 - 22:34
so... I aquired a new one . I got the case and MB from a local pc shop and started buying the parts I wanted . Specs are as follows .
ASUS Mother board (1xpci , 1x pcie x1, 2x pcie x16)
10 gig of ddr3 memory
intell i7 processor
750 gig SATA HDD ( 7200 rpm )
Black widdow 750w power supply
ATI radion hd 4850 video card
1x video card cooling fan ( fits next to slot for the pci-ex16
1 intake fan in front of case
1 exhaust fan on side of case
Got everything together a few ago now the painstaking task of reinstalling lotro on it . All and all it looks to be good to go and should be back in the moors tomorrow some time as I dont know how long this is going to take for install and I may have some bugs on the windows 7 64 bit O/S.
Hope to see you guys soon .
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 19:02
#2
8 cores 
That will definitely help bring my heating bill down. 
How many GHz per core? Makes me wonder if lotro client is highly multithreaded though.
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 15:37
#3
I've got 32GB of quad-channel RAM in my dual quad-core Xeon workstation so I run LOTRO on a huge 16GB RAMdisk, which means that all of the game files are loaded into (and run from) memory. Superb performance (no hard drive access whatsoever), and I've got a GTX 295 to crunch the graphics, but nothing can solve the horrid server-side lag we've all seen. Now if I could just get motivated to play -- maybe later today or tomorrow I'll give it a shot.
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 14:28
#4
*jealous* So.. where do you live? And you don't have a gun right? ;)
Ram is next on my list, but a 4gb stick is pricey! Just bought a bunch of photography gear so my play fund is depleted
Ohh no's I'm gonna get jacked heheh .
Guns I have a few ( sks , DE, and glock )
This is a fun machine I swear never knew LOTRO till now and I am enjoying the lack of lag . I will look into the 58xx series cards in the future but for now and for price conservation I'll stick w/ the card I have . You know how it goes the good cards now will be outdated in a month or 5 . See you guys tonight .
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 12:52
#5
I think the non server related fps hit we get in raid vs raid conditions are mainly from lack of CPU power.
Of course in your case with the i7 it is a non issue.
The 5xxx series of cards have hardware DX11 support which is supposedly huge improvement over DX10.
As for the best, the sky is the limit. A HD5850 is not the most expensive but still a hell of a card. One level down would be the new HD5770
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 11:10
#6
*jealous* So.. where do you live? And you don't have a gun right? ;)
Ram is next on my list, but a 4gb stick is pricey! Just bought a bunch of photography gear so my play fund is depleted
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 10:41
#7
Everything good so far system stable and the heat is not a issue as it was in my amd machine . Graphics in the moors were good on High settings , in the cg room no lag and no twitching . The only issue I had was when running vent while playing lotro I couldnt use the hot keys or talk but I could hear . After talking to a kinmate of mine he found it was the same on Vista 64 , I had to start vent as admin . besides that all is well I will get a frame rate up tonight when I get a chance .
BTW I didnt pay alot for the card it was $70 on new egg , but what high end gfx card do you forsee being a " good " raid card Gunnolf? I guess my comps are just like my car I can't keep my hands off them and always needing to do more to increase the HP per say .
Sat, 10/31/2009 - 08:04
#8
Great setup but sadly that video card will be your bottleneck for some time.
Without paying the top dollar, you should have bought 5850 or at the minimum 4890 which performs great but uses more power then the 58XX series.
8 cores
That will definitely help bring my heating bill down.
How many GHz per core? Makes me wonder if lotro client is highly multithreaded though.
You're right about that, Gunny. We put in a new heat pump about six months ago and my wife couldn't figure out why we weren't seeing big reductions in our electric bill right away.
(The office is nice and toasty during the winter months, though.) My rig has two Xeon E5450s running at 3GHz per core with 12MB L2 cache per CPU. LOTRO isn't highly multithreaded (most games aren't -- yet) and doesn't really benefit all that much, but lots of other stuff I run is and does. In fact, I can actually do serious work or prime number hunting while the game is running full blast at max settings. I think I'm going to pop into the Moors for a bit tomorrow at the latest.