BECOME AN OFFICIAL OcUK REVIEWER & WIN SAPPHIRE HD 5970, 5870, 5850 & 5770 GFX CARDS

PCM2 said:
Haha yeah. On a circular table facing each other, reviews in the middle and sweat dripping from their brows. :p

@ everyone who says they will be disappointed if they don't win! Don't be :). Just don't expect anything and don't dwell on it if you don't win. And if you do - well done :). Either way I'm sure it will be a close call and a lot of the reviews are probably excellent even if they aren't 'winners'.
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And if you love doing reviews that much you can always send off to another 3rd party review website to apply for a position :) Or you could simply post up reviews on these forums and hope you get noticed :)
 
As much as my imagination runs wild at the thought of landing a 5970, I have to calm it down. Disappointment is never fun.

If I -do- get the 5970, I think I will hold onto it, and just save up some cash to build in i7 rig around it. I'm thinking i7 930, 6GB Patriot memory, Intel SSD + SpinPoint F3, Asus P6TD... *drools*

No! Bad sleepygamer! Calm down.
 
sleepygamer said:
As much as my imagination runs wild at the thought of landing a 5970, I have to calm it down. Disappointment is never fun.

If I -do- get the 5970, I think I will hold onto it, and just save up some cash to build in i7 rig around it. I'm thinking i7 930, 6GB Patriot memory, Intel SSD + SpinPoint F3, Asus P6TD... *drools*

No! Bad sleepygamer! Calm down.
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Haha, I'm in the same boat. Except I'm blatantly not going to get anything :p
You seem to have your dream PC all planned out! It's a bit of a beast :rolleyes:
 
Yus. I'm a hardware lover, an audiophile and a gamer. Not the greatest combination, but all fun.

Now, my dream PC would be Gulftown based, with the full complement of 12/24GB of RAM. Intel SSD + Spinpoint as my gaming rig, and a 2TB WD Caviar black for audio and video editing, along with that beastly Creative sound card and a brand new 24"-27" monitor and speaker system.

A man can dream!
 
sleepygamer said:
Yus. I'm a hardware lover, an audiophile and a gamer. Not the greatest combination, but all fun.

Now, my dream PC would be Gulftown based, with the full complement of 12/24GB of RAM. Intel SSD + Spinpoint as my gaming rig, and a 2TB WD Caviar black for audio and video editing, along with that beastly Creative sound card and a brand new 24"-27" monitor and speaker system.

A man can dream!
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My god. That would be an epic PC. But think of the depreciation! After the first year or so You'd lose so much value on it!
I must admit though, I to am all three of the above (afflictions?). I just spent £250 watercooling my CPU it have it clocked at exactly the same speed as before on air due to RAM restrictions. I don't regret it though. It was a great learning experience, I had always wanted to watercool but was too scared.
 
Nah dream pc would have to be on one of the new hexacore motherboards: 128Gb RAM ***!

I'm too busy to sit at my pc, but I'm refreshing the page every 10 minutes or so on my archos! :D
 
Nah dream pc would have to be on one of the new hexacore motherboards: 128Gb RAM ***!

I'm too busy to sit at my pc, but I'm refreshing the page every 10 minutes or so on my archos! :D
 
Hah, afflictions indeed. If you want to do clean, clear audio editing, having a loud rig is a no-no, so watercooling is a pretty good route to go, even if you don't need the overclocking headroom. I wouldn't mind the depreciation. So long as the big ol' 6 core, 12 thread monster can Fold for me while I am sleeping, I'm happy. In the Custom PC magazine, they clocked the 980X to 4.72GHz on water. Granted, Intel probably slipped them a perfect chip, but it's something to strive for.

I'd be more than happy to dump a lot of money into a system for epic performance. Premiere Pro might actually function smoothly without needing to be shut down and saved every hour. Cubase will be able to run compression bands on more than 8 tracks. Fallout 3 might actually run without microstutters! Crysis may be playable!

So worth it. Hell, the best bit about having a clean audio editing rig is that you can slam an SM58 in front of your amp, record dry, and the quality is so clear, even compressing it seems like sacrilege!
 
Hmmmm. Those Specs. do seem like nice PC's...however if we are referring to them as PC's (which I think tends to refer to windows based computers...) then as far as I was aware over 4Gb of RAM would be pure overkill because a 32bit OS like say windows XP/Vista/7 32 can only detect/use 4Gb (b or B? unsure as to if bits or bytes so i'll assume bits). so with say 6 or 12 Gb you'd need a 64bit OS and if we're still on PC's and so windows, don't all the drivers and most programs have to be digitally signed by Microsoft? which is a pain?
Linux rules guys ;)

interesting that a certain three letter acronym used to infer that something is better and "winning" over something else...is blocked by the filter :)

As for the Spie+everyone else sitting round a table with a countingdown clock...what happens if they don't make it in time? do they explode? or do they just not get free beverages of the adult kind? ;)
 
When talking about RAM these days, you always use Bytes. 4GB of RAM is 4096MB, in this case. For audio and video and big photo editing, there is no such thing as too much RAM... just not enough money!

XP, Vista and 7 all come in 64-bit flavours, and I have had no trouble with drivers, programs or anything.

I'd never use a Linux box for gaming or audio editing. Far too fussy. Cubase + Reaper in Windows is juuuust fine.

Ksanti: I have to go play a gig pretty soon. I can't hang around >.<
 
sleepygamer said:
Bah, you rich people and Pro Tools. Cubase + Reaper will net you a solid sound. :D

Glad to see someone understands my technical mumbo jumbo.
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Got it free with the hardware! Which is just as well given that the hardware costs a bomb, even the M-Audio stuff :p
 
Eugh. M-Audio. Driver hell, according to my bassist.

Creative make nice stuff, but so long as you can hook up a DI box directly into the sound card without a ton of input lag, I'm pretty happy!

I don't think Pro Tools would run especially well on my system, anyway. Hence the desire for CRAZY COMPUTER times.
 
Driver hell if you install them wrong . . . I've now owned about 5 M-Audio (both Firewire and USB) devices and have never had a problem with the drivers. I think most problems come from people having dodgy copies of Pro Tools! I've thought about getting a DI box for a while now, any recommendations? Looking to plug my Telecaster straight into Amplitube or something, I usually mike up the amp but I can't do that here in Sheffield since it's an Orange tube amp that needs to be cranked!
 
The M-audio DI boxes are cheap and easy to use, but the sound quality leaves a lot to be desired. I think it's best to get a DI box matched to your sound card, so you don't have to deal with USB bandwidth issues.
 
MikeYoung said:
interesting that a certain three letter acronym used to infer that something is better and "winning" over something else...is blocked by the filter :)

As for the Spie+everyone else sitting round a table with a countingdown clock...what happens if they don't make it in time? do they explode? or do they just not get free beverages of the adult kind? ;)
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Wait.. I'm a 3 letter acronym. I hope you aren't referring to me. :D Yeah the table blows up if the decision isn't made. ;)
 
Ksanti said:
Ever so slightly off topic guys? Haha

Coming up to early evening soon :)
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Off topic? Us? never :P besides what else are we to do, just sit and wait for the results to come out (or the table at OCUK HQ to explode) and then feel dissapointed that we didnt win even though we all knew we wouldn't? which really doesn't make sense because we can't KNOW we won't win. If everyone KNEW that they weren't gonna win then there couldn't be a winner because it would mean that they didn't know they were gonna win even though they did. but they didn't...paradoxical methinks.
confusing much?

Is anyone else just feeling that there's nothing to do today but sit around and wait for the results to get posted or is that just me?

:D
 
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