Just ordered...

XtAsY · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:03

An 8800 GTX along with a Core 2 Quadro QX6700. That was some serious money for me to spend, I'm only a student. I sure hope itll be worth the money. If it don't play UT2007 and Crysis maxed out then I want my money back

RadoX · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:22

lol waste of money

ReeceKB · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:25

RadoX said:
lol waste of money

agreed. complete waste of money tbh

sajtion · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:30

90% waste of money

XtAsY · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:31

your both just jealous

I'll be able to reap the benefits of quad core straight away cos I do a lot of CPU 3D rendering inside of Maya and it takes full advantage of multiple cores. As for the 8800GTX, the benchmarks look really good.

Lolcb · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:37

I wouldn't say 8800GTX is a total waste of money but the QX6700 is definitely a waste of money. Don't tell me you are making full use of the processor, cause that is hardly believable.

syke · 18 Nov 2006 at 23:38

TBH. If he has the money and that are the parts he wants..then why **** it off?

If you lot had that sort of money to spare im sure you would have gone for something like that.

Maybe because the E6600 can reach speeds of the Extreme Edition doesnt mean its a waste of money, its upto peoples own decisions rather than other people to **** them off.

Nice parts mate

Lolcb · 19 Nov 2006 at 00:10

yea, I spend a lot on components as well, but getting a quad core seems weird for me when I am hardly using the full feature of my x6800

XtAsY · 19 Nov 2006 at 00:15

Lolcb said:
yea, I spend a lot on components as well, but getting a quad core seems weird for me when I am hardly using the full feature of my x6800

as soon as the devs start coding games that are multi threaded, dual cores and quad cores should really show their potential. All should be revealed nxt year. Half Life 2 : Episode 2 may well be the first game to take advantage of dual/quad core processors. You've then got Crysis, Alan Wake and UT2007 too.

ReeceKB · 19 Nov 2006 at 00:17

Sorry man diddent mean to **** you of :eek:

But true if I had tht money to spend i'd probs get it lol

Lolcb · 19 Nov 2006 at 00:18

XtAsY said:
as soon as the devs start coding games that are multi threaded, dual cores and quad cores should really show their potential. All should be revealed nxt year. Half Life 2 : Episode 2 may well be the first game to take advantage of dual/quad core processors. You've then got Crysis, Alan Wake and UT2007 too.

May I ask, how long more is that? Dual core processor has been out for quite sometime, why is it until now there is hardly any game that makes use of dual core then? So judging at the rate of how games are going atm...

How long more?

Cyber-Mav · 19 Nov 2006 at 00:22

RadoX said:
lol waste of money

agree, proper waste of money.

thefishdude · 19 Nov 2006 at 00:46

nice one mate

if you got the cash i dont blame. you should be able to run any game full spec for a long while to come

Rroff · 19 Nov 2006 at 01:51

XtAsY said:
your both just jealous I'll be able to reap the benefits of quad core straight away cos I do a lot of CPU 3D rendering inside of Maya and it takes full advantage of multiple cores. As for the 8800GTX, the benchmarks look really good.

- about the only advantage right now of a quad core... if you do do a lot of work in programs like maya, lightwave, max, etc. then you should see your rendering/raytracing times drop by more than 75%.

humax · 19 Nov 2006 at 04:29

where dose a student get that kind of money from :eek:

tom_e · 19 Nov 2006 at 04:41

humax said:
where dose a student get that kind of money from

Hes living off smartprice beans and bread for the rest of the yr

sajtion · 19 Nov 2006 at 04:42

i'm not jealous but you asked for my opinion so i said it. with that cpu you won't see the full benefits for years, and i reckon in six month's, the price of that cpu will be halfed. you could have waited until then, but its not my money so good luck paying off your student debt lol

XtAsY · 19 Nov 2006 at 08:10

thefishdude said:
nice one mate if you got the cash i dont blame. you should be able to run any game full spec for a long while to come

well, the main reason I went ahead with this chip was for my 3d work that I do, but of course I wanted a good chip for games as well. Apparantly the QX6700 overclocks pretty good and it usually gets to 3GHz+ pretty easily on air cooling without any voltage tweaks so I can get it to perform as good as an X6800.

Participant · 19 Nov 2006 at 08:21

Well we can't comment on his student loan situation. Maybe his dad is fully loaded or something, so judge not until you know the facts people!

KizZ · 19 Nov 2006 at 08:24

Syk3 said:
TBH. If he has the money and that are the parts he wants..then why **** it off?

If you lot had that sort of money to spare im sure you would have gone for something like that.

Maybe because the E6600 can reach speeds of the Extreme Edition doesnt mean its a waste of money, its upto peoples own decisions rather than other people to **** them off.

Nice parts mate

Yep