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Reasonable Upgrade.

Ok ive ordered the X1800XT 256mb :D like people say, I should see a nice improvement from my X1600XT anyway. Even if it is only the 256mb version :) :p
 
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Nice find Naffa. Admittedly Half Life 2 isnt the most taxing game these days, but it does show the trend. You only benefit from 512 if you play high res with filtering really. AFAIK other games have been known to demonstate it better than Half Life 2 though, as Half Life 2 is designed to run nicely on most systems, so its textures dont really go high enough to use more than 256MB. With all the high resolution packs it may do though. Quake 4 and Doom3 on Ultra are also good examples of where 512MB comes in handy, and I have a sneaking suspicion X3 patched and high res may do as well, although that games wierd...you get godly perf increases by patching it....hmm
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Fair enough :p

I was just saying it to put his mind at rest ;) But you can go on in that review and see how they perform in other games.

And good choice :D
 
Yes you should. If you can, try FarCry, patched to 1.33, with improved shader, at 1600x1200+ all settings on very high with some filtering. You wont go back...

Looks damned godly with 6aa and 8af at 2048x1536, and Id imagine newer games like Fear would look awesome at 1600x1200 with some AA and AF :)









<SMALL PRINT>
GAMING AT ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTIONS WITH FILTERING MAY RUIN YOUR GAMING LIFE FOREVER AS YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO GO BACK!
 
Not very far. My board seems to fart out whenever I try to set my fsb to 220 :(

I presume its my board thats causing the limitation, as I tried putting vcore up etc, but whenever I save the fsb at 220, the machine saves and goes to the black continuous initialisation of hardware (solid lights on hd read light) and doesnt go to Post :(
Makes me think its the board as apparently I have a good clocking core serial (whatever the damned buggers called), and when I reset it with the BIOS reset jumper on the board, it works fine again :(
 
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Oh.. Looks like its a decent board so it could just be faulty? Decent memory.. But it could just be your CPU stepping? But if you say thats fine then I dunno...

That sucks though.. I got mine to 2.8Ghz stable on 1.4v :p

Whoops, I forgot to ask, is yours from the latest batch since the price drops?
 
hahah, tracked the issue down. The ram doesnt like loading at its default timings at above 215-ish fsb...understandable considering the timings.
Have got it lowered to DDR333 Ratio right now, and its running fine. Gonna try booting at DDR400 6-3-3 timings, or perhaps keep these DDR333, or lower to DDR266 ratio and see how that holds.

Any suggestions Naffa?
 
Your just work out what speed your memory will be with whatever fsb you're putting on your cpu. Don't let the memory go over 210Mhz. If it's going to then lower it to ddr266.

I know what to do when I'm doing it.. But a lot of people on here could explain it a lot better than me.
 
Heheh, thats the bit I got already but gotcha :)

Am going to torture test it in a min

(DDR266 settings)
memory @ 189.5MHz 5-3-2@2 1T
CPU @ 1.55V 2653MHz - 9x multi - 294.8 HTT
Chipset's at 1.7, HTT is at 1.7V
 
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