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What sort of performance gain is seen between the ddr2 running at 800 and the same running at 1033?
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What sort of performance gain is seen between the ddr2 running at 800 and the same running at 1033?
Not likely all that much, really. In terms of synthetic benchmarks, you might see a decent increase, but in real use and play experience 800MHz is pretty high performance as it is. The biggest advantage is that the best 1066MHz RAM (Reaper and Dominator) will probably overclock to 1333 or more, which allows a noticeable difference, though still not as much as, say, changing a video card or processor.
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1066 MHz CL5 is about as fast as 800 MHz CL4, and they both cost about the same too.

@Jeff: It's probably going to my room, at least for now. I'm moving out in a month so if I think it's too loud (which I doubt, I'm used to loud computers), I can just keep it on another room than my bedroom. 700W should definitely be enough for CrossfireX (theoretically, 400W should be just and just enough for single 4870X2 and other "default" components, and there's no way one more will use +300W). I doubt I'm even going to add another 4870X2.. unless I really need to. I'm more into single-card solutions, and like you said if I added another one, the CPU would be a bottleneck so I would've to buy some super good CPU and OC it.

Anyway I really want to buy a new comp (my current one is kind of sluggish from time to time), but I should really ask myself that should I spend a lot of money on this, since I'm not that hardcore of a gamer. :p Then again, if I did put all the money on this, I doubt I'd have to upgrade for at least 2-3 years.

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Specs
HP Pavilion Elite m934f PC
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700
6GB System RAM
nVidia 9500GS
750GB HDD
TV Tuner
19" LCD Display

Graphics card could be better, but at least I can run some of the incredibly demanding games that I care about like Call of Duty 4 and Crysis on high settings.
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Anyway I really want to buy a new comp (my current one is kind of sluggish from time to time), but I should really ask myself that should I spend a lot of money on this, since I'm not that hardcore of a gamer. :p Then again, if I did put all the money on this, I doubt I'd have to upgrade for at least 2-3 years.

A single card should be enough for you. Remember that SLI/XFire doesn't double your speeds, but averages around 50% improvement. Paying 2x more for only 50% faster is something I would think only a hardcore gamer would consider worthwhile. If you're honestly not that much of a heavy gamer, you could even get away with just a dual core and 2gb of memory. 2gb is enough for most instances, and most games today don't even fully utilize dual cores, so quad seems excessive in your case. 

If you ever do need a bit more horsepower down the road, its as easy as installing another video card, slapping in another 2gb or ram, or swapping out the dual core for a quad core. If you wait to buy them when you ACTUALLY need them, they will be a LOT cheaper than they are now, that's for damn sure.
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Well I already bought the comp so too late to regret now. I should be getting it tomorrow or wednesday. <3

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My laptop is a BEAST. The thing weighs 13 pounds.

Specs
Quad Core Proccessor
2x 512 Nvidea Go running in SLI
4 gigs of Ram
Blu Ray
19 Inch Screen.
$280 USD Donated GamingW

F*CKING Awsome Games that I support!



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Here's a pic of my new setup (click for bigger pic):



I really like my Casper trashbin..

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How do you like the Antec case rami? Is that that 900?
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My laptop is a BEAST. The thing weighs 13 pounds.

Specs
Quad Core Proccessor
2x 512 Nvidea Go running in SLI
4 gigs of Ram
Blu Ray
19 Inch Screen.

Goddamn, how's the battery life on that?
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How do you like the Antec case rami? Is that that 900?
Well, it is very very cool compared to any of my previous systems, but a tad more noisy (nothing unbearable though). But then again I got all my fans on the highest speed and also set my GPU fan at constant 45% to keep it cooler, it'd be quite a bit more quiet if I used low/medium fan speeds, and didn't set the GPU fan speed that high (most of the noise came from the GPU fan speed increase, setting it to automatically controlled like it was default is much much more quiet, but the GPU idle temp goes up like 30C).

My CPU is like 20-25C idle, haven't checked the load temps, but I doubt they go higher than 40-45C. My GPU idles at 40C (without the "fan fix" it was like 80C, ugh), haven't checked load temps for it either though. But either way, I'm really digging the case so far.

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My laptop is a BEAST. The thing weighs 13 pounds.

Specs
Quad Core Proccessor
2x 512 Nvidea Go running in SLI
4 gigs of Ram
Blu Ray
19 Inch Screen.
and i thought mine was big... i don't even think that qualifies as a laptop anymore.

My stuff:

Intel Core2 Duo T8300 2.4Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600m GT
4 Gigs Ram
17in 1920x1200 native res (i think it has available 1080p but im not sure)
Running Vista Home Premium
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Tried hooking my PC into my Full HD TV and played a little bit of Crysis on it (1920x1080, all settings on very high [actually ][/actually]), here's a few pics:


And a video if anyone wants to see (no sound though):
http://reko.tiira.net/games/crysis/Crysis.avi

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Looks pretty shit to me. (i'm jealous).
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just installed a new power supply. my old one was SERIOUSLY fucked up. i cleaned my shit when i moved into my new place, and it was just disgustingly caked with dust. Like, disgusting. And like, caked. I cleaned it all u pexcept the power supply, because i can't get inside it. Anyways, for the past few weeks i could hear like dust inside rattling, and it would like WHIR and shit, it was bad. I could hear it sagging and struggling to keep itself going.

So i got a new PS (500w, my old one was 400w). It's pretty beautiful and is fucking so quiet. I'm stoked.
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intel(r) celeron(r) m
1.70 ghz
960 gb ram
via/s3g unichrome pro igp 64 mb
1280*800
That is almost exactly what the IBM SurePOS 400s use. Did you take a cash register from work or something?
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960gb of ram... dam bro are you multiboxing lol
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He can open all the FF tabs in the worllddddd...

I think that might've been a typo! What is an IBM SurePOS 400, though, Jeff?
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What is an IBM SurePOS 400, though, Jeff?
It is a smallform computer that is used for cash registers in many stores in America. I make use of one that I swapped the processor out on as a mythbuntu HTPC, but mine is the SurePOS 300. The 400 is a bit better, and is about the exact same stats as he listed, including the via northbridge/graphics.