TSGK Clan Forum

Lawitz · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:50 Post subject:

no Ati-tool is an unofficial tool and is not made by ATI.
btw. by overclocking your card you lost your warranty, they will most likely give you warranty if the set clocks are default when its broken and you want to use your warranty even though they could read out the maximum set values from the bios but thats too much work for them so they dont do that.

Shimmy_TSGK · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:36 Post subject:

I travel alot so a laptop is what i need,can't play much games so i stick to hl2 and guildwars and when i go back home just game on xbox live with the 360
here is my setup
Lg S1 Pro Express dual
Manufacturer: LG Electronics
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 158 GB Total
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
Monitor: LG 15.4 Fine Bright 1280x800 LCD Notebook monitor
Sound Card: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones: logitech headset 350
Keyboard: Standard 101/102-Key
Mouse: Logitech G5 Laser Mouse (silver edition)
Mouse Surface: Nova Winner MicroOptic /compad hl2 aftermath mousematt
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)

Xmeagol · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 22:30 Post subject:

Been using 4096mb of Page File for a while

i know that 2GB is the recomended but im too lazy to go and change it :\

Wonderbanana · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 22:36 Post subject:

Just built a new rig last week:

Thermaltake VA8003BWS Armour Super Tower
Asus Commando 'Republic of Gamers' PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (Overclocking shortly Twisted Evil

)
CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Micron Chips CAS 4-4-4-12
Zalman CNPS9700-LED Aero Flower CPU Cooler
Antec TruePower Trio 650W PSU
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC (550MHz) 640MB GDDR3 (1600MHz) PCI-Express
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional 7.1 Soundcard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Asus DRW-1612BL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter

Skint now though Laughing

Ellrick · Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 9 Country:

8800 gtx
E6600 @ 3.4 GHz
4 gigs o'ram
Asus P5b-e

Thats all the important stuff anyway.

I run DM as high res and quality as I can peg it, and its always buttery smooth.

Wonderbanana · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 02:04 Post subject:

Shimmy_TSGK · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 02:30 Post subject:

Banana and Ell you guys make me drool lol

[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:21 Post subject:

Hi guys here are the pics of my pc as promised............

Ps im thinking about buying a better cpu cooler ready for the upgrades im going to do but which cooler.....
I want to stay with air cooling but I want to buy the most efficient cooler i can get...I think its a choice between the one lord tooth paste has with the large 110 mm fan or one i saw on the overclockers site here is the link

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-TI
and the link to the one lord tooth paste has
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-026-ZA
please could you all take a look and give me some advice if you can tell me which one is the best or if you know one that is even better Very Happy

eXs|DanielAndres · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 626 Country: Age: 47

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 13:57 Post subject:

M8 I think you should change your wallpaper before your cpu.

[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 16:31 Post subject:

thats nothing diet.

Here is a photo of what we have been living with for the past 4 years , as its taken me this long to get the kitchen re built (literally) bendy dicks bedroom and a complete new roof from the window lintles, up ready to take a 20 x22 foot master bedroom 1 bathroom and a spare bedroom .

I think in about another 10 years I might just of finished it all ...

LOL just in time to start redecorating it all again.

By the way we had to put in a complete new suspended floot for the kitchen and i dug out 40 tones of earth under it to put in a store room ((BY hand))..
by the way thats alex in bens room not bendy lol

AND here is the roof which is finnished but only on the outside as there are no rooms inside yet.. I have got to finnish the flat of on the bottom level first and replace all the celings in all other rooms and fit a stair case b4 rooms go in...
WEll its a complete refurbishment realy but we have to live in it at the same time ...NOT EASY>>>
And if you r realyinterested in what i do between running my business and playing hl2dm I got pics of everything ive done to the house since we bought itand i can show you a pic of it with everything from the top of the scafolding up missing completely.....BUT ON A NEW POST ..JUST ASK

Freelancer · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 20:45 Post subject:

WHAT THE HELL!!!!??? Shocked

You had a partey or something ?
House is trashed from the inside Shocked

Lol Have fun rebuilding Laughing

[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 22:06 Post subject:

Yea man it was owned by an elderly couple and had had nothing done to it for at least 20 years. only a week or so after we moved in we found that the roof was about to colapse

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 19:35 Post subject:

gonna look nice when its finished LD.

[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 21:00 Post subject:

cheers diet Very Happy

And now back to the question at hand what would be the best air cooling for my pc Confused

Ellrick · Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 9 Country:

Whatever cooling solution you choose, make sure you have room enough in your case for it!

I cut it really close with mine, I had no idea how huge the core 2 duo HSF had gotten.

Lawitz · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 23:00 Post subject:

such heavy coolers (thats almost 1kg) can be dangerous when transporting the pc, there are storys of people that left lan partys upon arrival when they found out the giant cooler had taken the whole socket down from the mainboard. so you should be careful. AMD allows a maximum of 450g, Intel 550g. (without mounting accesories). anything above that is your own risk.

Plasmo_TSGK · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 00:09 Post subject:

I remember there being concern with the weight of the old Thermalright Socket A heatsinks when transporting your computer...and the things these days are twice as big and are much taller. As lawitz said, be careful if you are going to be transporting your computer at all with a giant hsf. You could probably rig up some kind of support system without much difficulty if you were really concerned about the weight. You may also have to remove your side fan if you get one of the taller coolers.

As for which cooler...the Tuniq Tower 120 is probably the best aircooler out these days (but it's huge). I'm not sure how it compares to the Titan TEC, but the performance difference probably won't be big enough to justify spending twice as much on the Titan. Some other good ones (supposedly, as I don't have experience with any of them): Scythe Ninja, Scythe Infinity, Thermaltake Big Typhoon, Zalman 9700 (the one Toothpaste is using).

With the beastly coolers you will want to check if there are any reported compatibility issues with your motherboard, as the capacitors on the motherboard may interfere with the heatsink.

zaitsev · Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Country:

A lot of PC builders refuse to ship HSFs that size as part of a build; same with really meaty PSUs.

As for my setup, 2 years old and not that hot when I got it:

AMD64 3000+ Socket 754

1GB 400Mhz Crucial DDR

Sapphire Radeon 9600xt, passive cooled.

Crap Logitech wireless KB & mouse.

Birthday present will be an Radeon AGP X1950XT; that'll take me up to HL2 ep2

[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 03:52 Post subject:

thanks guys...
I DO SOMETIMES TRANSPORT MY PC BUT i WAS WARNED TO CARRY it on its side, so that the motherboard was face up.I had seen that that big box cooler was a heavy one and thought that it would need suport...
Also i havent checked yet to c if i got enough room in case but will b4 buying.
If that is all the weight that amd alow 4 though it might be best to go for the one toothpaste has . so i will do ibit of resarch now....

Thanks guys for the advice. Very Happy

65 Impala SS · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 04:21 Post subject:

Unless one has the right combo of Motherboard/Proc/Ram/Cooling, Ocing can be more trouble than its worth. Crashes, forgetful registry settings, Burnt Windows installs and instability CAN happen.

Unless you can get a system stable to some large overclock, don't do it. 3 FPS is not worth the trouble.
And HL2 doesnt like OCing.

[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 09:44 Post subject:

Im not going to go stupid ,jut say about half way when Ive got my new mother board and chip, but wanted to start getting the bits together now ...
As i said b4 I want reliability not a bag of trouble.... Smile

[AgC]Flushthetoilet · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 15:55 Post subject:

mobo
ASUS M2N-SLI-DLX NF570 SLI, Socket AM2

CPU
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 4200 + Windsor Core, Dual Core 2.2GHz, 512KB x 2 Cache, Retail

Case
Coolermaster Praetorian 732 Silver full aluminium

PSU
550W Xclio X14S4P3 Modular SLi U-Quiet 14cm

RAM
CORSAIR XMS 1Gig DDR2 6400

HDD
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 17 160GB 6G160E0 SATA-II 8MB Cache

GFX
256Mb XFX 7900GT, PCI-E (x16), Extreme, Mem 1500 MHz, GPU 520 MHz, 24 Pipes, Dual DVI-I/HDTV

Mouse
Logitec G5

Monitor
Iiyama Prolite 431 17"

Headset
Speed Link Medusa 5.1