Comments on: New PC and Desktop

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:26:48 +0000

6600GT is cheap…

One stick of 1 GB PC3200 DDR RAM CL 3.0. I need to get another stick for dual channel.

All except my 300gb Maxtor are SATA.

By: ThePanda

ThePanda — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:54:32 +0000

Crossfire, to my understanding, pairs any capable ATI PCI-E regular card with a crossfire edition of that card (x800 or x850 series) by means of an external cable that links the two.
Nvidia is ahead, but not by much. Adding an inexpensive pci-e card in the second slot with SLI disabled opens up the possibility for a quad-display configuration. Whee.

By: Zefiris

Zefiris — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 08:59:02 +0000

darkmirage, why didn’t you wait for the Nvidia 6800GS? also, what are the details of your kingston ram and are all your harddisks IDE?

By: 【サイベル ☆ UP】

【サイベル ☆ UP】 — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:45:55 +0000

yeah, NVidia SLI need to same model agp card to works, while ATI Xfire can use any card that have SLI capability right ?
i think that’s good idea, since u dun have to worry if your card no longer on the market or outdated ^^
but yea… somehow Nvidia took the crown for single & dual agp for now ^^
i am still using Radeon9800pro 128mb ^_^;

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:52:35 +0000

Nvidia wins for mid-range (6600GT) and high-end (7800GTX).

Dual PCI-e can be used with any graphics cards for a total of four DVI/VGA out.

You only need two card of the same model by Nvidia if you want to use the SLI (Scalable Link Interface) feature, which makes the system treat the two card as a single unit and distribute the processing load between them.

If you don’t plan on using SLI (like me), then any two graphics card will work in the two slots.

By: 【サイベル ☆ UP】

【サイベル ☆ UP】 — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:19:38 +0000

カッコイイ! … anyway why u grab Nvidia, paper-san ?
isn’t ATI someway better than Nvidia ?
and CrossFire capability is better than nvidia dualAGP, right ?
if i dun wrong, crossfire possible to mixed 2 different AGP
while Nvidia need 2 exact same AGP to run dualAGP ^^

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:43:22 +0000

I'm using this theme. The 3 DVD drives are virtual drives from Alcohol 120%. I usually have only two virtual drives, but I use the third one to take up the H: drive letter so that it won't be taken up by a USB device... just in case I get another physical optical drive someday. (I like my drive letters neat and organized)

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:38:48 +0000

If you are using Nvidia card, right click on the desktop and select “nView Property”, then go to the Desktop tab and click on Property.

No idea about ATI drivers, but basically the option should be under the driver settings and not windows display.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:53:54 +0000

What kind of desktoptheme you using?

By: moyism

moyism — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:39:47 +0000

Two thumbs up on the choice of wallpapers :)

btw, kind of sad asking, but how do you set two different wallpapers with dual monitors? I thought there was an easy way but apparently if there is, I’m missing it!