I just upgraded from a SNES

[Reinah]

To a real powerhouse...

Sorry for a waste of space, I just had to share my excitement. The computer I was running before was a piece of shit and had integrated graphics, 512 MB RAM, and maybe a 2 GHz processor? Iunno.

I'M SO EXCITED.

Plus I built my new shiny myself. And it has pretty blue lights!

Running now on:

ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Quad-Core 2.83 GHz processor (Q9550)
8gb DDR2 800 (OCZ Gold)
EVGA NVidia GeForce GTX 280



http://reinah.com/other/sweet.bmp

[Keria]

your SNES is my gaming pc......except mine has a piece of shit radeon card or something

[_chuchu]

You can change oversample the resolution in ur registry to make it look better and still run the game w/o lag in most areas. There should be guides on that you can dig up on this forum and on wiki and otherwiki.

[richardd]

does FFXI even need all those to run at full specs?

i did fine on my old single core 3500+ amd 64 lol, 2 gigs of ram and 7800 GTX.

im about to upgrade to a quad core soon enough though.

[Reinah]

You can change oversample the resolution in ur registry to make it look better and still run the game w/o lag in most areas. There should be guides on that you can dig up on this forum and on wiki and otherwiki.

I already changed it, but I was going to look into increasing it more.

[Reinah]

does FFXI even need all those to run at full specs?

i did fine on my old single core 3500+ amd 64 lol, 2 gigs of ram and 7800 GTX.

im about to upgrade to a quad core soon enough though.

No, it really doesn't. But I can play lots of other games now too!

Inb4 tech.

oh, and drawdistance is your friend.

Yeah, I haven't installed windower yet. I want to copy the stuff from my laptop and save the macros to server, so I have all my macros and stuff.

[richardd]

No, it really doesn't. But I can play lots of other games now too!




Yeah, I haven't installed windower yet. I want to copy the stuff from my laptop and save the macros to server, so I have all my macros and stuff.

yeah!

gogo aion! have you seen the full resolution SS's? its orgasmic D;

[Reinah]

yeah!

gogo aion! have you seen the full resolution SS's? its orgasmic D;

Haha, I had to look that up, I didn't even know what it was...

I'm not really looking to get into another MMO, I kind of play them for awhile, realize I like FFXI better, then stop. *Shrugs*

[Araelus]

How about upgrading from a SNES to a portable SNES! Yeah!

http://media.techeblog.com/images/portablesnes__1.jpg

ExtremeTech - Build a Portable Super Nintendo

[Reinah]

How about upgrading from a SNES to a portable SNES! Yeah!

http://media.techeblog.com/images/portablesnes__1.jpg

ExtremeTech - Build a Portable Super Nintendo

No internet for my FFXI! :O

[Reinah]

Here, updated pic with drawdistance and even more upgraded resolution:

http://reinah.com/other/ffxi_2008.04.18_16.30.50.jpg


Does that look better?

[Melena]

Nice setup. Just ordered a new one for me (after building my last 8 systems, i needed a break) Mine is actually pretty damn close to yours, only difference is I got the I7 920 2.66ghz processor, which requires ddr3 memory, 6gb of that, and a Ge-Force 285. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you plunk down for yours?

[Reinah]

Hey guys, just upgraded the resolution and added even MORE drawdistance!

http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/upl...-fantasy-6.jpg

this is the new pic of my shell at faffy! it spawned yellow! ^-^^^^^

OMG you're making fun of me I'm going to go cry now! Boo hoo!

Nice setup. Just ordered a new one for me (after building my last 8 systems, i needed a break) Mine is actually pretty damn close to yours, only difference is I got the I7 920 2.66ghz processor, which requires ddr3 memory, 6gb of that, and a Ge-Force 285. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you plunk down for yours?

Not including the monitor, and not ordering the cheapest prices around (Some were, some weren't, I ordered off of Newegg because I trust them and they are pretty speedy and great with RMA's) I'd say I plunked down about $1000-$1300, I can't really recall anymore. (Tried to erase that bit from my mind...)

I hope you didn't order from a site like ibuypower.com. I originally did that and had to return it, because I had so many problems.

[Bockage]

It would have been better if you used that EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 someone awesome was selling in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.

[Melena]

i did from ibuy. Few people in my guild that I know in r/l ordered and had no trouble. If they completely fail i'll yell for a refund and build on my own. But when compared to other custom places, price was much better and I had more freedom in the choice of parts.

[Reinah]

It would have been better if you used that EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 someone awesome was selling in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.

Hahaha, sorry! I bought these parts awhile back, and had an issue that I FINALLY figured out.

i did from ibuy. Few people in my guild that I know in r/l ordered and had no trouble. If they completely fail i'll yell for a refund and build on my own. But when compared to other custom places, price was much better and I had more freedom in the choice of parts.

True, the price is very good. I had issues because I sent it in and they sent it back with the same problem after like, a month and a half... Finally they refunded everything but the shipping, which at that point was like, $200.

TIME TO SPIN THE WHEEL OF DESTINY!

http://i43.tinypic.com/2rp74om.png

TECH IT IS!

I'm a stupidhead, sorry.

[Bockage]

On a somewhat related note, I had no idea the GeForce GTX 280 worked with FFXI. I thought they had compatablilty issues from the 9000 series up.

[Reinah]

On a somewhat related note, I had no idea the GeForce GTX 280 worked with FFXI. I thought they had compatablilty issues from the 9000 series up.

I don't know about the other cards, but when I first installed FFXI, POL was all messed up. I downloaded new drivers from the Nvidia site and everything works fine now.

[richardd]

thats a pretty sextastic SS, Kish' lol


im wondering what cards i can get to half ass my way through now.

last time i bought the newest card in the market only to find it 300$ cheaper in 3~6 months w/something better lol. crossfire is a must though, ergh. i got some planning to do ;;

[Epical]

Took out most of the garbage posts, sorry they had to ruin your thread like that. Congrats on your new build and enjoy!