Posts by FrieChamp

  • Hardware experts - what do you think of this system?

    Quote from cyberjunkie

    If you're planning on making it a value buy, then maybe a 8800GTS would be better choice. Instead of the X6800 get the Q6600 - better rendering/compiling performance 4GB RAM if you're on a 64bit OS and I personally am no fan of 64bit Vista I'd also spend on a bigger hard drive a WD Caviar 320GB at least, or maybe a 500GB. Silly to get a 8800GTX and a X6800 and get a 160GB drive I'd also recommend a bigger single screen - 22" - not too costly + you get a decent resolution and screen size. Single-Widescreen is great for gaming/movies!. Dell 2407WFP (24") would be superb though but its costly

    I don't render or compile anything, but maybe a Quad Core would pay off nevertheless for gaming some day soon. I don't want to switch to Vista, WinXp 64 worked fine for me at work and I will need the memory for Sandbox. 320 GB? 500 GB? I don't know what you're doing with all that HD space but I don't intend to download pr0n 24/7. File sizes are getting bigger and bigger, but I usually don't stash a whole lot of files that I don't frequently need. Maybe a few more gigs won't hurt, but I gotta save money where ever possible..

    The screen I listed above is a 22", anything bigger (especially from Dell) is beyond my limit. I think that's enough work space in combination with the 17".

    How does the 8800GTS compare to the 8800GTX version? Is the GTX significantly better, so the extra cash is well invested or does the GTS hold up well enough?

  • Hardware experts - what do you think of this system?

    Hey, I got this 2nd investment lined up, which is a new PC for my home. I was in the lucky situation to use the high end machines at my former work place for gaming, but now that I'm left with the ancient machine at home I want to/need to get something new.

    The rig should hold up well what upcoming games in the near future are concerned (Crysis and so on) and also for mapping I need something fast.

    Obviously I want to get bang for the buck though (student life is hard and dure ), so I'm asking the tech geeks here to have a look at the list of components I've come up with. Maybe you know some items which could be replaced for something cheaper/better.

    List goes as follows:

    CPU: Intel Core 2 CPU X6800

    Board: Some ASUS board

    GFX: XFX 8800 GTX

    RAM: 2x2048

    Screen: Iiyama ProLite E2201W-B1 (I already got the 17" version from Iiyama, I am happy with it and the uniform look should be nice when they are set up as dual screens)

    Power supply: Sharkoon Silent

    Hard drive: s-ata HD 160 GB (plus my 75 GB one from the old machine)

    OS: WinXP pro 64 (I don't want to get Vista but make use of my memory)

    DVD Burner: Will be taken from old machine

    Case: Something standard, without any plexi glass or fancy multi coloured lights

    Do you think this would make a good system? Do you think it is "too much" (as far as I can estimate it's going to be a quite expensive purchase)?

    Thanks

  • Crytek under attack!!!!

    Quote from Mojo

    why hasn't this question been addressed yet? this is damn important!

    The contaminated ex staff has been moved into the parking garage and will now provide external focus testing.

    Applicants might be asked to perform a candidate test that involves running from park deck A to E and back to the main building without any bite wounds, to determine whether the candidate has that certain "drive" and "edge" to accomplish his day to day tasks in such a competitive environment (read: to pick up pizza deliveries from the building entrance and tag them in the kitchen, before anybody can snatch them).

  • Bungie + Microsoft calling the quits?

    I didn't see that coming to be honest. I can't recall any studio regaining its independent status after an acquisition.

    This paragraph puts things into perspective though:

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    Microsoft will retain an equity interest in Bungie, at the same time continuing its long-standing publishing agreement between Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie for the Microsoft-owned “Halo” intellectual property as well as other future properties developed by Bungie.

    So I guess that means that Bungie will be able to develop what they please from now on, but the question is how feasible this is, when Microsoft retains equity interests, is the publisher for any future games and owner of any future intellectual property (not to speak of the Halo franchise, but I'm sure Bungie is sick of that by now anyway).

    So who's going to make the Halo games from now on - or do you actually believe Halo 3 was the last one?

  • Crytek under attack!!!!

    http://www.faz.net/s/Rub0D783DBE76F14A5 ... ~SMed.html

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    Dutzende Verletzte bei Chlorgasunfall in FrankfurtBei einem Unfall mit Chlorgas sind am Freitag in Frankfurt am Main bis zu 54 Menschen zum Teil schwer verletzt worden. Die Bevölkerung wurde aufgefordert, die Häuser nicht zu verlassen sowie Fenster und Türen geschlossen zu halten. Die Frankfurter Berufsfeuerwehr war mit etwa 60 Leuten vor Ort.

    English summary:

    Some workers of a factory in the vicinity of the Crytek office Frankfurt messed up a little and put the wrong chemicals into the wrong barrels. This spawned a chlorine gas cloud which seriously injured some of the workers and called an entire convoy of fireman cars to the scene, they had to seal off everything. Luckily not much of the gas escaped, but the total count of injured people raised to 54 by now.

    Good that the employees of Crytek never leave the building during the day and that there are no windows, so they should be safe for now....but what happens if the pizza delivery service doesn't make its way through?

    I'll keep you updated