Warning: Pointless, Dull Thread!!!

[VprHis]

Alternate title: Rebuild Misery...ended?


So... I've been kinda absent lately (not that I post much when I am around :)) because my old computer died, and rather than fix it, I just decided to build a new one.


pause for laughter.


Got everything together OK, but when I tried to play anythin using Direct3d, it'd go for a few minutes (rarely even as many as five) and kick me out of the program. I spent a solid two weeks trying to troubleshoot this damn thing... tried pretty much everything short of hardware replacement (thought it was the graphics card/drivers/BIOS/God only knows).

I think I got it fixed. Tested my RAM and it found errors. So I had to move the DIMMs around until I found a combo that gave no errors, and voila... sustained gameplay.

I'm pretty happy with it. Spent about $700 and got a 3x increase in framerate on Doom3 compared to my old system (2.4 GHz P4). Me likey.

 

[Golferdow01]

Very nice.

If it's a new computer and it isn't the drivers, it's always the RAM.

Funny how moody those sticks can be when they aren't exactly where they want to chill.

 

[VprHis]

Yeah, wish I'd realized that a week ago :)

I was seriously worried for a while. It's a pretty nice setup, but I still need to get a 2nd video card to get the full SLI rig going :) I figure this setup should be expandable enough to last me for several years without really falling behind. RAM's expandable up to 8 Gig, it's set up for SATA and RAID if I want to go that way. 3GHz Pentium D should be fast enough for a while, and I can actually cram in a full Gig of graphics power, if I care to shell out the bucks.




Basically, I'm feeling smug because I (seem to have) outwitted an inanimate object. Sad, really, but them's the breaks.

 

[Golferdow01]

RAID that SATA pronto my friend!!!

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

If you have a clue of what you're doing, you can always build a much nicer machine cheaper than buying an off-the-shelf one.

 

[Golferdow01]

If you have a clue of what you're doing, you can always build a much nicer machine cheaper than buying an off-the-shelf one.

Yup, and you're using non-generic parts as well.

 

[BUCKYLE]

There should have been some sort of warning that this is a Dull, Pointless thread...:tongue2:

 

[VprHis]

I'd hate to mislead people....

 

[BUCKYLE]

I'd hate to mislead people....

Good one.