Who would agree that the Half-Life 2 games (including episodes) are close to perfect? :Dbiggest_loser

Yeah i'd say theyre almost perfect, except for über linear, hl2 ending was awful, we still know jack about the gman, futuristic alien plasma rifles are weaker than a crossbow, a magnum and a shotgun, and oh mid game bosses have dissappeared since the original game, ant lions and squads you cant get rid off if u dont want them around, and theres far fewer weapons than in the original game. But yes apart from that almost perfect.

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This is a HARDWARE discussion board, not a HARDWARE argument board, or a troll board. So STOP making these dumb threads.

dbowman

how ironic.

shouldnt u be hat-eating? lol sorry to bring that up again

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"]If all you can do is ***** about Crysis and its performance codezer0,then you really are sad.codezer0

It never struck u then that the game has alot more going on in the engine then say, any other game ever made? Its not poorly coded, its complex. Move some sliders to #horror of horrors# ...medium! arrggghhh the pain! ohhhh the pain!

ok I have a question.

Let say you loosen your ram timings to to 5-5-5-18. So you can overclock your cpu to where you want it.

After you've overclocked your cpu, can you simply tighten your ram timings back to 4-4-4-12 or will that pose a problem getting them that low agian?

manic626

You shouzldnt have to loosen your timings. I got ddr2 800 (very standard stuff), when you oc u dont need to increase your ram speed above stock, you might find that with an oc'd processor your ram will be quite happy running slower then stock, cause of the change to ram & motherboard speed ratios. Mines at like 700mhz or something, and after that the next ratio up in the bios is something like 850mhz+, and the difference in performance is like 30, thats right, 30 3dmarks. I keep the ram on the lower one to keep it unstressed and living longer.

I have been studying a lot on overclocking while I'm in the process of building a new comp.

After a lot of thinking I've come to the conclusion that I do not want to overclock my machine's cpu or graphics card due to the money I'll be paying for them. In fact the only thing I will do is change the timings and voltage of my memory when it arrives.

So my question is, who here overclocks? and is the performance gain really worth it?

manic626

I did something very similar to you. Spent about 3 months buying magazines and looking on the net to research my first 'solo' build. wanted good value and overclockability sometime in the distant future, with components that were suited to overclocking. But i was nervous about oc'ing and any damage it could do, so i held out on it for about 6 months. STALKER and Supreme Commander persuaded me to at least give overclocking a try. Eventually i oc'd my e6300 in steps over the last 8 months or so, bumping it up a little at a time and stopping there just to be safe, first from stock 1.86ghz to 2.1ghz, then to 2.4ghz and now onto 2.6ghz. Could go further but havent yet as im happy with my frames as it is. My 7600gt bought for my new build happily oc'd quite alot with no ill effects, then i caught the performance bug and in the space of 6 months upgraded my video card twice. I just wanted ever more power! lol. Got a 7900gt & a snazzy cooler cooler for it, and oc'd as far as i could. It never gave me any problems even after (far far too many) many hours of gaming. Now ive got a 2900pro and oc'd it to the same core and mem clocks as my 7900 was at, to see an apples-to-apples comparison. Anyway to cut a long story short, oc'ing seems scary, isnt really, and when you start doing it to one thing you'll do it to whatever you can, then when thats got boring, you'll find yourself splashing loads of money on newer and better graphics cards.

hl2 was sooooooooooooo linear, one route through a big city and along the coast is just pants, plus THAT ending. Ep1 was better though.

someone said x3 earlier, my housemate watched me play it for a bit, he was laughing after about an hour when i started swearing lol.

bf2: armoured fury was quite poo, dont know what i expected really since its just 3 maps but i loathed it anyhow.

No wait, just looked it up on google, rated under something called 'linpack' the cyber 205 had 17mflops, whereas...

"A Gateway 2000 P5-200 with a 200 MHz Pentium Pro (a "class C" machine) cost about $2500 and was rated at 63 MFLOPs"

again under 'linpack'. So, a 486dx4 100 (from 1994) or pentium 75 (from 1996) would equal/best that supercomputer.

Blimey.