Flyby Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 With my current system in pieces (p4-2.8, 1.5gig/DDR-PC3500, BFG 6800 Ultra, Cougar Hotas) I am looking at a chance for a pc upgrade. I've read about what's available, from the core2dou to the core2quads to the 45nm Penryn, and graphics cards til it's all runningout of my ears. I may be able to get a fairly decent, if not top line system. Can Wags or someone give some input based on his familarity with playing/testing Black Shark? Oh, I'm also looking forward to Oleg's Storm 0f War/Battle of Britain. I understand that it will really press older pc technology lilke mine. Another note is that I've seen a few videos of Crysis, and Tom's Hardware says that thing is a pc killer. thanks all Flyby The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey45 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 To get the full on out of Crysis you need a DX10 card... but [yes theres a but] M$ is updating DX10 [vista only] to 10.1 and it not backward compatable with DX10 cards. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 M$ can really suck at times Thanks for the reply Joey. Not that I'm interested in Crysis, but it really looks great from what I've seen. Too bad M$ is dicking around with it's DX, and NOT MAKING 10.1 BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE! Is that realy true? I hope not. Flyby The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereminqblank Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Dang, I can't find the link now, but I recently read an article which says that contrary to what people have been saying, DX10.1 will work on existing DX10 cards. If I find the link I'll post it. I can't find the actual link I was thinking of, but if you search for "DX10.1 backwards compatible" it results in many pages suggesting that 10.1 is just a very minor update that will work with current DX10 cards "Unholy Roller" [sIGPIC]http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/images/userbars/A-10C_UserBar_01.gif[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 thereminqblank thanks for the reply. I'll do a search. I feel I need to wait a bit befoer upgrading anyway. Hopefully when the Penryn comes out it will drive the price of the q6850 down a bit. Meanwhile there should be a wealth of articles pointing to the biggest bang for the buck processor. Who knows? Maybe the price of ddr3 ram will also drop. Pigs do fly. Don't they? :) Flyby The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereminqblank Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Things will become interesting when the Penryn is released, especially if the AMD quad chip is also released and is serious competition to the Penryn. The prices will come down nicely! :) I'm not sure DDR3 is worthwhile at the moment. DDR2 is becoming so cheap (Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 for £140. I paid £190 for TwinX PC2-6400 a year ago!) and it seems to be handling itself still. Plus, more graphics cards from nVidia and ATI in the next few months! Maybe all of this in time for Black Shark? :smilewink: "Unholy Roller" [sIGPIC]http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/images/userbars/A-10C_UserBar_01.gif[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorwaK Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Get a C2Q CPU and overclock it. It's the way of best performance.:thumbup: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Intel Core i7-6700K, @5GHz | Asus Maximus Hero VIII | 2 x eVGA GTX 970 SLI | Kingston Predator 16GB DDR4-3000Mhz | 2 x Samsung 850 PRO 240GB RAID-0 | AOC G2460PG G-SYNC LCD | OCULUS RIFT CV1 VR | THRUSTMASTER HOTAS WARTHOG | CH PRO PEDALS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey45 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 scaned from pczone mag in the uk issue 186 about DX10.1 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereminqblank Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 scaned from pczone mag in the uk issue 186 about DX10.1 Great, thanks for that. So it probably won't have any real effect for 12-18 months. "Unholy Roller" [sIGPIC]http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/images/userbars/A-10C_UserBar_01.gif[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorwaK Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Great, thanks for that. So it probably won't have any real effect for 12-18 months. There will be no effect to enduser actually. Difference of DX10.1 from Dx10 is only ATI engineering codes. Microsoft developed to DX10 with Nvidia 8800GTX reference card. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Intel Core i7-6700K, @5GHz | Asus Maximus Hero VIII | 2 x eVGA GTX 970 SLI | Kingston Predator 16GB DDR4-3000Mhz | 2 x Samsung 850 PRO 240GB RAID-0 | AOC G2460PG G-SYNC LCD | OCULUS RIFT CV1 VR | THRUSTMASTER HOTAS WARTHOG | CH PRO PEDALS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey45 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 so it affects ATI not Nvidia? EDIT: but saying that its for DX10+ is for VISTA... The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team Groove Posted October 19, 2007 ED Team Share Posted October 19, 2007 Be aware that all upcoming games will be DirectX 10 compatible. The CEO of Crytek explained that Crysis will be 100 % DX 10 and not Dx10.1 ! Our Forum Rules: http://forums.eagle.ru/rules.php#en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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