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Nice little rig dude :P
Some pretty old school tech there, but thats not a bad thing :)
How well does 7 run on a single-core Celeron by the way?
Nice little rig dude :P
Some pretty old school tech there, but thats not a bad thing :)
How well does 7 run on a single-core Celeron by the way?
It's surprisingly good. Well, it's the fastest computer I've ever had, so I don't know fast an i7 with TB of RAM would compare , but it runs pretty smoothly. However, given that it is a Celeron, the CPU usage is almost always really high, yet my laptop with a 2.0GHz AMD 'ClawHammer' can go to 1%. Not the best processor on the planet, but it helps play the sims 2 fine and runs XBMX quickly.
robbymcnob,
It may be cheap as chips but it's still a sweet rig and cheap and quick is always a good combo. Nice clean build and good on ya mate ! the Cheese
Interesting rig... I like the total ebay shopping list. :) Good job!
Here's where I'm a bit fuzzy, I noticed there are a lot of pics of different rigs and sometimes I noticed only one monitor but the rig has two or even three graphic cards in them... Why two cards and one monitor? Just wondering. Cheers!
Lol... Sounds almost like my build, I get most things from eBay (newer CPU and GPU currently in transit from USA). Only thing I bought locally was my case and PSU.
Multiple graphics cards would generally either be Nvidia SLI (Scalable Link Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) or ATI CrossFire (AMD CrossFire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Generally speaking, it's to give your PC a performance boost in the graphics-based department.
The basic idea is that the graphics processing is shared between multiple cards... Mostly for gaming rigs and high-end server setups (they sometimes use GPU power to add to the processing power of the server CPU). A good example in games is the ability to have alternate frames rendered by alternating GPUs; so frames 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, ect by GPU 1 and frames 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc by GPU 2.
He he won the second 8800gt on ebay for £16 showing a few artifacts cooked it for 10 mins @ 375f added a sprinkle of oregano and viola