btw Noob when you planning on getting some of the benchmarking PIE for urself?
oh im gonna be there soon enough though obviously not in this user nick - maybe you know my other forum nick fishzn - i think you do - as does solo it seems LOL - im gonna rejoin the fray when i can get an almost 30k rig including maybe a pci express NV40 - till then my 21k+ rig is adequate for my daily usage
Oh well talk is cheap, so i reckon i'd better shut it until i start to work and get that 20 g's to make my claims reality!
nah fishy - its nice to have something to aim for and i do wish you well in your quest - not saying that it cannot be done but it will be difficult and you will need to stick to it through thick and thin if you want to do it though - take a look below at some estimated pricing also to realise that 20k of cold hard cash wont cut the mustard here though
Who cares about your stupid scores. STOP BRAGGING@!!!!!
well it seems like lots of people do care and if you dont then why respond to the post LOL - just go right past it when you see it and leave the people who do care alone to respond to it - there are some people who dont give a rats bottom about which lan you go to or which game you suck in right now so why start so many threads about that - FFS you go talk about you like and leave the rest of us alone
nOOb you sound alot like someone I know from another forum .....
strong the force is with this one (LOL)
How i wish i had at least R20000 to build myself a kick-bottom rig that would be something like solo's
to match solo's rig at retail prices
prometeia including lian li case (no use to get something that doesnt look right)
front display = R 670.80
seal string = R 340.66
alu base kit (silver) = R1184.60
Lian Li pc 60 case (silver) = R2150.06
cpu kit amd socket 754 = R 855.67
nventiv mach II gt = R9462.47
basic watercooling for gpu + chipset
asetek gpu block = R408.41
asetek chipset block R408.41
eheim pump for circulation = R800 approx
tygon tubing to allow chilled water R 360 for 3m (if you can find 4 other guys to share at 3m each otherwise R1500 for 15 metres (rolled)
cooler case R150
10 ice packs R200
hardware for computer
cpu Athlon 64 3400+ = R3375
motherboard = gigabyte nforce 3 = R1800
9800xt graphics card price varies average = R5000
ram 2 x 512 mushkin level2 black (if you can get it) around R3000
harddrive 40 gig sata R1200
antec truepower 550w psu R1200
cd dvd unit of your choice
plus maybe a few other odds and ends for volt mods etc which wont be more than R200
which totals up to R30719 which is if you can find guys to share the tygon costs - otherwise add in at least another R1100 - then factor in the cost of a decent monitor and keyboard and mouse - (im sure you are not gonna use a R35 mouse and R50 keyboard for a rig like this and neither are you going to use a 15" no name brand monitor)
this is only to match solo (now at 24 thousand and 7 hundred plus some odd change points) - to beat him change the cpu to an fx 51 then straight away add R4000 more for the cpu and R2000 more for the mobo as well as another R1000 for the same quantity of registered ram - alternatively leave the ram as is and R1000 for a P4 mobo and use a P4 3.4EE which would up the cpu by about R5000 more - i never did even yet mention that to get to the level of knowledge to make 22k improve to 24k without any changes in the rig will take around a year of digging up info - unless some kind soul tells you
all the tricks and tweaks in a nice thorough guide (not highly likely though)
realising that you wont match solo's score even with the above rig at your disposal until you do know half as much as him or some of the other 3dmarkers in this country =
priceless
care to chose and add up the rig of your choice here guys - BTW 22k isnt an option - enigma and andy ddr have both unofficially passed 25000 but cant publish those scores so id say we are a few weeks away from seeing South Afrca's first official 25k score wonder who its gonna be - also realize the goalposts have been changed 22k may not even get you into the planetmars top 10 in a month or two