(02-18-2012, 03:05 AM)ItalynStylion Wrote: [ -> ]Also, since I'm running out of slots on my MoBo it would be ideal if it was PCI and not 16x if possible. If it requires 16x I will have to sell my PCI SSD and use a regular one.
Yeah...PCI ain't gunna cut it...not enough bandwith
Quote: Blue Ray
Blu-ray*
I know that "blu" isn't a real word and it's stupid but that's how it's spelled for some reason.
Quote:pretty much EVERYTHING you'd ever want including a 7 channel amplifier.
A 7 channel speaker amp inside a desktop, now that is something I have not seen yet in my life.....until now.
Quote:I want it to play in 1080p on a 50" TV via HDMI. What PCI card do you think would be required to do what I need?
Um.....where have you been for that last 10 or so years? PCI hasn't been a common video card bus in a very long time. PCI-E is the standard bus for pretty much all video cards these days.
AGP came out in 1996 and by 1998 it was extremely common for high end video cards. By 2002 it had nearly completely replaced PCI in all video cards (you could not find a PCI version of 99% of video cards).
PCI-E came out in 2004 to replace AGP and was immediately adopted by most video cards. By 2007 it had pretty much completely replaced AGP (you could not find an AGP version of 99% of video cards).
Some PCI cards are still made for legacy systems but you're certainly not going to find anything powerful enough to run modern 3D rendering applications well that runs off of PCI.
Quote:Intel i3 Clarksdale 550 Dual Core
Just warning you now that cpu might not cut the mustard for some of the heavier games.
Quote:I will have to move some speaker terminals to free up a PCI slot. Below are some chassis porn for you guys.
Very impressive! I can tell you put a lot of work into this design.
Quote:If it requires 16x I will have to sell my PCI-E SSD and use a regular one.
That confused me for a second, fixed.
Quote:What does that mean exactly?
By power he means processing power.
Quote:And holy crap, I need a card that's that serious? How are guys getting away with such smaller cards?
Did you read the guide I wrote in the first post? It explains how internal resolution and other settings affect gpu load.
If you want the games to be rendered at 1080p instead of just upscaled and really look good you're going to need what he said. But even if you want to render games at 480p and upscale you'll still need a pci-e graphics card I'm afraid.
As I said, PCI hasn't been used for video cards in a long time, it doesn't produce even a fraction of the bandwidth needed by modern cards.
Quote:For 720 or 1080, Which CPU i need? intel7?
Resolution doesn't affect cpu load.
Your PC is intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
That's going to be a nice space heater if you put good GPU in there.
(02-18-2012, 07:16 PM)lamedude Wrote: [ -> ]Your PC is intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
That's going to be a nice space heater if you put good GPU in there.
and putting an 2500k into that thing...
there is no way to get the heat out of the rig without watercooling
.......why?
Amplifiers don't produce that much heat.
Not all custom air coolers are large you know. Water cooling might be a lot easier but I doubt it's totally necessary.
(02-18-2012, 09:37 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Um.....where have you been for that last 10 or so years? PCI hasn't been a common video card bus in a very long time. PCI-E is the standard bus for pretty much all video cards these days.
AGP came out in 1996 and by 1998 it was extremely common for high end video cards. By 2002 it had nearly completely replaced PCI in all video cards (you could not find a PCI version of 99% of video cards).
PCI-E came out in 2004 to replace AGP and was immediately adopted by most video cards. By 2007 it had pretty much completely replaced AGP (you could not find an AGP version of 99% of video cards).
Some PCI cards are still made for legacy systems but you're certainly not going to find anything powerful enough to run modern 3D rendering applications well that runs off of PCI.
Or, in other words: It's so old that many people already say "PCI" when they mean "PCIE" and it's still clear what they mean.
NaturalViolence:
I'm starting to doubt how accurate the data in the first post is. My HD6650 has 28GB bandwidth and can do 3xIR with many games. According to this thread, that is not possible. It seems the game being played along with a few other factors need to be taken into account as well. For now, I guess the information here is the best method we have in determining IR, even if it's not completely accurate.
Benchmark :
Nvidia GT 540M 28.8Gb/s stock ( no OC)
Game : XenoBlade
2x and 2.5x : Same 100% speed
3x : 92% speed , GPU bottle neck the CPU (NaturalViolence is right at this point) , the audio lag many times
4x : 60% speed , not playable
Since it bottle neck the CPU , 3x is impossible on demanding game