... 8800 GT IS $300. :\ unless you're talking about 8800GTX which is twice as expensive. I dont ever buy ATI so I don't know.

What a waste of good money...

Early xmas gift... Hooray!

However i plan on buying another when i have the $$

Also... 8800's aren't ATI lol..

*cough* he is in a daze.

I was trying to imply that you can get a good nvidia card with $300.

nVidia arent the best. Most games are just made to work with it the best. You dont see nVidia on Nintendos for that reason, they didn't pay them to make games with high end graphics so people would have to upgrade.

Its all a consipricy man.

... How did nintendo get into this? lol

Nintendo doesn't make games for the uber-high end graphics... they want people to admire the fun in the game rather than making people drool about uber graphics...
And how did Nintendo get into this? Xbox uses ATi graphic cards... =O

I am not sure what he's trying to point out. It's my god damn opinion k? $300 isn't so much for a good graphic card anyways.

its almost a third of what a paid for this computer -_-

I imagine that a third of the cost of your computer WAS the video card it contained.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Alienware is a company that makes computers. Vista is an Operating System. Alienware's computer are fine, if overpriced, I'm currently on a 3 year old Aurora that I upgrade occasionally. Oh, and it's running Vista. And that works great too...

I find all these people going "rablerable vista" hilarious. It runs a lot better than XP did when it came out, and for most people it runs better than XP NOW. (eg, myself.)


Or the CPU. My GPU cost something like 200 dollars a year ago, and it's decent.

Ok. My stats here is...
nVidia GeForce 8800GT $270
Intel E6850 $320
MAYAMKIIAud $40
2 DDR2 RAM 800MHz $60
ASUS X-Series Motherboard $50
Nearly Total = $740
If you see,
You don't know what you're talking about. Now beat it, nub.
Windows Vista $150
HDD and DVD+R $60
+$210
Almost Nearly Total = $950
Keyboard and Mouse $120
Wirings and Et Cetera $50
Total = $1120

You paid too much for your computer.

Especially the RAM.

Also, $320 for an Intel CPU? hehehe

No I didn't. The graphic card was bundled with Crysis, and the processor is top of the line. 3.00GHz Core2Duo, 2GB ram with 800MHz speed isn't bad for $60.

I can get an AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+* at 3GHz for about AU$184. 2GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM for $60 isn't bad, but it isn't good either. It looks like you got a good deal with the 8800 being bundled with Crysis, though.

*I'm getting sick of these long names for computer bits... oh yeah, and the E6850 is AU$325. I know that clockspeed != performance, but come on, a nearly $150 price difference?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 14 2008, 6:33 pm by Minority.

The 6000+ performs worse than an e6850. e6850 uses less power, runs cooler, and has a (much) higher ceiling when overclocking. It is quite easilly one of the best dual-core processors around.

You paid too much for it if you paid 320$ though (If you purchased today, or recently, at least.)

Without knowing your RAM, I can't tell you any more. The motherboard is most likely cheap, uses a cheap northbridge or something. I can't imagine it being good.

Everything else looks sort of decent, depending on what you bought (keyboard/mouse..?)


Always been faster? If anything, that's backwards. the x1800xt, x1900xt, x1950xt(x) were faster than their competing lineup from nVidia at release point. nVidia had nothing to match the X1950XTX(Unless you considered that joke 7950GX2, which was not very desirable.. high costs, runs hot, very limited in terms of purchasing aftermarket coolers, low clocks, not very overclockable, SLI problems to deal with, dual slot, etc. AND EVEN THEN IT DIDN'T ALWAYS OUTPERFORM THE XTX)

HD 2900 XT and its related cards had horrible trouble with AA, had horrible trouble with some games, and performed decently in others. It did have a lot to do with the cards architecture, but driver problems were rather significant too, which was proven as performance in some games nearly doubled their FPS with driver revisions, along with many other games getting significant FPS increases.

ATI has been improving drivers, though. I know they released a bunch of open sources drivers which helped for people who use Linux, etc.

Also, for a very long time, ATI was very lacking when it came to linux drivers.
lol? nVidia right now has graphic cards that outperform any competition for the home desktop.



In regards to Crysis, it is a very computer demanding game. It is not very well optimized either, I am assuming, but I definitely don't think it's a bad game. Just based on your previous complaints towards other games, you're definitely a "hater". The game is not as bad as you say, or else it wouldn't be winning awards like "Best game of the year."

For the record, the melee attack works perfectly for me, so I guess you're doing something wrong. Maybe I'll make a thread about how much YOU SUCK JAJRJAJRJAJRJAR

stop the ignorance peplz

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 14 2008, 8:42 pm by ~:Deathawk:~.

Which is why you get a shitty fast card and overclock the shit out of it.