PSU PC Gamers Unite!

[BoyBettaKnow]

Nope, still rocking my two 5870's until the 680 i want gets in stock. I may purchase it for the future though.

[keefy]

Yeah; what do you suggest?

I created a (very basic) webpage with all current players and added it to my sig just link people to it and PM me to add and new names.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30326465/Tri...es_ascend.html

[Varsh]

Any of you guys played the PC version of Rage? Is it worth a fiver?
http://www.gamefly.co.uk/Download-Ra.../#.T47O9quXSRI

I bought it at release and thought it was worth the £25 I spent on it. Sure it's not way up there with the best shooters, it's a decent shooter that's got a fairly decent length campaign, stunning visuals, and interesting game mechanics. The only two things that annoyed me about the game was the abrupt ending and the invisible walls which led you down a linear path, other than that it's an amazing deal for a fiver.

[*goo]

Hell yes, Rage is worth £5. It looks superb on PC. At least, it does on mine.

[Varsh]

Guess what's arrived? ^_____________________^

[*goo]

I'm struggling to tell out of all the awesome in that pic.

[gangsta_795]

Guess what's arrived? ^_____________________^

[Varsh]

I'm struggling to tell out of all the awesome in that pic.

It's my 3x Samsung S23A700D monitors.

The colours on this thing is stunning out of the box, haven't needed to even adjust the colours or brightness!

Oh and also the 3D via TriDef in games is AMAZING! Played Supreme Commander, Guild Wars, League of Legends, and even PS3 games last night and my jaw just dropped.

[LfCpS3]

Pretty amazing, I always thought i would struggle to play with 3 screens like that but so far does it look natural?

The gaps between the screens would annoy me.

[Varsh]

Before Vista came along I used to always play with 2 monitors with a gap in the middle, it was weird at first but you got used to it after a while and helps a lot width wise.

3 screens though would be better as I can actually see what's in the middle this time round. xD

[keefy]

I used to have 2 monitors 1 was for teamspeak and other apps while I gamed so I didn't have to minimise to check, I didn't try having both run the game as they were different sizes 15 and 20 inch.

[gangsta_795]

AMD dropped the price for the 7000 series cards

New AMD 7970 Pricing: http://goo.gl/wjeDx

NVIDIA GTX 680: http://goo.gl/1lAOd

New AMD 7950 Pricing: http://goo.gl/UoKAv

New AMD 7770 Pricing: http://goo.gl/qOwQG

Now the 7970 is $150 cheaper than the 680!!

[BoyBettaKnow]

And that still isn't enough to stop me from buying a 680. I had too many driver problems with ATI cards to give them a second chance just yet.

Dead Space 2 is £3.75 on Steam at the moment

[brebaz]

I've got an Asus DCUII 7950 couple of days ago, but i still didn't test it! Stupid MB had to crash now!

[gangsta_795]

Yeah...must....resist.....

[Varsh]

Well I decided to go with a stock reference relabled GTX680 2GB in the end. Sure I could wait for another month for the 4GBs to come back out (really bad fabs happening atm) but in the end I decided to go for what's already proven, the reference card being cool, quiet and £105 cheaper than the 4GB! Used £50 of that left over dosh towards the Active DP to DL-DVI-D Adapter.

[BoyBettaKnow]

Your better than I am Varsh. Still waiting for either the EVGA FTW or the Gainward Phantom to get back in stock!

[John25]

And that still isn't enough to stop me from buying a 680. I had too many driver problems with ATI cards to give them a second chance just yet.

Dead Space 2 is £3.75 on Steam at the moment

you seen the 4gb Gainward Card it's got a Sick Design (even though the only time you ever look at it is when you get it or open your Case to clean it out lol)

[VintageElise]

Fuck sake Windows. Fresh install every 3 months just to keep it working at optimum.

Luckily have a permanent back-up of my Steam folder online.

500GB of Cloud Storage for fee.

[Varsh]

Every 3 months? I haven't reinstalled Windows 7 since... 3rd November 2010. >_>

[VintageElise]

The slowdown was unbearable. Love a fresh OS anyway.

I seem to compulsively collect random programs.

[Blacksite]

That's weird. Are you using an older version of Windows?

I use Windows 7 and haven't had any problems.

[dreams]

Fuck sake Windows. Fresh install every 3 months just to keep it working at optimum.

Luckily have a permanent back-up of my Steam folder online.

500GB of Cloud Storage for fee.

What version of Win7 are you currently on?

i don't think its the operation system that's affecting your pc, its the performance.

You should do a system clean up every now and then and try not having to many processes running all at the same time.

[VintageElise]

Professional 64bit.

It's probably just a placebo affect. I think it's faster but it's really not.

I'm currently using an i5 2400. Think it's worth upgrading to an i7?

[keefy]

Its not placebo Windows does get bloated.
BeforE I reinstalled my win7 onto an SSD ti took close to 2 minutes to boot up and allow me to launch firefox.
Best thing to do with steam is install it on a seperate drive to the OS.