[Help Given] Buying New Deskop - Now Updated!

[ssampier]

jealous much

 

[Mycanid]

Okay, here are the testing results:

SuperPi - 20s @ 1M
3DMark06 - 5758
PCMark05 - 8241
HD Tune - see attachment
Everest - click for results

WOW.

Sir ... you have yerself a nice machine.

Many thanks!

 

[John Crichton]

Took forever to figure out the simplest test of all, the SuperPi. I knew what it was doing but for some reason I couldn't connect that the benchmark was 1 million. Heh.

3DMark & PCMark required patching to even work on Vista. Not a big deal but it did annoy me. I can't tell if the HD Tune results are good or not. And Everest is certainly TMI.

 

[John Crichton]

Just an ongoing update:

I got the BSoD last night, twice. Both times due to software conflicts. Very annoying. Both were different and the second rebooted before I had a chance to write down the error code.

I'm planning on playing a few games tonight to test things out for the first time. Just some 4X stuff, but still...

 

[Mycanid]

rassa frassa!

You did not cash out such an amount to purchase BSoD's!



Hope it is just a temp thing.

One thing you might consider, if you have not already, is getting all the MS patches. A few of the ones they released in the past month or so were directly aimed at trying to prevent the BSoD.

 

[John Crichton]

rassa frassa!

You did not cash out such an amount to purchase BSoD's!

I was *so* pissed.

Luckily, it hasn't happened since and I didn't loose anything important that I was working on. And the errors were different and apparently software related, as opposed to hardware related which would be a bigger deal. Like if the MB or processor was overheating.

One thing you might consider, if you have not already, is getting all the MS patches. A few of the ones they released in the past month or so were directly aimed at trying to prevent the BSoD.

Yup, I did a slew of updates last night and will do more as I go along. It is a little annoying that some of the older software doesn't have patches yet and may never get them. Still, I really like the interface but will be keeping a close eye on installs just in case.

The good news is that if things really hit a wall, I can always put my service contract with Alienware into effect.

 

[Mycanid]

I was *so* pissed.

Luckily, it hasn't happened since and I didn't loose anything important that I was working on. And the errors were different and apparently software related, as opposed to hardware related which would be a bigger deal. Like if the MB or processor was overheating.


Yup, I did a slew of updates last night and will do more as I go along. It is a little annoying that some of the older software doesn't have patches yet and may never get them. Still, I really like the interface but will be keeping a close eye on installs just in case.

The good news is that if things really hit a wall, I can always put my service contract with Alienware into effect.

There have been problems with some of the older games performing on dual processors, if I remember correctly. :\ Hmm....

Well ... service contracts may as well be used if we have them, eh?

I wish you good luck in this!

 

[John Crichton]

There have been problems with some of the older games performing on dual processors, if I remember correctly. :\ Hmm....

Yeah, haven't even popped in any games yet. Didn't get to it last night.

Well ... service contracts may as well be used if we have them, eh?

Ja!

I wish you good luck in this!

My thanks. Let's hope I don't need further help from the tech folks around here anytime soon for any big probems...

 

[Zulithe]

I just want to chime in on the whole Vista thing. I run Vista Buisiness 32bit on my new machine (amd athlon x2 5200+, 2gig corsair xtreme ram, geforce 8800 gtx (pcie), nforce 590 SLI AMD mobo). This is definitely not a gaming OS in its current state. By its very design nature, even if you tweaked it as best you can, virtually every game will run 10% slower than XP with SP2 because of the way graphics drivers are dealt with in the new OS and its kernel.

Will future graphics drivers updates remedy this? I guess we'll wait and see. Afterall, the Nvidia ones are barely out of beta. I can't comment on ATI, but from game performance analysis charts I've seen on websites I'd say you ATI owners are in the same boat.

If not for some of the components in my new PC being cutting edge, I imagine gaming in Vista would be near unbearable.

I also experience BSOD from time-to-time, paritcularly when playing quicktime files and trying to multitask (i don't recommend it!). I love the lynda.com quicktime tutorials but since vista keeps crashing when i'm trying to view one and, say, follow along in Illustrator, i can almost guarantee a crash within 30 minutes. Is it graphics driver related, quicktime related, both, or what, i'm still trying to figure it out.

Then there's teh problem with Aero 'shutting off' when you run certain programs that for whatever reason aren't compatible with it. Realplayer is one.

Overall I find Vista to be far prettier and than XP, but until they get some conflicts worked out (by SP1 maybe?) I suggest sticking with XP with SP2 applied for reliability and gaming.

 

[Thanee]

What, no Vista Ultimate for that machine?

Bye
Thanee