We're going to buy this one next week.
http://www.frys.com/product/5954614?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
It will come with an upgrade to Windows 7. They increased the 750GB hard drive to 1 terabyte and they added another gig on top of the 896 video memory. All those upgrades for only 70 dollars more.
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Pam Copperfield
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11-01-2009 11:57
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Bhakta Thor
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11-02-2009 05:24
We're going to buy this one next week. http://www.frys.com/product/5954614?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG It will come with an upgrade to Windows 7. They increased the 750GB hard drive to 1 terabyte and they added another gig on top of the 896 video memory. All those upgrades for only 70 dollars more. I just bought my new computer two weeks ago, and already, I am jealous. BT |
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Darkness Anubis
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11-02-2009 06:53
I just put a NVidea GTX 285 in my machine replacing my dying ATI 1950x cards.
The difference is ATONISHING With graphics set to High in the SL preferences I am pulling75-115 FPS on the MAINLAND. 50ish FPS in really busy areas. Texture rezzing times are nothing. In Ultra setting I am pulling 55 FPS + Interestingly enough I haven't got that warning about an unrecognized card from the official SL viewer no idea why not. As I understand it SL will only use up to 512 of your VRam on the card and mine has 1024 so in that sense yes it is overkill. BUT if you do anything else besides SL (or while IN SL like photoshop) having hte extra can be a real boon. I can tell you with WoW the card absolutely FLYS. _____________________
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Bhakta Thor
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11-02-2009 08:01
I just put a NVidea GTX 285 in my machine replacing my dying ATI 1950x cards. The difference is ATONISHING With graphics set to High in the SL preferences I am pulling75-115 FPS on the MAINLAND. 50ish FPS in really busy areas. Texture rezzing times are nothing. In Ultra setting I am pulling 55 FPS + Interestingly enough I haven't got that warning about an unrecognized card from the official SL viewer no idea why not. As I understand it SL will only use up to 512 of your VRam on the card and mine has 1024 so in that sense yes it is overkill. BUT if you do anything else besides SL (or while IN SL like photoshop) having hte extra can be a real boon. I can tell you with WoW the card absolutely FLYS. I only have the GTX 275, but I agree with you, the difference is amazing. I am also getting over 100 fps. There is still some lag in places, but it is much improved. I think this is a good indication that lag is an SL generated rather than my computer generated issue. BT |
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nikita Jefferson
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11-13-2009 16:17
I have a toshiba Qosmio,sl runs really good on it,i also have nivdia 9800 card,i also find it runs relatively cool on sl,i monitored the temp when i first got it and it runs much cooler then my HP that crapped out on me after 15 months,i used a cooler under that one,but not this one.
I have vista 64 bit also,all in all i am happy with the toshiba |
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Whimsycallie Pegler
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11-13-2009 16:26
I love my new ASUS. It has the above mentioned card.
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11-13-2009 18:06
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