Info Requests

[MRG]

Greetings all,

I am so very sore from the beating I took yesterday while snowboarding. I need something to take my mind off of the aches and pains I am feeling while kicking back here at home trying to recover. I'm in the mood to type & so I am looking for some ideas. Does anyone here have any suggestions or requests for an info post? I know most of you here don't need one, so this post is obviously not meant for you.

-MRG

 

[TCfromBN]

Buying Sound cards: A Guide

I might be looking into getting one soon and I have no idea what I need or what a good price is.



I'm looking to get one for gaming.

 

[MRG]

Buying Sound cards: A Guide

I might be looking into getting one soon and I have no idea what I need or what a good price is.



I'm looking to get one for gaming.

Thanks for the idea. I'll start on it right away & post it soon as it's finished. Might take me a couple hours.

-MRG

 

[MRG]

Do you want detailed info in general, or simply info on which sound Cards are the best & their prices?

-MRG

 

[staticprimer]

I think perhaps a guide on what to look for on sound cards, ie bitrate, sound loss, etc.

 

[MRG]

The more I look into this, the more I am learning. I knew there was a massive amount of info available, but damn!. Since everyone seems to frown on C&P, i'm compiling links and implimenting them into a shortened version. Gonna take me a little longer than a couple hours.

-MRG

 

[Higlac]

I'm just wondering, I have a friend who wants to so something with 2 nvidea 8800s. SLI something or other, is it like a dual core video card?

One more thing, is it possible to cool a cpu with liquid nitrogen? I heard a fish story about keeping a cpu at -130F and overclocking it to 8 gigs. Just curious and I really didn't know if I should have started a new thread for this, then yours popped up and I think I can get an answer here.

 

[MRG]

I'm just wondering, I have a friend who wants to so something with 2 nvidea 8800s. SLI something or other, is it like a dual core video card?

One more thing, is it possible to cool a cpu with liquid nitrogen? I heard a fish story about keeping a cpu at -130F and overclocking it to 8 gigs. Just curious and I really didn't know if I should have started a new thread for this, then yours popped up and I think I can get an answer here.

Thats correct. 2 8800's running together is called Scalable Link Interface or SLI. Damn, he has 2 8800's? Talk about some crazy power. To get the most out of those cards, he's gonna want to make sure that he has a CPU strong enough to provide the cards with data. I would say at least an E6600. IT would be best if he had a E6800 or a Quad Core if possible. It's gonna take a little while before games or programs will even come close to using the power a system like that will provide.

Here is some info on what SLI is:
http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_learn.html

As for cooling your CPU with Liquid Nitrogen, that is quite possible.

Liquid Nitrogen Cooling
http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/12/30/5_ghz_project/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cooling
http://www16.big.or.jp/~bunnywk/ln2/ln2_e.html

-MRG

 

[Naudian]

^ He's also gonna need a high quality power supply, 600-700 watt I'd guess. Also he'll need four PCIe power connectors as each card needs two of them. I'm not sure if you can use molex connectors instead...

 

[Higlac]

He has 2 of the 8800 GTXs, and a 3.9 gHz liquid cooled quad core with 4 gigs of ram. I just talked to him and it runs lost coast at almost 200 fps. All of it is in a $2200 computer box, so I don't think it has any power or cooling issues.


EDIT: He has overclocked it and the 8800s and I think it is running almost 4.5 gHz. I think.