Well, thanks to some friends who were by this weekend, I've finally assembled the system that Star originally designed (and which I tweaked a bit because of market conditions and whatnot). Joe and Scott are much more up-to-date on their hardware/system assembly skills than I am, and seemed overall approving of the selection of parts. I flubbed on my choice of replacement for the video card, not realizing that the mobo was optimized for a different chipset and could handle doubling up on a pair of video cards using that set -- which I expect was one of your longterm goals. And they felt that the mobo sound was better than the sound card, and that the cooler was redundant.
That said, the system is up and running and the difference in COH for me is like the day I went from generic "3-D" graphics to my first Nvidia card. Plus I'm zoning in seconds, and nothing is taking the forever it used to.
Oh, and it's awesomely quiet.
I am well pleased.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
That said, the system is up and running and the difference in COH for me is like the day I went from generic "3-D" graphics to my first Nvidia card. Plus I'm zoning in seconds, and nothing is taking the forever it used to.
Oh, and it's awesomely quiet.
I am well pleased.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.