Building a new computer

[Jognt]

Big-Al Wrote:

Jognt Wrote:I haven\'t checked out the airflow in it, but the less metal means the better for me
(keep in mind my thoughts here are biased sorta, since i noticed i went for looks instead of functionality, by sacrificing my 3*HDD bay for 1 floor mounted HDD ... (looks cool, 150gb raptor with a CCFl above it, HDD itself mounted in shock absorbing/cooling zalman bracket, which is dremeled to the floor of the case... a look from outside shows the platters spinning and the heads searching ^^)

so it could very well be a good case, im just scared of metal (less airflow / weight problem) though i should check that case tomorrow at work to see how it works..

Hey a photo of that would be cool to see! :tup:

i\'ll see if i can get some nice pictures of it soon, hard to get good pictures with the CCFL\'s lighting up everything (and the fact i dont have a camera, not even in my phone o_O gotta save money on something i guess )

Reno Wrote:Honestly ATI\'s slowly killing itself.
While it does manage faster video cards and more raw power, the fact that they\'re tool stupid to add new firmware stuffs, and just make heavier and newer drivers for the card with the same infastructer means that if you want some of the newer features that\'ll be showing up in games, you should really move towards nVidia.
If you\'re more focused on games that are out now, or will been soon, it\'s your personal preference, but for alot of the newer stuff, ATI\'s crapping out because they dont want to do more work than they have to.
ATI\'s slowly sliding into the abyss and at this rate will really kill itself in the long run.
But, in all fairnes, this is one of the coders dealing with coding frstration(man, you should talk to del, haha he\'s a lot worse for it than me because of the stuff he\'s trying to code)

summarization: your preference, but future games are going to be using alot of new features, and there\'s a pretty solid chance that ATI wont support them.

hmm, i\'ll keep that in mind when i purchase another card.. planning to get R600 though.. do you have some links as to where i can read up on this?