Building my Gaming PC (finally)

You might want to give the Windows 7 RC a try.

Somewhat off-topic: Have you tried the latest version of Ubuntu? As I mentioned in another thread, it supposedly has excellent, native support for 32-bit Windows applications now. I've heard from a number of sources that Wine is useless in comparison. I haven't tried the former myself though. Setting up Debian on my Q6600 system was sufficiently annoying since my HD4870 was not supported by default by Debian-based systems. As a consequence, I'll probably wait for a while until giving Ubuntu another run for its money.


On topic: Your system looks great so far, SYG! As for Mirror's Edge, I recall from the PhysX demonstration videos that the most impressive "feature" was that in-game drapery would move in reasonably realistic ways when interacted with. That is a significant feature, according to the developers.

Somewhat off-topic: Have you tried the latest version of Ubuntu? As I mentioned in another thread, it supposedly has excellent, native support for 32-bit Windows applications now. I've heard from a number of sources that Wine is useless in comparison. I haven't tried the former myself though. Setting up Debian on my Q6600 system was sufficiently annoying since my HD4870 was not supported by default by Debian-based systems. As a consequence, I'll probably wait for a while until giving Ubuntu another run for its money.

I have not tried the latest Ubuntu version yet, sill on 8.04. I have honestly did not hear anything about it that. I'll check it out later though.

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As for the PhysX thing, I don't think you understood me SYG.

The game Mirrors Edge for the PC will keep slowing down until it is unplayable if you don't have a video card with PhysX on it. In order to use the PhysX card in conjunction with your 3xxx or 4xxx Radeon HD series video card, you need Windows XP 32-bit because it will allow you to install the drivers from the PhysX card and the ATI card together. If you try it on the 64-bit version it will BSOD you. What I was saying was stupid is that you have to pay money for a video card to play the game because of the PhysX crap. I have a PhysX card with mine right now, and I'm not stupid. So be careful, it's the developers of the game who were stupid in their decisions.

In my personal opinion, AMD < Intel

Other then that, very sexy.

In my personal opinion, AMD < Intel Other then that, very sexy.

Intel == Tons of money
AMD == Way less money (And still great quality)

Apparently Fedora 11 is similar to the newest Ubuntu.

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You need to try Windows 7 to see the differences yourself - it's definitely a lot faster than both Vista and XP.

As for release, RTM is supposed to be July, I think, and it should be on shelves by October.