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New PNY GeForce 250 GTS 1GB and Antec 550W - Hawkens85 - Apr 05, 2010
Just wanted to give you guys a little review while the parts are still fresh. I placed the order on the 2nd to Newegg, and received the parts on the 5th. I have a Inspiron 530 with a Q6600 and a 250G HDD with Win Vista. The PSU fit in perfectly. Lots of extra connectors. The fan facing the bottom made some weird noises for a few minutes, but then it cleared up. The video card posted fine, my Phoenix BIOS spotted I had one, asked me to reboot, and automatically disabled the onboard video card that I had been temporarily using. The boot time is now about twice longer, I noticed that with the new PSU before I put in the vid card.
I usually never install the drivers on the CD when it comes to hardware (unless I have to), I usually just download them from the website. The Nvidia drivers worked perfect, no problems with the DVI connectors, and I do have adapters to go to HDMI and VGA.
I ran TF2 a minute ago, turned on EVERYTHING (bloom, motion blur, etc) and I was getting 60 fps on the busiest scenes with everything happening. I don't see why I need any higher, that works awesome. BTW, I am using a PCI 2.0 card on the PCI 1.0 mobo, and no problems.
On a side note, I disabled my mouse's pointer precision. Anyone else doing thing/not doing this? I can see how it's helping me, especially as soldier, demo, and sniper. It's basically cleaning up my hand movements and making all the in-game movement in sync with how I'm actually moving my hand.
It's been a good day.
New PNY GeForce 250 GTS 1GB and Antec 550W - OmegaZero_Alpha - Apr 05, 2010
Try these on:
Code:
mat_picmip -10
mp_usehwmmodels 1
mp_usehwmvcds 1
cl_new_impact_effects 1
cl_burninggibs 1
mat_motion_blur_forward_enabled 1
mat_specular 1
mat_parallaxmap 1
mat_aaquality 8
r_threaded_particles 1
r_threaded_client_shadow_manager 1
cl_threaded_bone_setup 1
cl_threaded_client_leaf_system 1
mat_antialias 16
cl_ragdoll_fade_time 1024New PNY GeForce 250 GTS 1GB and Antec 550W - Agua - Apr 05, 2010
Per mouse acceleration, it takes more than just turning off pointer precision. I just created a post about this yesterday:
http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2827
New PNY GeForce 250 GTS 1GB and Antec 550W - Hawkens85 - Apr 05, 2010
I actually read your post, Agua, thanks! I'm gonna try this system for a little while and possibly delete the registry setting later. I can already feel the difference in-game. It doesn't seem like TF2 turns acceleration back on.
Omega, how much will those cmds set my framerate back? How many of those are you using?
New PNY GeForce 250 GTS 1GB and Antec 550W - OmegaZero_Alpha - Apr 05, 2010
Hawkens85 Wrote:Omega, how much will those cmds set my framerate back? How many of those are you using?
I am using all of them and I don't notice a frame rate decrease because I am on an overclocked gtx 260 with vsync on.