Simviation Forum - Upgraded to an M$ FF stick £5 !!!!!

Jan 18^th, 2004 at 6:58pm

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I thought to myself, "its gotta be shagged", as I examined my prospective purchase, sitting on a paste table at my local boot sale! - £10 it said on the tacky sticker, I offered £2 we compromised at £5 and I got a free copy of "European Air War" (!) - already got it but never mind.....

I never really thought it would work, but had use for the psu with my M$ wheel so thought I'd not wasted money if the stick itself was buggered or the FF bit did'nt FF....
Got the thing home, plugged it into the game port , installed drivers and bounced / shook myself off a carrier in CFS2 taking off! Cheesy

The best £5 I've spent in a long time, check your local boot sales I say!

Bargain of the week or what? Grin

Next week, I'm off to seek out an FX5950 for 50p ........ Grin

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Reply #1 - Jan 19^th, 2004 at 4:08am

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Perhaps I should go to a car boot sale then! You were probably extemely lucky though.......

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Next week, I'm off to seek out an FX5950 for 50p ........

If you do you can get one for me aswell! Perhaps in about five years time they will sell 256MB graphics cards in buckets for £2 like the 2MB ones!

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Reply #2 - Jan 20^th, 2004 at 12:05pm

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Wow! good buying. Cheesy

I still can't get my gameport MS FFB stick to work on either of my 2 systems, they both have AC97 sound codec on the m/b, and it doesn't want to fire up.... Cry

I saw your signature about the benchmark in 3dmark.

They are accurate. I'd be trying to diagnose the problem.

Mind you, my 43.51 driver scores over 1000 pts better than the latest driver...... so maybe it could be a driver difference?

Another thing, my P4 rig should have scored better than my AMD but it didn't, I thought maybe the nVidia chipset/drivers might handle the AGP bus better than the Intel 865 chipset/driver combo...... but I don't really know.

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Reply #3 - Jan 20^th, 2004 at 12:22pm

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I think the benchmark is extremely dependent on the graphics card to the extent thet the Prossesor is almost completely irrelavent..... Is there a benchmark which measures your core system speed? Aida32 has a simple memory read/write benchmark which might be one to have a look at....

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Reply #4 - Jan 21^st, 2004 at 12:01pm

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get me such a stick,too.

my new thrustmaster's not quite that what i've expected. okay,it was second choice,but is that really an apology for an insane y-axis and the shocking stuff not working?
and today,i ripped off a cable of the y-axis's sensor...have to repair it... Tongue

p.s: can't send it back,because i've already fiddled around in its interior...silly me! Sad

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Reply #5 - Jan 21^st, 2004 at 1:32pm

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.....Bargain of the week or what? Grin

Next week, I'm off to seek out an FX5950 for 50p ........ Grin

Lucky you Paul...!
Mine cost me £99 new...!
Still using it, as good as it ever was, fantastic bit of well built kit... Grin

...!
Microsoft Force Feedback Pro, (with the seperate power-pack).

Cheers mate...!

Paul.

P.S Re: the FX 5950. See my "...Graphics Heaven" post in Hardware... Cry

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Reply #6 - Jan 21^st, 2004 at 4:57pm

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Seen the post Paul.......

Guys, check below, my new machine IS faster !!!!! (well, 3D Mark FINALLY gives me good results! )

Grin

- Happy Bunny .......

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Reply #7 - Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 11:08am

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I think the benchmark is extremely dependent on the graphics card to the extent thet the Prossesor is almost completely irrelavent..... Is there a benchmark which measures your core system speed? Aida32 has a simple memory read/write benchmark which might be one to have a look at....

Bird man,

SiSoft Sandra has a good CPU benchmark, among other things.

CPU speed is, however, VERY relevant to Graphics benchmarking. But this needs to be qualified.....

For instance, if you have a couple of very fast systems, say, a 3.2 gig P4 and a 2.4 gig P4, and you whack an old GF2 mx400 in them, you won't see any difference in the benchmark because the old GF2 just maxes out on both systems.

But if you throw the latest Video card in the machines, the 3.2gig P4 will really show much better results..... this is why it's important to choose components that are "matched" for the system.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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