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Blaine is a gun-jumping retard

Blaine

Blaine

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  • GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX Titan 6GB
  • CPU: i7 3930K 3.2GHz hex-core
  • RAM: 16GB Kingston Low-Voltage DDR3 1600MHz
  • Mobo: Asus P9X79 Deluxe (room for 2nd SLi Titan later)
  • Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion PCI-E
  • HD: Two Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SATA 6GB/s SSDs in RAID 0 (1.024 TB)
  • Media: Blu-Ray/DVD burner/reader/rewriter
  • PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX1050 (over-wattage in case 2nd GPU in future)
  • Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 650D
  • Misc: extra case fan(s), thermal compound, sound-dampening acoustic liner, CPU liquid cooler, etc.
  • OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
  • 1 TB external HD for backup
  • monitor's 1920 x 1080, just the one (already owned)
That's gonna cost me almost $5,000, including shipping for all the crap. Should run everything in the entire universe on Ultra settings at 60 FPS on my monitor.

Does anyone except D.O.A. and Lizard King know what I'm talking about here? utley perhaps? Comments? Suggestions? Vituperations?
 
I'd add another two hard drives (or another pair of SSDs since fuck it why not), since 1TB really isn't that much storage these days. One set for OS and programs, the other for games and whatever other shit you may be downloading. Also you might as well go the whole hog and get water-cooling all round, save on having gigafucks of fans.
 
Lizard King

I'm just going to transplant my current 1TB platter drive for extra storage. I also have a "whatever" 500GB external drive already. I've been able to survive with a 240GB SSD by keeping installed games to a sensible minimum, but it's been a massive pain in the ass, which is why I'm getting two 512s. I doubt I'll ever use more than 2TB total + backups, but if I do, I'll just buy more.

As for water-cooling, the CPU is one thing, but the whole works is another matter entirely. Fans are a a lot harder to fuck up—you screw them in and connect them to the motherboard/controller. I had a bad experience with liquid cooling in 2008, ended up with rusty water (wat) and thermal paste every which way. My current PC has two case fans in front, one on top, and one in back, and it's still very quiet while keeping everything plenty cool.

That said, I'll look into it. If I do, I'll probably take the PC to the local computer shop to have the nerds there make sure I don't hose down a $1,000 GPU.
 
Blaine said:
  • GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX Titan 6GB
  • CPU: i7 3930K 3.2GHz hex-core
  • RAM: 16GB Kingston Low-Voltage DDR3 1600MHz
  • Mobo: Asus P9X79 Deluxe (room for 2nd SLi Titan later)
  • Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion PCI-E
  • HD: Two Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SATA 6GB/s SSDs in RAID 0 (1.024 TB)
  • Media: Blu-Ray/DVD burner/reader/rewriter
  • PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX1050 (over-wattage in case 2nd GPU in future)
  • Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 650D
  • Misc: extra case fan(s), thermal compound, sound-dampening acoustic liner, CPU liquid cooler, etc.
  • OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
  • 1 TB external HD for backup
  • monitor's 1920 x 1080, just the one (already owned)
That's gonna cost me almost $5,000, including shipping for all the crap. Should run everything in the entire universe on Ultra settings at 60 FPS on my monitor.


Does anyone except D.O.A. and Lizard King know what I'm talking about here? utley perhaps? Comments? Suggestions? Vituperations?
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I'm way behind on what's the better item these days, sounds like a fucking sweet PC though.
The fuck is a hex core? sounds hexy.

This all reminds me I need to get a better video card for company of heroes 2 next month :gahh: :happytears:
 
Blaine said:
Six-core CPU, also known as hexa-core. The i7 3930k isn't technically the best CPU available in the i3/i5/i7 Sandy Bridge line, but it performs almost as well for gaming (~95%) as the i7 3960x and i7 3970x, while costing half as much.
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sweet, I'm still using a quad core, it does the job but my graphics card is pretty sucky, radeon hd 6800 that really only gets to draw a couple games, COH and medieval total war 2. And skyrim although that kinda got boring.
 
Blaine said:
  • GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX Titan 6GB
  • CPU: i7 3930K 3.2GHz hex-core
  • RAM: 16GB Kingston Low-Voltage DDR3 1600MHz
  • Mobo: Asus P9X79 Deluxe (room for 2nd SLi Titan later)
  • Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion PCI-E
  • HD: Two Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SATA 6GB/s SSDs in RAID 0 (1.024 TB)
  • Media: Blu-Ray/DVD burner/reader/rewriter
  • PSU: Corsair Professional Series HX1050 (over-wattage in case 2nd GPU in future)
  • Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 650D
  • Misc: extra case fan(s), thermal compound, sound-dampening acoustic liner, CPU liquid cooler, etc.
  • OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
  • 1 TB external HD for backup
  • monitor's 1920 x 1080, just the one (already owned)
That's gonna cost me almost $5,000, including shipping for all the crap. Should run everything in the entire universe on Ultra settings at 60 FPS on my monitor.


Does anyone except D.O.A. and Lizard King know what I'm talking about here? utley perhaps? Comments? Suggestions? Vituperations?
Click to expand...

Sounds like it's gonna be quite a beast futureproofed.
 
Blaine said:
Does anyone except D.O.A. and Lizard King know what I'm talking about here? utley perhaps? Comments? Suggestions? Vituperations?
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Noob.

Blaine said:
Lizard King

I'm just going to transplant my current 1TB platter drive for extra storage. I also have a "whatever" 500GB external drive already. I've been able to survive with a 240GB SSD by keeping installed games to a sensible minimum, but it's been a massive pain in the ass, which is why I'm getting two 512s. I doubt I'll ever use more than 2TB total + backups, but if I do, I'll just buy more.

As for water-cooling, the CPU is one thing, but the whole works is another matter entirely. Fans are a a lot harder to fuck up—you screw them in and connect them to the motherboard/controller. I had a bad experience with liquid cooling in 2008, ended up with rusty water (wat) and thermal paste every which way. My current PC has two case fans in front, one on top, and one in back, and it's still very quiet while keeping everything plenty cool.

That said, I'll look into it. If I do, I'll probably take the PC to the local computer shop to have the nerds there make sure I don't hose down a $1,000 GPU.
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That's an expensive list to be getting on with to be fair, but I can't think of any additions unless you've got a widescreen gaming hard on and have the spare cash to SLI that Titan and another couple of monitors.

Water cooling isn't necessary if you've got a CPU water cooler tbh and can put up with fan noise . Fans aren't useless, just not as efficient and more noisy. You shouldn't need to water cool the titan, whilst it's benchmarked as a warm card it's nothing like one of it's predecessors. Could try modding it when you do get it, become an hero for fucking up this sort of mod and destroy a rather expensive card \o.

Probably doesn't need to be said, but make sure you don't buy the cheap shitty thermal compound as that's false economy.

Also when you get your titan it's worth having a look inside to see if they applied the thermal paste properly themselves, I've had 2 machines recently (1 was mine, rage) where overheating GPU's were caused due to shoddy manufacture where thermal compound was concerned.
 
Lizard King D.O.A. Ninj

I think I'll just buy a single GTX Titan and slot it into my current machine to tide me over for another year. The Haswells are only being announced next month—Intel and motherboard manufacturers will need six months or more to tweak and perfect the technology. By that time, or soon after, the next generation of graphics cards superior to the Titan should be available. A few months after that, once they've un-fucked the drivers for the new GPUs, that'll be the time to buy.

My current hardware is a GTX 580, an overclocked i5 2500k in an Asus P8P67 Pro, and 8GB Patriot Viper Division 2 Xtreme DDR3 @1866MHz (why the fuck they need book-length names for RAM, I'll never know). I might throw another 8GB of RAM in there too, since it's cheap.

The Titan is truly a leap forward, a single GPU that performs almost as well as two 680s. It's at least twice as powerful as my 580. I don't think a Titan will be bottlenecked by my current hardware, either.

Geemonster

There's no such thing as "futureproofed" where gaming PCs are concerned. For every $1000 you spend after $2000, you're probably buying yourself six months at most... and that's my idea, yeah. I'll spend up to $6,000 on my next PC, and it should last me five years with a single GPU upgrade three years after I purchase it. I spent about $2000 on my current rig and I've now had it for two years, will end up being three before I buy a completely new PC.
 
Blaine said:
Six-core CPdon't have theirlso known as hexa-core. The i7 3930k isn't technically the best CPU available in the i3/i5/i7 Sandy Bridge line, but it performs almost as well for gaming (~95%) as the i7 3960x and i7 3970x, while costing half as much.
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The reason those 2 with the x's are more expensive is because they dont have their clock speeds capped. The K on your option means its got room for over clocking. If you aren't into that an still want to save a buck you can go with the 3090.
As far as the rest of your build goes, Ssds have a high burn out rate (even with in tels TRIM) so I would go with 2 80gb ssds in raid as a pure boot setup. Pop in a hybrid drive (like the Seagate hybrids) for an install drive (fast read\write for gaming) plus whatever average HDDs you want to add for storage.
 
You seemed confused as to why they had similar performance while costing half as much so pardon me for misunderstanding.
 
blaine what monitor(s) are you presently using and at what resolution?


psuedo ultimate gamer pursues top of the line gpu while using a logitech wireless mouse, your endgame goals seem conflicted

.02/dc/jc
 
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