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  1. Fair enough, but on the general line for (2-way) SLI Vs. non-SLI, it usually goes something like SLI'd 980's > Titan X > SLI'd 970's > 980 > 970 > 960. I haven't seen many comparisons where 960's in SLI sit, so haven't put them in the line up. And a pair of Titan X's in SLI will basically wreck the s**t of any other current card setups. I believe DX12 & Vulkan (OpenGL's counterpart to DX12, advancing over Mantle but working on both AMD & Nvidia) will help step things forward and make SLI/XFire configs a lot more reliable and usable than they currently are. I do hope that it'll also allow you to mix-n-match AMD & Nvidia cards properly once again, something Nvidia has gone out of their way to kill off in recent years with driver updates and such.
  2. Some of us are already on top-end card like a GTX780 or GTX980 and don't want to have to toss them out, sell them on or put them in a weaker system just to upgrade to something like a Titan (Black, Z or X), so SLI is a better option for us.
  3. I was building PC's when I was 8 back in the mid-90's, back in the days when Windows 95 was still new and you had to use glorified DOS commands to install the drivers for your mouse, let alone video card, sound card, optical drive (if you could afford one)... PC building nowadays is simplified so a 5 year old (such as JayzTwoCents' daughter) can build one as long as you remember one thing: RTFM - Read The Frelling Manual. With the SteamBox, sure it comes prebuilt with SteamOS (Debian-Linux based via Ubuntu-Linux), but getting a copy of Win7 or Win8.1 and installing it over SteamOS turns it into a regular Windows box as the hardware in a SteamBox is just regular desktop PC hardware in a fancy special case. Heck, I can take my BeastRig (specs in the PC Specs thread) and turn it into a SteamBox by simply installing SteamOS alongside Windows 7.
  4. Is that a Cooler Master Hyper 212X/EVO I see in the second system and Cooler Master HAF-922 chassis for the second and third system? :3
  5. MANY years back, I bought a cheap copy of a Power Rangers: Ninja Storm game for PC on eBay, it turned out to be a bootleg. Worked fine though, no hidden viruses, no hidden trojans, just a damn good rip-and-burn of the legit copy of the game. I actually still have it floating around somewhere along with a legit copy of the game too.
  6. Oh Yahweh... The Year of Hell! o.o
  7. @@nx9100, I only really included the Transphasics as an example of another Torpedo tech the Prommie (my petname for the Prometheus-class) could have, but admit at how broken they would be (hence the use of OP when I described them). Seriously, in the main timeline they just appear in 2378 after being brought back from an alternative 2404 by Admiral Janeway who cheated in getting Voyager home ASAP by going back in time 26 years with the Transphasic Torpedoes along with the Ablative Armour generator tech. Speaking of Voyager, they originally estimated it'll take them about 70 years to get home at max sustainable Warp (9.975. Warp 9.985 is possible on her engines but only for short periods), which means they'd be doing ~1000 lightyears of travel per-year (70,000 lightyears from last known coordinates in the Badlands), which means they would be trekking along at around 3 lightyears per-day or about 8 hours to travel 1 lightyear at Warp 9.975. Though in two episodes (Relativity & Scorpion Pt II), Warp 9.975 gave them 40 lightyears over 5 days (around 2922 times the speed of light) for 8 lightyears/day. On the other hand, Relativity & Friendship One gave Warp 9.975 a distance of 132 lightyears over the course of a month (1554-1721 times the speed of light) or an average of 4 lightyears/day (closer to the 70 years at 1000 lightyears/year and ~3 lightyears/day). And in The 37's, it was stated Warp 9.9 over 1 second would move them about 4 billions miles (21,473 times the speed of light), though I can hand-wave that crazy speed as to being exaggeration to impress the 1930's folks voyager had found. And those speeds & Warp Factors are on the re-balanced (Warp 1 = 1c, Warp 10 = infinite velocity) TNG scale. Also, we shall NOT talk about the episode-that-does-not-exist (Threshold).
  8. And that's presuming the Prometheus (first launched in 2374) used here ONLY has the TNG-Era Photon Torpedoes (as spec'd in the TNG Tech Manual), not the Quantum Torpedoes (as specified in the DS9 Tech Manual) we saw on the Defiant-class (2371) or Sovereign-class (2373, Enterprise-E) ships, or even been retrofitted with the OP Borg-Busters known as Transphasic Torpedoes (and the only mention of how they work is in the TNG novel "Greater than the Sum" set in the 2380's) once Voyager was home.
  9. Star Wars = Space Opera. it's always BEEN a Space opera, and the only "science" in it was really introduced with the Prequel Trilogy. Star Trek = Science Fiction. It has always been rooted in some form with real-world science at-time-of-production and extrapolated towards future advancements. Cell/Mobile phones? Star Trek: TOS-Era Communicators. Tablet Computers (iPad, Nexus 7, Galaxy Note, etc, etc...)? Star Trek: PADDs (Personal Access Display Device), existed in TOS-Era, prominent in TNG/DS9/VOY-Era, shown in ENT-Era. Warp Drive? We're currently working on a way to actually build something to move us upto and possibly past the speed of light, but some of the major hurdles are making sure we don't permanently turn into energy, get killed by radiation of various types at those speeds, or wipe out a solar system of life when we manage to stop the damn ship. Until the Prequel Trilogy, nobody gave a damn about how Lightsabers worked. "Swords of some kind of energy? cool!" was the general train of thought about them. Now we're trying to figure out how they could work as beams of plasma contained in an electromagnetic field so they only extend to the length one sets in the emitter unit and not become a infinitely-long beam of death that lasts as long as the power source does... "Thanks a bunch, Lucas!" </snark>
  10. 3.4Ghz means 3.4 Billion cycles-per-second (Giga = Billion. Hertz/Hz = Cycle(s)-per-second), and each core will work at upto that speed depending on the tasks the OS assigns at any point. AMD = Cheaper but runs HOT (hence the addition of the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo). Intel = Expensive the more tech crammed in but runs cooler for most folks. Both GPU's I picked as they're decent low-budget cards, though the AMD build has a possible advantage as it should be able to use the R7 260X in conjunction with the GPU side of the APU (APU is CPU+GPU in space of a typical CPU, decent for low-end systems but the bigger the budget the more you should be focused on dedicated GPU) with some of AMD's funky tech designs. As for the "regular" gaming/high workload Pc comparison - there's no standards for what folks consider to be a "regular" gaming PC. Some swear that an Intel Core i5 with something like a GTX970 is the sweet spot for nearly all games out there to run at minimum of 60FPS on at least medium settings. Others would go for a Core i7 and a GTX980 for extra grunt. My personal main system is OVERKILL for everything short of system-crusher games like Shadows of Mordor or Metro: Last Light Redux at High/Ultra settings and 1440P or higher. ~~~~~ As for shaving costs by going with used hardware/setups, you COULD do that, and know the parts typically work well enough, but you'll be buying parts with a pre-shortened lifespan and might have hidden glitches and flaws that wouldn't occur with new parts/systems.
  11. Well, the $1000 figure was both for ease of maths and an actual figure for a budget. The 10%-each minimum for CPU, GPU & RAM still counts at almost every level you could imagine. For $750 USD (presuming US here), I'd probably pick something like one of these two loadouts: AMD - http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZTgppg ($700.37 before discounts) Intel - http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LKTNjX ($738.42 before discounts) Yes, I know with the Intel build I kinda broke my 10% min on the CPU (the Pentium G3258), however that's because it's a little beast for its price and can be overclocked (though wouldn't recommend on stock heatsink) to compare against higher-priced CPUs. The optical drive (CD/DVD/Blu-ray recorder) is something I'd recommend for both systems though you can shave some cash by not getting one and putting that cash elsewhere. Seagate Barracuda 2TB is a decent drive and I trust the brand more than WD or Hitachi, to last me upto a decade of use and abuse. I didn't add an OS or things like monitor or keyboard, as I was focused on getting the core of the system (chassis and guts) spec'd (that and I'd recommend 64-bit Win7 Pro over Win8/8.1, anyway. With more than 4GB of RAM you can't use a 32-bit version of Windows if you want full access to all the memory anyway).
  12. The time wasted waiting for a system to boot up from a cold start and the potential to fry parts as they get a sudden jolt of power from the cold start alone isn't worth the cent-or-two-per-day worth of electricity a system would be sipping when idle, let along the time wasted waiting for the system to get to a point where you can DO something in the OS. As for the legality of mining bitcoins (I was being sarcastic about them, they're getting to be almost not worth the time for the average user to try and mine), that's something you should look up for yourself in your area.
  13. Janeway does try to be diplomatic when she can, but when someone threatens her ship or her crew, she goes full Mama Bear and don't take no *yay* from nobody!
  14. Those are technically PADS and the actual pins are in the Land Grid Array CPU socket on the motherboard. Intel Marketing is just *bleep*ing lazy and haven't changed their terminology from the Pentium 4 days with the changeover from Socket 478 (pins on chip, holes in ZIF socket) to LGA 775 (pads on chip, pins in socket).
  15. "Tuvok, fire the Transphasic Torpedoes!" </Capt. Janeway>
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