technology The Glorious PC master race thread

[Yourmomsponies 444]

This thread is a place where fellow disciples of GabeN, and those looking for the lards light can come and discuss Games, Steam sales, Hardware, etc.  

 

My glorious build

 

  

Specs: 

Msi GD-45 Motherboard

Intel core i7 4770k @4.4Ghz & Enermax ets t-40 cooler

32Gb Corsair vengeance Low profile RAM 

EVGA GTX 970 OC'ed to 1573Mhz

Creative Sound Blaster ZXR sound card

Samsung 240EVO 250GB SSD & WD black 2TB gard drive

Corsair HX 750 PSU

Cooler Master Storm Stryker Case

 

Post your builds, favorite games, etc.

Others with questions about our glorious platform are always welcome here.   

Edited January 29, 2015 by Yourmomsponies

[long gone 8,929]

This was the first new thread I saw. Now I must obligatorily post my shrine to the glorious Lord GabeN in here.

 

[Untitled Goose Q 5,137]

Hail the great GabeN! Hail Steam!

[Banul 3,831]

I have a confession to make. I am the proud owner of a nice gaming PC, but I really don't know anything about it. I had my friend assemble a shopping list for me within my budget and had someone else build it for me.

 

Do I still get to be a member of the PC Master Race?

[long gone 8,929]

I have a confession to make. I am the proud owner of a nice gaming PC, but I really don't know anything about it. I had my friend assemble a shopping list for me within my budget and had someone else build it for me.

 

Do I still get to be a member of the PC Master Race?

As long as you recognize that the PC is superior to consoles, yes.

[~Chaotic Eddie~ 479]

Mine's not quite as epic... Here's my parts list:

Silverstone Raven 3 (case)
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 (Graphics Card)
Alpenföhn Brocken (Cooler)

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey (RAM, 8GB)
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series (Motherboard)

LiteOn DH-4O3S-04-B (Blu-ray disk drive)
BeQuiet Pure Power L8 530W (Power supply)

Intel Core i5-4670k 3.40GHZ (Processor)
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 PCI-Express (Sound Card)
Icy Box IB-863-B (Front panel)
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB (SSD)
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM (HDD)

 

Presently I only have the one screen - though I have a spare screen and a VGA cable to plug it in with. Only problem is my PC doesn't actually have any VGA inputs, and I don't know which type of connection is uses for monitors at all...

Shamefully, I also didn't actually put it together myself - I had Overclockers UK (a gaming PC shop near where I live) put it together for me...

 

But hey, this thing can run most anything on Ultra settings at 60FPS~
 

Edited September 29, 2014 by ~Chaotic Eddie~

[long gone 8,929]

Oh yeah, I forgot, specs!
 

• Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.40GHz
• nVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M w/ 2GB VRAM
• 16GB DDR3-1600 RAM
• 750GB Hitachi TravelStar 7200RPM hard drive
• 1TB Hitachi Travelstar 7200RPM hard drive
• Windows 8.1 x64

 

And my future PC, a more glorious desktop, will have:

 

• Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.5GHz
• Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2
• Swiftech H220/custom loop water cooler (haven't decided yet)
• EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Dual SC w/2GB VRAM
• 8GB G-Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-1866 RAM
• 256GB Crucial MX100 SSD
• 1TB Western Digital Black 7200RPM hard drive
• Windows 8.1 x64

[boiteporte 591]

I never quite understood why people buy "gaming" RAM considering it is merely a marketing term and no better than stock RAM. Anyway, I am not going to post the whole of my specs. Just the important stuff : 

 

Here goes :

 

Screen : ASUS VG278HE (Active 3D)

CPU : Intel Core i5-4670 (no K version because I am not into overclocking)

Graphics Card : MSI GTX 780.

 

The 780 is slowly dying (in terms of power, lol), I am going to replace it soon....

[Envy 6,160]

I am not and will never be apart of the "PC Master Race", but I did recently put together a PC that is (hopefully) perfect for running all of The Sims 3 + Expansion Packs (and hopefully Civ IV/V... Those can't require too much...):

 

Intel Core i5 4430 Quad Core 3.0GHZ Processor

Gigabyte H97M-HD3 mATX LGA1150 H97 DDR3 PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 Xfire SATA3 USB3 HDMI Motherboard (I am sooo "I have no idea" with all of that OMG)

Um... 8GB of RAM

256GB Crucial MX100 SSD

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

ASUS Radeon R9 270X

Corsair CX Series CX500W Power Supply

 

I know... Varying degrees of detail there. Decided to leave out info on the DVD drive, SD card reader and case. They're important, of course, but yeah...

 

You can compare that to my current PC which, IIRC goes like this:

 

AMD Athlon II 2.20Ghz

6GB RAM

Radeon HD 3200 (integrated!)

500 GB Hard Drive

 

Yeah, I think the games will run sooo much better on the new PC.

Edited September 30, 2014 by Envy

[rarity1 461]

I still play Vice City on a Windows XP computer with a cathode ray tube monitor.  My laptop can run GTA IV on 10 frames per second.

[ARagY 1,152]

Can't upload pics just yet because I ordered in some new stuff to make it flashier, bb~

 

Also on my laptop

 

Now, my specs 

GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2gb DirectCU II OC 2-Way SLI 
CPU: I7-3770

Heatsink: Hyper 212 EVO
Motherboard: Asrock Extreme4 Z77 LGA1155
PSU: CX 600M
16 GB Corsair  RAM
Monitor: BenQ 24" 1920x1080 16:9 60 hz

Case: Antec 1200 v3

2 TB HDD

Headset: Logitech G930

Mice: Special-built gaming mouse, Razer Taipan, cheap $20 Staples mouse, V3 Bloody mouse (recently got)

 

Looking to get more RAM and another HDD at some point, the rest of the stuff is irrelevant <3

 

My temps are never above 35 idle and under a load they will never get anywhere near 60. 

 

FPS (approximate) in random games with latest drivers
BF4 (shockingly low): 70~ Previous drivers gave me about double that

TF2: 200+

Halo: CE LOL: 2.000+

BF3: 200+

CS GO: 170

Minecraft: 400 dips to the 100s when in heavy situations or lots of explosions or things to load

Metro Last Light: 200+ 

Fallout 3: 200+

Arma 2: Varies too much to give a proper answer

Borderlands 2: 200+

Sniper Elite III: 100 

Watch Dogs: 70

 

Average FPS of all variable games: 173,63~

 

It varies so much that graphics are obviously not the deciding factor in how much FPS I get, but rather how optimised it is. 

Edited September 30, 2014 by ARagY

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Specs for my humble little piece of PC gaming:

• Intel Core i5-3570K lightly overclocked to 4.1 GHz on a CM Hyper 212+
• ASRock Z77 Pro3
• Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 GC V2
• Sound Blaster Z
• Seasonic M12II 620 Bronze
• 16 GB Kingston HyperX Blu
• 512 GB Crucial MX100 SSD, 6.5TB storage disks
• Dell UltraSharp U3011 and U2312HM
• CM Storm Enforcer case
• Sennheiser HD 598, Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000, Sony Gold Wireless Headset, Kingston HyperX Cloud and banana stands to hold them all
• Logitech G9x, Thermaltake Poseidon Z Mechanical Keyboard

[long gone 8,929]

Intel Core i5 4430 Quad Core 3.0GHZ Processor

Gigabyte H97M-HD3 mATX LGA1150 H97 DDR3 PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 Xfire SATA3 USB3 HDMI Motherboard (I am sooo "

" with all of that OMG)

Um... 8GB of RAM

256GB Crucial MX100 SSD

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drive OEM

ASUS Radeon R9 270X

Corsair CX Series CX500W Power Supply

That's good for more than just The Sims...

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

So, today, this kid in my Government class tried telling me that the only good games on PC were ones like "Diablo" and "World of Warcraft" and that consoles were better for everything else

 

I lel'd

 

[ARagY 1,152]

So, today, this kid in my Government class tried telling me that the only good games on PC were ones like "Diablo" and "World of Warcraft" and that consoles were better for everything else

 

I lel'd

 

 

:\ I'm not going to say consoles are useless because when I want to play with friends while slumped back in a couch I'd love a nice console, but does he know about series such as Battlefield or rather any FPS, The Elder Scrolls, Minecraft..

[Zhortac 1,474]

My PC is about 7 or 8 years old now, and I had to replace RAM and added 1 gb, so now it's 4 instead of 3, and I got a better video card. It works until I get better someday.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

:\ I'm not going to say consoles are useless because when I want to play with friends while slumped back in a couch I'd love a nice console, but does he know about series such as Battlefield or rather any FPS, The Elder Scrolls, Minecraft..

When I want to play with friends while slumped back in my chair, I hook up an Xbox controller to my PC.

 

I still love my Wii U though, and I can play that laying in bed, so I one up your slumpiness!

[Shadowking58 1,137]

Oh no! oh no no no no no no no! The annoying PC elitists! They never leave me alone!

[Envy 6,160]

That's good for more than just The Sims...

 

It might be, but I really do not care. I ordered this PC specifically to be able to run The Sims 3 plus all Expansion Packs perfectly so I don't have to think about upgrading parts ever again.

 

I'm not going to get interested in other series, because I do not want to drain any more money on PC gaming. When EA blew it with The Sims 4, I had the perfect opportunity to upgrade for TS3 and not ever have to worry about any of the nonsense of upgrading, and I took it.

[long gone 8,929]

It might be, but I really do not care. I ordered this PC specifically to be able to run The Sims 3 plus all Expansion Packs perfectly so I don't have to think about upgrading parts ever again.

 

I'm not going to get interested in other series, because I do not want to drain any more money on PC gaming. When EA blew it with The Sims 4, I had the perfect opportunity to upgrade for TS3 and not ever have to worry about any of the nonsense of upgrading, and I took it.

Oh, trust me. It's gonna happen. Back in 2009 I was on the same page as you and... look where I am now.

[Pinkamena-Pills 6,839]

I have a ok Asus laptop, it was fun to play pc when i did, since i couldn't play those specific mmo's on console. 

 

Gaming is mostly dead to me outside of racers, so pc gaming is dead to me in general until something actually interests me. It was still a pretty decent experience tho. 

[Envy 6,160]

Oh, trust me. It's gonna happen. Back in 2009 I was on the same page as you and... look where I am now.

 

It's not. I have a very limited amount of types of games that I am interested in to begin with (I am not into anything violent). Most of those types of games are perfectly covered by Nintendo.

If it was going to happen, it would have already happened.

 

The only other PC titles that I am interested in (Civilization and SimCity), I also got into a decade or so ago. And how lucky for me... The new Civilization looks completely uninteresting and EA blew it with SimCity, much like they did with The Sims 4.

 

Gaming is one of those areas that I really am no longer into trying anything new, because I already spend enough money on games as it is, and I do not think it's anywhere near the best way to be spending my money. I already blew way too much money on this PC just to be able to perfectly run a "low-end, outdated" game. PC gaming is NOT in my best interest. Do you have any idea how much of a money drain The Sims is to begin with? EA is soooo greedy with that series.

Edited September 30, 2014 by Envy

[ARagY 1,152]

When I want to play with friends while slumped back in my chair, I hook up an Xbox controller to my PC.

 

I still love my Wii U though, and I can play that laying in bed, so I one up your slumpiness!

Pls, Wireless mouse on your thigh and monitor on the wall

[long gone 8,929]

It's not. I have a very limited amount of types of games that I am interested in to begin with (I am not into anything violent). Most of those types of games are perfectly covered by Nintendo.

If it was going to happen, it would have already happened.

 

The only other PC titles that I am interested in (Civilization and SimCity), I also got into a decade or so ago. And how lucky for me... The new Civilization looks completely uninteresting and EA blew it with SimCity, much like they did with The Sims 4.

 

Gaming is one of those areas that I really am no longer into trying anything new, because I already spend enough money on games as it is, and I do not think it's anywhere near the best way to be spending my money. I already blew way too much money on this PC just to be able to perfectly run a "low-end, outdated" game. PC gaming is NOT in my best interest. Do you have any idea how much of a money drain The Sims is to begin with? EA is soooo greedy with that series.

Hmm... well, whatever floats your boat then.

 

And EA being greedy? No way.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Pls, Wireless mouse on your thigh and monitor on the wall

Wireless mouse? I thought this was a GLORIOUS PC GAMING MASTER RACE THREAD? Bro, I run Linux on my freaking network card. KILLER NIC FTW!!!1111one