technology The Glorious PC master race thread

[long gone 8,929]

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Glorious! Of course you do.

 

holy shit this rig, may it serve you well for a long time

[Nuke87654 1,849]

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Any avid pc gamer or just gamer that is respectful is always welcomed. As for your system, that is a pretty nice build you're going for.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

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Nice choice of graphics card.

 

The MSI is literally 5mm too long to fit in my case.

[long gone 8,929]

Can I just say, Phanteks Enthoo Pro master race? Maximum card length is 18.58" without the drive cages.

[Nuke87654 1,849]

 

Thoughts on this mess:

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-unity-system-requirements-rumoured-to-be-steep/

 

 

Caveats in place, here is what might be the system requirements for Assassin's Creed Unity:

• Operating System : Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows 8 / 8.1 ® (64 -bit version only supported)
• CPU: Intel Core® i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or higher (Intel Core® i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or more recommended)
• RAM: 6 GB or more (8 GB or more recommended)
• Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970, graphics memory 2GB or more (NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 290X, graphics memory 3 GB or more recommended)
• Sound Card : Direct X 9.0c compatible sound card and the latest drivers
• HDD: 50 GB or more

 

 

Normally I wouldn't believe it, but considering this is Ubisoft, I would believe it just so we can confirm of how badly optimized it will be.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Can I just say, Phanteks Enthoo Pro master race? Maximum card length is 18.58" without the drive cages.

 

That is rather impressive for $99. Should fit my IBM PGC nicely.

 

[long gone 8,929]

That is rather impressive for $99. Should fit my IBM PGC nicely.

 

Yeah, the Enthoo Pro is just all-around a very impressive full tower for $99. Really love Phanteks' approach to cases, very elegant and newb-friendly while still having a lot of enthusiast-friendly features.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

That is rather impressive for $99. Should fit my IBM PGC nicely.

 

 

What the hell is that thing?

[Azure Envy 1,092]

What the hell is that thing?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Graphics_Controller

 

They don't make computers like this anymore.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Graphics_Controller

 

They don't make computers like this anymore.

 

Dat price and those specs.

 

I had forgotten how slow and not-exactly-cost-efficient old PCs were.  

[long gone 8,929]

Woah, guys. It can do 640x480 at 256 colors.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Woah, guys. It can do 640x480 at 256 colors.

 

That right there is a console-killer for my NES. 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

In 1984. You can still find examples of those things and they still work 30 years later.

 

Gotta love that engineering, though. "The bus isn't fast enough for the CPU to update the video memory!"

 

"So put another one on the graphics card?"

 

"Will do, boss."

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

In 1984. You can still find examples of those things and they still work 30 years later.

 

Gotta love that engineering, though. "The bus isn't fast enough for the CPU to update the video memory!"

 

"So put another one on the graphics card?"

 

"Will do, boss."

 

Old PCs are tanks, I've got a Pentium II right that must be late 90s I got off the curb and it still works perfectly. 

[Envy 6,162]

And of my course, my video card which is supposed to be able to run The Sims 3 perfectly and is recommended, is not read by the game. And reading up on it, I need to find a way to limit the FPS now or it will fry the card. And that's beyond figuring out how to get the game to properly read the card. And now the game is lagging horribly only after a few hours of gameplay.

 

I am soooo done with PC gaming it's not even funny. I want my money back.

[long gone 8,929]

And of my course, my video card which is supposed to be able to run The Sims 3 perfectly and is recommended, is not read by the game. And reading up on it, I need to find a way to limit the FPS now or it will fry the card. And that's beyond figuring out how to get the game to properly read the card. And now the game is lagging horribly only after a few hours of gameplay.

 

I am soooo done with PC gaming it's not even funny. I want my money back.

Did you connect the video cables to the outputs on the GPU or the motherboard?

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

And of my course, my video card which is supposed to be able to run The Sims 3 perfectly and is recommended, is not read by the game. And reading up on it, I need to find a way to limit the FPS now or it will fry the card. And that's beyond figuring out how to get the game to properly read the card. And now the game is lagging horribly only after a few hours of gameplay.

 

I am soooo done with PC gaming it's not even funny. I want my money back.

 

Who told you that?

 

AFAIK you can't actually fry a GPU that way and it's more of a bad sign if the game is lagging horribly and you're still pushing(because it means the card can't handle it and is straining itself to run it at all)

[long gone 8,929]

Who told you that?

 

AFAIK you can't actually fry a GPU that way and it's more of a bad sign if the game is lagging horribly and you're still pushing(because it means the card can't handle it and is straining itself to run it at all)

You can actually fry a GPU.

 

If you play Star Citizen. Not kidding, someone's GTX 580 actually caught fire trying to run Star Citizen. Oh, older cards and your inadequate cooling for your TDPs...

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Who told you that?

 

AFAIK you can't actually fry a GPU that way and it's more of a bad sign if the game is lagging horribly and you're still pushing(because it means the card can't handle it and is straining itself to run it at all)

Cards with junk coolers can fry that way and there was an old (196.xx?) NVIDIA driver set with faulty fan control that ended up frying a few cards.

 

None of this helps Envy though, I'm sorry to hear you're having so many problems. Not a good first impression for PC gaming at all.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

You can actually fry a GPU.

 

If you play Star Citizen. Not kidding, someone's GTX 580 actually caught fire trying to run Star Citizen. Oh, older cards and your inadequate cooling for your TDPs...

 

Cards with junk coolers can fry that way and there was an old (196.xx?) NVIDIA driver set with faulty fan control that ended up frying a few cards.

 

None of this helps Envy though, I'm sorry to hear you're having so many problems. Not a good first impression for PC gaming at all.

 

I'm aware, but I would think it would be running slow, rather then fast if it was straining the card.  

[long gone 8,929]

Gigabyte cards usually have three fans on them. That should be more than enough for both AMD and nVIDIA.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

I'm aware, but I would think it would be running slow, rather then fast if it was straining the card.

Yeah, newer GPUs would do what you describe, throttling or outright crashing the display driver if you go overtemp (ask me how I know ), but older ones often had no such protection.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Yeah, newer GPUs would do what you describe, throttling or outright crashing the display driver if you go overtemp (ask me how I know ), but older ones often had no such protection.

 

I'm glad I bought a fairly new card(750ti, FTW edition) with a big-ass cooler then XD.

 

I'm guessing you get something really "questionable", like trying to run BF4 maxed out on a under-powered card with a crappy cooler?

[long gone 8,929]

Battlefield 4 maxed on a 64-player server. On Intel HD Graphics 2000. On a mobile Intel Core i3.

 

Gogogo

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Battlefield 4 maxed on a 64-player server. On Intel HD Graphics 2000. On a mobile Intel Core i3.

 

Gogogo

 

Reminds me of this video:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYALAL9toOw