technology The Glorious PC master race thread

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

Just curious, but what's that one piece of hardware, tool or anything that's indispensible for you all? Some people swear by a certain thermal paste, for example.

Aftermarket heatsink

SSD for OS and programs

CoreTemp

 

There's prolly more, but I can't think of any atm.

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Almost forget, here's a couple pics(I get the best I could but arranging cables is a ass)

 

 

Lookin' good! May your frame rates be high and your temperatures low.

[Whatevs 377]

I built a PC would would probably be $1000+ pre-built for $680 or so($800 including the monitor), so I'd also advise you learn how and build yourself(especially if your budget is that small)

Almost forget, here's a couple pics(I get the best I could but arranging cables is a ass)

 

 

Okey dokey. I appreciate the advice given by everyone.

 

Any resources to assist me with building since I'm a layman?

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Okey dokey. I appreciate the advice given by everyone.

 

Any resources to assist me with building since I'm a layman?

LinusTechTips and Austin Evans have some pretty great build guides on YouTube. Building is relatively the same from PC-to-PC from what I've seen, only major difference is how the CPU is installed.

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Okey dokey. I appreciate the advice given by everyone.

 

Any resources to assist me with building since I'm a layman?

Look up Austin Evans on YouTube. 

He has many different builds at the budget you need from $300 and up.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

LinusTechTips and Austin Evans have some pretty great build guides on YouTube. Building is relatively the same from PC-to-PC from what I've seen, only major difference is how the CPU is installed.

 

 

Look up Austin Evans on YouTube. 

He has many different builds at the budget you need from $300 and up.

 

Be careful with his builds, his $300 build used a no-name PSU and a GPU so shitty you'd almost be better off going intel and using the APU. 

[Whatevs 377]

Thank you for the help ya'll

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Found something interesting when I was seeing how my system stacks up to a PS4, the cards seem to be a fairly equal footing but there's a huge gap in that one area for some reason:

 

 

[long gone 8,929]

Found something interesting when I was seeing how my system stacks up to a PS4, the cards seem to be a fairly equal footing but there's a huge gap in that one area for some reason:

If you used GPUBoss, don't. Only compares performance numbers with no considerations for real-world performance.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

If you used GPUBoss, don't. Only compares performance numbers with no considerations for real-world performance.

 

That explains why my $150 CPU doesn't even score 10% higher than a Pentium G2020 on CPU boss despite having double the physical-cores and being roughly 600Mhz-1100Mhz faster. 

 

Side note: My 8320 idols at 3.7Ghz instead of 3.5Ghz for some reason. 

Little comparison from a test I just ran.

 

My old system struggled to keep 40FPS at 800x600 with the settings cranked way down on COD4, my new one runs it at like 120FPS at 1080p with everything cranked up and maxed out. 

[Vox 870]

I need a new keyboard, but here it is,

 

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Can I run something buy you guys?

 

Does Black Ops stuttering back and forth between 48-60FPS on 1080p/High/2AA on my rig sound about right or do I have a problem here?

[long gone 8,929]

Can I run something buy you guys?

 

Does Black Ops stuttering back and forth between 48-60FPS on 1080p/High/2AA on my rig sound about right or do I have a problem here?

I don't know, CBA to look up perf benches right now. All I'm thinking is "must... buy... PC parts... on Newegg..."

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I don't know, CBA to look up perf benches right now. All I'm thinking is "must... buy... PC parts... on Newegg..."

 

I was wondering because I want to be sure everything is running right

[long gone 8,929]

I was wondering because I want to be sure everything is running right

 

Here's the first video I found. Seems to be around right. CoD isn't very well-optimized on the PC anymore, so there's that.

[ARagY 1,152]

Min 8 gigs and like 50 gigs of HDD to run the last one

 

Ahahaha

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

 

Here's the first video I found. Seems to be around right. CoD isn't very well-optimized on the PC anymore, so there's that.

Is BO2 better optimized or something? All the videos I found of it are running far better. That does match up with what I was getting though so at least I know everything is in working order. 

 

Min 8 gigs and like 50 gigs of HDD to run the last one

 

Ahahaha

 

Didn't it wind up only using like 3GB and working find on 6GB systems?

Edited November 2, 2014 by Shoboni

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Is BO2 better optimized or something? All the videos I found of it are running far better. That does match up with what I was getting though so at least I know everything is in working order. 

 From what I can tell, yes, because Treyarch has some people who know how to make a PC game now.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

 From what I can tell, yes, because Treyarch has some people who know how to make a PC game now.

 

That must be why BO1 struggles to maintain even a solid 50 on this card but BO2 bottoms out at like 80(and averages over 100) according to the benchmarks I saw. 

[Plageius 263]

Can I run something buy you guys?

 

Does Black Ops stuttering back and forth between 48-60FPS on 1080p/High/2AA on my rig sound about right or do I have a problem here?

no that seems wrong, on my old gtx 460 [way weaker] i could run black ops 2 on ultra around 40/60fps so no

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

no that seems wrong, on my old gtx 460 [way weaker] i could run black ops 2 on ultra around 40/60fps so no

 

Daring found a video on this card with identical performance to mine(and BO2 seems to be better optimized than BO1)

Edited November 2, 2014 by Shoboni

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

Are any AAA PC games really optimized anymore? Just about everything has absurd system requirements now.

[long gone 8,929]

Are any AAA PC games really optimized anymore? Just about everything has absurd system requirements now.

Shadow of Mordor still manages to run well despite the ridiculous VRAM requirement. Borderlands has been PC-first since 2. Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider were also very well-optimized. There's a few examples.

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

Tomb Raider does run nicely on my PC. I think that's the last game that I've bought that I was able to max out completely.

 

I was going to buy Watch Dogs, but after hearing about the performance, I decided against it. After looking at the system requirements for AC Unity, I'm almost convinced it's going to be the same way. My 7950 doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for the game.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Tomb Raider does run nicely on my PC. I think that's the last game that I've bought that I was able to max out completely.

 

I was going to buy Watch Dogs, but after hearing about the performance, I decided against it. After looking at the system requirements for AC Unity, I'm almost convinced it's going to be the same way. My 7950 doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for the game.

 

Mordor has those absurd specs to but it's still playable on a 750ti on decent settings from the videos I've seen.