technology The Glorious PC master race thread

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

Whoops! my bad, i thought those were todays parts, my bad.

lolno

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227595&cm_re=gtx_750-_-83-227-595-_-Product

thats probably your best bet if you wanna go prebuilt on a budget

What could that run exactly?

[Plageius 263]

Whoops! my bad, i thought those were todays parts, my bad.

What could that run exactly?

It could run about all modern games at high or high-medium settings.

[Mouse 302]

lolno

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227595&cm_re=gtx_750-_-83-227-595-_-Product

thats probably your best bet if you wanna go prebuilt on a budget

And if you're looking to build a computer, a build similar to this would be good:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Cloudyy/saved/B94G3C

 

You'd be saving a lot of money over buying something prebuilt, as that rig would blow the prebuilt one out of the water despite being around the same price once you add in Windows 8. It could run anything at 1080p with max settings with ease.

Edited January 24, 2015 by Mouse

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

I see, thanks for the help guys.

I have a 28" RCA 1080p LED tv screen, which i'm happy with. 

[long gone 8,929]

Yeah, that could probably work as a monitor. I've seen people use TVs as monitors before.

[Mouse 302]

I'm curious, what's the amount of money you are thinking of spending? I could throw a parts list together at that pricepoint with the best performance-per-dollar possible.

 

 

I see, thanks for the help guys.

I have a 28" RCA 1080p LED tv screen, which i'm happy with. 

 

As long as it has a HDMI port, you should be able to use it as a computer monitor.

Edited January 24, 2015 by Mouse

[Plageius 263]

I'm curious, what's the amount of money you are thinking of spending? I could throw a parts list together at that pricepoint with the best performance-per-dollar possible.

This looks nice. The 960 will be a good budget build choice for sure.

[Whatevs 377]

Does he plan on overclocking the cpu?

No, should he?

Admittedly I think he wants to play lower end games

[long gone 8,929]

No, should he?

Admittedly I think he wants to play lower end games

It's optional, but with some processors it might make a bit of a difference in heavy productivity tasks, namely the Pentium G3258. Athlon 860K might not need it so much as it's a quad-core design as opposed to the Pentium's dual-core, and as I said, it's optional, but it might help with things like file compression or other heavy productivity tasks like that.

[Vox 870]

Need a bit of advice.

I've got a GTX 560Ti, had it for roughly 3 years. Is it time to upgrade?

[long gone 8,929]

Need a bit of advice.

I've got a GTX 560Ti, had it for roughly 3 years. Is it time to upgrade?

Yeah. Honestly, while we've spoken shit about the GTX 960 here lately, it would be a worthy upgrade over that. Although if you'd like an extra gig of VRAM, the R9 280X is a worthy choice of GPU.

[1111 1,284]

How much does a phenom 6 core 3.5 gh contend to and high end 4 core i7? I,m not asking because I want to buy any thing just its what I have have.

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

Okay guys, i have a little snag that has me frustrated and i can't decide on a mic. Is there one that works for a budget of $50?

i don't need a high end, just a decent mic that i can use for my readings. my last one quit on me for some odd reason.

[long gone 8,929]

Okay guys, i have a little snag that has me frustrated and i can't decide on a mic. Is there one that works for a budget of $50?

i don't need a high end, just a decent mic that i can use for my readings. my last one quit on me for some odd reason.

Currently seeing the Blue Snowball for $50 on Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836431002

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

Currently seeing the Blue Snowball for $50 on Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836431002

thanks man, would be ideal for narration?

[long gone 8,929]

thanks man, would be ideal for narration?

Yeah, I've heard good things about that mic.

[Yourmomsponies 444]

Awwwwwwww yissssss its upgrading time.

[Azure Envy 1,092]

Building a PC inside an NES complete with controller ports.

 

https://imgur.com/a/s7KKP

[Discordian 6,015]

It's time, PC peeps. I need to start researching how to build a PC for gaming and how much it's going to cost me. I'm a total nub when it comes to PC hardware though and haven't owned a desktop in ten years. I don't know what I'm doing and I need to know more than just what parts are good and how to find and compare good parts. I need to know safety risks, preliminary things I should know about the building process including getting an OS on there and anything I need to know in the OS to make my gaming experience as smooth as possible. I honestly don't know where to start which is why I need your help.

 

If it helps, I'm mostly wanting one for PC-exclusive games like Total War and games that I no longer have the console to play like Valkyria Chronicles. Not really interested in things like mods (unless they make a broken game playable or something) since I like to play games as vanilla as possible.

 

I know there's probably lots of places to research such things but I honestly wouldn't know what's trustworthy or where to begin so better to start in a familiar place, ya know?

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

Well at least i can play LoE.

[long gone 8,929]

And now nVIDIA fully discloses the actual 970 spec.

 

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Discloses-Full-Memory-Structure-and-Limitations-GTX-970

 

As it turns out, they lied about how much L2 cache and ROPs it has. It actually has less L2 cache (1792KB) and ROPs (56) than the 980 (2048KB L2 cache and 64 ROPs). Wow, nVIDIA, lying about the specifications of one of your GPUs to make it seem better.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

And now nVIDIA fully discloses the actual 970 spec.

 

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Discloses-Full-Memory-Structure-and-Limitations-GTX-970

 

As it turns out, they lied about how much L2 cache and ROPs it has. It actually has less L2 cache (1792KB) and ROPs (56) than the 980 (2048KB L2 cache and 64 ROPs). Wow, nVIDIA, lying about the specifications of one of your GPUs to make it seem better.

 

is 1.8MB Vs. 2MB really that big a deal to raising a stink over?

[long gone 8,929]

is 1.8MB Vs. 2MB really that big a deal to raising a stink over?

They still lied about the spec, advertising it as better than it actually is.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

They still lied about the spec, advertising it as better than it actually is.

 

I was under the impression companies rounded and give the specs in increments of .5MB because I've only even seen caches branded in either 1.5MB, or 2MB.

Edited January 26, 2015 by Shoboni

[long gone 8,929]

I was under the impression companies rounded and give the specs in increments of .5MB because I've only even seen caches branded in either 1.5MB, or 2MB.

It wasn't just the GPU's cache or RAM. It's also the render output units.