PC thread.

[GamerLuna7 207]

As i found there is no pc thread in the forums ,i did found a nitendo thread though (scumbag console peasants). So discuss everything about pc-s here like new graphics cards ,overclocking,games,mods etc. PC Elitism ftw!

Edited March 8, 2013 by Artemis
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[Twilight Circuits 603]

one does not simply start a pc thread and not give their pc specs:

 

PhenomII 965BE@3.6Ghz watercooled with a Corsair H50

16GB DDR3

Asus Rog Crosshair V motherboard
Powercolor 6990

Creative X-fi Platinum

2X Crucial M4 128GB in Raid-0

Corsair Veangence K90 Keyboard
R.A.T. 9 wireless mouse
Logitech G27 FFB Wheel shifter/pedals
LG 47" 3D TV as my monitor
 

I think that's it.

[CloudsdaleCompanion 342]

I have been waiting for this Thread for so long!   But I suggest changing the title to "The Hardware Thread" or similar if that's OK with you. Just a thought.

 

Anyway, TwilightCircuits is right, so I'm posting my Specs too:

 

 

i3-2310m (2,1GHz)

 

8GB Kingston HyperX RAM (1600MHz)

 

Intel HD3000 (1,69GB)

 

128GB Crucial M4 SSD

 

Win 8 Pro

 

12,5" IPS Screen (179° Viewing Angle, 1366x768)

 

MIL-SPEC tested and water resistant/spill-proof

 

 

As for some news, I have heard that 10W ULV Ivy's are gonna be realeased sometime in January.

 

We can expect some Tablets or Convertibles with strong yet efficient Core i processors to appear around that time, like the ThinkPad Helix with a Core i7 for example.

 

Edited January 13, 2013 by CloudsdaleCompanion

[Commander Urdnot 2,680]

 

Asus G75VW Gaming Laptop

17.2" 3D-Compatible display with 1920x1080 resolution

16GB of RAM

750GB 7200rpm Hard Drive

Backlit keyboard with fully-functional keypad

Intel Core i7 Processor

Nvidia Geforce GTX 670M w/ 3GB GRAM

[SPLinux 374]

My Main Desktop Specs:

 

Motherboard: Asus P5K SE

 

CPU: Intel Core Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

Memory: 4GB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (4x 1GB DIMMS)

NIC: Ethernet Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/813

USB3:ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB PCI Express

GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT

Capture Card: WinTV PVR 250

HDD: 1TB Segate ST31000528AS

DVD ROM: DVD+-RW TS-H653A

Display: 2x DELL E228WFP   1- 1680x1050 2- 1152x864 - TwinView

 

OS: Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 Linux 3.5.0-21, Arch Linux x86_64 3.2.0
 

 

 

It's not amazing but it works just fine.

 

EDIT: just some updates

Edited December 27, 2012 by superponylinux

[Retro*Derpy 3,085]

Hey quick question to all out geeks out there. My current specs are

Custom build.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor

Graphics: On board (PCI Express 2.0 x16 available)
Ram: 4GB Ripjaw
PSU: 400 watt
DVD/CD Drive, from sony
Hard drive: Samsung 500 GB

27" LED TV

OS: Ubuntu

Regular keyboard/mouse

If I am forgetting anything else, say so. I also plan on getting windows.

I plan on getting this graphic card and a 500 watt PSU to help support it. (I also don't trust my current PSU, it sounds like it is about to quit.) Would a 500 Watt PSU be enough to support the new graphic card AND a couple of new hard drives? 

Edited December 21, 2012 by Retro_Derpy

[SPLinux 374]

Hey quick question to all out geeks out there. My current specs are

Custom build.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor

Graphics: On board (PCI Express 2.0 x16 available)

Ram: 4GB Ripjaw

PSU: 400 watt

DVD/CD Drive, from sony

Hard drive: Samsung 500 GB

27" LED TV

OS: Ubuntu

Regular keyboard/mouse

 

If I am forgetting anything else, say so. I also plan on getting windows.

I plan on getting this graphic card and a 500 watt PSU to help support it. (I also don't trust my current PSU, it sounds like it is about to quit.) Would a 500 Watt PSU be enough to support the new graphic card AND a couple of new hard drives? 

 

On full throttle the Wattage of the GPU you are looking at is 254W. I believe a 500-Watt PSU Should be Enough for what you are looking for.

[Gigachip 148]

Well my main PC is an AMD build. Currently working on an Intel build after some headaches I'm getting from this AMD build. Though I'm not giving up on AMD just yet. Looking to buy a FX 8350 after Christmas. Anyway here are the specs of my main. (I'll load up pics once I'm able if thread still up)

AMD:

WIndows 7 Ultimate

FX-8120 OC 4.2Ghz(cooled by H80)

16 gig 1600Mhz RAM

Sabertooth 990fx Mobo

128g SSD Boot drive

64x2 SSD RAID 0 Software drive

1TB x2 RAID 0 Game drive

1TB Storage

1250W PSU

2x Radeon HD 7970

 

Intel Build:

Windows 8

Intel i7 2600k

32g HyperX 1333 RAM

sabertooth Z77 Mobo

256g SSD Boot Drive

1TB Game Drive

2TB storage

750W PSU

2x Nvidia GTX 670

 

Laptop:

Alienware m11x R2

Intel i7

8gigs Ram

nvidia gt 335m

[Celtore 2,769]

Well, I suppose I should go ahead and post my specs as well. I had so much fun putting this thing together last year!

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

 

Hard drives: 640 GB HDD, 60 SSD

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3.30 GHz

GPU: Radeon HD 6950

Memory: 8 gigabytes DDR3

 

OS: Manjaro Linux x86-64 / Windows 7 Ultimate

 

My last desktop was pretty good as well, too bad none of the parts were upgradable without replacing all the other internal guts. It also had a strange issue with the graphics card. it starts to sound like my old machine is making popcorn when I'm doing anything graphics intensive on it. Oh well, it usually doesnt have much of that to do anyway.

[A Blithering Div 247]

New graphics cards... Well, AMD just released test cards for their mobile 8xxx series: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-8790m-mars-benchmark,3382.html

 

It appears that this is mearly the desktop 7 series but for mobile as its Graphics Core Next based but not GCN v2. Outside of that, really just waiting for Intel's Haswell to hit the streets. Haswell should be a very nice upgrade from my long in the tooth Phenom II. No official word on whether or not Steamroller and/or Kaveri are still in the works over on the AMD side of things.

[Retro*Derpy 3,085]

On full throttle the Wattage of the GPU you are looking at is 254W. I believe a 500-Watt PSU Should be Enough for what you are looking for.

I actually  just hooked it all up today and it turned on, but rather than going to ubuntu my computer went to the BIOS screen and said "Insert Boot media" I am going to get windows tomorrow, but why would a video card change cause my computer to completely undetected ubuntu? Any clue?

[GamerLuna7 207]

Wow it has gotten a lot of respones awesome

So il post the specs of my rig too.

ACER Aspire 5742G Laptop

Intel Core i3-380M

15.6" HD LED LCD

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

6GB DDR3 RAM

750GB 7200 RPM  HDD

DVD-Super Multi DL Drive

Acer Nplify 802.11 b/g/n

6-CELL Li-ion battery

Windows 7 Dual boot with Windows XP

Edited December 26, 2012 by GamerLuna7

[Lost 1,409]

Specs 'n' stuff:

Computer -

Case - Coolermaster HAF-X

CPU - Intel i7 3770k

GPU - MSI GTX 680

Motherboard - Maximus IV ExtremeZ

RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance 2133MHz

OS Hard-drive - OCZ Vertex 2 128GB

Gaming Hard-drive - Western Digital velociraptor 1TB

Other Hard-drives - Western Digital portable 1TB (For post edit YouTube clips), Western Digital 2 TB (For archiveing and general dumps), Hitatchi 1TB (For pre-edit gameplay footage).

Disk Drive - Pioneer Blu-Ray drive

PSU - OCZ ZX Series 1000W

 

Peripherals -

Keyboard - Razer Black Widow Ultimate Stealth Edition

Mouse - Razer Mamba (4G version)

Mouse Mat - Razer Megasoma + Razer Vespula

Headset - Astro A50

Monitor – LG Flatron W2361V

[GamerLuna7 207]

Specs 'n' stuff:

Computer -

Case - Coolermaster HAF-X

CPU - Intel i7 3770k

GPU - MSI GTX 680

Motherboard - Maximus IV ExtremeZ

RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance 2133MHz

OS Hard-drive - OCZ Vertex 2 128GB

Gaming Hard-drive - Western Digital velociraptor 1TB

Other Hard-drives - Western Digital portable 1TB (For post edit YouTube clips), Western Digital 2 TB (For archiveing and general dumps), Hitatchi 1TB (For pre-edit gameplay footage).

Disk Drive - Pioneer Blu-Ray drive

PSU - OCZ ZX Series 1000W

 

Peripherals -

Keyboard - Razer Black Widow Ultimate Stealth Edition

Mouse - Razer Mamba (4G version)

Mouse Mat - Razer Megasoma + Razer Vespula

Headset - Astro A50

Monitor – LG Flatron W2361V

What operating system do you have dude? I guess you have windows .i myself have windows7 dualboot with xp. It is hard to get games working on linux ,it is possible but difficult

[HeavyRain 45]

Well i will just say my Pc specs are horrible but i will post them anyways. 

Operating System  : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)

 BIOS  Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG

 Processor: AMD Phenom 9150e Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~1.8GHz

Memory :7168MB RAM

DirectX Version 11

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3200

HD: 650GB

 

 

Edited December 26, 2012 by Luna'sChosen

[Lost 1,409]

What operating system do you have dude? I guess you have windows .i myself have windows7 dualboot with xp. It is hard to get games working on linux ,it is possible but difficult

 

Im running Windows 7 64-bit. I've used linux and snow leopard but didn't like either of them, so im stuck with windows. It would be nice to have an OS that isn't Microsoft that is fully compatible with all games though. 

[GamerLuna7 207]

Im running Windows 7 64-bit. I've used linux and snow leopard but didn't like either of them, so im stuck with windows. It would be nice to have an OS that isn't Microsoft that is fully compatible with all games though. 

Yep, the new windows 8 is a pain. I do have heard that some games run better on it like Shogun 2 Total War, but also that it has even more problems with older games. Windows 7 already had some problems with older games like the original diablo and diablo 2. I hope one day such os comes.

[Lost 1,409]

Yep, the new windows 8 is a pain. I do have heard that some games run better on it like Shogun 2 Total War, but also that it has even more problems with older games. Windows 7 already had some problems with older games like the original diablo and diablo 2. I hope one day such os comes.

 

I wont be getting windows 8, even if i get a slight FPS increase i wont notice it anyway, every game i play gets 100+ FPS, even when recording >.<

[GamerLuna7 207]

I wont be getting windows 8, even if i get a slight FPS increase i wont notice it anyway, every game i play gets 100+ FPS, even when recording >.<

I hope some of the new games that come wont require windows 8. Like Black ops 2 required wont work on windows XP  because of the new directx and requires windows vista (that sucks)or newer os.

Edited December 26, 2012 by GamerLuna7

[Miss Light Diamond 2,801]

Dis here is meh baby

 

I originally got it for gaming, It didn't cost much for a gaming computer and personally I think it did/does a wonderful job.

Now...I don't really game, I am more into music writing and Role Playing, I will play some games on occasion but I dunno, I just kinda stopped enjoying games.

[GamerLuna7 207]

Dis here is meh baby

 

I originally got it for gaming, It didn't cost much for a gaming computer and personally I think it did/does a wonderful job.

Now...I don't really game, I am more into music writing and Role Playing, I will play some games on occasion but I dunno, I just kinda stopped enjoying games.

Looks pretty sweet , can you share the specs of your rig ,that would be awesome . What games are you playing right now Flame Dancer?

[Miss Light Diamond 2,801]

Looks pretty sweet , can you share the specs of your rig ,that would be awesome . What games are you playing right now Flame Dancer?

Im not playing any games...As I said before I don't really game all that often 

 

 

Windows 7 64-bit

 

Intel Core i7 Processer 2600

 

NVIDIA GeForce GT520 1GB

 

2TB Hard Drive

 

8GB DDR3 Memory 

 

DVD Super Multi drive

 

Muldi-in-1 Media Card Reader.

[akita-ken 581]

My current workhorse, or, workpony, if you'd like.

 

Case - Xigmatek Asgard Pro

CPU - AMD Phenom X4 955 BE @ 4.0GHz

GPU - MSI Radeon HD6850 Cyclone Power Edition

Motherboard - MSI 880GMA-E35

RAM - 2x 4GB G-Skill RipjawsX DDR3-1600

System HDD - Western Digital Carviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM

Data/Backup HDD - Western Digital Carviar Blue 640GB 7200RPM

Disk Drive - Samsung 22x DVD-RW SATA

PSU - Seasonic M520II

 

Peripherals -

Keyboard - Ducky DK-1008 Brown

Mouse - Roccat Kone

Mouse Mat - My tablecloth.

Headset - Grado SR80i

Tablet - Wacom Bamboo Pen

Monitor – 1x Acer P244W and 1x Acer P243W

 

 

Until I get more monies this rig is gonna stick with me for a long time :3

 

[GamerLuna7 207]

Im not playing any games...As I said before I don't really game all that often 

 

 

Windows 7 64-bit

 

Intel Core i7 Processer 2600

 

NVIDIA GeForce GT520 1GB

 

2TB Hard Drive

 

8GB DDR3 Memory 

 

DVD Super Multi drive

 

Muldi-in-1 Media Card Reader.

But what was the last game you played? Right now myself i am playing Far Cry 2. Old ,bit awesome game. Has it flaws ,but i still like it.Nice an i7 processor. Not the newest graphic card ,but still good if you arent a huge gamer.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,801]

But what was the last game you played? Right now myself i am playing Far Cry 2. Old ,bit awesome game. Has it flaws ,but i still like it.Nice an i7 processor. Not the newest graphic card ,but still good if you arent a huge gamer.

I do like it, It does what I need it to do and that's awesome in my book 

As for the last game I played...Probably minecraft, But I usually play minecraft when i'm watching a movie or something...If you're talking about real game that takes tons and tons of skill and stuff, Planet Side 2

And the game I used to be obsessed with was Gary's Mod, Zombie Survival...That and TF2