Count to a million

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,860]

232.288

[summer_sketch 13]

232289

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,860]

232.290

[summer_sketch 13]

232291

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,860]

232.292

[summer_sketch 13]

232293

[Kawaii Besu 28,011]

232293

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232295

 

Hmm...Should I change my name again?

[summer_sketch 13]

232296

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,860]

232.297

 

why?

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232298

 

I dunno, just cause.

 

 Different sig quote. Probably should have thought of a better one, but I felt like changing it, and got lazy.

[Deae Rising Shine~ 55,860]

232.299

 

ok

got to go

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232300

 

NOOOOOOO!!!

 

...Bye.

[lomk 20,663]

232301

 

Mustard

 

 

 

 

PC Gaming Mustard Race trumps your console n00b

 

 

232280

What GPU do you currently have?

Me? Radeon HD 7770. It's kinda old but it runs everything I throw at it. Far from perfectly, but it gets the job done

Edited January 9, 2015 by Spaced Out Woona

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232302

 

Ketchup.

[Kawaii Besu 28,011]

232303

 

Pickles. (Eating it in socks and sandals, Linus style! )

 

Still exponentially more powerful than my computer, which runs a crap GT 610. (I cri evrytiem :/)

Edited January 9, 2015 by Fillypino Pride

[lomk 20,663]

232304

 

Yeah I looked into it and that looks like a pretty low end card :/ I mean, memory, clock, all sorts of things are similar to my card and then I got to the number of transistors lol the radeon has 5 transistors to every 1 in the GT 610...

 

I've been told the R9-285 is looking like a pretty solid card and they're not too expensive. 

 

I'm either looking at going with that or splurging a little on an R9-290X. 

 

But I am pretty curious what CrossFire can do...I mean...Radeon 7770s are going for not too much right now....and they say doubling your GPUs will almost double your gfx performance...

Only thing keeping me from running CrossFire is my PSU. I don't know if I've got the overhead left to run two GPU's. 

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232305

 

I have no idea what 90% of what was just said even means, but I'm going to just smile and nod.

[1111 1,284]

232306 id be a bit concerned about heat.

[Kawaii Besu 28,011]

232305

And then a lot of PC stores in local terms classify it as a gaming grade card. Probably because we are used to thinking that VRAM = more performance... 

 

Well, if that's the case, I'd just buy a single high end GPU instead of XFiring your current mid-ranged card. Yeah, it can double the performance of your current single-GPU performance, and let it perform equivalently to a 270X/7870 or somewhere between the lines of that, but beware the stuttering, scaling and driver issues of using dual GPU setups.

 

If you're impatient to wait for the new 20nm AMD GPUs that are rumored to come next month, I'd get a GTX 970. Definitely the way to go for sweet spot "bang for the buck" gaming PCs at $350. You can even overclock that thing to almost match a reference 980 without almost even touching the voltage (though it all depends on the silicone lottery. ) due to the similar architectures between the two.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232307

 

*Smiles and nods along*

[lomk 20,663]

232306 

 

And I think waiting is what I'm going to do as I'm kinda broke-ish after Christmas shopping for all the people in my family lol (let's just say that because of my less than ideal childhood I now have half a dozen families) I have to wait for payday in 3 weeks. :| Oh well. I didn't know AMD was coming out with a new GPU...but I have been out of the hardware loop a while. At least since I finished this build. 

 

Really I've been debating just turning it into an Intel/Nvidia rig but then I'll have all these parts lying around doing nothing. I guess I could repurpose the old hardware. Maybe turn them into a home server. If nothing else, I guess I could just try my luck selling the parts. That gfx card is actually a great starter card. I got it because I didn't want to invest too much into a PC in case I wasn't gonna be a PC gamer in the long run...But I know the FX architecture is crap and I've even heard rumors they might ditch the AM3 socket altogether. 

 

Not much of an overclocker so I'm thinking I might go with an i5-4460. Seems like a good chip for the money. And it's way less of a power hog than the FX-8350 for a few bucks more...

Edited January 9, 2015 by Spaced Out Woona

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

232309

 

I'm heading off for the night now. Goodnight.

[lomk 20,663]

232310

 

G'night bawse. I think I might do the same. It's 12 am....

 

Tomorrow's Friday so I'm pretty stoked about that. Lots of work to do at the office though :|

I'll leave you with this. Prepare your eye sockets for joy

 

[Kawaii Besu 28,011]

232208

 

Night Base!

 

i5-4460 is a fine CPU. I mean, it's nice to overclock if you really want to get the most out of your games, even for a mere 1-2FPS boost, and also experience what it is to be a true computer enthusiast, but for budget builds, it's pretty much irrelevant.

 

Like this build from Austin Evans, in which he cheaped out slightly on the CPU, blew everything on the GTX 970, and still get freaking ballz-to-teh-wallz performance, even at 1440p.

 

Edited January 9, 2015 by Fillypino Pride