technology How is my PC rig for the next gen

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

Well the IRS just stole a lot of money from me =/ I don;t think it's going to happen yet. The again I work in Massachusetts 

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

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Not sure how the new card ends up less than the old one upclocked.. but thats nvidia for ya

 

Either way its still a helluva card.

 

The 760 is indeed still a good card. Think of it like this, it is faster than a 660TI but not as fast as the 670 or 770.

 

The 760 is the 670 with a part of it disabled called an SMX and this lowers the amount of CUDA cores by around about a hundred.

 

The 770 is actually a 680 with a massive memory core overclock to 7Ghz. Nothing else is changed AFAIK.

[GrimCW 658]

 

 

The 760 is the 670 with a part of it disabled called an SMX and this lowers the amount of CUDA cores by around about a hundred.

TBH I think I read about the disabled component, and that there is a way to reactivate it.. Never really looked into it.. wonder if its worth trying... 

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

Does anyone here go on steam regularly? Because I am just getting back into gaming. I don;t play TF2, I stopped playing it in 2009. Anything to recommend?

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

TBH I think I read about the disabled component, and that there is a way to reactivate it.. Never really looked into it.. wonder if its worth trying... 

 

It'd require a hardmod if it's even possible at all. There is no way on God's green Earth that you'll be able to enable a disabled SMX unit through software alone but if you can do it and it's not too difficult, go for it. You'll be getting above GTX 670 performance then.

Does anyone here go on steam regularly? Because I am just getting back into gaming. I don;t play TF2, I stopped playing it in 2009. Anything to recommend?

 

Feel free to add me, links on my page (:

[GrimCW 658]

Does anyone here go on steam regularly? Because I am just getting back into gaming. I don;t play TF2, I stopped playing it in 2009. Anything to recommend?

 

Tons.. but thats all a matter of preferance, what genres are you into?

 

As for going on STEAM.. MLPForums has a group on there

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mlpforums

 

And I'm always up for a game or chat

 

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971850954/

heh.. my account is so old my URL is a # instead of my name... awesome...

 

@, 

 

No idea how its done, just know I read in one of the reviews (I blundered through a LOT of reviews before buying it.. it was this or the 770, but the 760 was just the right price and the 770 was stretching it considerably... + sales ) that there is supposedly a way to turn it back on, but it might cause issues, or not.. I don't think they really tried it...

Edited January 13, 2014 by GrimCW

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

Tons.. but thats all a matter of preferance, what genres are you into?

 

As for going on STEAM.. MLPForums has a group on there

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mlpforums

 

And I'm always up for a game or chat

 

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971850954/

heh.. my account is so old my URL is a # instead of my name... awesome...

 

@, 

 

No idea how its done, just know I read in one of the reviews (I blundered through a LOT of reviews before buying it.. it was this or the 770, but the 760 was just the right price and the 770 was stretching it considerably... + sales ) that there is supposedly a way to turn it back on, but it might cause issues, or not.. I don't think they really tried it...

 

It'll be through a solder mod or/and a BIOS flash. I'd assume you'd need to solder part of the PCB to enable the SMX unit and then VBIOS flash the 760 to a matching 670 VBIOS so that the SMX units are activated software wise. The BIOS part would be very easy especially if you a have a reference PCB. If you've got a custom PCB... You're gonna be very stuck for the VBIOS part.

Edited January 13, 2014 by Essy*

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

Figure you'd guys get a kick out this troll

 

Forgive my 2 second coma for *That*

I'm a big Batman fan. Currently playing Arkham Asylum on my rig. I haven't played it since 2009. Is Origins worth the 50 dollars? People are dogging the game, I heard it's harder. I prefer to play the games on the highest setting. Anyone else play the Arkham trilogy?

Edited January 13, 2014 by TheMarkz0ne

[GrimCW 658]

@@TheMarkz0ne,

I've played a little of Origins.. not sure about it being harder, its really just a reskinned Arkham City with an all new story IMO.

It literally plays in the same exact area's as AC.... It does look considerably better, and is far more fleshed out, but not really any different except in how you go about the unlock system.

 

I'd wait for another sale on it tbh, I got it free with my vid card. 

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I'm waiting on Dark Souls 2 in March 11th. I am hoping it will be better than the port for Dark Souls. I got nothing to play ambitiously. I beat Tomb Raider easily last year. It was my game of the year in 2013

 

My rig was 1800 USD, well back in late 2012

Edited January 13, 2014 by TheMarkz0ne

[Ponynymous 3]

That's fucking awesome rig man. How much did it cost to you?

[A Blithering Div 247]

Also, it's not even 8 cores. It's 4 physical, 4 logical. An i7 is hyperthreaded and has the same amount of logical cores but they don't claim it's an 8 core process cause it's just false.

 

Wrong on the architectural level. Intel hyperthreading is the addition of registers that the CPU alternates between to boost throughput between processes. Bulldozer has all of the essential hardware for 8 cores (2 decoders, 2 integer units, 2 128 bit FPUs [that can act as one 256 bit FPU]) but only has 1 MMX unit and one FP scheduler.

 

 

On topic; You may want to save up for a better GPU, outside of that it looks alright.

[~Rule 63~ Lyeco 527]

GTX 660(non ti)

i5 ivy bridge 3570k

ITB HDD

16 GB DDR3 RAM

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

650 wat PSU

 

The GTX 770 is out for over 300 bucks. But I have no plans on upgrading for some years. I know that my GTX 660 can run the games on high and not ultra. It doesn't matter, because there are people running 560 Ti cards and are getting high performance.

My Parent's iMac is slightly had better Specs but it's not used for gaming though

 

Intel Core i5

3TB HDD

32GB DDR3 RAM

Mac OS mavericks

310 Wat

Nvidia GTX 675MX

I told, my parent didn't used it for gaming. That's why we bought consoles instead

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

My Parent's iMac is slightly had better Specs but it's not used for gaming though

 

Intel Core i5

3TB HDD

32GB DDR3 RAM

Mac OS mavericks

310 Wat

Nvidia GTX 675MX

I told, my parent didn't used it for gaming. That's why we bought consoles instead

 

Mobile graphics card... It doesn't have better specs other than the RAM but unless you do professional level video editing etc. then you don't need more than 16GB.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I found out today that the reason why my PC is crashing throughout the day, is most likely the video card! I updated the latest driver, and I also cleaned out minor malware. Adobe reader is up to date. I ran a defrag. So I guess it's either the card or motherboard that needs to be replaced. Aside from youtube running slowly, did some research and found out I'm not alone. So I might to spend money on a new card.

[TorqueEffect 112]

I strictly build my computers on best performance for the price. It may not get me the best stuff, but it is always cheaper when I go to upgrade down the road and still get performance gains.

 

Like what the OP said, normal people have bills to pay. Granted I don't have a $200+ a month car payment to make, but I do have a car, so I have to pay for gas, insurance, and my cell phone, along with other small things that add up to quite a bit over the course of the month. I went from having nearly 40 hours a week part-time, to 25 hours a week thanks to fucking Obama and his 30 hour requires full time benefits bullshit. It is also not the highest paying job, or even really a decent paying job either. It is $8/hr to drive a panel van around delivering auto parts. I do have another job, but I rarely ever get work for that because it is one of those "work when you are needed" jobs.

 

Also not going help that in a couple more years if Obamacare hasn't been repealed, we are going to be paying $600+ a year if we choose not to have over-priced health insurance that covers shit we don't need it to. Oh and if you don't pay the fine the IRS comes after you. (Thank you liberal fucks who voted for Obama!)

 

Needless to say Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are not in my budget, so I almost strictly use AMD/ATI. But don't get me wrong, if I had a $1500 computer budget, it would be an Intel, Nvidia build.

 

Even though gaming is strictly single-threaded processes at the moment, but we are talking next gen here, who is to say in the next year or two more than half of the new games are not going to be multi-threaded? Isn't EA's newest Frostbite engine muti-threaded? What about the new upcoming Unreal Engine? So I would say either go with a AMD FX six, or eight core chip, or go all out and get an i7.

Edited January 15, 2014 by TorqueEffect

[Milk Wave 454]

Needless to say Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are not in my budget, so I almost strictly use AMD/ATI. But don't get me wrong, if I had a $1500 computer budget, it would be an Intel, Nvidia build.

 

Even though gaming is strictly single-threaded processes at the moment, but we are talking next gen here, who is to say in the next year or two more than half of the new games are not going to be multi-threaded? Isn't EA's newest Frostbite engine muti-threaded? What about the new upcoming Unreal Engine? So I would say either go with a AMD FX six, or eight core chip, or go all out and get an i7.

Finally, somebody who has the decency to listen and know that having AMD/AMD((ATI)) is the way to go for a budget build. I still respect Intel and their level of performance, but to get a quad core that's 75 bucks and fits in a slot which you can replace the old processor for the upcoming Kaveri one is just great :3 (( FM2/FM2+ Socket ))

 

I did end up putting together (( Not IRL but like plan the parts out )) a 1100-1500 dollar AMD/AMD build though, since it's got the FX 9370 and I think a Radeon HD 7990. Not to mention it's got some liquid cooling and some other expensive products in there that make it neat.