Post your gaming setup!

[Str8Tripa]

If you recall I bought this amd over a year ago so lol!

[glo]

If you recall I bought this amd over a year ago so lol!

A year ago the same was true. Vishera bests Nehalem chips from 2008, matches or comes close to Westmere from 5 years ago. It's still far behind even Sandy Bridge on per core performance.

[Str8Tripa]

What I don't do is buy today's hardware hoping that in a year or two it'll perform better than some other piece of current technology: I'm not going to own my hardware for more than a year, purchasing performance based on speculation, promises, or wishful thinking is stupid - especially if that means sacrificing today. I buy what's going to work best today and if 9 months from now something better comes along and what I've got isn't cutting it: I'll upgrade. It's not like I'm buying a new boat, it's just a PC - you're out a couple of hundred bucks at worst, and then you can just choose the best hardware for whatever it is you're trying to do.

If you replace high end parts every 9 months your dumber than you attempt to portray, at what point does common sense kick in?. My first true gaming pc I build 10 years ago is still running at my in laws today perfect for what they need. If I get 4-5 years out of this system I will be a happy man. I find your lacklustre appreciation for what computers are as opposed to what they were for many years profound. You seem to care little about what you have, and more about what you don't, Ready to throw your cash into the next best thing because if you don't you will be left behind!.

Funny thing knew this would happen, it's why I refrained from posting it I build my computer for me and mummy didn't pay a cent!

(A TOXIC ATTITUDE WILL LEAD TO A TOXIC LIFE)

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Yeah the original build was in a 650D with dual HD7970s but my parts supplier owed me some money so I added a 3rd gpu and the 900D!

[glo]

What I don't do is buy today's hardware hoping that in a year or two it'll perform better than some other piece of current technology: I'm not going to own my hardware for more than a year, purchasing performance based on speculation, promises, or wishful thinking is stupid - especially if that means sacrificing today. I buy what's going to work best today and if 9 months from now something better comes along and what I've got isn't cutting it: I'll upgrade. It's not like I'm buying a new boat, it's just a PC - you're out a couple of hundred bucks at worst, and then you can just choose the best hardware for whatever it is you're trying to do.

If you replace high end parts every 9 months your dumber than you attempt to portray, at what point does common sense kick in?. My first true gaming pc I build 10 years ago is still running at my in laws today perfect for what they need. If I get 4-5 years out of this system I will be a happy man. I find your lacklustre appreciation for what computers are as opposed to what they were for many years profound. You seem to care little about what you have, and more about what you don't, Ready to throw your cash into the next best thing because if you don't you will be left behind!.

Funny thing knew this would happen, it's why I refrained from posting it I build my computer for me and mummy didn't pay a cent!

(A TOXIC ATTITUDE WILL LEAD TO A TOXIC LIFE)

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Yeah the original build was in a 650D with dual HD7970s but my parts supplier owed me some money so I added a 3rd gpu and the 900D!

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to get across here. You made a few claims:

1. I replace my hardware with top end parts every 9 months, which makes me dumb.
2. I don't appreciate the hardware that I have, and don't appreciate what hardware has evolved into.
3. I am jealous of the hardware (AMD processors?) that I don't have.
4. My parents paid for my system.

Not that I need to defend myself against random accusations and wild assumptions, but why not?

1. I spend money on my system, often. Have a problem with it? Cool, I don't. I have the disposable income to do so without regretting it or coming up short for another necessary large purchase when life happens. Having a decent income and not blowing every cent you earn goes a long way.
2. I "appreciate" my hardware. You know, it's for gaming. And... I game upon it.
3. I'm not jealous of any configuration of hardware that I don't own. I own the highest performing gaming CPU on the market alongside the most powerful single GPU solution available. If SLI or CFX was desirable to me, I'd own it, but it's unfortunately not. I choose not to deal with the headaches that go along with it. Regardless, being jealous of anything is silly, especially in the computer world where just about anyone with a crappy job can afford high end parts.
4. See #1.

Anywho, your original statement called people fanboys for preferring Intel over AMD in the processor department. You also said not to call your current chip a bottleneck. The unfortunate truth is that Intel is miles ahead at the moment in gaming performance due to per core performance. No amount of personal attacks will change that.

[Cyanotical]

something something chat thread



i wish my mom bought me computer parts every 9 months

[Deleted]

I consider myself a diehard gamer, but I don't need to go to extreme lengths like spending $1,000 on video cards. Computer hardware performance is really at its high point right now. Too many "modern PC games" are actually just console ports with slightly better graphics and AA.

I remember 10 years ago. The Pentium 4 vs AMD-64 wars. The Radeon 9800 vs GeForce 5900. Doom 3 vs Half-Life 2. Every year there was new games out there that pressed your hardware to its limits. Crysis made my computer cry. Then we got dual/quad core processors, independent CPU graphic cards, and now SSDs are mainstream. Comparing modern hardware to 10 years ago is like comparing a Porsche to a Ford Model T.

Game graphics however have made marginal improvements since about 2008. Most of the modern improvements are lighting/bloom effects and more polygons. I'm still using a 6950 HD (flashed to 6970) and an i5 2500k rig and I haven't played one game since I got it that has even made my computer cry. I still upgrade my hardware every 6-9 months, but it's more on a need-to-do basis now. My latest upgrade was a 500 GB Toshiba SSD (500 mb/s read/write) which runs laps around my old raid configuration that was a whopping 140 read/write.

I'm actually not complaining. Having to build a new rig every 3 years is a lot more economical than every year like it use to be. I just wish they would stop changing sockets every damn 6 months though so when a mobo dies I don't have to buy a whole new setup.

[noteworthynerd]

We're starting to go very off-topic, let's get back to posting our setups and discussing them please!

[Str8Tripa]

I consider myself a diehard gamer, but I don't need to go to extreme lengths like spending $1,000 on video cards. Computer hardware performance is really at its high point right now. Too many "modern PC games" are actually just console ports with slightly better graphics and AA.

I remember 10 years ago. The Pentium 4 vs AMD-64 wars. The Radeon 9800 vs GeForce 5900. Doom 3 vs Half-Life 2. Every year there was new games out there that pressed your hardware to its limits. Crysis made my computer cry. Then we got dual/quad core processors, independent CPU graphic cards, and now SSDs are mainstream. Comparing modern hardware to 10 years ago is like comparing a Porsche to a Ford Model T.

Game graphics however have made marginal improvements since about 2008. Most of the modern improvements are lighting/bloom effects and more polygons. I'm still using a 6950 HD (flashed to 6970) and an i5 2500k rig and I haven't played one game since I got it that has even made my computer cry. I still upgrade my hardware every 6-9 months, but it's more on a need-to-do basis now. My latest upgrade was a 500 GB Toshiba SSD (500 mb/s read/write) which runs laps around my old raid configuration that was a whopping 140 read/write.

I'm actually not complaining. Having to build a new rig every 3 years is a lot more economical than every year like it use to be. I just wish they would stop changing sockets every damn 6 months though so when a mobo dies I don't have to buy a whole new setup.

Welcome to AMD where sockets are changed when a new generation is released not when INTEL farts and robs another round of morons!

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[Rennadrel]

Thats the point, screw BF4.. It's already perfectly optimized for PC.
Too many console ports need some love.

Or you know, they could just not be cheap lazy assholes and do their jobs properly. A prime example of a lazy half ass job was Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. I have honestly not seen such a shit job done to a game that had rave reviews on consoles that was later ported to the PC in my entire life. Locked resolutions, poor frame rates and a rather horrible keyboard and mouse configuration that lacked proper customization were just some of the problems with that game. I swear the developers must have given the game to a 5 man team of rookies and told them to have at it with making a PC port because it was absolutely atrocious. If developers aren't going to make games properly for the PC, why even bother? Or just design for the PC first since it's the more powerful platform and then downgrade the game for other platforms.

Anyway, I am looking forward to Broadwell and a die shrink, that's my next plan of attack right now. I am still using my i7 2600K and it works great but now that there is a die shrink coming, I plan to make good use of it. I waited 3 CPU generations so I think I can justify that upgrade. Methinks I will pretty much overhaul my entire system for the most part, I will probably keep my SSD and SSHD for the time being as both are still working perfectly. The spring can't come soon enough

[theWocky]

I am more interested in "Quiet" than good looks, but my new Corsair Obsidian 550D case delivers on both:

FULL SPECS HERE: http://www.diabloglical.com/2013/11/...the-wockys-pc/

[Tonath]

My Build is Nothing Special, but wanted to share, as im excited about it!

CPU - AMD FX-6100 3.3ghz
MOBO - ASUS m578l-M LX PLUS
GPU - XFX One R Series 1GB
RAM - ADATA 8GB
CASE - Thermaltake V2 Plus Mid Tower
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium
HDD - Seagate 500GB HDD
SSD - Sandisk 128GB

Pictures to come, like I said nothing special but my first real build

[Shiatan]

I5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz
Asus Z77 sabertooth
16gb Kingston hyperx @ 1600mhz
2X sapphire 7970s @ 1100mhz core/ 1500mhz mem
Crucial M4 256GB ssd
2X 2TB seagate hdds
Creative Sound Blaster Z
Corsair K90
Razer naga original
Benq XL2420T

http://i.imgur.com/eDm3fBu.jpg

[DeltrusDisc]

My Build is Nothing Special, but wanted to share, as im excited about it!

CPU - AMD FX-6100 3.3ghz
MOBO - ASUS m578l-M LX PLUS
GPU - XFX One R Series 1GB
RAM - ADATA 8GB
CASE - Thermaltake V2 Plus Mid Tower
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium
HDD - Seagate 500GB HDD
SSD - Sandisk 128GB

Pictures to come, like I said nothing special but my first real build

wtf is that GPU? O.o One R series?

Guessing it is one of the new R-series cards from AMD... probably an R7-260, based on the VRAM...

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

wtf is that GPU? O.o One R series?

Guessing it is one of the new R-series cards from AMD... probably an R7-260, based on the VRAM...

It is an HD 7750 IIRC. Think I remember seeing one at an electronics store a year or two ago.

[sourmonkey]

I5-2500k on a h100 liquid cooler with cougar fans @ 4.2ghz oC
Asrock pro 3 gen 3 motherboard
8 gigs corsair Xms DDR3 pc-1600 ram
GeForce 760 GTX PCI-e version 3
128 gig Kingston ssd boot drive
1tb storage drive

All put in a corsair full tower

Sorry no pics , built last year upgraded the graphics this year
Will replace the 2500k with a ivy bridge next . Maybe add 8 more gigs as well .

It's not ing to call home about but I don't need a 3000 dollar computer to play today's games on max settings

[Elian]

Cosair Carbide 330r silent case
intel i5 2500k 4.3 ghz
Powercolor Radeon hd 7870 2gb
Asrock Z77 Pro 4
Kingston Hyperx BLu 8gb
Western digital caviar black 1tb
Samsung 840 series 240gb for OS
OCZ agility 60GB
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W Modular

[Majesticii]

Will replace the 2500k with a ivy bridge next . Maybe add 8 more gigs as well

Why and why?

[Toffie]

Why and why?

My exact thought.
Going from one generation CPU to the next is no more than 5-8 % improvement which is impossible to tell in gaming experience.
Atleast hold on until broadwell have matured.

[Roblivion]

http://i41.tinypic.com/2hr3abo.jpg

Cheap shot with a phone in bad lighting... But finally finished my set up with my added Quickfire Rapid and Siberia v2s!


PS; I am in need of a new desk, so my daughter stops turning my PC off!

[DeltrusDisc]

My exact thought.
Going from one generation CPU to the next is no more than 5-8 % improvement which is impossible to tell in gaming experience.
Atleast hold on until broadwell have matured.

Not to mention, Haswell is even out and available... and he wants to buy Ivy Bridge. I get that maybe he doesn't want to have to upgrade his motherboard, but for the performance increase, it should be a no-brainer. Going to Ivy, even the i7, would be a complete waste from the all-powerful and loved, i5-2500K. This is pure silliness.