Computer Forum Chat Thread

[DeltrusDisc]

Sigh, still running SATA II, what a loooooosser. ;P

[Xuvial]

Oh pssh it's still just as fast at booting/random access as a Sata III >.>

[DeltrusDisc]

Wait - pardon me? Your 260~ read is as fast as my 500~ read? I fail to see the logic behind your statement, dear Xuvial. <3

[Xuvial]

Sequential speeds in synthetic benches =/= real world differences. Your PC may boot a second faster or load WoW a second quicker when it comes to Sata II vs Sata III speeds, that's all. SSD's are about random reads/writes more than anything, cmon you know this >_<

[DeltrusDisc]

Durp mine is fasterer!!

[Cyanotical]

Durp mine is fasterer!!

my RAMDisk says hi!

[DeltrusDisc]

my RAMDisk says hi!

I had a RAMDisk for a while - but I could only do 4GB and I only have 16GB of RAM... so. =/

I love saying "only 16GB of RAM"..........

---------- Post added 2012-05-21 at 05:55 PM ----------

So.... my friend who works at Tiger Direct and is once again trying to get me hired, told me something I thought I should share with you all...

Some guy came in and bought an i7-3930K with Sabertooth X79 board and 32GB quad channel RAM kit.... FOR DIABLO 3.

I then asked him what GPU the guy got.....

Wait for it....

A GTX 560.

A FUCKING GTX 560!??!?!?!

Sigh. If you're going to go i7-3930K, then just go GTX 670 or above, please. ffs.

[Asera]

That's such a waste of a system... unless he's planning on getting a something better down the road when he gets money or something? Maybe he does folding?

Wait - pardon me? Your 260~ read is as fast as my 500~ read? I fail to see the logic behind your statement, dear Xuvial. <3

I bet this is what Xuvial was thinking after reading that...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30058556/accesstimes.png

Not tagging that for display for obvious reasons.

[DeltrusDisc]

My friend said the guy bought it solely for Diablo 3.... x_X

[Asera]

Ok that is very sad. Considering I can max it on my little mini system with an i3 2100 and 6850. ><

[DeltrusDisc]

I told him the guy better be trying to play it on a 2560x1600 120Hz monitor. >_<

[Xuvial]

I bet this is what Xuvial was thinking after reading that...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30058556/accesstimes.png

Not tagging that for display for obvious reasons.

I...what o_O

Some things just don't fit with Mr. Wonka!

I told him the guy better be trying to play it on a 2560x1600 120Hz monitor. >_<

The only explanation is that he was probably thinking D3 was the harbinger of CPU usage or something. What else explains X79 + GTX560 Ti for D3? He could've atleast bought 2x 690's and claimed "it's for D3", atleast then I could've said "well you're still an idiot but atleast your build makes some kind of sense".

[Adappy]

Probably the kind of person who thinks "MOAR COARS = MORE BETTAR!!1!" and forgets that graphics cards exist and what their stats are.

The kinda people you see buying the "gaming" PCs you see at Best Buy/etc that have an i7 2600 with a GT520

[inux94]

"But dude, it's got i7 on it, the name must be much better than the i5"

http://legacy-cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pi...10/derp-14.jpg

[BicycleMafioso]

It could also be that he wants it for future stuff as well, and thus got a CPU that will last, and a temporary GPU for one he's really waiting for, (like any high-end to restock or the GK110 or basically whatever), but strong enough to run Diablo III.
Which it undoubtedly is.

Not that my i5 2410M and GT550M seem to struggle either.

[Xuvial]

Speaking of which, time to find out how my i5 2430M and GT555M perform (tee hee mine beats yours by a tiny bit).

[BicycleMafioso]

There are like six different GT555M; Make sure yours doesn't have DDR3 or GDDR3! And then they have different amounts of cuda cores as well.

(but yea, it beats it either way! I mostly use it as a surfing laptop, with the other speccs being a 60GB Force SSD and 8GiB 1333MHz RAM. Lasts me a good 6hrs on wifi.)

[Xuvial]

It's 2gb DDR3 128bit (hmm no wonder it was so cheap), I didn't even realize there were so many versions of GT555M and I didn't know DDR3 could appear as video memory, nor do I know the performance rammifications. I don't regret buying it (for it's price I still haven't found anything better) but I'm definitely angry about why I didn't look deeper into what the fuck GT555M was exactly...I skimmed over the review, assumed "bleh must be 2gb GDDR5 like all GTX500 series cards" and bought it. The world of laptops can be so hazy and dodgy.

Oh well I've clocked atleast 70 hours of Mass Effect 2 in it and been playing through MW3 campaign with no issues, D3 should be smooth as well.

[kidsafe]

Some of the super low-end video card options still come with DDR2 :O

[inux94]

Going to use a crappy 13" laptop with i7 M640 / GT 330M for about a month

Motherboard stopped detecting boot devices, so I'm not going to game anything except from minesweeper.

/commence first world problems

Six different 550M's? Silly Nvidia, you're not Activision :P