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Great thread OP. I've been building my own gaming PC's for years now (I hate the term "rig" and try not to use it). Great advice all around. Has anyone built a gaming PC with SSD's yet? My PC is due for some minor upgrades and I need some input on SSD's and a new video card. I'm still using my Nvidia GTX280 and I want to upgrade but I'm not sure what's what in the new GTX series. I also want to go with SSD's, and I'm not sure how well a RAID 0 would work with a couple of mid sized drives. Also here's my setup. Two 24" widescreens on some cheap rear end stand, I dropped the money for the WoW branded wireless headset, and I'm a huge nerd with my digital camo case.  Click here for the full 2048x1536 image. I need a bigger desk 
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Just installed a GTX 580 Black Ops Edition to round out my PC. Now I've got an i5, 8 gigs of DDR3 monster that plays Crysis Warhead so smoothly I'm actually quite surprised. Unbox and install: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtV4nBo5xs Edit: To whoever posted the "go outside" comment. Really? It's loving winter and there's 6 inches of snow outside. YOU come here and go outside and see how long you stay there. Manxome Foe fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jan 26, 2011 |
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Fil5000 posted:I bet you could point the back of your case out the window and melt all the snow in a mile radius with that rig - especially if you're running Warhead on "enthusiast" settings. Hah. It does pump out some heat, but it's a lot quieter than you might think.
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Manac0r posted:While I understand it's not possible to futureproof a PC. I recently built at great expense, a kind of wedding gift, the following: Given how well newer hardware seems to hold up I'd say you could get 4 years out of that before you need to spend another dime. Edit: It's also hard to say what the first upgrade would be since you're running all of the latest hardware. The only thing I could suggest is SSD's.
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Jan 26, 2011 18:37
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The Gunslinger posted:That's cool but please don't start a platform war ITT, we get enough of them in the usual game threads. I own consoles as well as a PC probably like many others around here. There are plenty of idiots on all videogame platforms, trust me. It's always nice for me to get my rear end handed to me in an FPS on a console and then play CoD4 or TF2 on my PC and stomp people handily. I'm just flat out better with a mouse and keyboard 
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Built a new PC last night night. I'm now ready for BF3: Core i7-2600k @ 3.4Ghz Asus Sabertooth P67 12 Gigs of DDR3 1600 GTX 580 I've thrown everything I have at this beast and can't get anything to run less than 60 fps. And of course I nerded it out by making it black and gold 
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Sep 3, 2011 23:08
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Manac0r posted:Nice, is that a dell monitor too? Have you tried running some Directx11 games, Crysis 2 with patches or Witcher 2 (not Dx11) are good testers. But yeah BF3 multiplayer will be silky smooth. No, I have 2 22" widesreens on a mount. Here's half of the mancave: 
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:That looks really good, did you paint the front yourself? Thanks. Yes, It's an Antec 300. I just took the mesh out of the front panel and painted it a metallic gold to match the desk and coffee table. Dudebro posted:It looks like a wood panel from that small pic. Which would be somewhat less point-and-laugh. To each his own. I wanted it to match the furniture. It looks worse in the picture than it does up close.
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Joink posted:I feel like im in the 1990's in this thread and not every gamer has internet. I feel like you haven't read half of the last few pages and are shitposting and maybe should be reported. The argument isn't that there's no way to play the game while traveling more than anything, not "I DON'T HAVE INTERNET HURRR" I have a great connection to the internet at home and at work, but if I wanted to travel somewhere and play the game on the train/plane/boat than I can't because I'm not connected. It doesn't really bother me personally since I'll only play at home, however I can see where this would piss some people off. Oh look, more people adding nothing to the discussion! vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Manxome Foe fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Apr 22, 2012 |
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Essobie posted:
I use UltraMon, it's more flexible I feel. Just finished my case swap/rebuild. In process -  Completed -  It's a Thermaltake Level 10 GT case. This thing is super quiet for how big it is. 
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Something for the OP