The Power PC Thread [f*ck off consoles]

[Gray]

I take it with that much RAM you were using it for rendering, rather than gaming. Would make a ridiculous home VMware box. Though it'd be cheaper to buy a half way decent server.

Just what I was going to say / ask!

Or was it just a case of 'because I can, I will.'

 

[Soulless]

Some people have spent some money in this thread!
All for a powerful PC, but do you really need ALL of that spec some of you?

The money spent must be unreal,

i have a fairly basic £600 budget build PC I built a few months back,
runs DOTA2, SC2 and CS:GO like a dream ~ all it needed to do.

 

[Munson]

I've just been looking at external graphics, in a standalone box. Now that's hardcore.

Four water cooled Titans? lol

 

[Silent_Scone]

Just what I was going to say / ask!

Or was it just a case of 'because I can, I will.'

When one fills up their car do they put in half a tank and fill up when it runs low or does one put in a full tank. Memory is fairly cheap when you take into account the rest of the components! 16GB is the sweet spot these days if you want to be gay about it


2011 socket takes 8 modules and up to 64GB, so I gave it 64GB lol. I did use a large chunk of it as a RAM drive at one point though, pretty quick!

 

[Munson]

Some people have spent some money in this thread!
All for a powerful PC, but do you really need ALL of that spec some of you?

The money spent must be unreal,

i have a fairly basic £600 budget build PC I built a few months back,
runs DOTA2, SC2 and CS:GO like a dream ~ all it needed to do.

That's great, but not everyone has the same standards or requirements. Did you need an R26?

 

[sbridgey]

Mines over 2 years old now, and was a budget build at the time.

The specs are:

Intel Pentium Dual Core (i3 minus hyperthreading) @ 4.2 Ghz
Asus Nvidia GTX 460 768MB
4GB DDR3 Ram
2 x 1TB HDD's
400w Corsair PSU

LG 20" Monitor
Dell Ultrasharp 24" IPS Monitor, which is bloody awesome!

Cost around £600 - £700 all together I think.

Still plays every game I throw at it so I wont be upgrading it yet.

 

[Gray]

When one fills up their car do they put in half a tank and fill up when it runs low or does one put in a full tank. Memory is fairly cheap when you take into account the rest of the components! 16GB is the sweet spot these days if you want to be gay about it

PMSL.

I like your thinking.... It's what I would do!

 

[Munson]

lol.

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

That's great, but not everyone has the same standards or requirements. Did you need an R26?

haha! fair point
I dont NEED a powerfull computer but I do like to buy new games now and then, if I throw FC3 or any Crysis game ive got then I know it would handle it with ease, but most online games like what you said CS:GO and ill put in CoD, LoL, TF2 and games like that, dont really need much power. but its fun when i get 250 fps on TF2 lol

 

[Silent_Scone]

lol.

£3,719 before you attach them to anything. Two I could barely justify, but 4 is madness!

 

[Munson]

But why have two when you can have four for twice the price?

 

[Silent_Scone]

Not sure, I guess somewhere along the line from 2 to 4 thousand pounds on video cards there's a kill switch in my brain that switches from man child to sensible lol

 

[Cookie]

My hard limit for graphics card spend is 400 quid. Never spent more than that.

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

My hard limit for graphics card spend is 400 quid. Never spent more than that.

I was lucky with mine, Bought a MSI 6950 2GB Brand new on Ebay for like £250 or something. After about 3 weeks to a month I declared it lost.....
2 days after my refund Guess what turned up in the post so Free GPU lol

 

[Topgeartom]

Literally just bought these two:

http://www.cclonline.com/product/90...s/LG-IPS237L-23-inch-IPS-LED-Monitor/MON1143/
http://www.ebuyer.com/390921-sapphi...-displayport-pci-e-graphics-card-11200-14-20g

Pretty much solely to play Bioshock Infinite after reading reviews of it on here. Didnt think my 6670 and ageing 19" Viewsonic would be up to it.

Just hope my cpu will be man enough now, have an A6-3650 overclocked to 3.2Ghz

 

[Gareth]

New bits, can't wait to start building

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

That looks awesome, massive rad fair play! What case you got again?

 

[Munson]

LOL at that radiator. For when triple rads just aren't enough. Love it!

 

[Gareth]

That's one of two, still got to buy the second one yet. I'll be buying a second pump also.

The fans are double-packs so there's 8 there.

I'm currently in an 800D but going to 900D.

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

LOL at that radiator. For when triple rads just aren't enough. Love it!

I got 4 on mine, Dont know why 2 on top, two on the bottom. push/pull y0....

And Put up some pics after the install.

 

[Longy]

Mine is a mid-range spec lasted me awhile -it's due some upgrades:


i5 2500k @ 4.6Ghz
8Gb PC3-12800 Ram 9,9,9,24
GTX 570
MSI P67A-GD55
Crucial 128 M4 SSD
2 x 1TB HDD raid1
Dell U2311H Monitor
Logitech G15
Razar Naga MMOG


Quite fancy a GTX680..

 

[kaz19880]

Some cracking builds on here I'll post nine up in a bit but it was a budget build awaiting some more cash for an ssd and a decent graphics card maybe upgraded mobo

 

[Greeny.]

CPU: Intel Ivy Bridge i7 3770K @ 4.8Ghz
RAM: G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB DDR3 2133MHz
Videocard: Geforce 580 GTX OC @ 930/1820/2100
Soundcard: Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express
Display: 24" BenQ XL2410T 1920x1080 @ 120hz
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z77
Case: Silverstone TJ07
Storage: 64GB Crucial M4 SSD, 256GB Samsung 830 SSD & 4TB NAS Storage

Looking to get a new gen Geforce later in the year as the 580 is abit tired now.

 

[Gray]

I bought a HAF 932 case a couple of months ago, still not decided what I am doing with it yet!

I am considering stripping the whole thing down to be painted in matt black as its not painted inside.

 

[kaz19880]

stolen from cpuid but heres rough specs on mine it runs 4.0ghz when its actually being used for something tho

AMD FX-8350
Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit SP1 (Build 7601)​

CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 8 Cores - 8 Threads
CPU PSN : AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor
CPU EXT : MMX(+), SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A), x86-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, XOP, FMA
CPUID : F.2.0 / Extended : 15.2
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 64 / 8 x 16 KB - L2 : 4 x 2048 KB
CPU Cache : L3 : 8192 KB
Core : Vishera (32 nm) / Stepping : OR-C0
Freq : 2109.42 MHz (200.9 * 10.5)

MB Brand : Asus
MB Model : M5A78L-M/USB3
NB : AMD 780G rev 00
SB : AMD SB700 rev 00

GPU Type : Radeon HD 4350
GPU Clocks : Core 600 MHz / RAM 400 MHz
DirectX Version : 11.0

RAM : 16384 MB DDR3 Dual Channel

 

[Addicted]

New bits, can't wait to start building

Looks good ,what rads do you have atm? I run a 360 + 140 for an i7 + 7970, but tempted to just ditch them and go for 2x 480's if/when I get a 900D (it won't fit under my desk, but I'm gonna get on anyway - bawler.)

Also what thickness is the rad, looks thicker than 60mm?

Considering the money I've spent, the way I've done the tubing + where I've put the pump/res combo it looks pretty poo, a 900D will be a good excuse to chuck a few hundred+ @ it!

 

[Darren S]

New bits, can't wait to start building

Hero!

WhyTF not?

D.

 

[kaz19880]

stolen from cpuid but heres rough specs on mine it runs 4.0ghz when its actually being used for something tho

AMD FX-8350
Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit SP1 (Build 7601)​

CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 8 Cores - 8 Threads
CPU PSN : AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor
CPU EXT : MMX(+), SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A), x86-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, XOP, FMA
CPUID : F.2.0 / Extended : 15.2
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 64 / 8 x 16 KB - L2 : 4 x 2048 KB
CPU Cache : L3 : 8192 KB
Core : Vishera (32 nm) / Stepping : OR-C0
Freq : 2109.42 MHz (200.9 * 10.5)

MB Brand : Asus
MB Model : M5A78L-M/USB3
NB : AMD 780G rev 00
SB : AMD SB700 rev 00

GPU Type : Radeon HD 4350
GPU Clocks : Core 600 MHz / RAM 400 MHz
DirectX Version : 11.0

RAM : 16384 MB DDR3 Dual Channel

as my specs i just posted up what would people suggest for upgrades towards it

 

[Addicted]

as my specs i just posted up what would people suggest for upgrades towards it

Move away from the APU and the Crossfired GPU and get something more powerful (upgrade GPU, CPU on it's own is fine).

7950 for £250 ish would be a very good upgrade.

 

[kaz19880]

Move away from the APU and the Crossfired GPU and get something more powerful (upgrade GPU, CPU on it's own is fine).

7950 for £250 ish would be a very good upgrade.

Graphics card is just the old one from my past pc so I just slapped it in are you suggesting the on board graphics would be better .

Looking for a decent graphics card to use with my 3d monitor my 42"tv

 

[Addicted]

Graphics card is just the old one from my past pc so I just slapped it in are you suggesting the on board graphics would be better .

Looking for a decent graphics card to use with my 3d monitor my 42"tv

Not sure what specs the GPU on the CPU are (can't seem to find any to compare vs 4350), but the 4350 is very very dated!

I'd run a benchmark (Heaven) with the GPU, and then run one with the onboard GPU, and see how you fair. You will actually probably find the onboard is quicker, though cannot be 100%.


edit: Just thought - maybe I can't find info on it is because it's an older AMD CPU and doesn't have the GPU onboard? Either way, its new GPU time!

 

[kaz19880]

Thought the amd fx8350 Oct core chip was one of the more recent ones . I'll check out this benchmark heaven thingy as I'm not completly pc noob but not amazing with them either

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

Graphics card is just the old one from my past pc so I just slapped it in are you suggesting the on board graphics would be better .

Looking for a decent graphics card to use with my 3d monitor my 42"tv

Whats the make and model?
I put my computer in my 42" in my living room, and the picture was foul. So distorted. The 4350 is an old old card! Dont think a benchmark like heaven would be your best bet with that GPU along with addicted is saying
Is it the Bulldozer CPU?

 

[Gareth]

Looks good ,what rads do you have atm? I run a 360 + 140 for an i7 + 7970, but tempted to just ditch them and go for 2x 480's if/when I get a 900D (it won't fit under my desk, but I'm gonna get on anyway - bawler.)

Also what thickness is the rad, looks thicker than 60mm?

Considering the money I've spent, the way I've done the tubing + where I've put the pump/res combo it looks pretty poo, a 900D will be a good excuse to chuck a few hundred+ @ it!

I only have a 360 in there at the moment, I'm either going to run 2 x 480s in the 900D or 2 x 480s and the 360 I currently have (i'll decide as I build it tbh). I don't know how I'm ever going to lift this one once fully built.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I'd rather spend that moola on components

 

[Gareth]

I'm building up the case and cooling components at the moment, i don't see the need to upgrade the components right now.

 

[Darren S]

Mine's certainly not cutting edge anymore - but she does the job!

• Intel i7 930 @ 3.2Ghz
• Asus Rampage III Extreme mobo
• 18GB DDR3
• 2x nVidia GTX460 in SLi
• 1x nVidia Quadro FX580 - set purely for Physx
• SoundBlaster Recon3D PCIe
• 2x 240GB OCZ Agility III SSDs (plus a few more 2TB and 1TB SATA drives)
• Antec P180B case
• Logitech G15 keyboard
• Logitech G500 mouse
• Logitech G13 advanced gameboard
• Logitech G25 wheel

D.

 

[rdoxenham]

About a year old now, but still more than ample for me...

i7 2600K @ 4.6GHz
Corsair Hydro H60 Watercooling
Corsair 750W PSU
16GB Corsair Vengeance
Asus P8Z68-vPro Motherboard
2x AMD 5770 1GB Cards (Crossfire)
2x Sandisk 120GB SSD's in RAID0
2x Seagate 1TB disks in RAID1

2x 27" AOC 1080p monitors
Razer Deathadder Mouse
Apple Keyboard (Used these for years, love them)

Running Fedora 18 as the main OS, dual boot to Windows for games

Pic, excuse the mess:

 

[Addicted]

I only have a 360 in there at the moment, I'm either going to run 2 x 480s in the 900D or 2 x 480s and the 360 I currently have (i'll decide as I build it tbh). I don't know how I'm ever going to lift this one once fully built.

Ahh that sounds good, I'm tempted to upgrade in the summer and stick a 480 in as well, so I'd have 480, 360, 140.

I know the feeling, weighed my 800D the other day out of interest comparing to my mates, he's got some BitFenix case - his came in at 21Kg, I came in at 35Kg...

I have to take it to a LAN at the end of this month - which means actually taking it apart (at least draining loop and removing GPU - the waterblock is so heavy I think it would snap off in transit!!), not gonna be fun.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I'd never take my rig to a LAN, I'd rather build something else lol