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teeny said:
Nice bundle except for the graphics card and HDD. Caviar Green is a slow ass drive
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Nice bundle except for the graphics card and HDD. Caviar Green is a slow ass drive
teeny said:
For BF3 you'll want at least a GTX560 Ti or 6950(or 570/6970 if you can afford it) and with the vertex 3 the WD Cavier Green is just fine. Make sure you install windows on the SSD and use the HDD for media storage.
Otherwise looks like a nice build, with a higher end GPU you'll be demolishing games. Also make sure to check out BF3 PC Community Thread =)
Wolf Akela
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I'd rather spend a little extra and get the Caviar Blue.
Green has these so many little quirks that you should be aware of that it's not worth it imho.
Green has these so many little quirks that you should be aware of that it's not worth it imho.
scogoth said:
Thanks - could you link me to some of those cards? Im not very familiar with the naming, and am unsure which products you mean.
Is this the 6970?
If so, that keeps me well within budget.
Wolf Akela said:
Okay, great, thanks for the advice.
chaosblade
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Just about any 1.5v DDR3 RAM from a reputable manufacturer (G.Skill, Corsair, etc) will do. Check the RAM listed in the builds in the OP.Azzurri said:
Intel 320/510 SSD instead of Vertex since you said you were new Vertex 3's aren't the most stable.teeny said:
Samsung F4 2TB for HDD. Don't really like the WD Blues and the Greens have a head parking defect.
As was said, get a 560Ti/6950/GTX 570/6970. I didn't see any custom coolers for the 6970 sold by Amazon, so you might want to get a card with a centered fan or two fans as a GTX 570 or a 6950. Depends on noise preference.
balladofwindfishes
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what's a good 20-30 dollar gaming headset?
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Wasn't there a firmware update recently to address the stability issues?Hazaro said:
Yes, but I haven't read up on it and flashing SSD firmware for a new user and maybe problems later I don't like.XiaNaphryz said:
Performance differences aren't that much for SSD vs SSD I still feel.
I should probably check out some SSD comparisons reviews of stuff like the ForceGT, hopefully more reviews are up on the drive by now. It's been out a while, but I haven't seen too many.
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any particular model?TheExodu5 said:
I want to grab a dedicated PhysX card to pair with my 5850 and Im coming up with a few questions. Probably better off posting in here rather than the Batman thread:
Heres the card I want to get for PhysX
GT 240
-Will my 650W PSU be enough to handle this + everything else. Using a PSU calculator, it looks like Ill be fine but I just want to ask and make sure.
-My mobo has 2 PCIE 2.0x16 slots.
One of these runs at x16 but the other one runs at x8.
Will plugging a PhysX card into the one running at x8 cause any problems for PhysX or do anything to negatively impact the main card (5850) in the slot running at x16?
-Any other problems/issues I should watch out for?
My rig, just in case:
GA-P55-UD4P mobo
ATI Radeon HD 5850 GPU
Intel i5 750 OCed to 3.4 CPU
8GBs DDR3 1333 RAM
Heres the card I want to get for PhysX
GT 240
-Will my 650W PSU be enough to handle this + everything else. Using a PSU calculator, it looks like Ill be fine but I just want to ask and make sure.
-My mobo has 2 PCIE 2.0x16 slots.
One of these runs at x16 but the other one runs at x8.
Will plugging a PhysX card into the one running at x8 cause any problems for PhysX or do anything to negatively impact the main card (5850) in the slot running at x16?
-Any other problems/issues I should watch out for?
My rig, just in case:
GA-P55-UD4P mobo
ATI Radeon HD 5850 GPU
Intel i5 750 OCed to 3.4 CPU
8GBs DDR3 1333 RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455Azzurri said:
or this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148463
might be decent choices.
Red Blaster
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Have this odd issue where my menu transparencies are artifacting. When I turn transparencies off it's fine though. I first thought it was GPU related but I tested numerous games and had zero problems in them. Any ideas?
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Asking again as I think the question was lost in a different conversation thread...
Anyone have any recommendations for HDD enclosures? I've been migrating data over from my older PC HDDs with the hot-swap drive bay in the HAF X, but I have 1 older PATA drive I need to get stuff off of. So I'd need a HDD enclosure that could handle both SATA and IDE connections, and ideally supports eSATA for faster transfers.
Anyone have any recommendations for HDD enclosures? I've been migrating data over from my older PC HDDs with the hot-swap drive bay in the HAF X, but I have 1 older PATA drive I need to get stuff off of. So I'd need a HDD enclosure that could handle both SATA and IDE connections, and ideally supports eSATA for faster transfers.
knitoe said:
The GT 240 is the best PhysX card for the money. No sense in paying 2-3x more for a 9800GT, when a GT 240 performs as well (for most games).
Most of the time you'll be limited by your primary GPU anyways, as evidenced above.
And really, the 9800GT is around 20% faster than the GTS 240. Not really worth the added cost and power consumption.
Wolf Akela
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I'm confused about using a PhysX card.
I read that I don't need a SLI motherboard... just something with two PCI-e slots? I can't see how this:
Can fit into that tiny PCI-e slot to the left:
It looks like 16x size... but that makes it sound like I do need a SLI motherboard.
I've got a Sapphire HD5850 Xtreme right now so I don't know if it's worth the driver trouble either.
I read that I don't need a SLI motherboard... just something with two PCI-e slots? I can't see how this:
Can fit into that tiny PCI-e slot to the left:
It looks like 16x size... but that makes it sound like I do need a SLI motherboard.
I've got a Sapphire HD5850 Xtreme right now so I don't know if it's worth the driver trouble either.
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Selling my bulldozer build now on amazon.. ASUS M5A99X Evo motherboard is up.. just sold my 1090t. Saving up for 2500k
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Wolf Akela said:
. Will swap them into my existing system as soon as I get some time this weekend! Thanks for the advice :]
From EVGA's first LGA 2011 teaser image to this, their dual socket, SR-2 follow up for Sandy Bridge-E.
Digital power regs, 8 DIMMs on socket 1, 4 DIMMs on socket 2, same HPTX form factor. Shame that Intel's X79 desktop chipset seems to have fallen short of its initial promise. Still, people have already been playing with 8c/16t + 8c/16t for months now on simpler platforms, should be interesting to see what comes from a board with more room for tweaking.
Digital power regs, 8 DIMMs on socket 1, 4 DIMMs on socket 2, same HPTX form factor. Shame that Intel's X79 desktop chipset seems to have fallen short of its initial promise. Still, people have already been playing with 8c/16t + 8c/16t for months now on simpler platforms, should be interesting to see what comes from a board with more room for tweaking.
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Looking for some advice, or an answer of sorts.
I mentioned a few pages ago how my monitor defaulting to 59hz was annoying, and was told this was a Windows 7 feature, as many monitors actually run at 59.94hz. Normally Windows would round up and state 60hz, but now it rounds down to show the 'real' broadcast standard or whatever.
Okay, fair enough. So explain to me this then. When I select any other non-native resolution for my monitor, eg 1680x1050, and select 60hz, it all goes through fine and dandy. The control panel will state the refresh rate is set to 60hz, not 59hz.
Another weird note is that if I go into the Customise menu and uncheck "Enable resolutions not exposed by the display", the 1920x1080 59hz disappears from the list, instead showing 1920x1080 60hz. However, selecting and applying this resolution/refresh rate automatically rechecks that box in customise, and then sets it back to 59hz. Also, my (native) resolution appears under the menu "PC", meanwhile whenever I select my resolution it appears under a new menu called "HD, SD".
What gives?
I mentioned a few pages ago how my monitor defaulting to 59hz was annoying, and was told this was a Windows 7 feature, as many monitors actually run at 59.94hz. Normally Windows would round up and state 60hz, but now it rounds down to show the 'real' broadcast standard or whatever.
Okay, fair enough. So explain to me this then. When I select any other non-native resolution for my monitor, eg 1680x1050, and select 60hz, it all goes through fine and dandy. The control panel will state the refresh rate is set to 60hz, not 59hz.
Another weird note is that if I go into the Customise menu and uncheck "Enable resolutions not exposed by the display", the 1920x1080 59hz disappears from the list, instead showing 1920x1080 60hz. However, selecting and applying this resolution/refresh rate automatically rechecks that box in customise, and then sets it back to 59hz. Also, my (native) resolution appears under the menu "PC", meanwhile whenever I select my resolution it appears under a new menu called "HD, SD".
What gives?
slidewinder
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It's just "user experience" stuff where somebody decided that fewer people would be confused or annoyed if they did it that way. That's all.
So all my pieces for my new computer come in. I finally start building, things going well. Then I'm about to finish up, just have to install my optical drive.
Oops, forgot to order it
Now I have to wait until next week, which is annoying because I wanted it all ready to go for BF3!
Oops, forgot to order it
Now I have to wait until next week, which is annoying because I wanted it all ready to go for BF3!
Why not install windows via flash drive and get BF3 digitally? Just curious.commish said:So all my pieces for my new computer come in. I finally start building, things going well. Then I'm about to finish up, just have to install my optical drive.
Oops, forgot to order it
Now I have to wait until next week, which is annoying because I wanted it all ready to go for BF3!
WHAT. How feasible is this for the average gamer to build and use? Do you need to use some special version of OS'es? Is this a server product?·feist· said:From EVGA's first LGA 2011 teaser image to this, their dual socket, SR-2 follow up for Sandy Bridge-E.
Digital power regs, 8 DIMMs on socket 1, 4 DIMMs on socket 2, same HPTX form factor. Shame that Intel's X79 desktop chipset seems to have fallen short of its initial promise. Still, people have already been playing with 8c/16t + 8c/16t for months now on simpler platforms, should be interesting to see what comes from a board with more room for tweaking.
Veal said:
not interesting to the average gamer --> it'll cost somewhere north of $600 and needs the more expensive Xeon CPUs, hardly any games would use the extra cpu power and those that do probably already run 100fps on a single Sandy Bridge(-E) CPU
it's not a server product and it runs any OS, but for example only Windows 7 Ultimate can handle more than 12 threads or something AFAIK (and even then some software can't)
I still kinda want one ... I just promised myself one if I graduate and find a job within a year
n0n44m said:
For Windows, it's a licensing restriction on number of physical processors. Home Premium and lower are restricted to 1 physical CPU, while Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate supports 2. Number of cores supported are the same for all versions - up to 32 for 32-bit, up to 256 for 64-bit.
chaosblade
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Um, the NH-D14 is supposed to include NT-H1 thermal compound, right? Is it hidden in the box somewhere? Because mine doesn't seem to have included it...
chaosblade
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Looks like mine didn't then, wasn't in the Intel bag and I don't see it in the AMD one.
Pretty sucky situation to be mid-build and realize this.
Pretty sucky situation to be mid-build and realize this.
chaosblade
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Checked all the parts of the packaging, even opened up those outer box things that were around the cooler box. No dice. Guess I'll order some, will probably take forever for Noctua to get some to me assuming they would send it.
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