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"I need a New PC!" 2012 Thread. Ivy, SSDs, and reading the OP. [Part 2]
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Ouch i just bought two of those a few weeks ago.
Oh well.
Oh well.
Nice! Just ordered, and with some of the points on our Amazon card, got it for about $130 shipped. What a deal, even w/o the add'l discount.
I ordered one over the weekend when it was $10 more, I just live chatted with Amazon and they will refund me $10, love Amazon.
I saw a few posts in reference to 'Star Citizen'. Title sounded like a crappy JRPG, so I never looked anything up.
Thank you for this. Privateer was one of the most impactful games on my young gaming life.
Google 'I need a new PC'. First result!
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I started getting real excited when he was showing off the physics systems and how the craft have real working thruster jets that can be damaged and stuff. Oh man, and supposedly it's gonna have oculus rift support. This is the game to end all games.
Infinite Justice
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that samsung 830 256 price is really good and i will say now that anyone building a PC should have a SSD, no ifs ands or buts.
I'm in awe everytime i see that lock screen when starting win 8 appear in seconds
I'm in awe everytime i see that lock screen when starting win 8 appear in seconds
I got my first part today! My Samsung 830 is here and I'm looking forward to getting my EVGA GTX660, Corsair 300R case, Corsair PSU (600), and Corsair Memory.
Still need help picking the Mobo! I'm torn on which Asus P8Z77 board to get. I'm not going to OC much and I don't need wifi. I really want stability more than features. Thoughts?
Still need help picking the Mobo! I'm torn on which Asus P8Z77 board to get. I'm not going to OC much and I don't need wifi. I really want stability more than features. Thoughts?
I was really interested in the Node 304 until I actually saw a non-glamour photo of it. Doesn't look nearly as attractive as the press shots make it out to be. In fact, it looks downright cheap:
Very nice!
I'm putting together a PC for my parents (browsing, email, PopCap Games). I have a Phenom II X4 955 from one of my old builds and I'm looking for a cheap mobo to pair up with it. I'm looking at a GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 or a ASRock 970 EXTREME3. I'm leaning towards the Gigabyte because it's cheaper. Are there better options out there is the Gigabyte a safe choice?
evil solrac v3.0
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really? I was planning on getting two 512 gigs to RAID them, not so much for the speed but the space.
Being married I have to pick my battles, as much as I'd love that
tell her you willw ear the pants, JUST THIS ONCE!
can you over clock them?
The LK is only $130 if that has everything you need.
Manp
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So I had another attempt at tidying up my cables when I put my Xonar DGX in. After being depressed by how clean another build turned out in the R4 with a non-modular PSU for someone else I had to try...
Before:
After:
Still nowhere near the madness some of you guys have produced, but it's about as good as I can get it I think!
use some cable ties, you can do much better than that!
Just order one of these, is there anything I need to know before i install it or is plug and go like any other hard drive. Using Windows 7 64 bit fyi and i'm going to do a fresh windows 7 install.
Yeah, my wife used to ride and the bills were crazy! Even years later, I can pull that old chestnut out. I just mention one vet or blacksmith bill and the fight is over.
But is at as stable as the higher end boards? My number one goal is stability. If I don OC, it's going to be minor
Just received my Sapphire 7850 with dual fan and it's awesome in comparison to my old GTS250. I just put it through Furmark and it barely reaches 66ºC with fans at half speed, which was the iddle temp of my old card. Noise has reduced to barely nothing even on load.
brb, installing 3DMark11
Edit: aaaaand... P4356 3DMarks (5188 graphics, 2928 physics, 2963 combined). Will update with results as soon as I receive the new stuff.
brb, installing 3DMark11
Edit: aaaaand... P4356 3DMarks (5188 graphics, 2928 physics, 2963 combined). Will update with results as soon as I receive the new stuff.
Others will likely be able to chime in on this, but I think you'll be OK, especially if you're not planning on OCing much. My old Asus P6T has been rock-solid with my i7-920 @ 4GHz and 1333 RAM. Not a single issue since bumping it up last week.
Nice! I have the same video card... you're going to love it.
Nice! I have the same video card... you're going to love it.
Yeah I am very excited about it
! Hope the case arrives ASAP.Sorry if this is the wrong thread to post this in, I could not find a network specific thread. I am helping set up a LAN/gaming center and the network for the location is already prewired with drop cables. All we need is the network backbone equipment. The former owners left a server rack and a 24 port patch panel. We had someone come in to do a estimate and this is what he recommended:
The gaming center will have about 50-60 host. Does this list look okay? The pricing on the HP Proliant dl380 G4 does look a little high to me but everything else looks alright. I just wanted to get some more opinions.
The gaming center will have about 50-60 host. Does this list look okay? The pricing on the HP Proliant dl380 G4 does look a little high to me but everything else looks alright. I just wanted to get some more opinions.
Hey, thanks alot.
It's because those are bad pictures with fingerprint smudges all over the front aluminum. Lazy lazy.
Dark Octave
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Any deals going on for graphics cards anywhere right now?
Even aside from that, there's a huge difference between how the front fascia and the rest of the case looks, something that the official press photos don't show. And that's something that I dislike tremendously on my cases.
Manp
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can't tell if maltese or poodle?
Damn, you are the second one to ask me that. Toy Poodle haha.
The 'official' photos are renders
If you can OC your CPU a bit, the frames will skyrocket. UE3 is insanely CPU bottlenecked.
Manp
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I already have my Core 2 E8400 OC'd at 3.6GHz from stock 3.0. Will try to squeeze 3.8GHz or even 4GHz later this evening.
possiblyphil
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What kind of company is this? I would be weary of any Professional Services Provider that buys everything off of amazon. However, if they are doing a full config of the ASA and Router + installation of everything the labor price is about on.
Router choice is alright but it wont take advantage of CAT-6; In my opinion I would just use Cat-5E for this setup. its much easier and cheaper (you wont be pushing the limits of the cable for another 40 years). Another thing on the router is make sure you have a support contract with cisco so that you can keep up to date with software updates
There is no mention of software on here at all, are they providing? do you have licenses already?
I dont see any mention of wireless access (my recommendation on this would be 2 Aruba IAP-135s or ubiquiti Uni-Fi) also, what type of circuit you have (im assuming there will be internet access?)
If you have any questions feel free to PM me
The 'official' photos are renders
Oh, I thought they were heavily photoshopped images. Either way, the point is that the real thing doesn't look remotely as attractive as those images, and I was greatly disappointed. I had intended to possibly use that in building a mini-ITX Hackintosh, but after seeing the real thing I went back to planning a FT-03 Mini build.
And then maybe building a FT-03 mATX gaming machine to go with it...
Even though I don't really like synthetic benchmarks, 3DMark 11 is a good start to have an overview on the general improvement.
Copy/pasted from gchat.
1. cisco asa or cisco 1841, why 2 routers? Internal subnets for gaming ccomputers apart from infrastructure?
2. without any knowledge of infrastructure, plans, deployment footprint or needs, this doesn't look terrible.
3. if pricing on a particular single element costs more than you can get elsewhere, ask yourself how much you like the installer/tech. if a customer bought all equipment and expected me to install equipment I'm not more intimately familiar with, or could not personally guarantee, I would make them acknowledge their hardware choices in writing and then I would potentially charge more for service.
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1. sophos x 2 for WAN firewall with high availability (700$ in hardware)
2. 3 x HP 1810, or iPecs 2000 series 24 port switches
3. switch panels, yes ofc
4. CAT6 jacks + cable (do you not have low voltage technicians doing this for you? they can usually get a better price on cable/jacks than you can, and their labor is probably going to be well worth the price)
5. DL380 with some virtualized network management is great (AD, DNS - if not handled by sophos, file/print) - could easily put these services on a smaller computer, and pare down the server load by putting DNS/DHCP on the sophos listed above
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Also, this sounds like a foreign language to me. I hope it's clear enough. Except for Sophos, which is really awesome.
Small FFT or Blend?
3-4 hours would be stable in most cases. 24 hours to be sure it's 100% stable.
First one from the choice list... I think small FFT (it's testing with that value between 8 and 40k)
Thanks! In any case, I think I'll leave it overnight and check results in some hours.
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