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| Thread ID: 137570 | 2014-07-22 08:20:00 | New Build | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1379834 | 2014-07-22 08:20:00 | Motherboard Asus H81M-PLUS CPU Intel Core i5 4690 GPU ASUS R9 290 Overclocked 4GB DDR5 PCI-E 3 2 xDVI HDMI RAM Kingston 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600 DIMMs Hard Drive Western Digital 2000Gb SATA3 64mb cache DVD Liteon 24x IHAS124 DVD All Write Black Retail Pack sata CASE Cooler Master K380 Mid Tower Gaming Case USB 3.0 Black PSU 750W Antec High Current Gamer Modular ATX Power Supply O/S Win7 Home Premium 64bit The guys got some money but not a huge amount, so I thought I was being quite restrained really....not over the top, cause he only plays a bit of strategy, not exactly strain the hardware type stuff. So thought a fairly middle of the road effort would suit.... Then I had a look at the lastest ranking charts, actually it's not far off rather good....and it makes mine look quite sick now. My CPU is quite far down the list now, my GPU not too bad but still down a couple. Sob......and I have to hand it over...... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1379835 | 2014-07-22 10:25:00 | "Burn-in testing" :lol: | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1379836 | 2014-07-22 11:17:00 | Holy #$%^ 16GB RAM! Do we ever really use that? Do we ever even use 4GB? As for the DVD drive, well, they're cheap enough, but if it wasn't for the fact I was using mine to copy stuff off the PVR I wouldn't have any optical drive at all any more. And I'd stick a 4TB drive in there. But that's just me. Others would do the opposite and downsize to a SSD. Hell, I'm running off a Green WD, so performance clearly isn't top of my list. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1379837 | 2014-07-22 11:27:00 | It's about what I'd build right now, except after having a 7970, 280X, and 290 I'll be going back to Nvidia next time. AMD wins on value but Nvidia just work better on the games I play. A comment on Paul's comment, 16GB is still more than most people can use but that may change during the life of the PC and it's always cheaper and easier to build a PC with more RAM now than to try and upgrade it say 2 years later when it's getting harder to find and costing more because it's old technology. 8 is plenty for gaming today, it might not be in 6 or 12 months time and yes 4 is still plenty for a lot of people. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1379838 | 2014-07-22 19:39:00 | My work computer was giving random freezes on 4Gb RAM so got them to up it to 8Gb freezes went away and I didn't think the software was that intensive but it must be. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1379839 | 2014-07-22 21:09:00 | 16GB RAM! And I'd stick a 4TB drive in there . Well . . . I have 16GB of ram . Besides, this was a bundle - motherboard, CPU and Ram in one kit . 16GB was quite common among the various ones . Ram is cheap anyway . HDD - yeah . . . . . . but he can add another later . . . that's what he said, desktop so he can upgrade, add, change things as he goes . We did discuss the hdd, type and size and all that . Hell, I still have a 250GB HDD, not at all full . If you want to store movies, I guess . . . . . Anyway, the important bits were CPU and GPU . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1379840 | 2014-07-22 21:49:00 | No SSD? Blasphemy :P Otherwise a pretty high-end gaming box, really - short of going SLI/Crossfire. Good build! As for RAM... RAM is so cheap I'm not sure why you'd go less than 16GB in anything other than a barebones build (like a NUC or something). Particularly, as mentioned it's for strategy gaming, and some of the newer RTS titles like PA can easily chew up 8GB of RAM on their own if you go for the larger procedurally-generated worlds etc. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1379841 | 2014-07-23 05:51:00 | Well that didn't go well. PSU came from another supplier - via Courioerpost. Or should I say, didn't. They are not yet admitting they lost it, they say they'll do that tomorrow. SO I built it with my workshop PSU......that went fine. Disconnected it all....then found the PSU won't be here ever, so hooked up mine again - which promptly committed suicide. WHy? No idea, it was a Corsair......sent husband on a journey in peak traffic to collect another PSU....stuff waiting around for Courierpost to make up their minds.....the guy is waiting anxiously for his toy. Also my workshop monitor will not talk to the new PC. The new GPU has HDMI and DVI-D. Monitor is VGA, but even with an adapter, no.... Had to use my personal monitor to set it up......which is DVI-I. And what is the connector that looks like HDMI but isn't? Or is that a variation on HDMI as well? One has two curvy bits at top of female part, the other has one curvy part and straight on opposite side. Geez....out of practice......my stuff is so old now. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1379842 | 2014-07-23 06:05:00 | Displayport? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1379843 | 2014-07-23 20:40:00 | So it is.......looked it up. Geez, HDMI, DVI-I, DVI-D, Display port, do we really need so many? |
pctek (84) | ||
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