Since the alpha is only a little ways out, I was wondering what everyone was planning on playing it (or the beta, or the final version ) on?
My specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2GHz
8 GB Kingston 1600MHz RAM
ASUS P8Z77-V LX
ASUS Geforce GTX 670 4GB OC +20MHz (1000MHz)
Raidmax 750W 80 PLUS GOLD
CoolerMaster Storm Scout 2 Case
128 GB Samsung 840 Pro (OS)
1TB Western Digital HDD (DATA)
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Machine is custom built by me recently
Win 7 64bit Ultimate
Haswell i5-4670k
Corsair H60 hydro cooler
8gb Gskill DDR3 2400
Gigabyte G1 sniper z87
Asus GTX 660 OC ( Flashed bios for maximum overclock 1241 mhz )
PSU is a modified Server PSU 1200w ( its 8 years old )
Toshiba 256 GB SSD ( OS drive )
dual Seagate 1gb in Raid 0 mode ( total 2 gb for data)
I'm too lazy to dig up the exact components, but the gist is:
Win 7 Pro
i7 3770 stock
16G RAM
HD7870
256GB Samsung SSD for OS, non-steam games and software
256GB Samsung SSD for steam games
1TB HDD for MP3's
Simple Antec black mid tower case
24" Asus LCD
Asus K53S laptop
Win7 64bit home premium
I7 2670QM
8GB RAM
GeForce GT540m
Samsun SSD 830 128GB for startup
Hitachi 500GB for data
Windows 8.1
16GB Ripjaws RAM
Haswell i5-4670k @ 4.5 GHz
Nvidia GTX 780 TI
1 TB Seagate Hard Drive
750 W Power-sourcey thingy-majiggy
50" LCD TV
My setup annihilates pretty much everything except stress tests, but I still need an SSD :c
Win 7
8 GB
Nvidia GTX670
Intel i5-3570K
Wont prevents my legions of evil from annihilating your fleets of righteousness though. Mwahahahah
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1CPU Intel Core i7 3610QM @ 2.30GHz 38 °C Ivy Bridge 22nm TechnologyRAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)Motherboard Alienware M17xR4 (U3E1) 28 °CGraphics Generic PnP Monitor (1600x900@60Hz) Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Dell) 2048MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7970M (Dell)Storage 476GB FUJITSU M17XR4_RAID0 (RAID) 15GB USB Flash Memory USB Device (USB)Optical Drives PLDS DVD+-RW DL-8A4SH
Audio Sound Blaster Recon3Di
I have some dinky little aftermarket cooling fan, and a very large, spacious and well-ventilated case. Never breaks 65 Celsius.
I TAKE THAT AS A CHALLENGE.
MY DO-GOODER RAINBOW SOLDIERS ARE ITCHIN' TO KICK SOME ASS.
Holy crap.
You must bow before my processing power! Bow!
:3
Rest assured I paid through my teeth (~1500 w/ rebates, sales and the like) for that kind of gear. But the payoff for doing so... OH THAT PAYOFF MAN. (Seriously though my computer's specs are mostly superfluous, you can get by perfectly fine with far less)
Well you do know that you have a 50 foot tv...
But a 780Ti? That's something of beauty. How much dedicated memory does it have, and what brand?
...
That may be a bit of an unintentional... 'exaggeration'...
Still, 50 inches isn't bad amirite?
Asus; Asus makes/vendors the best Nvidia cards in my experience.
*Checks under pile of crap for box*
3 GB
I'm lucky to have it; my close friend bought me it and asked for nothing in return! (I may or may not have performed certain oral actions upon his person for unrelated reasons)
I wont bow because I have just as much power and faster loading times. Ok im not overclocked yet though, as everything runs fast enough.
Btw you got lucky with your chip if you can get it to run nice at 4.5ghz, they cannot all to do it. And you did not specify your mobo. Btw
I am done paying through the teeth for my computers. My last upgrade cost me around 700$ ( Mobo + cpu + Ram + cooler + SSD ). But then I resold my old parts on Ebay for about as much ( long story but it involved getting a bunch of parts at a steal on Craigslist and reselling them for good profit while upgrading my case and psu )
Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 16GB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Graphics Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
Display Memory: 12 GB
Native Mode: 1680 x 1050(p) (60Hz) (my display is over 6 years old).
Lies!
Doesn't the "K" variant of our CPU mean it's made with overclocking in mind?
Asus Z87-Pro
It's heavy as a brick, sturdy as steel plate.
I completely replaced everything from my old computer, and my ability to resell is on par with my aiming ability lol. Smart move, getting rid of your older junk like that, I'll have to remember that!
It is, I planned to overclock but so far all my games run at constant 60fps so I decided to not bother. But I will eventually.
Good choice going with asus. I have stuck with them for years and its the first time i buy a gigabyte mobo in a long time. So far so good but I had a few weird glitches in the bios and the software support sucks donkey balls. I think ill be back to asus next time
Don't bother overclocking your CPU or GPU. Most CPUs and GPUs made these days are built to automatically decrease their clock speed if they get hot to prevent them from burning up.
True, Chips throttle down on temperature threshold. They have been doing that for a while.
That is why overclockers invest in after market coolers. With a decent cooler this will not happen. And you should never overclock to the point that your chip heats up to throttle point anyway. Typically with adequate cooling you will hit stability problem before heat problems.
Some chips are beasts. Some of those old Q6600 Quad core could overclock over 4.ghz ( Stock 2.33 ghz )
I had a Xeon processor before that I ran at 4.15 ghz which was rated for 3.15.
Hopefully you have some good monitors to let you know when you are nearing the temperature threshold.
Maybe we should also talk about CPU and GPU temp monitors. How many of us will realize that they are seeing a performance problem due to the game's graphic settings being so high that they are overheating their CPUs or GPU?
I am using "All CPU Meter" for my CPUs and "GPU Meter" for my GPU, both by Addgadgets.com. Both of these run in my sidebar, which makes watching them while playing games in windowed mode easy. I also occasionally use HWVMonitor from CPUID for those times when I want additional information about my CPUs and GPU performance, such as when playing a game in full screen mode.
The widely accepted reference for Intel CPU core temp is the software called RealTemp , this is what most overclockers will use. For GPU, I use GPU_Z and ASUS GPU tweak. I flashed the bios in my graphic card in a very aggressive manner .
I removed almost all automatic throttling by power usage features, which results in the card running significantly faster in average. The temps are still verey good though, thanks to having an Asus DIRECTCU II cooler on the thing.
I agree. ASUS has been a very good brand for me also. My mobo, graphics card, and tablet/laptop are all ASUS.
WINDOWS 8? You are an adventurous man, aren't you?
Just kidding. My tablet/laptop (I say /laptop because I have an attached keyboard for my tablet that gives it a touch pad, keyboard, and another battery[not sure what to call it, tabtop? ]) runs Windows 8.1 but without the touch screen I feel it would be rather cumbersome.
It's actually pretty good, because it makes your games run a few FPS faster! No joking here, this is real talk; it makes your CPU ~5-7% faster effectively because of how it's programmed!
The only real downsides for 8.1 (which isn't the same as vanilla 8) are that the windows key doesn't take you directly to desktop, and some of the 'mouse over the edge of the screen' features are a bit hyper-responsive.
I didnt really read through the thread to compare builds, but im running my own custom desktop
Case is a Cooler Master HAF-XM, with two Corsair high performance 120mm fans.
Motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2.0
Antec 1200W PSU
AMD FX-8350 with a Corsair H100 water cooler(Over clocked to 4.5 GHz)
32GB 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance
Two-Way SLI GTX Titan Blacks
1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
1TB Samsung 840 Evo(SSD)
120GB Corsair Force Series SSD(For operating system and drivers)
And a CD/DVD Reader/Writer
Im also running three 23" HP Widescreen monitors for NVIDIA Surround
Has your supercomputer found the last digit of Pi yet?
A FX chip... I avoided those because of their poor single thread performance. They should do better with newer highly multithreaded apps and games but right now there is still an advantage to have very good single thread machines. This is why I went with 4670k
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