kirottu Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 Why laptop for gaming? This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Gorgon Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Alienware is awesome, and for the most part horribly ugly. It's like they asked those idiots from American Chopper to design the outside of everything they do. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
Fionavar Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 I do a lot of travelling and, to be honest, I do not play FPS games that require the highest end video any more. I do most of my gaming on the PS3 and a gaming notebook allows me to run the few PC cRPGs that do not play nice on consoles w/o difficulty. Finally, even gaming notebooks carry enough resources that - for me - I do not notice any game degradation and the freedom is also a big bonus. Why laptop for gaming? The universe is change; your life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (161)
Pidesco Posted October 26, 2011 Posted October 26, 2011 ASUS P5QL PRO Intel Core Duo 2 E7400 6 GB Kingston DDRII667 RAM PNY GeForce GTX460 OC 1Gb GDDR5 ASUS Xonar D2X Canton Movie 60CX Speakers OCZ SSD Vertex Plus 120Gb Samsung 320GB SATA2 Seagate 1Tb 7200 RPM S-ATA2 32Mb Samsung 19" 923NW Gamepad XFX XGear Dual Reflex Cyborg V.5 Rumble Pad My first SSD means WOOSH!!! And the new gamepad means improved family gaming. Also, it's a 360 gamepad, for those pesky games that don't support other gamepads. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
Gorth Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 Retired parts: Intel I7 960 stock cooler Microsoft Multimedia keyboard Vista Ultimate 64bit Dead parts: Zalman Reserator 2 Fanless Water Cooling System Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 Channel Speaker System - THX Certified XFX Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition Current parts: Antec Performance One P182 Antec TruePower Quatro 1200 PSU Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Motherboard (water cooled) 12Gb (6x2GB) Corsair XMP DDR3 (running at 1600Mhz) Intel I7 960 (3.2GHz) with EK Waterblock Creative PCI EXPRESS X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Samsung 30" SyncMaster 305T+ (same model as the 'dead' one) Koolance RP-1005 (Reservoir and pump) EVGA GeForce GTX 590 Classified Hydro Copper DAS Keyboard ('S' as in "silent") EK external Radiator Windows 7 Ultimate Various peripherals: Wacom tablet, Microsoft LiveCam, Microsoft 5 button mouse (very old), Saitek X52 Pro flight stick, various external HDD and USB sticks To-do: Get external 7.1 amplifier plus subwoofer “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Malcador Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 Got all this kit 6 months ago, Probably should have spent more on RAM, but ah well. 4GB G.SKILL F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 Thermaltake Armor A90 Intel Core i5 2500K EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Fermi MSI P67A-G43 (B3) P67 Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Enoch Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 New build success! (Well, success so far-- I haven't gotten the chance to really put it under stress yet.) ASUS P8Z68-V mobo i5-2500K w/ stock cooler 2x4GB G.Skill PC3 12800 RAM SeaSonic X650 Gold PSU EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128GB Crucial M4 SSD 1TB Samsung HD ASUS DVD drive of some kind Cooler Master 690 II Advanced Case Acer 23" 1920x1080 monitor Had some stress in getting the BIOS set right. The mobo has a graphical BIOS interface, and for some reason it wasn't listing all of my drives as selectable in the boot priority. When I first flipped it on, the SSD was the only hard drive in there, and it found that just fine. I installed Windows without a hitch. But, after I put the storage drive in there, it displaced the SSD in the boot priority menu for some reason (as in, it wasn't just in there in front of the SSD-- it was in there and the SSD wasn't). So to boot into Windows, I had to bring up the BIOS every time, go into the advanced settings (where I'm mostly out of my depth) and force a boot from the SSD. It took me many tries to figure out that a particular item in the Advanced BIOS menu was clickable, and could be used to alter which HD shows up in the boot priority list.
Fighter Posted December 8, 2011 Posted December 8, 2011 AeroCool VX-E case ASRock P67 Pro B3 Intel Core I7 2600 3.4Ghz Radeon HD 6970 2GB Kingston RAM (2x4GB) 1 tb HD
Janmanden Posted December 16, 2011 Posted December 16, 2011 Souping up the old Storm Scout. Retiring the Shadow Warrior and recruiting the Sabertooth. Hardware upgrades is an exotic business. (From ABIT AW9D + Core 2 Duo E6600 + 4GB DDR2 to ASUS Sabertooth X58 + Core i7-960 + 12 GB DDR3) - ASUS Sabertooth X58, check. - Core i7-960, check. - Corsair something ram, Humm.. Erm.. INTEL Pentium E6700?.. ??.. Aaaargh!!! Bloody hell, the stock worker checked out a Pentium E6700 instead of my ram.. And of course they close at 5 P.M.. And tomorrow saturday it's from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.. TOO EARLY. I NEED TO GET DRESSED TOO FOR CHRISSAKES.. Unfairyness. Living in the countryside is.. actually surprisingly good considering the need for air for fuming over messed up deliveries, to feel that clean fresh air mixed into the blood, but.. gah. What a waste of breath. Tomorrow. Life is pain. (Signatures: disabled)
Bos_hybrid Posted December 22, 2011 Posted December 22, 2011 AMD FX-4100 (Wanted the 980BE or 970 but they were out of stock at all my local stores) Gigabyte 970A-DE 8gb(2x4) Corsair 1TB Samsung HD Sapphire Radeon 6970 Thermaltake V6
Rosbjerg Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 Bought and traded myself to a new rig at a discount Fx6100 3.3ghz 6 core CPU with Corsair H100 watercooling (planning on overclooking later) 16 GB DDR3 1600mhz Ram 2 gb 6870 Radeon 60 Gb Solid State HHD 1 TB Samsung Sata HHD All for under 700$ (about 1000$ initially, but I sold and traded some items so the overall cost went down).. I'm satisfied. 1 Fortune favors the bald.
CymTyr Posted February 16, 2012 Posted February 16, 2012 AMD Phenom II 3.4 ghz Quadcore 8 GB DDR3 1600 Corsair 1 GB ATI 6670 1 TB Sata Hard drive 500 Watt PSU Not sure which brands the hard drive and PSU are. Bought the system prebuilt from newegg (was on a time crunch and needed new system ASAP) for $600 USD, it's on an ASUS mobo. What makes a man worthy? Is it his lust for life, his passion for power, or his wisdom for withstanding the deeds of others?
Gorth Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 I was considering my backup options and came to the conclusion that dual layered Blu-Ray disks are just too unreasonably expensive. Ended up buying a 4TB Hitachi external HDD (USB3). I'm just so lazy sometimes 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Bokishi Posted April 3, 2012 Author Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) Currently rebuilding my comp. Here's my projected specs by the end of the month. System is 85% complete atm Intel Sandybridge (Core i5) @ 3.4ghz EVGA Z68 Socket 1155 Mobo G.Skill 16 GB DDR3 EVGA Geforce GTX 680 2GB Kepler EVGA Geforce GTX 280 1GB (Physx only) SB X-Fi Titanium HD Intel 40GB SSD (OS and certain games) 4TB Hitachi Desktars (Additional Storage) 1.2kw Thermaltake PSU LG Blu-ray burner Edited April 3, 2012 by Bokishi Current 3DMark
LadyCrimson Posted April 11, 2012 Posted April 11, 2012 I wish I had a clue how much "faster" the new gen of i5's and i7's are vs my old one. Not that it matters that much since this rig still runs everything top notch. And we're at 680 GTX's now? Heh. Still lovin' my 590 and still hoping I won't have to upgrade anything else for a couple years at least. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Bokishi Posted April 15, 2012 Author Posted April 15, 2012 Yeah I probably wouldn't upgrade from a 590 to a 680, I just got one cuz my triple 280s in SLI had finally run their course, plus I am so sick of most games and their SLI issues, just give me one freakin badass card from now on plz. Anyway the gtx 680 is just sitting on my desk while I wait to receive my replacement Z68 mobo from EVGA, as the first one I got died after 4 days test usage Current 3DMark
Nepenthe Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 2 You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that? Reapercussions
Bokishi Posted April 18, 2012 Author Posted April 18, 2012 Haha those glasses are swag. System is done! Turns out the mobo was actually fine and that I had a bad processor, so I exchanged it for a new one Sandybridge (i5 2500k) @ 4.4ghz EVGA Z68 Socket 1155 SLI G.Skill 16 GB DDR3 EVGA Geforce GTX 680 2GB Kepler SB X-Fi Titanium HD Intel 40GB SSD (OS and certain games) 4TB Hitachi Desktars (Additional Storage) 1.2kw Thermaltake PSU LG Blu-ray burner Current 3DMark
Humanoid Posted May 5, 2012 Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) No significant changes to my core system two years on, just added a 256GB second SSD as my games drive. Really should put the OS on it since it's the faster drive compared to my first-gen Indilinx one, but it's fast enough to not be worth the bother. Intel i5-750 @ 3.33GHz Prolimatech Megahalems + 2x Nexus Real Silent 120mm fans Gigabyte P55A-UD4P 8GB PC10666 G.Skill Eco DDR3 1.35V 7-7-7-21 808.8GB WD Green 128GB G.Skill Falcon II SSD Gigabyte HD5850 Asus Xonar Essence ST Sound card Pioneer DVR-216 DVD-RW Sony 3.5" FDD Win7 Pro 64-bit OEM Seasonic X-650 Antec P182 Scythe Slipstream 800-1200rpm case fans 2x Dell U2711 27" IPS monitors Audioengine A5 2.0 powered speakers Logitech MX1100 mouse + G15 (2nd gen) Keyboard In: Crucial m4 256GB SSD CH Products F-16 Fighterstick USB Alessandro MS-1 headphones Out: Audio Technica ATH-AD700 headphones It really is time to upgrade the graphics card because the 1GB on the 5850 would choke on any modern graphically intensive game. The issue though is that the only modern graphically intensive game I own is The Witcher 2, which I have already completed once and would therefore feel silly blowing $400 on a worthwhile upgrade (GTX670 or HD7950) on half a game. *sigh* Actually my biggest upgrade recently is not one that gets listed on system specs but is pretty notable in terms of overall usability. A new desk. Out goes my 15 year old IKEA chipboard desk that flexed alarmingly under the weight of my screens, and in is a fancy new L shaped workstation with hutch (and, get this, actual drawers ) - only MDF but at least it's solid. Also got a new chair, IKEA high-back Markus. Also built a HTPC a year ago: Intel i5 2300 (stock cooler) Intel onboard HD2000 graphics Asus P8H67-M microATX motherboard (first gen, complete with the potentially faulty SATA ports, too lazy to RMA) 4GB Kingston Value RAM 128GB Crucial m4 SSD 1x 2TB WD Green HDD 1x 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP HDD LG BD-RW 2x 2TB 5900rpm Seagate external HDDs 2x 3TB 7200rpm Seagate external HDDs Win7 Home Premium Corsair CX-400 PSU Antec Fusion Black case Logitech Harmony 650 remote control Onkyo SR-578 HT Receiver Monitor Audio Bronze BR-2 bookshelf speakers TV is still my old Samsung 46" B650 LCD which is really holding me back. Waiting around for the end of this year to see if I can get a good deal on the current get 65" plasmas. Edited May 5, 2012 by Humanoid L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G
Gorth Posted May 5, 2012 Posted May 5, 2012 Actually my biggest upgrade recently is not one that gets listed on system specs but is pretty notable in terms of overall usability. A new desk. Out goes my 15 year old IKEA chipboard desk that flexed alarmingly under the weight of my screens, and in is a fancy new L shaped workstation with hutch (and, get this, actual drawers ) I had small wobbly table for my screen and keyboard when I lived in New Zealand. When I moved to Australia and got the room to spare, a real desk was high on the priority list. When I could afford it I went out to one of those specialist stores normally catering for corporate customers and bought desks (and drawers), chairs (and protective mats for the carpet) and wall units. Worth more than many a hardware upgrade in sheer improvement of the "pc experience" “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Pidesco Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 ASUS P5QL PRO Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 6 GB Kingston DDRII667 RAM EVGA GeForce GTX 580 1.5Gb ASUS Xonar D2X Canton Movie 60CX Speakers OCZ SSD Vertex Plus 120Gb Samsung 320GB SATA2 Seagate 1Tb 7200 RPM S-ATA2 32Mb Samsung 19" 923NW Gamepad XFX XGear Dual Reflex Cyborg V.5 Rumble Pad I snagged the new graphics card through a very snazzy deal on eBay. However, now that the GTX 670 came out, I'm trying to tentatively sell it for a tidy profit. With the 670 I should be able to max out Arkham City with tessellation and Physx included. Still, even if I don't manage to sell it, it's giving me great performance in everything, of course. I'm playing the Witcher 2 at 2560x1440 downsampled to 1080p. It is purdy. On my wishlist is also a new monitor. One of these, to be exact. A brilliant deal. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
Bokishi Posted May 22, 2012 Author Posted May 22, 2012 Ok made some final adjustments, and replcaced some damaged parts from the last meltdown. Been stable for a month so far i5 2500K @ 4.2ghz (3rd one!) EVGA Z68 SLI (3rd one!) Patriot 16 GB DDR3 1600MHz (2nd set!) EVGA Kepler GTX 680 2GB SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Intel 40GB SSD (SRT Cache) 4x 1TB Hitachi Desktars 7200rpm Coolermaster GX 750w (replaced my bad bad psu) Current 3DMark
Humodour Posted May 22, 2012 Posted May 22, 2012 Just installed a Kingston Hyper X SSD. Size is 120 gigs. First thing I did was install Ubuntu 12.04. Yay, no more Windows! The system is a whole lot faster. I think part of it is the fact that I've moved to Linux, and part of it the HD to SSD upgrade. Booting especially is incredibly quick. It's beautiful. Installing games now.
Humanoid Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Took a risk buying a HD7950 from Amazon US - if I need to return it I'll be out of pocket, but for a ~$100 saving ($330USD vs $400AUD+ locally, and shipping essentially the same) I figured it was worth it. Just installed it and all seems well. It's an MSI Twin Frozr model, with stock clocks of 880/5000MHz. I'll probably try to see if it can reach 1000/6000MHz on stock voltages, though generally these cards are capable of another 10-20% more over that with sufficient voltage. I definitely want to keep noise under control, especially given in the last 6 or so months, my slowly dying 5850 fan has damaged my ears. Now I know I've said that the GTX670 is the clear winner this generation a couple months ago - but the landscape has shifted a bit given that AMD have lopped off over a hundred dollars off the launch price, and nVidia have not moved a single dollar. So the revised advice currently is this: go AMD unless you're absolutely set against ever overclocking the GPU, in which case it's a wash. This is based on street prices of $320-330 for the 7950; $400 for the GTX670; $420-430 for the HD7970; and $500 for the GTX680. Additionally, I would say given current premiums for custom designed cards as opposed to reference, to always go for the custom unless you'll be going the waterblock route. This advice applies particularly strongly to the GTX670, which has a spectacularly cheap plasticky reference cooler and questionably contructed reference PCB. L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G
WDeranged Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 I'm not one for siding with any particular manufacturer but my recent experience with AMD cards has been nothing but clunky, games seem to be made with Nvidia in mind and it shows, I was constantly waiting for patches and drivers with my 5970. Still, they're brilliant bang for buck right now and I'm sure that single GPUs are way less trouble
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