PC Tech/Gaming Info Thread

[HCCA]

is there a noticeable difference in everyday use and multi-tasking?

Nope. Runs games and most common apps pretty much the same as the i7.

[Chiney]

nice

now PM how much for that haf X u have

[Chiney]

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.a ... 20&ID=1959

bought dat today, so its started..




so now im deciding between amd or intel

budget is like 350US for the 2 items, really dont need to spend more...wont really use the power, all i require is dual x16 in sli or xfire, dont want no x16 and x8 board

[Ronaldo95163]

Go with the AMD as you're on a budget

[nareshseep]

Chiney check this

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i5-2500K-Pr ... 078&sr=1-2

[Chiney]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128514

[Ronaldo95163]

Nice!

[Chiney]

very nice board.. and this with it

http://www.amazon.com/AMD-Phenom-1100T- ... 684&sr=1-2

budget with a bang

[roromelie]

http://www.benchtec.co.uk/forums/thread ... -8Ghz-club

[Chiney]

good God dats wicked!

[M_2NR]

so recently, my external hard drive was playing d azz to read from USB, so i decide to use firewire instead. Lo and behold i was getting 3MB/s transfer rates.

so yay google, turns out i had to install legacy drivers for 1394 and boom! 40MB/s and upwards! woohoo.

got the help here:
http://wongablog.co.uk/2009/10/25/solvi ... windows-7/

[Chiney]

wrd!!!

[nareshseep]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pro ... 74-15.html

[Chiney]

http://www.techpowerup.com/146572/MSI-9 ... ailed.html

got that board..
jus deciding betweem a x6 or x4

i am going to OC. so buying a 1090t and oc to a 1100t is possible
same for buying a 955BE and ocing to a 970 or 980BE

[M_2NR]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pro ... 74-15.html

wait na... my slow ass core 2 duo might be faster than those AMDs

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pro ... 74-15.html

*giggles*

[Chiney]

^^lol. I really likin the amd x4 980 @ 3.7ghz. I wud love to oc that to a nice 4.5ghz on a dh-14 cooler. Fun fun

[M_2NR]

see.... thats where i stop. I eh the guy to go and O/C nothing...
anyway.

So... since this is a PC thread... id assume windows stuff fit here...
I went by a brother (not blood) of mine and he showed me this tablet running windows...

(doe arsk how d ass an iphone camera take that shitty quality shot, im shocked myself)

I was like wtf at first... why isnt it iOS or Android... then i used it. I must say, its pretty impressive. I can't wait to see what windows 8 has to offer.
I like iOS eh... but... i still need windows at the end of the day to do some things and i must say, After i plug in my external HDD into the tablet and ran a 1080p video, without stutter on Media Player... i was throughly impressed.

It was an Acer Iconia Tab W500.
AMD C50 Dual core CPU
2GB RAM
32GB SSD.
micro sd port..yadda yadda yadda.
8 hours battery life
All with a dock/keyboard for $500.

Not an iPad killer mind you... but it will give your laptop a run for its money.

[Chiney]

^^ yep, those ACERs are pretty impressive!

[xaira]

its fusion running in that baby, that playing COD at 720p normal normal

[Ronaldo95163]

[HCCA]

^^Results may vary on individual uses eh. Plus he didn't mention whether the turbo functions on both cpus were enabled or not since that can make a difference in the clock speed for either chip.

[xaira]

watched that, he himself said he should have done a more compatible test, quadfire doesnt make sense, tri sli 580s would have been better, look at how close the score with the quadfire 590 is to the 6970

[Chiney]

not in favour with the test myself since BOTH motherboard and cpu combos are highly bottlenecking the cards...

shud of ran single GPU test bench

[HCCA]

Ah 1100T pretty weak for quad 6990 or quad 590 even, the most i would put on a 1100t is ah 5970/6970 or gtx 295/gtx 580. I have a 5970 paired with my 1090T and the 3DMark11 scores a couple hundred less than what the i7-930/5970 making.

[Chiney]

^^ well im on a budget

and well yall kno i OC pretty good.. so i plan to have a good stable OC and keep things in line!

[nareshseep]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/ ... .129.63.64

[Chiney]

LOL

amd getting tear up!!

still happy with the price range though

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ the AMD is US$190 and the i5 2500k is US$202

you will give up that performance difference for US$12?

[M_2NR]

^ the AMD is US$190 and the i5 2500k is US$202

you will give up that performance difference for US$12?

yuh doe give up eh


Hold on eh... lemme post this so he go see the light:




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I surprise an e8400 is only twice as slow though. 1we. Until things get really worse, i eh upgrading.