What Type of Computer/Gaming RIG you Use?

Saved my tail off for this super rig!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ras/megapc.jpg

Hehe, Actually using a fairly old (2yrs) AMD X4 955 system with 12 gig rams with Nvidia 450GTS until the wife faction improves so I can blow a few grand on two new systems for us. Being she is also a gamer, So I am sure I can con her with some nice shiny new PC parts to let her play her MMO's on.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by MattChicago

But either way have you noticed any decent changes while playing games since game engines cannot really handle high end boxes. I have played on a very high end computer before and my system and they both seem the same in regards to games. Possibly Crysis and APB Reloaded or Arma3 would be a exception.

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Not really but it does give my 3x cards more room without bottlenecking them plus i try my best to 60fps ever game which still with the hardware don't always work.If i would have stuck with my 920 i would have to overclock it higher or else lose some fps and always read x79 platform is good for tri-sli so i went that route.I still get problems keeping 60fps but that's only during arkfalls the lowest i drop to is like 38fps but keep in mine it's only using one card and this one card is pushing 1440p.

you guys are cute,

I remember my tsr-80.. haha.. those were the days.

edit.. btw.. 2tb ssd's are coming out in stores soon, Mine are pretty solid, But the price will be heavy.. 2.5".. I run 1 in my ps3 and another on my rig right now.

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Originally Posted by Webferret

Saved my tail off for this super rig!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ras/megapc.jpg

Hehe, Actually using a fairly old (2yrs) AMD X4 955 system with 12 gig rams with Nvidia 450GTS until the wife faction improves so I can blow a few grand on two new systems for us. Being she is also a gamer, So I am sure I can con her with some nice shiny new PC parts to let her play her MMO's on.

Cheers

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Don't laugh. I still have mine and I still love it. Load "*",8,1

RIG:
HAF XM 922 Case
Asus Maximus Formula V
16GB G.Skill memory 1866 MHz
Corsair CX 750M PSU
Intel Core i7-3770k
Cooler Master Hyper Evo212 Direct Contact Cooler
Kingston Hyper X 120GB SSD
Seagate Momentus 1TB
2x's MSI GTX 680 Reference Cards sLI

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Originally Posted by Webferret

Saved my tail off for this super rig!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...ras/megapc.jpg

Hehe, Actually using a fairly old (2yrs) AMD X4 955 system with 12 gig rams with Nvidia 450GTS until the wife faction improves so I can blow a few grand on two new systems for us. Being she is also a gamer, So I am sure I can con her with some nice shiny new PC parts to let her play her MMO's on.

Cheers

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I miss my C64.

I spent countless hours wooing the ladies of Sid Meier's Pirates!

Seriously I think I wasted 3 years of my life playing Wastelands, before ECA became the devil known as EA lol.

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Originally Posted by Griggio

Seriously I think I wasted 3 years of my life playing Wastelands, before ECA became the devil known as EA lol.

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Old school EA was innovative and put out some good games. Now they're the devil as you said.

CPU: i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz / 3.8GHz
RAM: 12GB Corsair Vengeance
Graphics: GTX 670 FTW 2GB
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
Monitor: 46" Panasonic Viera 120HZ

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Originally Posted by MattChicago

Trust me you do not need much to play a game very effective. I would suggest not just going to Best Buy or Fry's and or microcenter and "buying a complete box" i would suggest building your own it is very easy. Here is a list of the most simple things you would need to have a pretty decent gaming "rig" so to speak that wont eat your lunch.

1. A Decent tower that has say 8 drive slots (bays)
2. A 850 Watt Power Supply
3. A I5 to I7 motherboard
4. A Processor at least 2.5 ghz quad core.
5. 8 Gigs of Memory is all you really need for any game.
6. A Video Card with at least 2 to 4 gigs of memory on it. (you could use dual crossfire but most games cannot handle it)
7. Just get 2 hard drives that are 500 gigs each that are SATA 1 for your main drive 1 for file storage etc.

8. As for a Monitor i would suggest getting a TV instead that is flat screen (do not get a plasma) i had purchased a 24" flatscreen Poloroid from Target that has DVI and HDMI hookups so its the same. at half the cost as well. I was using dual monitors a while back but i wanted to get a display that combined both my flat screen monitors so opted for a flatscreen tv instead.

Now if you shop correctly you should get everything above for about $800 to $1000 total give or take.

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Just so you know, just about any new built system running a single GPU Only needs a 550w PSU at max. Also a spinpoint F3 HDD is recommended, they generally have faster boot times. Just make sure its a 500g Platter and youre good to go ( their TB drives are usually 2x 500g platters, so you can go higher ).

Also for a monitor, getting a TV is a bad idea. Any decent monitor will always look better then any HD TV you can buy just for the pixel ratios.

2012 15 inch Macbook Pro
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

Windows 7 (running under Bootcamp as secondary OS)