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xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 03:14:33
March 15 2009 02:46 GMT
#1
/brag thread.

Shake has now upgraded to i7.

New Parts:
MSI X58 Platinum SLI Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920
3 x 2 GB OCZ Gold DDR3-1333
Corsair 750w PSU

Old Parts: STILL USING THESE TOO, NOT REPLACING
EVGA 9600GT
2 x 400GB WD Caviar HDs in Raid0
1TB Hitachi Deskstar HD

Very satisfied with the performance, a big upgrade from that AMD dual core I was using previously. Hopefully when I get more money I'll upgrade to a 4870 and buy some SSDs.

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Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
March 15 2009 02:50 GMT
#2
I've never actually noticed any increased performance when I changed processors (unless it's like a decade old..) it's all about the ram/video card.
Python is garbage, number 1 advocate of getting rid of it.
liger13
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1060 Posts
March 15 2009 02:51 GMT
#3
only 6 Gigs of ram?...

whats your Graphics card?
I feel like pwning noobs
xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
March 15 2009 02:54 GMT
#4
On March 15 2009 11:51 liger13 wrote:
only 6 Gigs of ram?...

whats your Graphics card?

I have no use for more than 6gigs of ram, no one should really unless they're running virtual machines or do a lot of encoding.

Graphics card was stated, 9600gt
liger13
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1060 Posts
March 15 2009 02:56 GMT
#5
On March 15 2009 11:54 xmShake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2009 11:51 liger13 wrote:
only 6 Gigs of ram?...

whats your Graphics card?

I have no use for more than 6gigs of ram, no one should really unless they're running virtual machines or do a lot of encoding.

Graphics card was stated, 9600gt

haha... yah just saw that, thought "old parts" were the ones you were replacing

you should go for a new card.
I feel like pwning noobs
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
March 15 2009 02:59 GMT
#6
On March 15 2009 11:54 xmShake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2009 11:51 liger13 wrote:
only 6 Gigs of ram?...

whats your Graphics card?

I have no use for more than 6gigs of ram a dual core(!), no one should really unless they're running virtual machines or do a lot of encoding.

Graphics card was stated, 9600gt

!!!

anyway couldnt help but notice the STOCK HEATSINK ARRRRRRRRRRR
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
March 15 2009 03:08 GMT
#7
ofc only 6 gigs, its a tri channel mobo 2gig each.

also, what Gfx card? *drool*
Dgtl
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada889 Posts
March 15 2009 03:13 GMT
#8
The case which holds your Hard drives looks like it has multiple eyed smiley faces .
^______________^
xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
March 15 2009 03:15 GMT
#9
On March 15 2009 11:59 mahnini wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2009 11:54 xmShake wrote:
On March 15 2009 11:51 liger13 wrote:
only 6 Gigs of ram?...

whats your Graphics card?

I have no use for more than 6gigs of ram a dual core(!), no one should really unless they're running virtual machines or do a lot of encoding.

Graphics card was stated, 9600gt

!!!

anyway couldnt help but notice the STOCK HEATSINK ARRRRRRRRRRR

Yeah I need to fix that, but I have no money. It's fine as I'm not overclocking it yet anyway.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
March 15 2009 03:29 GMT
#10
On March 15 2009 11:50 Jayme wrote:
I've never actually noticed any increased performance when I changed processors (unless it's like a decade old..) it's all about the ram/video card.


it depends on what you are playing, some games are more CPU - bound than GPU bound. But yeah not alot of games use CPU that much...
Rillanon.au
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
March 15 2009 03:30 GMT
#11
does anyone know where to find details about AMD 720 and the trick to enable the fourth core by BIOs? LOL? AMD was so pissed off about that.
Rillanon.au
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
March 15 2009 04:14 GMT
#12
k-7 500 mhz
GeForce 1
192 ram
14" tube yO~
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
March 15 2009 06:35 GMT
#13
On March 15 2009 13:14 Boblion wrote:
k-7 500 mhz
GeForce 1
192 ram
14" tube yO~


i'd kill myself
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11567 Posts
March 15 2009 06:39 GMT
#14
The awesomeness of your computer is undermined by the unawesomeness of your graphics card (((((
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Realpenguin
Profile Joined December 2006
8253 Posts
March 15 2009 06:43 GMT
#15
On March 15 2009 15:39 FragKrag wrote:
The awesomeness of your computer is undermined by the unawesomeness of your graphics card (((((

in my case my 9600GT is being bottlenecked by my CPU

it's a great card, especially since i got it for a cheap price and it was a huge upgrade from a 7300LE
<Wolfpox> i remember when MVP beat that one guy, and everyone was like 'whoa' except that penguin dude.
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
March 15 2009 07:27 GMT
#16
But how will you render Farcry 2 better than you are supposed to with current hardware specs?
Shuffleus
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Australia764 Posts
March 15 2009 07:49 GMT
#17
Bahahahhahaa.

It's funny because you just use it to play starcraft.
| QuanticGaming.com | There is no greater feeling then to find order in the chaos, as you slip the puzzle pieces in place.
xhuwin
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States476 Posts
March 15 2009 08:13 GMT
#18
On March 15 2009 12:13 Dgtl wrote:
The case which holds your Hard drives looks like it has multiple eyed smiley faces .

hahahahaha.
Hm I need to build my next computer soon... time it against SC2. But I'm a poor college student and I just got this laptop so I can waiiiitt.
xyn
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 08:17:55
March 15 2009 08:15 GMT
#19
Quite the PSU overkill, at last atm :p

Also I don't see the point in RAID-0, really. That's like begging to lose your data.
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xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
March 15 2009 16:37 GMT
#20
On March 15 2009 17:15 Carnac wrote:
Quite the PSU overkill, at last atm :p

Also I don't see the point in RAID-0, really. That's like begging to lose your data.

Later I'm considering crossfiring a pair of 4870s, which is why I chose a power supply at that size. Plus it was on sale.

I use the raid 0 drives for basically just programs and the os, I have everything else backed up anyway, and have yet to have a drive fail on me.
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 18:53:36
March 15 2009 18:47 GMT
#21
You should have gotten the HX series from corsair thats their best quality. IMO as an old hand in building computers psu is the most important part of the computer a crappy psu will burn out and take other parts with it corsairs isn't crappy but the tx series isn't their best for the oc seine. I hope your sli because that set up 520HX from corsair would have been more then enough.

Lol raid my motto is 1 is always better then two which explains my GTX285 and raptor hdd. raid is silly esp at current hdd's sizes. I haven't used SSD yet because i'm afraid ill burn though a mlc in like a week then cry. Hope the rest of your build goes well.
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