What is your current PC config?

[Guest]

i got myself a upgrade last year balldozer FX 8120 cooled with a coolermaster V8Saphire pureblack 990 FXpalit 260 gtx sonic2 hdd's 1TB/160GBNovatech powerstation Black edition 750WZalman Z11 Plus case Acer 21"p223WCyborg keybored V7R.A.T 7Logitech speakers 5.1 X540Buffalo linkstaion 2TB

[sscadmin]

Nice Dustdragon, you went with the 8-core AMD chip, how do you like it because I have been thinking about getting the FX8350? How much memory you got on there btw? I was thinking about getting at least 16GB.

[Shadowma45]

amd athlon (tm) IIx4 640 processor 3.00 ghz4gb installed as well as addtl 674 gb64 bit operating systemge force gtx 760thinking about upgrading to titan & processor to support it inanticipation of star citizen.

[iDisOrder]

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHzMemory: 4096MB RAMHDD: Drive: C: 927.4 GB, Drive: E: 1701.9 GBGfx Card:Intel(R) HD GraphicsSnd Card:Input/Joystick:I'm really not good with all this graphics info and such.I ran the dxdiag to try to answer these but I have no clue what I'm reading. I do know that I was playing Entropia Universe a few months back and when someone I was chatting with commented that the grass looks so realistic, I knew looking down at a green carpet it was time to upgrade the Best-Buy special. I brought the medium setting requirements with me to Micro-Center and just handed the paper to a salesman and told him I needed to run this gameIs there someone here who would help me translate what I have and suggest things for me?I know certain motherboards can only handle certain cards, but I have no clue what all this means.I could inbox u the dxdiag instead of filling this thread with it. And please, don't go easy on me... you can't hurt my feelings if I already know my rig is garbage.I wanna build a frankenstein! Believe it or not, my major in college was computer science.I did ace 'BASIC' and can draw a bad ass flow-chart thankuverymuch! lol

[RatPatrol]

CPU: Core i7 4930K 3.4 ghzMemory: 32 Gb of Crucial Ballistix TracerHDD: 1tb Velociraptor [yeah thats right no SSD Yet]Gfx Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked w/ACXSnd Card:SB ZxInput/Joystick: Logitek G15 - Logiteck G27 - Saitek X52 Pro 1200 w PSUCooler Master HAF 932Addonics S5A - 5 drive back plane [sharp eyes might notice in the one photo, that is a Radeon HD 4850 X2 in the Computer - I used this as 'place holder' the GTX 780 is in my old box right now] Old PC I built in 2008 - [the LAN Ports die 6 months ago the Video card Died on Black Friday :haha: poor me I had to buy a GTX 780] CPU:Core 2 QuadMemory: 6 Gb of Crucial BallistixHDD: 500 gb Mirrored 1 tb Storage Drive - this has balloned to 2-2Tb, 1-1Tb, 1-750 gb. 1-500 gbGfx Card: BFG GeForce GTX 280Snd Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty ProfessionalInput/Joystick: Saitek X52 Pro Server I: Dell Power Edge 2900 III CPU: 2 x Xeon Dual Core 1.8 GhzMemory: 24 GbHDD: 500 gb boot drive - 3 Tb Raid 5 [6 500 gb hard drives] [torrent box] Server II: DL 360 G5 CPU: 2x Xeon 3.4 Ghz Dual CoreMemory: 32 GbHDD: 8 x 300 Gb 10000 rpm this is my VMWare Host

[RatPatrol]

And please, don't go easy on me... you can't hurt my feelings if I already know my rig is garbage.I wanna build a frankenstein! Believe it or not, my major in college was computer science. I am an Avid Reader of Maximum PC .... PC games to a lesser extent for hardware reviews [url]http://www.maximumpc.com/build_pc_recommended_builds_december_2013[/url]

[SuperG]

Have a minor upgrade. BL3200PT 32" BenQ.MSI X290X Lightning And UPS to put my MS2012 R2E in actionAnd PS4

[natansharp]

Build this pc one year ago, i only used my hold graphic card but i want to upgrade it in the near future: CPU: i7 4770kMB: Asrock Z3 extreme8 giga ram DDR3 dual channelRadeon HD 6850Windows 7 64 bit Next upgrade is the videocard but i don't know what kind of model...i'm unsure if to buy a new AMD or a Nvidia. Nvidia is better because of physics support, in same games physics is so complex that even a i7 processor can't run it smoothly. AMD is a bit cheaper and i think it will become the reference in graphics card for gaming because also Xbox one and PS 4 are completely AMD maden.Nvidia loosed a big piece of market.

[sscadmin]

I would probably hold off on a gfx card purchase (I am) until the R380-390x cards come out from AMD, this should make Intel drop the price on the GTX970-980 cards. And it will be interesting to see the pricepoint, because AMD has been getting beat up by the GTX lately and they need to hopefully hit the market with something good. I haven't owned a Intel gfx card in over 10yrs and I am about to purchase one if I don't see something good from AMD soon. Because that GTX980 is a nice card. So who is gonna get my $$$ AMD or Intel? Someone will because I need something good to play Star Citizen at Max settings

[Cody]

<chuckles> I'd not recommend intel gfx, D1 - you mean nVidia. I have an EVGA GTX 770 ACX SC 2GB with which I am very pleased. It's old kit now, of course - but I grabbed it on special offer for only £200 last summer, which was a bargain. It runs Elite: Dangerous at a rock-steady 75fps on Ultra settings without breaking sweat - even in stations! Sweet! i5 4670K 4@3.4 + Cooler Master Hyper 212 EvoEVGA GTX 770 ACX SC 2GB DDR5Corsair RM 750W GoldCorsair Vengeance LP 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM (2x8)Fractal Design Arc Midi That system, self-built last autumn, will have to last me for a few years - it broke the bank!

[Potsmoke66]

SCREWBAG1 a phantastic CP-1610 16bit maaaaachine from General Instrumentsit uses a 10bit opcode, the left 6bits are for future expansionsit runs @ 894 kHzand uses 1456 bytes RAMthe resolution is 159 x 96it displays 16 colors @ once SIMPLY HOT! but i'm thinking about if i shouldn't replace it with a MC68000, it's far better. OK, let's get seriousit's nothing one could be proud of a poor mans computer Brand: MEDIONModel: MS-7800Name: STSORLCF49 (still that same old rotten lathe controller from 49)Processor: AMD A8-5500 APU, 3200 MHz, 2 Kernels, 4 logical Processors with built in Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (disabled)RAM: 4GBGFX: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440, 1GB RAMSnd: built in Realtek Low Definition Audio, 7.1 wishi-washiHD: 1TB, brand "cook-a-mongo"Monitor: Pops old HP however it does it's job and i can't afford any better [attachment=2956:01010082.JPG] in principles one could say the above CP-1610 is better, because the design of the chip is younger if i had the right money i would get me this one here: [attachment=2957:IMG_1043.jpg] capabilities: runs "Tennis for Two" (nothing else) who let the smoke out? In case you didn't know, all electronic devices operate using smoke. You can prove this quite simply - if you let the smoke out of any electronic device, there is an incredibly high likelihood that it will no longer work. If it does still work, then there is still enough smoke left in it for it to continue operating.

[Potsmoke66]

 Believe it or not, my major in college was computer science.I did ace 'BASIC' and can draw a bad ass flow-chart thankuverymuch! lol Yeah see REAL CRACKS and other weirdos...

[natansharp]

I would probably hold off on a gfx card purchase (I am) until the R380-390x cards come out from AMD, this should make Intel drop the price on the GTX970-980 cards. And it will be interesting to see the pricepoint, because AMD has been getting beat up by the GTX lately and they need to hopefully hit the market with something good. I haven't owned a Intel gfx card in over 10yrs and I am about to purchase one if I don't see something good from AMD soon. Because that GTX980 is a nice card. So who is gonna get my $$$ AMD or Intel? Someone will because I need something good to play Star Citizen at Max settings  GTX cards are Nvidia not intel. Actually intel produces only motherboard integrated vga.About the next vga i also decided to wait for AMD 300 series. R9 290 it's a monster, 5 teraflop of floating point power against 3 teraflop of nvidia gtx 970. Anyway i read benchmarks on many sites where nvidia is superior. It's very strange because of the power difference. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-290-vs-GeForce-GTX-970[/url] http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-v-amd-radeon-r9-290_Page-2[/url] Nvidia it's dx 12 compatible and AMD R290 11.2 So i think it's better to wait for the new AMD series because it has no sense to buy a new card with old direct x libraries.

[theAntiBob]

hal9k this is the best pc i have it's been thrown away, salvaged (by me) and reincarnated!i've had it for about 8 years, but the mobo is from 2004kinda had to stop all salvage operations once i got married... will it ever be replaced? athlon 64 (single core 2.4g but will eventually be a dual core if i can ever find a 939 - fingers crossed)1.5gb ddr2 ram~6tb of total hdd(s)nvidia 8600gt (a little overclocked for better synchronization)1080p 60hz philipsx52 HOTASthrustmaster rudder control system (serial+midi/game port)little webcam for headtracking (linuxtrack) does pretty good for what it is, plays fullHD video just fine, flightgear (with headtracking eating up some cpu) in 1080p at about 25-35fps (rural scenes only, but i live in alaska so that's fine by me)vendetta online maxed graphics (opengl, dot directx) 1080p & 4xaa at a solid 60 fps (except when my roidscanning scripts are running, that's a slideshow) i think a raspberry pi would be a bit more powerful... this post is for pittyLaughs and to make everyone else out there feel a bit better about theirs

[ArthurClark]

Just bought 6700k+FuryX machine. i've been saving for 3 months, but it totally worth it. ps. yeah, i'm in a red team)

[natansharp]

When will be released next Nvidia and AMD cards?

[natansharp]

I'm going to change my graphic card for next month but i'm not able to decide if to buy a radeon rx480 or a gtx 1060.Actually rx480 runs better on dx 12 and vulkan api but i think nvidia will fix this and nvidia has physx support.I read also that nvidia doesn't support old vga improving drivers performance, they improve drive performance only for recent vga instead of AMD. So, if this is true, AMD cards work better in years instead of nvidia.What's your opinion?

[auryx]

I've used nVidia for years. I had a bad experience with some ATI cards many moons ago, and so don't touch them with a barge pole! I've always found nVidia to offer better general compatibility with games. The only downside is their stupid lack of open-source drivers for Linux, forcing you to rely on flaky Nouveau or else making you need to update the driver with every new kernel. The lack of a decent framebuffer driver is also tedious. But I'm in Windows more than Linux, so I can live with this. auryx

[ExpandingMan]

The only downside is their stupid lack of open-source drivers for Linux, forcing you to rely on flaky Nouveau or else making you need to update the driver with every new kernel.I'm confused. Why won't you use the proprietary drivers? I'm generally in favor of open source everything by default as well, but we are talking a piece of hardware here, it certainly seems acceptable to me to use proprietary drivers created by the manufacturer of the hardware. It's been a while, but it's my understanding that nVidia has impeccable Linux driver support, in no small part because they have been pushing the use of their GPU's for scientific purposes for years (they certainly had terrific driver support the last time I had a graphics card on one of my Linux machines). I'm looking forward to doing dual-boot on my main gaming machine, but I'm sort of in limbo over exactly what to do with the SSD's.

[natansharp]

 I had a bad experience with some ATI cards many moons ago, and so don't touch them with a barge pole! What appened?