The PC Hardware & PC Gaming Thread

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[hoppydan]

Bargain .. I don't have a pc anymore need to get one

[Dave]

I'm pricing up an upgrade build to my rig at the moment, will post it up when I get back on proper pc.

[Lee]

Mine's still running like a dream, especially with this new card.

[Coleman]

Might build/buy a HTPC for the living room at some point, with enough juice to play games as well.

[Regfo]

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If anybody plays LFS feel free to add me (regfo) I'm usually playing on Cargame S2 server.

And some game screenshots:

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Also play some other games:
Iracing
LFS
Guild Wars 2
World of Warcraft
RIFT
Metro 2033 Last Light
Sleeping Dogs
MW3

[Dave]

just a quick question, are you gaming at 1024x768???

[Regfo]

1280x1024

I have tried on a friends 1920x1080 screen and get about a 15FPS drop depending on the game.

[hoppydan]

The PC Hardware & PC Gaming Thread

under 200 .. Cool

[Hardcore]

Nice PC for the price, especially the processor. Nice overclock as well.
Another 4gb of ram would compliment it i think.

[Dave]

I mentioned the other day I was pricing up a build to replace my aging box. Specs shown below, subject to change though as theres a couple of bits I'm undecided on still..

Intel i5-3570k
(the Ivy Bridge successor to the ever popular Sandy Bridge i5-2500k, excellent overclocker due to K stepping, and 3.4Ghz out of the box)

ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 motherboard
(Z77 for good overclock possibilities, ASRock Fatal1ty boards seem to come highly recommended these days)

16Gb Corsair Vengance 1600Mhz CL9
(went for fairly good latency RAM here too, previous to this was CL11, the XMS3 stuff)

nVidia GTX670 OC
(possibly may change this for something else, but this is the likely candidate to stay within budget)

OCZ Vertex4 (450series) 128Gb SSD
(The Vertex4 came out top in its budget class in benchmarks, to be used for OS, and game files)

Seagate 1Tb Barracuda
(just to bump file storage up a bit)

[Aaron]

Think thats the CPU i got when I built mine a bout a year ago. Does the job well. Similar RAM to me also - I got Corsa Vengance / or whatever the low profile version was as tight-fit. Not sure about board but also got a ASROCK Z something and a 250GB Samsung SSD and 1TB Samsung Spinpoint.

Graphics is a HD 8730 or something, could be 9 but really not sure.

EDIT : GFX was way off lol.

[Aaron]

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[Hardcore]

Dave, if you can afford it i'd recommend a 1TB Western Digital Black HDD for storage. They come with a 32mb cache and dual core chip on board so they're very quick for a generic HDD. Good for when you install games to them
The ivy bridge cpu you chose will easily see 4.4+ghz as well with next to no voltage increase

Shaggy, is your CPU cooler on the wrong way?
Shouldn't it be rotated 90 degrees so that t he fan blows the air out the back of the PC?

[Aaron]

Air is blown upwards. Only goes on that way. Vents are under cpu and above cpu back of case and main vent is on the top of case.