PC Build - Recommended Systems Thread - February 2012

[Mayhem_Lee]

Compared to?

[The Demon Lord]

Is the 600 series worth it?

if you have the money, then yes

[philo-sofa]

Ahh, damnnit, 5 reps Ok I'll slap something together folks! (this weekend perhaps)

Is the 600 series worth it?

Generally speaking it gives slightly better value/performance/efficiency than AMDs lineup does, yes.

[Mayhem_Lee]

Ahh, damnnit, 5 reps Ok I'll slap something together folks! (this weekend perhaps)



Generally speaking it gives slightly better value/performance/efficiency than AMDs lineup does, yes.

670 ftw or 680 reference? Not looking to OC just run straight out of the box. I need the blower style cooler to exhaust from the case I'm using, not much room (Fractal Node 304)

And how shit will a 27" monitor be with 1920 x 1080p res? Vs the alienwares monitor with same res? Chasing 120hz screens....

And welcome back update us!

[philo-sofa]

9/12/Year of Our Lord 2012: Have updated budget, budget gaming and gaming, rest to follow. Happy Jesus day for the 25th everyone.

A few updates - Keyboards in the United Kingdom have the @ and " keys transposed which is just weird. Also given the six month gap, you see a lot of other hardware changes. AMD and Nvidia change places repeatedly; inspite of the general win of Nvidia's Kepler architecture over AMD's GCN, a round of harsh price-cuts at the Red camp see it win in value, for everything barring the GTX 660 level (where it draws even but thus loses due to some still-inferior drivers). On the CPU front we see Intel's 'Ivy-Bridge' 3570K win for every single non-extreme gaming rig, but amazingly for the first time since... we started this thread, there's serious competition from a truly modern AMD processor - with the AMD 'Trinity' A6-5600K proving AMD aren't out (yet). The Piledriver CPU cores aren't quite able to provide a true enthusiast CPU (again stay with Intel for now for true gaming builds) but the impressive packaged graphics in the 5600K means that for the first time our budget build is truly becoming capable of basic gaming.

In other news SSDs are becoming so cheap, they're nearing the point where they'll be in every build, some... new speakers, keyboards and monitors are out and computers are getting stupidly cheap now.

Will update the rest as soon as possible.

[GhostOfGallipoli]

this is old and unloved now

[Emrico1]

Like me

[Growler]

Put in a potato cam

[Xenolightning]

OHAI, I IS MOD. I IS PRANNING TO UPDATE DIS FREAD.

STAY POASTED

I PLAN TO POAST, PRICESPY & SINGLE STORE PRICES

[mycoolcar]

bullshit

[Xenolightning]

bullshit

Y U MEAN 4 :<

[mycoolcar]

cos u no play games now.

and i no play. pew pew.

[Pigdog]

OMFGWTFHAX rig (~ $11,000):

Sigh
*unzips*

[Pyromanik]

bullshit

Y U MEAN 4 :<

He wasn't, just fuck'n call'n it like a bawss.

[.osiRiS]

$2k Budget - Want to play BF1 on pretty settings

What's the best spend for my money.

[Craigor]

I have a PC that can run BF1 on pretty settings for you

you can have it for $2000, I'll even throw in the postage

Core i3
4gb ram
Integrated graphics
Slightly used
May have been taken out of the bin

[Pyromanik]

Think he mighta meant BF11, or whatever the fuck they're up to now.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Think he mighta meant BF11, or whatever the fuck they're up to now.

The Battlefield series learnt how to count from Microsoft.


1942
2
2142
1943
3
4
1

[Tiwaking!]

Think he mighta meant BF11, or whatever the fuck they're up to now.

The Battlefield series learnt how to count from Microsoft.

Everyone knows that the best Battlefield game was Battlefield 3.11

[Pyromanik]

Think he mighta meant BF11, or whatever the fuck they're up to now.

The Battlefield series learnt how to count from Microsoft.

CE
1942
Vietnam
2
2142
BC
Heroes
1943
BC2
3
4
hardline
1

You missed some. So bad at counting they even forgot the number sometimes. A rookie mistake.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I didn't know there was a Battlefield Embedded Compact version.

[AvatarFACE]

I didn't know there was a Battlefield Embedded Compact version.

(Not sure if trolling or do not know)

He's including Codename Eagle which was what BF 1942 was based on.

[Pyromanik]

Definite trolling, but not sure about the latter. Assuming he does, SM's been around the block for some time.
I actually thought the same thing as I made the post, heh.
Great minds, or predictability of a monkey, or something like that.

Also, that moment when you learn Rallisport Challenge on Xbox used the same engine as BF'42.

[AvatarFACE]

Did not know that, I have that game somewhere.

[Xenolightning]

$2k Budget - Want to play BF1 on pretty settings

What's the best spend for my money.

What do you need? Just the box?

Components:
- Core i5
- 16GB DDR4
- Mobo - Some socket 1151
- (Probably) AMD 480x
- Case
- PSU

http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=25723 - $920
AMD 480x ~$500
Case ~$200
PSU - Corsair RM650x - $220

Comes in @ about $1850. That'll set you pretty solid.