"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/01/2015 at 23:30 • Filed to: None
2
18|
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/01/2015 at 23:30 • Filed to: None | 2
| 18 |
dat quad core Xeon with 8GB RAM... Tossed in a spare HD so now it has 250GB and 500GB (both 7200RPM) drives. Waiting for the SSD to arrive. It’s got a Xeon 3.06GHz quad core and an NVIDIA FX1800 workstation class gfx card.
The other desktop I built 2 years ago, i7 3770K, 16GB RAM, AMD 7870, SSD + 1TB 7200RPM
Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord.
> Nibby
07/01/2015 at 23:34 |
|
What do you do for a living that seems like overkill
CB
> Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord.
07/01/2015 at 23:39 |
|
Well, his gifs don’t make themselves.
|
Nibby
> Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord.
07/01/2015 at 23:39 |
|
Just finished grad school for digital media. Right now I’m applying to jobs.
The Xeon was actually fucking CHEAP (got all the upgrades for it under $300 AND the system itself too)
Game design, video editing, Photoshop, sometimes VM-ing stuff
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Nibby
07/01/2015 at 23:45 |
|
I wish I was good at games so I could have an excuse to build a kick ass PC.
|
Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord.
> Nibby
07/01/2015 at 23:45 |
|
Seems you got a great deal.
|
Nibby
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/01/2015 at 23:47 |
|
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO JOIN THE..
|
Nibby
> Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord.
07/01/2015 at 23:47 |
|
Thanks. I tried to get the best I could for less than $300.
|
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Nibby
07/01/2015 at 23:51 |
|
Believe me, I would love to join. I’m right now neither. The newest console I have is a PS1 and I’m doing the best I can with Mac.
|
Nibby
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/01/2015 at 23:56 |
|
You could build a decent one for less than $1,000
|
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Nibby
07/02/2015 at 00:13 |
|
I’ll just wait.
Dusty Ventures
> Nibby
07/02/2015 at 01:31 |
|
At some point later this year I want to join the glorious PC master race and get a gaming computer. Primary goal is to be able to play DiRT Rally (seriously, not being able to play it is killing me), though I intend to get in on this “Steam” action and play some other stuff as well. What would you suggest and what would I need to budget?
Dunnik
> Nibby
07/02/2015 at 02:07 |
|
That’s a fair bit of computing power for $300, +1up
66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash
> Dusty Ventures
07/02/2015 at 04:55 |
|
How much are you willing to spend?
Two things that are worth it: An ssd for at least the operating system (and maybe a few of your most used programs/games), and then a standard hdd for everything else.
My dad got me a 144Hz monitor (so it goes up to 144 frames/sec), and it actually is soooo nice, especially in racing games like F1 and whatnot, if you can afford that, do it, it’s worth it. (I think it was around $250)
|
Nibby
> Dusty Ventures
07/02/2015 at 07:44 |
|
You could build a pretty nice rig for less than $1000...
I just whipped this up for ya
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dBmrQ7
I left out the case, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor since those are preferences.
|
Nibby
> Dunnik
07/02/2015 at 08:52 |
|
Thanks!
Lekker
> Nibby
07/02/2015 at 09:20 |
|
So true, if you take your time you can build a more than decent one for $800. That’s what I did, it took me around 6 months since I was watching cost of all parts and waiting for specials.
|
Lekker
> Dusty Ventures
07/02/2015 at 09:24 |
|
Go with what Nibby posted. The thing to really keep in mind is how prices fluctuate given the time of the year, and buy one item at a time (unless you have a local shop like MicroCenter) that has good in-store bundles. Mine has really good deals on CPU+MoBo, stuff that is almost $100 cheaper than anything I’ve ever found online. So research and patience. Also DiRT Rally is seriously fucking amazing. Amazing. Did I mention amazing? But it’s rather taxing on your system. And as crimson suggests, if you can invest in a 144hz monitor you’ll never go back to 60hz standard monitors. It’s night and day, and they’re not even that expensive. Picked mine up for $220, with 1 year no interest financing. Kind of a steal if you ask me
|
Dusty Ventures
> Nibby
07/04/2015 at 15:00 |
|
*Looks at bank account*
*Cries*