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got pc?

yes,and i am a sole-ly pc gamer 8 17.39%
 
yes,and its my main gaming platform 14 30.43%
 
yes,but it is not my main platform 16 34.78%
 
yes,but its broken 0 0%
 
no,but i am thinking of buying one soon 1 2.17%
 
no,and i will no buy it even in future 1 2.17%
 
no,cause pc gaming su**s 5 10.87%
 
Total:45
Zkuq on 20 January 2014

PC is my main platform by far.



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fatslob-:O on 20 January 2014
F0X said:
fatslob-:O said:
F0X said:
fatslob-:O said:
F0X said:


Good enough to run most 7th gen games on low-to-mid settings. 4GB RAM, 1.7GHz dual-core processor, Windows 7 OS. Basically good for an Ultrabook (lol), but I'll be upgrading to an 8th-gen ready desktop later this year. And yes, I shall indeed build it myself like a smart person.

What ever you do stay away from those AMD processors. Their graphics cards are really nice but I can't reccommend their processors for serious gaming. Label me an intel fanboy or whatever but intel always takes a shit on AMD in the processor side of things. 

AMD's kaveri APUs are looking mighty promising with OpenCL 2.0 but that stuff is not for gaming and is meant for accelerating certain parts of a massively parrallel processing task in a program just like intel's xeon phis. 


Appreciated, but I've already been advised to go with Intel.

Which GPU manufacturer are you thinking of going with ? AMD or Nvidia. 


AMD. I'd go with Nvidia if I had the money for something higher end.

The only card that tops AMD in all offerings I think is the GTX 780 Ti and even then multi GPU scaling such as SLI and crossfire X has become better for AMD with the R9 290 as well as the R9 290X with their new XDMA engine.

The only reason to go with nvidia at the high end I think is physx and the reduced noise and heat. 



aviggo77 on 20 January 2014

please vote in the poll people.



Pemalite on 20 January 2014
BasilZero said:
Pemalite said:


That's easy to answer. The 4670K if you want your system to last a *very* long time as you can just simply overclock it.
Then just throw a new GPU at it every several years.
If you do lots of encoding/transcoding... Then the 4770K is worth it or even the 4930K/3930K.

As someone who has essentially the fastest Intel and AMD processors money can buy... Intel is easily the way to go.


i5 with 3.4 ghz sounds smexy.

Better than what I have which is a AMD Athlon II X4 630 Quad Core with 2.8 ghz >.>.

But I might go with the i7 by the time I start upgrading again which probably wont be anytime this year :P.

I think my rig will last me another year or so with upcoming releases until I need another one for future releases. Although there's a lot of games I still need to play from this past generation though :P. I have a AMD HD Radeon 7850 2GB OC right now.

I think by that time I might start building an entirely new PC.

How's Windows 8 when it comes to PC gaming btw? Any bugs, errors, etc?


A move from your Athlon 2 x4 to an i7 4770K should yield you anywhere from 2x-4x increase in CPU performance.
The "Mhz/Ghz" rating is pointless unless you're comparing CPU's of the same type due to how different CPU architectures can do in regards to more/less work per mhz.

As a side question... Have you tried setting/turning on Advance Clock Calibration (Also known as ACC) to All/On in the BIOS? You might be lucky enough to have a die-harvested Phenom 2, which if it unlocks... Would yield you some free performance, if something strange occurs and you can't boot the machine, just pull the battery out of the motherboard/set the jumper to reset the BIOS.

As for Windows 8, I wouldn't personally bother, the OS is fantastic on my Intel Atom tablet, but it's horrible on my triple monitors, so much wasted space in Metro, granted the OS is more efficient and on my Tablet some older games actually run better than Windows 7 did from a stability point of view. (Games like Homeworld, Dungeon keeper, Evolva etc'.)



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