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TheLastStarFighter on 11 February 2014

Love it. And I actually really like that white case...and your woman's.



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shakarak on 11 February 2014

Thanks for sharing! Makes me want to spend more money on my Computer! Newegg does have $30.00 off that i7 4770k today (MUST RESIST)



lucidium on 11 February 2014

I ordered a corsair ax1200i and an obsidian 900D case... god help me



lucidium on 11 February 2014
shakarak said:
Thanks for sharing! Makes me want to spend more money on my Computer! Newegg does have $30.00 off that i7 4770k today (MUST RESIST)

Do it, you know you really want to lol



supernihilist on 11 February 2014

overkill
do you really use all that for something? Two GTX780? 32GB Ram?
come on



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lucidium on 11 February 2014
supernihilist said:
overkill
do you really use all that for something? Two GTX780? 32GB Ram?
come on

Both of my jobs call for it, product designer and game developer.



Pemalite on 11 February 2014
Gilgamesh said:
Pemalite said:
Gilgamesh said:
Hoping this isn't too off topic but since there's some pretty smart PC builders here I was wondering for a budget PC build is a APU the best way to go?

I'm not a huge PC gamer but I do enjoy the occassional game, it will be connected to my tv.


There are allot of variables that need to be considered.

Such as...
* 1. Your budget.
* 2. What resolution are you gaming at? (I.E. 1366x768 or 1920x1080 which are the common TV resolutions.)
* 3. Form factor. (ITX, I.E. Shoe-box sized, Micro-ATX, ATX etc'.)
* 4. Upgradeability.
* 5 .Performance, I.E. Intel are faster than AMD in the CPU space, AMD are generally faster in the GPU space at any given price point, are your workloads/games more CPU or GPU heavy? (RTS games generally favor the CPU, FPS generally favors the GPU.)
* 6. Noise. (AMD stock coolers, put jet engines to shame.)
* 7. Overclocking.

1.$500 (been looking at the new 2014 budget gaming pcs and they look really interesting.

2. 1920x1080 is my next TV.

3. This is sometihng to do with the motherboard, I haven't got much thought into that (never built a PC before always wanted to.)

4. Some, but I'm not overly worried (I proabably see myself playing a lot of older games on my PC, and most of the new ones would the PS3/PS4.

5. The only workload would be the games and like I said I'm not looking to maxed out all settings, maybe around high. (I don't play current RTS games)

6. Quiet would be nice for a living room computer, I don't want to be cranking the volume on the TV because the PC get's to loud.

7. Doubtful.

So pretty basic. 




You *Could* Sacrifice some of the Powersupply to save some money and bring it under the $500 mark, but personally I would stick with the Corsair TX, it will probably outlive the entire system so you can use it in the next, IMHO it's the most important component in a PC, it can save you money on energy, it supplies cleaner energy so your components last longer... And has protection mechanisms to protect your PC.

I would also look at spending an extra $100 and get a Quad-Core Haswell if you wan't your system to last longer.
On Average in Single and Dual threaded scenario's the Pentium would be anywhere from 30-60% faster than an AMD APU, which sadly is still what the majority of games still target.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116895

With Mantle the CPU is less of an issue in games that support it however and the Dual-Core is more than adequate for most games today even.

AMD FX CPU's, all of them... Are pretty bloody horrible. (I type this from my AMD FX machine.)




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Gilgamesh on 12 February 2014
Pemalite said:
Gilgamesh said:
Pemalite said:
Gilgamesh said:
Hoping this isn't too off topic but since there's some pretty smart PC builders here I was wondering for a budget PC build is a APU the best way to go?

I'm not a huge PC gamer but I do enjoy the occassional game, it will be connected to my tv.


There are allot of variables that need to be considered.

Such as...
* 1. Your budget.
* 2. What resolution are you gaming at? (I.E. 1366x768 or 1920x1080 which are the common TV resolutions.)
* 3. Form factor. (ITX, I.E. Shoe-box sized, Micro-ATX, ATX etc'.)
* 4. Upgradeability.
* 5 .Performance, I.E. Intel are faster than AMD in the CPU space, AMD are generally faster in the GPU space at any given price point, are your workloads/games more CPU or GPU heavy? (RTS games generally favor the CPU, FPS generally favors the GPU.)
* 6. Noise. (AMD stock coolers, put jet engines to shame.)
* 7. Overclocking.

1.$500 (been looking at the new 2014 budget gaming pcs and they look really interesting.

2. 1920x1080 is my next TV.

3. This is sometihng to do with the motherboard, I haven't got much thought into that (never built a PC before always wanted to.)

4. Some, but I'm not overly worried (I proabably see myself playing a lot of older games on my PC, and most of the new ones would the PS3/PS4.

5. The only workload would be the games and like I said I'm not looking to maxed out all settings, maybe around high. (I don't play current RTS games)

6. Quiet would be nice for a living room computer, I don't want to be cranking the volume on the TV because the PC get's to loud.

7. Doubtful.

So pretty basic. 




You *Could* Sacrifice some of the Powersupply to save some money and bring it under the $500 mark, but personally I would stick with the Corsair TX, it will probably outlive the entire system so you can use it in the next, IMHO it's the most important component in a PC, it can save you money on energy, it supplies cleaner energy so your components last longer... And has protection mechanisms to protect your PC.

I would also look at spending an extra $100 and get a Quad-Core Haswell if you wan't your system to last longer.
On Average in Single and Dual threaded scenario's the Pentium would be anywhere from 30-60% faster than an AMD APU, which sadly is still what the majority of games still target.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116895

With Mantle the CPU is less of an issue in games that support it however and the Dual-Core is more than adequate for most games today even.

AMD FX CPU's, all of them... Are pretty bloody horrible. (I type this from my AMD FX machine.)

Thanks for the info and advice, I'll definitely look into that.

You aswell Lucidium, I'll likely look into getting a second hand GPU. Sorry to derail your thread.



lucidium on 12 February 2014

No worries dude, glad we can help



Pemalite on 12 February 2014

You can get something like a Radeon 6950 2Gb these days for about $100 second hand, would be well worth it over the 7790 in my opinion.
If you get a reference design card, you could even unlock it into a 6970 if you're lucky.

It's still a card that's perfectly fine for 1080P gaming these days.




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