The Computer Megathread

[Ethan]

Not sure if this has been said, but wouldn't it be nice to have the nVidia equivalents on there for people who only buy nVidia?

The thing is, the nVidia equivalents are more expensive for the same performance so it would go over the budget set in OP.

Whats the best raid configuration to put your hard drives in?

Raid 0 personally.

Wait what would you suggest for upgrading?
I mean that for a 600$ dollar budget
Sorry about forgetting :3

Everything. It's horrible to put it simply.

[Ad Bot]

[HerpaDerp]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157250

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157264

[Righteous One]

I am acting the way I am because you aren't grasping the advice that is constantly being givin.

You are horrendously over complicating the process of building a computer. We gave you a parts list like 4 topics ago why aren't you using it?

 If you decide to buy more monitors than you shouldn't be using the 6950 anyways. You need to be sensible and understand that what I am trying to tell you is actually true. I'm not just spurting stuff out of my mouth when I tell you that you don't need something or that it is redundant.

Take the advice given instead of challenging it with your own ideas of what you might need. When you start a topic or enter one asking a question you should take the answer. If you personally feel that we are out to get you and that your decision is better than go with it. If it turns out bad then don't make that mistake again.

Get this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128512

[HerpaDerp]

I am acting the way I am because you aren't grasping the advice that is constantly being givin.

You are horrendously over complicating the process of building a computer. We gave you a parts list like 4 topics ago why aren't you using it?

 If you decide to buy more monitors than you shouldn't be using the 6950 anyways. You need to be sensible and understand that what I am trying to tell you is actually true. I'm not just spurting stuff out of my mouth when I tell you that you don't need something or that it is redundant.

Take the advice given instead of challenging it with your own ideas of what you might need. When you start a topic or enter one asking a question you should take the answer. If you personally feel that we are out to get you and that your decision is better than go with it. If it turns out bad then don't make that mistake again.

Get this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128512

All right ,let's start fresh.

As for the motherboard, I'd rather go with the ASRock Extreme4. Lots of my friends have said it's really good, and as well as a lot of guys from Overclock.

Differences which could make the Gigabyte one better?

[*FacePalm*]

Hey Ethan

I found this comp
It says 1TB of ram
Tablespoons?

[rockslide26]

Hey Ethan

I found this comp
It says 1TB of ram
Tablespoons?

No, 1 tuberculosis of really abhorrent moose.

[Righteous One]

It's $50 cheaper. There isn't really any significant advantage that the Asrock has over the Gigabyte. The Gigabyte was used in Tom's hardware $2000 performance system and is a recommended buy by them. The Gigabyte also doesn't have all of the useless inputs the Asrock has.

If the looks of the board are worth $50 to you then it looks like a decent buy, but I'm sure you could do better.

[QuantumEagle]

I found this comp
It says 1TB of ram
Tablespoons?

One terrabyte of RAM?!

[*FacePalm*]

One terrabyte of RAM?!

That's what it said.

[Nexus]

Dont forget to add a warranty+repair service as a positive for prebuilt and a con for self assembled.  The warranty service that comes with literaly any prebuilt computer that is not really possible for self assembled computers has saved me several times.

Just phone the company, spend about half an hour on the phone and get a free computer repair as long as you arent an idiot that spills apple juice on his laptop.

Make some attempt to be less biased.


Also, I am looking to get a new hard drive.

I just upgraded my motherboard to use the new fancy 6gb sata things but my hard drive apparantly sucks.  I was looking online and I found something called Buffer Memory.

How important is it and what should I get if I have a hard drive budget of max $50?




Edit:  Looking through your hard drive choices, they all are poop.
No 6gb/s
Overpriced for amount of disk space
Inferior buffer something (whatever it is)

I would replace literally all of them with this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=744451&CatId=2459

[*FacePalm*]

Well? Is 1TB RAM good?

[Gojira]

Well? Is 1TB RAM good?

give it motherforgeter

[HerpaDerp]

It's $50 cheaper. There isn't really any significant advantage that the Asrock has over the Gigabyte. The Gigabyte was used in Tom's hardware $2000 performance system and is a recommended buy by them. The Gigabyte also doesn't have all of the useless inputs the Asrock has.

If the looks of the board are worth $50 to you then it looks like a decent buy, but I'm sure you could do better.

OK, and for cooling. Should I get liquid-cooling to overclock the 2500K to around 4.3 - 4.5 GHz? Or jsut a Hyper 212+?

[*FacePalm*]

give it motherforgeter

What

[Nexus]

OK, and for cooling. Should I get liquid-cooling to overclock the 2500K to around 4.3 - 4.5 GHz? Or jsut a Hyper 212+?

I do not think overclocking a 2.5 ghz processor to 4.5 ghz will have good consequences, no matter how good your cooling is.

You might as well kiss your processor goodbye right now.