[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[beachbum111111]

So I went to memory express for them to look at my laptop. Apparently the whole mobo is forgeted. The problem is that I would have to ship it in to acer myself and that costs 50 bucks on its own. On top of that my laptop has a small crack and a little dent on the back so they might not even repair it or give me a new one.

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[skill4life]

awww stuff son, didnt know about the nvidia shadowplay stuff, and my gtx 780 supports it.
tried it out on terraria, its so beautiful. god damn.

[Titanium Man]

so the r9 290x has been released, better performance than a 780 for 100 bucks less? Yes please

[Nal]

so the r9 290x has been released, better performance than a 780 for 100 bucks less? Yes please

How much is it?

[Titanium Man]

How much is it?

550 bucks

[Treynolds416]

Well, my help is better than no help. I'm not as bad with computers as you may think.

Yes you are. Help that is wrong is 100% worse than no help at all

so the r9 290x has been released, better performance than a 780 for 100 bucks less? Yes please

It actually destroys the titan at higher resolutions, for $450 less. I'm going to buy one once partnered cooling solutions cone out, and nvidia drops their prices to stay competetive

How much is it?

$550, but they're all sold out on newegg for $580

[Nal]

I might get a 660 for chirstmas or get another 560 for sli
would that be a good idea
yes/no

[Titanium Man]

woah, turns out the 780 quickly fell from 650 to 500 bucks
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2058325/nvidia-cuts-high-end-graphics-card-prices-to-fight-amd.html
so now its cheaper by 50 bucks than the 290x
damn now its kinda tied, win win situation either way

[Steve5452]

How are my temperatures?

[Titanium Man]

they are great

[Harm94]

I like to grill indoors and play pc games. So I got a NVidia.

[TheArmyGuy]

If I want to enable 3 monitors, with one being HDMI, another being DVI, and another being displayport (with a convertor to DVI), does the displayport convertor have to be an active one?

[Bisjac]

why does the 780 have lower specs then the 770? yet cost more and being a higher model
its got more cuda cores and thats it, the 2 clocks are lower by quite a bit

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130943
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130925

[Titanium Man]

cuda cores is where all the gpu processing happens, the most important components
its better to have 1000 cores glocked at 1 ghz than 600 clocked at 2
and really anything over 2gb gddr5 ram is only really useful for very high resolutions / multiple monitors

[Isjix]

FX-6300
FX-8120

let's just say I do tons of compiling, multitasking and playing several games at once. which one would be better for me?