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

[Cynic]

lol ye of course its the memory for the graphics device :P It's in the GPU haha

depending on the configuration of your machine and the base of the game, this can also mean how many /objects/ you have rendered on the screen

ninja again; MSAA and other sampling can seriously wear down on the VRAM as well

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[Bisjac]

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for my new build.


its full of love

[0xBRIANSMITH]

Pretty nice! Take pics when you're done.

[Georges]

Pretty nice! Take pics when you're done.

Do this.

[Pie Crust]

A powersurge happened yesterday and my Windows 7 on my 200GB IDE HDD loads but then the screen looks like the GPU had a heart attack. As soon as the animation shows the full WIndows logo, this happens. It's not the GPU as I used MS-DOS with a program called PIXEL.EXE that fills the screen with pixels of the same color chosen at random. I opened the windows system repair and the same problem happened once. Then I rebooted, opened system repair once again and I got to the CMD prompt. I tried copying my entire drive via

XCOPY32 C:\ "J:\C Drive" /E

Note that the J:\ is a 500GB USB SATA HDD. I woke up today to find the nasty surprise that everything was copied UPTO the TMP files. Then the CMD prompt showed "Access Denied". WTF windows?! I'm using an admin account to copy the entire drive and you don't let me. I did a SCANDISK and it showed multiple bad sectors. THose bad sectors should be in the Windows directory. Is there a way to copy the entire drive via MS-DOS without XCOPY? And before you ask, I have NTFS drivers for MS-DOS.

EDIT: I've turned it off. I want to have the drive to spin the least possible to prevent the corruption of my other data.

[Treynolds416]

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for my new build.


its full of love

Pretty much the nicest case ever
Just read a review of it today

[Georges]

Pretty much the nicest case ever
Just read a review of it today

For a simple case, yah. I personally like flashy cases with LEDs and stuff, so I wouldn't get it.

[Pie Crust]

Why waste $120 USD on a case? I'd use a cardboard box. It's cheap, it doesn't conduct electricity incase there's a faulty wire, it has a nice smell and it can be painted to your liking. And don't forget that you can easily cut it or tape more cardboard boxes if your PC doesn't fit in it or there's too much empty space.

[Nal]

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for my new build.


its full of love

Nzxt sucks

[Georges]

Why waste $120 USD on a case? I'd use a cardboard box. It's cheap, it doesn't conduct electricity incase there's a faulty wire, it has a nice smell and it can be painted to your liking. And don't forget that you can easily cut it or tape more cardboard boxes if your PC doesn't fit in it or there's too much empty space.

Because that's ugly and flimsy

[ßlöükfáce]

Why waste $120 USD on a case? I'd use a cardboard box. It's cheap, it doesn't conduct electricity incase there's a faulty wire, it has a nice smell and it can be painted to your liking. And don't forget that you can easily cut it or tape more cardboard boxes if your PC doesn't fit in it or there's too much empty space.

not everyone is a cheapskate you know

[ABlockOfCheese]

Why waste $120 USD on a case? I'd use a cardboard box. It's cheap, it doesn't conduct electricity incase there's a faulty wire, it has a nice smell and it can be painted to your liking. And don't forget that you can easily cut it or tape more cardboard boxes if your PC doesn't fit in it or there's too much empty space.

because it's ugly and acts as an insulator locking in heat and is a major hassle and you're better off just buying a case.

[Treynolds416]

You would pay $120 for a case only if you were actually going to use what you paid for. This case is really nice because there's a lot of thought put into the layout, especially concerning airflow and cable management. It also has a very nice build quality, meant to protect your expensive hardware better than a cardboard box. If you can't appreciate that, then you're correct in saying it would be a waste of money. Plenty of people have made computer cases out of cardboard, there are obvious tradeoffs but it's certainly not impossible to do

[Nal]

I payed $50 for my case and I hate it lol

[SPooK]

Nzxt sucks

hahaha nope