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

[carolcat]

what the forget that component orientation

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[Bisjac]

i think thats mini itx, not normal atx

[carolcat]

new technology is scary and not aesthetically pleasing. take me back to the old days of beige plastics.

[Pie Crust]

But they're metal, not plastics and they're full towers which occupy more space than needed. (Not like I'm complaining, mind you. Perfect foot rests!)

[carolcat]

But they're metal, not plastics and they're full towers which occupy more space than needed. (Not like I'm complaining, mind you. Perfect foot rests!)

i keep my tower on a desk where i can show it off to my cats

[Georges]

Speaking of cases, I have the Enthoo Pro. Massive, awesome case. Love it to death. But it's not very portable.

I have everything I need to make another computer from leftover parts from upgrading mine, except a HDD. The case I do have, however, is bigger than I'd like. Anyone know of any abnormally small m-ATX cases? Only requirements are A) cheap B) m-ATX C) ATX PSU and D) 1 2.5" drive bay.

I can't seem to find anything, they all have too much space in them and are too large.

[Flush535]

i think thats mini itx, not normal atx

Ya its mini itx in a bitfenix prodigy

[carolcat]

Speaking of cases, I have the Enthoo Pro. Massive, awesome case. Love it to death. But it's not very portable.

i've got a phantom 630. beautiful, big case with silent fans. i just wish it had more internal lighting (although the rear I/O or w/e lights are a nice touch)

[Georges]

i've got a phantom 630. beautiful, big case with silent fans. i just wish it had more internal lighting (although the rear I/O or w/e lights are a nice touch)

nice

[Nal]

I regret now that I bought a haf 912, but it did the job for the price

[Alyx Vance]

My sisters laptop is dying and I convinced her to go a gaming-desktop route. How is this for a cheap rig? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FRmR8d she doesn't play anything other than low end games that would run on her current laptop. (her current specs include a quad core 2.3ghz intel processor, integrated intel, and a nvidia card that is also built into it)
EDIT: changed rig, realized I had more power supply than needed

[Georges]

My sisters laptop is dying and I convinced her to go a gaming-desktop route. How is this for a cheap rig? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FRmR8d she doesn't play anything other than low end games that would run on her current laptop. (her current specs include a quad core 2.3ghz intel processor, integrated intel, and a nvidia card that is also built into it)
EDIT: changed rig, realized I had more power supply than needed

Pretty good, but I'd go with a different PSU probably.

[77x5ghost2]

my gpu was not plugged correctly
now it works
lol

pros and cons

Nvidia Geforce 8600GT

pros: high average fps

cons: does not take a lot to slow down, only has two dvi ports, can't do stuff with shaders, 4 fps with max shaders lol

Nvidia Geforce 730GT

pros: i don't see any bottleneck with my cpu, 30 fps with max shaders <3, takes A LOT to slow down (better than the 8600gt)

cons: lower average fps (but it does not make any difference)

worth it

[Pentium]

Given what kind of games your sister plays, they probably don't use more than 2 threads which means 4 of the AMD's cores would be wasted. I'd personally go either with an i3 or a Pentium G3258 and OC it; by doing the latter you'd have a little more to spend on the graphics card.
Here's a build that should work: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Chipskate/saved/#view=tf3MnQ

[Alyx Vance]

Given what kind of games your sister plays, they probably don't use more than 2 threads which means 4 of the AMD's cores would be wasted. I'd personally go either with an i3 or a Pentium G3258 and OC it; by doing the latter you'd have a little more to spend on the graphics card.
Here's a build that should work: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Chipskate/saved/#view=tf3MnQ

I'd rather not mess with any OCing, once this PC is built its out of my hands. I don't want to mess with it too much.

I changed the CPU out so its not overkill: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZJJPD3