The PC gaming Thread. Steam/GOG/Origin/Etc. Game/Software/Hardware talk

intel

Normally I would say Intel, but its your wallet honestly right now I would just roll the dice depending on budget.

I trust that site for a lot of my pc stuff. Their graph on that page basically shows if you have a moderate or high budget, Intel is the way to go for performance.

Yeah my teachers always preferred Intel, but my repair and maintenance teacher said that upgrading can be a pain in the ass because they change socket types so frequently, normally resulting in needing a new motherboard.

Further looking into it am leaning with AMD (am also in the process of rebuilding) and the savings you get with AMD FC vs i5 for instance is just too good, like your talking saving money for a better mobo (which means better overclocking) and cash for that better gfx card if thats part of the plan as well.

If games is your primary motivator, I cant see past AMD tbh since most of the workload will be on the graphics card anyway.

Yeah it’s being built for gaming. My laptop can handle everything else. Looking into the GTX750 series right now. 900 and above are a bit too lofty on the pricetag.

I had issues with my amd, went with an intel i5-4670k and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

Yea I swear by it, for the price the card is godlike. Rick ofcourse will give you shit. :neutral_face:

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487024&cm_re=evga_nvidia_750_gtx--14-487-024--Product

What resolution are you playing at? For current gen 1080p I’d go 760 minimum. 960 rumored to come out this month, so might want to wait another week or so.

Hey guys, check out the new Steam group I created.

Because it is a budget card for niggas on that 900p life. :kelplatte:

thats a good card and plays anything I wanna play 60fps. SOMETIMES I can’t have a zillion different filters maxed out but generally its all good.

I’m playing some relatively recent games at max settings in 4k resolution via the DSR settings on the nvidia panel in 60 fps. The GPU ain’t even sweating past 60 degrees. GTX 970 is some crazy shit.

I streamed dark souls 2 with that setting on, 720p 60 fps with medium x264 encoding …but my upload is only 2 mbps so it’s not as pretty as it should be on stream. *medium encoding to compensate for my relatively eh upload. Fuck hawaii and their shitty isps. Tried out Guild wars 2 in 4k resolution max settings and it immediately looked better… but unfortunately that game is too cpu intensive and practically no one can really run it at a full 60 fps in max settings. Bumping it to 4k resolution didnt really dent my fps much.

but yeah a lot of games look especially great in 4k, even without a 4k monitor. I’ll definitely look towards getting a 4k monitor within the next 2 years.

Update on Violette:

24 pin cable and 8 pin cables are in.
Ram heat spreaders fully plasti dipped and installed.

Final updates this week:
3 pin cable for the cooler
Leds

And then I’m done!..until I change the tubes for rigid tubing much later in the year.

glad you are having a swell time getting your stuff right.

i drew a rough sketch of a PC today before calculating the size of my radiator:

back to the drawing board…

Down sampling from 4k resolution in sf4… 250 FPS during the benchmark. That game is really really easy to run. Hopefully 5 shares it’s scalability and actually has working netcode. I imagine it will since it will share online with ps4.

do you guys have a kill switch on your computer? i remember one dude i met a while ago had a kill switch that would fry his hard drives…i thought that was pretty serious at the time. havent seen it since.

im outi

Roberth

That guy must have some serious shit on his pc to need a killswitch.

Jesus, what exactly are you building?

That sounds like someone who’s not exactly all on the up and up.

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=59919687

Wrong and most of the time I see people post up having random crashes in game they have AMD.

Intel processor paired with NVIDIA graphics is THE choice if you’re a gamer.