Getting a new computer. Need advice.

[banditcom]

That heatsink ......................................... Overcompensating for something? :P

[MrRubix]

It's probably the only reason I am stable at 4.2 Ghz on air right now... that thing is a heatsucker

[MrGiggles]

My heatsink is the biggest thing in my case. I use it to cool my drinks too.

I hope you fry all your stuff and then learn a lesson about buying excessively expensive computers. =(

[Xandertrax]

How loud is that thing, with all those fans?

[MrRubix]

This computer was only $2200. Well worth it.

[AC1speakerbox]

Nice get Rubix.

Also mods, please don't lock this. I subscribed to it, and I like the reminders it gives me (to look for a decent computer).

[JennyXoXo]

Awesome computer man

I like the blue led lights. Mine is so plain that I wish I had something like that.

My desktop is years old; I need a new one for gaming bad. How do you like your i7?

I was thinking about getting an i5 instead...

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by MrRubix

only $2200

*snicker*

Okay, but when you decide to upgrade again, try just moderately updating a few components every two years or so instead of trying to future-proof that **** again. Really, you'll save so much money. You could always send some to me so I can fulfill my devastating hookers and blow habit.

[MrRubix]

Thing is, I like the fact that this computer is overkill. It was well worth the price premium.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Nice rig man!

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

Funny how you can get all the **** in here by like half the price and a computer wayyy better than this at a couple less hundred dollars lol

[Red_Comet]

this thread is over a year old, of course he'd get everything for a couple hundred less now. please try not to bump dead threads again it's a bit annoying.

[devonin]

Originally Posted by Red_Comet

this thread is over a year old, of course he'd get everything for a couple hundred less now. please try not to bump dead threads again it's a bit annoying.

While this thread is definitely defunct since Rubix got the system he was asking about, since the site was DOWN for a year, bumping threads from late 2009 isn't bumping, or necromancy, it's just continuing to use the forum.

Bumping threads whose purpose has passed, or that are old by the standards of pre-downtime dates will still get the thread locked, and possibly some other things, but there's nothing inherantly wrong with picking up a thread where it left off at the downtime.

[MrRubix]

My computer, even today, still beasts everything on the market. I had since added a second GTX 295 to kick Quad SLI into effect. Obviously you can get this stuff cheaper today.

It'll beast things for a long while to come -- since this thread, the GTX 400 series and new ATI series have been released (DX11 cards), but I won't bother getting anything new until a few years down the line.

[DAD1]

[Zageron]

So basically your computer will destay any game that doesn't use DX11.

Which is every game... except like 3?

[MrRubix]

It'll even destroy DX11 games. The GTX 295 still does just fine with DX11 -- it just doesn't support the super-spiffy DX11-card-specific features like the hardware tessellation.

But yeah DX11 games aren't really out there yet anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ctX_11_support

Out of everything in this list I only care about Crysis 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It's funny to look at things from the start of this thread when I didn't know anything about hardware (now I feel that I know quite a bit more).

[Red_Comet]

i heard dirt 2 is a trip with DX11, might get a 5970 along with it in a few weeks when I plan to get home time for Thanksgiving.

[MrRubix]

I hear ATI is actually beating out NVidia this time around

The 5970 apparently rapes the face off of the GTX 480.

Unfortunately I can't just take out my 295 and replace it -- I think, even with my fulltower case, it'd be too cramped to get a longer card (I'd need like another inch or two to make it even fit in my fulltower case). Not only that, but since the shippers botched up the computer when I came to NY, the PCI slot lever was snapped off. It'd be hard to even *remove* the card.

[Red_Comet]

some versions do, like the sapphire toxic version, but overall they're about even steven when comparing and contrasting.