[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 30 July 2012 - 08:40 AM, said:

coastie65, on 30 July 2012 - 05:13 AM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 29 July 2012 - 07:40 PM, said:

Really though - I know this sounds a bit anti-geek, but I think it's a better idea to save the money - you never know if you might need it for something else. I can afford to build a 3930K machine with dual 680s if I want (I know it sounds tempting ), but realistically, I don't see the point in doing so.

Yeah. It is always good to save. I could do a build around a socket 2011 without blinking, but don't see the reason to do so. The one I have now is benching well ( heck, that Gateway is doing fine as well ) and there is no reason to spend the money on another build..........period. The one you have is good and will be for a while yet. Just enjoy it and save your money. I know that sounds weird coming from me, but I do try to save and do. I'm not as spendy as it may seem.

And I thought you were crazy building the sandy bridge machine when you had a perfectly good gateway already...

To be honest, I don't place much weight in benchmarks (though it's easy for me to say that when your machine is twice as fast as mine on benchmarks!). As long as the machine is good enough, you may as well keep it. (Though that's probably why I only upgraded from a P4 in 2010...)

I like to benchmark for the sake of doing it. The 34,000 something I pulled with this thing was nice, but that was it. Got 19,000 something with the Gateway. The truth is, if your machine is running what you want to run the way you want to run and doing so smoothly, then all is good the way I see it. Nver could get the Gateway BiOS unlocked, so decide to do a build out of frustration and I had just upgraded the processor and video card in that thing.

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 30 July 2012 - 08:44 AM, said:

Win7boy, on 30 July 2012 - 05:15 AM, said:

Wheres the REAL coastie at

Anyway,yeah I don't really need a new machine,but its SOOO Tempting.I guess I'll wait a couple more years.

That's what I was wondering! When I go to college (2 years from now), I'll consider replacing my machine. In the meantime, I might turbo charge it with an SSD, as I mentioned.

That would be a good time to consider a new build. There will certainly be a lot of new things coming out between now and then too, and you'll be fine with what you have until then. An SSD wouldn't hurt in the interim though.
The real coastie is alive and well. Sometimes, I'll do something just to see who's chain I pull. The GTX 680 was not a MUST HAVE , as I had a perfectly good card in here. It was something I would like to have and my Birthday was coming up. I decided to get it because I could, and I knew I would get a reaction from someone. Would like to knock out this middle upright on my desk and get a larger monitor though.

[LiveBrianD]

Lol... I doubt you were bottlenecking the 560 as it was, considering you don't have a big monitor.

My dad was removing part of the table in the garage yesterday (quite a pain) so he can fit in an EV charger (he's trying to get a Honda Fit EV). I doubt modifying your desk will be that difficult in comparison.

[Win7boy]

I'll think about the SSD,but this 2TB is doing quite fine for me,Ive only filled about 500GB of it,and most of that is Games.And its fast reading and writing,etc.I REALLY Want a new monitor though...looking at this
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16824009302

[LiveBrianD]

I have an Acer and it's a POS in terms of the picture quality and color shifting. Also, 27" is a bit too big for a 1080p monitor, in my opinion. (25" is the largest I'll consider at that resolution) I've been looking into the HP 2511x and ASUS VE258Q myself. (idk, I looked at the ASUS VE247H in store and it was a piece of junk in my opinion. On the other hand, the HP flickers if you turn it below 70% brightness - I have tested this in a store - and I keep my monitor set at around 100-120cd/m2 - 0% on my Acer. I'm worried that I'll have to turn the brightness up to overcome glare on the HP, which is glossy. The HP's picture quality is fine IMO, and I haven't seen the ASUS in person.) I'm also thinking about an IPS screen. (Dell's have good reviews, but Dell stuff doesn't seem to be good quality in my experience.)

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 30 July 2012 - 09:46 AM, said:

Lol... I doubt you were bottlenecking the 560 as it was, considering you don't have a big monitor.

My dad was removing part of the table in the garage yesterday (quite a pain) so he can fit in an EV charger (he's trying to get a Honda Fit EV). I doubt modifying your desk will be that difficult in comparison.

Nah, the 560Ti is a very good card. The 22" was as big as I could fit in here. Would have preferred a 24". The bottom par of the upright isn't a problem, 2 screws. At the top, I believe there are to dowel rods int to the bottom of the shelf. I don't remember if I used glue on those when I assembled the desk or not. That could be a problem.

[lilxkid24]

So after years of wanting an SSD, I finally jumped the gun to get a Crucial M4 128GB SSD since some guy on Craigslist was selling it for $90 & that's pretty cheap. I was stupid at first when installing it cuz I forgot to change my bios sata from IDE to AHCI so I changed it after I reformatted which resulted in BSOD & I had trouble having my HDD plugged in while reformatting so I did a total of 3 reformats til I got it to work right. Overall, the speed is blazing fast & I pair it up with my 1TB HDD for storing my other stuff. I don't think I can ever go back to using a HDD as a primary boot drive hahaha. Heres a vid of my bootup now with everything installed already.

This post has been edited by lilxkid24: 12 August 2012 - 12:51 PM

[Win7boy]

Holy Crap thats Fast Makes me want to get a SSD

[LiveBrianD]

Damn - it didn't even get to complete the Windows logo animation with the speed! SSDs are so tempting sometimes... I was in LA for a week (just got back), and after having to use my laptop the whole time, my desktop seems SO fast in comparison. And I don't even have an SSD in it... And to think, if I got one...

[cchristina]

Is it an advertisement

[snorg]

I wonder what I will get for birthday.
One year it was the gulf war.
Then another year it was fukashima fallout.

This post has been edited by snorg: 07 November 2012 - 02:16 AM

[anniesmith018]

That's Great...

[lilxkid24]

So I did have a core i7 comp from like 2010 til this year until magically somehow my entire motherboard fried back in late October. So I had a useless computer & I needed a new PC quick that was cheap so I was able to find this computer store that sold a cheap prebuilt computer for $300. They gave me a AMD FX 4100 (4 core cpu), 8gb ram, I salvaged my 560 TI, Corsair PSU, my SSD & HDD so it totally wasn't bad for $300 since I payed like over 1k for my comp back in 2010 for that core i7. So now today I decided to upgrade that AMD FX 4100 (4 core) to an AMD FX 6300 (6 core). So far it seems to be faster than my old core i7 860