Originally posted by Quizzical Some sites stick to what they know. ... They often also have goofy configurations that might make sense in certain niches, but aren't broadly sensible.
Honestly, it was just an open, friendly offering of additi…
I will chime in as I love to build PC's from scratch, I'm an Intel/Nvidia fanboi but I won't try to convince you of my bias...
My favorite technical site to reference is www.tomshardware.com they always have decent writeups analysis and other detai…
Originally posted by sammyeli
That SLI is bad for you, whats happening is that your 9800 is holding your 260 back, might want to get rid of the 9800 so you have more performance.
Didn't really think about it that way, I was using the 9800 for …
My current spec is slightly out of date but still games well enough for my needs, few tweaks planned till i'm done with it.
CPU: i7 920 2.67GHz (Planned Upgrades:i7-970 3.2GHz or better by 04/2012)
GPU1: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 Superclocked 8…
Originally posted by Quizzical
You've got a rather strange definition of "always". From the launch of the Athlon 64 in 2003 up until Intel was finally able to respond with the Core 2 Duo in 2006, AMD almost continuously had the fastest deskt…
Originally posted by drbaltazar
how many top of the line amd proc you fit in the price of one intel?probably 3 with 3x6 core proc versus 1 intel top of the line,no mather how much intel wish it will be slower!
so get a mobo that can get 2 cpu…
Originally posted by psyclum
I think what quizzy ment in his context is that no "consumer" class software would use more then 8GB of memory within the "useful lifetime" of the current build.
there are exceptions where the use of professional s…
Originally posted by Quizzical "Speed & Number of cores, this is what counts."
IPC matters, too, and that varies quite a bit. A hypothetical 3 GHz Sandy Bridge quad core would be meaningfully faster than a hypothetical 4 GHz Athlon II quad co…
Originally posted by Maddeline Thank you sooo much! I would build my own computer but once I get all the parts I don't think I would be able to putting them together in the box and make them work correctly! Is their a site that does that for you? …
These days buying a new 'off the shelf' PC / laptop isn't all that difficult. They are all pretty much the same, and honestly brand preference isn't going to net any performance gains. If you are dead set against building your own, just pick 3…
/sarcasim:on
I may actually be crazy but I'm psyched for GW3.. It hasn't even been announced, planned or even considered but I'm sure someone at ANet had a dream about it and telepathically projected it out to me.. So psyched about it but I can't …
If and where applicable, (meaning if you can deal with a pc that sits in one location and you don't need mobility), a hand built desktop is always, always, always going to give you the best bang for the buck over time. You may pay a little more at t…
I would like to see all games move to at least a hybrid style targeting system if not completely FPS, tabbed targeting has taken a lot of the 'skill' out of gaming... I think a hybrid system would work best for all types of players, where some attac…
My understanding of Transmutation is, changing the form or value of something into something else.... So instead of having plate armor with fire protection, you could transmute it to plate armor of poison resistance.. or transmutation could follow a…