Your Dream/Ultimate PC?

odowdchr

Leopard wrote: »

But what on earth are you using all this computer power for, B_A?

Are you running a strategic missile defence system in your back bedroom?

Or do you just get a buzz from composing your abusive postings on something that glows in the dark and heats your whole house?

It's crazy.
I had a new workstation delivered at work the other week...2 x quad cores, 16GB RAM, 4 hard disks, 1200W power supply, a stupidly huge graphic card....all stuffed in an IBM server case.
How bloody stupid...it's for 2D CAD work, nothing intensive.......I tried to send it back but that's the IT supplier's standard workstation spec for our £1200 budget.

superscaper

banger9365 wrote: »

i have a few questions for you are you going to SLI the gpu cards ???
if not why a 790i why not a x48 better with one card (DFI)
are you going for nvidia cards or the new ati ones that are just round the corner 4870x2

Well SLI would definitely be a possibility if not now then later on. But I have been looking at X48s and am still undecided (hence the thread).

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Leopard wrote: »

But what on earth are you using all this computer power for, B_A?

Are you running a strategic missile defence system in your back bedroom?

Or do you just get a buzz from composing your abusive postings on something that glows in the dark and heats your whole house?

Getting a decent, playable framerate on Crysis

I work a lot from home and the work I do is quite resource intensive, plus I do play a lot of games.

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B_A, this may be of interest

( C.U.D.A.A.T.S. Custom Crysis Config)

FWIW, crysis runs lovely all maxed out dx10 on my 3ghz q9300 and 9800gtx

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tonyhague wrote: »

B_A, this may be of interest

( C.U.D.A.A.T.S. Custom Crysis Config)

FWIW, crysis runs lovely all maxed out dx10 on my 3ghz q9300 and 9800gtx

Thanks, I'll take a look at that later on

I wish Crytek were going to pursue work on Crysis, it's a terribly coded game and that's where half of the performance issues are. It's a shame that they did it so poorly, because it could have been a masterpiece.

Leopard

Superscaper.

What will you be doing with the beast, when it's built, SS?

I guess the important thing is to tailor it to your own personal needs whilst at the same time building into it an economic degree of future-proofing.

In car terms, to give an analogy, I'm commenting that you wouldn't buy a Lada to commute from Calais to Cannes, but, conversely, there's no point in buying a Ferrari to drive to Sainsburys.

And this is, after all, a Money Saving site; so I suppose that buying an 8-litre American muscle car and modding it to the full, purely to win a p1ss1ng contest in the local car park is a somewhat heretical philosophy.

You come across as being far more sensible than that, yourself, so I imagine that you have some clear purpose in mind, as opposed to building something quite unnecessarily powerful that consumes cylinders of liquid nitrogen to keep it cool and dims the lights in all your neighbours' houses when you power it on.

So, what's this mother for? :cool:

superscaper

Leopard wrote: »

Superscaper.

What will you be doing with the beast, when it's built, SS?

I guess the important thing is to tailor it to your own personal needs whilst at the same time building into it an economic degree of future-proofing.

In car terms, to give an analogy, I'm commenting that you wouldn't buy a Lada to commute from Calais to Cannes, but, conversely, there's no point in buying a Ferrari to drive to Sainsburys.

And this is, after all, a Money Saving site; so I suppose that buying an 8-litre American muscle car and modding it to the full, purely to win a p1ss1ng contest in the local car park is a somewhat heretical philosophy.

You come across as being far more sensible than that, yourself, so I imagine that you have some clear purpose in mind, as opposed to building something quite unnecessarily powerful that consumes cylinders of liquid nitrogen to keep it cool and dims the lights in all your neighbours' houses when you power it on.

So, what's this mother for? :cool:

Well I'm definitely into gaming (although it will be used for work stuff as well probably, various software development). So I guess (sadly) the main push of it being high end is the gaming aspect. I do want the latest kit but I'm not the guy to go to the ten grand end of things. I'm not going to get 16 GiB Ram when 4 would be plenty. I'd like a fast processor but I don't want to spend an extra £200 for a few more Hz. So there' probably is an element of "showy offness" in me but I'm not going to blow my entire salary on it.

I'm also keeping in mind that I'll want to change monitor as well. Even at this stage working on 2 larger TFT monitors at work and coming home to a 19" CRT is a bit .... well disappointing and severely lacking. I'm not saying I'd necessarily want a two (or three) monitor set up but certainly something more substantial. I'm a bit of an escapist generally so I guess it's centred around that, especially with the gaming. I think the building of the pc (maybe including water cooling) would be a part of the enjoyment/hobby aspect in itself.

Not sure if that really answers it but that's about as much as I can pin down in my thinking (or lack of ).

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I think you've just summed up computing as a hobby in quite a good fashion there SS.

Personally, I don't do a lot other than work all day on software development and then come home and continue that or play games or other forms of computer escapism so I generally devote a large majority of my disposable income on it.

You're quite correct with the dual monitor set up, once you've experienced the freedom of having multiple monitors it's quite an adjustment to go back to a single.

I've had to go to three monitors at work, my desk looks like something out of Mission Control at NASA

tomsolomon

Frame rate is life..........
You dont spend hours setting up your system to sqeeze out the very last drop of juice for nothing.
Ok it may only be nanoseconds, but its the difference between fragging your enemy and being disemboweled..............:cool:

spud17

Ok it may only be nanoseconds, but its the difference between fragging your enemy and being disemboweled..............:cool:

Whatever version of Solitaire do you play for that to happen? :eek: