Getting a new computer. Need advice.

[MrGiggles]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

I would never advocate getting a laptop for gaming. I can understand the allure of a portable gaming machine, but you're paying a lot more for a lot less.

I don't know much about the mobile version of the 5870, but I would think that having Crossfire 5870s in a laptop would cause some heating problems as well.

Every single one of my friends opted for a gaming laptop. Alienware, Dell XPS, etc. All of them overheat after a few hours, require cooling pads underneath, and average 30 minutes of battery life, so they're pretty much overpriced*4 desktops.

Don't ****ing do it.

What I would do is put together a gaming desktop and then just get a netbook or macbook.

[MrRubix]

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Back in college, the people I knew who had gaming laptops pretty much only played them in their rooms anyway. They just liked having one computer for gaming AND for portability when it came to doing schoolwork/studying elsewhere.

Personally, I think it's a waste (gaming laptops are steeeeeeep in price for what you get, not to mention other obvious limitations). You're better off getting a nice gaming desktop and a reasonably priced netbook/macbook aka agreed with Giggles.

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

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I mean supposedly it has like a whole buncha vents for the overheating problem but idk. I wanna get the desktop, but I'm still unsure of what to get :/

[MrRubix]

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Just go for an i5 or i7

[Zageron]

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I've been building up a 48 core machine for the last few months, piece by piece.
None of you probably do the kind of work I do, so having so many cores in an octosocket platform probably would never benefit you in a billion years.

For the normal user, 6gb of ram is more than enough for anything they would ever want to do. I find myself running out of ram even at 24gb on some animations I do for the company I work for.

Overall I've spent roughly the same as Rubix, $2k, but I still need more ram, more fans, and a gtx480 or three, that's still not including monitors/soundsystem etc, already have those.

http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=270-WS-W555-A1&family=Motherboard%20Family&series=Intel%205520%20Series%20Family&sw=5

If you aren't already using this, this baby is amazing!! Push two mega processors, four nvidia cards of your choice, and 48GB of RAM! Mix that with some SSD Raid 0 array, and you'll be set.

[Red_Comet]

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words of wisdom: focus on what you want the machine to do and build around that. If you want something that runs smooth, get parts that are less power demanding and have stable overclocks for when you want to bump up stuff. If you want something fast that will blaze through anything without hesitation, get parts that have a lot of overclocking potential and have great cooling power. I3's and Phenom/Phenom II dual cores will be the smooth-runners while I5's, I7's, and Phenom II quad/hexa core will be the backbone of your powerhouse. And don't scimp on power supplies or the motherboard as those will bottleneck what you can do with your machine (and possibly ruin them after intense tweaking goes 'haywire')


as a side note, stay away from notebooks if you plan on doing gaming or anything that will take it for a mile in a minute. They're meant to be portable utilities, not a gaming pc replacement on the go.

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

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hmm, that AMD hexacore looks tempting and with my 5970 it'll be better because AMD and ATI work together to make the computer more powerful

[Red_Comet]

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it is really new so there are some issues with it before updating the mobo to recognize all 6 cores, unless you get the newest boards from either Asus or gigabyte, I myself got the gigabyte one so I can slap one in there in a few weeks.

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

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I haven't even gotten any computer parts yet lol and yes I am getting a good mobo

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

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Actually, I'll just get a decent computer and play my **** on ps3 LoL

[NFD]

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I get 90 frames on my laptop, good job loser.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

hmm, that AMD hexacore looks tempting and with my 5970 it'll be better because AMD and ATI work together to make the computer more powerful

ATI = AMD

As far as I know there are no games that use six cores, and you certainly aren't going to be doing any serious multitasking or anything. askdjfhasdhjflkjhasdfjlkhasdlkfjjhsaldkjfhalsjkdhflkjashdflkjhasdlfkjhafgkhbruawgfbouxvbniouhzioshdfoiwehrhguwhsafahoerfiwehfraikwhefhsdfkhasre GIGGLES

As for your PS3 have fun gaming on an inferior platform.

[MrGiggles]

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GIGGLES

word

I can count 4-core games on one hand. Core2Duo is still powerful enough to run train on any game for a while.

Actually, I'll just get a decent computer and play my **** on ps3 LoL

Fine, don't be part of the superior PC gaming master race we don't want you anyway. :P

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

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ATI = AMD

No **** sherlock, I know that. I was just stating that they both work together to make the computer faster....

Fine, don't be part of the superior PC gaming master race we don't want you anyway. :P

I want to, but idk anybody that's a PC gamer lol. They're all on either 360 or ps3 :/


Edit:

As far as I know there are no games that use six cores, and you certainly aren't going to be doing any serious multitasking or anything.

Actually yes, I'm to be dl'ing a LOT of stuff simultaneously so yeah, Imma need something that runs smooth enough for me to do so

[ninjaKIWI]

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No **** sherlock, I know that. I was just stating that they both work together to make the computer faster....

"They both" implies that they're separate. Now it's just AMD.

Actually yes, I'm to be dl'ing a LOT of stuff simultaneously so yeah, Imma need something that runs smooth enough for me to do so

Six cores isn't going to help you here lmfao.