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 BTGBullseye
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup!  Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:55 pm |
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Bjossi wrote: Crysis 1 is good up to the mothership part, then it quickly started going downhill for me. Yeah, but the lack of a good variety of weapons and upgrades really made it a 1-2 playthrough game. With mods it can double or triple that, but it's still kinda boring after the second run. My idea of a multi-playthrough game is C&C3:KW only with about 3x the units. (there's a mod for that)
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:34 pm |
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3.3GHz Phenom II x6
16GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM (Yes, 16GB dual channel)
XFX Radeon 6950 2GB GDDR5 Video Card
HAF 932 case
Ultra 700W power supply
1 x 80GB SSD for my windows drive
1 x 2TB Drive for games
1 x 1TB Drive for programs and miscellaneous thingamabobs
1 x 500GB Hard Drive dedicated for Videos, Music, Pictures, and a separate folder of mine labeled "Other Crap" which is about 45GB (Has all my mods, and other stuff in it)
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Eedo Baba
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:24 pm |
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lol, Mine's gonna look like garbage (cause it is).
It's a Dell Vostro 1510 business laptop that I bought used for 450 bucks. I'm not going to bother to post the technical specs, you know they're not great. The 1 key has fallen off the keyboard, and the X and shift keys work only half the time. The hdd is 250gb, and I have an external 1tb drive that I use for extra storage, Steam games, and a full backup of the internal drive. I don't use it a lot for gaming, partly because the screen is a matte lcd and looks like garbage, and also because it can't handle anything at decent settings.
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Bjossi
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:51 pm |
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Mr. 13 wrote: 16GB DDR3 [...] dual channel I hope that is a Freudian slip.
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Mr. 13
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:30 pm |
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Bjossi wrote: Mr. 13 wrote: 16GB DDR3 [...] dual channel I hope that is a Freudian slip. Actually they were selling 4GB sticks on sale on Newegg, so I went for 16GB because I could.
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Alyxx Thorne
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:10 am |
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I think 16 gigs is the limit for modern motherboards anyway. Might as well get as much performance out of it as possible.
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Bjossi
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:50 am |
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Mr. 13 wrote: Actually they were selling 4GB sticks on sale on Newegg, so I went for 16GB because I could. Mm, I'll try again: Mr. 13 wrote: DDR3 [...] dual channel I hope that is a Freudian slip. Doing the math it obviously isn't, but hey, I can dream!
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BTGBullseye
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:26 pm |
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Alyxx wrote: I think 16 gigs is the limit for modern motherboards anyway. Might as well get as much performance out of it as possible. Actually the normal max is 24GB, 32GB, or 36GB. Anything lower is an extremely low-end product (no matter it's specs) or obsolete. Anything higher is either a server board, or an extremely high-end board. Can't imagine ever needing more than 8GB though unless you're doing full-time digital video creation/editing, or multi-tasking a few 64-bit games. (or a whole lot of 32-bit games)
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Alyxx Thorne
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:26 am |
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I'm doing fine with 4 gigs.
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Luis
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:10 pm |
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Alyxx wrote: I'm doing fine with 4 gigs. So am I, I barely use more than 3....
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Axeldeath
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:39 pm |
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I'm going to buy another 2GB memory stick soon.... right after Portal 2
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J.C.
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:28 pm |
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Well, I finally got permission from my girlfriend to buy a new machine*  . I still don't know if I'll go for a retail laptop or I'll put together a nice gaming desktop (I really don't have a lot of free time on my hands these days), but either way I'll post some questions here later to get your opinion on potential components. *If you have a gf, you know you require this before every mayor purchase, so don't go around calling me whipped... because I know I am 
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Alyxx Thorne
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:50 am |
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J.C. wrote: Well, I finally got permission from my girlfriend to buy a new machine* . I still don't know if I'll go for a retail laptop or I'll put together a nice gaming desktop (I really don't have a lot of free time on my hands these days), but either way I'll post some questions here later to get your opinion on potential components. *If you have a gf, you know you require this before every mayor purchase, so don't go around calling me whipped... because I know I am I think as a couple you should both plan your expenses and weigh them up against your income.
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:09 am |
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J.C. wrote: I still don't know if I'll go for a retail laptop or I'll put together a nice gaming desktop, but either way I'll post some questions here later to get your opinion on potential components. When you're ready, just post your budget for it and I'm sure you'll get a dozen good builds. (including at least 2 from me if you're going for a desktop)
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:34 pm |
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BTGbullseye wrote: J.C. wrote: I still don't know if I'll go for a retail laptop or I'll put together a nice gaming desktop, but either way I'll post some questions here later to get your opinion on potential components. When you're ready, just post your budget for it and I'm sure you'll get a dozen good builds. (including at least 2 from me if you're going for a desktop) Count with me for this as well. I love building machines with different budgets... As you don't live in the U.S We'll have to use your local prices. I suggest using mercadolibre as a reference for prices.
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:33 pm |
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RAM: 6GB DDR3
Procesor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840T Processor 2.90 GHz (Quad-Core)
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4200
1TB Hard Drive
Not the best, but it gets the job done with Portal 2, (Hopefully) Duke Nukem Forever, and Team Fortress 2. And that's all that really matters.
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Alyxx Thorne
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:26 am |
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Bravetriforcer wrote: RAM: 6GB DDR3
Procesor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840T Processor 2.90 GHz (Quad-Core)
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4200
1TB Hard Drive
Not the best, but it gets the job done with Portal 2, (Hopefully) Duke Nukem Forever, and Team Fortress 2. And that's all that really matters. We seem to have very similar setups then. I can pretty much run Portal 2 with everything maxed.
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:29 am |
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Alyxx wrote: I think as a couple you should both plan your expenses and weigh them up against your income. And that is what we do. But she would rather buy clothes  Ok, let's get down to business. As a long time laptop user, I'm not sure if I would like a desktop anymore. What do you think of these (I'll post the relevant features, not the DVD burner or whatever) Notebook Vaio Mod VPC-EA35EL/SL BLACKWindows 7 Home Premium original 64 bits. Intel Core i3-370M 2.40GHz. Intel HM55 Express Chipset. 14" (1366 x 768). Video Intel HD RAM 3GB DDR3 SDRAM (exp 8GB) 500GB HD Price: USD 473 Notebook Sony Vaio VPCS120FL/P SKU 30590Intel® Core i3 - 350M 2.26GHz Intel® HM55 Express Chipset Windows® 7 Home Premium original 64 bit LCD VAIO Plus 13.3" (1366 x 768) Video NVIDIA® GeForce® 310M 4GB DDR3 SDRAM (exp 8GB) 500GB HD Price: USD 868 Notebook Vaio Mod VPC-EA37FL/L 14 SKU 31486Windows 7 Home Premium original 64 bits. Intel Core i5-460M 2.53GHz Intel HM55 Express Chipset. 14" (1366 x 768). Video Intel HD RAM 4GB DDR3 SDRAM (exp 8GB) 500GB HD Price: USD 1031 Notebook HP DM4-1190LA SKU 30241Windows® 7 Home Premium original 64 bit Intel® Core™ i5-450M 2,4 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.66 GHz) 14" (1366 x 768) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 500GB HD RAM 4GB (exp 8GB) Price: USD 1105 All of these are within my budget and the prices are the final value I'd have to pay (after taxes and using some promotional discount points I have on my credit card). Also, If you think you can suggest a desktop setup for this amount, please do so (leave out monitor, keyboard, and any peripherals).
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:53 am |
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The first two are discarded, i know it's a personal opinion but i3's don't pay its price, price/quality relation you get from i5 (Am I the only one that said High Five instead of i5 when you say it more than once?) is way better, before i go on the recommendation i'd say that if you can get an SSD instead a normal SATA HD you would feel the difference, and with the recommendation i'd say that the last one is the best of all them, but if you are using or planning to use Linux choose better the Vaio Mod VPC-EA37FL/L 14 SKU 31486 because ATI Graphics are not so much friendly with Linux (you can run it but you'll find quite difficult to get advanced graphics features such as beryl)
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Post subject: Re: Post your setup! Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:57 pm |
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