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I have rejoined the master race.

Aug 19, 2015#1

Terrik

Processor: Intel Core i7 5930K 3.5GHz (Six-Core) (Unlocked CPU)

Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE USB 3.1 (Intel X99 Chipset)

System Memory: 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX (High-Performance)

Power Supply: 1000W Corsair HX1000i (Digitally Controlled Power)

Storage Set 1: 1x SSD (250GB Samsung 850 EVO)
Storage Set 2: 1x Storage (1TB Seagate)

Graphics Card(s): 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB (Includes PhysX)

Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 2: Digital Storm Vortex 240mm Radiator Liquid CPU Cooler (Extreme-Performance Edition)

CPU Boost: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.0GHz to 4.4GHz

Aug 19, 2015#2

PatrThom

That looks expensive.
Like, at or just under $3000 expensive.

--Patrick

Aug 19, 2015#3

Bubble181

Also, no case

Aug 19, 2015#4

Dave

Welcome, brother!

Aug 19, 2015#5

GasBandit

Good on you. Your peasantry days are over!

Aug 19, 2015#6

Frank

Man, I keep wanting to buy an SSD, but their price per gig is not going down nearly as fast as game install sizes are going up.

Aug 19, 2015#7

GasBandit

Frank said:
Man, I keep wanting to buy an SSD, but their price per gig is not going down nearly as fast as game install sizes are going up.

It's worth it just do do your OS install on. I still install 99% of my games on my D drive.

Aug 19, 2015#8

PatrThom

Frank said:
Man, I keep wanting to buy an SSD, but their price per gig is not going down nearly as fast as game install sizes are going up.

Oh, just wait until late next year.

--Patrick

Aug 19, 2015#9

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
It's worth it just do do your OS install on. I still install 99% of my games on my D drive.

A thousand times this. I can live with load times in my games but when I boot up my PC, I want it to my log in screen in under 10 seconds. When I cruise the web or use a primary app like OpenOffice, I want it loaded NOW. Just get a 250 gig Samsung SSD (it looks like it belongs in a laptop) and enjoy a serious quality of life improvement.

Aug 19, 2015#10

ThatNickGuy

Welcome home.

Aug 19, 2015#11

MindDetective

Time to start rounding up the filthy lower breeds, then?

(Never quite got why sounding like a Nazi sympathizer was the preferred bragging approach)

Aug 19, 2015#12

GasBandit

MindDetective said:
Time to start rounding up the filthy lower breeds, then?

(Never quite got why sounding like a Nazi sympathizer was the preferred bragging approach)

Dear god, man, they're not subhuman, they're just PEASANTS.

We're not Nazis, we're... closer to french nobles a few years ahead of the revolution

Aug 20, 2015#13

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
closer to french nobles a few years ahead of the revolution

So you're saying we've got it made forever. Nothing but decadence from here on!

Aug 20, 2015#14

fade

I know I said it before, but I own a PC built for gaming and a console, and a I still prefer the console. What does that make me in the analogy?

Aug 20, 2015#15

GasBandit

fade said:
I know I said it before, but I own a PC built for gaming and a console, and a I still prefer the console. What does that make me in the analogy?

Legally insane.

Aug 20, 2015#16

fade

GasBandit said:
Legally insane.

Aug 20, 2015#17

Covar

fade said:
I know I said it before, but I own a PC built for gaming and a console, and a I still prefer the console. What does that make me in the analogy?

Aug 20, 2015#18

GasBandit

Aug 20, 2015#19

MindDetective

GasBandit said:
Dear god, man, they're not subhuman, they're just PEASANTS.

We're not Nazis, we're... closer to french nobles a few years ahead of the revolution

Hey, you are the one framing it as a race thing!

Aug 20, 2015#20

Grytpipe-Thynne

Speaking as a mere peasant, I have no idea what this is all about, but it would appear to be somewhat different to my new laptop!

Aug 20, 2015#21

GasBandit

Aug 20, 2015#22

fade

Somebody needs to take that South Park Prius episode and substitute PCs for the Priuses. Priuss. Prii? Whatever.

Aug 21, 2015#23

AshburnerX

fade said:
Somebody needs to take that South Park Prius episode and substitute PCs for the Priuses. Priuss. Prii? Whatever.

Except that doesn't work because PCs actually, factually, have the best versions of games when they...

- Aren't being done by a Japanese studio (with no PC experience). See Deadly Premonition, Dark Souls before the player base fixed them.
- Aren't being purposefully knee capped by their own studios. See basically every Ubisoft game.

Aug 21, 2015#24

Frank

AshburnerX said:
Except that doesn't work because PCs actually, factually, have the best versions of games when they...

- Aren't being done by a Japanese studio (with no PC experience). See Deadly Premonition, Dark Souls before the player base fixed them.
- Aren't being purposefully knee capped by their own studios. See basically every Ubisoft game.

Player base, Durante is one guy. One magical, mythical guy.

Aug 21, 2015#25

AshburnerX

Frank said:
Player base, Durante is one guy. One magical, mythical guy.

True, but it's the same sentiment. He really should be doing this stuff professionally.

Aug 21, 2015#26

bhamv3

Man, this reminds me of a discussion I had a while back with a nice fellow on /r/fallout. He was insistent that the PC and console versions of Fallout were equal, and that neither was superior to the other.

"But mods!"
"Mods are terrible, they change the game in ways the developers didn't intend."

"But you can use the developer's console to fix stuff when the game glitches out!"
"Fix stuff? Why don't you just admit you're a cheater and be done with it."

"But keyboard and mouse are superior for input!"
"With VATS it doesn't matter."
"Yes it does!"
"No it doesn't."

Aug 21, 2015#27

Frank

AshburnerX said:
True, but it's the same sentiment. He really should be doing this stuff professionally.

The fact that he isn't some highly paid consultant for EVERY FUCKING COMPANY out there is a crime. He's a one man show that shows up entire teams of programmers.

Aug 21, 2015#28

DarkAudit

bhamv3 said:
Man, this reminds me of a discussion I had a while back with a nice fellow on /r/fallout. He was insistent that the PC and console versions of Fallout were equal, and that neither was superior to the other.

"But mods!"
"Mods are terrible, they change the game in ways the developers didn't intend."

"But you can use the developer's console to fix stuff when the game glitches out!"
"Fix stuff? Why don't you just admit you're a cheater and be done with it."

"But keyboard and mouse are superior for input!"
"With VATS it doesn't matter."
"Yes it does!"
"No it doesn't."

Aug 21, 2015#29

fade

AshburnerX said:
Except that doesn't work because PCs actually, factually, have the best versions of games when they...

- Aren't being done by a Japanese studio (with no PC experience). See Deadly Premonition, Dark Souls before the player base fixed them.
- Aren't being purposefully knee capped by their own studios. See basically every Ubisoft game.

Well it's true that the Prius gets good fuel economy, too. It was about the attitude more than the factuality.

Aug 21, 2015#30

GasBandit

PC Gaming isn't the Prius, it's the Tesla.

Aug 21, 2015#31

jwhouk

GasBandit said:
PC Gaming isn't the Prius, it's the Tesla.

Which is funny because you could use the OB entertainment system to play PC games.

(I'd love to see that hack, btw...)

Aug 22, 2015#32

Krisken

bhamv3 said:
Man, this reminds me of a discussion I had a while back with a nice fellow on /r/fallout. He was insistent that the PC and console versions of Fallout were equal, and that neither was superior to the other.

"But mods!"
"Mods are terrible, they change the game in ways the developers didn't intend."

"But you can use the developer's console to fix stuff when the game glitches out!"
"Fix stuff? Why don't you just admit you're a cheater and be done with it."

"But keyboard and mouse are superior for input!"
"With VATS it doesn't matter."
"Yes it does!"
"No it doesn't."

I actually hate keyboard/mouse control. That one doesn't win me at all.[DOUBLEPOST=1440248507,1440248418][/DOUBLEPOST]

GasBandit said:
PC Gaming isn't the Prius, it's the Tesla.

It's needlessly high end and unattainable for the general public?

Aug 22, 2015#33

Dei

I hate playing first person games on a controller. I hate playing anything with active cursor control on a controller. Basically, I will play my 3DS and Wii U, but for anything else, there's PC.

Aug 24, 2015#34

fade

Depends on the game for me. If it's something first person, then, yeah it's definitely easier with a mouse. But then other games are easier for me with a controller, like the Batman games. I found countering with the right mouse button slow difficult to time with my middle finger.

Sep 2, 2015#35

Terrik

So I was having g video card issues and digital storm sent me a replacement. New card on the left, old on the right. Uh, thanks guys.

Sep 2, 2015#36

Frank

What is it?

Sep 2, 2015#37

Terrik

Still a GTX 980 Ti but the ASUS Strix version of it.

Sep 2, 2015#38

Bubble181

As long as it fits in your case, that's a big win

Sep 2, 2015#39

PatrThom

Yes. The new one is MUCH larger, so that of course means it will be better.

--Patrick

Sep 2, 2015#40

Bubble181

PatrThom said:
Yes. The new one is MUCH larger, so that of course means it will be better.

--Patrick

"Strix" is the Greek word for "Owl". You may or may not be able to deduce why I'd call getting it a win.

Sep 2, 2015#41

GasBandit

Looks like a better cooling solution, though. My old 8800GTX tried to use one of those cage impellers like your old card, and it just overheated like crazy (not surprising given that it was factory overclocked). I ended up just removing the plastic shroud from the heat sink (rendering the stock fan completely useless) and sticking a dedicated fan card in the adjacent slot to blow air directly on the sink. Worked much better after that.

Sep 2, 2015#42

Terrik

After a few bumpy moments with the new Nvidia drivers (was getting weird FPS until I did a clean install from safe mode--maybe anti virus was screwing it up?), I was able to put every graphics setting for MGS:V to extra high and run it at a constant 60 FPS. Not bad at all.

Sep 2, 2015#43

PatrThom

Bubble181 said:
As long as it fits in your case, that's a big win
[...]
"Strix" is the Greek word for "Owl". You may or may not be able to deduce why I'd call getting it a win.

I thought you were just making reference ("big win") to his probable case manufacturer.

--Patrick

Sep 2, 2015#44

Bubble181

PatrThom said:
I thought you were just making reference ("big win") to his probable case manufacturer.

--Patrick

Yes, of course I meant that one too.

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