Astronomer Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted December 1, 2012 (edited) Hi all, With the kind permission of She Who Must Be Obeyed, I'm upgrading my gaming rig, specifically the video card and motherboard. Old Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V New Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Old Video Card: (2x in SLI) EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1Gb New Video Card: EVGA Superclocked GTX 680 2Gb (hope to put in a second one in the near future) Case: Cooler Master HAF X CPU: Intel i5 2500k 3.4Ghz, Overclocked to 4.4Ghz (shooting for 4.8 stable) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master V8 Boot Drive: OCZ-Vertex 4 SATA III120Gb SSD Cache Drive: OCZ-Vertex 3 SATA III 60Gb SSD Data Drive: Hitachi 1Gb 7200RPM SATA II Data Drive: WD 500Gb 7200 RPM SATA II Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W Memory: 16Gb (4x 4Gb) Corsair XMS3 (9-9-9-24) Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K90 Mouse: Cyborg R.A.T. 7 "Contagion" Edit: Forgot to add my game controller: a Belkin N52te Now, if I could only upgrade my in-game attention span and skills, I'd kick some tush! Edited December 2, 2012 by Astronomer Belted 1 Awards
LordOfChaos Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 3174 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 100 Topic Count: 78 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 1645 Achievement Points: 17423 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/03/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 27, 2017 Birthday: 07/24/1957 Posted December 1, 2012 nice one pal! in the coming year, i will be upgrading my entire pc... i bought one out of the box at a major canadian chain store, but i think i will build my own this time around... hopefully with all u guys to help me out! Astronomer 1
Woody_Ger Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 419 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 19 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 422 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 265 Achievement Points: 3575 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 10/26/1968 Device: Android Posted December 1, 2012 Hey thats sounds good! I want also a new Computer. But must wait .Have no money for an new one..... Astronomer 1 Awards
Hunter1948 Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.61 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Posted December 1, 2012 Boy oh boy my sonny boy with all these upgrades hope I can play as good as you. Astronomer 1 Awards
Merlin007 Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1130 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8588 Content Per Day: 1.63 Reputation: 7561 Achievement Points: 76635 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Posted December 1, 2012 Looks good buddy. Good job. I'll have to wait till I have some spare cash to upgrade again. Astronomer 1 Awards
Katana Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Posted December 1, 2012 well i can't help you with the attention span, but it looks like the equipment you got was pretty nice. the 680 is really going to be a big jump over the 550's. Astronomer 1
SMOKEMIST Posted December 1, 2012 Member ID: 3655 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 46 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 198 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 53 Achievement Points: 1538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/19/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 17, 2014 Birthday: 09/16/1991 Posted December 1, 2012 i would go for gtx 670 ftw. faster than the stock 680. 100$ or more cheaper. absolutely destroys everything you throw at it
Astronomer Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 2, 2012 i would go for gtx 670 ftw. faster than the stock 680. 100$ or more cheaper. absolutely destroys everything you throw at it Interesting point. This http://www.squidoo.com/gtx680-vs-gtx670 mostly agrees with you. OTOH, I'm getting the card at wholesale cost (plus an additional discount), the card is factory overclocked, and there's some headroom left in it. That, and it'll be in my hands Monday morning. Or...I could return it and get a 690....! Awards
Astronomer Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 2, 2012 well i can't help you with the attention span, but it looks like the equipment you got was pretty nice. the 680 is really going to be a big jump over the 550's. And in COD-WAW, I'm getting 150-300 FPS at 1920x1080 with the 550's. They're a good combo, but I have the opportunity to jump up, so I figured I might as well do it and have a rig that can take just about anything thrown at it. Awards
Astronomer Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 2, 2012 nice one pal! in the coming year, i will be upgrading my entire pc... i bought one out of the box at a major canadian chain store, but i think i will build my own this time around... hopefully with all u guys to help me out! Lots of good advice and experience in this group. I really enjoy building and modding my systems. Every time I do, the older systems (mostly tasked as servers or spares) get an upgrade as the parts cascade downstream. I'll likely pick up a cheap i3 or i5 and a couple of stick's of RAM and upgrade my media server with the old motherboard. Right now it's running on a Core 2 Duo at 3Ghz. Ubuntu Server is the software platform. Awards
Shamu Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Posted December 2, 2012 (edited) Question from a computer illiterate. Once in game with map loaded and your FPS is below 100 just how much difference does a high tech rig make? I have two PC's, one over two years old the other maybe 4 yrs old both deliver good FPS with a good ping. Isn't that all that counts except maybe for joining faster? BTW one has a Nvidia GTX 285 the other a 295 if that provides some idea of how old the PC's are. I'll spend my money elsewhere. Edited December 2, 2012 by Shamu
Astronomer Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 2, 2012 Hi Shamu, My general rule of thumb is, if your PC plays your game(s) of choice acceptably, then you have the right tool for the job. On the other hand, I'm a PC enthusiast - it's a hobby - and I like to tinker under the hood. It's really the same thing as a hotrodder modding their car in the garage. They don't really need that ten more horsepower or flashy bit of chrome whatever, but they do it for the pure enjoyment of it. I like to tweak and push and tinker to get that bit of extra FPS or Mhz or lower temperature. If it can be measured, it can be tweaked! Blackbart and Shamu 2 Awards
Shamu Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Posted December 2, 2012 Hi Shamu, My general rule of thumb is, if your PC plays your game(s) of choice acceptably, then you have the right tool for the job. On the other hand, I'm a PC enthusiast - it's a hobby - and I like to tinker under the hood. It's really the same thing as a hotrodder modding their car in the garage. They don't really need that ten more horsepower or flashy bit of chrome whatever, but they do it for the pure enjoyment of it. I like to tweak and push and tinker to get that bit of extra FPS or Mhz or lower temperature. If it can be measured, it can be tweaked! How well I know, I have all kinds of excess chrome on my Harley that does not a damn thing for performance. BTW, getting a new bike probably on Monday if the weather cooperates. I will not deck it out beyond stock except maybe for mirrors which are safety related. Astronomer and Belted 2
WiZiD Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.64 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 26 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Device: Windows Posted December 2, 2012 http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=667&card2=669 That link shows that the 680 is better than the 670 by quite a few margins. Compared side by side... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 2, 2012 http://www.gpureview...1=667&card2=669 That link shows that the 680 is better than the 670 by quite a few margins. Compared side by side... The 680 is a better card performance-wise, but the performance of the 670 is pretty darned close so some folks might balk at the general ~$100 cost differential, and rightly so. In some specific real-world tests the 670 equaled and even bested the 680 in SLI (which strikes me as odd. Overclocked 670's vs stock 680's?) Having said that, there was a a 670 I saw that was only $20 under the price I paid for the 680. For maximum future-proofing, the 680 made sense for me. Who knows what future drivers will add to widen the performance gap? Awards
Mule Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 390 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 411 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 4252 Content Per Day: 0.74 Reputation: 3052 Achievement Points: 35639 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 28, 2024 Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Posted December 2, 2012 LMAO I'm still running a GTX 260! Awards
Belted Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 1620 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 90 Topic Count: 161 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1430 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 928 Achievement Points: 11072 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 3, 2024 Birthday: 03/24/1962 Device: Windows Posted December 2, 2012 Well done Astronomer, I'm running the EVGA SC GTX 680 on my new rig and it rocks! Take care... Astronomer, HellKid and -cracken- 3 Awards
BattlewolF Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2028 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1740 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 545 Achievement Points: 10637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 11, 2024 Birthday: 03/10/1963 Device: Windows Posted December 2, 2012 Nice rig i love the haf x good case and v8 cpu cooler i have it to Astronomer 1 Awards
Evil-Monkey Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 221 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1865 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 751 Achievement Points: 12313 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 06/10/1967 Device: iPhone Posted December 2, 2012 nice rig Awards
Astronomer Posted December 2, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Author Posted December 2, 2012 Nice rig i love the haf x good case and v8 cpu cooler i have it to What's funny is that I bought the mobo and cooler, and after I purchased it, I realized that it would not fit in the case I had originally intended to buy. After a bit of research I found the HAF X life'z been good. It's a great case to build a clean setup with tons of room for storage and big cards. Awards
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