I got a new PC!!

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by ManagerJosh, Jun 26, 2011.

  1. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    I got a new PC!! Cost me a pretty penny though through all my work the last few months :( :( :( But it's niiicee :D :)

    Core i7 2600K
    8GB RAM
    80GB Intel 320SSD
    2TB Western Digital Caviar Black
    X-Fi Titanium
    Wi-Fi
     
  2. KatAnubis

    KatAnubis Lady Staff Member

    How fast is the WD Caviar Black? (I have a really fast WD Raptor but it really is itty bitty as a C: drive.)

    Sounds like a nice system!
     
  3. Nyx

    Nyx The Ever-Knowing

    Congrats Josh! (y)
     
  4. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    Definitely not as fast as your Raptor :(. It only spins at 7200RPM instead of the 10,000RPM. But my solid state drive beats the pants of the raptors :p
     
  5. swmeek

    swmeek I got your benevolent dictator pal!!

    What you were too cheap to get a video card?
     
  6. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    Kinda. This machine was built in haste because I lost my trusty Pentium 4 rig. So decided to rush a new system to replace it.
     
  7. swmeek

    swmeek I got your benevolent dictator pal!!

    Don't tell me you went(shudders) integrated graphics? ..................................eeewwwww
     
  8. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    The integrated graphics on the Core i7 isn't bad at all :) Granted not the best for gaming, but it's certainly not the worse either.
     
  9. Flameback777

    Flameback777 Josh's Servant Staff Member

    Short stroke that WD black! Surely you don't need the whole 2TB.

    (n) On the integrated graphics.
     
  10. KatAnubis

    KatAnubis Lady Staff Member

    Integrated graphics for a gamer!?! Sigh. What is the world coming to.
     
  11. swmeek

    swmeek I got your benevolent dictator pal!!

    sad sad sad
    You need to set that I-7 up to Fold -bigadv units !
     
  12. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    For the immediate short run, I'll be using the Core i7 Graphics. It isn't that bad as its scoring about a 6.4 on the graphics scale inside Windows 7, which isn't bad. It gives me playable games if I need to, but this machine has always primarily been a workstation for me to do operations for WorldSims, Terraspore and Urban Online Entertainment.

    When I do get some extra funds, I'll add a nicer graphics card like a Fermi :D :D
     
  13. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    Considering my last machine had:

    750GB Primary
    250GB Media
    300GB Media

    Compressing it down gives me roughly 1.3TB so it's only an additional 700GB of storage :p
     
  14. Flameback777

    Flameback777 Josh's Servant Staff Member

    Ah, so you're not like me with all your media on a bunch of green drives in RAID5 on a media PC? :p
     
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  15. ManagerJosh

    ManagerJosh Benevolent Dictator Staff Member

    I WISH!!!! I wish I had that kind of money to that kind of setup!
     
  16. Flameback777

    Flameback777 Josh's Servant Staff Member

    It's actually my old PC just with the graphics card removed and linux installed. It just acts as a file server and hosts a few games.
    My excellent 750 which overclocked so well is now undervolted in there. Couldn't get my new 2500k to overclock as well as the 750 did. :(

    It had to be built as I didn't trust running the drives off the SATA2 ports. In fact, I'm still running the broken chipset motherboard and my RAID1 recently failed...
     

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