Thread: Why need a magic PC?

Quote: Originally Posted by see colon I know people will come in here and state the opposite, but I'm a quantity over quality (IRT speed) when it comes to ram. I'm not saying ram speed isn't important, or that slower is better in any way, but I'd rather have double the midrange ram for a similar price. I'm not concerned waiting a few extra seconds during loading, and I know that it will limit my maximum FPS because of...

I have 8 gigs of ram and i utilize over 6 gigs of it relatively often. Naturally, i'm also the crazy, crazy mofo who plays a game full screen on one monitor, has a 720p movie on the other monitor, and still has things such as STEAM, hardware monitors and buddy lists running in the background.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jotoco This is true. But I think about 4Gb is more than enough for 99,9% of everything a normal person uses a computer for. We aren't "normal people". We are PC gamers!

Quote: Originally Posted by Syl I have 8 gigs of ram and i utilize over 6 gigs of it relatively often. Naturally, i'm also the crazy, crazy mofo who plays a game full screen on one monitor, has a 720p movie on the other monitor, and still has things such as STEAM, hardware monitors and buddy lists running in the background. I also run 8GB of 1066 DDR2. But, and this is the important part, I disable paging. There are times when I might...

Quote: Originally Posted by 92miata some of us aren't broke and can afford gaming pc's. my current has a 295 with an 1-7 overclocked to 3.66. my next one will have a 5890x2 or whatever, then i will give the old one to the wife so i have 2 excellent pc's. but i don't pay for a cell phone and have never text a message, so i spend all the money everybody wastes on cell phones. and i also own both of my cars, a ridgeline and a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jotoco What should I be throwing at it then? I don't really want to buy any new game right now (except maybe batman, but will wait for a drop), but what would be a good example to use? If I can grab a demo or even a torrent just for testing purposes I would. Probably because I want to go back through some of my back catalog now (Witcher, Oblivion, Stalaker...) I think the best thing for testing purposes would...

Yeah? Well Duke Nukem Forever is so ragin' on your system, you have to program the rest of it AND compile it in real-time just to beat the first level. I programmed in 500x FSAA at 7680x3200 on six monitors and I can still see jaggies FFS.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jotoco So, please, enlighten me, particularly those of you who have very high specs, why do it? There are many other things you can do on a PC that you need powerful hardware for other than gaming. You can spend $500 on a new rig and play all the newest games out there but when you start to get into video editing and rendering, a quad CPU and RAM(1066 or better) makes the task all that much easier. Having the...

Quote: Originally Posted by fiercey I was on top of the PC world-- always having a top-of-the-line rig-- from 1984 through Christmas 2008. I've spent so many thousands on PC gaming that I could easily buy a nice car with that money today. It seems no matter how far PC computing advances, from the days of the old 8086 4.77 MHz processor and only 256 KB of RAM to the power-houses of today, there is always an app or game that somehow finds...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wyrm TF2 has a lot of graphical flare to it that makes it scalable, but also a good test of any current hardware as well. I completely disagree with this. I have a computer that was mid-range over two years ago. It handles TF2 at max settings (1920x1200 with every setting set to maximum) at a silky smooth frame rate. A computer considered top of the line today wouldn't even come close to having any problems...