Topic: FAO 1337 desktop makers
Ninjj is 2 lazy 2 trip started this discussion 15 years ago #817
How much would it cost me to get someone to make me a 1337 super gr8 desktop computer?? I want to be able to get a keyboard and a mouse and talk about them
and show off my keyboard and mouse
and show off my keyboard and mouse
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 11 minutes later[^] [v] #15,735
$600
Born this Way !dLadyGAgAA joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #15,737
Falco !MzQCNUfXbc joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 40 seconds later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #15,738
u cants because you use a mac and your gay
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #15,742
ninji ur thingy has arrived.
Falco !MzQCNUfXbc replied with this 15 years ago, 55 seconds later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #15,743
Ninjj is 2 lazy 2 trip (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #15,745
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henn !NePD4JH0HI joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 22 seconds later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #15,747
SHUFFLE DEM COCKS
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Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #15,788
get A mac
Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #15,818
I spent $90 on one of the cheapest AM3 motherboards I could find (that still had SLI/Crossfire options, USB 3.0 and SATAIII), about $60 on an AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor (3.0GHz), and about $45 on some of the cheapest DDR3 1600 memory I could find. For a graphics card, I stuck with my 9600GT, for audio I spent about $30 on a good Xonar card, and I spent about $40 on a basic Rosewill case with the power supply already included. (I know those PSUs suck, but it works for now and I'll replace it if/when I have to). The only thing I spent a lot of money on was a 60GB SSD that cost me $115, but with 285/275 read/write, it makes it well worth it. Everything loads incredibly fast. For mass storage, I'm using 2 750GB Seagate drives that only cost me about $43 a piece that I've just had laying around anyway, because I bought them through Evertek a while back for business purposes.
Aside from the SSD, all this stuff sounds cheap as hell, and according to @15,737 (Born this Way !dLadyGAgAA) would be considered a "destitute" build, with the exception of the 60GB SSD. But I did my research first and made sure these parts were going to give me a good bang for the buck. I set the RAM to 1333 and managed to overclock the system 25%, so my 3.0GHz CPU is running at 3.75GHz, and the budget RAM is running at 1666MHz. I also overclocked the 9600GT graphics card by about 23%, so it gets performance up there with a 9800GT. All this is done with stock fans and the CPU has never gone over 43C. Everything is perfectly stable. I can actually push everything up to a 30% overclock, and it will boot up just fine but become slightly unstable under load, so I leave it at 25%.
My Windows Experience Index:
CPU: 6.8
RAM: 7.3
Graphics: 6.9
Gaming: 6.9
Hard Disk: 7.3
PCMark Vantage score is 8258 and 3DMark Vantage score is 6398. All this on a "destitute" budget. I've seen computers that are well over $1000 not be able to get scores like this, or get scores barely better. Yes, I overclocked the hell out of this shit to get these scores, and you might say that if the $1000+ computer were overclocked similarly, it would also do that much better. The problem is, almost no retail computer has any options in the motherboard for overclocking. Many of them have everything locked completely so that you can't, and the ones that can be usually take some sort of 3rd party software to do it. Bottom line is, building your own computer and tuning it up yourself rocks if you know what you're doing.
Aside from the SSD, all this stuff sounds cheap as hell, and according to @15,737 (Born this Way !dLadyGAgAA) would be considered a "destitute" build, with the exception of the 60GB SSD. But I did my research first and made sure these parts were going to give me a good bang for the buck. I set the RAM to 1333 and managed to overclock the system 25%, so my 3.0GHz CPU is running at 3.75GHz, and the budget RAM is running at 1666MHz. I also overclocked the 9600GT graphics card by about 23%, so it gets performance up there with a 9800GT. All this is done with stock fans and the CPU has never gone over 43C. Everything is perfectly stable. I can actually push everything up to a 30% overclock, and it will boot up just fine but become slightly unstable under load, so I leave it at 25%.
My Windows Experience Index:
CPU: 6.8
RAM: 7.3
Graphics: 6.9
Gaming: 6.9
Hard Disk: 7.3
PCMark Vantage score is 8258 and 3DMark Vantage score is 6398. All this on a "destitute" budget. I've seen computers that are well over $1000 not be able to get scores like this, or get scores barely better. Yes, I overclocked the hell out of this shit to get these scores, and you might say that if the $1000+ computer were overclocked similarly, it would also do that much better. The problem is, almost no retail computer has any options in the motherboard for overclocking. Many of them have everything locked completely so that you can't, and the ones that can be usually take some sort of 3rd party software to do it. Bottom line is, building your own computer and tuning it up yourself rocks if you know what you're doing.
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