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i went there.

When I play Spartan Special Forces in SCII and it spawns like 10000+ enemies I get <1 FPS on low settings >_>

(01-22-2011, 07:30 AM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: [ -> ]i went there.

i like how you act like you just slapped me so let me reiterate: less than 50% performance increase at about 2x the price. so i would say its overpriced by about 50%. =p

(01-22-2011, 07:45 AM)inteGReddy Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-22-2011, 07:30 AM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: [ -> ]i went there.

i like how you act like you just slapped me so let me reiterate: less than 50% performance increase at about 2x the price. so i would say its overpriced by about 50%. =p

Think this over:

You are driving any regular car lets say you payd 10 000$.
Your car can do 150 KM/H
I have a Ferrari which costs 100 000$.
My car can do 250KM/H
My car is overpriced 1000%.


1. Do I care?
2. Who gets the chicks?

i do cuz my tower is bigger lol

Quote:i personally cant afford to build a 2k system every year. so i try to fork out about 1k every year or so. i know some people can afford to upgrade their build multiple times a year. i guess i could make that happen if i really wanted to but i got my priorities, yaknow?

You don't even need to spend that much quite frankly. You just have to know when to buy. My PSU, case, CD/DVD drive, and HDD are all from my original build in 2005 (my original build cost $1,250). My CPU, mobo, air cooler, and memory are from 2007 when the Q6600 was first launched at $300, all together those 4 cost me about $540 when I bought them (after shipping + handling). My video card is from 2008 and cost me $240 (GTX 260 C216). Despite being outdated my hardware was on par with a high end rig from 2009. My Q6600 @ 3.2GHz is equivalent to a phenom II at 3.4-3.6GHz depending on the application/benchmark.

I used to buy a new video card almost every year but these last 5 years video card progress seems to have slowed down. My rule is I wait until their is a card available that is at least twice as fast as my current card on average and under $250. That used to mean buying a new video card every year, yet even after 2.1 years since I bought my video card the only cards that are twice as fast as my card are $350+ still. I probably won't see one that follows my rule until late 2011, and I will therefore have had my video card for 3 years at that point. Pretty sad isn't it? 3 years just for performance per dollar to double, it used to happen every 12-15 months. I blame the increased logic overhead from d3d11 hardware combined with the heat/power wall that nvidia ran into first with the 8800GTX.

So a $200 video card every 2 years and a $500 CPU + air cooler + mobo + memory upgrade every 4 years is enough if you know when to buy. Not that much is it (to some people anyways)? Going to be upgrading to sandy bridge later this year. I can grab an asus sabertooth P67 board, 4GB of DDR3 1600 ram, a tuniq tower 120 extreme, and a 2500k i5 for $500 on newegg right now. By the time I get around to upgrading later in the year it will probably be down to $400 (mobo are always overpriced for the first few months). And then of course PSU and HDD need to be changed every 6-8 years. Case and optical disk drives usually only need to be changed every 8-12 years.

i don't even have true 4 cores, and using default factory heatsink and fan as well, this clock speed is what i've been using for all times.
Don't have any stability issue so far as i knew, my motherboard was cheap too, mATX gigabyte h55m-ud2h, it was h55 chipset too-.-low class i guess.
here is my super pi 4m results, and i am quite satisfied with it.

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now try a 32MB score.......

'x64 attempt 1' with Donkey Kong Country Returns runs 95% (1280*720 window mode, directx 9, dsp-HLE without any modifications) no big difference r6874 on same game

(01-22-2011, 10:59 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Case and optical disk drives usually only need to be changed every 8-12 years.

i have to disagree here. i think some can stretch it to 5 years but that is pushing it. they seem to randomly break. my last one worked fine one second, then the next second it quit reading discs. i run a pc repair business and can say that optical drives go out more than any other component i've seen. hard drives come in a close second.

(01-22-2011, 07:27 PM)AcidRains Wrote: [ -> ]i don't even have true 4 cores, and using default factory heatsink and fan as well, this clock speed is what i've been using for all times.
Don't have any stability issue so far as i knew, my motherboard was cheap too, mATX gigabyte h55m-ud2h, it was h55 chipset too-.-low class i guess.
here is my super pi 4m results, and i am quite satisfied with it.

that is a pretty good time (roughly 25% faster than mine). do you have sandra or aida64? they are excellent for testing memory bandwidth. i am curious to see what your scores would be with a dual channel cpu and all.