Videogames

[uebermann]

Also, I'm using a 965 with the stock heat sink and it works just fine. I did have some mobo problems which lead to the processor voltage being set WAY too high, but now that its set right, I rarely hit 50C. I think I've hit 53C a few times but only when video editing for well over 2 hours.

*edit - I do have a really good thermal grease I put on it though, so that could be helping.

[Boris Johnson]

[uebermann]

Overall its really decent for the price.

Its hard to say if I would improve anything or not because I don't know what the purpose would be in the future. Is the plans to upgrade things after 2+ years as needed? RAM is pretty cheap so I'd be looking for 8 ideally. A good heat sink will allow you to overclock the processor and ultimately, it will last longer, with proper care. 500W power supply should be fine unless you get a beefy vid card.

For the money, you can't hardly get something better without hitting some major deals.

[Boris Johnson]

Like I said, he wants to go down the i7 and multiple graphics cards route several SSD hard-drives, water-cooled route 600FPS IN BF3 LOOK HOW COOL I AM MUM! Things change quite drastically.

I'd imagine his Mrs, would not be over the moon at that prospect. However.

[uebermann]

[uebermann]

i7 is totally unnecessary, as is anything more than 4 cores right now.

I've always used AMD for my desktops because they are so much cheaper than Intel and you can overclock them if you wanted to. I never really OCed my processors much. But as I said, I will probably do it with this computer I have now once I update the mobo and case.

[exploited]

Putting the computer together will be no problem, I've built several for myself and others over the years. I am just not at all up to date with what is reasonable these days, as the last PC I built was a top of the line 1.6 ghz dual core with 2GB of RAM

Thanks for the help though Boris, and thanks you ueber for the second opinion, this has given me a great place to start!

[Boris Johnson]

uber why do you think more than 4gig is important.

Sure windows new retarded versions only tend to leave 2.5 free, but im yet to see a game hitting that load.

[Boris Johnson]

Anyway back to the GAMEZ.

Got planetside 2 today. Largely as it were free.

Loved the original, cool concept. MMO Combined arms FPS. Somewhat like an MMO Battlefield in some weird space world, where the entire planet is one persistent map. Promised to me MIGHTY SHINEY too.

Reality:

Laggy nightmare of unoptimised powerpoint style framefest. Lol 2 severs for the entire of Europe, 1 for asia. America gets 6. Even under 'medium load' expect anytime you actually go near a fight (and game mechanics encourages people to swarm areas) your game to get stupidly slow. So main point of game, large persistant battles, basically a no-go.

Day two and their are ques of 5 minutes minimum just to get on the damn things, made worse by the fact you can buy a 'premium membership' and get into the faster que Disney land style. Wow, poorly planned. Also they have gone down the 'CPU does the graphics route'... ok going to broaden the market, sure... but for when 2014?

Also lots of weird bugs.One in particular when I went into a certain area, my screen would flicker between the world and white constantly. As if my character was having mirco-strokes. Fair few people were also reporting this at the time.

Conclusion. May very well be a case study in rushing a game to market without stress testing or having sufficient distribution infrastructure.

[uebermann]