my new gaming rig

[Porn Shop Clerk]

http://www.newegg.co...82E16883229339R

i must have gotten the only one

i ordered a 750w corsair power supply to bring the total to 777$

[Darth Biscuit]

That'll do nice... that i7 is the brand new one no?

[Porn Shop Clerk]

nah they're up to 3820 for the 4 cores and the hexcores are like 39 something

i think its the 2nd best i7 quad out right now

[Darth Biscuit]

Hard to keep up... I havent put one together in a few months...

Also havent even messed with a hexcore yet... that'll be the next one I build. I wanna do a hexcore with 32 GB ram for our next workstation to see how it compares to our current setups.

As a side note, how does win7 home compare to pro?

[Porn Shop Clerk]

lol i don't have it yet. i just now ordered it.

i have little experience with windows 7 so far. be my first win7 machine.

there are 8 core intels out too, at like 2k a processor

the hexcores are still minimum 500$ a processor

i'd much rather have pro. i may track down an upgrade deal sometime in the future. first upgrade will be a 2tb HD

[Darth Biscuit]

I mostly like win7, theres a few little nitpicky things that are annoying... I used XP so long I got used to it.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

yeah i'm currently running xp pro on a 2.4 ghz dual core amd with an overclocked gt 240...so this thing is gonna be a huge step up. i may start dabbling in music production again.

win 7 is....better than vista. way better than vista. so i think i'll be ok with it. windows 8 is gonna be garbage though.

which is why steam is making a push for linux. and if i can play all of my games on linux, i'll convert

[Sapper]

Very nice rig.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

the mobo is not great

current rig is going into the living room on the 42" plasma as a media server/retro gaming with emus and a 360 controller

[Darth Biscuit]

yeah i'm currently running xp pro on a 2.4 ghz dual core amd with an overclocked gt 240...so this thing is gonna be a huge step up. i may start dabbling in music production again.

win 7 is....better than vista. way better than vista. so i think i'll be ok with it. windows 8 is gonna be garbage though.

which is why steam is making a push for linux. and if i can play all of my games on linux, i'll convert

Yeah Vista sucked bad... Win7 is great with a few minor exceptions... Win8 looks like it has the potential to really suck... idk why MS has the tendency to do that kind of thing with every other version.

I meant to ask psc, how did u find this rig, just looking thru newegg or was it a special?

[RedMage138]

>gtx 550

Move along, nothing to see here

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Oh you bitch im so jelly :(

[Inimicus]

Id put a pair of SSDs in it. One for the OS and one for Games.

That's what Ive got in my current rig and dude I cant tell you how stupid fast games run. I can go from a cold machine to fully up logged into WoW and online on Mumble in under 90 seconds.

Other than that its pretty nice.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Yeah Vista sucked bad... Win7 is great with a few minor exceptions... Win8 looks like it has the potential to really suck... idk why MS has the tendency to do that kind of thing with every other version.

I meant to ask psc, how did u find this rig, just looking thru newegg or was it a special?

i bookmarked the open box desktop page and refreshed it every so often until something popped up i liked

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100019095%204809&IsNodeId=1&name=Desktop%20PCs&SpeTabStoreType=99

the power supplies in cyberpowerpc and ibuypower are trash though, that's why i ordered the corsair 750w to go with it