Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Harsh LOL

Elahboorate pls.

it's odd, but I rarely go over about 4 in normal use (sitting at about 2.14 right now) out of 8, but I don't do much virtualization, or gaming or photoshop etc on this thing anymore.

I personally wouldn't get that thing no matter who made it if it's got a crap cpu and gpu in it, $550 is a good bit, it better come with something rather baller, I mean it's not too much, but as far as budget PC's go, it is (imo).

for what's probably in it, I'd expect for $400, if she has a budget I can try to find something good, but not until Friday, unless I'm really bored in class tomorrow afternoon, as I have a busy day tomorrow and I'm going to sleep soon.

IMO also, in regards to dell: the xps and alienware lines are excuses for them to charge more, not much else (in my opinion).

Yea i told her in pm's to see if she can get the guy to lower the price, otherwise she'd be better off with something better.

that is odd, have you looked into it much? or tried to contact Asus?

my experience with their products has been superb so far, not sure about their support.

I remember that gif...

No i haven't i literally came home on break between classes (usually don't) saw my package freaked out and installed the card rq.

So i haven't had that much time to mess with it yet, I'm going to try putting the Front panel passthrough in and see if it works fine from the front. lol but yea wierd :s

Their support is iffy, I had a mobo go bad about a week in, got it replaced like 4 weeks later. They sent me a refurbished pos that was DOA. Got that replaced 3 weeks later (expedited apparently) and that was another refurbished POS, that was broken on arrival. Luckily I just had to manually reset the CMOS on that one, but seriously, how do they send out 2 broken/doas, and not reset the CMOS before they send ***out.

That being said Ghal, my current mobo has lasted over 5 years np, once you get a good card you'll be ok. If you're going to constantly be unplugging replugging the mic, i'd get it replaced because the problem will only get worse with wear.

night people, going to pass out watching Batman Beyond :D

How much would you say I could get away with if I built my own computer? Something to play current gen games skyrim etc.

800-1200 for a solid rig, but if you really want to get into it it could go higher.

Eh not bad I suppose. Which would you say is more important the ram or graphics card? (I know where stuff goes not much more than that)

Doesn't that sound a bit high?

If you work with the deals on Newegg you can make a solid PC for 1000.

800, with monitor is probably minimum you could get away with for a solid system. 1200 is the upper end for a mid range system.


Ram is much more easily upgradeable, but you won't need to try for more than 8.

Ram is dirt cheap. You can get 12gigs for 60$ which is all you need.

i could build a "solid" pc for 600~800.

No bells and whistles though and don't expect a GTX 690 >.>

Oh nice so I should go with the best graphics card I can afford then yeah?

Uh, not particularly. Nearing the upper end the price increases don't match the performance increases.

I'd find a system and ask on here. A solid mid range card can last you a long time without problems.

I'm with jet on this one, I only have 8gigs in my pc and i've never seen it go over 4 like ever.

anything over 8gb is overkill unless you are a super heavy photoshop/video editing person. (or virtual machine user)


I have 2 8g sticks still in package that i was going to put in my pc but just never got around to it cause i honestly don't need it lol.

60 dollars for ram?

If you're running a lot of background tasks + a game + a browser you can hit 8, but yeah you shouldn't hit beyond that unless specialized circumstance, or you're really trying to.

There are several budget value GPU's out there. but honestly depends on your budget for your gpu.

do you want to spend $100? $200? $300? $500? Budget yourself for your card first then shop within the budget.

Damn where you people buy your ram at. >.> I paied 35$ for 12gigs I bet I could build a solid rig bells and whistles for like 700 easy.

I hit 70%+ ram usage on my 12gigs a lot. But then I'm not your average person either.

300 is the most I'd spend on GPU for a mid range rig.

Running FFXI + LoL + FF14 2.0 + Firefox with 15~20 tabs open (6+ of which are youtube videos) + w/e else i had running in the background

never broke into 5gb threshold lol.

Maybe during sales, but you're still not making an above average rig for 700 with a 300$ gpu.