The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[Mirakledba]

Makes sense. Yeah just wait to get a 27'' beast of a monitor. Is 4K within your budget ? Or I know right now it isnt, but later when you can get one or you dont want to spend that much?

 

[tiny voices]

I can't stand 27" monitors personally. If they are 1080p, that is. I get a headache within 5-10 minutes of using one. At 1440p, the problem doesn't happen though.

 

[Mirakledba]

Thats weird lol. Btw, is there an issue with the time stamps? Cause after going on toms home page, and then forums, i see i get a message from this thread...and right now it said tiny voices "About 1 hour ago" Psh, more like a minute. Sometimes if even has yesterdays date. Any ideas?

 

[stickg1]

UGH, the Acer monitor is messed up too! Anytime I try to play a game or benchmark at full screen I get rainbow vertical lines. So I swapped the GPU, still happens, plugged both GPUs back into the LG, I get flickering, but the picture is clear. LOL. I'm literally about to lose it over here!

 

[Mirakledba]

Hahaha looks like you're forced to get a new one! Its a sign! 😛. You switch out them GPUS pretty fast lol!

 

[Mirakledba]

Ugh, going through pictures...I see all my pc parts before building, and pictures during the building process.... <3 I miss my babies. I have 14 days left of this vacation....I better get my PC this week so I can readjust .... I deserve a medal for my waiting and not having a mental breakdown lol. I have this cabnit that hangs from the upper part of my desk....I wont be able to have 2 monitors if I have it there....Probably gonna remove it....and put both monitors. My PC will be to the far right (its an L shaped desk)

 

[stickg1]

I have a couple of 270x/7870's here. So it was pretty easy to swap. But still, things are not going well.

 

[Littlesackninja]

Sorry, MSI Z87-G45, not the best but it should do fine for 4.6, and my loop should easily handle it.

 

[RazerZ]

Thats weird lol. Btw, is there an issue with the time stamps? Cause after going on toms home page, and then forums, i see i get a message from this thread...and right now it said tiny voices "About 1 hour ago" Psh, more like a minute. Sometimes if even has yesterdays date. Any ideas?

It's not just you, I also have the same issue. I noticed this started happening at least a few days ago. I would post a thread in the "forum feedback" sub forum.

 

[tiny voices]

It has happened alot recently and just happens from time to time.

 

[Rammy]

Ever since the server switchover I've had a different issue more or less every month. Confusion over forum post times is December.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

BTW who else is in southern California? ITS SNOWING ;D ALL the roofs are covered, all the mountains....the view from my balcony is so many homes cause we are high up and seeing them all covered is awesome.

Not down here. Rain yes, snow, no. I used to live in the mountains in Az and we had at least 5 feet of snow. It was up to my shoulders, and it was A PAIN to shovel out. That's right, no mechanical snowblowers in a town that has snow every winter.

 

[g-unit1111]

Sorry, MSI Z87-G45, not the best but it should do fine for 4.6, and my loop should easily handle it.

I got the Z97 variant of that board, it's really nice, I like it, and it's really easy to overclock as well.

I'm about to go install my hard drive from my old Toshiba laptop in my White Knight so I can download this: http://www.ninlive.com/

I'm sure I'll probably get some angry warnings from my ISP once it's complete. :lol:

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Any reccomendations for a good mechanical keyboard with borwns. decided to wait and extend budget to around 120$. Also, flying back from Seattle to they bay area/silicon valley today. Surprised Cali is colder than Washington!

 

[Turb0Yoda]

corsair K75 RGB. Reference Mira's post above.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

For some reason (used to happen A LOT) nothing on this website would load at all and I would get some exception and have to wait for a few mins for it to work again...

 

[tiny voices]

That happens sometimes too. Something to do with the servers indexing.

 

[Mirakledba]

Ninja - Great board! I have the little higher end on of that, the Z87 GD65

 

[stickg1]

Well in my frantic hardware swapping I found that one of my 7870's is voltage unlocked and overclocks to a whopping 1250MHz+, compared to my other 7870 that only does 1175MHz and then my 270x that does 1160MHz. It actually makes FC4 very playable on my i3-4360 based system. I can run high settings at a comfortable 45-60 FPS with VSync on.

The only trouble is that the RAM overclocks the least on this model, maxes out at 1325MHz, hell the stock mem clock on the 270x is 1400MHz and maxes at 1475MHz. But that extra core clock puts it slightly ahead in terms of performance.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Finally home! Got my displayport to dvi cable for my third monitor, does anybody know if its possible to game on monitors with different resolutions? I know my 7770 isn't nearly strong enough, but still wouldn't hurt to try. Anyways, how bad would a 4300 bottleneck a 970? My motherboard isn't exactly overclock friendly (don't remember who, I think stick, but people w/ the ga78lmt-usb3 would know). I could go for two 7770 2gb's, but I really want to move away from this card and either sell or trade it for an ssd or something. I think it's time to get rid of some old hardware at this point, might just move my 7770 into my spare parts build and sell it to a friend for 200-300ish (he offered that much after reviewing it), and if I upgrade my tx3, this fits fine on that socket and in the case, (ranger-m, my old case), so that's where the cash for the 970 will probably come in.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Would it be smarter to go for an 8320, or just wait half a year and go intel?

 

[g-unit1111]

Any reccomendations for a good mechanical keyboard with borwns. decided to wait and extend budget to around 120$. Also, flying back from Seattle to they bay area/silicon valley today. Surprised Cali is colder than Washington!

I have the Gigabyte Osmium and it's an amazing keyboard: http://www.ncixus.com/products/?sku=83469&vpn=GK%2DOSMIUM%20BRN&manufacture=Gigabyte

 

[Pcbuilder123]

What are black switches like? I've heard they are very quiet, but any tactile feedback compared to something like real browns?

 

[g-unit1111]

What are black switches like? I've heard they are very quiet, but any tactile feedback compared to something like real browns?

Never used Black MXs before, I've only used Brown and Red. Sometime I very badly want to get a Corsair K70 RGB though.

 

[stickg1]

Finally home! Got my displayport to dvi cable for my third monitor, does anybody know if its possible to game on monitors with different resolutions? I know my 7770 isn't nearly strong enough, but still wouldn't hurt to try. Anyways, how bad would a 4300 bottleneck a 970? My motherboard isn't exactly overclock friendly (don't remember who, I think stick, but people w/ the ga78lmt-usb3 would know). I could go for two 7770 2gb's, but I really want to move away from this card and either sell or trade it for an ssd or something. I think it's time to get rid of some old hardware at this point, might just move my 7770 into my spare parts build and sell it to a friend for 200-300ish (he offered that much after reviewing it), and if I upgrade my tx3, this fits fine on that socket and in the case, (ranger-m, my old case), so that's where the cash for the 970 will probably come in.

I would wait it out if you can. This board will take an 8-core but don't expect much more than 4.2GHz out of it. Get a nice big downblowing CPU cooler, that way it has direct airflow over the VRMs, you might get more out of it. But I would probably just upgrade the entire system once Intel drops a new line of CPUs and motherboards.