mildtinnitus

this is just funny now. you get SOOOO mad!

If I was Linus looking at the kinds of people on this forum, I'd hate to see my site have someone like you on it. your like that little nerdy kid in school who overhears something and has to stick his greasy nose in it and correct everyone, thinking hes doing gods work and somehow better than everyone else, while he goes to sit alone at lunch. you call out the way I type my reply, as if that somehow matters. This is the internet, not gradeschool. you're not being judged by how well you can put together an essay, nor is anyone here considering you for employment, so take a chill pill man. you're like 25, not 8.

calm down buddy I hate macs more than you do. just chill right the fuck out before you pop a vein. at the end of the day, his mobile CPU is clocked far lower than a desktop chip and that hurts single threaded performance overall. thats the point I was making and its still valid after your little Apple rant.

Lenovo Y50 looks to be a banging deal for what you get. you have to keep in mind though that it will NEVER be as powerful as a desktop you can buy for less money. thats the trade off for portability. I have a Core i3 3.1 GHz, an HD7850 2GB, both of which are less than what comes in the Y50, and I can play skyrim at ultra settings with mods at 60fps. what worries me is the 2.5 GHz core i7 in that laptop, the single core performance probably won't be as great and thats where a lot of games really need the help. I have a macbook pro, with windows on it, and a 2.4 Ghz Core i7 and I can vouch that it strugglers much harder in games and single core CPU intensive apps a lot more than my Core i3 desktop does, despite having better specs. if you really want to go the laptop route, you need to take a long hard look at what your going to use the laptop for and if you really need to take it with you everywhere you go. if that is the case, then laptop is the only way to go, but you should know what your getting into. I think it will play skyrim very well, and anything older. but it will struggle with more modern titles.

buy the desktop that has all the power you need, and a smaller cheaper laptop for when your on the go or away from home for awhile, and connect them so you can remote-in to the desktop and still get stuff done on the cheaper laptop.

I was using a DLP projector for awhile on a racing sim rig for a cool minute just for this. but it was impractical and had to dedicate a room to it... I give a shit

HD7850 2GB and core i3 reporting in. beta 15.4 drivers. I'm able to run the game at 1920x1080 at 40-45 solid FPS, FXAA on, no MSAA, every setting to "high" except textures. textures at "normal" becuase when I set those to high, it goes past my 2GB video ram limit. totally playable. 40-45 fps is a good middle ground, smoother than console and its good enough for a budget PC. oh, my gpu is overclocked to about 1GHz and 1400mhz on the ram.

I'm playing on a core i3, 8GB RAM, and a HD7850 (one step under the recommended GPU) the loading issue is something I noticed more when my fiance was watching HD netflix streams while I was playing, when its just me connected, I get none of that. even loading the whole map from a menu doesn't take very long, and I'm on a crappy refurbished mechanical hard drive. the randoms, yeah. sometimes there are dicks... I have plenty of steam friends who play, but none of them will add me on the rockstar network, which really fucking blows, so I have to play with strangers. I have more good experiences than bad, but overall I'd rather play with the people I know oh I play with a controller and swap to mouse when I need precision shots. controller is THE only way to drive vehicles though.... for the people it puts me in servers with, its a mix of mouse and keyboard players it looks like from the menus.

I'm not actually in LA, im actually closer to SD right by San Marcos, problem is if I had money to buy new parts from the store, I would be there instead of on here trying to buy someones used one for less.

it didn't notify me of replies, i had to manually check. my mobo is a intel DH61BE and yes it says it supports ivy bridge CPUs. NO, I cannot afford $230 on a brand new in-box CPU. I can afford an older one from someone who upgraded their rig and has it laying in a drawer or something.

Ok so the build listed in my profile is what I'm rocking right now, the whole thing was built from craigslist parts. the Core i3-2100 and intel motherboard were bought at the same time. I can't afford to upgrade my motherboard and cpu to a modern i5 at the same time I am trying to find a core i5 sandy bridge, that will fit my LGA1155 socket. there are none for sale individually near me in california that I have found. has anyone upgraded their PC and willing to sell me their old i5 sandy bridge cpu? I know its quite an old part by now but I'm hoping someone has one laying around after an upgrade. I do some fairly heavy photo and HD video editing for my business via this PC and the core i3 is starting to negatively impact my work, but I'm also not bringing in enough money to just buy an altogether new PC and expense it.

I appreciate you trying to make me feel better. the sandy bridge core i3 I have is barely on the verge of "good enough" for most applications, but my HD7850 is on the decline now, a modern mid range card would kick its ass, and the mechanical hard drives are really not doing me any favors, the 750gb drive takes awhile to spin up when I need a file off it quickly. the only part in my PC that can carry over into a new build is the 2x4GB RAM sticks, which are only 1600MHz, not too fast by what you can get today. but thanks for trying to make me feel better about it

9/10 on yours. mostly becuase It's nicer than anything I'll ever own. heres mine. MOSTLY ALL CRAIGSLIST FINDS, even the desk and HDTV. only parts I bought at a store were the CASE, which was a reburbish SUPER CHEAP no name brand. and the mouse, which is a kensington that fits me perfectly and its really nice, but it was only 10 bucks on sale. Core i3-2100 3.1 GHz 8GB generic DDR3 1600Mhz RAM Intel DH61BE motherboard, very limited in upgrade options. bought this, the ram, and the cpu at the same time off craigslist for 80 bucks. HD7850 2GB. bought on CL for 90 bucks awhile ago, good deal becuase it was newer then. 42 inch Emerson 1080p HDTV, bought for 120. Seagate 3TB external USB 3.0 storage drive. gift. backup for the main drives inside the PC internal 250GB and 750GB mechanical 7200RPM drives. refurbished actually.. scary I know... craigslist desk, craigslist wired "gamestop" brand xbox 360 clone controller. Colt .357 Trooper Mark 3 with super bright LED flashlight for if anyone tries to come inside my home without my permission. I may not have a lot of valuable things but I protect what I got.

http://i.imgur.com/V8kPDwB.jpg all craigslist. even the desk. I'm not rich like you but I still get shit done man

you know your poor when your finally put the money together to build the most powerful PC you've ever owned up until that point, and its just a core i3 and mid range GPU thats a few generations old already.