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I see people on this forum with i7s and GTX 750Tis/760s/R9 270s, and all I can think is, I hope you didn't buy that rig with gaming in mind. At least not their #1 priority.

 

A friend of mine has an i7 and games on igpu.

He calls his build a "gaming rig"

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I see people on this forum with i7s and GTX 750Tis/760s/R9 270s, and all I can think is, I hope you didn't buy that rig with gaming in mind. At least not their #1 priority.

 

It's sad to see so many prebuild gaming pcs designed that way. I would rather go with a high end GPU and a mid-tier cpu... In my opinion a i3 works fine with everything up to a 960 or R9 285.

And a 4690 doesn't bottleneck most of the game out there - Even with a high end gpu. I think people only buy the i7, because they don't mind 100 bucks more if they spend 500+ on a gpu.

 

My unbalanced rig (secondary gaming-rig/htpc):

Core 2 quad Q8200 with GTX750Ti. In some games (like Watch_Dogs) the CPU limits the performance to around 12Fps. But in some more GPU-bound games it performs quite well.

Ryzen 5 5600, 32GB DDR4, GTX 3070Ti, Acer Predator x34

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I had a Celeron G540 with a 780 at one point (I called it the Bottleneck :D)...  and 16GB Corsair Vengence RAM, and an OCZ Vector SSD.  I was waiting for Haswell to be released so I just bought a cheap cpu/mobo combo to hold me over.  For normal stuff it actually did pretty good, surprisingly snappy.  For gaming, I only played some older titles on it, so not too bad.  But it did have some pretty low fps drops sometimes...

 

 

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Corrected the ram I had in it.

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I had a Celeron G540 with a 780 at one point (I called it the Bottleneck :D)...  and 16GB Corsair Dominator RAM, and an OCZ Vector SSD.  I was waiting for Haswell to be released so I just bought a cheap cpu/mobo combo to hold me over.  For normal stuff it actually did pretty good, surprisingly snappy.  For gaming, I only played some older titles on it, so not too bad.  But it did have some pretty low fps drops sometimes...

 

Holy shit do you have benchmarks of that pc ?

 

Thats the mecha of bottleneck.

My Deus Ex Review : http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/358415-zappian-plays-old-games-episode-1-deus-ex/#entry4862793

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It's almost done... 2 minutes (ok it's more)

 

EDIT: DONE 

 

PREPARED TO GET SHREKTTTTTTT????????

 

 

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Holy shit do you have benchmarks of that pc ?

 

Thats the mecha of bottleneck.

 

 

haha, pretty much.  but I don't have any benchmarks, sorry

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Corsair AX860i | CaseLabs SM8 | EK Supremacy | UT60 420 | ST30 360 | ST30 240

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I have my Core 2 Duo E8500 (stock) with my GTX 970 and 1 GB of RAM (all other sticks got fried when the PSU blew).

"We also blind small animals with cosmetics.
We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

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Dude plz benchmarkerinos.

If you can even open a game because of ram :/

I can't, it was running windows 10 tech preview when the PSU blew, and being 64bit, I was barely able to get it to run under 1GB.

"We also blind small animals with cosmetics.
We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

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8320 oc'ed to 4.5 and a 290x on a 720p monitor running Windows XP :(

Will hopefully get 1440p monitor and Windows 8/10 within 6 months though :)

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Do you remeber at how many fps games ran?

i still remenber the results i had with my phenom.

 

no, I didn't run any gaming benchmarks on it

 

here's a pic of it with a 680 (got that cause I didn't think the 780 was gonna come out as soon as it did)

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Also had a 4770k with an AMD 5770 for a little bit while I was waiting for my 780 to get RMA'd

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Gentle Typhoon's and Noctua's and Noiseblocker eLoop's

 

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8320 oc'ed to 4.5 and a 290x on a 720p monitor running Windows XP :(

Will hopefully get 1440p monitor and Windows 8/10 within 6 months though :)

Get windows 8, its a free upgrade from windows 7 and 8 to windows 10.

"We also blind small animals with cosmetics.
We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

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Get windows 8, its a free upgrade from windows 7 and 8 to windows 10.

 

wait, what?  I know win 10 will be a free upgrade from 7 and 8 when its released.  but 8 is a free upgrade from 7 right now?

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wait, what?  I know win 10 will be a free upgrade from 7 and 8 when its released.  but 8 is a free upgrade from 7 right now?

Sorry, I didn't word that too well, but it was a free upgrade. Either way, Windows 7 users now have a viable upgrade path to a decent OS (Windows 8.1 was not a true upgrade path for non touchscreen computers).

"We also blind small animals with cosmetics.
We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

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I suppose some will argue mine is imbalanced.

 

 

 

I wouldn't call my sister's build imbalanced per se, but she's running a locked i5 on what would otherwise be a very good overclocking set up.  

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I suppose some will argue mine is imbalanced.

 

 

 

I wouldn't call my sister's build imbalanced per se, but she's running a locked i5 on what would otherwise be a very good overclocking set up.  

 

Yours inst unbalanced because your cpu is at 5 ghz.

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My dad runs servers and does insane coding and simulations, one of his 14 PCs run 5960x, 32gb ram, and a gtx610

"45 ACP because shooting twice is silly!"

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My dad runs servers and does insane coding and simulations, one of his 14 PCs run 5960x, 32gb ram, and a gtx610

He really doesn't need a better GPU, maybe a Quadro.

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He really doesn't need a better GPU, maybe a Quadro.

Well i know he dosent need a better one but his programs dont use CUDA so....yay for ddr4 ram?

"45 ACP because shooting twice is silly!"

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right now my rig leans a bit to the right

 

will adding a second gfx card balance things out you guys think?

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Your build is great as it is.

Only weird thing is 1200w psu.

 i was talking about my "main rig" parts not listed in sig sorry

 

i need to go sli to balance things out

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Mainboard Asrock Z170 OCF CPU 6700k RAM Tridentz 3600 HDD Intel 730 240gb GPU GTX 780ti sc acx PSU Silverstone Strider 1200W  Case Antec 900 Laptop Lenovo Thinkpad T520 build log-   http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/35809-antec-900-the-re-birth-of-a-legend/ Check out the Tech Center https://www.youtube.com/user/prokon24/videos LTT's Unicore King

 

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