Does Your Machine Make Sense?

[MoonlightSylv]

Mine makes some sense:

 

I have an mATX motherboard in an ATX case (which will eventually change when I get the air 240)

 

I have 4x4gb instead of 2x8

 

I have an i3 and a 380x (soon to be a 480)

 

I have my GPU fans set up so they are always on because I'm paranoid.

[Scruffy90]

I use a PS2 keyboard because im too lazy to power on my system using its power button

Got a 980ti and a bunch of 1440p monitors, but still play games at 1080p

Got 32gb of ram but realistically use closer to 20 (not often either)

Have a z77 system and have yet to overclock anything on it

[MoonlightSylv]

35 minutes ago, Wedsea040 said:

Laptops always make sense

 

Because a 960M and an i7 create no bottlenecks at all.

[Scruffy90]

6 hours ago, JoeyDM said:

I wish my 3770k had vt-d... And my 600gb Velociraptor is due to die any day now... (I've been saying this for 4 years now... I've had it for 8) but other than that, my rig makes a lot of sense. I got the 730 SSD with the intention of grabbing another for RAID 0, but never did it. Still a solid SSD, but there were better choices at the time for single SSD's, even if it is a reliability beast.

No vt-d is a killer for me too. I wonder why the 3770 had it but not the K

[MoonlightSylv]

1 minute ago, Scruffy90 said:

I use a PS2 keyboard because im too lazy to power on my system using its power button

Got a 980ti and a bunch of 1440p monitors, but still play games at 1080p

Got 32gb of ram but realistically use closer to 20 (not often either)

Have a z77 system and have yet to overclock anything on it

There's USB keyboard power on.

[Unhelpful]

1 minute ago, Scruffy90 said:

 

They were trying to have advantages for both since it was only a $10 price difference, as opposed to the K being the purely better in every way version. At the time of my purchase, I didn't know what vt-d was, and wanted to OC. Ah well  

[Scruffy90]

1 minute ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

There's USB keyboard power on.

My mobo doesnt support it as far as I know.

[MoonlightSylv]

1 minute ago, Scruffy90 said:

My mobo doesnt support it as far as I know.

No BIOS setting?

[MoonlightSylv]

5 hours ago, Brennan_Price said:

-Two monitors with an R7 360 (One of which is 1080p and the other... well... 1280x1024)

I used to have an R7 240 with that exact setup, except the 1080p was a TV.

[Scruffy90]

2 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

No BIOS setting?

No. The Power on via keyboard setting on my mobo only works with PS/2 keyboards and mouse.

[Scruffy90]

4 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

They were trying to have advantages for both since it was only a $10 price difference, as opposed to the K being the purely better in every way version. At the time of my purchase, I didn't know what vt-d was, and wanted to OC. Ah well  

I was on the same boat. Disappointing to say the least. At least I know a lot more now than I did then and will be doing a ton of research on a rig should this one ever die.

[Unhelpful]

1 minute ago, Scruffy90 said:

 

I'm waiting 2-4 years then buying a new rig outright, as opposed to piece-by-piece.

[TetraSky]

My PC makes sense(to me anyway) as far as I can tell.

 

Unless you consider the fact that I have a craptastic 19" TV 1600x900 as a secondary monitor.. to my 25.5" 1920x1200 main monitor.

Or that I have a dedicated PCI Ethernet card... and $200 sound card with $50 headphones.

Also a 850W PSU for a system that consume at most 350~400W on MAX load(never happen unless I run benchmarks). But less than 100W on idle/web browsing (which is 90% of the time)

[flowalex]

I have two parts, the first is I have a 4690K on a Z97 that I can't overclock in the summer because my room doesn't have AC and I use fans to cycle air through my room, and the Second is that I am using a Titan Black (got it used for 400 bucks) that is used with 2 1440 X 900 monitors and here is the worst part of this my third monitor only uses VGA so I have a dvi-a to vga adapter to use the third monitor

[SteveGrabowski0]

8 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

- My main storage is also on a RAID 0 setup, though in an external enclosure

Why would you ever put storage in RAID-0? That's lunacy.

[spwath]

Custom Watercooled Fx-6300 on motherboard that wont allow me to OC, radiator external to case and in my window, spent more on periferals than actual pc.

$200 monitor

$300 Keyboard

$250 wheel

$200 Speakers

$60 mouse

$300 cooling system

 

$1310 total on non performance enhancing computer stuffs

 

FX 6300, 50$ mb, HD 7950....

[Starelementpoke]

4690k, 7950, okay 500watt psu, 1tb hdd, for $300? Mines pretty legit.

[8uhbbhu8]

I have a 4790k

16GB DDR3 (soon to be 32GB )

HD 7770 1GB..... (used to have a HD 4650 1GB.)

500w PSU

 

 

edit

 

Oh and a Hyper 212 EVO...

[Oshino Shinobu]

2 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Why would you ever put storage in RAID-0? That's lunacy.

It is backed up. 

 

Basically, I had one 2TB drive. Filled it, then got another 2TB drive and put them in RAID 0 to get 4TB. (after moving data around different external drives.) I wanted to have them external so I could get my build how I wanted it, and the enclosure I have doesn't allow for the drives to be separate. I could have had them in a JBOD, but I decided to go for the increased speed of RAID 0. 

 

I'm almost full on the 4TB and plan on completely redoing my storage setup when I have the money (pretty much everything on a 10+TB NAS and important stuff backed up to multiple locations.)

[vanished]

I have a 4770k that's not really overclocked at all, a GTX 660 and 32 GB of RAM

If I saw someone about to buy that I'd slap them (in my mind of course)  

But it actually works for me.  I always tell people that my build is very precisely tailored to me exact needs and probably appears very unbalanced to anyone else  

[vanished]

3 hours ago, Wedsea040 said:

Laptops always make sense

 

Are you sure about that?

[The Flying Sloth]

just look at my sig, I think we all agree no is the answer

[Dash Lambda]

10 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Are you sure about that?

They say it has a "full-size keyboard..."

Yeah, sure, so does this:

 

 

And it probably has more ports too.

[handymanshandle]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I have a 4770k that's not really overclocked at all, a GTX 660 and 32 GB of RAM

If I saw someone about to buy that I'd slap them (in my mind of course)  

But it actually works for me.  I always tell people that my build is very precisely tailored to me exact needs and probably appears very unbalanced to anyone else  

Isn't that the beauty of PC building though?

 

(I know I'm the one to talk when I haven't built a PC myself. But at least I realize the potential they offer and the benefits of building a PC are. So I guess that gives me some sort of validity?)

 

For most people an i3 6100 and R9 380X (or possibly RX 480) is plenty. Though I mean there might be certain reasons to jump up to an i5 or i7 and/or an R9 390/390X or GTX 970/980 (or GTX 1070/GTX 1080)

 

For me I think the largest reason I want to go with an i5 6600K and GTX 1070 now rather than something like an R9 390X is because I've had a lot of things from AMD in the past 7 years since I got my first laptop when I was like 9. I guess my Mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro (my second laptop, I got in like late 2010 or early 2011) has an Nvidia GPU in it because I guess Intel c2d didn't have iGPUs, and then in 2012 I got a 32GB Nexus 7 (Wifi) which was powered by an Nvidia Tegra 3. But I think that was it for stuff I've owned that has had something from Nvidia in it.

So I kinda feel like maybe I shouldn't ignore Nvidia any longer, and they seem to have a good product that seems like it'll be at a reasonable price. I had originally been hyped for AMD to bring something that could hold up against whatever Nvidia had to offer. I thinking I might've been wrong. Which is fine. Right now when I can afford to build my PC is very much up in the air. Though I'm guessing it might be late September or Early/Mid October at this point since I haven't been able to get a job yet.

[flibberdipper]

I'd say mine makes a good amount of sense. Really the only issue is I use a CX750M and not an super nice (a la RMi or AXi)