Do you feel a compulsion to constant hardware upgrade?

[Jasede]

I've never once seen pre-applied thermal paste. I mean, sometimes it comes with some paste in a tube, or some kind of pad, but even then I want to use my Arctic Silver crap so I'd use that. But pre-applied? Never seen that before.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

Maybe he is one of those people who want to download half the internet to their HDDs because someone might turn it off one day

Wait, people DON'T save all the sites they can in fear of being internet-less and deprived of reads, movies, books and games one day?

And by "someone", I mean the company because the internet can't be paid anymore.

 

[baturinsky]

I heard if you just take meaningful text (i.e. not video and such), then whole internet is only several terabytes.

 

[Melcar]

I've never once seen pre-applied thermal paste. I mean, sometimes it comes with some paste in a tube, or some kind of pad, but even then I want to use my Arctic Silver crap so I'd use that. But pre-applied? Never seen that before.

Usually the stock heatsink comes with some pre-applied paste. Some after-market coolers also come like that (Arctic Cooling for example).

 

[groke]

I had a PIII in 2000-and-something that was card-based and that was a bullshit idea, so thermal paste and ZIF-sockets are fine by me!

Part of the experience of building a PC is the ritual sacrifice of a credit card, anyway.

 

[Sodafish]

only several terabytes

That is a lot of text.

Yeah but probably 80% of that is execreble dribble from FB/Twatter.

 

[A user named cat]

Does anyone else always end up bleeding after building a new PC? My fingers always seem to find some sharp edge in the case.

As for thermal paste; it's incredibly easy to do, so I don't know why anyone would be hesitant about applying their own. A small drop of Arctic Silver 5 in the middle, spread thin and evenly like butter with a card, then you're done. If you mess up or use too much, clean the excess with isopropyl alcohol which you should always keep handy. Usually the hardest part of all is securely clamping the heatsink to the mobo, some of them are designed horribly and almost have to be forced.

 

[Codexlurker]

Does anyone else always end up bleeding after building a new PC? My fingers always seem to find some sharp edge in the case.

As for thermal paste; it's incredibly easy to do, so I don't know why anyone would be hesitant about applying their own. A small drop of Arctic Silver 5 in the middle, spread thin and evenly like butter with a card, then you're done. If you mess up or use too much, clean the excess with isopropyl alcohol which you should always keep handy. Usually the hardest part of all is securely clamping the heatsink to the mobo, some of them are designed horribly and almost have to be forced.

Yep. I've had several cuts before that I didn't notice until after I finished putting everything together:D.

 

[baturinsky]

I need something at ~$1k price (system block only) that can run FTB Ultimate and GTA 5 on 1920x1080 at decent FPS.

 

[Dexter]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/
Personally I wouldn't trust some of the exact brands listed there (like ever buying an AsRock board again or SeaGate drives).

 

[Cassidy]

Haven't upgraded my PC since 2009, and that was only for the sake of having a PC good enough to run a handful of CRPGs, including Mask of the Betrayer and one good action RPG(Risen), because I had a very old PC before that to be able to run any of those. I hate



And the few good games still being released aren't too hardware-intensive to not run in my 2009 PC, thus I have little reason to do another upgrade until Star Citizen is proven to not be vaporware and to be good.

 

[baturinsky]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/
Personally I wouldn't trust some of the exact brands listed there (like ever buying an AsRock board again or SeaGate drives).

OMG, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

 

[CSM]

People who don't enjoy upgrading their consumerproducts are filthy commie-hippies.

 

[baturinsky]

Hmm...

Tower: Miditower ATX DNS/AirTone K5-9388
Motherboard: Gigabyte LGA1155
CPU: Intel Core i5-3330 3.0GHz
Cooler: DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX 300
Video: PCI-E Palit GeForce GTX 660 2048MB 192bit GDDR5 DVI HDMI DisplayPort
Memory: DIMM DDR3 4096MBx2 PC12800 1600MHz Kingston HyperX CL9-9-9-27 [KHX1600C9D3K2/8G(X)]
HDD: SATA-3 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Blue (no Red in shops here and Black is said to be noisy)
SSD: SSD 2.5" SATA-3 120Gb Kingmax
OS: Windows 8 Pro retail (OEM is a little

Does this make sense? I want something that will cause least problems: not likely to break soon, does not make a lot of noise, will not make me upgrade in near future, etc.

 

[DefJam101]

Does this make sense? I want something that will cause least problems: not likely to break soon, does not make a lot of noise, will not make me upgrade in near future, etc.

I would drop the SSD and either get a better CPU or just save the cash

 

[Dexter]

It's an alright budget PC I guess, the CPU seems to have about the same performance rate that my i7-950 that I bought in ~2009 had: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Personally I also recently upgraded to a 770GTX

I've also never heard of "Kingmax" before, seems to be some Chinese company I personally wouldn't trust, if you want a proper SSD the Samsung Pro are momentarily the best.
The Samsung Evos are alright too, but they use cheaper TLC NAND memory instead of MLC: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand

Always depends on what you want to do with it, really, it would likely suffice for any "RPG" released so far but might struggle with "Next Gen" games soon enough.

 

[Jasede]

Hey @baturinsky, might I suggest getting the 770GTX instead? I will because last time I built a new PC, getting a more expensive, more high-end graphics card really worked out in my favor- it still runs everything flawlessly and I really thought it was worth the extra money in the long run, especially with how few issues I had.

 

[baturinsky]

I can't find 770GTX in shops around here, but I was recommended to get Radeon HD7870
And Plextor SSD.

 

[Jasede]

If you can't get the 770GTX but are looking for similar value I would suggest the HD 7970.

 

[Sodafish]

I would say an SSD for your system drive is a huge bonus to performance. I wouldn't skimp in that area.

 

[baturinsky]

Only high-end GPU here is GTX670. Close enough, no?

 

[Jasede]

It's a fine card and will satisfy your needs; no worries.

 

[xcode]

yes... actually i do... somehow i think its better to keep everything up to date. I just wish they wouldnt have so many all the time - very annoying.

 

[DefJam101]

I can't find 770GTX in shops around here, but I was recommended to get Radeon HD7870
And Plextor SSD.

I have the 7870 and it's an excellent card.

Do you play a lot of action/FPS games? If so, I'd recommend holding off on the SSD and using the extra money to buy a 120hz monitor. Quite frankly I don't think the extra system performance an SSD nets you is worth the (current market) price for a gaming rig on anything resembling a budget.

 

[Whisky]

Yeah, I feel the compulsion. My computer runs fine, but it could be better. I have a first-gen i7 and my motherboard is some shitty Intel one, so there's two things I'd want to replace. The problem is, although I have money I'm saving up for a trip to Europe, which is more important.