How could you Grits? Not even Aravi has done that!




This post has been edited by King Coin: Sep 22 2012, 06:15 PM

SPEW!!! What a way to phrase it, ROFL !! Maxical def uses the Luna Moth wings, lol.

Sure. . . butterflies.
That's how it starts. Then before you know it you're ripping the heads off of trolls, ogres and goblins.

I am happy to say that I finished putting together a new gaming rig today. This will be my first time using an SSD and two video cards in an SLI. So I am eager to see how those really help performance. Now comes the long, boring process of installing everything all over again. I probably won't have everything done for a few days, or even be able to get any gaming done tonight. Then again, I might call in sick tomorrow so I can stay home all day!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 24 2012, 12:57 AM

WOO HOO! Lucky you! Some stats we can drool over would be exciting! I vote for taking tomorrow off!

SubRosa, congrats on the birth of your new Puter! Surely, as you say, some time off to get to know her is in order. Long as she has plenty of blue lights everything should be fine.

Sooo... What's the processor? What cards did you go with? I want the boring details!

Yes, no detail is too small when it comes to rig stats. I love hearing anything that makes me so green with envy that I race out and take an arrow to the knee or fall on the nearest sword!

I am using an Asus P9X79 Pro motherboard. It is the first I have had with USB 3.0 ports, and quad channel ram. I got 16gb of DDR3/1600 ram. The processor is an Intel I7 3930K. I was thinking of one of the 3rd generation I7s, but it was twice the cost ($1,000 compared to $500 for the 3939K). The two video cards are GTX670s in an SLI. The hard drive is a 256 gb solid state. The 512s were a huge jump in price, so I stuck with the smaller one. I am using my two standard drives from my old computer too. I am going to keep things like Office, pictures, backups, etc... on the old drives. All my games (at least the new ones) will go on the SSD, along with Windows of course.

I had time to get Fallout 3 installed and gave it a spin at the highest possible settings. 8x AA and 15x Anisotropic Filtering, plus all the draw distances at max, and everything set to highest quality. It runs like a dream. I bet Oblivion will still stutter though! I am installing Skyrim right now, and it is in the middle of updating, so it is taking forever, probably on the high res texture pack. I probably won't be able to give that spin until tomorrow.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 24 2012, 02:36 AM

"Slurp...drool..."

[mALX takes arrow and rams it in her knee]

Dear lord what a system! The 16GB of RAM was probably a little overboard, I have 8GB and its never been more than half used. The only times it has gotten even that was when I am processing video clips for Aravi.

I have an i7 2600 from 2-3 years ago. Still can't complain about that CPU. My Mobo has a boost feature, when the system is demanding performance, it boosts the CPU to ~3.8GHz (rather than the standard 3.4GHz clock) and when there is little going on it puts the CPU to ~1.6GHz.

Two 670s??? Skyrim runs like a dream on max settings with just one, including extra mods to make it even prettier. With that system, you are going to be set for several years.

I'm curious about the SSD. My dad got one and it failed in less than a year, apparently there's been problems with them. Not sure if it was just that manufacturer, or if it's something with all of them.

That 16 gb of ram only cost me $100, so I went for it. I cannot believe how cheap it is. The salesman was asking me if I wanted to go 32 gb and get the business version of Windows 7 (since the home version only allows 16gb). I told him what you said. Even Skyrim only uses what? 3gb of memory with it being large address aware? So 32 was definitely pointless, even though it would not have cost much more.

My old system had one of the first I7s. It was good up until recently. I have been getting strange lockups and crashes, sometimes during post. So I think either the processor or motherboard (my guess is motherboard) was dying. That is what prompted me to build the new system. My 3930K does the same thing as your processor. Normally it runs at 3.2, but jumps up to 3.8 when in turbo mode.

I just finished getting skyrim installed. I copied my old game folder over the new one so I don't have to manually reinstall all my mods, and gave it a try at Ultra settings, with AA and AF turned all the way up. I got a little stutter in Markarth, but other than that it runs smooth as silk. I noticed that everything looks a little sharper now too. The SLI is really showing its chops.

I have heard about problems with SSD's too. As I understand it, they are basically the same as a thumb drive, just with more capacity. The lack of platters and read/write heads that move between them give them their higher performance. But thumb drives are not as stable a storage medium as the old fashioned platter drives. So I would figure the same would be true of the SSDs. So it is probably just as well I am still using my old drives for all my data.

Congrats, SubRosa!


Today in Grits World, Things You Don’t Want to Hear From Your Daughter: “He seemed normal otherwise, though.”

The one-sided phone conversations we "overhear" when we least expect it, ROFL !!!

Still alive. Long story short is that my computer died on me back in June and I've been too busy/lazy too fix it. Summer is kind of like my Winter for most people in that I don't deal very well with heat in general.

Still working at my Ambulance Comany and things are going quite well, in fact the best they've ever been and I'm looking into Nursing School starting soon. December in fact.

I should have some updates coming shortly, no promises as I'm still somewhere between fixing my comp and using my phone.

On a positive note, I finally got something I've been meaning to do since 2006!





A framed GOTY edittion Map of Vvardenfell in case you can't see/tell. Its also sideways; again I'm still on my phone, so I can only do so much.

Be well one and all and I'll see you soon!

Glad you are still alive and I am so jealous of that framed map.

I’m glad things are going well, Black Hand! And I’m drooling over that map.

Yes, congrats Blackie! And ... "slurp...drool" over that map !!!!

bad tidings in hazmick world this evening, it looks as if my Xbox is on it's last legs I just spent 40 minutes trying to make the disc tray respond so I could reclaim my Assassin's Creed Revelations disc.

A dead Xbox may not sound like a big deal but it's my baby and I've had her for about 4 years now. Hopefully the old girl can keep going until christmas, then she can retire and I can get a newer model. *sigh*

It might be just the cord having issues, is it lighting up? If not the docking may be jammed.