X-13 Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Well that escalated quickly.... When this thread hits 88 posts per hour... then you're going to see some serious :censored:posting.
Garacesh Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Anyhow! Back on topic! @edutech4schools - did you settle on a PSU yet?
Arreks Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 To be honest, i'm quite relieved... Plus you've already agreed to marry me instead of them.. right?! The underdog always wins!
X-13 Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 The underdog always wins! If the underdog is guaranteed to win, then they aren't the underdog...
Arreks Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 If the underdog is guaranteed to win, then they aren't the underdog... True, but I defy logic because of how great I am.
X-13 Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 True, but I defy logic because of how great I am. All glory to Arreks. eh defies logic and doesn't afraid of anyone. .......do i get a say in this? What kind of crazy talk is that?
Arreks Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 There is only one way to end this tangential narrative, @Little-Miss must choose!
Sunnyknight Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 There is only one way to end this tangential narrative, @Little-Miss must choose! *Prepares Razr Crossbow and 23 bolts*
sonofsanta Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 *Prepares Razr Crossbow and 23 bolts* Do you need to create an online account and log in before you can fire that crossbow? 1
Sunnyknight Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Do you need to create an online account and log in before you can fire that crossbow? You may.... but after spending approx £2000, i think i'm good to try it outside of any online shenanigans.
CAM Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 I believe you're correct, however I haven't tried it yet - do use remote play at home though. It's good for certain games, but one thing I didn't think of when I bought the Vita is it only has single shoulder buttons. It emulates L2/R2 with the rear touch screen, but it's bloody awful to use for most games. Some titles actually remap the most important buttons to limit the amount you need the rear touch (Wolfenstein for example remaps aim/fire to the shoulder buttons rather than emulated L2/R2). I found Last of Us unplayable because of this as it doesn't remap, so aiming and firing becomes an awful fumble. Personally, I think Sony missed a huge opportunity with the new Vita. The micro-USB charger rather than proprietary is a big improvement, but I found the original easier to handle because of it's thickness. They should have added in an SD card slot (I know they're still tying to make a fortune out of Vita proprietary cards but who buys them?) and actual shoulder buttons. Would have made it the perfect hand held for PS4 owners. The screen is fine though, I know side-by-side you can see the OLED's superiority, but day-to-day use I don't notice a difference TBH. Annoyingly it reset all my settings in GTA V. Was hoping I could sit in bed playing the PS4 on the Vita but Wi-Fi wasn't strong enough. I have the old one and had it since launch and it looks a premium piece of kit but the firmware needs serious tweaking. Terrible UI and I have no idea what the abysmal piece of junk app Near is supposed to do. It tries to be Foursquare and Streetpass rolled into one.
X-13 Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 *Prepares Razr Crossbow and 23 bolts* ~Readjusts wrist support, straightens keyboard, opens Doritos and Mountain Dew~ [Heavy breathing intensifies]
Zoom7000 Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Is an i3 suitable for a gaming PC? I wouldn't look any lower than an i5 if really on a budget, but for a gaming PC, I'd go no lower than an i7 personally. My signature has the specs of the PC that I built back in 2011.
Sunnyknight Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Is an i3 suitable for a gaming PC? I wouldn't look any lower than an i5 if really on a budget, but for a gaming PC, I'd go no lower than an i7 personally. My signature has the specs of the PC that I built back in 2011. Upgrade. For the love of GOD, UPGRADE. Spend around... £1000.
eyetea Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 I may annoy a few hard core on here by saying this but surely the modding your PC with various garish addons has long since died? (I was doing this 10's of years ago, guilty) Maybe its as I'm getting older, but I would prefer a sleek, small as possible, silent/quiet but powerful PC that does not require freezer to cool it or one million LEDs (of any colour). My first PC had a big side window, enough lights to compete with blackpool in the side and you could see everything in the PC! However when I wanted to watch a movie in bed / leave in downloading or whatever over night those lights got old fast! Latest case has about 2 LEDs (Status ones) and these still annoy me, so they've got blutak over them!!!
LosOjos Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Is an i3 suitable for a gaming PC? I wouldn't look any lower than an i5 if really on a budget, but for a gaming PC, I'd go no lower than an i7 personally. My signature has the specs of the PC that I built back in 2011. If the PC will be used almost exclusively for gaming, an i3 is fine. Multi tasking is what will suffer, but that's not really an issue if you're just gaming (at the moment, no game AFAIK uses more than 2 cores). If you can afford an i5 I'd definitely go for that, it's the sweet spot in Intel's current line up for price/performance IMO. An i7 is wasted in a pure gaming machine; save your money.
CAM Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 If the PC will be used almost exclusively for gaming, an i3 is fine. Multi tasking is what will suffer, but that's not really an issue if you're just gaming (at the moment, no game AFAIK uses more than 2 cores). If you can afford an i5 I'd definitely go for that, it's the sweet spot in Intel's current line up for price/performance IMO. An i7 is wasted in a pure gaming machine; save your money. Depends, quad core will help with future proofing and EA have been demanding quad cores ever since BF3. The difference is noticeable going from 2-4 cores.
Garacesh Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Ignore Sunny, yes an i3 is perfectly acceptable for gaming, provided you stick a decent GPU in there. It won't be top-spec, but it'll certainly work. It might suffer a bit in other areas, but overall it would be perfectly fine if you were building on a tight budget. @Sunnyknight just likes to make it rain. Perhaps he should all buy us upgrades if he's so desperate that money gets spent?
Arreks Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 If the PC will be used almost exclusively for gaming, an i3 is fine. You've obviously never played an Arma game.. or DayZ! *shudders*
sonofsanta Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Is an i3 suitable for a gaming PC? I wouldn't look any lower than an i5 if really on a budget, but for a gaming PC, I'd go no lower than an i7 personally. My signature has the specs of the PC that I built back in 2011. Looking at benchmarks for the Pentium Anniversary Edition - so only dual-core, without the HyperThreading of an i3 - that manages 80% of the performance of an i7 for about 20% of the price, at stock, with a discrete GPU. Overclock it and it was only 2FPS slower on that benchmark. So yeah, if you're building to a budget, an i3 is plenty. Better that and a beefier GPU. Not as future proof, perhaps, but compromises need to be made for money reasons.
sonofsanta Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Upgrade. For the love of GOD, UPGRADE. Spend around... £1000. You are kidding, right? The only thing in that PC of @Zoom7000 that could do with an upgrade is the GPU, and you don't need to spend anywhere near £1k on that. An SSD would be good as well. But upgrade an i7-2600K? Why? The 3000 series was only a die shrink and Haswell was targeted at power efficiency and integrated graphics, with little in the way of IPC improvements. £350+ on a new i7 and motherboard (stupid Intel and their sockets) would probably get you about 10% more performance. EDIT: 10% more performance on the CPU, which would probably net you about a 1% increase in games. 1
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