General computer talk/advice

That would be with a 270. 280X has 2048 cores, 280 has 1792. So less power clock-for-clock. You'll also need some serious memory OC to reach the 280X's bandwidth (280X is clocked 250 MHz faster, 1GHz effective, 250 MHz is quite a bit for a memory OC).

Just go for a 280X if you can. Or a GTX 960.

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I'd rather have 2GB of RAM than 4GB and NetBurst

 

While it's true that 280x=7970 while 280=7950, those two cards have always been very close. The 7950 needs 100-150Mhz oc on the core over the 7970 to perform the same 90% of the time. Memory bandwidth is so plentiful on tahiti that the clocks barley matter.

 

Don't underestimate NetBurst bruh. Old Dell runs like new, most stable bit of hardware I know... EEVBlog's Dave opens up a 2010 industrial computer with the same exact chipset and CPU I have. No wonder they put it in servers, got up to about 3 months uptime once.

EDIT: That's a 3GHz P4, 2.8 isn't far off.

 

It's still slower than a 2.2GHz AMD Athlon XP 3200+. Architecture is everything, transistors and so on. It's why Intel is winning now and why AMD won back then.

 

I had a 3.2GHz HT P4. Hit 4GHz on air cooling with it. I think it was a Northwood. I got the CPU out of a laptop I had (Swapped it out for a slightly slower one before I sold it) and put it into a $15 eBay motherboard. (Asus P4P8X. I will forever remember that.) paired with my dad's old 7600GS. Mostly browsed the internets and played mostly CoD/World Racing II. I ran that as my main PC right up til the end of 2012. By that point I rarely used it since my laptop was better in pretty much every way other than graphics power and I broke the Wifi adapter and the Chinese one I had to use on it was extremely slow.

After that I got an A8 and ran ethernet to my room. I SHOULD still have that old mobo and CPU but for some fuckin reason I can't find them anywhere. I know i left them on the table in the basement along with the other old shit but all I have is the awesome heatsink it used.

 

Is that much? My PC isn't near server-grade and I've had it up without a reboot for probably a bit over a month and a half.

 

Not really. Doesn't mean much.

 

Completely true. OptiPlex GX270, specs in sig. Can't believe how reliable the fucker is.

 

DEAR GOD. Reboot it! your ram and power bill must be sky high...

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Hey! I used to have 3 monitors till I got my GTX 960, its swapped a HDMI port for a display port on me, I hear there is different types of display ports like 1.2 or something, I'm not up to date on them, so will a displayport to hdmi cable work or does it have some sort of stupid signal I don't know about where it can't convert to HDMI? like where it will try to send a resolution thats out of range for my monitor? etc. pls halp, I keep looking at my 3rd monitor even tho its not plugged in.

 

NetBurst is horrible in terms of IPC and power efficiency.
The D 945 I found is one of the last and most powerful NetBurst CPUs released. Yet it is easily matched by a cheap 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo E4300, and absolutely destroyed by my 2.4 GHz Q6600 on the same TDP.

 

All monitors are 1920x1080 at 1080p.

 

Go home. You're drunk.

 

that's not how that works :/


and as for your post about all monitors being 1920x1080 at 1080P:



i don't know about you, but that doesn't look like 1920x1080 to me, nor is it 1080p

 

Only 1.5GB? I ran 3.5GB simply because it didn't work with more than that. If it did I'd have more than 4GB in it. (I ran 32 bit XP on it anyway. With the exception of when I tried the Win 8 dev preview on it which was x64.)

 

DERP DERP DERP, I was talking about my last post, forgot to add that last part in, no way all monitors are 1920x1080 and 1080p! XD

 

His point was that 3 months is not long. Some of the networking hardware for the campus backbone at uni has been running for over 5 years without power outage or reboot. Literally, 5 years of constant running. Lecturer in his old job had a router that had been running for 15 years.

 

Hmm guys i need little advice. Going to build new pc for gaming and probably for oculus. Im going 4790k vs 5820k in my head also GPU gives worries mainly because oculus. Pc partpicker is down so i cannot post now what builds i have in my mind. Does anyone have oculus? Or experience about it ?

 

4790K and SLI 970s is a great setup. Don't go X99 if that means downgrading the GPU.

 

Well i think i can get 970sli with 5820k but then i have to order them from germany, 4790k pc i could buy locally and i already have rams from this pc.

Hmm i could get 5820k and 970sli but i'd have to buy second card later.

Ah its hard when you have no one to talk about these things, other than forum.
Also how does those open type gpus work in sli ? Doesn't they just throw the hot air around ?

 

Well, considering it is not a server class PC, just a business class one, it is quite reliable. It can probably match those other servers, but I don't want it to.