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Subject: Want to build a PC? PC Building Guide and FAQ of The Flood

FLOOD QUOTES!
Posted by: G3N3RAL R3VAN
The Flood....... if it doesn't go anywhere else, stick it her pooper
Posted by: xflox231
Idiots. I'm surrounded by idiots
Posted by: ferrrari
the flood, there a bunch of jerks, but there my jerks.

Posted by: Jet Lockheed
-_- Nice try 0/10

  • 09.13.2012 3:45 PM PDT

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You know this to be true.
ALL HAIL GABEN


Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856
Posted by: Jet Lockheed
-_- Nice try 0/10

So it's not true?

I are dumd
:/

  • 09.13.2012 3:54 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?


Posted by: TopWargamer

Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856
Posted by: Jet Lockheed
-_- Nice try 0/10

So it's not true?

I are dumd
:/
What he said about the GPUs being mini motherboards in a sense is true. He was just saying how he was lying about having a free $5000 PC.

  • 09.13.2012 4:18 PM PDT

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Oh...

  • 09.13.2012 4:31 PM PDT


Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856
Posted by: Jet Lockheed
-_- Nice try 0/10


It was pretty obvious

You are no genius for pointing it out

  • 09.13.2012 4:40 PM PDT

im looking for an economy build. any help?

  • 09.13.2012 4:49 PM PDT

If you're looking for an economic build, the first thing you should always do is list a budget. We can't help you if you happen to live a entrepreneur's life and 10,000 was little money to you.

Shoot us a price, and we can help you towards that goal.

[Edited on 09.13.2012 5:11 PM PDT]

  • 09.13.2012 5:11 PM PDT

FLOOD QUOTES!
Posted by: G3N3RAL R3VAN
The Flood....... if it doesn't go anywhere else, stick it her pooper
Posted by: xflox231
Idiots. I'm surrounded by idiots
Posted by: ferrrari
the flood, there a bunch of jerks, but there my jerks.


Posted by: Jet Lockheed

Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856
Posted by: Jet Lockheed
-_- Nice try 0/10


It was pretty obvious

You are no genius for pointing it out

I know. Your no genius for saying it.

  • 09.13.2012 5:17 PM PDT

I got these cheeseburgers man....


Posted by: Jet Lockheed
If you're looking for an economic build, the first thing you should always do is list a budget. We can't help you if you happen to live a entrepreneur's life and 10,000 was little money to you.

Shoot us a price, and we can help you towards that goal.

  • 09.13.2012 5:40 PM PDT


Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856

Posted by: Jet Lockheed

Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856
Posted by: Jet Lockheed
-_- Nice try 0/10


It was pretty obvious

You are no genius for pointing it out

I know. Your no genius for saying it.

You're*

  • 09.13.2012 5:49 PM PDT

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ALL HAIL GABEN


Posted by: General Ryan
im looking for an economy build. any help?

Price?

  • 09.13.2012 6:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: General Ryan
im looking for an economy build. any help?
Price, gaming, peripherals, monitor, legit OS, etc.?

Posted by: ThirstyAvenge
I think you should get a new motherboard, not all to familiar with Dell's (potentially) proprietary boards.
There are a few issues with that:

(1) Dell's motherboards use non-standard standoff locations. That means that an ATX board would not be able to be secured to his case. He would need to get a new case with the motherboard. The good news is that it would obviously have better airflow, but also void his warranty (not too big of an issue).

(2) Because the HDD is tied to the mobo cache, he will need to save the Windows product key and reinstall Windows once he swipes the motherboards. This isn't a problem except for the fact that he needs to have an external drive of some sort to back up his data.

Posted by: TopWargamer
Didn't know that GPUs had thermal paste....but....i've never heard of somebody actually reapplying thermal paste to a GPU.
If you want another tidbit of information, processors have thermal paste inside the CPU as well, which can also be replaced.

[Edited on 09.13.2012 7:39 PM PDT]

  • 09.13.2012 7:37 PM PDT

I have two monitors on my PC, just hooked them up. One is hooked up to my GTX 550 Ti through DVI and the other through HDMI on my other GT 440 Ti Card. Now, how do I hear sound through my HDMI monitor, it's actually a TV so I should be getting sound. How do I set it up?

  • 09.13.2012 11:15 PM PDT

I need a PC build that will be good for the -blam!- load of video editing I will be doing. Also, my budget is $2,000. Any help?

  • 09.14.2012 12:24 AM PDT


Posted by: Truth of TX
I need a PC build that will be good for the -blam!- load of video editing I will be doing. Also, my budget is $2,000. Any help?


Buy two 1000 dollar PCs, and send one to me :D

Anyways, I'll give you a build...

Z77-DS3H
32GB RAM (because why not?)
i7 3770k
ZOTAC GTX 680 2GB
Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Full Tower
Rosewill LIGHTNING Series LIGHTNING-1000 1000W PSU
BluRay Drive
Seagate 3TB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Thermaltake CLP0598 92mm Contact 16 CPU Cooler
TP-LINK TL-WN951N Wireless N Adapter (Give your Desktop Wifi :D)


It come out to $1,976.39

One heck of a build, you can make toast with it.
Oh yeah and the GPU brings Borderlands 2.

[Edited on 09.14.2012 1:36 AM PDT]

  • 09.14.2012 1:06 AM PDT


Posted by: darthrevan96

Posted by: Truth of TX
I need a PC build that will be good for the -blam!- load of video editing I will be doing. Also, my budget is $2,000. Any help?


Buy two 1000 dollar PCs, and send one to me :D

Anyways, I'll give you a build...

Z77-DS3H
32GB RAM (because why not?)
i7 3770k
ZOTAC GTX 680 2GB
Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Full Tower
Rosewill LIGHTNING Series LIGHTNING-1000 1000W PSU
BluRay Drive
Seagate 3TB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Thermaltake CLP0598 92mm Contact 16 CPU Cooler
TP-LINK TL-WN951N Wireless N Adapter (Give your Desktop Wifi :D)


It come out to $1,976.39

One heck of a build, you can make toast with it.


If you knock the Blu-ray down to your standard DVD+RW and take the 32GB down to 8GB, take the PSU down to 800w, you can probably fetch a nice SSD to store the OS for fast applications and booting, as well as data transfer.

I'll also give some reasons why these adjustments are only dead weight.

32 GB is far too much for any processor to handle at speed. Sometimes, Less is More. See, when Processors read the RAM, they read the dead space too. And like hell is ANY processor going to use 32 GB of RAM.

Think of it like this.

The RAM is a corridor, with classrooms on the side, the processor is the principal going around to check the classrooms, and the length of the corridor is how far your processor has to walk and back to complete a check. Walking 32 metres back and forth is going to take much longer than walking 8 meters back and forth, and only upto about 7 or 8 metres, the classrooms end and there is no doors to check on. Processors read the dead space too, even if they're not using it. RAM is only useful when it's being used. Don't put more than you need because it's going to slow down your system.

I chose 800 Watts because you only picked a motherboard with 2x16 PCI-E slots. 750-800 watts are able to handle 2 of that card in SLI. You won't need a thousand unless you were planning on Triple SLI, and that motherboard isn't compatible with triple SLI.

Blu-Ray really is down to the user. With netflix and HD DVDs, getting a computer to work is priority, upgrading the drive to Blu-ray should be something of an afterthought or an upgrade you decide to get halfway. If you have no Blu-Ray DVDs or don't plan to watch Blu-Ray on your PC, there's absolutely no use for it. I wouldn't suggest it, but the builder should be able to figure out if they want it for themselves. For me, a Blu-Ray drive would serve no more purpose than my current DVD+RW.

  • 09.14.2012 1:44 AM PDT
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I'd take a 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD any day over a 3TB hard drive.

  • 09.14.2012 1:49 AM PDT

I'd suggest 16GB those editing programs are pretty heavy. Yeah, you don't need BluRay, unless you want it. Not much of a difference.

With 2Gs make it nice though :D

Yeah, 800 is fine, but not as shiny haha. Sorry but with 2Gs I'd go overboard and get a build like this.

Yeah, the above suggestions are very well good, although I still suggest 16GB. 8GB isn't as much as I need and I haven't even started video editing which I will soon. I'm going to add another 8Gb to mine.

Question on that, I can just add 2 more 4GB RAM Cards right?

OT; Is there any way to get separate sounds from my TV and headset? I have my TV through HDMI as default, can I use a program or something to be able to play game sound, or other video sounds through my headphones? Currently I get no sound through my headphones.

  • 09.14.2012 1:54 AM PDT


Posted by: darthrevan96
I'd suggest 16GB those editing programs are pretty heavy. Yeah, you don't need BluRay, unless you want it. Not much of a difference.

With 2Gs make it nice though :D

Yeah, 800 is fine, but not as shiny haha. Sorry but with 2Gs I'd go overboard and get a build like this.

Yeah, the above suggestions are very well good, although I still suggest 16GB. 8GB isn't as much as I need and I haven't even started video editing which I will soon. I'm going to add another 8Gb to mine.

Question on that, I can just add 2 more 4GB RAM Cards right?

OT; Is there any way to get separate sounds from my TV and headset? I have my TV through HDMI as default, can I use a program or something to be able to play game sound, or other video sounds through my headphones? Currently I get no sound through my headphones.


You won't even be able to hit 6GB without an SSD. 8GB is more than enough for anything. I doubt he's going to run video editors along with a couple games at the same time.

You will only be able to add 2 more RAM cards if they're put into the same corresponding RAM channel. If your motherboard only has single-channel ram, you'll have to buy 2x8GB instead.

Do you have an SSD? If you don't, you're not going to get past 6GB RAM usage. I don't know what the obsession with RAM was in the first place. Sure, it's cheap, but anything over 8GB actually slows down your PC. I remember when having 4GB of RAM used to be the optimal amount, now everyone is saying it's 8GB. It's still pretty much 4GB for ANY gaming PC. Most PC Games don't even go past 2 or 3 anyway. 8GB is a lot even for video rendering.




[Edited on 09.14.2012 2:04 AM PDT]

  • 09.14.2012 2:03 AM PDT

I have the same GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H I linked.
Also, he's doing a lot of video editing. I assume he's also recording something. Personally if I was going to spend 2,000, for my editing which I will eventually start, I'd get a minimum of 16GB.

Some programs I use can still lag when average usage.

Personally, I use an Adobe product, which 3 tabs of can get hard, and a few tabs of Chrome. When I start rendering it gets slow.

[Edited on 09.14.2012 2:42 AM PDT]

  • 09.14.2012 2:35 AM PDT
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What is the maxium amount of RAM my Motherboard could handle?
I have 8 GB and I'm planning in the future adding another 8GB.
My motherboard is H77-DS3H by Gigabyte.

  • 09.14.2012 3:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: thebig100
What is the maxium amount of RAM my Motherboard could handle?
I have 8 GB and I'm planning in the future adding another 8GB.
My motherboard is H77-DS3H by Gigabyte.
Your motherboard supports up to 32GB of RAM, which is typical for most mainstream boards.

Reference.

  • 09.14.2012 3:04 AM PDT


Posted by: darthrevan96
I have the same GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H I linked.
Also, he's doing a lot of video editing. I assume he's also recording something. Personally if I was going to spend 2,000, for my editing which I will eventually start, I'd get a minimum of 16GB.

Some programs I use can still lag when average usage.

Personally, I use an Adobe product, which 3 tabs of can get hard, and a few tabs of Chrome. When I start rendering it gets slow.


If you don't have an SSD, you're not going to be able to use over 6GB. You can, but it won't be any faster than any value over 6GB. Even slower, probably.

The lag is caused by a bottleneck elsewhere in the system, not the RAM. No-one ever uses up all of 16 GB. You can get it if you want, but you're not going to see a performance boost.

  • 09.14.2012 3:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: ThirstyAvenge

Posted by: thebig100
What is the maxium amount of RAM my Motherboard could handle?
I have 8 GB and I'm planning in the future adding another 8GB.
My motherboard is H77-DS3H by Gigabyte.
Your motherboard supports up to 32GB of RAM, which is typical for most mainstream boards.

Reference.
Thanks.
Another question, Can I also add another 1TB Hard Drive(not external)
I have 1 TB and I'm just wondering.
But thank you for clearing these up. ^^

  • 09.14.2012 3:06 AM PDT


Posted by: ThirstyAvenge

Posted by: thebig100
What is the maxium amount of RAM my Motherboard could handle?
I have 8 GB and I'm planning in the future adding another 8GB.
My motherboard is H77-DS3H by Gigabyte.
Your motherboard supports up to 32GB of RAM, which is typical for most mainstream boards.

Reference.


Not that the other hardware can actually utilize it properly.

  • 09.14.2012 3:06 AM PDT