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

Who the hell do you think I am?

Wait a minute...

It managed 99.8 frames per second with Crysis 2 running DirectX 11 at hi-res anti-aliasing and at a screen resolution of 1920x1080.

What?!?!

It plays Skyrim a lot better. Two GTX 680s ran the game at 92.8 frames per second running on three screens at 5750x1080, beating the quad-Crossfire AMD Radeon HD 7970, which only managed 91 frames per second.

Is this some kind of joke?!

[Edited on 12.18.2012 5:46 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 5:45 PM PDT

I got these cheeseburgers man....

What did, quad 680s?

  • 12.18.2012 5:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: ThirstyAvenge
Posted by: ABotelho
Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Show them this.

That thing is absolutely massive.
I bet there's a bigger one from Rosewill.
Why's that? Rosewill isn't known at all for their cases. They have the Thor, but that's pretty much it, and it still doesn't compare to the 500R.

Silverstone and LianLi, on the other hand.

  • 12.18.2012 5:48 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

Speaking of big cases

Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
What did, quad 680s?
Don't even bother, it's a troll article. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

  • 12.18.2012 5:50 PM PDT

I got these cheeseburgers man....


Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
Speaking of big cases

Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
What did, quad 680s?
Don't even bother, it's a troll article. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Looking at that case, how exactly does water cooling work?

  • 12.18.2012 5:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
Speaking of big cases

Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
What did, quad 680s?
Don't even bother, it's a troll article. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Lol, you think it's a troll article? First off, it's nine months old, so drivers were COMPLETELY different back then. Additionally, the cards weren't overclocked, so you can't factor that into the 7970's. Thirdly, it might not have been an x79 board (which you seem to jizz over, for some reason).

And there are custom cases bigger than CaseLabs, I just can't find the bookmark. This is their M10 case. Half of it is water cooling anyway.

  • 12.18.2012 5:58 PM PDT

Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: ThirstyAvenge
Posted by: ABotelho
Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Show them this.

That thing is absolutely massive.
I bet there's a bigger one from Rosewill.
Why's that? Rosewill isn't known at all for their cases. They have the Thor, but that's pretty much it, and it still doesn't compare to the 500R.

The cases look very similar, but the Thor V2 is larger from the looks of it. I personally use the Thor V2 case for my build and the overall quality is very nice. There's also plenty of space.

  • 12.18.2012 6:00 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?


Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
Speaking of big cases

Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
What did, quad 680s?
Don't even bother, it's a troll article. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Lol, you think it's a troll article? First off, it's nine months old, so drivers were COMPLETELY different back then. Additionally, the cards weren't overclocked, so you can't factor that into the 7970's. Thirdly, it might not have been an x79 board (which you seem to jizz over, for some reason).
Were the drivers seriously so bad that two 680s were as powerful as four 7970s?

And with 4 GPUs how does it not make sense to get an X79 board? I'm not just saying that because I like it better but because it's absurd to put more than even one graphics card on an 1155 motherboard.

The article doesn't give ANY information other than a 3DMark benchmark score and the FPS they claimed they achieved.

[Edited on 12.18.2012 6:02 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 6:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
Were the drivers seriously so bad that two 680s were as powerful as four 7970s?
Why do you think everyone bashes AMD drivers?

it's absurd to put more than even one graphics card on an 1155 motherboard.You see, not everyone has their parents to pay for their computers, and not everyone builds their computer all at once. If you only have enough money to afford an i7 ($230), Z77 mobo ($130) and one GPU, it would cost more than an extra $100 to upgrade to a 3820 and x79 ($285 + $195) before building the original computer. And then when they would want to add another GPU a few months later, it'll cost a lot more to purchase a new CPU and mobo just to accommodate a few more FPS increases.

[Edited on 12.18.2012 6:07 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 6:06 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

I'm not talking about if you're building for your first time, I would not recommend the 3820 to someone who was only going to put one graphics card in their build.

And if you have the money to buy 3 or 4 graphics cards, why the hell would you not be able to afford the $100 more for an X79 board? If you were going to get that many graphics cards then chances are you were already going to spend at least $300 on the motherboard, regardless of its socket type.

  • 12.18.2012 6:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
I'm not talking about if you're building for your first time,
Then why would you say this?
Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
I'm not just saying that because I like it better but because it's absurd to put more than even one graphics card on an 1155 motherboard.
You said it was absurd, when it can be completely practical.

And if you have the money to buy 3 or 4 graphics cards, why the hell would you not be able to afford the $100 more for an X79 board? If you were going to get that many graphics cards then chances are you were already going to spend at least $300 on the motherboard, regardless of its socket type.If I am buying a $900 build, why don't I spend the extra $100 and get a $1000 build?
If I am buying a $1000 build, why don't I spend the extra $100 and get a $1100 build?
If I am buying a $1100 build, why don't I spend the extra $100 and get a $1200 build?

You see a pattern?

[Edited on 12.18.2012 6:24 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 6:23 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

Ok, if you wanted to get put three graphics cards on an 1155 board, the board would cost about $300 or $250. Good X79 motherboards start at $200 and even $150. So the price really wouldn't be different at all.

And no, I guess it isn't absurd but to get the best performance for your money you would not want to put multiple high end graphics cards on an 1155 board.

And I only brought this up because I said I hoped the guy using the 4 graphics cards in the article was on an X79 board, otherwise he would be bottlenecking the benchmarks.

[Edited on 12.18.2012 6:30 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 6:29 PM PDT

From the moment Bob's birth-cord was cut, every girl's hymen has belonged to him.

There must have been a dildo in that Wii control they found
For when they shoved it up his ass, he began to walk around, aaand
Chad Warden the fanboy, was as ABAP as can be
But the -blam!-es say, that he was mad -blam!-, and talked -blam!- on PS3

goddamn nerds

  • 12.18.2012 6:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds

You're on an internet forum based off of the company that made Halo.

Sure we're the only nerds here...

  • 12.18.2012 6:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds
Excuse me.

  • 12.18.2012 6:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds
Excuse me.

Bro you're such an ass










































You're blocking your computer

  • 12.18.2012 6:52 PM PDT

I think this was skipped over..

Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Laptop $585
Monitor $160
Mouse $36
Keyboard $16

Does that look good?

Turns out my mother is willing to use her laptop as the make shift "desktop" as her workplace supplied her with a new one. It's old enough, but it was powerful for it's time, and it's still a great PC.

I'll still use the monitor you recommended, as well as the keyboard and mouse. She also wanted to upgrade the RAM, from 4GB to 8GB, which is where my problem lies; wtf is with these DDR2 prices?!
Anybody know anywhere I can buy laptop DDR2 RAM for cheap?

  • 12.18.2012 7:00 PM PDT

I got these cheeseburgers man....


Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds
What the -blam!- did you just -blam!- say about me, you little -blam!-? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the -blam!- out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my -blam!- words. You think you can get away with saying that -blam!- to me over the Internet? Think again, -blam!-. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're -blam!- dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little -blam!-. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your -blam!- tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will -blam!- fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're -blam!- dead, kiddo.

  • 12.18.2012 7:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: TopWargamer
Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds
Excuse me.

Bro you're such an ass

You're blocking your computer
No, that's a picture of this guy:Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds

I'm the guy on the right.

Posted by: ABotelho
I'll still use the monitor you recommended, as well as the keyboard and mouse. She also wanted to upgrade the RAM, from 4GB to 8GB, which is where my problem lies; wtf is with these DDR2 prices?!
Anybody know anywhere I can buy laptop DDR2 RAM for cheap?
You don't. DDR2 was always expensive. This is why we're using DDR3.

[Edited on 12.18.2012 7:02 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 7:01 PM PDT

Xbox LIVE gamertag: Dat3lessNutella
Steam username: TopWargamer
To look up my Halo stats...search for the gamertag TopWargamer.
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One does not simply get rid of TopWargamer so easily.
You know this to be true.
ALL HAIL GABEN


Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: TopWargamer
Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds
Excuse me.

Bro you're such an ass

You're blocking your computer
No, that's a picture of this guy:Posted by: bobismymom
goddamn nerds

I'm the guy on the right.

Swag

  • 12.18.2012 7:03 PM PDT

Posted by: PMC Fluffy
You don't. DDR2 was always expensive. This is why we're using DDR3.

DDR2 is just becoming less common and therefore more expensive. DDR memory is generally even more costly than DDR2.

  • 12.18.2012 7:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: TopWargamer
Swag
I don't know if you're talking about me, my grandpa, or my grandpa's computer xD

  • 12.18.2012 7:05 PM PDT

I got these cheeseburgers man....

Obviously your grandpa.

  • 12.18.2012 7:08 PM PDT

Xbox LIVE gamertag: Dat3lessNutella
Steam username: TopWargamer
To look up my Halo stats...search for the gamertag TopWargamer.
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One does not simply get rid of TopWargamer so easily.
You know this to be true.
ALL HAIL GABEN


Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Posted by: TopWargamer
Swag
I don't know if you're talking about me, my grandpa, or my grandpa's computer xD

  • 12.18.2012 7:12 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?


Posted by: CostlyAxis
Posted by: PMC Fluffy
You don't. DDR2 was always expensive. This is why we're using DDR3.

DDR2 is just becoming less common and therefore more expensive. DDR memory is generally even more costly than DDR2.
And because they were expensive to make in the first place.

  • 12.18.2012 7:18 PM PDT