General computer talk/advice

I'd probably go XFX again in a heartbeat. My little XFX Core Edition 7850 is serving me well.

 

I'm kind of an MSI/EVGA fanboy. My experiences with XFX cards are meh. I had like 3 new ones, all 6750s and 7750s in the past. They were okay. Just okay, except for when I had a second 7750 that I tried to crossfire with the first one. Didn't work no matter what, couldn't figure it out. Returned it, sold the first, and bought an EVGA 650ti which I loved. I currently have a XFX 6790 just lying around, I had to sand the heatsink to make it flat so that it wouldn't overheat instantly and the fan bearings are on their ways out. My experiences with EVGA and MSI cards have been great though.

 

The only powerful cards I have are XFX. Sure, the 6770 is starting to die, but it's working just fine for its current application. The GTX 285 is an XFX card, my 7850... My friend has an XFX 7800 GTX from the mid 2000s and it works like the day it was new.

That same friend had an EVGA 550Ti die on him within a month of purchasing it, and has had to RMA 2 ASUS GTX 660Ti's. Granted, I'd buy an ASUS STRIX card right now, I really like their STRIX 970. And I really want an EVGA Kingpin 980Ti.

 

Yeah, I'm running a 6 year old XFX 5770 right now, granted its not much different from the ATI stock coolers its still going strong and somehow running under 70c even at max load for hours. Quite impressive and surprisingly quiet as the fans always run low <40% even under heavy load (at 100% fan speed it sounds like a jet engine)

Also thinking of getting a hold of a 380x in the next couple of weeks, most likely either Sapphire Nitro or XFX, will probably go with Sapphire since it has a very nice factory overclock and is still £5 cheaper than the XFX cards as well as having a back plate that neither XFX cards have. The 380x also seems considerably faster than a GTX 960 and a 280x and for £200 all in its pretty great.

There is also a Gigabyte G1 Gaming 380x for sale but I've never owned a Gigabyte card and I've heard bad things about their 390 so I might just avoid them, but I'm sure they aren't as bad as reviews make out.

 

I had my first EVGA 650ti 2GB SC. Loved that card. Ended up selling it for $100. This summer I bought an EVGA 650ti 1GB for $60. It blew up a couple months later, probably from chinese adapters powering it through a 240w PSU. RMAd it and got a 750ti 2GB SC. And that's my EVGA history, pretty much. Except for a couple 8800GTSes that had to be reflowed. (Not like it was some crappy EVGA cooler either. It was literally the reference card with EVGA stickers on top of the Nvidia ones. Like, I peeled it off and an Nvidia sticker was underneath.)

 

Well after some fiddling and tongue twisting I got a stable overclock of 3.7Ghz with my 212 evo just gunna dail in the voltages to get the temps down but overall the Cinebench results are pretty damn good for this old CPU. @ stock I think it was 480 or so, after overclock I got 566 which is a pretty good improvement, just waiting for my R9 280X and Antech Kuhuler 920 to get here now.

 

Ordered some zinc WASD keys for my keyboard, I'll update when they get here.

 

got bored, started to overclock, got my cpu to 3.8ghz and now my 212evo is at it's limits, 1.28v vcore 1.28 qpi and 1.84 pll.

 

getting an i3 4170 this Xmas. excited as heck. Why you ask? I'm damn 13. So an i3 = an i7 and a GTX 650 = a GTX 980 ti. That's how the world works when you're a scrub. Then maybe next year I'll do a mid-range build featuring GTX 950, i5 6600k... which equates to YBR's PC, in teenager terms.

 

any idea what wattage is pumping through?
My evo keeps a 110W load under 50c at all times :3

 

You said 950??.. Collect some more money and then buy at least a MSI 960 4G gaming.. I have that. pretty good

 

CpuZ says 130w which I don't doubt, also my old Antec solo case doesn't have the best airflow. My highest temp was 84°c but since I added my front intake fans my temps have dropped to about 74°c, so I may be able to squeeze a bit more out of it but I think I'll just wait, my antec khuler 920 should be here tomorrow.

 

Nice ! Is it your first PC ?

 

shit, just realised i dont have enough money to get my upgrade, and i dont have a idea how to get money
rip upgrade plan #494

 

Is the GTX 950 worth it for the prize / a good upgrade from a 750? Just asking because I may get one of them as a back up plan thing when everything goes completely wrong with my PC upgrade plan thing.

 

It's an upgrade from the 750 for sure, but it's not made for recent demanding games.

 

Ok. After looking for some GPU's and PSU's (since I need a new one anyways, that 350W chinese thing could blow up any second) for a total of around 250-ish €. I could get a 960 mini ITX and a 450 to 500 W PSU. The 960 has twice as many CUDA cores, a higher clock speed and is just generally better than my 750. I guess I'll go for that when I can, seems like a pretty good deal in my eyes. I have no idea what I'm doing though, so if somebody could tell me if it's as good as it seems to me that'd be nice.

 

I don't know if a 500W psu is necessary atm. Which CPU do you have ?

 

Intel i5 4460.

 

Yeah I think this would be just future proof, no way this system will draw 500W from the wall.