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Fart Sandwiches posted:Reported this for lack of punctuation in the quoted text. Just make sure you pay that poo poo off. If you read around there's horror stories about skyrocketing interest rates if you let that year expire. If you pay it though, it's great. It's what I used when I built my computer last winter. Paid it off when my tax refund came in and didn't have a single problem. Whip Slagcheek fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Reported this for lack of punctuation in the quoted text. That's a very enlisted idea.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:39
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I've done this with my last two laptop purchases from newegg. As long as you pay it off before the 12 months, you're good. If you don't, you get the full year's worth of 20-something % interest added on. No reason not to do it, really.
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Whip Slagcheek posted:Just make sure you pay that poo poo off. If you read around there's horror stories about skyrocketing interest rates if you let that year expire. It's what I used when I built my computer last winter. Yeah even though it's "interest free", interest is still accruing at 25% or something insane and if you don't pay it by the year end they just dump a full year's interest on you. I can totally afford it but my wife is being lame about it.
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What the gently caress kind of super computer are you building for 1200 bucks?
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Nov 13, 2013 02:44
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Yeah post your Amazon shopping cart so we can help you avoid making a bad decision
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Nov 13, 2013 02:45
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:What the gently caress kind of super computer are you building for 1200 bucks? It's not that outrageous if he's getting a decent mobo/CPU combo, and a high-end graphics card.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:46
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Godholio posted:It's not that outrageous if he's getting a decent mobo/CPU combo, and a high-end graphics card. Yeah not crazy but I don't want to let a brother buy a $200 Soundblaster ya know?
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Nov 13, 2013 02:47
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poo poo son, I spent 800 bucks when I built my rig 2 years back, and the only thing I've done to it since is get a 670gtx and a water cooler for the cpu, and it runs all the video james real good.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:47
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I'm TDY and playing BF4, buying this $800 laptop was the best decision I made in a long time it is not an alienware.
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Fallom posted:Yeah not crazy but I don't want to let a brother buy a $200 Soundblaster ya know? please, pros run Xonar now. Here's mine: http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Xonar-D2X-Sound-Black/dp/B0011BC1FO
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Nov 13, 2013 02:50
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I have a Xonar DG in my desktop but I disabled it when I ran into some driver issues I think. It was like $30, I think I bought it because I figured the onboard sound was taking some percentage of CPU cycles to run and wanted to minimize that
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:please, pros run Xonar now. No one buys sound cards anymore, stop trolling. Mods?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:No one buys sound cards anymore, stop trolling. Mods? enjoy your low quality sound scrub
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I made my newegg wish list public but I can't figure out how to share it.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:57
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:No one buys sound cards anymore, stop trolling. Mods? This. I paid about $1300 for my system but I went out for a good monitor, and overclock ready CPU/Mobo. It can be pricy fast.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I made my newegg wish list public but I can't figure out how to share it. You can put together the same list on pcpartpicker.com and we can be little you for shameful poor people choices.
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Nov 13, 2013 02:59
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I bet he's got a tricked out Voodoo FX rig.
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I edited my post above but here it is again
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As an AMD processor buyer I Serious edit: unless you plan to do video editing or something you Dont need or want an i7
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I edited my post above but here it is again Cut the RAM down to 8gb and switch to an EVGA card. Also consider an i5 chip especially one with a K suffix. Overclock that poo poo easily.
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Ok that seems like a rad config. PSU seems a little pricy though, I have a 650 W that I bought for like $50. Maybe get a different brand vid card and see if you can get 4 GB memory for just a little more. Also why i7? i5 will do just fine for games and paying the premium for i7 never seemed worth it.
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Fallom posted:Ok that seems like a rad config. PSU seems a little pricy though, I have a 650 W that I bought for like $50. I have no idea. Bigger numbers? I'll go for an i5 as well then.
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Fallom posted:Ok that seems like a rad config. PSU seems a little pricy though, I have a 650 W that I bought for like $50. If there's one thing to overspend on in a PC build it's the power supply. Buy something you know is good, XFX, Corsair, etc
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I have no idea. Bigger numbers? I'll go for an i5 as well then. Do you plan to overclock your CPU?
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holocaust bloopers posted:Cut the RAM down to 8gb Ignore this part.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I have no idea. Bigger numbers? I'll go for an i5 as well then. Cut the ram down too. 16 gb will go unused for most everything outside of heavy media production like movie editing poo poo.
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gleep gloop posted:If there's one thing to overspend on in a PC build it's the power supply. Buy something you know is good, XFX, Corsair, etc Yeah I bought a corsair 650 W PSU at best buy for $50 but it was on sale sooo $100+ seems like a bit much
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gleep gloop posted:Do you plan to overclock your CPU? Not at all. Got this bitch down to 1008. I don't need a case or monitor or anything so all these parts are what I have. I'm conflicted on RAM. edit: Gonna stick with 8.
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Memory is cheap though, you will eventually toss in another 8GB so you could drop it or just toss it in now.Fart Sandwiches posted:Not at all. Got this bitch down to 1008. I don't need a case or monitor or anything so all these parts are what I have. I'm conflicted on RAM. In that case you want this processor: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646i54570 That is the one you want, that motherboard is fine. A K series is able to overclock but costs a (little) bit more. You may want a K series though to extend the life of your system but if you don't plan on overclcocking that is the CPU to get. Edit: Didn't see that was the micro ATX board, listen to Kung gleep gloop fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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holocaust bloopers posted:Cut the ram down too. 16 gb will go unused for most everything outside of heavy media production like movie editing poo poo. poo poo loads faster. I've got an SSD and 12GB of RAM and people with 24 load Bf4 maps way faster than I do. Edit: When I have an extra $100 or so I'm going to double up.
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At the price I have it at now I think I can convince my wife that 100 dollars of MY OWN GODDAMNED MONEY (I have a $400 a month "allowance"... I'm such a shameful man) for 10 months is totally doable. I'll buy this poo poo tomorrow and hopefully I can be playing Battlefield 4 by the weekend.
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Godholio posted:poo poo loads faster. I've got an SSD and 12GB of RAM and people with 24 load Bf4 maps way faster than I do. An SSD will be worth it more than ram and he's already got one. Waste of money IMO. Use that cash during a Steam sale.
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If you buy a monitor I can't recommend this one enough http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236117 Asus V238H. Very low input lag. This is one of the monitors that's touted as the standard one for fighting game tournaments, and it's a good price- it's really useful for shooters and stuff too, and a good price.
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please dont get a micro atx board holy poo poo. Also I hear Haswell cpus are poo poo, go with an Ivy Bridge.
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:If you buy a monitor I can't recommend this one enough This is my monitor, I think you recommended it actually, and I love it. Really good value for the price to. Fart Sandwiches posted:At the price I have it at now I think I can convince my wife that 100 dollars of MY OWN GODDAMNED MONEY (I have a $400 a month "allowance"... I'm such a shameful man) for 10 months is totally doable. I'll buy this poo poo tomorrow and hopefully I can be playing Battlefield 4 by the weekend. lol your situation sounds a bit weird but you know your finances. Just don't go past a year, that's a TON of interest.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:please dont get a micro atx board holy poo poo. Also I hear Haswell cpus are poo poo, go with an Ivy Bridge. drat I meant to get a regular ATX anyway. 20 bucks more and much more space for poo poo. Edit: Haha I already have that Asus monitor!
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And if you don't have a gamepad, a PS4 controller works pretty great. Picked up a spare one today and got it working with Crysis 3 in about 2 minutes.
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I'm for real on the Haswell poo poosome nerd posted:These different names indicate different generations of the "core i" CPU's from intel. The 2nd generation "sandy bride" chips are good but are a little old now. The 3rd gen "ivy bridge" cpu's are the pinnacle of this architecture with the best power to performance ratio. The 4th gen "haswell" chips are a step backwards as they do not offer a significant performance increase over the previous generation, use more power, run hotter and cost more as do the 1150 motherboards needed to use them. I hope this helps a bit.
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Thanks for yelling at me and helping pick a non-overpriced pc.
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