The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

One of my friends sons bought an i3 laptop and when I showed him what the laptop does he said his son had problems with his too but thought it was the i3 processor just being slow so he bought an i7 which he liked more but still shows some of the power savings nonsense. I've also seen this on my Shuttle but I must say that on that system the mainboard is part of the problem, Shuttle's have never used great products.

At any rate you can believe what you want I know what I know and it isn't BS no matter what ARPANET or you thinks. Also I have a friend in the Luther organization, part of their help desk, that would also go with what I'm saying about Intel's he has a i7 laptop as well and wasn't as impressed like his boss was over Intel he has now gone back to AMD and doesn't wast his time and money.

Hey if you think they are great and want to spend the extra money knock yourself out, to each his own I just don't buy it, all that matters though is that you are happy with your choices, I certainly am with mine most of the time even though I have my i5 and should have gave it to my daughter instead of the A6 she got and loves.

 

Rich, her name is Christa, and she plays video games haha. Lately I've been giving her Skyrim help I won't go into any more detail than that as a courtesy both to her and to other forum goers. Maybe more to know at a later time

As for Assassins Creed III, I'm not really sure what to say. It performs pretty decently for me on the whole. I'll have to go play some more before I can give you an average. Assassin's Creed 2 ran quite well.

Assassin's Creed 1 has badly bugged performance. You basically can't play it without hilarious amounts of AMD graphical horsepower or an Nvidia card. The ancient 8800GTS runs it better than either single or Crossfire 6850s. Perhaps AC3 is one of those cases as I see other forums are reporting similar inconsistency. Guys with single HD4670s running it fine but others with GTX690s and the like barely managing the teens.

All I can say is get the latest drivers and CAPs.

Mr Movies, whether or not Intel is a faster product is not up for debate. It's much faster, period. The fact that AMD remains a far better value has nothing to do with raw performance. It's simply not a matter of opinion. I have done plenty of real-world testing on my own that shows Intel's superiority by a wide margin. Not other peoples' testing in synthetic benchmarks. My own, in my own benchmarks. Intel slaps AMD silly in that regard. Value-wise... well there's a reason I run AMD hardware.

 

No pun intended on the Skyrim I take it? LOL good one Jeff.... That game must of been streamlined for the 8800GTS sounds like. I think I want to play around with Christa too, doesn't that sound funny? Rich, That is a pretty cool/sweet game setup I may have to screw around with that one and either get a 360 controller and/or try to get comfortable with playing in mouse mode, which I hate personally. There are some other games I mean to play then and I suppose I should look at getting an add-on video card as well.

Real nice job Harvard!

Got my last two golf clubs done and boy are they nice, a UST VTS 7TX Tour shaft with a Acer Leggera 9.5 degree head for my new 300+ yard Driver, plus a Appolo Cooper shaft with a Sand Blaster 52 degree head for a new Sand Wedge. Now if my back holds out, which is questionable, I should have a fun two day tournament at Madden's on Gull Lake: Pine Beach East.

Now off to work then laundry, fix one of the trophy's, pack the cooler, finish ripping a couple of Blu-rays and maybe some sleep before my morning tee time in Brainerd, MN for the start of our spring tourney.

Have a great weekend guys,
Stevo

 

Indeed very heavily Nvidia biased considering the HD6850s are about twice as fast as the 8800GTS. Poorly optimised for non-Nvidia cards.

Haaaaa watch it there old man. You're as bad as my dad Be aware that she is my girlfriend, not just an interest

A simple entry-level to mid-range video card that can at least get you into games isn't too expensive. <$100 will have you playing the majority of titles out there without much issue. As far as mouse vs keyboard... you know my views on that. I certainly can't argue with your preferences but be warned that only using a controller limits your choice in games. A good many of them simply just aren't suitable for a gamepad. I do agree, however, that a much larger percentage of them should have proper gamepad support.

Good luck on your golf outing. One of my good friends is very into golf but has had some unfortunate limitations placed on him due to back surgery. Will be another year before the poor guy can perform a proper swing. He's pretty bummed.

 

Unless I misinterpreted your English, you seem to think that Utorrent is not compatible with Windows 8. I read some info on their site, and 3.2.2 is supposed to address that compatibility And there's been a few releases since then.

I really would like to try windows 8 again. But I have some serious hard drive organizing to do. I'm trying to dump/burn/delete data from 2 of my 2Tb drives, so I can sell them, and purchase either 2 3Tb drives, or a single 4Tb. Not sure yet.

 

That's correct, only up to the last of version 2 are incompatible with Windows 8. However, try using utorrent 3 without wanting to smash something up. Few applications can make me that angry, that quickly!

 

Ha ha, Understood

Hmm, I'm using 3.2.0 and no problems. Other than some slow closures sometimes.

 

The malware in the installer, the adverts, the worse interface, none of this gets to you? :S

 

does vuze work?

 

I believe Vuze to be compatible with win8, but find that just as hateful to use. Azureus becoming Vuze was the reason I switched to solely using utorrent. As for now, people are recommending I try qbittorrent but I haven't got round to it yet as 95% of my torrents are run on a linux seedbox with rtorrent.

 

I find its functionality to be good. I use it... um... a lot LOL!
The interface hasn't turned me off. Don't recall any malware, or adverts.


Been meaning to try a seedbox. Not til I switch ISP's though.

 

you guys use a VPN using utorrent? or does peer guardian/peer block work good enough?

 

Private Tracker, plus PG/PB Not 100% safe, if I elected to perform illegal activities.

 

Thanks Jeff I will.

I've been using FDM for Torrents on Windows 8 and I've not run into any issues the little I did with one of my buddies Netbooks. Everything operated as it should and I even seeded for awhile.

Even if you use a tunnel (VPN) you still have the trackers and seeds shared so no you wouldn't be safe if you are using it for hacked stuff.

Well time to get ready for the outing and a nap before tee time.

See ya in a couple,
Stevo

 

Does it really even matter with this whole PRISM debacle going on right now?

 

no I'm drinking coffee!

 

Haha hate to say it but every single thing I predicted since 2008 has come to pass. It's happened exactly as I said it. Our leadership is a joke.

PeerBlock and uTorrent for me. Only ever received a single cease and desist, which was for a freely distributed patch for Skyrim.

After being informed of the issue(I am a paying customer with multiple boxed and digital versions of most of their games, UPC codes provided for proof of purchase)Bethesda was actually kind enough to write a notification to my ISP and to Zenimax informing them that they just tried to flag me for downloading something that was free for an entirely innocent purpose. It was for modding. You know, that thing Bethesda officially supports? I own a valid license for the game, I have a right to access the patches and DLC I paid for.

That was an interesting ordeal. I would have understood if they caught me downloading a paid DLC, but it was not.

 

Their laws are rather sketchy. I got a cease and desist for downloading a tv show. I actually replied to the email!!! I more or less told them, "I'm sorry. I forgot to set my DVR that night! I do pay for the station!" Why would I stream a bad copy from their website, when I can download a much higher quality file.
I think they're more concerned with Uploaders, than downloaders though.

 

All I can say is that Bethesda made a lifelong fan through that situation. They actually care about their customers.