Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[sharpxmen]

it's not hard to get 4.0Ghz out of a 920.  I have mine set at 4.0 in the bios and an extra 200mhz in the EVGA OC'ed.  I could probably get more but I'm happy with 4.2Ghz.  Mine runs quiet with the hydro.  The GFX scream when pressed and are a lot louder then the CPU/Case fans.

I'd like to get a 970 but I'll wait till their prices drop some.

i can get a 920 for $185 shipped or a 950 for $210

not sure which one to go with, $25 more for 950 that has the multiplier at 23 vs 20 on the 920, that's about the only difference I think (and the resulting speed)

still thinking which one

[Jeffy]

i can get a 920 for $185 shipped or a 950 for $210

not sure which one to go with, $25 more for 950 that has the multiplier at 23 vs 20 on the 920, that's about the only difference I think (and the resulting speed)

still thinking which one

I'd definitely get the 950.  $25 for better OC'ing. Although if you're just shooting for 4.0Ghz, there won't be much difference between the two.

[sharpxmen]

I'd definitely get the 950.  $25 for better OC'ing. Although if you're just shooting for 4.0Ghz, there won't be much difference between the two.

i got the 950

i just need a bigger power supply now and the second GTX280, mine is 750w but going SLI i am thinking 1000w would be more appropriate if not absolutely necessary (i have 8 fans in my rig  plus the waterpump)

[Jeffy]

I bumped my CPU to 4.3Ghz just because.  I could go higher but I'd need to increase the CPU voltage a little.  I know it will run 4.4-5Ghz with the higher voltage.  Might even be able to get 4.6Ghz.  But I'm not that interested in pushing it much more.

[chardrc]

Portal 2 arrived today (gotta love amazon prime). that will put assassins creed 2 on hold for a few nights at least.

[Jeffy]

Well, I got Portal 2 as well.

Also put my computer back to 4.2Ghz.  I was getting some lockups and BSOD and didn't want to trouble shoot it so I went back to what's been stable.  I think it's RAM related though.

[chardrc]

finished portal 2. probably the quickest completion time from time of purchase of a game ever for me. basically had all the settings maxed out and played nicely except when you got lots of the liquid gue stuff flying around. maybe i tried to play it too fast but the game kind of annoyed me. especially in the middle when you have massive areas but can only walk in one little catwalk and have to find the 1 square your portal gun works on.... and the pre-rendered ending seen had some sub-par graphics in my opinion for pre-rendered i would think it would at-least look as good as max game settings... tried playing 1 round of the online coop but was getting extremely annoying echoing background talking noise even though the otehr player "didn't have a mic"  , adn i unplugged mine.. will have to comeback to that latter. too much gaming not enough jeeping / wrenching (actually spent the last 2 weeks diagnosing and fixing the 1990 xj but thats another story)

[jramey]

Anyone on here play socom4?

[chrisfranklin]

Just bought a better power supply -- the latest 1200W Antec unit mostly because it'll fit my P182 case.   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371043.   Probably going to swap both the old 9800GTX+ video cards I have in my desktop for something newer, so the additional wattage headroom would be useful. 

Frankly, my 2 year old system probably needed a power upgrade from the outset, regardless of video card swaps -- have been way too many crashes, blue-screens, unexplainable shut-downs since I put the thing together in '09.  I figured I'd be upgrading things two years in in 2011, so a new power supply wasn't an unexpected purchase, though. 

Need to find some new games once I get the cards in there too.

[sharpxmen]

Just bought a better power supply -- the latest 1200W Antec unit mostly because it'll fit my P182 case.   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371043.   Probably going to swap both the old 9800GTX+ video cards I have in my desktop for something newer, so the additional wattage headroom would be useful. 

Frankly, my 2 year old system probably needed a power upgrade from the outset, regardless of video card swaps -- have been way too many crashes, blue-screens, unexplainable shut-downs since I put the thing together in '09.  I figured I'd be upgrading things two years in in 2011, so a new power supply wasn't an unexpected purchase, though. 

Need to find some new games once I get the cards in there too.

that's a lot, are you planning to run triple SLI?
 i bought a 1000W coolermaster but mainly 'cause I found it cheap otherwise i would have probably gone with a 1200w like you did

[chrisfranklin]

that's a lot, are you planning to run triple SLI?
 i bought a 1000W coolermaster but mainly 'cause I found it cheap otherwise i would have probably gone with a 1200w like you did

Nah, just SLI.  Probably overkill.  I was probably too conservative with the 650W unit I started with (did use a couple of power supply calculators, though) and 1200W, now, is probably more than I'll ever use on this system (read a few people testing the the thing were finding it outputting 1700W max http://hardwareaware.com/review/hcp-1200).

Reading though that a couple of the newer cards in SLI will need 900W total. Then you get in to the drives, optical, memory, over-clocking, past shut-down headaches and it's kind of like:  alright, alright, gotta make sure there's enough power this time  

[chardrc]

team fortress 2 went play for free now. crazy how much its changed since it came out... i basically stopped playing shortly after they added the craft your own stuff thing. to much new stuff for me to want to keep up with..

[chrisfranklin]

Got this new power supply hooked up.  Forgot my first one was a 650W Antec unit, not Thermaltake; in the photo, it's below the 1200 and it used to be a nice fit in the silver "box."    The new supply is a tight fit in a mid-size case, but it does fit ok without any interference with the cables.

[chrisfranklin]

Anybody playing Dirt 3? 

Downloaded it off Steam a couple of days ago.  It's better in some ways than Dirt 2 with the snow and rain on tracks, more realistic audio and graphic details.  They chucked the X Games-type deal at the beginning -- not having to redo that probably saved them a ton of work, but it also seems like it got them out of "a ton of work" that they charged the same price for.   

[chrisfranklin]

Nobody's playing Dirt 3?  Jeffy, Chardrc?   

Was a little down on the game at first, but the multiplayer race called "cat 'n' mouse" is an f-ing laugh-riot.  You have teams and one guy on each draws the Mini Cooper which is making 4Bangerjp power.  The other guys on the team get fast cars -- Audio Quattros at 600hp or whatever.  Team that wins get their Cooper across first wins.  So the Quattros work like blockers trying to keep the other teams cars from taking out their Cooper.  It's total mayhem  .