First legitimate desktop build ever

[lehtv]

The rest of you can take your hate and ah heck off.

:thumbsdown:

What hate? There's no hate, just telling things like they are. No one wants to take your happiness away from you.

Nevertheless, enjoy.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I think that his rig is fine. Sure, overkill in a few areas, but it's a decent rig.

And about the 4GB graphics card - if the GTX460 cards had come in 2GB varieties when released, then it would actually have been prudent to pick up two of those for SLI, when VRAM requirements for modern games are increasing.

GTX460 1GB SLI is still quite powerful, but bumping up against VRAM limitations in modern games. Especially something like modded Skyrim.

So if he plans to SLI in the future, two 4GB cards would probably be ideal, for the games 3 years from now.

 

[Termie]

Whatever. My system is built and i LOVE IT. I paid a little over $1100 for the components, and I think I got an excellent deal for the money. I built a system with flexibility and expansion in mind. If you think a lower spec'd system is better, good for you. I like seeing that my system runs at 26 degrees all the time. The water cooler does that. Not a few weak fans. I like that the 2 displays that i'm using right now both look great. I like that I can look at adding a 3rd wihout needing to purchase anything else. Bottom line, It's my system, and even if I built it just to play friggin Solitaire, it suits me. The rest of you can take your hate and ah heck off.

Glad to hear you got it working. If you have questions regarding tweaking your build, head over to the CPU/VideoCard/Memory forums for help.

Builders all have different objectives in mind. Some are looking for the best price/performance ratio, some are looking for the highest overclock, some, like me, are looking for the lowest energy use and least amount of noise.

It seems you got what you were looking for.

 

[mfenn]

I think that his rig is fine. Sure, overkill in a few areas, but it's a decent rig.

And about the 4GB graphics card - if the GTX460 cards had come in 2GB varieties when released, then it would actually have been prudent to pick up two of those for SLI, when VRAM requirements for modern games are increasing.

GTX460 1GB SLI is still quite powerful, but bumping up against VRAM limitations in modern games. Especially something like modded Skyrim.

So if he plans to SLI in the future, two 4GB cards would probably be ideal, for the games 3 years from now.

This logic works in a world were Moore's Law doesn't exist. Fortunately, we don't live in such a world. Memory is one of the purest expressions of Moore's Law because it is a very regular design that scales in density almost perfectly proportionally process feature size.

If you bought 2GB GTX 460's two years ago, you would have paid over four times as much for the memory as you would have today. $600 for a pair of cards that has less performance and less usuable memory (remember that in multi-GPU, the RAM capacities do not add) than a sub-$300 from the Radeon 7000 series doesn't sound like a good deal to me. You would have been better off from a value perspective by buying a single GTX 460 and upgrading to a single Radeon 7000 series.

There's no reason to believe that the same won't hold true for today's double RAM cards.