I'm on a tech forum and can't believe that

[brianmanahan]

All this time, I had no idea it was an alpha version.

What the s**t mateAnandtech, what the s**t?

You put an alpha release on a large website? lol

AT forums is a cash cow - slap it together, get some people to donate time to mod it, and watch the money come in while never updating software until the eventual heat death of the universe.

 

[JamesV]

I think it's apt that you are rocking some ancient build on a tech forum. Don't lie, the reason you have that rockin' system is because you visit a tech forum.

I'm in the same boat. 2600K 8GBk 580 GTX 1080, and only stupid settings like the Witcher Uber sampling ever shows a slowdown.

But... the newest games like Just Cause 3 are above my specs in video card. And I see many people saying the newest 3770 whatever isn't all that great of an improvement over my 2011 2600K. Thinking the best bet is a 97/8/whatever I milk three more years out of this system, and then use that card in a new build where I don't have to consider video in the price.

Still have an aftermarket cooler to put on my 2600k too, but I'm kind of scared of removing five year old thermal paste off of a CPU and applying new paste under the new cooler. Sounds fun though.

 

[Captante]

Main CPU is a slightly overclocked FX-8350 (4.3 ghz all cores) ... have felt no need to upgrade anything other then my GPU (GTX-770) since every game I currently play runs fine.

And agreed about 1200p.

 

[OverVolt]

I went from using my skills to overclock to using my skills to keep 10 yr old machines running smooth. Just me personally.

I've had alot of success correctly diagnosing bad components first try. IE memory errors with sticks of memory that test fine in another system and thus the motherboard needs to be replaced since the memory controller was going bad etc.

 

[EliteRetard]

*snip*

Still have an aftermarket cooler to put on my 2600k too, but I'm kind of scared of removing five year old thermal paste off of a CPU and applying new paste under the new cooler. Sounds fun though.

Find the healthcare section of your favorite store and pick up some ~90% isopropyl alcohol and some cotton swabs. Damp a napkin/towel with it initially for the big swipe then damp a swab for the fine cleaning. Quickly cleans any paste I've ever run into, and it evaporates very quickly.

 

[EliteRetard]

*snip*
And agreed about 1200p.

I like how you guys are arguing for the inferior resolution of 1920x1200 @ 60Hz.
1920x1440 @ 85+ Hz is where it's at. 4:3 Master Race!

 

[Belegost]

Got my 2500K at 4.3 with a GTX460 and an old Crucial M100. It's stable, quick, and low maintenance, I'm not changing anything til it breaks.

 

[Red Squirrel]

All this time, I had no idea it was an alpha version.

What the shit mateAnandtech, what the shit?

You put an alpha release on a large website? lol

LOL yeah that always made me laugh that they went with an Alpha. Heck I'm surprised that an Alpha version of a PAID software would even be an option to buy. Or did they get it for free to be beta testers?

This reminds me, I need to get my shit together and launch my forum again, it always ends up on the back burner. I have 2 active forums and 2 that I had to shut down due to security issues (super old, like early 2000 era software) and I am combining all 4 into one forum. I mostly have the conversion script working it just needs more tweaking before I release it.

I'll also use SSL. It's relatively cheap now days to get a cert.

 

[Captante]

I like how you guys are arguing for the inferior resolution of 1920x1200 @ 60Hz.
1920x1440 @ 85+ Hz is where it's at. 4:3 Master Race!

Was only comparing to 1080p.

 

[Markbnj]

hear hear

I hear, but it ain't gonna happen. 4k is the next step.

Still running two 1200 line monitors here. They can have those 120 lines when they pry them from my cold, dead... something.

 

[EliteRetard]

Was only comparing to 1080p.

I was being facetious.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I can't wait till 4k becomes mainstream for computer monitors. I could probably even get away with just 2 monitors or even just 1, as it means so much more pixel real estate. 4k is basically equivalent to 4 HD monitors right?

The introduction of widescreen actually set us back by a lot though. When it first came out, monitors actually had LESS pixels than monitors from like 5 years before. Widescreen was basically a 4:3 monitor with part of the top missing. It technically still is, but now we added more pixels that it's caught up and surpassed the last 4:3 monitors.

 

[cKGunslinger]

i5 2500K + Radeon 7850 (won on this forum)

Still handles whatever I want (just not at 4K)

 

[destrekor]

I hear, but it ain't gonna happen. 4k is the next step.

Still running two 1200 line monitors here. They can have those 120 lines when they pry them from my cold, dead... something.

Well, it's not so much the 1200 lines - it's the 16:10 ratio in of itself. There exists a standard 16:10 variant of the 4K resolution, but it will be just as rare as 1920x1200 monitors today.


And I am sorely disappointed that I chose to adopt a 3x1080p monitor setup. Oh, how I crave that extra vertical height. But the selection of 1200p monitors is so limited, for what I wanted to pay and what I wanted out of them, I hadn't really viewed it as an option at the time of purchase. That, and I probably had not searched hard enough.

Actually, scratch that, I think I realize what went through my head at the time: I didn't want black bars on 16:9 content. What a stupid thought that I had back then.

 

[Sonikku]

AMD isn't competitive any more so Intel can just put things on cruise control a while.

 

[EliteRetard]

AMD isn't competitive any more so Intel can just put things on cruise control for over half a decade.

Ftfy.

 

[arcenite]

Ftfy.

 

[ultimatebob]

The big improvements over the past few years have been in storage, not CPU.

If you're not using a system with an SSD at this point, you're missing out. The difference in load times is amazing.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

The big improvements over the past few years have been in storage, not CPU.

If you're not using a system with an SSD at this point, you're missing out. The difference in load times is amazing.

Agreed I didn't because of cost/storage size and I assumed my old machine wouldn't see that much of a benefit. Saw one cheap picked it up and installed it. Boy was I wrong everything is perceivably faster.

 

[EliteRetard]

Agreed I didn't because of cost/storage size and I assumed my old machine wouldn't see that much of a benefit. Saw one cheap picked it up and installed it. Boy was I wrong everything is perceivably faster.

I picked up a 2500k system for my dad...it had a HDD and I swapped it to an SSD (if I recall an M500 256GB). Didn't make any noticeable difference. I have an X6-1100T with a 2TB WD Black, it's easily as fast as my dads system. And over time, my machine has remained just as fast, while his system has been bogged down with all kinds of crap. Finally had to do a reformat to make it run O.K. His still takes between 1-5 minutes to boot up.

Besides boot times, the only other thing I have to wait for is game loads. All my other programs load very quickly. The slowest being the windows calculator for some reason, it can sometimes take almost a second. So I'm sticking with my HDD. At least until I can get an upgrade in storage at the same time, so a 4TB SSD.

 

[JulesMaximus]

If you don't have your OS loaded on an SSD I would recommend it. Boot times are so much faster and games and other large programs (assuming you can fit all your most used applications on the SSD your OS is loaded on) will load and run much faster.

 

[bradly1101]

The upgrade cycle is getting longer. My old X-58 system handles DVR/server/transcoding with aplomb, doing it all at the same time without a single hitch. Unless it gets fried, I expect to be on the same hardware for a very long time. I'm sure MS will make something incompatible again in collusion with hardware vendors to try to make me upgrade, but Win 7 will be my last MS OS.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I picked up a 2500k system for my dad...it had a HDD and I swapped it to an SSD (if I recall an M500 256GB). Didn't make any noticeable difference. I have an X6-1100T with a 2TB WD Black, it's easily as fast as my dads system. And over time, my machine has remained just as fast, while his system has been bogged down with all kinds of crap. Finally had to do a reformat to make it run O.K. His still takes between 1-5 minutes to boot up.

Besides boot times, the only other thing I have to wait for is game loads. All my other programs load very quickly. The slowest being the windows calculator for some reason, it can sometimes take almost a second. So I'm sticking with my HDD. At least until I can get an upgrade in storage at the same time, so a 4TB SSD.

I bet something else is going on. I have that ssd my start up time is from pushing power button to a web browser is at 25-44 seconds, I've timed it.

 

[EliteRetard]

I bet something else is going on. I have that ssd my start up time is from pushing power button to a web browser is at 25-44 seconds, I've timed it.

I dunno what the deal is. I tested the drive, it get's the right benchmark numbers. It was running AHCI on Win7, recently had to set it back to regular SATA to get Win10 to play nice. Still performs the same. Recently replaced the 8GB of RAM with a new 16GB kit, that made more of a difference with all the crap he keeps open.

Normally I'd recall the exact specs of what's in the machine, but this one was pre-built. I don't recall now what the MOBO is or the PSU etc. I've fiddled with it a bunch, I can't figure out if there's anything wrong. I tried to OC it once, that didn't work at all...can't even get it to do max turbo on all cores (it does have a large tower heatsink).

Meh it aint my PC. Was a big step up from the dual core AMD he had before.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I bet something else is going on. I have that ssd my start up time is from pushing power button to a web browser is at 25-44 seconds, I've timed it.

I just timed mine. 40 seconds from power on to windows loaded and ready to use and 20-25 seconds of that is just the system posting.