I've always been curious about what people do with their machines when they have complete monster computers. Do you truly need the speed you have?
Do you just like building and having the best?
Are you a hard-core gamer who plays dual 2550px monitors and can't deal with anything less than the highest graphical quality?
Do you do large-scale video production and the faster the rendering the better?
Or, do you mostly do web browsing and the occasional game, but just want it to be really fast when you do that?
Just interested to see how people use their machines. You'll see that my machine is quick, but by no means an absolute beast, at least compared to most people here. I have a ton of RAM because I'm a photographer, and I use my machine primarily for Photoshop and Lightroom, and when I'm doing a 15 image stitch of 16 megapixel images, I need computing power and lots of RAM. Same with HDR processing. And it's essential if I'm doing an HDR of a panorama (can sometimes have 40-80 photos merged to a single file). I don't do that too much, but I do a fair bit of HDR and multi-image stitching, as well as multiple layer work and such...my older machine was seriously bogging down under the stress, and so my current computer has literally cut an hour off every shoot I process.
I also game a bit, mostly first person shooters, as the other types of games I like to play are sports type games that are best on my Xbox360, but I'm not a hardcore gamer, and I just want enough horsepower for new games to look good at 1680x1050...I'm OK turning down details a bit as long as it plays well. MW3 runs great at all high detail with AA on, so I'm happy.
Do you just like building and having the best?
Are you a hard-core gamer who plays dual 2550px monitors and can't deal with anything less than the highest graphical quality?
Do you do large-scale video production and the faster the rendering the better?
Or, do you mostly do web browsing and the occasional game, but just want it to be really fast when you do that?
Just interested to see how people use their machines. You'll see that my machine is quick, but by no means an absolute beast, at least compared to most people here. I have a ton of RAM because I'm a photographer, and I use my machine primarily for Photoshop and Lightroom, and when I'm doing a 15 image stitch of 16 megapixel images, I need computing power and lots of RAM. Same with HDR processing. And it's essential if I'm doing an HDR of a panorama (can sometimes have 40-80 photos merged to a single file). I don't do that too much, but I do a fair bit of HDR and multi-image stitching, as well as multiple layer work and such...my older machine was seriously bogging down under the stress, and so my current computer has literally cut an hour off every shoot I process.
I also game a bit, mostly first person shooters, as the other types of games I like to play are sports type games that are best on my Xbox360, but I'm not a hardcore gamer, and I just want enough horsepower for new games to look good at 1680x1050...I'm OK turning down details a bit as long as it plays well. MW3 runs great at all high detail with AA on, so I'm happy.
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