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| 05 Apr 2012 08:32 PM |
Adding a 500w power supply and an AMD Radeon HD 6850
I'm debating between putting in the power-supply upside down or not... The old power supply had to fan on the top and this one does. It looks like it won't get enough air-flow if it is put in right-side up. (Or I'm a moron and the fan is supposed to face down...)
~Read Between The Squiggles~ |
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| 05 Apr 2012 08:56 PM |
I did some research; the supply is going in upsidedown xD
~Read Between The Squiggles~ |
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nightname
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| 05 Apr 2012 09:01 PM |
Submerge it in mineral oil, and your computer will be extremely cool. Pun not intended.
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Charl3s7
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| 05 Apr 2012 09:27 PM |
| Nice. I have a 6850 as well. I overclocked it to 900 Mhz. I have a 750w power supply. :O |
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oxcool1
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gergy008
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| 05 Apr 2012 09:52 PM |
@oxcool Don't be mean.
Nice man, my computer is on it's arse, literally every passing day it's dodging the coffin... or er... the bin :') |
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gergy008
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| 05 Apr 2012 09:53 PM |
| I accidently naughty word. :/ |
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oxcool1
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| 05 Apr 2012 09:58 PM |
AMD = pwnage
Your computer instantly wins. |
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gergy008
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| 05 Apr 2012 10:01 PM |
Nahnah I'm an Intel guy.. the only thing I don't like about Intel is the price, but the performance scales are epic.
I think the reason I don't like AMD is because I don't understand hoe the chipsets work/differ. |
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Charl3s7
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| 05 Apr 2012 10:14 PM |
| AMD is better for photo/video editing. Intel is better for games. But with my 6 core AMD Phenom II @ 3 ghz, I haven't found a game I can't run maxed. |
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Person299
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| 06 Apr 2012 12:09 AM |
"Submerge it in mineral oil, and your computer will be extremely cool. Pun not intended."
Whoa, I never knew about mineral oil cooling before googling it after I read that, thanks, that's so cool. lol |
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| 06 Apr 2012 12:38 AM |
| If you've got a 6850, make sure you've got a CPU that won't bottleneck your system and cause the card to not run at its full potential. |
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| 06 Apr 2012 05:02 AM |
lololo i has a factory overclocked 6870
with laggy bling bling software that i needed to install or the fans at full speed 24/7 or something |
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| 06 Apr 2012 05:05 AM |
| no offence but I'm not dropping my hardware into mineral goop. |
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Charl3s7
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| 06 Apr 2012 04:08 PM |
| My 6850 was factory overclocked from 775 mhz to 820 mhz. I then overclocked it more to 900 mhz. |
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| 06 Apr 2012 04:43 PM |
I feel low tech.
NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GE. Laptop Dedicated GPU, but it's terrible... sorta. Roblox just scrapes stable 30FPS.
*Bad times, bad times* |
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| 06 Apr 2012 05:08 PM |
Nvidia GT 440 1Gb FTW Intel Core i5 2500-k FTW Me FTW |
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| 06 Apr 2012 06:20 PM |
| That's alsmot *exactly* what I just did to my brother's, excpet I added a 6870 instead |
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| 06 Apr 2012 06:57 PM |
@rossb654mail XFX Radeon HD 6750 okay AMD FX-8120 FTW Me *somewhere between okay and ftw* |
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| 06 Apr 2012 07:00 PM |
| My laptop sucks. My processor has a speed of 1.0 GHz. :C |
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nightname
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| 06 Apr 2012 07:08 PM |
My phone is a quadcore 1.5GHz, Nvida Tegra, however in comparison, my laptop is a single core 2.1GHz.
I really need a new computer. Badly! |
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| 06 Apr 2012 07:41 PM |
"AMD is better for photo/video editing. Intel is better for games."
You have it backwards. Intel processors are better for photo/video editing because of HyperThreading. However, HT has been shown to cripple game performance. AMD processors, on the other hand, can handle games nicely, but lags behind Intel processors for tasks that benefit from virtual cores. |
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| 06 Apr 2012 07:41 PM |
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 --SRT ftw Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz Radeon HD 6870 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" HDD 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC SDD G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) RAM ASUS VH236H Black 23" 2ms Full HD Widescreen LCD 750W Power Supply
Comments/Suggestions? If I am going to make a PC this will probably be it.
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