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Oh where does the money go?
Or from my pocket to thiers.
Seen the latest releases from the likes of intel, asus, nvidia, or ati? How about the wish list of componets you want still sitting unfullfilled on your desk? We never seem to get all the way since everything changes as fast as we start to put something together.
There is the gratifacation when a project completes, and the testing, scoring, gaming all come to that pervious moment of elation.
The down side come the next news release of even faster graphics, greater cache levels, and the all in wonder more cores(unlocked of course). My next range of thought lends to how many builds can one junkie do? Obviously money is the determining factor. Don't you just hate that. As with any hobby (aka obsession), junkie are not, we take what we can get. I've been furtunate enough to have done several builds with clock speed above the 4.o club marks, and everyone of them is as intoxicating as the first. Is there no end in site? Me hopes not.
Eight cores of hyperthreaded horse power is right around the corner and at over one thousand pin count, the new conglomerations of motherboards will be spear heading the rushes to the local parts markets (I expect to lead the pack).
When it comes to overclocking, one would think they may have to break into fort knox to get the secrets to have success at it. My honest belief is fear is the prevailing factor. From all the investigation and research i have done two things repeatedly stand out. The first one seems to be uncertainty, and the second is the worry the one might trash their system. I ask you, why a venture down this road be made if one had reservations about the possible loss of equipment, after all, isn't that what it is about? I have seen a great many mild overclocking summaries which lead me to one of two possibilities. Either they haven't any real confidence (fear), or they haven't a clue.
I have run several proccessors up to 4.0 and beyond, yet am unable to find pubilication from the leading authorities as to thier abilities to do the same.
The game that is customization, is exactly that, doing what others can't, or don't.
In the end it is like any other challenge, and I loved a challenge. So here's to 6 no 7 no 8.0 and above.
At any rate, the joys of the tinkerer are always ever present.
To all who pursue this avenues plight, success on your journeys.
There is the gratifacation when a project completes, and the testing, scoring, gaming all come to that pervious moment of elation.
The down side come the next news release of even faster graphics, greater cache levels, and the all in wonder more cores(unlocked of course). My next range of thought lends to how many builds can one junkie do? Obviously money is the determining factor. Don't you just hate that. As with any hobby (aka obsession), junkie are not, we take what we can get. I've been furtunate enough to have done several builds with clock speed above the 4.o club marks, and everyone of them is as intoxicating as the first. Is there no end in site? Me hopes not.
Eight cores of hyperthreaded horse power is right around the corner and at over one thousand pin count, the new conglomerations of motherboards will be spear heading the rushes to the local parts markets (I expect to lead the pack).
When it comes to overclocking, one would think they may have to break into fort knox to get the secrets to have success at it. My honest belief is fear is the prevailing factor. From all the investigation and research i have done two things repeatedly stand out. The first one seems to be uncertainty, and the second is the worry the one might trash their system. I ask you, why a venture down this road be made if one had reservations about the possible loss of equipment, after all, isn't that what it is about? I have seen a great many mild overclocking summaries which lead me to one of two possibilities. Either they haven't any real confidence (fear), or they haven't a clue.
I have run several proccessors up to 4.0 and beyond, yet am unable to find pubilication from the leading authorities as to thier abilities to do the same.
The game that is customization, is exactly that, doing what others can't, or don't.
In the end it is like any other challenge, and I loved a challenge. So here's to 6 no 7 no 8.0 and above.
At any rate, the joys of the tinkerer are always ever present.
To all who pursue this avenues plight, success on your journeys.
Cousins
What's Your Poison?
so you wanna build a computer.
Video,calculations,surfer,gamer,or extreme gamer. What's your poison? This is the beginning question we ask ourselves to consider what we need in our build. The second question is money,or from our pocket to thiers.How much cpu,memory,storage capacity,graphics,power supply do you need? What about a case? And then there is cooling all of it. For a newbie this might sound scary, others, it's just the thoughts of pocket book availability.
Relax. It really comes down to what you are trying to do, and how much your willing to spend. The rest of the information is readily available online, internet only required.
Many how to guides and tech specs are availible for free and i will post many through the topics on this lens. Always feel freeto leave feed back,ideas, or request, and i would be happy to help if i can.
Twins
Decision Time
or have you made your mind up yet?
Well if you are reading this you either are looking for information, decided to try for yourself, or have already built and just curious. I'm the later, however i still search religiously all the time, as the changes come extremely fast.If your not overclocking your system then follow the install from your owners manual and great computing to you. If you are clocking you've just opened the door to more questions than you can imagine.
First: which proccesor format intel or amd?
Second: How fast do you wanna go?
The first two questions lead to a general path that suggest motherboards you might review, hard drives for storage capacity and speed (to raid or not). Memory capacity/ speed,Graphics cards vs. applications, and of course the psu required.
Oh i almost forgot, can we say money?
For video editing,decode/recoding a lot of proccessor power is desired unless you've got plenty of time and are never in a hurry. Gaming can tax almost everything, but most especially the graphics cards. That being said, do you want to use 1,2,3,or 4 cards. One high end card can do a great job, however, with todays pricing a couple of slightly less expensive one can do more. Please do your homework here, not just any two cards are going to blow out a single nvidia 280 or a ati 4870 series cards.
So now you have a starting point.
Feel free to leave my any comment/ questions you have and i will try to include it in this lens as it travels down the line of site.
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