Posts by Portalearth

well just add me and we'll take it from there. my handle is in the side thingy. *casually* Plus it only takes an hour and a half to get to Hutton once you're in Alpha Centauri.....

yo are we all gonna meet at Hutton Orbital tonight for some space-faring adventure? #crewmissions. midnight here is 8a GMT lol

granted. due to our technological advances from a lack of other sentient beings in the universe, we end up colonizing a planet and inadvertently creating sentient organism. in other words, we accidentally create life as intelligent as our own

I wish that the last wish i made didn't come true </3

Granted, now you have too much information. More than you wanted to know. like seriously too much information. You quit Crossfire shortly after learning too much info.

I wish i don't fuck it up with this girl i have a mad, love drunk crush on...

I looked on Newegg and even mid-range Radeon cards well selling upwards of 300-400. I did some research and the reason why new graphics cards are so expensive. And it's kind of a "duh" when you hear it but it's because of the cryptocurrency mining. A buddy of mine has 8 RX580 graphic graphics cards strickly for Ethereum. And even still, most online retailers are limiting "1 per customer" in addition to being sold out of every "reasonably" priced GPU's. Maybe this thread will help recommend EU Online computer part retailers What's the Newegg of the EU? - Ars Technica OpenForum

Then you got the huge mining operations where they'll have scores of graphics cards.

In other words, assholes like this guy are why upgrading a GPU is expensive

isn't there a Newegg type website for Europe?

granted, but humans find you a threat to their civilization and forge a magical weapon that defeats and imprisons you for eternity

I wish work was gonna be slow today

Those 960's and 970s will never run out of style apparently....

granted. the military barber was drunk and made everyone bald af.

I wish i remember that going to Sirius for a stupid mug doesn't mean i have to dock at Hutton. Missed out on a healthy 9m credits..

what GPU did you pick and whats your total cost gonna be?

granted. Michaels 300+ characters break the crossfire server. OP Gives up completely and shuts down the portal

I wish i had Rick's portal gun

granted but you were sold the museum replica and it doesn't fly

I wish for my mom would love me more

granted. it becomes the single post popular thread on the internet, with the swat portal reaching over 1 million visitors a day. The Portal becomes so overwhelmed that the server itself overheats and meltdowns. OP's stock investment into the SWAT Portal plummets and the community becomes completely deserted. For a brief time, The Crossfire server breached 100 players before Chris Roberts Microsoft sends a cease and desist order to OP.

I wish to for my next job to be as awesome as this one was (i'm getting laid off in March)

you definitely want to think about putting more money into your graphics card in general. Your wallet and gaming experience will thank you. I'm not saying you selected a bad card, but it's something i always tell people they should go all out as much as possible on the graphics car

i would upgrade your graphics card at the least, Denne. It'll run most stuff but it will be tough on your system overall. The general rule of thumb as far as "what do i upgrade to" is Nvidia has higher quality parts and performs better but at a much higher cost$. Radeon also produces quality cards, but it comes down to brand of manufacturer (asus, MSI, EVGA etc) and they are definitely more budget friendly. The RX580 4GB card runs about $220-$250 and it's about on par with a 1050 or 1060. Upgrade to what you need and not what you want. If you don't plan on mining bitcoins or doing VR (if greater than 4-cores), theres no reason for an 8GB monster video card that breaks your mobo.

@OP-R8R Newegg sells the 212x with a second fan as an option as well as other various models with LEDs or different colors. i.e gimmicky stuff. When i built my PC, i placed the PSU upside down by accident which made wiring everything that much more difficult especially since i had the goal of reducing visible wires. Theres at least or 2 or 3 issues that preventing me from attaching that second fan because i placed the PSU in wrong. I can't remember if i ever went back to fix it. i really don't need the second fan because i'm not Overclocking and in the end, it'll be more hassle than it's worth trying to attach it then recombobulate the 4-pin connector i had to unnecessarily reroute because my dumb ass doesn't know how to wire a computer lol. It would be easier to take a picture and upload it that try and describe it

The Coolermaster Hyper 212x Dual Fan CPU Cooler is literally the best traditional CPU cooler (i.e not liquid) on the market for it's size, performance and price. I have it thrown in mine and the noise my case produces is a VERY tolerable noise under load. Not quite to be a whisper but not loud enough to need to talk over my computer while under load. that said, i can't speak for avg temperature of my CPU under different circumstances, but i think it's good enough to where my system isn't affected by 30-40c temperatures playing Arma on a populated server. I also am not one of the people who have their computers on all the time. It saves energy and reduces undue wear on your system from idling for 8-10 hours or more. yeah there's "Standby" mode but it's just better to shut it down when you got to bed at night. I only run a single 1TB HD and my boot up times are around 30 seconds from a cold start.

I will also mention that i have a full size ATX Asus board and the only grip i have with this particular cooler is that the arrangement of the RAM slots won't allow the second fan (in addition to the fact i don't wanna have to deal with cable management. It took me two hours to get my computer completely wired while maximizing airflow and reducing the mess of wires annnnd I don't plan on snipping those zip ties anytime soon...

The Coolermaster Hyper 212X Dual fan is also VERY Overclock friendly if you're into that kind of kinky nonsense. I have factory OC on my AM3+ cpu at 4.20Ghz (because duh) and i don't have as many crashses or issues as others might

This reminds me, i gotta go get a can of air.....

First, lemme mention my specialty is budget builds. I generally try to spend as little as possible for the best quality product. Usually i'm looking at early current gen or late last gen equipment, which i feel is still within the "future proof" pool.

imo, stick another 8GB of RAM in it. Your computer and games will love you. RAM Timings don't make a huge/noticeable difference, so you can always save a few bucks for a small performance difference.

And unless you're planning to run ED in VR or any other VR game, anything more than a 4gb GPU is overkill.. I have 16gb of Ram and an MSI RX480 4gb and everything runs phenomenally at max settings. It's a VR ready card, but since i'm only running a 4-core CPU, it's not worth spending the other 500-600 bucks on a decent VR kit.

If anything: Dump as much money as possible in your graphics card and skimp on the parts.

I mean are you just trying to make a general PC upgrade or do you have something specific in mind you planned on doing with it (besides ED)?

i'm sure there's a "confessions of a Star Citizen" on reddit

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If Chris Roberts had have the chance to keep working on Freelancer we still would have to wait for a release date.

Truth. That and we'd all be waaaaayyyyy poorer. Did you know there are people who spend upwards of $20,000 dollars a year on donating to Chris Roberts for star citizen

You Should read the section it has on Freelancer. When i noticed what screenshot they were using i was like "no freakin way..."