New PC - bragging rights

[Tellos Athenaios]

It's plenty. I imagine that Furunculus has a number of external harddisks anyway.

[Furunculus]

Bah, I know a guy who makes do with 8 MB integrated video on his motherboard. Also, you seem to lack space for data; I haven't heard much about SSD, but 128 GB doesn't seem like enough. Since you're already buying the most expensive hardware known to enthusiasts, why not pay the extra $1000 for a 512 GB? Which, I might add, you can buy like 10 TB of the regular stuff for?

EDIT: Why not DDR3 1800 or DDR3 2000?

i do have a terabyte drive in my old PC, as well as a mirror drive on my media pc, where all my media is stored, but these are full, so i am waiting for 2TB drives to become more affordable.

don't use SSD's for storing media, very expensive waste of limited capacity.

[Furunculus]

It's plenty. I imagine that Furunculus has a number of external harddisks anyway.

my policy to date has worked pretty well.

1TB on the games PC in my bedroom
1TB on the media PC in the lounge
1TB external to trasnfer between the two, and take that data elswhere.

never lost any data, but quite an expensive solution.

soon to be replaced with 2TB drives.

[Furunculus]

finally got eyefinity running.

GTA4, Dirt2, L4D and Arma2 are awesome played this way!

[drone]

I take it you are not married.

[/jealous]

[Furunculus]

lol, i just have a deeply tolerant better half, tho we are not in fact legally hitched. :D

it is fun.

[pevergreen]

*drools*

[Veho Nex]

That keyboard is the only thing that needs replacing. I dont think i could live without my Saitek Eclipse or my logitech g5 mouse. Which is ironic since both of those died like 2 months ago and now im using some crappy keyboard and a new 90$ mouse. I still want my G5 though...

[Furunculus]

yeah, agreed, but one of these should in fact arrive today:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ideaz...20-wired-black

one really cheap way to run run eyefinity is to buy three second hand 19" 1280x1024 monitors.

although they are anti-widescreen in themselves, three would make an awesome widescreen experience, and you can pick up high-quality Dell 1905FP monitors with DVI and thin Bezels for around £70. also not too taxing on the video card because its only trying to push 3840x1024 rather than 5760x1200.

[Beskar]

So, when are you inviting me around, Furunculus?

[Furunculus]

how quickly can you get a train ticket to the land where men are men and sheep are wary?

[Beskar]

how quickly can you get a train ticket to the land where men are men and sheep are wary?

I live near the train station, so quite quickly. The trip to Wales? Depends, 2-3 hours. I know Liverpool is about an hour.

[Furunculus]

not too far then.

l4d on three screens is fun.

[Furunculus]

shgoun 2 really pushes the graphics card, even in the title screen the fan gets loud:

[LeftEyeNine]

Oh. How about some battles then ?

[Beirut]

I can't help but notice a distinct lack of a flightstick and throttle in that picture.

[A Nerd]

Absolutely beautiful set up! I am so jealous! :D

[Furunculus]

LEN - a battle screenshot? I'll see what i can do.

Beirut - behind the middle monitor, roll on LG Maddox's masterpiece.

A Nerd - you should see the case, the FT02 from silverstone is lovely.

[LeftEyeNine]

A screenshot plus how much it challenges your video card. ^^

[Monk]

shgoun 2 really pushes the graphics card, even in the title screen the fan gets loud:

And I thought my set up was nice. Very impressive.

[Beirut]

Beirut - behind the middle monitor, roll on LG Maddox's masterpiece.

You're running IL2-46 on that thing? (You dog.)

Are you going to get Cliffs of Dover when it comes out at the end of the month?

What kind of flightstick are you using?

[Furunculus]

I haven't heard much about SSD, but 128 GB doesn't seem like enough. Since you're already buying the most expensive hardware known to enthusiasts, why not pay the extra $1000 for a 512 GB? Which, I might add, you can buy like 10 TB of the regular stuff for?

storage upgrade complete.

Main:
128GB - System
2TB - (930GB Storage1, 512GB Games, 430GB Scratch)
2TB - Storage2

Portable:
1TB - Storage1
2TB - Storage2 (USB3)
250GB - Old storage drive (now just for temporary trasnport)

HTPC:
250GB - System/Apps/Games
1TB - Storage1
2TB - Storage2

All backed up nicely now. :)

You're running IL2-46 on that thing? (You dog.)

Are you going to get Cliffs of Dover when it comes out at the end of the month?

What kind of flightstick are you using?

Not played IL2 46, but I will be getting cliffs of dover.