• Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
  • It's time to vote for your favorite Pokémon Battle Revolution protagonist in our new weekly protagonist poll! Click here to cast your vote and let us know which PBR protagonist you like most.
  • Welcome to PokéCommunity! Register now and join one of the best fan communities on the 'net to talk Pokémon and more! We are not affiliated with The Pokémon Company or Nintendo.
    Register

turn it off and on again

Status
Not open for further replies.
Akiba said:
I was the first Yukari just saying.

But in terms of PC builds, I'm thinking of probably doing another one soon.

My most recent one (about two years old) had a 4770k, which still seems to be relatively popular. Which is why I haven't really done anything.
Click to expand...

I have an i5-4590 myself.

CPU performance seems to be stagnating, but on the other hand, there's too much of it anyway.
 
I just wish I had the available budget to do a PC build, or else I wouldn't be using my laptop full time now. >_>
 
Zach said:
I just wish I had the available budget to do a PC build, or else I wouldn't be using my laptop full time now. >_>
Click to expand...

You can always skip the video card, SSD, one stick of memory (if planning to do dual-channel later, though that's not as optimal as a dual kit in the first place), and use skimpier components with regard to the motherboard, case, and the power supply, up to a certain limit.

Though, you don't have to skimp much even with just a $500 budget, especially if you're going Haswell Refresh, Kaveri, or Skylake.
 
Akiba said:
Yeah, the most money saving thing you could do without sacrificing too much quality would be to dump the SSD or use AMD instead of Nvidia for a GPU.
Click to expand...

Mmm hmm. Or you could get a A8-7600 and stick with that if you don't plan on anything beyond HD resolutions and medium settings. (Or, when the Skylake Pentiums stop being expensive, the G4500.)

To be honest, though, once I have a modern desktop, I don't feel like using laptops too much again...
 
Akiba said:
Yeah, the most money saving thing you could do without sacrificing too much quality would be to dump the SSD or use AMD instead of Nvidia for a GPU.
Click to expand...

Twiggy said:
Mmm hmm. Or you could get a A8-7600 and stick with that if you don't plan on anything beyond HD resolutions and medium settings. (Or, when the Skylake Pentiums stop being expensive, the G4500.)

To be honest, though, once I have a modern desktop, I don't feel like using laptops too much again...
Click to expand...

Well, yeah, you could, but the AMD stuff does demand a bit more electricity than their counterparts, if my memory serves. So, really, you're either paying cost up front for the more power-efficient hardware, or paying for the extra electricity usage over the life of the PC (well, that and trying to keep AMD in business so that nVidia and Intel actually have a competitor in the desktop PC realm to potentially keep them somewhat honest).
 
donavannj said:
Well, yeah, you could, but the AMD stuff does demand a bit more electricity than their counterparts, if my memory serves. So, really, you're either paying cost up front for the more power-efficient hardware, or paying for the extra electricity usage over the life of the PC (well, that and trying to keep AMD in business so that nVidia and Intel actually have a competitor in the desktop PC realm to potentially keep them somewhat honest).
Click to expand...

They indeed are, but the A8-7600 isn't too shabby when cTDP-downed to 45W.
 
Zach said:
Well it's better now but still I don't understand why Skype needs to take up so much memory.
Click to expand...

If it doesn't take as much memory on the next start, it probably had a bad case of a memory leak.
 
Zach said:
Usually it's about 180-220 MB for me, but then again you probably aren't in as many group chats as I am, if I had to assume. :P
Click to expand...

There's 8 of them in my recent list. :P

For some reason I want a big SSD.
 
Twiggy said:
Well, I do hope that after selling all the stuff I don't need I can afford a 480/500/512GB SSD. :)
Click to expand...

I think 480/500/512GB SSD are pretty expensive enough, I'm not sure if I'm capable of getting SSD this big or even as high as 16 TB, atm, but if you want speed, it'll worth it.

I'm not sure when SSD will be on lower price but still maintaining the speed SSD is known for, because usually I tend to choose HDD because of lower price/GBs.
 
Starry Windy said:
I think 480/500/512GB SSD are pretty expensive enough, I'm not sure if I'm capable of getting SSD this big or even as high as 16 TB, atm, but if you want speed, it'll worth it.

I'm not sure when SSD will be on lower price but still maintaining the speed SSD is known for, because usually I tend to choose HDD because of lower price/GBs.
Click to expand...

Zach said:
I can't imagine that SSDs are going to lessen up in price until HDDs begin to go away, which is probably such a long ways away.
Click to expand...

Well, we're at the point where an SSD of similar capacity to a given HDD of 1 TB is about 8x-10x more expensive...

We're doing pretty good now, though 1 TB still costs $400-500. Not too good, but remember that 250 GB SSDs used to cost that much.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top