PC Buyers Guide Summer 2014

moab600

2014-06-25 12:05

Nice one. in my location the 770 is one par with 280X, so i would take the 770 easily. Just one note about the soundcards, DON'T BUY PHOEBUS. i had it, drivers are stable but terrible, support is non exist, the interface and function are not that good. Sound blaster Z,ZXR or STX STX II are way better than phoebus.

#4856200

Undying

2014-06-25 14:51

Nice one. in my location the 770 is one par with 280X, so i would take the 770 easily.

Hah, got to love comments like this. Why would you take a card that have 2GB and more or less same performance as 280X? Sometimes i really don't understand you.

#4856210

Denial

2014-06-25 14:59

Yeah I'd easily take the 280x over the 770.

#4856345

Fender178

2014-06-25 16:21

Man great minds think alike. I have chosen similar parts to what Hilbert has chosen in this buyers guide. Like the CPU and cooler on the hardcore page,The SSD on the hardcore page,and The Graphics card on the Main Stream page. I am looking at 2133 8gb memory chips rather than 4gb.

#4856348

moab600

2014-06-25 16:21

Hah, got to love comments like this. Why would you take a card that have 2GB and more or less same performance as 280X? Sometimes i really don't understand you.

2GB isn't the factor at my use, i prefer nvidia as i have vastly superior XP with them then with AMD, and they have 3D Vision which i use, AMD don't have anything that come close to 3D Vision... so yeah all of those make me choose 770 despite 2GB.

#4856350

moab600

2014-06-25 16:22

easily? you would easily pay an extra $75 or 125$ if you buy a 770 which has more than 2GB of memory (the 280X has 3GB minimum) for this http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1041?vs=1037 it may be your preference, but I wouldn't call giving an extra $ for a practically equivalent card an "easy choice".

if u read what i wrote, in my location they cost the same.

#4856420

moab600

2014-06-25 17:06

3D vision (and stereoscopy in general) uses about 20% or so extra memory for the same load, pretty cool though especially because it is more supported in games than AMD's approach to 3D. I am not saying there are no reasons to chose the 770 over the 280x, just surprised about the "easy choice" part and I am going to stop here before the conversation turns into this: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/69458-gtx770-vs-r9-280x/page-1 :p

yeah 😀 i want to avoid all that nvidia vs amd, we have it enough that was not the purpose of this thread. Still i would not recommend purchasing the Phoebus, the hardware is cool the software is garbage.

#4856423

Denial

2014-06-25 17:09

Still i would not recommend purchasing the Phoebus, the hardware is cool the software is garbage.

You know i had the same experience with my EssenceSTX -- great hardware horrible software -- I wonder why this is. Their software support for their motherboards, in my experience, has been excellent. Their soundcards have had the opposite treatment.

#4856427

moab600

2014-06-25 17:14

You know i had the same experience with my EssenceSTX -- great hardware horrible software -- I wonder why this is. Their software support for their motherboards, in my experience, has been excellent. Their soundcards have had the opposite treatment.

The D1 software is better than phoebus, yeah their mobo utilties are good. i hope STX II will have good software

#4856439

moab600

2014-06-25 17:19

it all about next Galaxy IFailphone or whatever.... yeah haha I want EAX back, it was awesome when utilized right

#4856526

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2014-06-25 18:16

Man I love reading these. Good Job Hilbert. As always though, I won't be buying anything from your guide :P

I did not write this one, PantherX is now the editor for the buyers guides. He'll be working on them each passing season. I simply overview and check this guide and assist him where needed. So all props and thanks should go to him ! 🙂

#4856812

scoter man1

2014-06-25 21:41

I feel weird now. I'll be in the high end spectrum in some respects but pretty much below mid end in others. Oh well.

#4856847

Fender178

2014-06-25 22:01

I feel weird now. I'll be in the high end spectrum in some respects but pretty much below mid end in others. Oh well.

Same here man. I will be in the Mainstream gaming with my GPU, and the Hardcore with the CPU,RAM,SSD drive, and CPU Cooler as well as PSU. The board I chose to purchase with my parts isn't even listed so I don't know where an Asus Z97pro falls into.

#4856975

scoter man1

2014-06-25 23:18

Same here man. I will be in the Mainstream gaming with my GPU, and the Hardcore with the CPU,RAM,SSD drive, and CPU Cooler as well as PSU. The board I chose to purchase with my parts isn't even listed so I don't know where an Asus Z97pro falls into.

Hold my GPU feels man. lol, I'm too poor/frugal to shell out for a computer, and then shell out almost the same amount again just so stuff looks pretty.

#4857750

Fender178

2014-06-26 14:25

Thanks for the welcome 🙂 I mostly cover Folding@Home related news and have now taken over the PC Buyers Guide too (in addition to being one of the Grammar Editors).

Heck this might help with the people that want a beefy computer that want to play games as well as fold.

#4858097

ScoobyDooby

2014-06-26 18:25

But what about Ultra High end? Some of us have a flagrant disregard for our bank accounts and only the best most unnecessarily expensive hardware will do. Me personally, I'm not sure why anyone would go for current chipset and CPUs when later this year Haswell-E will be out.. I guess if you're really nixing for a new system perhaps, but doesn't seem worthwhile right now.

#4858727

scoter man1

2014-06-27 02:15

But what about Ultra High end? Some of us have a flagrant disregard for our bank accounts and only the best most unnecessarily expensive hardware will do.

Buy the most of the most expensive thing you can, sell it and buy the next thing when it comes out. I wrote the guide. 🤓

#4859310

ScoobyDooby

2014-06-27 18:06

Buy the most of the most expensive thing you can, sell it and buy the next thing when it comes out. I wrote the guide. 🤓

.. and where might I have a look at this "guide" ? 😀