@Ray Yeah for it's age my monitor has aged fairly well (oddly). It works realy well at 1120 by I don't recall what.possibly 1020. I suspect what ever I get will both be awsome and have it's own small quirks will probably be an enjoyable improvement over my now infamous del ^_^
I tried my hand at bitoins and Altcoins, I found a place that could somehow convert altcoins to bitcoin I have no idea how. Nova Mining Company I think they were called. I think I made about 5dollar or so over a week casually doing it, and tried some primecoin place and made about 50cents from it. Sufficed to say say based on experience this is realy fun if that's the word and I'm famous for not being sure what the right word might be many times. Exciting and inspiring come to mind for sure. I generally keep my graphics around the mid range, while I want games to look nice, have awsome gameplay I also want want my hardware to be able to provide enough pep so as it's fluid as well. On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > @Ray I'd think it's problematic to upgrade a CPU. Where as cards are > meant to give a little more life. > > > Not necessarily. The X79 chipset boards with LGA2011 sockets, first > released in 201, supported Sandy Bridge-E/EP and Ivy Bridge-E/EP processors > until the release of the Ivy Bridge E/EX in 2014. The LGA-1155 sockets and > chipsets supported Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Haswell and Broadwell > moved the voltage regulator onto the chip which necessitated the change to > LGA-1150, while Skylake has shed the VRM and has the new LGA1151 (as will > the future Kaby Lake). Basically, you can be moderately confident that > your motherboard will last through an entire Tick-Tock cycle (two > generations of Intel CPUs). > > > The budget systems guides sugest 8 gigs of ram. In my experience that > isn't enough. 16 gigs would likely give way more room for Winderz (or Linux) > > > That depends on what you're doing. Tech Report's builds are aimed at > gaming enthusiasts, so the budget version is meant for low-end gaming. > That said, you should be able to run games that are new and not optimized > like "ARK: Survival Evolved" on an 8GB memory system. You might have > trouble with single player mode that runs the game client and server on the > local system - I have that problem so I use a remote server and just run > the client on my 6GB laptop. > > A SSD drive might also add a little more pep. > > > The TR folks allow that some people can't afford an SSD (and are stuck > with a 1TB 7200rpm drive) but they recommend 250GB SSDs which start at only > $25 more. > > A hardy workhorse Hard drive with external backup would also likely be > something I'd want to have > > > The TR guide suggests have 2 to 4GB spinning platter drives for mass > storage, either singly or in RAID. > > TR split their system guide into three parts this year. Backup systems > are in the peripheral picks and one of the best ones is an external socket > device that can accept both sizes of SATA drives. That lets you use your > old, too-small, hard drives as backup, if they still have acceptable bad > block counts. > > A midrange graphics card definatly. > > > As a pragmatist I find it perplexing to get a 8Gb graphics card. > > > Quad or UHD (3840x2160) displays are the driver for more graphics memory. > If your monitor is a simple 1080P HD, then you don't need that amount of > memory. > > I can see getting a 2gig or possible even 4gig graphics card. > Historically that basicaly ment go to chipmerchant.com look up midrange > Geforce and 2x check reviews and what's compatible. > > > It all depends on your monitor and the detail settings of your games. > > ATI(now AMD) are no slouch. Though for some reason they have a history of > quirikeness, In my epxerience I've needed to make some small adjustments > to display and catalysts configuration to get a little pep. > I have no clue why. > > > They're still problematic. When they work, they work well, but sometimes > they drive me crazy. For a while, there were certain capabilities in the > ATI/AMD GPUs that were much better than the Invidia cards for cryptographic > table building and brute-forcing. The Bitcoin people went nuts over the > AMD GPUs. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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