So I got a new machine...

[Mickk]

for 980 $ I got the following specs:
some DVD drive/writer
Core i7-4770 3.4GHz 8MB
Radeon R7 260x 2 GB 128 bit DirectCu II OC 1150 Mhz
SATA III 2 TB HDD
8 GB of DDR3 RAM

all that set up on the H87 Pro 4 ASRock Motherboard.

I'll be running this baby under the Windows 7 my college gets me for being a student.

And I'll be getting 8 more gigs of RAM when I get moniez.

What do you think?

Looks good, although I agree that the i7 is really for 'enthusiasts'.

I'd find another hard drive to install, something like a 500GB, SSD's are still expensive for what you get imo, then install your OS on that and nothing else.

Use the 2 TB drive to install all your programs on, that way if your OS has a brain fart, you won't lose too much info, a pretty big deal if you are college student.

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[Makc_RU]

I am running Win7 right now and when people say Win 8 fired my HD, i wonder how is it possible? Perhaps that person had a bad hard drive in the first place?

That sounded like: I bought a Mercedes and my brand new pants ripped on my ass, so if I were you, I would not buy Mercedes ever again, stick with Ugo.

Anyway, Mickk, what do you think about Win8.1? I have never used it, although I've read about it and I wonder if upgrade needed from Win7? Does it significantly improves PC performance? I don't really trust the web because some people will scream it is the best and others will scream if fried my hard drive.

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[Strichev]

Fun fact: I installed windows 8.1. Task manager ceased to respond every single time I ran it, elevated command prompt crashed after a certain period of time and the thing had to be switched off the hard way. Upon running a chkdisk it found no errors. Windows 7 installation later on found disk errors on its own and repaired it. Bonus fact: it automatically ran chkdisk - the same command as I did before.

[Tankman]

I am running Win7 right now and when people say Win 8 fired my HD, i wonder how is it possible? Perhaps that person had a bad hard drive in the first place?

I'm not an expert on computers but I think I have an idea of what might have happened. A long time ago, I recall Starcraft had a similar problem with a patch that caused a lot of GPUs to OC themselves to death. Something about the software not adhering to the limitations of the system and burning parts out.

Not that it's malicious that is, probably slipped past testing (Though how I will never know...)

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How do I spaceship?

[Sheaim]

As for that dreaded Win 8.1 I have it on my lap.
Let's just say that not having a TEMP folder anymore (it just doesn't exist, and it's impossible to reassign any other folder for that purpose, or create a new TEMP folder) is bad. Very bad.

Win 8.1 is evil.
Almost as evil as microsoft's recent XP update which broke the system so people still running XP have to get something else.

To be frank I'm thinking of migrating to some Linux distro, maybe Debian. Windows is just too much work. The only thing it excels at is compatibility - you can't run most games on Linux, even using Wine...

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This is really annoying, I tell you.

[matskiuk]

my step daughter just bought a laptop with win 8, oh my word, what a waste of time that is

looks pretty she said, yes it does, but sooooooo hungry for resources, and complete total change to anything windows as we know it

just rubbish

stupid "start" button that goes to a resource hungry screen

pointless

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[aakopa]

You should have got overclockable processor, and better GPU, no need for more ram than 8 GB.

P.S: I love Win8.1

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[lIceColon]

To be frank I'm thinking of migrating to some Linux distro, maybe Debian. Windows is just too much work. The only thing it excels at is compatibility - you can't run most games on Linux, even using Wine...

hahaha gl with that.

[Narcotic]

When I built myself a new laptop last year, I did some researching, too.

i7 is not worth the extra money and electricity costs. At least for what normal people use their computers. For gaming, an i5 is perfectly fine (I know that from experience, playing new games since a year). Whatever, I bought an i5 also because of the lower W and heating. Still, even if it wasn't a Laptop, today I wouldn't spend more to get an i7.

I don't like AMD. I'm a Nvidia guy. Though, I made sure that my graphics card will be the bottleneck when it comes to gaming, not the processor. Therefore I had double the budget for a better graphics card. Was totally worth it when looking back now.

I also built in a SSD (120 GB) for the OS, programs and games which benefit from the speed. I do never want to use a PC without a SSD anymore. Ever. Booting and starting programs got quicker than a wink. It's an adorable feeling when you realize that not the PC is slow, but the user behind it is. Not to forget the silence and lack of heating. You don't hear it, you don't feel it. All you feel is your computer waiting for you to do something before you even finished your last task. Plus, SSDs got a lot cheaper already.

RAM. I bought 8 GB because it wasn't that expensive, and I thought that having the double of the minimum for 64bit would do just fine. I was wrong. 8 GB was too much. Since a year, I've never managed to push the working memory above 4 GB. And believe me, I really tried. You won't notice any difference between 8 and 16 GB RAM at all. Not in the following years, too. Your graphics card will be the first hardware which'll fail to satisfy you (in 1-2 years).

OS. I was always a XP user. But its days were counted I knew. So I got myself Windows 7. Works fine. Doesn't complain (very often). Runs smooth (especially with the SSD). Only drawback is that I need to invest more time into getting old games running. Still I always managed.

I also got Windows 8 on my "study tabled-notebook hybrid" thing now. Compared to W7 it truly sucks, but it's okay. Has better tablet-support, too. So I can't complain.

HDDs I only use for data storage - pictures, movies, music, image discs etc. and of course games that wouldn't benefit from the SSD's speed. 75% of the time I sit at my PC the HDD stays off anyways. The less I use it, the more I freak out if the (actually very very quiet) noise starts.

Heh, luxury problems...

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[Highland Laddie]

OS. I was always a XP user. But its days were counted I knew. So I got myself Windows 7. Works fine. Doesn't complain (very often). Runs smooth (especially with the SSD). Only drawback is that I need to invest more time into getting old games running. Still I always managed.

How does it handle DOSBox, for those "older" games? I play quite a bit of them. You know, nostalgia...