Hey you pc gaming nerdbutts

[Day]

At the 750-1k range, intel all the way. An i5 3570 would be appropriate. i5 3570k if you plan to overclock. Or whatever the Haswell equivalent here, not that it makes a terribly huge difference over ivy bridge on a desktop.

In most cases a HD7950 represents better value than a gtx670. A decent 7950 can be overclocked past stock 670 performance. Consider this upgrade if you want to high grade past the gtx660 you picked.

Consider getting an SSD now or in the future. Outside of games, it'll be the most noticeable performance upgrade you can make.

That PSU could be better and not much more expensive. If you overclock (and you should), upgrade GPU or SLI (god forbid), slave multiple HDD's /whatever, you can run into issues.

Noted and thanks, for now trying my best to stay under 700 if I can, and don't plan to OC for now, if ever, but perhaps, as you say I should... idk, idk. I'll look at some more power supplies. I'm honestly not trying to push anything to the max, just want something decent, this laptop blows, but I appreciate the feedback!

What size SSD do you recommend?

[Blarg]

make sure you get gold plated wiring for all your components to cut down on radiation from the solar particles

[Day]

make sure you get gold plated wiring for all your components to cut down on radiation from the solar particles

what lol, i'm wrapping the whole thing in aluminum foil, gold wiring is for fools.

[Blarg]

Well then you are running the risk of the Neutrinos mutating and causing all sorts of havoc.

[Cadsuane]

Noted and thanks, for now trying my best to stay under 700 if I can, and don't plan to OC for now, if ever, but perhaps, as you say I should... idk, idk. I'll look at some more power supplies. I'm honestly not trying to push anything to the max, just want something decent, this laptop blows, but I appreciate the feedback!

What size SSD do you recommend?

You don't need a huge one. You mostly just want the OS and bootables on it. Try to keep that expense around a hundred, or just worry about it later when you've got extra bank. About OCing: the idea is to get high end performance out of a mid range rig and save money. Neckbeards obsess about GHz and bench scores and shit, but I'm just saying look into OCing so you can get the most bang for your buck. What you can accomplish with a couple hundred bucks in hardware upgrades you can just as easily do with a modest OC on capable cheaper hardware.

[tyven]

cads i have a 60 gig ssd with my windows 7 on it and its only showing 8 free gigs and i dont understand what is taking up all the memory plz help

[Cadsuane]

Have you tried rebooting

[tyven]

yea i built the computer in nov 11, it used to have 20 free gigs and now its down to 8 i dont know what is going on. i figured i could ignore it until it became real problematic

[BadKarma]

This look ok to yall? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/15hf8

DO NOT get a 660.

660ti or an AMD Radeon 7850

PSU might be a little weak

[Omniyoji]

yea i built the computer in nov 11, it used to have 20 free gigs and now its down to 8 i dont know what is going on. i figured i could ignore it until it became real problematic

Download this http://windirstat.info/ and see what is actually taking up all that space

[Cadsuane]

yea i built the computer in nov 11, it used to have 20 free gigs and now its down to 8 i dont know what is going on. i figured i could ignore it until it became real problematic

Oh you were being serious, sorry. Yeah like these dude's said, windirstat, and system restore backups can eat space as well. There's that hibernate page file which takes up a lot of space too and that you don't need on a desktop but I forget how to get rid of that.

[Conrad]

You don't need a huge one. You mostly just want the OS and bootables on it. Try to keep that expense around a hundred, or just worry about it later when you've got extra bank. About OCing: the idea is to get high end performance out of a mid range rig and save money. Neckbeards obsess about GHz and bench scores and shit, but I'm just saying look into OCing so you can get the most bang for your buck. What you can accomplish with a couple hundred bucks in hardware upgrades you can just as easily do with a modest OC on capable cheaper hardware.

would it make sense to get a decent gpu now (I got gtx650ti) and overclock in a couple years when games are better rather than now when I can max out pretty much anything I'm playing these days (which isn't too much anyway)

[tyven]

so its pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys that are pwning 13 gigs. from my googlefoo'ing i have learned that i don't need either one. However when I try the command prompt to disable it does not work. Can I delete these bad boys from WinDirStat?

[Day]

pagefile.sys is managed through right click my comp > prop > advanced settings > advanced tab > virtual memory

[Day]

also you may need to run dat cmd prompt as admin

[tyven]

how do i admin

[tyven]

i thought i was the admin

[Day]

righty clicky on cmd prompt icon and do run as admin

fckin user control bullshitz

[tyven]

i want to blowbang you

[Day]

hi5 brosephsine