What did you buy in the summer sale?

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  1. Kastro

    Kastro Banned

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    How.......

    Also duel 1GB GPU's and 4GB of RAM?
     
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    Kastro, Jul 29, 2012
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  2. nafrayu

    nafrayu Super Moderator Staff Member

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    This is what i have (don't laugh, the mainboard is shitty i know, bla bla):

    Harddisk: Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB, SATA 6Gb/s (HD502HM)
    Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K, 4x 3.30GHz, boxed (BX80623I52500K)
    DDR3 RAM: ADATA XPG G Series DIMM Kit 8GB PC3-12800U CL9-9-9-24 (DDR3-1600) (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G)
    Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 1GB GDDR5, 2x DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort (ZT-50306-10M)
    Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P67-DS3-B3, P67 (B3) (dual PC3-10667U DDR3)

    Summ of all best prices: 576,50 Euro

    I paid like 700 Euro rougly 7 months ago, i feel like a fucking idiot already - i hate buying computers, i only really buy new ones when the old one is a piece of shit (my old one had an intel core2duo E4300 (the one with 1.8ghz) 2 GB of ram, and a geforce 8600 gts with 512 mb ram... the intel bottlenecked the geforce i think)
     
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  3. Five

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    Good god Snafu and espeon, you both got ripped off on your computers. I built mine for around $1,200 and run a i7 2600k at 5.2Ghz with 12GB RAM. The hell is wrong with people these days overpaying for computers.
     
    Five, Jul 29, 2012
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  4. Furchee

    Furchee Yiff Staff Member

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    I got close to nafrayu's for about 300 usd.
    As for five, buying the cheapest parts doesn't really bring you long life.
     
    Furchee, Jul 29, 2012
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  5. l337Espeon

    l337Espeon Administrator Staff Member

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    haha, the parts I paid for 4 years ago for my build are half the price now (except the graphics card which is only 2 weeks old)
     
    l337Espeon, Jul 29, 2012
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  6. Sebastian

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    Five, Why would you ever need 12 gb of RAM? That sounds like the rip-off lol;)
     
    Sebastian, Aug 4, 2012
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  7. Furchee

    Furchee Yiff Staff Member

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    There's good reasons, but I doubt Five falls into a single category. :D
     
    Furchee, Aug 4, 2012
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  8. Infinity39

    Infinity39 Super Saiyan

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    You just be jelly I run 16 GB of ram and only use 7 of it at a maximum when Minecraft goes apeshit.
    And no, don't tell me I don't need that much since you obviously can't decide on how much ram I want. Hell, once I start getting some cash, I will get 16 more or even max it to 64 GB when I buy a X79 motherboard just so people can brag about not needing that much.
     
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  9. matthaios

    matthaios Chicken nuggers Staff Member

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    I wish I had that much RAM. But I only have 4gb and a 32-bit version of windows. Needless to say, anything advanced that I do in 3D rendering sucks because of memory limitations.
     
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  10. Infinity39

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    Why do I find that hard to believe?
    Don't take me wrong man but an i5 2500k is 219$ alone.
     
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  11. Five

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    I run some high power usage programs and use my computer as a server sometimes, so I need the extra memory when usage goes high. I usually use around 4-5GB on average, but when I'm working on high usage programs I am at around 10-11GB.
     
    Five, Aug 4, 2012
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  12. Bleezy

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    lolwat. you can build the equivalent for ~$1300 U.S.
     
    Bleezy, Aug 30, 2012
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