The RATE MY RIG thread

[iamknotsatisfied]

Hello all. This thread is for rating your rig or your rig wishlist. Other ppl cn rate your rig and give you advice. This i think is very helpful.

 

Rules:

1. Post all or most of your hardware( its very nice if you can add specs)

2. Say which games you want to play on rig.

3. Do you want enb and other spl effects. Also what resolution you wanna play your games.

4. Be constructive in giving advice.

 

Let the fun begin

[hafertaler]

CPU: I7 6700K

RAM: 16 GB DDR4 2800

GPU: GTX 980

 

I guess that's like the minimal amount of essential information to "rate" the potential performance of a rig.

 

But I only post, to state some general advice and everybody is of course free to disagree.

 

If you're planning to use your rig to mainly game and have the option to avoid a laptop, do it.

 

Mobile hardware is always inferior in performance to its normal counterpart. Which is already not that good, but also not a dealbreaker. What can be a real problem though, is that most games don't support mobilde hardware.

 

This of course doesn't necessarily mean, that the game won't run at all, but it's always possible that this is the case. A far more often occuring problem is though, that the performance may be inferior to what you would expect on the hardware you're using. 

Another thing to keep in mind is, that there are various bugs/problems you might run into. A relatively often occuring problem you'll hear/read about is for instance, that games won't run on your dedicated graphics card, but on the CPU integrated one, which is usually vastly inferior and often only delivers the performance of a low end graphics card.

Most of the time this will be patched by developers over time, but usually has a low priority on their agenda or doesn't happen at all because mobile hardware is officially not supported most of the time.

 

Overall you will run into far more problems with mobile hardware than you would with a normal PC.

 

Several games will run without a problem, but there's always the possibility that they won't, it's a thing to keep in mind. Like I said, if you are buying a new system, and it doesn't HAS to be a laptop, settle for a normal system. You'll have less problems with it in the long run, when it comes to gaming.

[lald]

Mine rig is something like that:

Surprisingly, but it can't deal with 8k shadows. And skyrim lags. And dosbox lags too.

Aaaaand don't buy cooling system DEEPCOOL Captain 240 - it works pretty good, but only at high speed and at this time it sounds a little quiter than aircraft. I'm serious, I checked.   

[Antrox]

CPU: Intel Core i5 4690k @ 4.0GHz (Cooled with Cooler Master Seidon 240m) 
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard 
GPU: ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 GM204 Maxwell @ 1.2GHz 
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaw X Series 16GB 1333MHz 
Hard Drive#1: Western Digital Green 1TB 
Hard Drive#2: Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 
Hard Drive#3: Seagate Momentus 120GB 
PSU: Rosewill HIVE Series 650W 
Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower 

[ToJKa]

Processor: Intel Core i5-3570k  @ 3.4 GHz

RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333MHz

MB: Asus P8Z77-V LX

GPU: GTX970 (Asus GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5)

Drives: 55GB Intel SSD (OS)

            240GB Western Digital Caviar HDD (misc. crap)

            2TB Seagate HDD (games and programs)

PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 550W

Case: Antec 300

And some external Samsung BD-DVD drive.

 

Not the bleeding edge, but i'm quite happy with it

And let me tell you, that graphics card with that power source in that case, it's a tight fit