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Can someone help me with a pc question?
« on: May 24, 2010, 09:22:08 PM »
I just built a new pc with a 3.36ghz quad core i7, 12gb of ram, and dual gtx 260s. Will it play all games at max settings, or at least most? Did i choose good parts?
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 09:45:50 PM »
whats a ghz?

3.36 Gay, Horned Zebras?

3.36 Groovy Hats from Zaire?
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2010, 09:53:25 PM »
It stands for gigahertz (one billion periods per second) it's how fast it can process information.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2010, 10:01:20 PM »
Quote from: supereliguy on May 24, 2010, 09:53:25 PM
(one billion periods per second)

I'd say it has its hands full without needing to play games for you.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2010, 05:47:27 AM »
Quote from: supereliguy on May 24, 2010, 09:53:25 PM
(one billion periods per second)
Holy Jebus! That's a lot of menstrual cycles at one time!
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2010, 07:50:17 AM »
Not that kind of periods, you sillies.  He means dots, like dot-com or dot-Seurat.  It can handle one billion dots per second, so it could render one of those fancy paintings or lots of wesbites.

I think your computer will just be super duper. You'll see.


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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2010, 07:53:42 AM »
Well, if you already built it...just find it out? :P
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2010, 09:12:25 AM »
Quote from: supereliguy on May 24, 2010, 09:53:25 PM
It stands for gigahertz (one billion periods per second) it's how fast it can process information.

Are you for real?
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2010, 09:45:19 AM »
Quote from: xolik on May 25, 2010, 09:12:25 AM
Are you for real?

Yes. I'm for real. The computer and calculate 3.36 billion points of data per second per core. Allowing it to calculate 13,440,000,000 points of data per second.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2010, 09:47:53 AM »
Assuming you meant the computer can calculate blah blah, can is the operative word. Finding a game that can take advantage of all your cores is going to be the tricky part.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2010, 10:20:42 AM »
Wait. You spent that kind of money on hardware and yet you're not sure of what exactly it can do? That's a very strong setup. What operating system are you using to try and take advantage of 12 gigs of ram? Please don't say something like Windows XP Pro...
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2010, 11:10:59 AM »
Quote from: supereliguy on May 25, 2010, 09:45:19 AM
Yes. I'm for real. The computer and calculate 3.36 billion points of data per second per core. Allowing it to calculate 13,440,000,000 points of data per second.

At this point, I'm pretty sure light bends around you.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2010, 04:03:09 PM »
Quote from: supereliguy on May 25, 2010, 09:45:19 AM
Yes. I'm for real. The computer and calculate 3.36 billion points of data per second per core. Allowing it to calculate 13,440,000,000 points of data per second.

That's impossible.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2010, 04:36:54 PM »
Not if he got it at zombocom, yabigone.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2010, 04:43:39 PM »
Quote from: Chris on May 25, 2010, 10:20:42 AM
Wait. You spent that kind of money on hardware and yet you're not sure of what exactly it can do? That's a very strong setup. What operating system are you using to try and take advantage of 12 gigs of ram? Please don't say something like Windows XP Pro...
I know a good bit about computers just not much about graphics cards. I got the ram for heavy HD video editing. I'm really just curious if I picked good graphics cards. It's running windows 7. 
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2010, 07:20:25 PM »
You didn't think to do the research on graphics cards before you picked them out? Did you just grab the one with the highest numbers associated with it and go, "well I like it."
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2010, 08:23:24 PM »
Quote from: Wunderkind on May 25, 2010, 07:20:25 PM
You didn't think to do the research on graphics cards before you picked them out? Did you just grab the one with the highest numbers associated with it and go, "well I like it."
well, yeah. Hahaha. I picked the most expensive in my budget. Was it smart? Tell me if I got lucky and picked a good one.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2010, 09:22:46 PM »
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2010, 10:48:41 PM »
Quote from: Wunderkind on May 25, 2010, 07:20:25 PM
You didn't think to do the research on graphics cards before you picked them out? Did you just grab the one with the highest numbers associated with it and go, "well I like it."

Well, to be honest, that's what I did.  :oops: Hey, I got my 60fps for WoW, I'm happy!
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2010, 10:53:02 PM »
If you haven't run a game on it yet and found out for yourself, then I am suspicious of you, more so than I was at the beginning of this thread, so I shall reply as BizB did.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2010, 10:58:42 PM »
Well, it's an alienware aurora and it's supposed to come this week or next. I haven't run it yet. I just bought it.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2010, 11:19:28 PM »
Quote from: supereliguy on May 25, 2010, 10:58:42 PM
Well, it's an alienware aurora and it's supposed to come this week or next. I haven't run it yet. I just bought it.

I, too, spend lots of money on things before researching them.
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Re: Can someone help me with a pc question?
« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2010, 06:45:38 AM »
Quote from: xolik on May 25, 2010, 11:19:28 PM
I, too, spend lots of money on things before researching them.

That reminds me, Did that Thai boy you ordered make it you alive?
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