At 1/21/15 08:59 PM, Diki wrote:
It would be nice to have, yes, but I want it less than I want to not spend that much money on a computer. My rig can still play modern games so long as I don't max out the settings (I can still get a steady 60FPS in Far Cry 4, for example).
Ah, that's what I want, though. At least 144 FPS on the highest settings possible is my goal.
Again, way overkill, but why not if you have the money to throw down for it?
I like beautiful games that run well.
Also worth noting that "for a while" is less than a year; it really doesn't take long for GPUs to be outdated, and far more outdated than just "a little better".
Again, 5-10 years if we start making some massive breakthroughs in the near future. Other than that, they should last you a good 15-20 years with two of them while still keeping a good framerate with good graphics.
I've done lots of video rendering and never had problems with only 8GB of RAM. What rendering have you done that needs 32GB?
a few million particles usually kills my RAM.
Don't judge too hard, it's easy to do.
Also really high-poly stuff and water simulations seriously kill it.
A lot of the videos I make for my channel also require a good chunk of RAM because of the way my videos are encoded. Not 32GB, but at least 16 if you want to continue normal operations while encoding/rendering.
Also Chrome and Firefox eat RAM for breakfast, and I usually have a million tabs open. My own fault, but I'm willing to put down the extra so I'm not just arbitrarily limiting myself.
having more won't make games run any faster/smoother.
Nope, but it's cool to say anyway.
I've never once in my life needed more than 8GB for playing games, and I had never even heard of anyone needing more until you mentioned DA:I uses more, which just sounds like a memory leak more than anything (and 12GB would still suffice in that regard).
A lot of new AAA releases are poorly-optimized and eat CPU/GPU cycles and RAM.
I still want to play them, though.
If you really want to go overkill on your computer why not put it toward the CPU or motherboard or something? Just doesn't make any sense to get extra RAM for the sake of having extra RAM.
It's hard to find a really good CPU or mobo for $170 (assuming you've paid $80 for cheap RAM)
My FX-6300 is down to $100 which is fantastic, and it still works well enough that I rarely ever cap it out (rendering)
A good mobo, on the other hand, will run you at least $150 by itself.
Yeah, you could put that money to use elsewhere, though I don't know if it would be "good" use.
500GB for your OS seems rather excessive. I have a mere 128GB SSD for my OS, which has 25GB space remaining on it, even with Skyrim and like 10GB of mods installed on it. Having one for games would certainly make them load faster (I can load Skyrim in about four seconds), but that's it; it won't improve anything else.
Oh, I have way too many AAA titles installed on my PC. DA:I alone takes up a whopping 60 GB, and I have more like that as well.
Plus I like movies. A lot. So that's a thing.
2TB and I'm almost full.
It's also worth noting that write cycles are what will kill your SSD more so than anything else, so if you did end up using 500GB for your OS and have a tonne of free space that your applications aren't using, it would be unwise to treat it like a regular HDD and repeatedly add/deletes files onto/from it; it's an unfortunate limitation of the technology right now.
Yeah, the OS drives you might need to swap out every few years, but thankfully SSDs are cheap and getting cheaper. By the time you need to swap out you can get a TB for $150 and it'll last you decades.
You could save some money by just getting one SSD for your OS and the very few games that have long enough load times to justify putting them on an SSD (Skyrim and GTA4 are the only two I've played with sufficiently lengthy load times).
Can't argue with that.
My point was just that the difference is redundant.
Depends! If you really, REALLY like playing games and recording them like I do, overpowered is just enough.
The less time I spend rendering and fiddling with options menus, the better.
Speaking of, I've been meaning to make more videos but life keeps getting in the way. I hope to return to that soon, but I really want a GPU upgrade before I do.
Saying that headphones are better is disingenuous;
I would say so as well, except I just really don't like the sound of speakers echoing across my walls. I think my problem is I just live in really terrible acoustic environments.
Maybe I'll give a home theatre another shot when I get some padding for the walls.
