[Blackpool] New PC build - it works!

[Michael]

Elite Dangerous for the win....perhaps should get a LUG wing set up...

On 10 March 2015 at 13:17, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> So I got the new main PC I mentioned on Saturday.  I hadn't built a PC for
> over 10 years, wow the kit is so much nicer to work with nowadays.
>
> In my recent spirit of trying new things that in the past I'd discounted
> ('discounted' is putting it mildly), I water cooled it, I fretted over how
> that would go but it was very easy.  I went with a Corsair H105, it's a
> sealed setup and very much a good beginners (or raving sceptics even) entry
> point into water cooling.
>
> There was a bit of a learning curve with all the new fangled lingo, I
> think the hardware guys have been busy making new words up for marketing
> purposes.
>
> 6 cores i7 Haswell E, 16Gb DDR4 memory, 1Tb SSD, AMD Firepro 7100, Dual
> 28" 4K monitors.  Not a bad spec for writing code in Turbo Pascal - it's
> pretty quick.  Having two 4K 28" monitors 2' from your face feels like
> you're getting a suntan as part of the deal too.
>
> I haven't played games on it yet, the monitors are lower end gaming ones
> and although the AMD graphics card is more workstation than full on gaming
> I should be able to run Elite Dangerous comfortably in 4K and 60Hz.
>
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