[Blackpool] New PC build - it works!

[James Page]

Sounds perfectly specced for OpenRA!

:p




Best wishes,
James

On 10 March 2015 at 14:46, Michael <heed at bigmassiveheed.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > A
> >
> >
> >
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