Poll: Your computer's weakest link...
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Temperature. I just can't keep my system cool enough to game for hours 
Asides from that, the HDD. My main disk has a 16MB cache so it suffers from performance in the score, even though my games are on one with a 32MB cache. I get just a 5.9 in Win7 because of this, would be a 7.8 otherwise.
Asides from that, the HDD. My main disk has a 16MB cache so it suffers from performance in the score, even though my games are on one with a 32MB cache. I get just a 5.9 in Win7 because of this, would be a 7.8 otherwise.
have to say, I'm stoked on my laptop. Acer Aspire 8943G, 2x 750Gb HD, 8Gb RAM, i7 proc and radeon HD 5850 graphics. rapes most things, including some big 3D renders I've done on AutoCAD, but sometimes it's a little slow on startup, no idea why. Then I look at my 18.4" screen and imagine my it growing arms and legs and eating netbooks...
Dude, it's a cross between my video card and my hard drive. My video card doesn't even have pixel shader, and it's only 32 MB, and my hard drive can only hold 30 GB. It's crazy how this thing still runs.
I have a 640Gb SATA drive running as boot... rated 5.9 by win7. Could probably fix that with a RAID array, but I don't really know anything about them. Or maybe an SSD would do better and convert the other 2 into a Raid array. Eh.. I don't know enough about RAID to even guess, or how to do it.
I don't know. Windows would probably say it's my hard drive. But as for actually running things, I haven't had any problem with games I want to play but can't because something in my computer is too weak, so I don't know.
I'd guess all of it though; it's a few years old so anything new that's high end would probably make it cry. Thankfully, so far PC games have been generous with not needing top of the line hardware (I should probably thank the 360 and PS3's outdated hardware for this) so it hasn't been a problem.
I'd guess all of it though; it's a few years old so anything new that's high end would probably make it cry. Thankfully, so far PC games have been generous with not needing top of the line hardware (I should probably thank the 360 and PS3's outdated hardware for this) so it hasn't been a problem.
Pretty much everything, but I'm running a laptop, which is a stupid idea for gaming anyway.
RAM: 2GB
Processor: 2.00 GHz Dual-Core (The computer as an Intel sticker on it, so that's probably the brand)
Video card: Nvidia, 256 MB.
Hard drive capacity: 250 GB (70 GB left)
That's why I'm building a desktop computer. I use my PC a fair bit for gaming and music/video production. It gets really hot, but has never overheated... yet.
RAM: 2GB
Processor: 2.00 GHz Dual-Core (The computer as an Intel sticker on it, so that's probably the brand)
Video card: Nvidia, 256 MB.
Hard drive capacity: 250 GB (70 GB left)
That's why I'm building a desktop computer. I use my PC a fair bit for gaming and music/video production. It gets really hot, but has never overheated... yet.
True. PSUs sometimes tend to blow up after 6-8 years of use but nowadays many cases have filters for the PSU fan so as long as you don't flick the red switch at the back, your PSU should live for a reasonable amount of time.mikespoff said:Actually, the time until a PSU bites the dust is mostly dependent on how much dust it bites per year...
EDIT: An that pun is still terrible. No way to look past it.
Processor old , isn't able to run new movie games.
Video card old ,isn't able to run any new game.
Ram used to be old, but then i added 2GB,so its 3gb now.
Hard drive is 150gb, i joke you not.
At-least OS is good,well i think, until it started BSoDing on me.
Video card old ,isn't able to run any new game.
Ram used to be old, but then i added 2GB,so its 3gb now.
Hard drive is 150gb, i joke you not.
At-least OS is good,well i think, until it started BSoDing on me.
At the moment, I have an issue with the Operating System as I'm stuck on a Mac while my real computer gets its vents cleared of dust. I'd mention the things wrong with it, but I'd need a few pages.
My normal computer: Internet connection is unreliable, cuts out and have to shift a little in any direction so it realises... the connection is slightly better a centimeter to the left? I don't know, I only ot it last September and I live in a really tall, really old house and there are 2 floors between me and the router. The dust only really becomes a problem if I leave my heater on for more than a few hours and even then only if I'm running alot of things at once.
My normal computer: Internet connection is unreliable, cuts out and have to shift a little in any direction so it realises... the connection is slightly better a centimeter to the left? I don't know, I only ot it last September and I live in a really tall, really old house and there are 2 floors between me and the router. The dust only really becomes a problem if I leave my heater on for more than a few hours and even then only if I'm running alot of things at once.
I use a Mac, so of course everything is a weakest link in gaming terms. (Though it could run the Amnesia demo pretty well... while nothing else was running. At all.)
That aside, I'm fairly certain my RAM is the weakest of these weak links. I only have 1GB. That's terrible for just about any use. >_>
That aside, I'm fairly certain my RAM is the weakest of these weak links. I only have 1GB. That's terrible for just about any use. >_>
My computer's weakest link is that it's not my 360. No really, that thing still manages to be much more powerful than my PC.
(Is boo'd at by the PC supremacists)
OK, OK. A real answer then. My PC's weakest link would be the RAM. Not because I don't have much of it (I don't) but more... more because the RAM itself is bad. Doesn't write properly some times, resulting in some strange behaviour.
Guess that's what I get for looting the junk pile.
(Is boo'd at by the PC supremacists)
OK, OK. A real answer then. My PC's weakest link would be the RAM. Not because I don't have much of it (I don't) but more... more because the RAM itself is bad. Doesn't write properly some times, resulting in some strange behaviour.
Guess that's what I get for looting the junk pile.
Dude, 700W? How many graphics cards do you have? I have a 750 thermaltake psu, and it is overkill for my single 285GTX (soon to be Radeon 6970, but hopefully same power requirements), the only other thing thats power intensive for myself is the liquid cooling pump for the CPU. Is it an old 700W or something? Because I can't see how that'd be the weakest link on your PC (I hope not for your sake anyway). Interested to know though.navyjeff said:
Anyway, mine is definantely the HDD, I think I'll get a small SSD one day, and a large 7200RPM 2TB drive or something, not sure how you'd fix the storage issue for games though, move games back and forth on/off the SSD to the HDD again? It'd be good to hear from someone who does this.
My weakest link is... in order of increasing strength: the power supply, pata dvd drive, the amd athlon 64 x2 5600+ 2.8 GHz dual core processor, asus m2n8 vmx motherboard, the 160 gb sata HDD, and finally the ati radeon hd 5770 (best thing in my PC besides windows 7 ultimate, but it still can't run crysis on max settings at 60 fps at 16:9 1920x1080 resolution.
Also my stock fan is noisy (almost quiet until you run a game, then it sounds like a jet), and the case is ugly and filled with kitty cat hair.
I want a prettier case (like a black version of those mac pro cases), a better cooling system (watercooling??? wat is that), an AMD bulldozer, a motherboard that doesn't look like the modern motherboard's ancient, missing link, modular PSU, another 2TB 7200 rpm drive, and a big ass video card.
All this costs at least $500-$1000 so... :-(
Also my stock fan is noisy (almost quiet until you run a game, then it sounds like a jet), and the case is ugly and filled with kitty cat hair.
I want a prettier case (like a black version of those mac pro cases), a better cooling system (watercooling??? wat is that), an AMD bulldozer, a motherboard that doesn't look like the modern motherboard's ancient, missing link, modular PSU, another 2TB 7200 rpm drive, and a big ass video card.
All this costs at least $500-$1000 so... :-(
I'm still running Vista, so I guess it's the OS.
Out of the actual components, I've yet to find a game that I can't play on high quality with a good FPS. The only game I played recently that had really bad performance was, of all things, Deus Ex, but that's because it doesn't like my dual core and it was easily fixed by changing the affinity.
Out of the actual components, I've yet to find a game that I can't play on high quality with a good FPS. The only game I played recently that had really bad performance was, of all things, Deus Ex, but that's because it doesn't like my dual core and it was easily fixed by changing the affinity.