Priceline's Bitchin' New Rig

[Rabbit]

Regret the 128 gig ssd with your OS on it? I sure do.

[PricelineNegotiator]

Naw I've got two of them in RAID 0. The Agility 3 I have is horrible. Absolutely regret that one, but the Crucial m4's are great.

[PricelineNegotiator]

Got the GTX 780 today. It's boss.

[Vicious302]

So does that play Arma at maxed out settings at 60fps? personally I don't like arma because of the insanely delayed death animation... but anything else your playing lately that requires that kind of video card?

[PricelineNegotiator]

It plays ArmA II at max everything (except post processing because it makes me want to throw up) at 80 fps avg and 60 min. Still testing.

[PricelineNegotiator]

Updated. Got a new monitor and added a 5tb hdd as backup.

[Steeps]

You should get some Samsung 850 Pros . What monitor though?

[PricelineNegotiator]

Been thinking about that. I'll probably do a complete rehaul to the 5xxx or 6xxx line of processors when Star Citizen comes out. Probably get a new graphics card then too, not interested in SLi. Will need new SSD's for RAID 0 if Star Citizen is going to be 100 GB install.

New monitor:
ASUS ROG PG278Q Black 27" 1ms(GTG) Widescreen WQHD LED Backlight LCD G-SYNC 3D Monitor , Gaming Hotkeys, 6mm Slim Bezel 350 cd/m2 1,000:1 - Newegg.com

[Chase Armitage]

Got this one:

ASUS VG278HE Black 27" 2ms (GTG) HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 50,000,000:1 Built-in Speakers 3D ready, Height, Swivel adjustable

G-SYNC was barely around when I made my decision to buy. Wasnt willing to wait.

That looks like this now:



Also in the meantime I upgrade my rig as well some time ago:



That should about cover it.

Recycled the then obsolete hardware by replacing my old nas, which was some single-core 800Mhz/128MB SoC (apart from simple storage that thing now also runs services like pyload, sonarr and a virtual instance of a windows server hosting a sql instance and an iis for stuff like mvc development)

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-Computer-
Processor               : 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         860  @ 2.80GHz
Memory          : 8178MB (5323MB used)
Operating System                : Arch Linux
User Name               : root (root)
Date/Time               : Sat Mar 28 19:09:26 2015
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-Printers-
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-SCSI Disks-
ATA SAMSUNG SSD 830
ATA INTEL SSDSA2CT04
ATA WDC WD20EFRX-68E
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Distribution            : Arch Linux
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Computer Name           : nas
User Name               : root (root)
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Desktop Environment             : Terminal
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Uptime          : 25 days, 22 hours and 15 minutes
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[PricelineNegotiator]

Some pics:

[DesmoLocke]

How are you liking the Swift? I came this close to picking one up back in November. I decided to wait a bit longer.

[Steeps]

I'm wondering how it will compare to the upcoming ASUS MG279Q.

[PricelineNegotiator]

It's definitely worth the money - every single penny. I don't think I have GSYNC installed correctly, but I haven't really been online this week at all to take a look at it. The smoothness 144 Hz brings at WQHD is awesome. Can't wait until 4k at 144 Hz is real (GPUs need to catch up honestly). But who knows, maybe VR could smash this all to bits in the near future.

Edit:

Took a look at the MG279Q, looks like the only difference is the lower refresh rate down to 40 Hz. If you're buying a monitor that is $800+, the last thing you need to worry about is getting frames lower than 60 or even 90 in most titles. Of course, with things like Star Citizen and other titles on the horizon, that may be a factor, but graphics technology will be FAR ahead in 1.5 years with the demands from VR going mainstream.

[Steeps]

Biggest difference is IPS.

[PricelineNegotiator]

Well shit, that's pretty nice.