new pc plans

[lordalmighty1]

so, my old fx4100 rig is on its way out sadly.. been along time since I got anew machine so thought I would upgrade to an i7..
managed to find 1 on amazon that's affordable and comes with much needed upgrades

here is the machine I plan on getting over the next couple of weeks with abit of luck.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MVYZ5CQ/ ... Q8931Z#Ask

cant wait to get it as it comes with upgraded ram, cpu and gpu to what I am using now lol..
the hope is to get a lot of speed out of skyline for making games

[SolarPortal]

nice, i have wanted a gtx960 myself as our cards are out of date by a long way lol
We are running Gtx560ti and GTX460v2 lol

i7 processors are great, especially for compiling code as all 8 cores get used completely.
The PC you are getting is like ours apart from we have 3rd gen i7 and the older gpu's.
It should run skyline very well lol

[lordalmighty1]

[SolarPortal]

wow, thats cheap for a pro version of windows 10. We upgraded for free from the windows 7 to home edition.
Here is a list of differences between the 2 windows versions:

Thank you so much for the offer. I have pm'd you m8

[lordalmighty1]

I don't know what those features all are for pro but.. 40 notes is cheap yeah, home edition was something like 70 quid so it was a no brainer for me to save money on pro from amazon.co.uk

thanks for the link

[lordalmighty1]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00 ... _qh_dp_hza

found this pc for an extra £56 on top of the 1st I linked at making the topic here, so I'm going to get this slightly better pc Wednesday coming, assuming the sale is still on then .

if by chance the sale ends before next week though I will end up getting the other 1.

any thoughts on the newer found computer compared to the other 1?
advice welcome

[SolarPortal]

GTX970 is much quicker than the 960. I am sure it would handle 1080p very well but not sure about 4k. Tattie might know more lol

[lordalmighty1]

yeah, but tattie is having housing remodelling done to his computer room and other stuff. not seen him about for a while now to ask. however I don't have 4k monitors so either way its not an issue like.
thanks for the info though m8 hopefully this 2nd pc is on sale still by Wednesday so I can get it

[SolarPortal]

ahh, explains why he's been missing lol

[lordalmighty1]

new pc is on its way, should arrive no later than the 31st I cant wait of course I wants it now.. must of hit the track refresh button several hundred times since I got up lol.. ordered it midnight lastnight like..

anyways its a 4th gen i7 with 16gb ram and a gtx 970 4gb which is vr ready
looking forwards to seeing what skyline performance fps is like in comparison to this machine..
currently on a 10k blank map I get around 500-540 fps of course that's gonna go up but still im wondering by how much lol.

[CreativeOcclusion]

Congratulations!!!...It's a good feeling when you get a new rig...

[lordalmighty1]

thanks and yes you are right lol

[SolarPortal]

cool

[lordalmighty1]

pc just arriv ed... setup time lol. cant believe its here already

[lordalmighty1]

so after a week or so my i7 packed up working and was refunded... sooo disappointed lol..

new machine arrives today sometime after 1pm, its not an i7 though this time just a cheap gaming machine with amd cpu.

AMD A8 7650K Quad Core @ 4.00GHz, Radeon R7, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM 1tb hdd, will upgrade the graphics next week to either a NVidia 960gtx or go to a 1060gtx. going to be running win 10 pro with the machine 64bit of course. so will give some new stats of fps with skyline in the next couple of weeks

[SolarPortal]

awesome! Look forward to seeing some results with modern GPU.
Just remember that with Gen2, the performance boost is 3x to 16x

[lordalmighty1]

cool will do and thanks solar m8

[lordalmighty1]

found a gtx 1060 for 180£ on ocuk site gonna buy it tonight and have it installed by weekend cant wait to put it and skyline through some tests on new machine lol

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-gef ... 1f-ok.html

[Gtox]

Bought a GTX 1060 last week, and I'm really happy with it. Nice to go through my Steam library and play my old games with the graphics turned up to ultra.

[lordalmighty1]

cool yeah I cant wait myself to do some of the same lol..

[lordalmighty1]

well my gtx 1060 turned up at 945am today. spent sometime sorting things out and ran into a problem...

the new pc psu didn't provide a 6pin power connector for a dedicated gpu ;/ rather annoyed by this event..
lucky for me I guess, that my older quad core does have a 6pin power connector so the gtx 1060 is in the older machine, and the gtx750ti is In the newer machine disappointing to a degree but at least I can use both machines for gaming and development though I would have preferred the newer machine to use the new gpu I can live with it the way it is.

got to reinstall a few things as updating some drivers for the 750ti coursed a issue with the new machine that I don't really understand tbh. will have to look into it or get the newest driver from NVidia site or something. quite a day of problems but for now both machines are working with gpu's in them lol.

my older machine with a fx4100 was tested with skyline, on a 10k blank map I was getting around 1000 fps.
my newer machine with 750ti is unknown fps wise for now though will update my sig with the results soon and keep you all posted on it here aswell.

[SolarPortal]

have you got one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trueway-Expres ... B008AS7660
Edit: This was only a reference link for the 2x4pin to 6pin fix. There are a lot of them out there lol, so take your pick hehe

This is what i have used to get an extra 6pin connector to my current card which requires 2 6 pins lol.

1000fps..... mindblown

Hope this helps

[lordalmighty1]

its not quite the 1250 I was getting with a i7 and a gtx970 but its good enough for the age of the machine and gen1 skyline I think..
when gen2 hits I hope for a bit more of course fps wise but if not that's fine lol.

thanks for the link but I doubt I will go through the trouble of changing them out anytime soon spent best part of the day doing stuff with them both today so.