scotsbiker is my new hero! and he proves EQ can run on a calculator!
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ok so next time I retire a quad core pc, I need to just ship it to scotsbiker
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Little background that no one prolly wants or needs, I have been a computer tech for 31 years, yes I am old... I have seen it all from the old toy computers to the IBM 5150 to the CPU craze as things got faster and faster. I have repaired every type of computer that you would find in a house, with a mouse on a boat or with a goat. I see what breaks and I see what lasts. If they buy crap then I fix something today and I know what I will be back next week to fix something else. My customers call me before they buy something so they don't buy a shitty paperweight. Over the years I have heard all the rave about people who say shit like, Intel for work, AMD for playing games, well that's just cause gamers are cheap bastards. I can tell you that in my limited experience that the constant I have found is that Intel runs cooler, faster, and more stable overall. Cheap is crap, acer, goldstar, LG,AMD CPU, and hard drive (not ssd) that is not Seagate or WD... CRAP. Yeah you got 1 good one so you rave about it, but overall they are crap.
So I am middle of the road cheap, I like a good deal, I don't need the hottest video card or the coolest water cooled cpu... I shop smart... Hence buying the i7s from my other post, I can run 48 instances of eq on 1 pc, and I have 3 of those for less then most hard core gamers spend on a video card. I have just a few rules I like to follow....
buy intel, as many cores as your wallet allows but always hypertheaded!
RAM - jamb it with ram! and ALWAYS match the pairs or all the ram when possible do a little research and match the ram to your CPU
Video card - I give less then 2 shits about a video card, they all display shit where I need them to, on the screen. Make sure it has adequate cooling and get the fastest ram you can afford on there but other then that... meh
Hard Drive - If it aint Seagate or Western Digital for a mechanical drive you are wasting your money, and even in a desktop try to get a 2.5" laptop drive, they plug right in and generate SO much LESS heat!
Here is why... crap hard drives generate way more heal then they need to and fail 5x as quick as Seagate and WD ones. AMD CPUs generate a ton more heat! More cores means less HARD work per core so they run.... cooler....
3 things kill your computer.....
1. HEAT
2. DIRT
3. SHITTY PARTS
Rant mode off.... Enjoy....