The slightly less popular manufacturer but also the first to give us 64 bit when we cared about it? I think it's more enthusiastic to buy AMD than it is to do the commoner thing and get 2500k's.
Yeah, I still regret listening to everyone and getting a 2500k. Shoulda stuck with that phenom 2 x4 or whatever it was called, coulda saved 100$. Or at least get the version without the integrated graphics, coulda saved 50$ dollars there.
Are you being sarcastic? The 2500K is the single best desktop CPU purchase that anyone could make in at least the last five years. It's the first modern Intel CPU and it overclocks like a champ. There haven't been significant improvements in quad core desktop CPUs since then.
That's why it's not enthusiasy, even if it was manufactured with over clocking in mind. hexacores from amd are more enthusiasy. It's like the difference between NY pizza, and pizza with rough edges and terrible topping distribution. The latter is definitely the enthusiasy choice.
Nah, if you're the enthusiast, then you need to get an Ivy Bridge CPU and delid it to get any reasonable overclock.
Maybe they have external DVD drives? I duno. I need used to use them all the damn time. Not so much now but, I still do. Next drive I get will probably be external though. Easy to share it between computers and what not.
Same here. Disk drives simply aren't important enough to have in every machine. I've got old DVD drives that I literally haven't installed in my new desktop because I simply don't care.
I wasn't really being sarcastic, it was more in line that I barely do anything that actually utilizes it. Do you guys not watch movies or something? Or do you just use netflicks for all your needs?
pfft.. movies on dvd no less... what? lol. I um... get my movies... elsewhere, and play them on my computer.
You better be grateful to whomever recommended you getting the 2500K. Sooner or later there will be a game coming along that needs the CPU power. The 2500 will be easily two or three years longer decent enough for gaming than any Phenom chip AMD offered. And that's ignoring the couple of dollar you save from Intel's energy efficiency.
Apparently the lack of Windows 9 might actually have a practical reason... http://techreport.com/news/27144/this-might-be-why-windows-10-isnt-called-windows-9
So I got the PC. Then the keyboard. Now I found a monitor... Apparently Anandtech says it's not complete dogshit. For $300, I'll take it.
Good choice, actually yesterday I was thinking about getting this monitor too instead of being a 4K early adapter, but the hassle with getting this in Europe isn't worth it.
It arrived. I can't even. So many pixels. Too many pixels. Sending it to Security cus poor and has no pixels.
Congrats in getting the monitor! I'll probably go for a triple 1080p setup in the future. (Or a 2x 1080p + 1x higher-res setup.)
