BBC story a watercooled PC

When he was asked "is there anything this PC can do that a normal one can't do"

The answer should be no ! :p

By the time he added all that money into watercooling, he could've got a faster CPU :p A cheaper PC can run the same games, max details and the only difference would be speed, which is moot in 6 months when a new CPU comes out.

I really don't get the point of Overclocking (yes, i know i am saying it in the wrong place :p), i get the joy from modding, the joy of making something quicker than it should and the joy of seeing all that work into fruitition but the actual point of getting a faster PC for games ? £150 for an Xbox is much more fun, spend the other £2k on a plane ticket to Australia, now that's joy :)
 
Raymond Lin said:
When he was asked "is there anything this PC can do that a normal one can't do"

The answer should be no ! :p

By the time he added all that money into watercooling, he could've got a faster CPU :p A cheaper PC can run the same games, max details and the only difference would be speed, which is moot in 6 months when a new CPU comes out.

I really don't get the point of Overclocking (yes, i know i am saying it in the wrong place :p), i get the joy from modding, the joy of making something quicker than it should and the joy of seeing all that work into fruitition but the actual point of getting a faster PC for games ? £150 for an Xbox is much more fun, spend the other £2k on a plane ticket to Australia, now that's joy :)
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fair points but i suppose if you have the money for both then why not:p
 
Raymond Lin said:
When he was asked "is there anything this PC can do that a normal one can't do"

The answer should be no ! :p

By the time he added all that money into watercooling, he could've got a faster CPU :p A cheaper PC can run the same games, max details and the only difference would be speed, which is moot in 6 months when a new CPU comes out.

I really don't get the point of Overclocking (yes, i know i am saying it in the wrong place :p), i get the joy from modding, the joy of making something quicker than it should and the joy of seeing all that work into fruitition but the actual point of getting a faster PC for games ? £150 for an Xbox is much more fun, spend the other £2k on a plane ticket to Australia, now that's joy :)
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I agree that buying top end stuff and clocking it is a little crazy but buying a mid range CPU and making it as good as the best one seems a good idea to me.


so how does your Xbox run crysis?
 
starfighter said:
I agree that buying top end stuff and clocking it is a little crazy but buying a mid range CPU and making it as good as the best one seems a good idea to me.


so how does your Xbox run crysis?
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But by the time you spend all that money into watercooling, you could've got the faster CPU :p
 
What an annoying waste of money. So glad I gave my tv away and don't have to pay a lisence fee anymore... (although technically I think they can charge me anyway just for having an internet connection)

What makes it more annoying is that the woman's a games reviewer and probably doesn't consider overclocking all tha exotic and unusual -my guess is she only looked like an idiot by trying to hard to look "journalistic" :p She probably wanted to make something informative about folks like us who tinker with computers as a pastime, but forgot how stupid esoteric hobbies look when treated as a "news" story. It felt like watching a documentary about live action roleplayers.
 
tomoW1 said:
So building expensive overclocked computers doesn't impress chicks? Now I know where I've been going wrong!
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same.
why is he using SLi GTX280's, a pair of HD4870x2's will provide more performance(i beleve), and less power all about being green in this day & age

is this the beeb trying to appeal to those with an interest in IT?
 
Wait, so that's what overclockers is about? The whole store is about modifying computers? I actually never knew what overclocking was. Haha, god that's geeky. I'd never have joined if I realised.
 
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