Poll: Your computer's weakest link...

[Athinira]

This is another one of those threads where the answer is totally ambigious and depends on what you want to accomplish at a certain time.

You might as well have asked what the best form of transportation is. I can tell you then that if i plan to travel long distance, I'll take the plane, train or car. If i want to travel a few kilometers, I'll just grab public transportation. I want to get in better shape or not pay anything, I'll run or take my rollerskates/bike. If i hate getting wet, I'll pick the car when it's raining etc. etc.

 

[vanillabeans320]

i'm satisfied with my computer for the most part, but the weakest link is my 8800gts graphics card. everything else is okay: phenom ii 945, 4gb ram, 500gb raid

 

[Asehujiko]

My case pre dates every other object inside by more then a generation. Some parts are held on by duct tape.

 

[Wolfram23]

This is another one of those threads where the answer is totally ambigious and depends on what you want to accomplish at a certain time.

You might as well have asked what the best form of transportation is. I can tell you then that if i plan to travel long distance, I'll take the plane, train or car. If i want to travel a few kilometers, I'll just grab public transportation. I want to get in better shape or not pay anything, I'll run or take my rollerskates/bike. If i hate getting wet, I'll pick the car when it's raining etc. etc.

It's not ambiguous at all. You have a PC? What part if it is dragging down YOUR experience? Of course it will depend from person to person but it doesn't mean it's not fun to share. You should know what you do most on your PC, and if you do a lot of different things from gaming to encoding then maybe you need more than one part. Doesn't really matter, it's just a fun topic for PC nerds like myself.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

My motherboard is dragging my PC down to gaming hell.It's an 6yo Gigabyte with DDR2.

I keep telling myself I'm gonna upgrade it soon,but september won't come fast enough so the temperatures here can be lowered(there is around 35+ degrees here every day).

 

[Matt-the-twat]

Got a quadcore and all, but only 4GB of RAM.

 

[redisforever]

Video card and processor.
Ram is ok, I have 3gb.
Windows 7 is ok, I have home premium.
Hard drive, no problem, 320gb, and 1tb external.

 

[Saviordd1]

My processor, 2.2 Ghz is absolutely sad, meanwhile my 9800 Geforce video card is plugging along quite nicely.

 

[smithy_2045]

XP is the only thing holding me back at all.

 

[Alphakirby]

My laptop can handle anything...until it gets hot,then the son of a ***** will freeze everything I'm doing in an attempt to keep itself alive.

 

[DVS Storm]

I'm not too sure on how reliable canyourunit is.

I don't like CanYouRunIt? because it doesn't take into account what graphical quality settings or screen resolution you're planning to play the game with. Not to mention "Recommended" can mean a whole bunch of different levels of performance depending on the game. Sometimes the recommended settings means, "You'll scrape by at medium settings." Or recommended could mean, "This'll run smooth as butter on CRAZY HIGH MAXED settings." Or it could mean anything else.

Maybe I'm wrong about all this? Anyone know better than I? It's likely someone here does.

I agree with you about Canyourunit?. It just says if your computer passes the minimum or recommended requirements. It doesn't give any specifics. For example it says that I can run the first Witcher with recommended settings but I still have to tweak the settings quite a bit before it runs smoothly. What I mean is that I would like to have a little more specifics.

OT. My processor and video card. My laptop is surprisingly powerful but those prevent me from playing all the games. Also heating is sometimes a real issue

 

[Omnific One]

7200 RPM HDD.

 

[Cannedsheep]

I have 4 gigs of ram, a nvidia gt 320m video, all paired with a t4400 processor.

 

[Thamian]

I'm not one hundred per cent certain, but either my motherboard or RAM is the weakest link in my machine. One or other of them is ever so slightly on the fucked side, either that or they just don't like each other very much...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

eh none of my parts are weak, but i would definitely say my 660w power supply and my motherboard are probably my two weakest links out of the lot, and then next thing to upgrade would be my crossfired hd 5770's into hopefully a 6950 or the such, don't quite know when or if that'll happen, but for now my computer handles everything i throw at it just fine.


the only thing it even SLIGHTLY chugs at was fable III with everything on high, in the middle of brightwall village where there would be like 30 people walking around while i'm trying to do stuff..that shit would lag just a bit.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

My motherboard is dragging my PC down to gaming hell.It's an 6yo Gigabyte with DDR2.

I keep telling myself I'm gonna upgrade it soon,but september won't come fast enough so the temperatures here can be lowered(there is around 35+ degrees here every day).

i'm sorry but maybe i just don't get it..what does the temperature of the weather have to do with you upgrading your motherboard..??

 

[Mute52]

I thought it was my processor, but i only have 20gb left in my hard drive out of 500gb.

Going to have to upgrade to 1tb soon

 

[Yorkshire_matt]

Its either the t*at using the keyboard and mouse or its the internet connection

 

[DarkhoIlow]

My motherboard is dragging my PC down to gaming hell.It's an 6yo Gigabyte with DDR2.

I keep telling myself I'm gonna upgrade it soon,but september won't come fast enough so the temperatures here can be lowered(there is around 35+ degrees here every day).

i'm sorry but maybe i just don't get it..what does the temperature of the weather have to do with you upgrading your motherboard..??

Well,I planned to do a big upgrade for my whole computer during the summer.But because of the heat I can't really do that(being a bit overweight)I sweat a lot and I need to carry the chassis to the computer shop.This is why I have to wait for a more "cooler" weather in order for me to do the upgrade.

 

[castlewise]

I made some poor choices when I partitioned my hard drive to install linux. Now I have to run all of my games on a pitiful 100GB. It means I am constantly uninstalling/reinstalling/downloading stuff. Good thing steam is pretty handy for that.