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[victorj]

Video very nice, anybody here play Call of Duty? If any play, contact me for us play mw2 matches hehe.

[-Archmage-]

I play cod on pc.

[ultifd]

Oh my god, Ultifd and Archmage in the same thread? This is like old times again!

Haha, good times.

What surprises me is that nobody seems to brag about monitor size. Sure, 1920 x 1080 is the de facto norm, but for a hardcore gamer, you can go further. But they're hellishly expensive, too. A 2560 × 1600 IPS monitor runs about a thousand buckaroos. A more honest approach is multiple monitors. A single 1920 x 1080 monitor is pretty inexpensive. $100-200 dollars for a TN monitor. That's good enough for most people. So add another (or two). It's a great productivity boost to have multiple monitors. Trying to edit and image while flipping back to a source in a different window? Just place one on each monitor.

  On Black Friday I finally upgraded to a 24" 1920x1080 monitor from a 1280x1024 monitor. My reaction: 
I also found a lot of other good deals on some video cards. Sadly, I already spent 120ish USD on the monitor, and I already had a tight budget this year.
Now If I did have an unlimited budget, I would have bought a 7770 or  GTX 650.  Both were only 70 bucks after a 30 dollar rebate. Now, they aren't really high end but i think a mid-end card would be good enough for me. Especially since I'm still surviving on a 9500gt.
Also while having multiple monitors would indeed be awesome, wouldn't that be bad for the eyes? Especially for people that have bad eyesight...  I mean, we could use lux, but still.

And then there's the fact that you both mention your PSU. Let's be honest here, that's just a bragging point. As long as your PSU delivers enough power to run everything (and you both have plenty excess), that's all you need. Sure, modular cables and bronze+ certification is nice, but when describing your build to someone, nobody really cares. Your case is more interesting than your PSU (seriously, a good case can drastically improve airflow while making your computer look really awesome).

This reminds me, I also wish that I could have bought this 430 watt PSU, I mean it was only 17 bucks...

Also, operating systems, along with antiviruses, are one program I'd particularly advise against pirating. It's rather unsafe, and if you're building this expensive computer, $100 for the OS is pretty fair. Linux is great, but I don't expect people to work for free. If you like what you pirate, buy it. Consider it "try before you buy".

While I agree with you on this, I'm not sure if I can apply this to Windows 8. 

I wonder how many frames per second would I get on MG/GAE with a 9500gt with this new monitor. All I know so far is that both Team Fortress 2 and League of Legends runs great with high FPS on high settings, but both of those games are probably just heavily optimized... When I have time, I'll try to test this. Then maybe I could try to get some updated gameplay videos on Youtube!
...Now that I think of it, we forgot about reddit when we were trying to make MG/GAE more popular. We should try create a reddit thread about it, if we ever try to boost up the popularity of the game/engine.

[Omega]

Now If I did have an unlimited budget, I would have bought a 7770 or  GTX 650.  Both were only 70 bucks after a 30 dollar rebate. Now, they aren't really high end but i think a mid-end card would be good enough for me. Especially since I'm still surviving on a 9500gt.

You have an unlimited budget and willing to settle on that? You could get a 7990 or GTX 690, both which are thousand dollar powerhouses. But, yeah, computers hurt the wallet.

Also while having multiple monitors would indeed be awesome, wouldn't that be bad for the eyes? Especially for people that have bad eyesight...  I mean, we could use lux, but still.

Not really, no. No more so than a single monitor. Eyestrain can result from contrasting brightness, though, and a computer screen usually is heavy on the blue lighting. The issue with that though is less about the eyestrain than the fact that a bright blue screen tricks your brain into thinking it's day light (and thus messes with your sleep). By "lux", I'm assuming you mean F.lux? It's a great program for making sure you hit the sack on time. For preventing eyestrain, just don't use the computer in the dark. Keep the room lights on.

I wonder how many frames per second would I get on MG/GAE with a 9500gt with this new monitor. All I know so far is that both Team Fortress 2 and League of Legends runs great with high FPS on high settings, but both of those games are probably just heavily optimized... When I have time, I'll try to test this. Then maybe I could try to get some updated gameplay videos on Youtube!

While a 9500gt might be able to play MegaGlest at 1920 x 1080, I doubt you'd be able to record video at that resolution concurrently unless you have some killer CPU. You can always set the game to use a lower resolution (but upscaled on your monitor) if there's performance issues.

...Now that I think of it, we forgot about reddit when we were trying to make MG/GAE more popular. We should try create a reddit thread about it, if we ever try to boost up the popularity of the game/engine.

I've thought about it, but never had a good enough idea. /r/gaming is pretty much just the mainstream big games that everyone knows and wants to talk about, while /r/games is pretty much a more serious version about news for the large games or industry in general. There was even once an askreddit thread about gems that nobody else knows about it was mostly older games by big developers. So I haven't really seen a good place to try and mention it (and if you can't sound like an advertisement or you'll go the same way as Woody Harrelson's AMA). Of course, if you manage to get Reddit's attention, the servers will be down for a while ("friendliest DDOS in the world").

[tiger]

While a 9500gt might be able to play MegaGlest at 1920 x 1080, I doubt you'd be able to record video at that resolution concurrently unless you have some killer CPU. You can always set the game to use a lower resolution (but upscaled on your monitor) if there's performance issues.

I can record MG at 1920 x 1080 (My monitor has even higher res but If I record that it gets kinda choppy) And I only have 4 CPUs.

[Omega]

I can record MG at 1920 x 1080 (My monitor has even higher res but If I record that it gets kinda choppy) And I only have 4 CPUs.

...four CPUs? Perhaps you mean four cores or four threads? That doesn't make much of a difference, as MegaGlest is poorly threaded. What matters more is factors such as architecture, manufacturing process (size of the transistors), number of transistors, etc. For example, Arch's 6-core processor won't hold a candle to the 4-core i5. It's part of the reason Intel's outperforming AMD: they've got smaller infrastructure. The Haswell processors are using tri-gate transistors and a 22nm manufacturing process. In comparison, AMD's planned 2013 chips will be using a 28 nm manufacturing process.