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Quote from bloxgate

Well the record is actually around 8.31 - 8.4 GHz, AMD did it with large amounts of liquid helium after cooling it down with liquid nitrogen. However the silicon thing is true you would have to use gold semiconductors for it or possibly even replace every bit of silicon with gold, gold has a higher conductivity so should be able to carry more energy without vaporizing.

You make a good point, except that gold is not​ a semiconductor. Gold has many uses in modern microcircuitry, but there is no known way to make a gold-based transistor.

And thanks for bringing up the record. I was going to luck it up myself, but it slipped my mind.

I have an old compaq presario c300 laptop. Without optifine, I have at best, 5-8 FPS. I'm not really sure about the specs. I don't want to check them, then break down in absolute horror from the piece of garbage that I allow to sit on my lap for 3 hours a day.

Quote from MrFurzzy

I have an old compaq presario c300 laptop. Without optifine, I have at best, 5-8 FPS. I'm not really sure about the specs. I don't want to check them, then break down in absolute horror from the piece of garbage that I allow to sit on my lap for 3 hours a day.

I know that feel. Took forever to talk my parents into buying the parts so I could build a decent PC.

8 Gb of ram,Intel i7 2600K and AMD 6950.
Minecraft runs great at high settings 150 + Fps

Quote from cadika_orade

I know that feel. Took forever to talk my parents into buying the parts so I could build a decent PC.

I finally got a job, so all of the money is going towards a new computer. Unfortunately, I have no room for a desktop, so I have to get a good laptop.

Quote from MrFurzzy

I finally got a job, so all of the money is going towards a new computer. Unfortunately, I have no room for a desktop, so I have to get a good laptop.

I would suggest making room for a desktop PC, or building a small form-factor PC. I tell people to only go for a laptop if they are going to travel with it. I say this because...

• Laptops can rarely be upgraded. If you buy a decent laptop, it probably already has as much RAM as it is capable holding. You cannot add a secondary GPU and can very rarely upgrade the primary GPU. Extra drives are out of the question.
• Laptops are usually built around mobile versions of CPUs and GPUs. These chips have all the same features and architectures as their desktop brethren, but are often under-clocked or otherwise throttled to increase battery life at the expense of performance. Even with power savings disabled, these chips rarely go as fast as they could.
• Laptops have unique issues, and you can't really fix them. Faulty batteries, fried graphics adapters, failing drives, and cracked screens are all issues that plague laptops and cripple the whole machine instantly. If these things were to happen to a desktop you could probably get the machine back to a usable if not repaired state within an hour. With a laptop, you have to send it out for repair or replacement, often leaving you without a computer for weeks at a time.
• You can build a kick-butt gaming PC for the price of a decent laptop.
• Alienware is overpriced and low quality, especially the laptops.

It is your choice, of course, but those are my 62 cents. :3

Quote from turkeyfrank

Intel celeron @ 2.2GHz
2 GB of ram
integrated graphics
...

D:
Thats bad even for a netbook....
Heck, any netbook is bad for a netbook.

Quote from cadika_orade

I would suggest making room for a desktop PC, or building a small form-factor PC. I tell people to only go for a laptop if they are going to travel with it. I say this because...

• Laptops can rarely be upgraded. If you buy a decent laptop, it probably already has as much RAM as it is capable holding. You cannot add a secondary GPU and can very rarely upgrade the primary GPU. Extra drives are out of the question.
• Laptops are usually built around mobile versions of CPUs and GPUs. These chips have all the same features and architectures as their desktop brethren, but are often under-clocked or otherwise throttled to increase battery life at the expense of performance. Even with power savings disabled, these chips rarely go as fast as they could.
• Laptops have unique issues, and you can't really fix them. Faulty batteries, fried graphics adapters, failing drives, and cracked screens are all issues that plague laptops and cripple the whole machine instantly. If these things were to happen to a desktop you could probably get the machine back to a usable if not repaired state within an hour. With a laptop, you have to send it out for repair or replacement, often leaving you without a computer for weeks at a time.
• You can build a kick-butt gaming PC for the price of a decent laptop.
• Alienware is overpriced and low quality, especially the laptops.

It is your choice, of course, but those are my 62 cents. :3

I mean no room as in My parents won't let me have a computer in my bedroom, and there is no other place for a desktop. My parents my computer and my sisters computer to stay in the living room, where there are no desks or tables. Otherwise, I would build my own computer.

I also want a laptop so that I can bring it to school, and program during study hall.

Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz

16GB DDR3 1600MHz (4 Allocated to MC)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 overclocked.

I usually hover around 200 FPS at max settings.

Quote from MrFurzzy

I mean no room as in My parents won't let me have a computer in my bedroom, and there is no other place for a desktop. My parents my computer and my sisters computer to stay in the living room, where there are no desks or tables. Otherwise, I would build my own computer.

I also want a laptop so that I can bring it to school, and program during study hall.

Ah. I know that feel. I wasn't allowed to have a PC in my room either.
Yes, then I would suggest a laptop for your specific situation.
Try to get one with potential for upgrades, if possible. You'll be glad you did a year from now. Also, it is nice to get insurance on it. Google "Square Trade". All my big-ticket items are insured through them and their prices/coverage are top-notch.

Quote from cadika_orade

Sweet specs. Did you build it yourself? And does it light up!?

I'm running...

16GB RAM, allocating 14GB
AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition clocked to 4.2GHz
Dual AMD Radeon HD 5770's in CrossfireX, overclocked.

And the whole thing lights up blue. Even the PSU. :3
Her name is Epsilon and she is my one true love. o_o

I was like hymph so what. Till you said it glows blue. Now I'm flippen jelous. I'll have to revamp my entire system cause I only have one thing lit up....

O.... Ya

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core 2.50 GHz
4gb DDR2 800
AMD Radeon HD 6770 1 gig DDR3

The front lights up when the hard drive spins. That count?

Main machine

iMac Core i3 dual 3.06GHz (*sigh* they went quad i5 3 months after I bought it)
12GB RAM
Radeon HD 4670

I get a constant 30-60fps save the occasional lag spike. I need to up the RAM allocation too. I'm also going to do a nuke and pave of the system soon. It's starting to suffer from bit rot.

I don't game much on my laptop except when on vacation but to add to the list:

MacBook Pro 2Ghz Quad i7
16GB RAM
Radeon 6490M (surprisingly the integrated Intel HD 3000 does a pretty decent job as well)

Average between 30fps on the low end to 250+. I'm tempted to swap a 4 and 8GB module between the two since having 16GB would be more useful in my desktop machine.

Quote from grommen

I was like hymph so what. Till you said it glows blue. Now I'm flippen jelous. I'll have to revamp my entire system cause I only have one thing lit up....

O.... Ya

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core 2.50 GHz
4gb DDR2 800
AMD Radeon HD 6770 1 gig DDR3

The front lights up when the hard drive spins. That count?

I assure you that it was all top-shelf when I bought it a few years ago.
The only thing I sorta skimpped on was the GPU's, but I was able to get two 5770's for 1/4 the price of a single 6770.

What... I have 64GB (8x8) of ram? O.o Cost about 650$. Something wrong with having a 5000$ machine that will make average look like poop for the next 5 years?

Info for my computer at my father's house:

AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor (3.30 GHz)
6.0 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6450
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit SP1

512MB-3GB allocated to Java (64-Bit)
512MB-3GB allocated to Minecraft

Quote from Badprenup

8GB of RAM (allocating default because I have yet to need to allocate more, even running hi res TPs)
AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition (not OC'd because all it does is lower the lifetime of it for power that is largely wasted imo)
AMD Radeon 6970

Nice rig, but allow me to explain a few points of overclocking modern CPUs like the one you are rolling:

• Power consumption only increases when you are maxing out your CPU usage. Modern CPUs actually under-clock themselves when they are seeing light or no use, in order to conserve energy. OCing the CPU increases the maximum speed, allowing it to rev up higher than it normal could, but only when it needs to.
• There is very little evidence the overclocking diminishes the lifespan of modern CPUs. In fact, Intel is now covering potential OC damage in their base warranty. This is because both Intel and AMD have long been building their CPU architectures with thermal durability in mind. If you push it too far, the CPU will shut itself down long before damage occurs. The only potential for decreasing the lifespan of the chip is if you heat it up, cool it down, and repeat over and over again which, in all reality, you do anyway when you turn your PC on and then off. Your mechanical drives will see their bearing give out long before your processor does. And when that happens, you would probably be better off building a new PC considering that an average of 7-10 years has elapsed.

In conclusion, my 4.2GHz overclock might decrease my CPU's lifespan by a month or two, but a month out of 10 years in exchange for a 10% performance boost in most applications? Sounds like a fair trade, especially considering that I have planned to buy a new PC in four years anyway, at which point my beloved Epsilon shall be given full use to my mother. Who will not have administrator rights.

Quote from Waylon8tor

I have an AMD Vision quad-core processor, an MSI Raedon 6770 video card and 8GB DDR3 RAM. But even though I have all that RAM, I still only allocate 1 GB to Minecraft. This is because out of my 8 GB, my PC can only use 2.99 GB. Just because I'm using 32-bit Windows 7. D:

32-bit Win7 only allows you to use 3GB of RAM?

well, ****. why does my father have to obsess about Win7 and not just give me my wonderful WinXP back...

I had a simple budget of 850 for a new build, to avoid paying a dime out of my pocket for it... I had a 500 dollar credit card gift card, and 350 reimbursement from work to play with. (Seriously. 350 dollars per year on tech equipment!)

I ended up with an i5-3570K, Biostar TZ77B motherboard, EVGA GTX 2GB 550ti video, 120GB SATA III SSD to go with my 80GB and 160GB SSD drives, 8GB of DDR3 1600 RAM, 24x DVD burner, 500w Corsair PSU, Enermax CPU cooler with a sweet blue LED fan... and of course the case: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811147107 That case comes with 5 fans built in, and has kept things pretty cool.

I came in just under my 850 budget, at 828 dollars, with and additional 75 dollars in rebates coming my way as well. I'm not a hardcore gamer, or anything, but I think I did well enough and this runs the games I do play just fine.