True or False: Forum game

False. About 8 years ago that I last had VGA in use.

Sniped: False anyways

TNP can’t understand why such ancient technology as VGA is still widely in use.

TRRUUUUUEEE. WHY. It’s so bad!

TNP knows that the only way is DisplayPort.

False, two HDMIs and one DisplayPort on this one

TNP is somewhat curious about AMD Zen

True. I wonder if it can get somewhat close to Intel in per-core performance (this is where AMD cpu’s really suck at the moment)

TNP is also waiting for AMD Vega.

False, I’m one of those lazy people that buys a gaming PC, I would have no idea where to start with building one

TNP is also too lazy to just upgrade the pc they have

False. Could really use an upgrade, just don’t have the money to do so. And I’m waiting for a new higher-end AMD gpu since I somewhat dislike Nvidia after 5 years of having problems with Nvidia cards.

TNP has done some kind of frankenstein (haha, I know) DIY mod to his pc.

True, does putting a custom CPU cooler on your GPU count?

TNP also overclocks a 270x

false, i’m on a 750Ti

TNP could use some more ram

also @FrankNSTein it does have some benefits, quicker response time as it doesn’t have to go through an ADC (although this depends on monitor) and it is also generally cheaper to implement

False. Still doing okay with 16GB. Faster RAM would be a thing though as I’m still running DDR3-1333.

@cpufreak101, at my school they have like new pc’s, new projectors, new everything but connected them up through vga

TNP owns at least 2 pc’s or laptops.

True, My Toshiba netbook and my BEAST (not really) rig

TNP also has a rig

true, would have been a beast back in 2009… if you had a time machine to get the 750Ti

TNP thought about making a reply but determined here isn’t a good place to talk

false i’ll talk about it here if it’s still relevant, and the topic hasn’t changed yet.

TNP understand that VGA is still around because it’s already ubiquitus in the enterprise environtment, and upgrading the totally working fine systems to a new better systems is sometimes not worth it.

TL;DR about vga, it’s not broken, why fix it?

True, but then again, they ran single cores into the Quad core age, too. Just because they do it doesn’t make it right. DVI for the win.

TNP runs something with more than 6 physical CPU cores.

even with dvi, there’s still 2 versions right? the full digital DVI and the analog compatible DVI.

anyway,
false, just upgraded to a 4 core. this 2500k is literally the fastest computer i’ve ever owned in my life.

TNP is using an aftermarket cooler on their computer.

Yes, there’s 2 versions of DVI, and I’m full digital.

True. Corsair H80i all-in-one liquid coolers. Would hate to hear this thing with stock coolers…

TNP has an aftermarket cooler on their GPU.

yeah, i am now full digital aswell, though the fact my garage sale monitor even supported it is surprising

false, the ACX cooler is a little too much for a 750Ti

TNP knows he prolly meant CPU

False. I think he meant GPU. There is some aftermarket gpu air-coolers, not to speak of custom water cooling.

TNP thinks the intel boxed cooler isn’t that bad when you’re not going to overclock.

Tralse: Depends on which Intel CPU era you look at. Modern, yeah, feel free to start with the little stock Intel cooler, it’ll do well enough most of the time. Pentium 4 Prescott? Biggest aftermarket tower heatsink you can get if you’re not going liquid-cooled. Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad? You’ll appreciate a bigger heatsink, but the stock heatsink isn’t bad. Early i7 chips? Consider a new heatsink the best thing you can do for one of those, but the Intel one’s good enough to get an OS going, log into some parts store, and order your new heatsink and thermal paste.

TNP has more than one monitor.

(and yes, when I asked that question, I did mean GPU. I’ve built enough computers to know the parts very rather well, as well as knowing most of the meanings for the three-letter-alphabet-soup.)

True. A 28" 4K and a 23" FHD.

I was thinking of something you’d still use today, but on the Prescott one I agree ^^ i7’s are nice and quiet as long as set up properly. Just don’t do test runs without applying thermal paste. :joy:

TNP has had a cpu hit thermal throttling.