Finally...The Xirt has come back...in QUAD-CORE!

[xirtamehtsitahw]

That's right, folks. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.

I am now the proud owner of THE most powerful cyber-beast I have ever laid eyes upon:

An Acer V5 with an AMD A10 QUAD-core processor, which clocks in at 2.5 GHz per core (with a max 3.5 GHz overclock speed), 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, and a Radeon graphics chip with 512 MB of video memory. Oh, and a 1000-GB hard drive.

All to the tune of a mere 225 dollars.

I aim to take this beast for quite the ride--I'm going to eventually download WWE 2K15--again--and this time I very well could be able to actually PLAY it.

After all--WWE 2K15 says the minimum requirements are: 2.4 GHz DUAL-core processor, at least 4 GB RAM, 256 MB of video memory (I think), and DirectX 11 compatibility.

I believe this new monster meets those expectations by far.

[MIR]

Great rig man!

Aww shits son. Welcome to the 21's century man. Soon you will join us in the 21st and 1/10 and a half Century.

System:    Kernel: 3.16.7-29-desktop x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.10.3           Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin)
Machine:   System: Dell product: PowerEdge 1900
           Mobo: Dell model: 0TW855 v: A00 Bios: Dell v: 2.7.0 date: 10/30/2010
CPU(s):    2 Quad core Intel Xeon X5355s (-HT-MCP-SMP-) cache: 8192 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2667 MHz 1: 2000 MHz 2: 2000 MHz 3: 2000 MHz 4: 2000 MHz 5: 2000 MHz 6: 2000 MHz
           7: 2000 MHz 8: 2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 730]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.1 driver: nvidia Resolution: [email protected], [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.7, 128 bits) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.1.2
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA Device 0e0f driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k3.16.7-29-desktop
           Card-2 Logitech Premium Stereo USB Headset 350 driver: USB Audio
           Card-3 Midiman M-Audio MobilePre driver: USB Audio
           Card-4 Logitech HD Webcam C910 driver: USB Audio
Network:   Card: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet driver: bnx2
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:1c:23:b9:1e:b5
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1371.6GB (54.6% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_SP2504C size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdc model: APPLE_SSD_SD128E size: 121.3GB ID-3: /dev/sdb model: ST31000528AS size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 112G used: 100G (91%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1
           ID-2: /home size: 160G used: 140G (93%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-3: /boot size: 59G used: 15G (26%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-4: swap-1 size: 11.68GB used: 0.11GB (1%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 33C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 306 Uptime: 4 days  4:52 Memory: 5954.2/7995.9MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.30

[xirtamehtsitahw]

Holy cow...my machine may be Brock Lesnar, but yours...HULK SMASH! ROFL

Awesome specs, dude.

Looks like we both have miniature supercomputers by '80s standards.

Video games be like...

Aww cra--*stampeded by rampaging 80s supercomputers in the form of laptops*

I think your "supercomputer" cost just a LITTLE more than mine did.

Major dolla cred, bruh.

[MIR]

Mine cost a 100 dollars. I have since added more ram and a better GPU.

You have the benefit of a newer CPU and faster ram.

My suggestion is to ditch the AMD GPU and upgrade to an Nvidia Graphics card.

Here is why. AMD cant seem to get their act shorted out. Even the top of the line AMD graphics card can barely match Nvidia's 4th tier GPU. If you are running Linux, you might as well give up as OpenGL support is totally useless. So much so that AMD has given up support of their GPU driver in linux and given it to the opensource community to try and fix it. It is sad when Intel's Graphic chips out perform a dedicated graphics card in Linux.

So in the end i would recommend migrating to an Nvidia graphic card with a little more videoram.

As for Mini... This computer i am on would be equatable to a dedicated workstation. It is a 6U sized server that i tossed a graphics card into and play games on

Oh also forgot to mention that i have a quadcore Mini computer the size of half a credit card :P

[xirtamehtsitahw]

Holy crap! That is beyond words...

To make a computer even more powerful than mine, but even smaller than my friggin' TOUCHPAD?! That is some serious MEGA-nerd cred right there, bub.

Plus a double whammy for being able to do that for under 100 bucks...wow.