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when everyone is at 100% but one person still hasn't loaded in...
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when that same person is only at 20% while everyone else is at 100%
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when everyone is at 100% but the game hasn't started
Pew Pew Lasers8 votesWhen everyone is at 100% and the game still wont load. http://media.tumblr.com/8c5b60d4c7dd3159bdc9688f968e91f6/tumblr_inline_naogsuUbp01sgaysd.gif
PaladinNO2 votesOr when the countdown timer in champion select reaches 0, the message "Game Will Be Starting Soon!" message is displayed. We are all burning hot with anticipation and ready to go all out in a magnificent display of glorious fury...and then we suddenly discover we're actually stuck at "Game Could Be Starting Soon! (™)"...
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At least we're getting to do some planning.
Pew Pew Lasers4 votesHonestly the game needs a chat in the load screen so people can chat while they wait.
I look at porn since it can take 5+ minutes for most people to load.
Me, I'm done in 5 seconds. The loading that is.
PaladinNO1 votesYeah, weren't there words about a load-chat awhile back? But as I recall, Riot ditched that due to the complaints from the people who owned toasters and how it would make it worse for them (...buy a SSD or STFU™?), and there were also voiced concern regarding flaming in such a chat (that part, I can understand). I can also imagine 5 minutes makes for a suitable fapping break. Personally, I just switch over to the EUNE news comment section and post another post. ^^
But, ehm...loading done in 5 secs!? Wtf!?!?!? o.O.0
Okay, hardware specs on the table - NOW! http://oi59.tinypic.com/2vjpu01.jpg My SSDs growls angrily at you atm...
Kitty Darkstar1 votesDefine toaster. Depending on your answer, I might be typing this on one.
PaladinNO1 votesYou want specifications or defined loading time? Spec. wise, I'd say at least a SSD is a must these days - whether you're doing officework or gaming, it keeps the system way more smooth.
Hell, just buy a SSD and make your PC no longer a toaster! (commercial speech).
So lets say an Intel i5-2500, a 256 GB Samsung 840/850 EVO and 8GB 1600 MHz RAM (any more is for special needs and any faster is pretty much just a waste for gaming) and at least a quad-SLI Geforce GTX Titan X - cough I wish - I mean something like a Geforce GTX 570 as preferred hardware?
As for loading....mmm, less than 40 seconds would be nice. "Considerate", let's say.
I may have defined the opposite of what you requested, but there you go. When you say "define toaster", I assume posting a picture of an actual toaster would be too much of cliché and way too obvious?
I know from my crappy laptop "the game" (as per defined in the ToS) runs smoothly on way lower specs than that: GeForce GT335, i5-450M, Intel 520 120GB SSD and a meager 4 GB RAM. ...but that is specs which I will soon consider a toaster, though it technically already is. Only redeeming feature is that SSD (removed the stock 640 GB WD Blue HDD on day one - currently serves as a 3rd external backup drive).
Kitty Darkstar2 votesSSD?
And I meant an actual toaster >.> my laptop is shaped similarly to one and burns things
PaladinNO1 votesSSD - Solid State Drive. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp
TL;DR: you want to have one in your PC.
Kitty Darkstar1 votes...there probably isn't one in my PC?
PaladinNO1 votes...there probably is one in the nearby online store?
Kitty Darkstar1 votesThat was a mixture between a question and a statement. Let me phrase it better.
Do you think there is one in my PC?
Anyways I can't use online stores.
PaladinNO1 votesWell, when you put it like that...I'd be inclined to say "yes", as a SSD is pretty much mandatory these days, but I'm gonna stick my neck out and say "no".
It's a 50/50 gamble, so way higher odds than winning the lottery - or getting a Mystery Skin that I actually want. ^^
Kitty Darkstar1 votesMy drive looks like a hard drive as far as I can tell >.>
PaladinNO1 votesI'm sure you got a valid reason why you can't use online stores, but I promise you a SSD would speed things up considerably. :)
Pew Pew Lasers1 votesYeah, weren't there words about a load-chat awhile back? But as I recall, Riot ditched that due to the complaints from the people who owned toasters and how it would make it worse for them (...buy a SSD or STFU™?), and there were also voiced concern regarding flaming in such a chat (that part, I can understand). I can also imagine 5 minutes makes for a suitable fapping break. Personally, I just switch over to the EUNE news comment section and post another post. ^^
But, ehm...loading done in 5 secs!? Wtf!?!?!? o.O.0
Okay, hardware specs on the table - NOW! http://oi59.tinypic.com/2vjpu01.jpg My SSDs growls angrily at you atm...
I have a Revo 3 2x, 16x PCI-E SSD for my game files. Its ~5x faster than a SATA 3 SSD. I can load a custom match with just me in it in about ~2 seconds. So you can imagine waiting for those potatos to load is tormenting to me. I can't even stand using an "Average" computer. Feels like its always maxing its cpu and ram to me. Decent specs on your though. Mine is 4 years old and its almost time for a new build. I usually do a whole new extreme system every 5 years rather than upgrade parts.
PaladinNO2 votesThat's....impressive! :D You gotta tell me the cost of all that. Mine did cost (when I lost count...) ~4800 EUR.
And thank you. :) The stat I am most proud of is my 32 GB RAM - just maxed the motherboard when I shopped for the stuff due to the low cost. ^^ And I was lucky: the cost of RAM increased with about 125% 3 weeks later due to some sudden change in the availability of some particular material used in making electronic memory modules.
I did consider a PCI-E SSD, but I am a big sucker for plug in-cards, so with the GPU, Xonar STX SPU, Rocket 640L SATA controller, PCE-AC68 WiFi-card and the ginormous CPU-cooler (Thermalright TRUE Black) there is no slot or room left for anything like that. https://www.dropbox.com/s/owdzt8a8oekzkd8/IMG_2175_70.jpg?dl=0
I got my OS on the Intel 520 240 GB SSD, games on the Samsung 840 PRO 512 GB and temp-files (compressed file extraction/Win-/internet-/other) on the Intel 520 60 GB SSD to reduce strain and write-operations on the OS SSD (I just call it my "expendable drive"). Though with my current usage, I have calculated my SSDs will last about 70 years before they're worn out. xD Now I just want to kill the old, leftover WD Blue 750 GB HDD, so I can finally replace it with the already purchased Seagate Enterprise v.4 SED 6TB. I use the damn thing as my .torrent-drive in a desperate attempt to wear it out - and even after 2 years of hard torrenting, it still reads 100% health. Why can't it just do the decent things like the other 2 WD Blue drives and die... >-< How can I say I got 26 TB HDD storage instead of just 20 TB when I can't make a screenshot of it? :(
I too usually upgrade about every 5 years, though I salvage what I can from my previous build, like CPU-cooler, fans, RAM...basically everything except the motherboard, CPU and GPU. Got 3 complete PCs already, with enough spare parts to build about 2 more laying around already. >-<
Current build is from 2012, but I have no plans for upgrading yet. No need, really, when most of my games are close to 10 years old: there's Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, then Crysis, then Half-Life 2 and so on...
Pew Pew Lasers1 votesMine cost ~$4500. I did a lot of shopping and took advantage of a local store that beats anything, even online by 10%. This computer was ranked 9.8 by windows when I built it. Its now 7.7 Q.Q
Theres obvious factors where mine excels quite a bit more than yours. But you got me beat hands down in drive space. I only have about 5TB overall 1TB in SSDs and 4 in 1HDD But my ram kicks the crap out of yours. While we both have 32GB, but mine runs at 2300MHz and is quad channel. Plus I can pop in another 32GB+ any time I want because I still have 4 more ram slots to use. I've lamented never using them. Ram is cheap.
I have 2x680s, which were top end when I got them. An i7 3930. Not too far off from yours. An AX1200, a few sizes up from yours. My last build used an AX850 though. I loved it. Voltages were still perfect after 5 years of 16hour a day use. I'd recommend the AXs to anyone building. Worth every penny. I have an H100i with a push pull out the top. I wanted a H110 but my case wasn't updated with the screw slots for it till a year after I made the build. So only 120mm fans =/ But I went with high quality votrex fans. So its like they are barely there.
Rocking a Haf X Case 2x200 mm fans onthe top, 200mm on the side, a 240mm on the front, and a 140mm on the back.
Thing is stupid quiet and the only time it makes noise is when the gpus are under load. Cause I never opted to liquid cool them. And the piece de resistance is the Rampage IV Extreme mobo which allows me to have all the crap I have. It can go as high as 4xSLI... I chose SSDs instead. 8 ram slots... and I only use 4... Cause ram, fuck yeah. Can handle up to 2300Mhz and 192GB. Got a big fat 27" Samsung monitor, thought about more but no room atm. Prob next build when I get a real desk. I guess the thing that sets my monitor apart from most though is its great quality. 179 degree viewing angle, horizontal and vertical. Its so awesome.
Oh... and the whole rig all the way through is black. Black is my thing. Black keyboard, black mouse, black mic, black monitor, black headphones, black cables. Black Black Black. I am the night.
Let me tell you it was a bitch to put together when I lost screws... trying to see black on black is hard. All you see is black.
I usually use my old computers for backups.... for... things... But mostly collect dust and remind me what mistakes I made so I dont make them again. Fucked up a lot of times before I figured out AMD video cards are noisy and hot for what little they give.
Built mine mid 2011. Probably build the next one mid 2016.
PaladinNO1 votesBut is that RAM speed actually usable? ;) Sure, there's no doubt you got no clear bottlenecks (as we all know, a PC is not faster than its weakest link), but from what I read all over the net, RAM speeds over 1600 MHz is barely noticable outside benchmark software - and given my own use, I figured I wouldn't be gaining anything by buying faster RAM. So I went with the good old function over form.
I had a look at some 8 slot mobos, as well as some dual CPU-socket ones, but again decided on "what will I actually need?", and settled on something more subtle (clearly I'm not a Draven player ^^).
As for the GPU, I went from a GTX 670 to a 780 OC after a few months...because I got the cash, found a good offer, and did a complete hype swallow: barely noticed any difference. Oh well, at least the card(s) served me well, and I now have a(nother) backup card in case of disaster.
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Currently use one 24" monitor (Acer Predator G24OID - with "metallic orange bezel" ^^), though I have another in the next room - again did a hype-swallow, and ran with a dual-monitor setup for awhile...but it was more of a nuisance than of any actual use to me, so I packed up the other one. Only got tilt though, so I fitted a custom swivel system to add something to the ergonomics part.
It's my first ever LCD monitor, bought in 2008, (and the second in 2009) traded up from a 17" Trinitron CRT, preordered it before it even came to shops (that's how much I liked the bezel color! :D )...and it turned out I was damn lucky: I've learned I am very sensitive to LCD screen issues, such as flickering and aggressive anti-glare coating. The G24's are glare screens, and use CCFL lighting as opposed to LEDs. It got backlight bleed like a bitch, but running the brightness at 20% - to make it even possible to look at as opposed to a goddamn sun - does sort out most of that problem.
"The Bottom Line: The Acer G24 is great for gaming, but not much else." http://www.cnet.com/products/acer-g24/ ...great for sensitive eyes as well. Hence a 10/10 for me, before getting to the bezel color.
Otherwise, I am pretty much a complete sucker for white or silver - hell, I even miss the old "beige" days with steel PC cases and when keyboards were considered optional blunt weapons due to their weight! My case is a Lian Li V1020A, and I did consider buying the black one, then having it professionally painted white, but once I was told that would cost me ~500 EUR, I figured spending the 11 EUR extra on the silver one would make for a better investment. Fitted a strip of white SMD LEDs in the top and bottom in the case for some "clean" (and subtle), nice lighting. :)
Fitted some black dragon stickers on the top and side for some detailing: http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=524697 ^- ignore the keyboard in the background - that's my old Zowie Celeritas (these are old pictures).
http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=526994 Bought another set of decal dragons for my custom made plexi door - great door solution on the case btw: the entire door is just one plain sheet of aluminium with fitting bars just screwed (screwed; not riveted!) on to it. Made it the easiest thing in the world to unscrew it all and take the doorpanel to the local glassworking store and tell them to make one of these in 4mm plexi. :D
Runs 2x 140mm Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-2000 intake fans in the front*, 1x Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilentPro PK-3 140mm also as intake on the top, 2x Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilentPro PL-2 120mm fans on the CPU-cooler in push-pull configuration and another PL-2 120mm as exhaust at the back. Use a Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme (leftover from an earlier build) as a manual fan controller.
*Because the originally upgraded Noiseblocker PK-3's ceased up after only 13 months of use (6 years warranty) - they were utterly dried up where the lubricant should be. No dust in sight either, so that made no sense to me. :/ Imported from the US of A, so warranty was no option. So I replaced them with goddamn IP67 dust resistent industrial fans. Expensive as f¤#k for what is simple fans...
Bought a Steelseries Sensei mouse simply because it had a silver cover instead of a black one. And bought a set of white keycaps for my Qpad MK-85 MX Brown keyboard (with added silencer O-rings on each key).
White, white, silver, white - then some black details. I am the dawn.
PaladinNO1 votesSo what do I do between the 13 secs it takes for me to load and the 2 minutes 45 seconds it takes for the last person to load? Just did a live test: 15 secs for me, 1m 55 secs for the last one.
If the toasting is really bad and I'm in the mood for it, I deliberately wait until the 2 minute mark in ARAM just as payback. I just had to wait for everyone; now they can wait for me. Logic.
