[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by Patch

Lol, George. You got it, healthy mix of sarcasm and brutal truth it is!

1156 and single core are far and away the most affordable route for racking up globals.

If you have LN2 coming you're golden. That's the biggest hurdle in the global game.

One nice thing about high end hardware is that stuff sells pretty readily. Especially if you buy GPU's at release, bench em, then sell 2-3 weeks later when they're out of stock everywhere. I've even made a profit a few times doing that with flagship cards.

Damn, I need to get my eyes checked, I thought that it was some sound advice

[RomDominance]

Originally Posted by Patch

Significant global points generally require money, subambient cooling, voltmods, dead hardware, and an endless hunt for cherry GPU's and especially CPU's.

I have cycled through 6 retail 980x's thus far just looking for one that will do 3d at 6GHz+, the seventh arrives thursday. If this was the sarcastic part of the post I would have to differ....I don't think I could have said it any better than patch did in the entire post. To boil it down, if you get a 980x (preferably a B or F batch), a decent gtx480, a RE3 mobo, a cpu and gpu pot and some good ram, you should be good for at least 200-300 global I would think.

Best of luck, and we are always here ready to assist if necessary.

[GeorgeStorm]

Fair play, but I was mainly asking how to get started
So, while I know you guys have spent thousands trying to get the good ones
I don't need the good ones (yet), as I'm not aiming for top 10 kinda thing yet
I'd be happy with 100 global points, very happy tbh
Cos atm, I have 0.9 globals, and the most powerful thing I have is a 9800GX2 which is in for repair
So atm, I have literally no chance of getting any

[Hondacity]

don't worry i think you already got the wprime tip with ln2 sp1m is the next step...

if the cpu doesn't boot..check the socket..for burns i just saw one this weekend

[GeorgeStorm]

Would 2000mhz CAS 9 RAM, a gigabyte UD5 and an i5 680es be a decent i5 setup?
Or would it be better to go for a cheaper cpu, such as a 530?

[Splave]

looks good to me, wprime 32 1024 and spi 1m will be great

[GeorgeStorm]

And as far as I'm aware (I have no idea when it comes to intels newer stuff), its a good deal at 200quid (315USD roughly)??
Will see how much it is without the cpu, as there may be someone else who has a 670 for sale. Will check.

Or ofcourse I could get 20 cedarmills and a p5b for the same price. But thats a more limited setup no?

[Hondacity]

the 530 won't get you any global...unless you find the super cherries that some are doing @ around 6.7ghz with crazy blcks....

i'll be selling my 670 and 680 for half the price if you're interested...

[GeorgeStorm]

Half what price?
Remember I'm in the UK.

[Hondacity]

i rember sending sofoklis from greece a gpu pot for only 13$ lol...