The Most Important PC Part Elimination Game

hat · May 13, 2007, 01:13 AM

Eliminate the crucial parts of a PC to reveal the most unimportant part.
- Power Supply
- Processor
- RAM
- Motherboard
- Video Card
- Sound Card
- Network Card
- PCI slot coolers
- Having more than one Intake and one Exhaust fan (Power Supply fans do not count)
- RAM heatspreaders (stock or otherwise)
- 3rd party cooling (any fan you buy to place on a component, example)
- Hard Drive
- Floppy Drive
- any Disc Drive (Blu-ray, DVD-ROM, CD-RW drives, etc)
- USB thumb drives
- Mouse
- Keyboard
- Monitor
- Speakers
- Printers, Scanners, and the like (not including obviously stupid shit like USB coffee makers)
- USB coffee makers
feel free to make suggestions for me to add to this list

**RULES: Everyone may eliminate ONE of the objects in this list per day
**NOTE: The title here seems misleading, as the most unimportant game, that is because I set a bad example and steered the old thread the wrong way, however, I want BOTH threads to remain active.

hat · May 13, 2007, 01:14 AM

This example will be correct...
The important PC part I choose to eliminate is the Motherboard. It is as the planet we humans live on, without it, we are nothing.

kwchang007 · May 13, 2007, 01:31 AM

hmm hat, you took mine, lol. im going to say cpu, just cause it's the cpu. even though i think ram, cpu, gfx card, psu are on the same level...then other stuff.

ex_reven · May 13, 2007, 01:41 AM

I eliminate the RAM, because its essential to processing,storing and retrieving of data.

JrRacinFan · May 13, 2007, 01:45 AM

eliminate the power supply, the most MOST important part. You won't be able to run any of the goods.

pbmaster · May 13, 2007, 01:48 AM

I'll go for the hard drive. No data for joo!!

ex_reven · May 13, 2007, 01:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JrRacinFan

eliminate the power supply, the most MOST important part. You won't be able to run any of the goods.

What about if you ran it off a battery

? Like a laptop

Or does that need some sort of DC/AC conversion of electric current?

zekrahminator · May 13, 2007, 02:30 AM

I eliminate the monitor.

hat · May 13, 2007, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zekrahminator

I eliminate the monitor.

good choice, without the monitor, you're blind

theonetruewill · May 13, 2007, 02:39 AM

Try playing around without a keyboard. You can do most things with a mouse but everything with the keyboard... albeit slowly, very slowly. tab x23 no damn I missed the icon!

hat · May 13, 2007, 02:55 AM

There is the on-screen keyboard, but try playing, say, Battlefield 2 with it :P

pt · May 13, 2007, 03:03 AM

i choose videocard

ex_reven · May 13, 2007, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theonetruewill

Try playing around without a keyboard. You can do most things with a mouse but everything with the keyboard... albeit slowly, very slowly. tab x23 no damn I missed the icon!

technically you could get around without the keyboard, but i quickly decided that not being able to access your BIOS probably isnt a good thing for PC Enthusiasts like us

yogurt_21 · May 13, 2007, 06:14 AM

I choose the mouse, I dunno about most people but I'm pretty bad at first person shooters without it. lol

hat · May 13, 2007, 04:53 PM

BTW there was an error in the list, sound card is still available.
The sun went down and rose again, I take that as a day, so the 3rd party cooling gets it next

JC316 · May 13, 2007, 06:22 PM

eliminate disc drives, you cant install anything without em.

paul06660 · May 13, 2007, 08:32 PM

I choose to eliminate the Case and cooling systems.

What do you put your $$$expensive$$$ parts in?
How do you keep those $$$expensive$$$ parts cool without blowing them up?

kwchang007 · May 13, 2007, 09:47 PM

todays pick is the network card....i like my internet and not having to move everything from one computer to another by jump drive/burned disks/external drives.

hat · May 14, 2007, 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul06660

I choose to eliminate the Case and cooling systems.

What do you put your $$$expensive$$$ parts in?
How do you keep those $$$expensive$$$ parts cool without blowing them up?

there is no case up there

May 13, 2007, 01:13 AM	#1
hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,236 (5.16/day) Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 2,039 Times in 1,549 Posts System Specs	The Most Important PC Part Elimination Game Eliminate the crucial parts of a PC to reveal the most unimportant part. - Power Supply - Processor - RAM - Motherboard - Video Card - Sound Card - Network Card - PCI slot coolers - Having more than one Intake and one Exhaust fan (Power Supply fans do not count) - RAM heatspreaders (stock or otherwise) - 3rd party cooling (any fan you buy to place on a component, example) - Hard Drive - Floppy Drive - any Disc Drive (Blu-ray, DVD-ROM, CD-RW drives, etc) - USB thumb drives - Mouse - Keyboard - Monitor - Speakers - Printers, Scanners, and the like (not including obviously stupid shit like USB coffee makers) - USB coffee makers feel free to make suggestions for me to add to this list RULES: Everyone may eliminate ONE of the objects in this list per day NOTE: The title here seems misleading, as the most unimportant game, that is because I set a bad example and steered the old thread the wrong way, however, I want BOTH threads to remain active. __________________ My Heatware “Inb4 smartphone LN2 overclocking.” -radrok Last edited by hat; May 14, 2007 at 02:43 AM. Reason: Eliminations

System Name:	Starlifter // Dragonfly
Processor:	(lapped) i7 920 4GHz 1.3v // 1090T 3.6GHz 1.3v
Motherboard:	Asus Rampage III // Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3
Cooling:	(lapped) Corsair H70 // (lapped) TT Big Typhoon
Memory:	3x2GB DDR3 1600 10-10-10-30-128-1T 1.5v // 2x2GB DDR3 1333 9-9-9-24-1T 1.5v
Video Card:	HIS Radeon 5870 // BFG Maxcore 55 GTX260
Hard Disk:	Plextor M5S 128GB + 512GB OCZ Agility 4 + 2TB WD20EARS // WDC Black 500GB
Optical Drive:	SATA DVD-RW // IDE CD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell/Alienware AW2310 + 19" HDTV // 19" HDTV
Case:	Antec SOHO 1030B // some really old white case... but it's decent
Sound Card:	Creative X-Fi Fatality Professional // onboard (disabled)
PSU:	Antec NeoHe 550W // Corsair CX600w
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium x64 // Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Benchmarks:	zunn zunnzunn zunn zunn

May 13, 2007, 01:14 AM	#2
hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,236 (5.16/day) Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 2,039 Times in 1,549 Posts System Specs	This example will be correct... The important PC part I choose to eliminate is the Motherboard. It is as the planet we humans live on, without it, we are nothing. __________________ My Heatware “Inb4 smartphone LN2 overclocking.” -radrok

System Name:	Starlifter // Dragonfly
Processor:	(lapped) i7 920 4GHz 1.3v // 1090T 3.6GHz 1.3v
Motherboard:	Asus Rampage III // Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3
Cooling:	(lapped) Corsair H70 // (lapped) TT Big Typhoon
Memory:	3x2GB DDR3 1600 10-10-10-30-128-1T 1.5v // 2x2GB DDR3 1333 9-9-9-24-1T 1.5v
Video Card:	HIS Radeon 5870 // BFG Maxcore 55 GTX260
Hard Disk:	Plextor M5S 128GB + 512GB OCZ Agility 4 + 2TB WD20EARS // WDC Black 500GB
Optical Drive:	SATA DVD-RW // IDE CD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell/Alienware AW2310 + 19" HDTV // 19" HDTV
Case:	Antec SOHO 1030B // some really old white case... but it's decent
Sound Card:	Creative X-Fi Fatality Professional // onboard (disabled)
PSU:	Antec NeoHe 550W // Corsair CX600w
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium x64 // Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Benchmarks:	zunn zunnzunn zunn zunn

Processor:	C2D T7200@2 ghz vcore: .9875
Motherboard:	generic laptop board
Cooling:	fan control and antec notebook cooler
Memory:	2 GBs@ 533 mhz ddr2
Video Card:	x1400 mobile, overclocked: 526mhz core/ 882mhz ddr
Hard Disk:	120 GB@ 5400 rpm fujitsu
Optical Drive:	DVD burner
CRT/LCD Model:	15.4" 1440x900
Sound Card:	integrated
Software:	vista 32 bit home premium

May 13, 2007, 01:31 AM	#3
kwchang007 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Severn, MD, USA. Posts: 2,949 (1.28/day) Thanks: 72 Thanked 189 Times in 185 Posts System Specs	hmm hat, you took mine, lol. im going to say cpu, just cause it's the cpu. even though i think ram, cpu, gfx card, psu are on the same level...then other stuff.

May 13, 2007, 01:41 AM	#4
ex_reven Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,413 (1.39/day) Thanks: 117 Thanked 181 Times in 166 Posts System Specs	I eliminate the RAM, because its essential to processing,storing and retrieving of data.

May 13, 2007, 01:45 AM	#5
JrRacinFan Served 5k and counting ... Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Youngstown, OH Posts: 16,121 (7.15/day) Thanks: 4,149 Thanked 4,552 Times in 4,027 Posts System Specs	eliminate the power supply, the most MOST important part. You won't be able to run any of the goods. __________________ Graphics Artists United™ Request Thread Low Cache CPU Club Solaris Utility DVD 3.0 DanishDevil's Logitech Soundroom TPU Video Gallery Sciencemark Revisited

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Processor:	i7 2600k : i3 2120 : Celeron G440 : P4 2.6Ghz Nwood
Motherboard:	Asrock Z68 Extreme4 : Asus P8P67 Pro : Asrock H61M/U3S3 : Dell
Cooling:	CM 212+ w/ scythe jyuni : Stock : Stock :Stock
Memory:	2x4GB Ripjawx 1866 cl9 : 2x2GB Corsair 1600 cl9 : 2x2GB Ridgebacks 1066 cl5 : 768MB PC3200
Video Card:	Palit GTX560Ti 2Gb : XFX HD5770 : Integrated : Integrated
Hard Disk:	2x 750GB Raid 0 + Maxtor 500GB : WD Black 1TB+Corsair Nova 2 64GB : Toshiba 750GB : Leftover ATA133
Optical Drive:	Lite-On DVD-RW : Samsung DVD-RW : None : None
CRT/LCD Model:	AOC 21" : AOC 20" : Philips 42" HDTV : Headless
Case:	Rocketfish : CM HAF 912 : Bgears Cube Style case : Dell
Sound Card:	X-Fi Xtremegamer : Onboard : Onboard : Onboard
PSU:	Tt 750W Modular : Antec 500W Earthwatts : Corsair CX430 : Dell's OEM

May 13, 2007, 01:48 AM	#6
pbmaster Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,985 (0.80/day) Thanks: 131 Thanked 295 Times in 275 Posts System Specs	I'll go for the hard drive. No data for joo!! __________________ “pbmaster your tongue in your mouth speaks the truth” -von kain

Processor:	AMD Phenom II 955
Motherboard:	Asus Crosshair III Formula
Cooling:	Cooler Master V8 CPU cooler, 120 mm and 200 mm exhaust, 3 x 120 mm intake
Memory:	4 GB OCZ DDR3 1600
Video Card:	Sapphire Radeon HD 4890
Hard Disk:	Western Digital 500 GB Blacks in RAID 0/ Wesdtern Digital SE16 250 GB
Optical Drive:	Lite-On SATA DVD Burner
CRT/LCD Model:	Acer 19" widescreen
Case:	Antec Nine Hundred
Sound Card:	Supreme X-Fi
PSU:	Seasonic M12 SS-700HM
Software:	Windows Vista Home Premium x64 SP2
Benchmarks:	3dMark 03-~62k 3dMark 05-~22k 3dMark 06-18268

May 13, 2007, 02:30 AM	#8
zekrahminator McLovin Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: My house. Posts: 6,280 (2.35/day) Thanks: 105 Thanked 340 Times in 246 Posts System Specs	I eliminate the monitor. __________________ “Just because you're hung like a moose doesn't mean you should do porn.”

Processor:	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V)
Motherboard:	Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430
Cooling:	Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU
Memory:	2GB G.Skill DDR2 800
Video Card:	Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600
Hard Disk:	WD 160 GB SATA hard drive.
Optical Drive:	Lite-On DVD-RW.
CRT/LCD Model:	Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900
Case:	Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window).
Sound Card:	Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers).
PSU:	ThermalTake 430W TR2
Software:	XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1.

May 13, 2007, 02:39 AM	#10
theonetruewill Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: London - Close your eyes and you'll see me Posts: 2,618 (1.10/day) Thanks: 364 Thanked 246 Times in 195 Posts System Specs	Try playing around without a keyboard. You can do most things with a mouse but everything with the keyboard... albeit slowly, very slowly. tab x23 no damn I missed the icon! __________________ Laptop Overclockers Club - Take a look at this - Please vote “we're a split personality of shy lesbians” -W1zzard “i really find it amazing sometimes with what kinds of threads you people can come up ” -W1zzard Game Republic!

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Motherboard:	Asus P5K Premium (Black Pearl)
Cooling:	Xigmatek HDT-S1283
Memory:	2x1GB Geil BlckDrgn 800 @1158 5-5-5-18
Video Card:	8800GT 512MB @740/1782/2080
Hard Disk:	Hitachi T7K250 250GB & 7200.10 Seagate 250GB
Optical Drive:	Asus Lightscribe DVD R/RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Gateway FPD1975W 19" Widescreen
Case:	Antec 1200
Sound Card:	Xi-FI Xtreme Audio
PSU:	CoolerMaster IGreen 500W
Software:	XP Home SP3
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May 13, 2007, 02:55 AM	#11
hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,236 (5.16/day) Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 2,039 Times in 1,549 Posts System Specs	There is the on-screen keyboard, but try playing, say, Battlefield 2 with it :P __________________ My Heatware “Inb4 smartphone LN2 overclocking.” -radrok

May 13, 2007, 03:03 AM	#12
pt not a suicide-bomber Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portugal Posts: 5,877 (2.24/day) Thanks: 106 Thanked 219 Times in 193 Posts System Specs	i choose videocard __________________ [img disabled]http://apax.eveonlinekb.com/?a=sig&i=39051&s=zealot[/img]

Processor:	AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (Trinidad)
Motherboard:	ASUS F3Ka (ATI RS690M)
Cooling:	stock
Memory:	Nanya 2x1GB ddr2 667@5-5-5-15-2T
Video Card:	ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 512MB DDR2@ 580mhz/486mhz
Hard Disk:	160GB on laptop+250GB external
Optical Drive:	DVD RW
CRT/LCD Model:	ASUS 15.4
Case:	Asus Laptop F3Ka chassis
Sound Card:	on-board
PSU:	1:30minutes battery
Software:	"genui xp", 'cause i hated vista

May 13, 2007, 06:14 AM	#14
yogurt_21 Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,054 (1.53/day) Thanks: 2,243 Thanked 542 Times in 443 Posts System Specs	I choose the mouse, I dunno about most people but I'm pretty bad at first person shooters without it. lol

System Name:	Last of the Mohicans
Processor:	Intel i7 950 @ 4.4GHZ 21x210
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Cooling:	Scythe Mugen 2 rev B (SCMG-2100), stock on gpu's.
Memory:	6GB Kingston HyperX ddr3 1600 9-9-9-27@ 1680
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Optical Drive:	SONY DVD-+RW and sony combo
CRT/LCD Model:	Viewsonic 27" 1080P
Case:	Raidmax Scorpio 668, stupid small ass case has 1 too few expansion slots in the back
Sound Card:	onboard HD
PSU:	Enermax Galaxy 1kw 75amp +12v
Software:	Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Benchmarks:	thus far max 3d11 11580, Vantage 43977

May 13, 2007, 04:53 PM	#15
hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,236 (5.16/day) Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 2,039 Times in 1,549 Posts System Specs	BTW there was an error in the list, sound card is still available. The sun went down and rose again, I take that as a day, so the 3rd party cooling gets it next __________________ My Heatware “Inb4 smartphone LN2 overclocking.” -radrok

May 13, 2007, 06:22 PM	#16
JC316 Knows what makes you tick Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: DFW/ Texas Posts: 6,047 (2.26/day) Thanks: 714 Thanked 912 Times in 696 Posts System Specs	eliminate disc drives, you cant install anything without em. __________________ Core 2 Duo Overclocking guide Athlon 64 overclocking guide “If I were to do this, it'd be my luck that the door would rip off the hinges, burst into flames, and rape my face with fiery hot death.” -El Fiendo

System Name:	Budget Gaming
Processor:	AMD FX6300
Motherboard:	Gigabyte 880GMA-USB3
Cooling:	Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Memory:	8GB Ripjaws DDR3 1600
Video Card:	HD7850 1GB
Hard Disk:	1TB Sata2
Optical Drive:	DVD RM
CRT/LCD Model:	Acer 19"
Case:	Generic black
Sound Card:	Stock onboard
PSU:	Lepa 500W
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

May 13, 2007, 08:32 PM	#17
paul06660 Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 79 (0.03/day) Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts System Specs	I choose to eliminate the Case and cooling systems. What do you put your $$$expensive$$$ parts in? How do you keep those $$$expensive$$$ parts cool without blowing them up?

Processor:	AMD Phenom x6 1090t black edition
Motherboard:	ASUS M5A99X EVO
Cooling:	Cooler Master Triple Heatpipe Cooler with Gelid blue fan
Memory:	8 gigs GsKill DDR3 1600
Video Card:	Asus Raedeon HD7850
Hard Disk:	Western Digital Raptor 74gig, Terabyte Seagate SATA 6.0
Optical Drive:	Plane Jane DVDRW
CRT/LCD Model:	AOC 19" Widescreen
Case:	Custom modded Black Raidmax case
Sound Card:	Onboard Realtek HD audio
PSU:	BFG Tech 550GX gold certified
Software:	Windows 7 64 bit ultimate
Benchmarks:	3dmark 06 score of 19,565

May 13, 2007, 09:47 PM	#18
kwchang007 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Severn, MD, USA. Posts: 2,949 (1.28/day) Thanks: 72 Thanked 189 Times in 185 Posts System Specs	todays pick is the network card....i like my internet and not having to move everything from one computer to another by jump drive/burned disks/external drives.

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