Gaming Rigs

[Ninja]

Let's use this thread to post up what everyone is running for their gaming PC's. I'll start it off. :)

Case: Cooler Master Centurion 5
PSU: Antec True Power 2.0 550watt
CPU: AMD Athlon64 x2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.21Ghz
RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS (Four 512MB sticks in dual channel in both banks)
MoBo: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
HDD: (2) 250GB Western Digital drives (SATA 3GB, 16MB caches) in RAID 0
Optical: Sony DVD R/RW
Monitor: 19" Samsung Syncmaster 940B LCD
Video: ATI Radeon x1900XTX, 512MB PCI-E x16
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Live! Creative 5.1 surround
Other internals: PCI USB expansion card
Mouse: Razer Diamondback 1600 dpi
Keyboard: Logitech G11 (Identical to G15 minus the LCD display)
Other peripherals: Logitech Extreme3D Pro flight controller, Logitech Rumblepad, Logitech headset (From SOCOM II PS2 game)

[GOAT]

Here's mine!
AMD/A64 3500+ 2.2Gb AM2 512Kb R Proc AMD Athlon 64 O'rleans 2000MHz socket AM2
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Lifestyle
2 Sticks 1GB ea. Buffalo 240P Firestik FSX1000 D2C K2G R
VGA eVGA GF 7900GTX 512-P2-N570-AX Video Card GDDR3 PCI Express x16
MGE CA-DRG-B XG Dragon Red Case, 650 Watt SATA PCI Express USB Firewire 20 24 pin
Seagate 250GB SATA Hard Drive X2= 500GB Partitioned
Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS 7.1CH PLatinum Sound Card
Samsung 24" widescreen Monitor
Sony MPF92Z Black 1.44 Floppy
Plextor/PX-760A/SW Black DVD/CDRW Burner
Monster Multimedia Black DVD/CD-RW Burner
Merc Stealth Lighted Keyboard
Logitech MX518 Mouse
CH Flight Yoke and Pedals
Saitek X52 Joy Stick and Accelerator

[Tortelvis]

My new gaming rig has the following stuff:

Case: Silverstone TJ09 Black Brushed Aluminum (with cool blue led activity lights)
Fans/Cooling: 120mm intake HD cage, 120mm intake mid-case on Video cards, 2 x 120mm exhaust blow hole, 120mm rear exhaust, of course with more pretty blue led's lighting some of the fans.
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 watt
M/B: Asus P5N32-SLI Premium Wi-Fi Solo
CPU: Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo @ 2.67 ghz w/Arctic 7 cooler
RAM: 2 gb Corsair DDR2 800 mhz 4-4-4-12
HDD: 2 - Seagate Barracuda SATA 3.0gb 7200.10 320gb 16mb cache
Optical: Lite-on 1-16x DVD-RW IDE, and 1-16x DVD-RW Sata, just had to have Sata.
Monitor: Dell 2405FPW 24" LCD, kick-a$$ monitor
Video: Evga 8800GTXPCI-e x16, man is this thing fast.
Audio: Creative Fatal1ty Pro Gamer
Mouse: Razer Diamondback 1600 dpi, with pretty blue led backlighting
Keyboard: Logitech Elite
Joystick: Logitech Freedom Cordless 2.4
Speaks: Logitech 4.1 THX 400 watt
Headphones: Steel sound digital
OS: Win XP Pro SP2

Really its just a big black box with pretty blue lights that I spent too much money on building, and changing. And in the end I still lack enough skill to be good.

[Roo]

I have a square box with an on/off button and some fan controls. (I think that's what they are because if I turn them down or up the fan sounds goes with it) It also has some VERY COOL graphics on the side of it.

I also have a monitor, a mouse with no wires and a keyboard.

You'll have to ask Tomb if you need anymore details, but I think that pretty much covers it.

:)

*Edit by Tombstone: Here is a link to his PC Project that he entrusted me with. It only took 3 years for me to get it to him. ;)
http://www.digitalreactor.com/custom_pc/roos_pc.html

Case: Antec Mid Tower Modified/Painted
PSU: Antec NeoHE 550w (SLI)
CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice
RAM: 2GB PC3200 CAS3 KingstonVR (Four 512MB sticks in dual channel in both banks)
MoBo: Gigabyte K8N Pro SLI
HDD: WD 250GB SATA 8mb Cache
Optical: NEC DVD+/-RW
Monitor: 19" CRT
Video: eVGA NVIDIA 7900 GT 256mb PCIe w/ Dual DVI PN: 256-P2-N563-AX
Audio: SoundBlaster Audigy
Other internals: Vantec 4 ch. Fan Controller (Black); Lighted Fans (Red); Red Meteor Light
OS: WinXP Pro SP2

[IrishPennant]

Mine starts like this


http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Commodore_64_Educator64_1.jpg


Has a bit of this



http://www.palmq.ru/images/news/2003/oct/Atari_2600.jpg



and a helluva power supply



http://www.msu.edu/~loosim/piggy/wheel.JPG

[SniperDoug]

I took a Dell 8400 case, gutted it out and built my own from there. My next one will have a liquid cooled processor and such.



Case: Dell 8400
CPU: Intel Pent 4 3.6 Ghz
RAM: 1GB
HDD: 1 160GB Maxxtor Optical: Sony CD Rom R/RW
Monitor: 19” Dell Dimension
Video: ATI Radeon X850XT PCI-E 256 x16
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Live! Creative 5.1 surround
Other internals: PCI USB expansion card
Mouse: Kensington 1600 dpi PilotMouse (Optical)
Keyboard: Dell Multi Media
Other peripherals: Microsoft Sidewinder 2 precision Joystick, Genie Recoil game pad, Plantronics headset w/mic

[Tombstone]

Here is a link to my Gaming PC. You may remember me posting it up when I first finished adding the water cooling. (I still check it every time I turn it on. :eek: )

http://www.digitalreactor.com/custom_pc/DRD_pc.html

Case: Chieftec Full Dragon Blue w/Side Window
PSU: OCZ Black Chrome ModStream 520W
CPU: AMD64 3200+ E4 Stepping; O/C'd to 3950+ (2.0 ghz to 2.45 ghz); Vcore @ 1.5v; FSB @ 980 mhz)
RAM: 2GB PC4000 XMS Pro CAS3 (Four 512MB sticks in dual channel in both banks)
MoBo: Gigabyte K8N-SC Socket 939 w/ AGP 8x
HDD: WD 74gb Raptor 10k RPM SATA + WD 160gb 7200 RPM ATA133
Optical: DVD-RW -/+ Dual Layer w/ Lightscribe + Sony 32x CD-Rom
Monitor: Dual Viewsonic VX910 19" LCDs
Video: ATI X850 Pro 256mb AGP; Flash Mod to X850 XT and O/C'd to 540mhz/1200mhz
Audio: Creative X-Fi w/ Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speaker System and Sony MDR-XD300 Headphones
Other internals: Thermaltake Aquarius 2 Internal Liquid Cooling w/ UV Reactive Coolant and Tubing
OS: WinXP Pro SP1

It hasn't changed much except I did successfully flash the video card bios to unlock all 16 pixel pipes. I am going to try and extend it's life a little more before any major changes. I was able to get an AMD FX-55 box retail chip from Newegg for $199, plus a free 250gb hard drive. I still haven't swapped it out yet but hope it will extend the gaming life of this box.

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*Edit: Roo, I edited your post to add a link to your PC project.

[Patriot]

AMD 4000+ 939 oc'd to 3.3Ghz(Intel 4.9)
mobo-Abit KN8
PSU-Antec Trupower600
Ram-2x1 gig XMS Pro pc4400 T1
Vid-7900gt oc'd to 600/1600
Cooling-DangerDen 4 Custom h20 water chiller temps: 16idle/21Load

[Daletheman]

Case: Thermaltake Matrix
PSU:XBlade 500watt with adjustable fan speed
CPU: AMD 64 4000+(2.4 OC'd 2.65)
RAM: 1.5 GB Corsair XMS platinum
HDD:Seagate Barracuda 80GB
Monitor: 19” Samsung
Optical:Sony DVD/RW
MoBo:Asus A8V Delux
Video: BFG 6800GT OC AGP
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Live! Creative 5.1 surround
Other internals: PCI USB expansion card
Mouse: Logitech 1100MX Laser Wireless
Keyboard: ZBOARD MERC KEYBOARD USB by Ideazon

[SaskNewfie]

Here's the specs on mine...

Product Features
Multimedia-oriented desktop with integrated TV tuner and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (Update Rollup 2)
Hyper-threaded 2.8 GHz Pentium D 920 dual-core processor, 4 MB total L2 cache, 800 MHz front-side bus
250 GB hard drive, 2 GB installed RAM (4 GB max), dual-layer, multi-format LightScribe DVD/CD burner, DVD-ROM drive
Six USB 2.0, two FireWire, one VGA, one S-Video, one composite AV, 9-in-1 memory card reader, 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet and 56K V.92 modem
Nvidia GeForce 6200SE video card with up to 256 MB shared video RAM, Intel High Definition audio (Azalia) with 5.1-channel surround sound
Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

Hardware Platform: PC
Processor: 2.8 GHz Pentium D
Number of Processors: 1
RAM: 2000 MB
RAM Type: DDR SDRAM
Hard Drive

Size: 250 GB
Type: Serial ATA
Cases and Expandability

Size (LWH): 16.54 inches, 7.6 inches, 15.16 inches
Weight: 27 pounds

Also, here's a link to some info... Amazon.com: HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC (Intel Pentium D Processor 920, 2.0GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD SuperMulti with LightScribe): Computers & PC Hardware (http://www.amazon.com/Pavilion-Pentium-Processor-SuperMulti-LightScribe/dp/tech-data/B000E1HCRO/ref=de_a_smtd/002-8395828-9853649)

[HedgeHog_jr]

Case: Aspire X-Plorer, "fans"; 2 80 mm front, 1 80 mm top, 1 120 mm back
PSU: Enermax 535watt
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (2.25Ghz)
Cooler: Gigabyte G-Power Pro CPU Cooler (temp; Idle 27/Loaded 37)8)
RAM: 2GB Kingston vr PC3200 (Dual 1G sticks) "upgrading soon, I hope"
MoBo: ASUS A8N32 - SLI Deluxe
HDD: 250G Samsung SATA drive
Optical: LG DVD R/RW
Monitor: 19" Samsung Syncmaster 940BF LCD "adding a 22in WS soon, I hope"
Video: EVGA 7800 GT CO, 256MB PCI-E x16 "adding another soon, I hope"
Mouse: Logitech MX 600 wireless
Keyboard: Logitech MX 3000 wireless
Controllers: Thrustmaster Top Gun Pro, Logitech Wireless Rumblepad
Headset: Logitech USB Headset

http://www.team-osg.com/gallery/data/510/medium/AI1.JPG

[Blaze]

Case:Thermaltake Armor 2 120mm 1 80mm
PSU: ANTEC TRUEPOWER 550watts
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (2.36)
Cooler: Thermaltake BIGTYP 120vx
RAM: 2GB OCZ Platnium XTc REV 2 DDR2 800mhz
MoBo: ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE
HDD: 2 RAID 0 SATA Raptors 74gigs
Optical: 2 LG DVD R/RW
Monitor: 21" WIDESCREEN HD FPD2185W
AUDIO:SOUNDBLASTER X-FI EXTREME GAMER FATALITY SERIES
Video: BFG 8800GTS PCI-E 16x 500MHZ 640MB 1.6GHZ GDDR3 Dual DVI-I HDTV Out HDCP DIRECTX10
Mouse: CREATIVE FATALITY PRO SERIES HD-Laser
Keyboard: Logitech G15

Just Built it last week....

[Comet241]

Case: Hamster cage
Processor: Hamster on a wheel ( I call him MC Hamster)
Power supply: Food pellets
Video card: my cat with an etch-a-sketch


:(

I m going to put my own together here in the next couple weeks or so, once christmas is over and i get my gift cards. im hoping my my sweet ass discount at best buy to get a monster system and everything for under a grand. its feasible.....

[AsphaltRanger]

Case: Thermaltake Tsunami Dream
PSU: 550 wt clear power supply
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800 (2.2 Ghz) overclocked a wee bit
Cooler: Thermaltake 735 big water kit water cooler system
RAM: 3GB Kingston
MoBo: Gigabyte GC-SLIW board
HDD: 250G western digi SATA drive, 26 gig raptop drive for op system
Optical: LG DVD R/RW
Monitor: 19" view sonic
Video: EVGA 7900 GT , 256MB PCI-E x16
Mouse: Razer Diamond back
Keyboard: Saitek eclipse, getting the razer keyboard soon
Controllers: looking for one
Headset: Logitect

[Tombstone]

Case:Thermaltake Armor 2 120mm 1 80mm
PSU: ANTEC TRUEPOWER 550watts
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (2.36)
Cooler: Thermaltake BIGTYP 120vx
RAM: 2GB OCZ Platnium XTc REV 2 DDR2 800mhz
MoBo: ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE
HDD: 2 RAID 0 SATA Raptors 74gigs
Optical: 2 LG DVD R/RW
Monitor: 21" WIDESCREEN HD FPD2185W
AUDIO:SOUNDBLASTER X-FI EXTREME GAMER FATALITY SERIES
Video: BFG 8800GTS PCI-E 16x 500MHZ 640MB 1.6GHZ GDDR3 Dual DVI-I HDTV Out HDCP DIRECTX10
Mouse: CREATIVE FATALITY PRO SERIES HD-Laser
Keyboard: Logitech G15

Just Built it last week....

Wow...what a rig Blaze. The Raptors in Raid0, the 8800GTS on a 21" widescreen...smokin!


Case: Thermaltake Tsunami Dream
PSU: 550 wt clear power supply
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800 (2.2 Ghz) overclocked a wee bit
Cooler: Thermaltake 735 big water kit water cooler system
RAM: 3GB Kingston
MoBo: Gigabyte GC-SLIW board
HDD: 250G western digi SATA drive, 26 gig raptop drive for op system
Optical: LG DVD R/RW
Monitor: 19" view sonic
Video: EVGA 7900 GT , 256MB PCI-E x16
Mouse: Razer Diamond back
Keyboard: Saitek eclipse, getting the razer keyboard soon
Controllers: looking for one
Headset: Logitect

Sweet pic AR...looks like it must run cool. I know we have at least one other OSG member looking at the Razer keyboard too, can't remembr who though. Glad to hear that the system wasn't lost in shipping!

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[BlackflyCanada]

Hey guys, been buisy as of late, thought I'd drop in. Got me a lady friend now. :D
I'm gonna be around more though work is startin to slow down now. Anywho here is my Rig.

Case: I dunno some sort of X-Case or somethin.
PSU: 700Watt Enermax.
CPU: Athlon 64, 3800+ 939.
RAM: 2.5 Gigabites of DDR 400 PC3200.
Motherboard: EVGA, PCI-e SLI mobo of somesort, dunno the model.
Video: EVGA 7900 GT/K0 --- Soon to be Asus 8800GTX this thursday.
Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS.
HardDrives: 2, Maxtor 160GB 7200 RPM and 1 250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM.
Lan: Gigabit Onboard, Net is 2.5MB down, 1.2MB up.
Optical: 1 LG DVD Rom, and 1 Liteon DVD Burner.
Monitor: 21" Dell Trinitron / Hitachi 42" Ultraview Plasma Widescreen.

Audio: Harman/Kardon AVR235, 4 Soundstage Model 3.1 loudpseakers, 1 Soundstage Center, and Soundstage Stage12 Sub. :D

[DannieD]

Case: Aspire X-Cruiser
PSU: NZXT PF-500 watt 2.0
Motherboard: Asus M2NSLI-32 DELUXE NFORCE 590 SLI
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.6GHzOC AM2
RAM: 2 Gig (4 Sticks) GEIL 512mb DDR2 PC 6400
HDD: (2) 160GB Western Digital SATA-II 3GB/S 8MB RAID 0
Optical1: Liteon DVDRW LightScribe
Optical2: Liteon DVD/CDRW Combo
Monitor: 21" LCD Widescreen ViewSonic
Video: EVGA 8800 GTS 640MB 320 bit GDDR-3 PCI Express X16 HDCP
Audio: Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Mouse: Kensington Optical Wireless PilotMouse
Keyboard: Logitech Pro
Other peripherals: Nostromo n52 GamePad, Altec Lansing Studio Design Headset, Logitech Extreme3D Pro Joystick, Logitech Dual Action Controller, Logitech G25 Racing Wheel

[psychodad]

Case: Antec Nine Hundred
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66Mhz (Clocked to 2.8)
PSU: BFG 650 Watt
Cooling: ZeroTherm BTF 90
RAM: 2 GB Patriot DDR2 1066 PC6400
MoBo: MSI P35 Platinum
HDD: (1) 500GB Hitachi SATA (1) Hitachi 250GB SATA
Optical: NEC DVD R/RW
Monitor: 22" Viewsonic widescreen LCD
Video: eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 7.1 surround w/sub
Mouse: Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse
Keyboard: Logitech USB
Other peripherals: Logitech Extreme3D Pro flight controller, Logitech Wingman Formula Force GT Wheel, Logitech 200 USB headset

UPDATED! Yeehaa!

[NATEDOGG]

Manufacturer:
FUJITSU SIEMENS
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Hard Drive:250 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Monitor: plug and Play Monitor
Sound Card: Realtek AC97 Audio
Speakers/Headphones:
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface:
Operating System:
Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp.050301-1521)

[Eagle1]

OK here we go, this is what I built 2 years ago.

XION windowed Blue LED lit CASE
AMD64 4000+
2 gigs CORSAIR XMS pc3200
ABIT PCIe motherboard w/NVIDA NF4 chipset
ATI 1950Pro 256mb PCIe video card
250 gig SATA2 drive
NVIDIA 7.1 onboard sound with EAX
Sony DVD -/+ RW
Sony DVD
Ultra 500w power supply with flat UV cables
19" LCD monitor
SAITEK eclipse II keyboard
SAITEK flight stick ST290
Logitech MX518 optical Mouse with 3 DPI settings 800, 1200 or 1600 (depends on what I am playing or doing in game I can adjust DPI speed imediately)
5.1 surround speakers altec lansing

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/677/complo8.jpg

Eagle1

[Daletheman]

This is my New Rig i just built

Case: Thermaltake Matrix
PSU:XBlade 500watt with adjustable fan speed
CPU: AMD 64 4000+(2.4 OC'd 2.65)
RAM: 2.0 GB Corsair XMS platinum PC3200
HDD:2x Western Digital 250GB SATA2 16MB Cache
Monitor: 19” Samsung
Optical: 2x Sony DVD/RW
MoBo:Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Video: 2X 7800 Evga running SLI
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Live! Creative 5.1 surround
Other internals: PCI USB expansion card
Mouse: Logitech 1100MX Laser Wireless
Keyboard: Microsoft Ergonomic 4000

[-<{1st-IB}>- Kamikaze]

Manufacturer: RD480_
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: Radeon X1800 Series
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio output
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)

Basic mouse and KB :)

[CaptCoolio]

My new PC


Case: Thermaltake VE2000BWS Liquid Cooled Case (Sweet)
PSU:OCZ Gaming XStream 850W POwer Supply
CPU: Intel Core Duo E6600 Stock 2.4 gHZ
RAM: 4.0 GB OCZ PC2-6400 EL PLatinum XTC Edition rev 2 Ram Down clocked to 667 Thanks Windows XP 32 Bit.
HDD:2x Seagate 320 Gb Sata II 7200 rpm 16Mb cache in Raid 0 (Stripping)
Monitor: 19” Samsung 940BF
Optical: LG Lightscribe 18x DVD 18x
MoBo:Asus P5N32-E Sli Motherboard
Video: Evga 8800 GTX KO ACS3 768 Mb
Audio: Audigy 2 ZS sound card
Other internals: PCI Video Capture Card Kworld (old but still works)
Mouse: Logitech 1000MX Laser Wireless
Keyboard: Logitech G-15

Quick loads for BF2 and other games I would like to OC but am scared it seems to be working as it is now.

I posted some pictures in the gallery.



CaptCoolio

[Shopvac]

Well I might get my new horse in time for the new year . . . we'll see. Either way, I'm thinking of buying one off the shelf. Any suggestions? I know most of you build, but I've never done anything more than install RAM, or a new graphics card. I know people who have offered to build for me, but I just get the suspicion that I want more than I trust people to put together for me (water cooled and the like). If anyone wants to convince me that building from scratch is the ONLY way to go, then give it a try. Otherwise I'd love to hear what people think about pre-built rigs that are out there. Thanks guys.

[Balti]

Well I might get my new horse in time for the new year . . . we'll see. Either way, I'm thinking of buying one off the shelf. Any suggestions? I know most of you build, but I've never done anything more than install RAM, or a new graphics card. I know people who have offered to build for me, but I just get the suspicion that I want more than I trust people to put together for me (water cooled and the like). If anyone wants to convince me that building from scratch is the ONLY way to go, then give it a try. Otherwise I'd love to hear what people think about pre-built rigs that are out there. Thanks guys.

I'm like you Shop - I wouldn't know how to build one. That being said, I've been keeping an eye on various gaming rigs and their ratings recently. There's been good talk about this one: Cyberpower Gamer Infinity Ultimate ( www.cyberpowerpc.com ) - a high end for sure, but their "lesser" PCs get really good ratings as well. They just compared the above one to a similarly configured Alienware (that sells for $3k more) and it beat it out in just about every performance test. Every Cyberpower review I've read recently has been very positive.

[DannieD]

Cyberpower is where Dave and I purchased our rigs from. I don't have any complaints and I don't think Dave would either. We did extensive resaerch on several sites. We could not build one as cheap as we could purchase one from them plus get a two year warranty. Hope this helps.....

P.S. Whatever you do Shop don't let Baldi talk you into a Pentium chip!!!

GO AMD!!!

[Tortelvis]

Well I might get my new horse in time for the new year . . . we'll see. Either way, I'm thinking of buying one off the shelf. Any suggestions? I know most of you build, but I've never done anything more than install RAM, or a new graphics card. I know people who have offered to build for me, but I just get the suspicion that I want more than I trust people to put together for me (water cooled and the like). If anyone wants to convince me that building from scratch is the ONLY way to go, then give it a try. Otherwise I'd love to hear what people think about pre-built rigs that are out there. Thanks guys.

Theres just something special about home built. Not unlike working on your favorite hot-rod. You admit to installing ram and a graphics card, heck your half way there. For me the most fun is doing the research about what parts I want to use, then shopping around for the best price and then eagerly awaiting the arrival of all the new goodness. Then the big night of putting it all together and firing up your new toy box full of hand picked parts and installing what you want for software, not the garbage load of crap you get in a store bought rig.

Of course the warranty isn't quite the same, but I haven't needed one yet.

And don't let water scare you, it's a lot easier and safer than you think. So many quality tutorials out there to help you through it. Nice all in one kits, or pick your own custom install, heck I even made my own reservoir.

Just my 2 cents because you asked. I would like to hear Tomb weigh in on this subject, the man can build.

[SOJA]

Just put together my new rig. Runs like a champion and cost more than my first car!

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

MSI P6N Diamond LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz LGA 775 Processor

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad (Black) EPS12V 750W Power Supply

MSI NX8800Ultra-T2D768E-HD-OC GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

ASUS PhysX Processing Unit 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI PhysX P1 Ghost Recon Edition Physics Card

CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA

ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan with Heatsink


Waiting for the Artic Silver 5 to set in before overclocking. CPU runs idle@13'C.
Cranked up CounterStrike:Source at the highest settings and resolution and ran the video stress test. Results were 267 fps. This thing is a beast! Woot!

[Ninja]

Nice! That's damn close to what I'm building for Nip.

[McFeely]

Nice rig Purple! What did you sell? That sex tape of you and Carol Burnett to finance it.

[Tortelvis]

Nice rig Purple! What did you sell? That sex tape of you and Carol Burnett to finance it.
Hes got a picture of somebody important doing a farm animal. Blackmail can be the answer to all of your money troubles Mac.

All humor aside I don't think theres much that video card can't handle with ease.

[FuRiouSone]

some nice systems here i see but i have or had the best of all!!!! Nip knows LOL.

way back in the days playing cod and BF2 with the old farts balti and nip i had a laptop that could barely run pacman :).

system: dell insp 5150
CPU: P4 2.8 non HT
RAM: 2x 2700 256 at 533 - upgraded to 2x 1gig 5300 to play eq2
Video: nvidia geforce fx5200go 32meg

now after 4 years of playing on that shity system i finally broke down and bought me a desktop with some decent power.

system: Acer Aspire M5100
CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
RAM: 2x 512 5300 at 677 (stock) + 2x PNY 1gig 5300 at 677 DDR2
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 256meg direct X 9 (for the time being till i get some more cash to run a nice direct X 10 card).
HD: 320gig i believe 7200 speed
DVD: DVDRW
Monitor: 19" half ass lcd that gets the job done :)

i plan on upgrading the video to 8200+ direct X10 depending on what i can afford in the future but the ram and cpu i dont realy plan on doing much else with. all in all i think its a hella upgrade from the laptop i been playing on for years and im loving the new look this thing is putting out!!

[Shopvac]

All right everyone, I'm getting closer to buying my new computer but I have a couple more questions for everyone before I take the nes-tea plunge.

Should I just go ahead and get Vista now (as it would be cheaper) or should I instal the XP SPII that I have on my old rig and wait until Vista is a reliable product? You can vote that it is a toss up too.

Who thinks that it is a great idea to have two CD/DVD drives? I know it's all of $50 but is this a good way to save the 50 quid, or is it good to split the load of playing games and playing DVD's?

Some of the CyberPower rigs I'm looking at come with 2XNvid. 8500's. Is it better to trade 2 lesser power vid cards for one 8800GTS (or whatever), or am I better off with the dual vid cards?

I know people here are loyal to their own brands, but who thinks it's better to get a Phenom AMD processor, and who thinks it's better to get a pretty good Intel dual, or quad core?

The last two questions are the ones that I'm most interested in. Thanks in advance for everyone who weighs in. Hopefully I'll get all of this done real soon.

Here's a link to one of the rigs I'm leaning toward (before any cusomization). It will give you an idea of the range I'm working in.

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Holiday_Special_II/

[Chester]

Well, to start off...

-I would probably stick with your XP unless you are unhappy with it. From what i heard a long time ago about Vista, the security was the best improvement on it. I personally have not had a problem with XP security (knock on wood). I dont even have a virus scan installed, just my firewall.

- I have a CD/RW and a DVD/CD, separate. I would probably only have my DVD/CD drive but DVDs were new when i bought this computer. :) If you use a lot of CDs and DVD's in your computer, i might go separate but i dont think you would have a major problem with a combo. I will probably buy a external DVD/RW in a few weeks and only use that. It also depends how many spots you have for your drives.

-I am also planning on buying 2 XFX GeForce 8600 GT 256MB or 2 EVGA 512-P2-N757-TR Geforce 8600 GT 512MB. I only have one card in now (which is old as dirt, GeForce FX 5600). 2 cards are probably cheaper (about $100-$125 per card)than one big one with almost the same amount of power.

-As for the AMD or Intel, idk. I have an intel and have had no problems with it (knock on wood again). I have heard that Intel is more capatiable with more stuff and AMD's will fry quicker if not properly installed. I have also heard that AMDs are better than Intel. Im not sure who is correct, if anyone. I dont know on that one. I would probably buy an Intel again since im use to it.

www.zipzoomfly.com is a good and inexpensive website for all your parts.

I hope this helps and makes sense. I also hope alot of other people put their input in so i can see what everyone thinks.

Good luck
Chester

[Ninja]

Should I just go ahead and get Vista now (as it would be cheaper) or should I instal the XP SPII that I have on my old rig and wait until Vista is a reliable product? You can vote that it is a toss up too.Right now, I'd stick with XP. Vista is more secure and is actually quite reliable now but you'll get more bang out of your hardware running XP. Vista is a bit more power hungry. Hopefully when SP1 officially comes out it will include some performance tweaks. There is really no reason to move to Vista yet unless security is an issue and you want a shiny new GUI. Don't let DX10 make you think you need Vista because there are very few games that will actually use and they are still DX9 compatible. IMO, I like Vista. I have it on my laptop and it works wonderfully and it's never done anything goofy or crashed. That being said, I wouldn't run it as my gaming OS yet.


Who thinks that it is a great idea to have two CD/DVD drives? I know it's all of $50 but is this a good way to save the 50 quid, or is it good to split the load of playing games and playing DVD's?You will be perfectly fine with one optical drive. Two can be convenient for copying cd's or if you don't feel like switching out game cd's as much but otherwise one is fine. I only run one DVD-R/W in mine. YMMV.


Some of the CyberPower rigs I'm looking at come with 2XNvid. 8500's. Is it better to trade 2 lesser power vid cards for one 8800GTS (or whatever), or am I better off with the dual vid cards?That's hard to answer without seeing benchmark's to compare. The new 8800's are fast GPU's. Are they faster than two 8500's in SLi? I couldn't tell you. I know the single 8800GTX I put in Nip's pc was a beast.


I know people here are loyal to their own brands, but who thinks it's better to get a Phenom AMD processor, and who thinks it's better to get a pretty good Intel dual, or quad core?Intel, Intel, Intel. The Core2 Duo's and Core2Quads are awesome processors and the prices are good too. Just make sure you get one with a good L2 cache. Check out the good benchmarking sites out there and the answer will be very clear.

[Tortelvis]

For your video cards you might be interested in the new nvidia EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT SSC Edition which received a nice review in Maximum PC. It supports PCI-E 2.0 and provides HDCP decryption on both DVI links, which renders the chip capable of displaying Blu-ray or HD DVD movies at the native resolution of a 30-inch LCD. One down side is it won't support DX10.1.

Or if you prefer AMD Radeon then you might check out the Asus EAH3870. It does as much or more than the nvidia offering for new technology support, though it remains to be seen how important these features will be in the near future.

I would stay with XP for now as Ninja pointed out. For gaming its just better for now. I too would go with Intel procs for the same reasons.

[Shopvac]

Thanks guys

[Shopvac]

All right here's the new rig. I'm going to put all my chips on the table on Tuesday, so if someone has any last minute suggestions let me know quick eh? I'm also getting a Acer 20" Wide' at Newegg for about $200.

*BASE_PRICE: [+889]
CAS: Sigma Gaming Shark 9-Bay Gaming Tower 420W Case
CS_FAN: Default case fans
CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache 64-bit
CD: 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
CD2: NONE
FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
FAN: CoolerMaster Liquid CPU Cooling System (Superior Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
HDD: Single Hard Drive (320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
HDD2: NONE
IEEE_CARD: NONE
MODEM: NONE
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard
MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Value Select or Major Brand)
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD
OS: NONE - FORMAT HARD DRIVE ONLY
POWERSUPPLY: 600 Watts Power Supplies (CoolerMaster Unit 600 Watts eXtreme Power - SLI Supports)
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS 24/7 LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SOUND: Creative Labs SB Audigy SE
TEMP: NONE (AS SHOWN)
TVRC: None
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
UPS: None
USBHD: NONE
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express VIDEO2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express VIDEO3: NONE
PRICE: (+1098)

[Rage]

Here's mine...

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

CPU Type DualCore Intel Pentium D 830, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Motherboard Name Dell Dell DXG051
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4
System Memory 2048 MB


Display:
Video Adapter GeForce 7800 GTX (256 MB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (256 MB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative EMU10K2 Audigy / Audigy 2 Audio Processor


Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller NVIDIA nForce(tm) RAID Class Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID

Disk Drive NVIDIA STRIPE 298.02G (298 GB)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GWA4164B
Optical Drive TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-H352C (16x/48x DVD-ROM)


Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 305125 MB (214451 MB free)

Input:
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse Kensington HID Pilot Optical Pro

Network:
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller

USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - OHCI USB Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - EHCI USB 2.0

[Balti]

Thanks to Ninja and Nip:

Case: Armor Thermaltake VA8000BWS Black Aluminum/Steel ATX Full Tower Case
PSU: Silverstone ST1000 ATX12V/EPS12V 1000 watts
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, LGA 775 2.40 GHz, 8MB L2 Cache Total, 1066 MHz FSB
RAM: Corsair Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240 Pin DDR2 SDRAM
MoBo: EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR L GA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLK ATX Intel
HDD: (2) 150GB Western Digital Raptor drives WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 running in RAID 0
Optical: (2) Samsung 20X DVD+-R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B - OEM
Monitor: 22" widescreen Dell 2007WFP
Video: EVGA 768-P2-N835-AR GeForce 8800 GTX Superclocked 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported
Audio: on board Realtec HD
Keyboard : Zboard (keysets: basic, FPS generic, COD2, BF2, BF2142)
Mouse: Razer Diamondback 3G 1800dpi (Earth Green color)
Other peripherals: cheap WalMart brand headphones w/ mic attached (suggestions on good, quality headphones with mic?)
Operating System : Windows XP

**Installed games (re-installing the following):
Age of Emipres 3
Age of Empires 3 : War Chiefs Expansion
Age of Empires 3 : Asian Dynasties Expansion
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 1942 : The Road to Rome
Battlefield 1942 : Secret Weapons of WW2
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2 : Special Forces
Battlefield 2 Project Reality mod
Battlefield 2142
Call of Duty
Call of Duty : United Offensive expansion
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare
Crysis
Delta Force Black Hawk Down
Delta Force 2
Ghost Recon
Ghost Recon : Desert Siege
Ghost Recon : Island Thunder
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Half Life 2
Half Life 2 : Episode One
Half Life 2 : Episode Two
Half Life 2 : Episode Two Insurgency mod
Joint Operations : Typhoon Rising
Joint Operations : Escalation
Medal of Honor : Allied Assault
Medal of Honor : Allied Assault Spearhead
Medal of Honor : Allied Assault Breakthrough
Medal of Honor : Pacific Assault
Medal of Honor : Airborne
Need For Speed : Most Wanted
Portal
Rainbow Six
Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield
Rainbow Six 3 : Athena Sord
Rainbow Six 3 : Iron Wrath
Rainbow Six Vegas
Team Fortress 2
Warhammer : Mark of Chaos

** Let me know if you ever want to get together to play one of the other ones above that we don't normally play. I'm GAME! :D

[PiLL-Doc]

With Parasite's recommendation and assistance I ordered the new Blackbird 002 LCi last night with the following specs.

http://www.team-osg.com/gallery/data/535/Blackbird_002.jpg

Processor
Quad Core - Intel(R) Core2(TM) Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz QX6850 performance enhanced
Memory
4 GB 1066MHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI Ready
Thermal Management
CPU and Graphic cards liquid cooling (NVIDIA gfx)
Motherboard
ASUS Striker Extreme 680i
Operating System
Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate

Graphics and Audio

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Graphics Cards
Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA, with 768MB of GDDR3 SDRAM (LC)
Audio Boards
Creative Audio Sound Blaster(R) X-Fi(TM) XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional
Power Supply
1.1KW Power Supply

Storage Systems

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary OS Storage
RAID (0) Performance - 2 x 160GB 10,000 rpm SATA
Secondary Data Storage
500GB 7200rpm SATA
Optical Disk Bay 1
Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)
Optical Disk Bay 2
Second Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)

[Tortelvis]

Well that will pretty much shame the rest of us. Good for you, that rig will lay the smack down on any game you want to play. Did Beaner give any thought to suggesting the 780i chipset so you could put 3 of those 8800 Ultras in there going the triple Sli route?

*edit* I just checked that out and forget my question, it wasn't an option. Man thats a lot of dough for a computer. When do you expect to get it?

[Shopvac]

fuck me!

[Comet241]

I hate you slash love you at the same time. That's an insane setup

[SOJA]

OMG Pill! Dual 8800 Ultra's! Quad core 3.0!

Oh Baby Jesus help us!!!



BTW, does your wife know about this??

[Shopvac]

OMG Pill! Dual 8800 Ultra's! Quad core 3.0!

Oh Baby Jesus help us!!!



BTW, does your wife know about this??

LOL! No doubt.

[McFeely]

Can I have the box it comes in? I want to add a family room to my double wide.

[Ninja]

With Parasite's recommendation and assistance I ordered the new Blackbird 002 LCi last night with the following specs.

http://www.team-osg.com/gallery/data/535/Blackbird_002.jpg

Processor
Quad Core - Intel(R) Core2(TM) Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz QX6850 performance enhanced
Memory
4 GB 1066MHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI Ready
Thermal Management
CPU and Graphic cards liquid cooling (NVIDIA gfx)
Motherboard
ASUS Striker Extreme 680i
Operating System
Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate

Graphics and Audio

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Graphics Cards
Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA, with 768MB of GDDR3 SDRAM (LC)
Audio Boards
Creative Audio Sound Blaster(R) X-Fi(TM) XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional
Power Supply
1.1KW Power Supply

Storage Systems

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary OS Storage
RAID (0) Performance - 2 x 160GB 10,000 rpm SATA
Secondary Data Storage
500GB 7200rpm SATA
Optical Disk Bay 1
Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)
Optical Disk Bay 2
Second Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)

Nice system Pill! Almost like the one I built for Nip/Balti except the Extreme version of the CPU and dual graphics cards. Nice purchase!

[GOAT]

Damn nice rig Doc. Congrats and lots of enjoyment with it!

[Tombstone]

Guess that new gig that has you traveling all over has finally paid off.;)


Can I have the box it comes in? I want to add a family room to my double wide.

LMAO :D Mac! Too funny.

']['

[TJf12]

Dam it seems i miss a lot of the good stuff here .......
Ill have to poke around some more ........

here one of my current rigs
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz
ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48
G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
2 SAPPHIRE 100243-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB crossfire baby
2 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB in raid 0
2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200 RPM raid 1
PC Power & Cooling T12W 1200W ATX12V / EPS12V power supply
COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1010 Case
matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition (fun fun fun )
3 SCEPTRE X22WG-1080P Black 22" 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor
1 SAMSUNG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA
Vista 64 premium
And one spent bank account

[CaptCoolio]

Drool!

CaptCoolio

[HaveGunTravels]

Shit for shinola! Holy Moly! You lucky S.O.B.! Have fun now get in here lets see if it works?

Nip

[Ninja]

Shoot I never did post up my latest/current system. Here goes...

Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad
EVGA 780i mobo
4GB 1066mhz DDR2 Corsair Dominator RAM
2 EVGA 512MB 8800GT Superclocked GPU's in SLi
2 Western Digital Raptors (no RAID)
Silverstone 750watt PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred case (coming next week, currently rocking a CoolerMaster Centurion 5)
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Samsung DVD+R/W
Samsung 245bw LCD monitor

[Parasitic]

Ninja practically spilled the beans when he mentioned that someone was building a Core i7 but I figured I would share now that the system is built.

Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz CPU
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Motherboard
BFG GTX 285 OC+ Video
6GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600MHz Memory
2xWD VelociRaptor 300GB Raid 0 64KB
2xWD Caviar Black 1TB
Antec 750W True Power New
Antec P182 Case
Dual Boot Vista Ultimate x64 (Gaming) | Windows 7 Beta x64 (Everything else)

Still running my old 19" Viewsonic VX922 that I bought 5 years ago. Waiting to see what comes out this year before I upgrade.

I still need to dig into the overclocking but everything runs just fine stock :)

[Ninja]

Yeah I did but I never said who! :)

Again, sweet system!

[TJf12]

ok post some pics of the dam rigs for prof like screen shots of the bios ....I want to see pics ...whaaa ...um oh yeah um just damm

[Parasitic]

ok post some pics of the dam rigs for prof like screen shots of the bios ....I want to see pics ...whaaa ...um oh yeah um just damm

Ok here are your pics

http://www.team-osg.com/gallery/data/500/System.png

http://www.team-osg.com/gallery/data/500/System2.JPG

[Bucko]

Ordered my new rig a few days ago from Velocity Micro. The last one I bought from them is the most stable PC I've ever owned (and I've owned a lot, going back to the days I bought parts separately and built). I was gonna wait for Win 7 but its still looking like early 2010.. Ah well even if it comes out next month I'll upgrade sometime after.

Basic specs:

OS : Vista Ultimate 64 (I wanted the home features and need business shit like IIS for my work)
MOBO : Intel DX58SO
CPU : Core i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.2Ghz with Intel Heatsink
RAM : 6GB DDR3-1333 triple chanel w/heat spreader
VID : 1792MB Geforce GTX 295 (only 1 for now, its a two-GPU card)
PS : 850w
SND : X-Fi XTreme Gamer
HD : 2 Hitachi 7200rpm 1 TB drives (didn't go RAID this time, would have liked to fill it up with velociraptors but I put more money into the CPU instead, gotta cut back somewhere)
DVD1 : 20x LiteOn DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner w/Lightscribe
DVD2 : 16x LiteOn DVD/48x CD-RW

Keeping same monitor / mouse / keyboard setup for the time being. I didn't really want to pay the premium for the CPU but since CPU is important both for work and other hobby (music production) it is worth it to me.

I made it about 2.5 years without upgrading my last rig which was a first. This one might last 3.5 years without upgrade.
Previous machine will become a development box running server OS (my previous machine always gets recommissioned in this way).

It won't ship until next week so it will probably be 2 weeks before I'm actually gaming on it.

[Parasitic]

Ordered my new rig a few days ago from Velocity Micro. The last one I bought from them is the most stable PC I've ever owned (and I've owned a lot, going back to the days I bought parts separately and built). I was gonna wait for Win 7 but its still looking like early 2010.. Ah well even if it comes out next month I'll upgrade sometime after.

Basic specs:

OS : Vista Ultimate 64 (I wanted the home features and need business shit like IIS for my work)
MOBO : Intel DX58SO
CPU : Core i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.2Ghz with Intel Heatsink
RAM : 6GB DDR3-1333 triple chanel w/heat spreader
VID : 1792MB Geforce GTX 295 (only 1 for now, its a two-GPU card)
PS : 850w
SND : X-Fi XTreme Gamer
HD : 2 Hitachi 7200rpm 1 TB drives (didn't go RAID this time, would have liked to fill it up with velociraptors but I put more money into the CPU instead, gotta cut back somewhere)
DVD1 : 20x LiteOn DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner w/Lightscribe
DVD2 : 16x LiteOn DVD/48x CD-RW

Keeping same monitor / mouse / keyboard setup for the time being. I didn't really want to pay the premium for the CPU but since CPU is important both for work and other hobby (music production) it is worth it to me.

I made it about 2.5 years without upgrading my last rig which was a first. This one might last 3.5 years without upgrade.
Previous machine will become a development box running server OS (my previous machine always gets recommissioned in this way).

It won't ship until next week so it will probably be 2 weeks before I'm actually gaming on it.

Can it run Crysis? :D Nice specs overall either way the i7 are a beast. I love my setup considering I waited 6 years to finally upgrade my P4 3.0 which now serves as my sandbox/downloader. You could always do what I did and play around with a dual boot. I'm using build 7077 and I love it for general use but punkbuster games fail to run which is why I installed Vista. http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/572-punkbuster.html

[Bucko]

Can it run Crysis? :D Nice specs overall either way the i7 are a beast. I love my setup considering I waited 6 years to finally upgrade my P4 3.0 which now serves as my sandbox/downloader. You could always do what I did and play around with a dual boot. I'm using build 7077 and I love it for general use but punkbuster games fail to run which is why I installed Vista. http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/572-punkbuster.html

I will actually probably load up Crysis and Crysis Warfare again to see how I like them as they were meant to be played.. I had to turn the graphics down quite a bit on my current one and never was satisfied with the framerate (although Crysis Warfare was a big improvement). I think Far Cry 2 looks better and plays better overall than Crysis, and my current rig plays it well enough until I start playing some of the really large custom multiplayer maps which have lots of trees and moving foilage, then I sometimes drop down to around 30-35 FPS and I can really notice the framerate stutter and mouse lag, so I'm looking forward to smoothing that out.

I can't say I blame EvenBalance for not supporting Win7 beta yet, it would just cost them money to release updates for the different beta builds with no gain for doing it. I'll probably just run Vista 64 until Win 7 comes out.. there were rumors that it might come out in June but everything I've read from MS still says early 2010.

The i7 chips indeed kick ass, I'm sure you've probably read about Turbo mode? I believe all the i7 series supports it. Basically an easier and safer way to overclock.. You can tell it to overclock any of the 4 cores (or all of them) whenever CPU demand is high and temperatures allow. Pretty slick (and from the benchmarks I've seen it does make a difference). I'm now wondering if I should have opted for a better CPU cooler, but again I don't usually push the CPU out of spec. I did realize after the fact that the GTX 295 it comes with is actually an EVGA 295+, which is factory overclocked.. Only about a 5% difference from what I'm reading but a few extra frames never hurts :)

[Parasitic]

I still need to get that since I've been out of PC gaming for about 2 years since I switched to console gaming. I made the jump to buy this PC because I wanted some more power and to do some PC gaming again.

The turbo feature is a nice auto-overclock feature especially for older single threaded games. Your chip has that nice ability to adjust each core which will come in handy anything you want to throw at it. Overclocking has become the new standard and companies are embracing it.

[Bucko]

The new rig came yesterday and I have it about 80% set up the way I need it, and of course the final 20% with probably take two weeks. It's actually faster than I had hoped, I was estimating from published benchmarks I had seen that I would get about a 2x framerate increase over my old system. It's actually quite a bit more.. with the settings I was running before (a few items bumped down from max eyecandy) , I was getting an average of about 41FPS in the Ranch Small demo running the FC2 benchmark tool (which you can find in the game directory) under XP. With the new one under Vista 64 with same settings I get 110fps for more than a 2.5x increase. If I turn up all the eye candy to max, even with 8x AA and DX10 I get an average of about 81fps. And the benchmarks stress the GPU way more than a typical multiplayer map does (even the complex custom ones), so that means on the stock multiplayer maps I'm typically running somewhere between 100-200fps with everything maxed. Not bad, it will be interesting to see my next power bill. So far I haven't run into any real hurdles, but then the only games I've loaded up so far are FC2 and GRAW2. Getting the mic volume right in teamspeak was a chore but it usually is and its not something that needs to be done every day. I might pick some of you guys' brains on Vista 64 tips with games since I'm so used to XP, but since this is a hardware thread I thought I'd post the benchmarks and save the rest for appropriate threads.

[Ninja]

The new rig came yesterday and I have it about 80% set up the way I need it, and of course the final 20% with probably take two weeks. It's actually faster than I had hoped, I was estimating from published benchmarks I had seen that I would get about a 2x framerate increase over my old system. It's actually quite a bit more.. with the settings I was running before (a few items bumped down from max eyecandy) , I was getting an average of about 41FPS in the Ranch Small demo running the FC2 benchmark tool (which you can find in the game directory) under XP. With the new one under Vista 64 with same settings I get 110fps for more than a 2.5x increase. If I turn up all the eye candy to max, even with 8x AA and DX10 I get an average of about 81fps. And the benchmarks stress the GPU way more than a typical multiplayer map does (even the complex custom ones), so that means on the stock multiplayer maps I'm typically running somewhere between 100-200fps with everything maxed. Not bad, it will be interesting to see my next power bill. So far I haven't run into any real hurdles, but then the only games I've loaded up so far are FC2 and GRAW2. Getting the mic volume right in teamspeak was a chore but it usually is and its not something that needs to be done every day. I might pick some of you guys' brains on Vista 64 tips with games since I'm so used to XP, but since this is a hardware thread I thought I'd post the benchmarks and save the rest for appropriate threads.Good to hear Bucko! Sounds like a stout system for sure!

As far as Vista 64bit tips? Create a Games directory e.g C:\Games\ and install all of your games there. Not that it's ever given me trouble with games but the 64bit version of Vista protects it's Program Files directories. You have two, "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)". Otherwise not many tips to offer. I just run Vista 64 fully featured and it's been sound since day one. The only thing I do and really only applies when I play Fallout 3 is to turn off my AV temporarily.

[Bucko]

Good to hear Bucko! Sounds like a stout system for sure!

As far as Vista 64bit tips? Create a Games directory e.g C:\Games\ and install all of your games there. Not that it's ever given me trouble with games but the 64bit version of Vista protects it's Program Files directories. You have two, "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)". Otherwise not many tips to offer. I just run Vista 64 fully featured and it's been sound since day one. The only thing I do and really only applies when I play Fallout 3 is to turn off my AV temporarily.

I do the same thing with the Games directory, except I put it on the D drive. I noticed that with the two versions of Program Files, and naturally most ends up going into x86, which is okay by me. Interesting about Fallout 3, I have that one although I need to do the Steam backup/restore thing with it or else download it again. Which AV if I may ask, and what happens if it is running during FO3? Does it just run slower or not at all?

[Parasitic]

If you need anything else you can find some info about 64bit apps here (http://www.start64.com/)

[Ninja]

I do the same thing with the Games directory, except I put it on the D drive. I noticed that with the two versions of Program Files, and naturally most ends up going into x86, which is okay by me. Interesting about Fallout 3, I have that one although I need to do the Steam backup/restore thing with it or else download it again. Which AV if I may ask, and what happens if it is running during FO3? Does it just run slower or not at all?Yeah that (x86) directory is you guessed it, for 32-bit apps. Vista does a good job of emulating a 32 bit environment on the fly.

As for FO3, I turn my AV off because I tend to not get as much jitter in my motion. I think it's because the AV is monitoring everything that's going on including loading the textures of the game and what not. I use Eset's NOD32. I have noticed though that with the latest patches it hasn't been so much an issue.

[Roo]

This is typically where I chime in and tell you how it really all works, but I'll leave that up to you guys to figure out on your own this time!!!!!

[Iceman]

Good to hear Bucko! Sounds like a stout system for sure!

As far as Vista 64bit tips? Create a Games directory e.g C:\Games\ and install all of your games there. Not that it's ever given me trouble with games but the 64bit version of Vista protects it's Program Files directories. You have two, "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)". Otherwise not many tips to offer. I just run Vista 64 fully featured and it's been sound since day one. The only thing I do and really only applies when I play Fallout 3 is to turn off my AV temporarily.

wow i didnt know you could do that, i also have vista 64 and i just installed them in program files x 86, with no issues.should i change that or leave it as is.

[Ninja]

This is typically where I chime in and tell you how it really all works, but I'll leave that up to you guys to figure out on your own this time!!!!!C'mon Roo! Just one computer tip. Please????? :)


wow i didnt know you could do that, i also have vista 64 and i just installed them in program files x 86, with no issues.should i change that or leave it as is.Technically you shouldn't have any issues. I'd leave everything just the way it is if it's working fine.

[Bucko]

Technically you shouldn't have any issues. I'd leave everything just the way it is if it's working fine.

Agreed.. most users will probably do well to accept all defaults as it can make life easier. The main reason I create D:\Games is because (in theory at last) putting apps on a different drive than the OS makes loading a little quicker. The other reason is that by splitting things across drives I can distribute space better (drive performance slows as they fill up). But the reality of it is that I'm not very good about cleaning shit up that I'm not using, so over time I end up needing to distribute games or other apps by installing them wherever I have room, which means in the long run some of my games will be under D:\Games and some under C:\Program Files (x86). But yes, for most users that's not worth the hassle of not being sure things are. I do still keep my data under a Data folder that's completely independent of what Windows wants to do (like the documents and settings folder). This is just a habit that harkens back to the days before there were default Windows locations like My Documents My Pictures, My Music, etc.. My data folder has had roughly the same structure for the basic things like documents, images, music etc for probably 20 years... I guess old habits die hard. I use the new way of doing things as mostly temporary storage or as a convenience because certain software or hardware like digital cams like to put things there by default.. But, nobody uses my primary PC but me... if I needed to share it with multiple users it's easier to do it the MS way.

Like Ninja said I would leave things the way you've got em Ice.

[GOAT]

Hey Guys I have been meaning to ask. I have Win XP and I know I am going to have to switch to Vista eventually so I just purchased another copy of Vista Ultimate for my gaming machine. Has anyone had any problems with compatibility between the games we play and windows Vista? I presently have Win Vista Ultimate on my Business machine and it works pretty well. It has some bugs and I don't like the way I have to update it every day with about 14 or 15 updates each time. I still have a few things to figure out on it but I will get it eventually I guess. I also have it on my Lap top so I guess I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I will be using it? Let me know what you think. Yes you to ROO!

[Ninja]

Hey Guys I have been meaning to ask. I have Win XP and I know I am going to have to switch to Vista eventually so I just purchased another copy of Vista Ultimate for my gaming machine. Has anyone had any problems with compatibility between the games we play and windows Vista? I presently have Win Vista Ultimate on my Business machine and it works pretty well. It has some bugs and I don't like the way I have to update it every day with about 14 or 15 updates each time. I still have a few things to figure out on it but I will get it eventually I guess. I also have it on my Lap top so I guess I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I will be using it? Let me know what you think. Yes you to ROO!Why Ultimate? Ultimate is a waste of money in my opinion. Home Premium should be more than adequate unless Ultimate offers something you specifically need. That being said, your games should run fine. I run some older games without an issue EXCEPT for BF2. That one is a bit quirky for me but I can get it to run. It just won't let me use my side mouse buttons for some reason.

As for updates, you should only be seeing updates come the 2nd Tuesday of every month unless it is a critical out of cycle patch.

[Ninja]

Agreed.. most users will probably do well to accept all defaults as it can make life easier. The main reason I create D:\Games is because (in theory at last) putting apps on a different drive than the OS makes loading a little quicker. The other reason is that by splitting things across drives I can distribute space better (drive performance slows as they fill up). But the reality of it is that I'm not very good about cleaning shit up that I'm not using, so over time I end up needing to distribute games or other apps by installing them wherever I have room, which means in the long run some of my games will be under D:\Games and some under C:\Program Files (x86). But yes, for most users that's not worth the hassle of not being sure things are. I do still keep my data under a Data folder that's completely independent of what Windows wants to do (like the documents and settings folder). This is just a habit that harkens back to the days before there were default Windows locations like My Documents My Pictures, My Music, etc.. My data folder has had roughly the same structure for the basic things like documents, images, music etc for probably 20 years... I guess old habits die hard. I use the new way of doing things as mostly temporary storage or as a convenience because certain software or hardware like digital cams like to put things there by default.. But, nobody uses my primary PC but me... if I needed to share it with multiple users it's easier to do it the MS way.

Like Ninja said I would leave things the way you've got em Ice.I do much the same thing Bucko and for the same reasons. I agree it probably isn't necessary but as you said, old habits die hard. :)

[Bucko]

Hey Guys I have been meaning to ask. I have Win XP and I know I am going to have to switch to Vista eventually so I just purchased another copy of Vista Ultimate for my gaming machine. Has anyone had any problems with compatibility between the games we play and windows Vista? I presently have Win Vista Ultimate on my Business machine and it works pretty well. It has some bugs and I don't like the way I have to update it every day with about 14 or 15 updates each time. I still have a few things to figure out on it but I will get it eventually I guess. I also have it on my Lap top so I guess I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I will be using it? Let me know what you think. Yes you to ROO!

I got a copy of Vista (32-bit Business) with my last PC, but I bought the PC before Vista was officially released, so it came with XP installed and they shipped me Vista a few months later.. I never installed it because by that time I had so much set up on XP... with not only my games, but my development and music production setups it takes literally weeks to get everything perfectly configured (unless I just took 2-3 solid days off work to deal with it). I was never motivated to install Vista because in general I would have taken a performance hit over XP if using 32-bit, and because of the initial lack of vendor driver support (believe it or not, most of the complaints of bugs were because companies like nVidia and ATI did not invest enough development time in Vista driver versions and were not the fault of the OS itself).

So, two and a half years later itwas time for a new PC, so I am running Vista (64 bit) for the first time since loading a beta in a virtual many years back. Because of that, I am only in the initial stages of getting my games re-installed. So far (3 games total) I haven't run into any game specific issues... I just let the games through the Windows firewall when prompted and my router settings (which is the key to multiplayer working in many games) has not changed, so I have not specifically had any problems yet with Vista and games or anything else really.

One thing I noticed is Velocity Micro was shipping Vista 64-bit by default on all their high-end gaming systems, and they are extremely rigorous on their testing processes. I think they even charged an extra fee if you wanted to downgrade to XP or Vista 32. It looked like most other vendors were doing the same, so I figured if there were major support nightmares they would not have been shipping Vista 64.

So, my recommendation so far is to just go Vista 64. Most gamers will only need Home Premium, I needed Ultimate.

[Bucko]

Why Ultimate? Ultimate is a waste of money in my opinion. Home Premium should be more than adequate unless Ultimate offers something you specifically need. That being said, your games should run fine. I run some older games without an issue EXCEPT for BF2. That one is a bit quirky for me but I can get it to run. It just won't let me use my side mouse buttons for some reason.

As for updates, you should only be seeing updates come the 2nd Tuesday of every month unless it is a critical out of cycle patch.

I only needed Ultimate because I need IIS and some of the development stuff in the business edition, and I wanted the media stuff of the home edition, and ultimate is the only way to get both. I have a friend who is also a developer and he decided to go cheap on the initial purchase and get Home Edition, and one day when he tried to do some work from home and realized there was no way to download and install all the stuff he needed on home edition, so he ended up having to order the upgrade to Ultimate, waiting a week for it to arrive, and paying more than if he had just gotten the license from the vendor. I haven't paid much attention to the differences that are going to be in Windows 7, but if they are similar, having Vista Ultimate will likely make my upgrade to Win 7 Ultimate cheaper.

But I should say it again, probably everyone reading this only needs Home Premium.

[Bucko]

But I should say it again, probably everyone reading this only needs Home Premium.

Right after I wrote that I looked up the edition comparisons and realized that Home Premium does not come with Remote Desktop. Unless there is a workaround for that, it means anyone that VPN's into their work and remotes into a machine, or needs to remote into a server to admin it from afar (not necessarily game servers though) would need at least the business edition.

[Ninja]

I got a copy of Vista (32-bit Business) with my last PC, but I bought the PC before Vista was officially released, so it came with XP installed and they shipped me Vista a few months later.. I never installed it because by that time I had so much set up on XP... with not only my games, but my development and music production setups it takes literally weeks to get everything perfectly configured (unless I just took 2-3 solid days off work to deal with it). I was never motivated to install Vista because in general I would have taken a performance hit over XP if using 32-bit, and because of the initial lack of vendor driver support (believe it or not, most of the complaints of bugs were because companies like nVidia and ATI did not invest enough development time in Vista driver versions and were not the fault of the OS itself).

So, two and a half years later itwas time for a new PC, so I am running Vista (64 bit) for the first time since loading a beta in a virtual many years back. Because of that, I am only in the initial stages of getting my games re-installed. So far (3 games total) I haven't run into any game specific issues... I just let the games through the Windows firewall when prompted and my router settings (which is the key to multiplayer working in many games) has not changed, so I have not specifically had any problems yet with Vista and games or anything else really.

One thing I noticed is Velocity Micro was shipping Vista 64-bit by default on all their high-end gaming systems, and they are extremely rigorous on their testing processes. I think they even charged an extra fee if you wanted to downgrade to XP or Vista 32. It looked like most other vendors were doing the same, so I figured if there were major support nightmares they would not have been shipping Vista 64.

So, my recommendation so far is to just go Vista 64. Most gamers will only need Home Premium, I needed Ultimate.With this latest gaming machine of mine I went straight to Vista 64 bit Home Premium. I was impressed at how painless it was. Probably the easiest OS install ever besides Ubuntu. 32 bit is just too limiting nowadays if you want a system that will have the oomph to run the current games etc.


I only needed Ultimate because I need IIS and some of the development stuff in the business edition, and I wanted the media stuff of the home edition, and ultimate is the only way to get both. I have a friend who is also a developer and he decided to go cheap on the initial purchase and get Home Edition, and one day when he tried to do some work from home and realized there was no way to download and install all the stuff he needed on home edition, so he ended up having to order the upgrade to Ultimate, waiting a week for it to arrive, and paying more than if he had just gotten the license from the vendor. I haven't paid much attention to the differences that are going to be in Windows 7, but if they are similar, having Vista Ultimate will likely make my upgrade to Win 7 Ultimate cheaper.

But I should say it again, probably everyone reading this only needs Home Premium.
Yeah IIS is one of those special needs cases. I'm also seriously thinking of jumping to Windows 7 64-bit. I've been running the beta on my laptop since it was first available and it's been running great and fast! Much less system requirements than it's older brother. It is after all Vista's core, just optimized.

Right after I wrote that I looked up the edition comparisons and realized that Home Premium does not come with Remote Desktop. Unless there is a workaround for that, it means anyone that VPN's into their work and remotes into a machine, or needs to remote into a server to admin it from afar (not necessarily game servers though) would need at least the business edition.Yep, I was not to thrilled about not having remote desktop. I guess the next best thing would be RealVNC.

[Parasitic]

Right after I wrote that I looked up the edition comparisons and realized that Home Premium does not come with Remote Desktop. Unless there is a workaround for that, it means anyone that VPN's into their work and remotes into a machine, or needs to remote into a server to admin it from afar (not necessarily game servers though) would need at least the business edition.

As far as I know the client is available on the home version but the server portion is missing. Also I've connected to a VPN and used remote desktop from XP home before so I don't see why Microsoft would exclude it from Vista Home Premium. It wouldn't hurt to double check before you come to that conclusion. You should still be able to work from home if needed.

If you are looking to run terminal server on your PC I found this on google - http://portal.tonychan.org/Default.aspx?tabid=58&EntryID=123

[Ninja]

As far as I know the client is available on the home version but the server portion is missing. Also I've connected to a VPN and used remote desktop from XP home before so I don't see why Microsoft would exclude it from Vista Home Premium. It wouldn't hurt to double check before you come to that conclusion. You should still be able to work from home if needed.

If you are looking to run terminal server on your PC I found this on google - http://portal.tonychan.org/Default.aspx?tabid=58&EntryID=123Thanks for pointing that about Parasitic, I forgot to elaborate that point that Home Premium does in fact as you said, only have the client side, not the server side portion of remote desktop. I remember reading some forums about getting the server side working but people were running into trouble.

[Bucko]

Hmm.. I only glanced at the comparison table briefly, I took away that the client remote desktop connect wasn't in Home (I thought that was one of the issues the friend I mentioned earlier ran into with Home), but as long as Home has the client (which makes more sense to me) I would be back to recommending Home for folks not specifically needing development items like IIS.

[RUCKUS]

case: raidmax scorpio-668 aluminum tower
power supply: enermax noisetaker 600
motherboard: [ddr2] ASUS p5ad2
memory: 4 gig, ddr2-533 pc4200
video card: e-geforce 9600 gso
harddrive: 160 gb maxter
sound card: audio blaster audigy-2 zs 7.1

[Bucko]

First time I can recall this happening... If I ordered the same rig I bought back in April, from same vendor today, it would cost $100 more. I've read PC hardware may go up a little bit with the Windows 7 release creating more demand, so maybe this is a sign of that.

[[EX3]CobraXP]

PiLL-Doc's upgrade

CPU: Intel i7 960 D0 @ 4.0GHz 24/7*
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master H50 Water Cooling with modded rad shroud*
Motherboard: Evga Classified E760*
Ram: Corsair Dominator GT 3x2GB 1600MHz 6-7-6-18 T1*
Video: Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5870 1Gb*
HDD: WD Raptors 2x160GB Sata in Raid 0, Seagate 500GB Sata
Rom: 2x HP Slim DVD Burners
Power Supply: Topower PowerBird 1100 Watt*
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit*
Case: HP BlackBird 002






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[chiselwac]

looks like a hackers rig if i ever saw one...

[Ninja]

looks like a hackers rig if i ever saw one...Too bad it won't stop me from whuppin' his ass in game. ;)

[rduncan]

Seems pretty weak, but if Pill is happy with it.....

[GOAT]

No wonder you had to buy a new house Doc? had to have the extra room for this rig? LOL! Very nice and I hope you enjoy the hell out of it! Now to just get the time to use it_ _ _ _?

[PiLL-Doc]

I should be online Friday night...getting FIOS hooked up tomorrow morning and then I can show chisel how it hacks and Ninja + Duncan that I can still kick their ass.

[chiselwac]

I should be online Friday night...getting FIOS hooked up tomorrow morning and then I can show chisel how it hacks and Ninja + Duncan that I can still kick their ass.

LOL

[McFeely]

I should be online Friday night...getting FIOS hooked up tomorrow morning and then I can show chisel how it hacks and Ninja + Duncan that I can still kick their ass.

They got Fios in Broward? Nice

[BlackflyCanada]

Hey guys thought I'd toss in my Rig though it's a little late as it seems...

PSU - Enermax Galaxy 1000W DXX
Mobo - Asus Striker II Formula
CPU - Intel Q9550
RAM - 4 Gigs of HyperX DD2
Video - Dual EVGA 260 GTX 768MB
Sound - Creative X-Fi Titanium
Monitor - 24" Acer 1080P.
Case - Aero Cool {upside down}
Media - Blueray DVDRW combo dealy.
Mouse - Logitech G500 Laser.
Keyboard - Logitech illuminated keyboard.
Stereo - Logitech THX 500 watt (Can't remember model)
Also Beyer Dynamic DT 770 headphones.

[HedgeHog_jr]

Well got mine Upgraded last week!

Old PSU-OCZ 850W Z-Series
Old Video-EVGA GTX 260
Old Case-Theramltake Armour LC
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New MOBO-EVGA Classified 3
New CPU-i7 950
New HDD-WD 600G SATA III Raptors (x2)
New Ram-Mushkin 6G DDR3 1600MHz Ridge Back
New LCD-Samsung 27"

[GOAT]

My Update! Had to do it since my eyes are getting worse at least that's what I told my wife, lol!

[Iceman]

heres mine
case-black gamma (nothing special)
intel i7 950 quad 3.06 ghz
900 W power supply mod xstream
videocard-saphire 6870 HD 1GB-DDR5
mb-asus p6x58d-e extreme design
12 gigs ram
sidewinder gaming mouse
G11 keyboard
ASUS 27 inch LCD monitor 1920 x1080p

[SOJA]

Antec Lanboy Air - custom paint job - upgraded fans
ASRock Extreme4 Gen3 motherboard Socket 1155
Intel i7 Quad Core Sandy Bridge 2600k overclocked @ 4.6 GHz
Corsair H80 Liquid CPU Cooler w/ Scythe fans
16GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1600 CAS Lat 7-8-7-28
EVGA GTX 580 3GB - GFX
PNY GTX 460 1GB - PhysX
2 TB SATA 6.0 for the OS
2 TB SATA 3.0 for the Media
-24" Samsung 1080p 2ms monitor
-Logitech G15 Keyboard
-Logitech G500 Gaming Mouse
-Logitech G19 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headphones
-Logitech Cordless Joystick
-Logitech G27 Racing Wheel
Klipsch 2.1 300W Speakers

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[Rage]

Impressive rig Soja!


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.390084,-121.888763

[Drudge]

I actually think this is where artistry and techology meet. Not to take the easy way out, but Soja just built a badass fucking machine there. Oh and the obligatory "great cable management" comment. Werd :cool:

[Ninja]

Nice rig SOJA! One question though, why big slow hard drives and no SSD?

[SOJA]

Nice rig SOJA! One question though, why big slow hard drives and no SSD?

Simple, I need lots of space. I have 122 games on Steam, and maybe 20-30 more store bought games. I also have 1TB+ in movies, music, and pictures. It would just be way too expensive to try to store that on SSD's.