Forum: Killer Rigs

Is it just me or is your computer housing hanging about an inch off the desk?

Hal fall down go boom!

No - it's on wheels so is 2" above the desk.

Computer on wheels that close to the edge, are you insane?

They're casters, and have a brake thingy in each -= It's never moved so far, and the extra height allowed me to put the radiator at the bottom of the case.

That case looks massive!!!

Ya - Lots of nice space to fill with more hardware :)

There was a bit of a water cooling incident yesterday morning, which resulted in a very damp 6800 Ultra :(

As a result, I've said goodbye to watercooling (for now) and hello to a few new parts;



CPU; Athlon X2 4400
Mobo; Abit AN8 32X
RAM; 3GB OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Gold Edition Dual Channel
Video; 2x 512MB PNY Geforce 7900 GTX's in SLI
HDD; 2x 36GB Western Digital Raptor SATA150/10000 8MB Cache in RAID0
Sound; Audigy 2 ZS
Speakers; Sony 5.1 DTS
NIC; Onboard Gigabit
Primary Optical; Samsung 16X DVD / 48X CDRW
Secondary Optical; Pioneer 16X DVDRW
Case; Modded Coolermaster Stacker
PSU; Enermax Liberty 620W SLI
CPU Cooler; Zalman CNPS9500 LED
VGA Cooler; Stock
Monitor; Viewsonic VP201s 20"
Keyboard; Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Mouse; Razer Copperhead

It's pretty quick - 3DMark 06 results have gone from ~2500 on old Hal to 7000+ on new Hal.

3DMark 06 Results;
Old System; 2678
New System; 7345

3DMark 05 Results;
Old System; 5570
New System; 9900

3DMark 03 Results;
Old System; 12864
New System; 31856

Thats exacty why I dont' use water cooling, because with my luck I KNOW that sort of thing would happening.

The 6800 dried out fine, so leia will be getting an upgrade at some point.

Nice to see you got rid of that Intel poop.

Hey - there's nothing wrong with the P4 - It offered the best performance at the time.

Well my same water cooling setup is still going strong on my XP 3200+ setup.
I am however overall bored with pc's as I can't afford the new fast stuff that I want. really I can't drop 2g's on the video cards and processors only that is INSANE!

Honestly that is crazy it's has been up and running pretty much 24x7 for 2-3 years now on pretty much the same cooling setup.
:) I am REALLY impressed with Enhiem!

I think I'm going to have to go back to watercooling soon - the two GTX's generate too much heat - Idle GPU temps after five minutes are already 58c, and it's a fairly cool day today.

Just ditched the Abit Mobo in favour of an MSI K8N Diamond Plus - Abit are really selling some c**p at the moment.

And I get a new CPU on Monday :)

Holy ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Athlon X2 4400 3DMark Score - 9900
New CPU 3DMark Score - 13979

New PC specs are;

CPU; Athlon 64 FX 60
Mobo; MSI K8N Diamond Plus
RAM; 2GB OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Gold Edition Dual Channel @500Mhz
Video; 2x 512MB PNY Geforce 7900 GTX's in SLI
HDD; 2x 36GB Western Digital Raptor SATA150/10000 8MB Cache in RAID0
HDD2; 2x 160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA300/7200 8MB Cache in RAID0
Sound; Audigy 2 ZS
Speakers; Sony 5.1 DTS
Headphones; Zalman 5.1
NIC; Onboard Gigabit
Primary Optical; Samsung 16X DVD / 48X CDRW
Secondary Optical; Pioneer 16X DVDRW
Case; Modded Coolermaster Stacker
PSU; Enermax Liberty 620W
CPU Cooler; Zalman CNPS9500 LED
VGA Cooler; Stock
Monitor; Viewsonic VP201s 20"
Keyboard; Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Mouse; Razer Copperhead

Hi All
It's taken a couple of months to put together (hell it took a month to get the damned 780 chipset running stable), but I've finally finished upgrading my PC;

CPU; Intel Core2 Extreme X9650 @ 4Ghz (333*12 @ 1.4v)
Mobo; EVGA 780i
RAM; 8GB OCZ REAPER PC2-6400
Video; 2x XFX 9800 GX2 XXX Edition
HDD Controller; Areca ARC-1212
HDD; 4x 300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor? SATA300/10000 16MB Cache in RAID0
Sound; SoundBlaster? X-Fi? Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
Speakers; Zalman 5.1 Headphones
Optical 1; Pioneer 20X DVDRW
Optical 2; Pioneer 20X DVDRW
Optical 3; Pioneer 5X BluRay?
Optical 4; Pioneer 5X BluRay?
Case; Modded Coolermaster Stacker
PSU; Coolermaster 1000W
CPU Cooler; Noctua NH-U12P
Monitor; Viewsonic VP2650wb 26"
Keyboard; Microsoft Reclusa
Mouse; Razer Copperhead

The Piccies;

New CPU;


Old And New Motherboards;


New Motherboard;


Initial Setup;


New Graphics Cards;


Current Setup;


Quad Cores and Quad SLI - Oh Yeah!


New Big Honkin' Screen


RAID Controller and VelociRaptors?


Case


Window With Lights


I'm off to see if Crysis will actually run now :)

Hi All

I upgraded back in January, byt never got around to posting new specs;

CPU; Intel i7 Extreme 965 @ 3.5Ghz
Mobo; Asus Rampage II Extreme
RAM; 12GB Corsair 1866Mhx
Video; 2x XFX 9800 GX2 XXX Edition
HDD Controller; Areca ARC-1680-IX-8
HDD; 4x 300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor? SATA300/10000 16MB Cache in RAID0
HDD; 4x 64GB OCZ Vertex in RAID0
HDD; 5x 1TB WD Black in RAID5
Sound; Onboard Sound as I've run out of slots.
Speakers; Creative T40 / Sennheiser HD555
Optical 1; Pioneer 20X DVDRW
Optical 2; Pioneer 20X DVDRW
Optical 3; Pioneer 20X DVDRW
Optical 4; Pioneer 20X DVDRW
Optical 5; Pioneer 5X BluRay?
Optical 6; Pioneer 5X BluRay?
Case; Modded Coolermaster Stacker
PSU; Enermax 1300W
CPU Cooler; Noctua NH-U12P
Monitor; Viewsonic VP2650wb 26"
Keyboard; Microsoft Reclusa
Mouse; Razer Copperhead

The Piccies;

Hmmmm - Upgrades...........


Out with the old


That's a lot of graphics grunt!


Not a lot in it size wise


Installed!


300fps in Counterstrike graphics test at 1920*1200 everything maxed.
896fps in Quake3 1920*1200 everything maxed.
3DMark Vantage - 24404

Will do a clean Vista or Win7 install this weekend..........