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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: California
Guild: Xen of Heroes
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8800 GTS 512 (SLI'ed) ghetto rigged @ 864/2106/1107 |
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Sep 26, 2008, 08:27 PM // 20:27
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: http://www.blowupdoll.co.za/
Guild: Band of Buds [BUD] (Officer)
Profession: N/
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Finally decided that the stock cooler was not good enough... 13 months later... lol
Asus Silent Square EVO  Ya I know it's not the best cooler out there, but it's got shiny bl00 LED's  and I'm not a heavy OC'er
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Sep 30, 2008, 04:38 AM // 04:38
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: US
Profession: R/Mo
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No pics, but I upgraded over the summer to:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (Cooled with some $15 coolermaster thing, nice and quiet, much better than stock cooler) 4 GB of DDR2-800 by Patriot Visiontek Radeon HD4850 Gigabyte EP35-DS3L mobo A 22" widescreen monitor Diamond 7-channel soundcard Samsung SATA DVD-R WD 500 GB SATA hard disk. All in an antec sonata III (using the stock Earthwatts 500W PSU)
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Oct 15, 2008, 12:02 AM // 00:02
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: AZ
Profession: W/
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Here's my comp and setup.
      System Spec: Case: Antec Twelve Hundred Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @3.4 from 2.4 Mother Board: MSI P7N Platinum NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI Memory:CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Video Cards: EVGA GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB GDDR3 in SLI CPU Cooler: ZALMAN 9500A 92mm PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Some day I will add water cooling, better HD, and graphics cards.
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Oct 24, 2008, 04:44 AM // 04:44
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Australia
Guild: Know Your Enemy [PMS]
Profession: Mo/
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No pics, but here is my system.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 3.8ghz CPU Cooler: Thermalright TRUE Black 120 w/ 2x Scythe S-FLEX 120mm Fan 1600rpm (Push Pull ftw) Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Extreme RAM: Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600 w/ Dominator Cooler GFX: Radeon 4870X2 HDD: 5x Western Digital 640GB SATA2 (Video Editing and 3D Modeling...) PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W Case: Antec 1200 Mouse: Deathadder Keyboard: Merc Stealth LCD: AOC 22" (Don't remember its model) System is designed for huge work loads, lots of Maya and Avast (and obviously gaming). Next upgrade will probably be to a 24" LCD monitor with a true 8-bit panel and then another 4GB of ram. |
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Oct 24, 2008, 06:10 PM // 18:10
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Copper Pipes + Blue Lights!
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Intel E8400 @ 4.0 Ghz + Asus Silent Knight II 2x2 Gb Crucial PC3-10600 @ 1500 Mhz + Thermalright V1R MSI X48c Platinum 2x 1 Gb Powercolor PCS+ HD 4850 2x 500 Gb Samsung Spinpoint T166 (One buggered up and is being RMA'd) Creative X-Fi Elite Pro + THX Gigaworks 7.1 Speakers Aerocool Aeroengine II Acer G24 OCZ ModXStream 780 watt PSU + Lots of blue lights: And it needs plenty of feeding with plenty of food: The case is really old and been through lots of upgrades, hence all the stickers and scratches. I want an Antec 900, but my current case is still fine. I have a Saitek Cyborg keyboard and Razer Deathadder Guild Wars edition on order and will post a picture of my desk after I get them on monday. Last edited by bhavv; Oct 24, 2008 at 10:13 PM // 22:13.. |
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Oct 24, 2008, 09:25 PM // 21:25
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: http://www.blowupdoll.co.za/
Guild: Band of Buds [BUD] (Officer)
Profession: N/
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**LATEST UPGRADE**
 MoBo: ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA X48 (SLI) RAM: Transcend aXeRam 2 x 2GB DDR2-1066Mhz Gaming Memory Misc cooling: OCZ XTC Memory Airflow Cooler (that soundcard cable is irritating me... just a little bit too short... oh well, it's gotta go OVER the memory cooler now lol) Next on the list is a full tower... gogo Thermaltake Armor LCS !!  and maybe another 4Gb ram... ^_^ Last edited by Hannes; Dec 04, 2008 at 09:07 PM // 21:07.. |
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Oct 24, 2008, 10:26 PM // 22:26
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Sep 2006
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I got these crucial sticks, then stuck on these heatspreaders, the main problem being that it invalidates the warranty as I had to remove the stickers to make it work, but hey, they hit 1700 Mhz in my current mobo, they would easilly reach at least 1800 Mhz on an ASUS Rampage or Gigabyte board with their 16 and 12 phases (MSI only use a 6 phase power system, while being very efficient it is crap at overclocking ram  ). Then I'll just buy one more next year with an X58 and Nehalem CPU. Ebay makes upgrading yearly affordable.P.S, I think that you need to stick a cathode under your graphics cards to light them up =D Last edited by bhavv; Oct 24, 2008 at 10:35 PM // 22:35.. |
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Oct 25, 2008, 03:00 AM // 03:00
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Australia
Profession: Mo/
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Still a great board, thinking about nabbing one myself. Torn between it, the Foxconn Blackops, GB X48-DQ6 and DFI Lanparty UT-X48T2R. Quote:
The ASUS Rampage Extreme (DDR3) has 11phase PWM for the CPU and 2 phase PWM for the RAM. The Gigabyte X48-DQ6 and X48T-DQ6 actually only have 6 phases for the CPU. Don't believe their "12 virtual phases" marketing bullshit. Quote:
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Oct 25, 2008, 05:26 AM // 05:26
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The Fallen One
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Oblivion
Guild: Irrelevant
Profession: Mo/Me
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So the new eVGA x58 board is just plain sexy... Their digital power managment of vDROOP systems are AWESOME. The board to get if you ask me. Of course, that is if you ignore the fact that AMD's new Deneb CPU is a beast, and can hit 1.7v (I know, scary right?) 4.3GHz on air confirmed (Scythe cooler) PS: bhavv, careful bud.... putting an AMD sticker with a Core2Duo inside may cause your PC to become possessed by demons and spontaneously combust. At one point, as a joke, I put an Apple sticker as a joke on one of my older systems... about 3 days after that, I went to start it up, and nada. Went to find out that overvoltage protection on my 5v rail had failed... poof went hardware... That hurt.
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Oct 25, 2008, 12:18 PM // 12:18
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: http://www.blowupdoll.co.za/
Guild: Band of Buds [BUD] (Officer)
Profession: N/
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Yeap, I'm aware that the board can't Sli, I didn't buy it for that reason  . One of my buds organised me a sweet deal on that Asus board & the RAM, which is why I took it. I wasn't planning on "upgrading" now, but my old mobo (XFX 650i Ultra) decided to die on me last week . Northbridge overheated causing damage to the 'board, now the mobo doesn't pick up the gfx and also one of the old ram chips (1Gb ddr2 800) got a bit wasted in the process... Personally I think it's the nub who installed the cpu cooler that damaged the nb heatsink... I live in South Africa and to send the board away for repairs costs more than a new one >_< AND the warrantee had JUST expired, the mobo was 13 months old :| Initial plan was to wait for Nehalem of course... But I'm addicted to teh interwebz and my games LOL!  Ah well... Guess it's not so bad... Maybe I'll wait for Westmere or Sandy Bridge now until next major upgrade?? \_(o.O)_/ Quote:
Or... should I just wait until early next year when I plan on buying another case, then pimp everything out? lol Last edited by Hannes; Oct 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM // 12:22.. |
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Oct 28, 2008, 06:59 PM // 18:59
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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The other problem is that Acer only provide a 2 year warranty, when most monitor manufacturers these days provide 3 years. More warranty cover is always good, as I lknow from having my SE k850i and a Samsung T166 bugger up in the space of two weeks (o.O how unlucky could I get?). I also want to take more pictures of my new keyboard and mouse and put up my amateurish reviews on them somewhere, but my K800i fails at taking pictures in the dark. I will post them off for RMA once I sell my old ram (only need to make one journey to the post office then). Thanks for the info on the motherboards - Asus have announced that they will have 16 phases on their X58 board, and I looked at the pictures and counted them, and yup, it has 16, but it will be much too expensive. MSI is sticking to their efficient, and no lies 6 phases, I think that the cheapest X58 board - MSI X58 platinum will be fine, the reason why my sytem gets unstable between 1700 and 1720 Mhz ram is likely because of the extra latency caused by it being a combo motherboard and having to use Ram selector cards. A native DDR3 motherboard from MSI should be fine. Gigabybe have been showing off their ultra durable III, and a 2 oz copper layer, which sounded very tempting, but, and I seriously cannot understand why, they have ditched using copper heatsinks and have made their X58's all Aluminium  . A step forward with the motherboard design, and a step backwards for air overclockers. I will likely just get the MSI X58 Platinum, I dont think anyone else will have an X58 at that price, and I only need 2 PCI-E slots, not 3 or 4.Quote:
I then got 4x1 Gb of G.Skill HK, rated for 4-4-3-5 @ 800 Mhz along with an MSI P35 Neo 2 and my E8400 in february, not realising that 4 sticks wouldnt overclock as well as two. Each pair tested individually did 1000 Mhz @ 4-4-4-5 timings (Best thing possible for 1000 Mhz), but when 4 skicks were used together, they only reached 900 Mhz They ended up selling out fast, and when they were out of stock, I managed to sell them for £40 per pair (Only paid £45 per pair when I bought them), and got some OCZ 2x2 Gb 800 Mhz for £70 which hit 1110 Mhz fully stable (great for the money). I then spotted some OCZ Flex II's for £99, and bought them along with the X48c and 2x overclocked ATI 3850's which I found for just £72 each. The OCZ 800 Mhz ram sold for about £50 (£20 loss), but I sold my P35 Neo 2 for £65, bought for £55 so made some profit on that board =D. The only thing I actually wish is that I had waited for a P45 Neo 2 - FR instead of the X48 because I just wanted better crossfire performance, and this was the true budget successor to the P35-Neo 2. But having bought an X48c Platinum, that gives me more money towards my next upgrade when I choose to sell it, hoping of course that I can minimise any loss by making an appealing advert and relying on my good feedback. Also, compared to my Athlon 4400+ - Bought for £320, sold several years later for £80, I should make a decent amout back for my E8400 without losing as much as what I paid for it. I am also an MSI fan now because of how well they deliver for a lower price then Asus / Gigabyte. I havnt used EVGA yet because they only make Nvidia boards, and I havnt had any Nvidia cards since my SLI 6800's on an Asus A8N-SLI (That was my first build from my student loan lol) I just upraded my ram because I found those Crucial sticks - a pair for £96 from crucial, but they were out of stock and I paid £110 for a pair from the next cheapest place I could find. I did this because my OCZ Flex-II is not going to be worth £99 for much longer, and I could sell and upgrade the ram again without losing much money. I will start off trying to sell my Flex II for £97.50 as fortune has struck me and OCUK are out of stock with their £99 price and the next cheapest is £117 (originally I was going to try sell them for £90). If they sell for tat much then whoopie =D. Oh, my 3850's - I bought for £72 each when they were actually retailing for £120 (this is the only reason I bought two) but only managed to sell them for £50 because of how mush they have now depreciated. I splashed out like crazy on my 4850's and Monitor though, but I like them and I dont think I will need to upgrade my graphics again for at least another 2 years. I think I will stick to the MSI X58 Platinum for my next motherboard, because it has exactly what I want and I dont end up paying extra for more PCI-E lanes (These make higher end motherboards unneccessarilly more expensive). I also need a layout which allows me to use a PCI-E slot for my X-Fi Elite Pro along with dual graphics cards - I'm not too keen on ditching a £250 sound card, especially when I want to try and attempt composing again soon. I got it purely for my minor in music, and then completely stopped playing and writing after graduating last April - not a good thing to do. I'm one of those people that are too lazy for the brain they have inside them, all I ever cared about was passing and nothing more then spending minimal effort on all my work at the last minute, but still passing with decent grades somehow. Having to learn to use Cubase will be tricky since I used Pro Tools on my course and was surrounded everyday by Mac lovers (I had so many epic Mac vs PC debates while there among other things, damn that was the best time ever being sat in a music lecture surrounded by other geeks =D). I wish I could go back to Uni now, there arent any more geeks in real life (I actually found two people that played PNP D+D, and I was shocked at being out geeked). Everyone always used to tell me I was on the wrong course and I should have done something computer based instead, and I did agree, but I failed at maths and cant do programming to save my life, so stuck to sitting in front of Pro Tools and clicking random buttons.Dammit, I just entered my Nostalgia mode for university again
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Oct 28, 2008, 07:46 PM // 19:46
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Oct 28, 2008, 09:29 PM // 21:29
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: http://www.blowupdoll.co.za/
Guild: Band of Buds [BUD] (Officer)
Profession: N/
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 I really didn't know that lol. Thought it was only one year... But thanks for all the info sofar man \m/(>_<)\m/
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Oct 28, 2008, 10:18 PM // 22:18
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Just about everything these days in computers has at least a two year warranty - My monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound card (expired), and phone (1 year left) are all two years.
My motherboard, CPU, and hard drives are all 3 years, the only thing I have with a lousy 1 year warranty are my Powercolor graphics cards, but they cost around £10-20 less then other brands as a result so are still worth buying for the lower price. My ram, like most brands was lifetime, but I went and voided that .
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Nov 04, 2008, 10:44 PM // 22:44
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Minnesota
Guild: Black Widows of Death
Profession: W/Mo
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 Or Ran across this one "Not my build" but worth a look. My only question is dosen't the MB need to be grounded? 
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Nov 04, 2008, 11:46 PM // 23:46
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Site Contributor
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Usa
Guild: TKC
Profession: N/
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you can literally build a case out of anything but those will be bad for air flow unless they use a few box fans ...... |
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Nov 05, 2008, 12:47 AM // 00:47
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über těk-nĭsh'ən
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Canada
Profession: R/
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for my next build (whenever that will be), i will build it out of my backpack. who needs laptops
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Nov 05, 2008, 08:30 AM // 08:30
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: California
Guild: Xen of Heroes
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I once thought like that, not needing a case to save room. Then, the great coffee incident of 2007. NOTHING gets out a Starbucks coffee stain.
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Nov 05, 2008, 07:06 PM // 19:06
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rattus rattus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK GMT±0 ±1hr DST
Guild: [GURU]GW [wiki]GW2
Profession: R/
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That's a bit like a home-made Skeleton, Painbringer.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CA-106-AN Like the Buttercup keychain on the green rig - wonder if there's a Bubbles on the yellow? /childhoodregression
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