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Tara Read
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#1 - 2012-08-06 23:59:14 UTC
Alright! All you Carebears, degenerates, and typical lonely space virgins post em up! Lets see what's under the hood of that computer of yours. Bonus points if it has stickers or LED's to make it go faster! Roll

I'll start with mine.

Case: Corsair 600T limited edition white case.

PSU: Enermax 1000W.

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster N520

Ram: 16GB Patriot DDR3 (with heat shields) at 1333 mhz (planning on upgrading to 1600 eventually or 2100)

CPU: Intel i5 3770k (Ivy Bridge) Overlcocked to 4.2 Ghz (stable)

Motherboard: Asus 77Z Pro with PCIE 3.0 and built in wifi with fan and cpu utilities.

HD: x1 Corsair 120gb SSD. x1 Hitachi 2 TB SATA.

GPU: x2 Diamond Radeon HD 7970 3 GB GDDR5 cards in Crossfire.

Display: Vizio 55 inch Razor LED with internet apps.

Audio: 600W RCA 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround. 300W LG Soundbar.



Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#2 - 2012-08-07 00:01:37 UTC
you voided your warrant and overclocked your ivy bridge.. but you didn't bother to by 2100 XMP profiled ram?

dude... de-overclock your damn CPU, it isn't worth the shortened lifespan.. it isn't performance that will make one bit of difference to your gaming.

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Cadfael Maelgwyn
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-08-07 00:02:45 UTC
I have a crappy laptop.

I clearly win this contest.
Tara Read
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2012-08-07 00:05:03 UTC
Denidil wrote:
you voided your warrant and overclocked your ivy bridge.. but you didn't bother to by 2100 XMP profiled ram?

dude... de-overclock your damn CPU, it isn't worth the shortened lifespan.. it isn't performance that will make one bit of difference to your gaming.


In case you didn't realize Ivy bridge OC's itself from 3.1 to 3.7 GHZ upon first usage (aka turbo boost). I normally just OC it for benchmark purposes so RELAX Cool
Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-08-07 00:07:51 UTC
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#6 - 2012-08-07 00:13:06 UTC
Tara Read wrote:
Denidil wrote:
you voided your warrant and overclocked your ivy bridge.. but you didn't bother to by 2100 XMP profiled ram?

dude... de-overclock your damn CPU, it isn't worth the shortened lifespan.. it isn't performance that will make one bit of difference to your gaming.


In case you didn't realize Ivy bridge OC's itself from 3.1 to 3.7 GHZ upon first usage (aka turbo boost). I normally just OC it for benchmark purposes so RELAX Cool


turbo boost doesn't void your warrant, nor does it shorten the lifespan of the chip because it is operating within design parameters.

if you're going to OC for benchmark E'peening go big or go home. with the ****** thermal paste instead of fluxless solder under the heat spreader in the ivy bridges you can't even go big. so why bother?

here is a rough design of the machine i'll be building soon (replaced my laptop first since the storage controller on my existing laptop is dying)

"Bang for your Buck" is what i call the setup
Monitors: 3x 1920x1080 Asus 24" monitors
Chasis: Cooler Master HAF 932
Power: Antec High Current Gamer 900W
Mobo: Asus Sabertooth Z77
CPU: i5-3570 3.4ghz (3.8 turbo) [$100 less than the 3770 and same stats when it comes to gaming]
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1866
Video: Dual nVidia GTX 670s (20% cheaper each than GTX 680s for only a 5% average reduction in performance)
Sound: SB X-Fi Titanium
System/game Drive: OCZ Agility-3 240GB

now if i wanted to "Go Big Or Go Home" i would use Sandy Bridge-E, dual GTX 680s and 2133 XMP profile ram

my new laptop is iBuyPower Valkyrie CZ-17 (i7-3720QM, 16GB DDR3 1333, Geforce GTX 675M, 120GB SSD)

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Nyreanya
Serenity Labs
#7 - 2012-08-07 00:13:35 UTC
Your monocle plus this thread makes me think you have major self-esteem issues.

[/sarcasm]
Cadfael Maelgwyn
Doomheim
#8 - 2012-08-07 00:13:39 UTC
Sentamon wrote:
http://www.wayodd.com/funny-pictures2/funny-pictures-computer-bum-ZXK.jpg

don't hate

Maybe he was starting an at-home business?
Tara Read
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#9 - 2012-08-07 00:15:25 UTC
Nyreanya wrote:
Your monocle plus this thread makes me think you have major self-esteem issues.


I have very tiny male anatomy thus I must overcompensate. Did you see my rock collection by chance?
Tara Read
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#10 - 2012-08-07 00:19:25 UTC
Denidil wrote:
Tara Read wrote:
Denidil wrote:
you voided your warrant and overclocked your ivy bridge.. but you didn't bother to by 2100 XMP profiled ram?

dude... de-overclock your damn CPU, it isn't worth the shortened lifespan.. it isn't performance that will make one bit of difference to your gaming.


In case you didn't realize Ivy bridge OC's itself from 3.1 to 3.7 GHZ upon first usage (aka turbo boost). I normally just OC it for benchmark purposes so RELAX Cool


turbo boost doesn't void your warrant, nor does it shorten the lifespan of the chip because it is operating within design parameters.

if you're going to OC for benchmark E'peening go big or go home. with the ****** thermal paste instead of fluxless solder under the heat spreader in the ivy bridges you can't even go big. so why bother?

here is a rough design of the machine i'll be building soon (replaced my laptop first since the storage controller on my existing laptop is dying)

"Bang for your Buck" is what i call the setup
Monitors: 3x 1920x1080 Asus 24" monitors
Chasis: Cooler Master HAF 932
Power: Antec High Current Gamer 900W
Mobo: Asus Sabertooth Z77
CPU: i5-3570 3.4ghz (3.8 turbo) [$100 less than the 3770 and same stats when it comes to gaming]
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1866
Video: Dual nVidia GTX 670s (20% cheaper each than GTX 680s for only a 5% average reduction in performance)
Sound: SB X-Fi Titanium
System/game Drive: OCZ Agility-3 240GB

now if i wanted to "Go Big Or Go Home" i would use Sandy Bridge-E, dual GTX 680s and 2133 XMP profile ram

my new laptop is iBuyPower Valkyrie CZ-17 (i7-3720QM, 16GB DDR3 1333, Geforce GTX 675M, 120GB SSD)


Oh gee thanks for the excellent advise on my warranty. I'll make sure to keep that in mind. Look I just OC'd it to find a stable setting if I decided to do it in the future. It stays very cool and is quite nice!

How odd that you would put the same cpu in your rig yet criticize what I do in mine.... chill out Roll
ISD TYPE40
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-08-07 00:27:03 UTC
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Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#12 - 2012-08-07 02:24:39 UTC
Tara Read wrote:
Denidil wrote:
Tara Read wrote:
Denidil wrote:
you voided your warrant and overclocked your ivy bridge.. but you didn't bother to by 2100 XMP profiled ram?

dude... de-overclock your damn CPU, it isn't worth the shortened lifespan.. it isn't performance that will make one bit of difference to your gaming.


In case you didn't realize Ivy bridge OC's itself from 3.1 to 3.7 GHZ upon first usage (aka turbo boost). I normally just OC it for benchmark purposes so RELAX Cool


turbo boost doesn't void your warrant, nor does it shorten the lifespan of the chip because it is operating within design parameters.

if you're going to OC for benchmark E'peening go big or go home. with the ****** thermal paste instead of fluxless solder under the heat spreader in the ivy bridges you can't even go big. so why bother?

here is a rough design of the machine i'll be building soon (replaced my laptop first since the storage controller on my existing laptop is dying)

"Bang for your Buck" is what i call the setup
Monitors: 3x 1920x1080 Asus 24" monitors
Chasis: Cooler Master HAF 932
Power: Antec High Current Gamer 900W
Mobo: Asus Sabertooth Z77
CPU: i5-3570 3.4ghz (3.8 turbo) [$100 less than the 3770 and same stats when it comes to gaming]
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1866
Video: Dual nVidia GTX 670s (20% cheaper each than GTX 680s for only a 5% average reduction in performance)
Sound: SB X-Fi Titanium
System/game Drive: OCZ Agility-3 240GB

now if i wanted to "Go Big Or Go Home" i would use Sandy Bridge-E, dual GTX 680s and 2133 XMP profile ram

my new laptop is iBuyPower Valkyrie CZ-17 (i7-3720QM, 16GB DDR3 1333, Geforce GTX 675M, 120GB SSD)


Oh gee thanks for the excellent advise on my warranty. I'll make sure to keep that in mind. Look I just OC'd it to find a stable setting if I decided to do it in the future. It stays very cool and is quite nice!

How odd that you would put the same cpu in your rig yet criticize what I do in mine.... chill out Roll


actually if you notice i put the i5-3570k in it, not the i7-3770k .. no effective difference when it comes to gaming other than 100mhz. the 3770k has hyperthread, the 3570 does not. games don't like hyperthreading [but the windows scheduler knows this and deals with it].

as for the warranty.. i was congratulating you on voiding your warranty for pointless e-peening. what makes your pointless e-peening worse is you didn't even do it right

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#13 - 2012-08-07 02:50:40 UTC
I'm running a 1.6 Ghsomething single core Intel Celeron with 1 gigabyte of ram. The guy at the shop said these were the best on the market these days. He installed this huge 500 megabyte harddrive that holds a ton of things and put in a 8x speed cd-rom that can write on a cd and then write on it again.

It's got a Radeon 8500LE video card with 64 megabytes of ram and a 400 watt power box. He even threw in one of those big power cords that provides more power to the computer that has the flames painted on it. And I'm running windows xp #1 on a 15" vga monitor. He said that windows xp comes in three stages and #1 is the best of the three so I opted for that for $50 more. Altogether the whole package cost me $2250 and I'm really impressed with it.

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#14 - 2012-08-07 04:50:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
Nearly 2 years old machine (23+ months), still works just fine
W7Ult64 install just after purchase (assembled it from parts myself), no reinstall since, all patches in

* i5-760, quad core no HT @2.8, at stock speed, turboboost MANUALLY DISABLED, don't need overclocking
* 2x2=4 GB DDR3@1333, might add extra 2x2 later, have the needed empty slots
* factory 5% overclocked old-style 460 GTX with 1 GB RAM, more than enough for everything I used so far too
* 2TB WD Green lazy drive + 2TB WD slow external USB drive, might add an internal 120/180GB SSD as OS drive later
* 550W PSU with all the imaginable protection features
* generic DVD writer that almost never gets used lately
* onboard sound only because WHO CARES, have decentish speakers from previous machine but only been using headphones most of the time lately
* single 21" 1600x1200@85Hz CRT, purchased second-hand almost 11 years ago (so it's probably around 14 years old now), used a secondary TN panel LCD occasionally but it made me puke when I looked at its image quality in direct comparison with the old monster, planning on getting 2x23" IPS screens soon, eyed a few with decent price/quality factor

BOW DOWN BEFORE MY AWESOME RELICS !!!

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-08-07 05:21:12 UTC
Let's see... I have a case with a light on the front, a monitor, a keyboard and mouse, and speakers! Big smile

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Tara Read
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#16 - 2012-08-07 05:31:07 UTC
Denidil wrote:
Tara Read wrote:
Denidil wrote:
Tara Read wrote:
Denidil wrote:
you voided your warrant and overclocked your ivy bridge.. but you didn't bother to by 2100 XMP profiled ram?

dude... de-overclock your damn CPU, it isn't worth the shortened lifespan.. it isn't performance that will make one bit of difference to your gaming.


In case you didn't realize Ivy bridge OC's itself from 3.1 to 3.7 GHZ upon first usage (aka turbo boost). I normally just OC it for benchmark purposes so RELAX Cool


turbo boost doesn't void your warrant, nor does it shorten the lifespan of the chip because it is operating within design parameters.

if you're going to OC for benchmark E'peening go big or go home. with the ****** thermal paste instead of fluxless solder under the heat spreader in the ivy bridges you can't even go big. so why bother?

here is a rough design of the machine i'll be building soon (replaced my laptop first since the storage controller on my existing laptop is dying)

"Bang for your Buck" is what i call the setup
Monitors: 3x 1920x1080 Asus 24" monitors
Chasis: Cooler Master HAF 932
Power: Antec High Current Gamer 900W
Mobo: Asus Sabertooth Z77
CPU: i5-3570 3.4ghz (3.8 turbo) [$100 less than the 3770 and same stats when it comes to gaming]
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1866
Video: Dual nVidia GTX 670s (20% cheaper each than GTX 680s for only a 5% average reduction in performance)
Sound: SB X-Fi Titanium
System/game Drive: OCZ Agility-3 240GB

now if i wanted to "Go Big Or Go Home" i would use Sandy Bridge-E, dual GTX 680s and 2133 XMP profile ram

my new laptop is iBuyPower Valkyrie CZ-17 (i7-3720QM, 16GB DDR3 1333, Geforce GTX 675M, 120GB SSD)


Oh gee thanks for the excellent advise on my warranty. I'll make sure to keep that in mind. Look I just OC'd it to find a stable setting if I decided to do it in the future. It stays very cool and is quite nice!

How odd that you would put the same cpu in your rig yet criticize what I do in mine.... chill out Roll


actually if you notice i put the i5-3570k in it, not the i7-3770k .. no effective difference when it comes to gaming other than 100mhz. the 3770k has hyperthread, the 3570 does not. games don't like hyperthreading [but the windows scheduler knows this and deals with it].

as for the warranty.. i was congratulating you on voiding your warranty for pointless e-peening. what makes your pointless e-peening worse is you didn't even do it right


I gotta ask do you type just to hear yourself? This was already known to me which is why I didn't get an i7. BTW I wasn't e peening yet clearly it seems you are rather jealous from your aggressive tone...
Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#17 - 2012-08-07 08:51:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Nirnias Stirrum
Case: Xclio A380

PSU: AKASA 1000W

CPU Cooler: V8 Cooling Tower Block

Ram: 16GB DDR3 Corsair 1600MHZ

CPU: AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX

HD: Samsung Spinpoint 1TB x 2

GPU: Geforce ENGTX 560 (x2)

Display: 1 x 22inch monitor, 1 x 19inch monitor

Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound Logitech

Wanting to put in an SSD but really not in the mood to reformat my OS and reinstall. Will do it in a few months.
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#18 - 2012-08-07 10:26:58 UTC
Pics?

This space for rent.
Jim Era
#19 - 2012-08-07 14:57:59 UTC
I got a lenovo laptop and a girlfriend.

Wat™
Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#20 - 2012-08-07 15:56:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Nirnias Stirrum
Jim Era wrote:
I got a lenovo laptop and a girlfriend.


PC is cheaper. Ill trade you my girlfriend for your laptop though!
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