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Post by blue on Jan 12, 2007 15:03:12 GMT
Let others know what your system looks like, to get ideas on what to get yourself, and whats cool, even maybe post a picture of your system in here.
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Post by blue on Jan 12, 2007 15:16:37 GMT
Posted by: 2ndBadKarma
For QuakeWars PC. Something like this:
Intel Core2Duo e6400 2,13ghz (easilly overclocked to 3,0ghz. then its even faster than e6700 at stock speed)
Scythe Infinity prosessor cooler (passive cooler, comes with optional 12cm fan, weights almost 1Kg! )
Asus P5B deluxe wifi (easy overclocking, wifi)
2GB DDR2 mem
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS with 640MB mem (best performace for/euro, quiet)
Samsung t166 harddrive 320GB (quiet)
Antec P150 Case with PS NeoHE 430W (quiet) (change the antec crap 12cm fan with quiet Noctua NF-S12-1200 12cm fan)
All about 1400e. and u won't be able to hear it running...
« Last Edit: 24 Dec, 2006, 6:40am by 2ndBadKarma »
(moved by moderator. I think this is what Karma wants on a future PC.)
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Post by blue on Jan 12, 2007 15:22:25 GMT
Posted by: McNiteAnd that s not breaking the board?  (moved by moderator) |
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Post by McNite on Jan 12, 2007 16:33:37 GMT
Athlon XP 3.0GHz 64bit w/ silent Thermaltake cooler ABIT Motherboard (dont ask for details lol) 80Gb Seagate SATA Harddisk (the silent one) 2x256 MB RAM 400MHz HIS IceQ Radeon x800Pro with 256 MB DDR AGP gfx-card Soundblaster 5.1 soundcard in a noname MIDI-Tower with TAGAN unit for the electricity (500W) 2 additional 120mm fans (one sucking air in at front, one blowing out at back) all this will be 3 years old in May  19" iiyama screen (>5years old by now, still cool) 5.1 surround sound headset |
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Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 21, 2007 19:57:58 GMT
Two Rigs to post here Home computerIntel Core 2 Duo E6600 running at 3.6ghz on water2 gigs Crucial DDR2 PC2 6400 with D9 chips for overclocking 2 XFX 8800GTX's running SLI Motherboard EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i 2 Raptor 74 gig 10,000 rpm hard drives Raid 0 Custom Water cooling setup with 2 120mm fan radiator 1000 watt PC power and cooling power supply Soundblaster X-FI Elite 7.1 surround sound card Dell 30 inch LCD monitor Dual layer DVD burner and reader Work gaming computerAMD 4800+ dual core processor running at 2.6ghz 2 gigs DDR corsair ram ATI x1900xt video card Soundblaster X-fi fatal1ty sound card with x ram 22 inch Samsung wide screen monitor Antec true power 2 550 watt power supply Dual layer DVD burner and reader Here are some pics of the home computer     Here is a pic of the case with the old hardware in it  |
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Post by ChinaGirl on Jan 22, 2007 5:34:46 GMT
Hey Neo
Do you notice any difference in performance....sound quality, etc between the SB x-fi Fatality vs Elite?
I'm think of one of the x-fi line to replace my on-board sound chip. I can go cheap, the x-fi extreme music, better-platinum, or best- fatality.
Just not sure the expensive on is worth the price .
Advice plz,.
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Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 22, 2007 8:55:07 GMT
Hey Neo Do you notice any difference in performance....sound quality, etc between the SB x-fi Fatality vs Elite? I'm think of one of the x-fi line to replace my on-board sound chip. I can go cheap, the x-fi extreme music, better-platinum, or best- fatality. Just not sure the expensive on is worth the price . Advice plz,. Identical cards but the fatality doesn't have the break out box. both have the x ram on them. The pro fatality has the internal break out box which I didn't buy. Don't buy the xtreme gamer card since it's a rebadged audigy card. The fatality and elite are the only top ones. |
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Post by blue on Jan 22, 2007 14:09:14 GMT
China
You can even get/buy other Sound Cards today, with the x-fi Chip, sorry but I can't remember which, but that shouldent be to hard to find out of.
Just found this little thing you should be aware of:
"Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio are not based on any kind of X-Fi chip. These cards are in fact based on Audigy LS (low budget version of old and outdated Audigy "1" ). Check the markings on chips - CA0106 means it's old Audigy LS."
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Post by McNite on Jan 22, 2007 17:03:40 GMT
And I thought only CCC is crazy with the tuning...  |
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Post by blue on Jan 22, 2007 19:35:29 GMT
Thats almost standart today McNite   |
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Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 23, 2007 5:38:47 GMT
It's funny you say that since CCC has the exact same computer setup as me except my monitor is bigger. The 6600 runs nicely at 3.6 with the new 680i setups. Lots of clockers are doing this setup.
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Post by 2ndBadKarma on Jan 27, 2007 13:02:14 GMT
I now have the pc with the specs I posted earlier. ;D Gotta say its fast! Heres some pics. Btw neo seems that you have nolife! ;D 2x8800gtx Even this 8800gts is insanely fast. Im ready for the QW!.. Neo you play FEAR? Some pics:   And heres some pics from the nvidia demo for G80 series. ;D    |
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Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 27, 2007 14:17:45 GMT
I now have the pc with the specs I posted earlier. ;D Gotta say its fast! Heres some pics. Btw neo seems that you have nolife! ;D 2x8800gtx Even this 8800gts is insanely fast. Im ready for the QW!.. Neo you play FEAR? congrats man system looks great. Gotta love playing with a freshly built pc huh? You are definately ready for QW now if ID would get off their as and finish it I need to run the G80 demos I forgot all about em  I love Fear. I was a little dissapointed with how short extraction point was thou. But I am impatiently waiting for the next installment. Oh and the game looks great on my 30 inch at 2560 by 1600 with 4x AA Its amazing how fast these new cards are. The fear benchmark for my setup is below. Only thing different is my processor is running at 3.6ghz the one in the test is at 2.93ghz.  |
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Post by 2ndBadKarma on Jan 29, 2007 8:20:32 GMT
1000 watt PC power and cooling power supply Whats the point in having 1000w PS?  It just wastes electricity for nothing because you could run that system with proper 500w PS like Seasonic S12-500. Most PS's have about 80% efficiency rate so 1000w PS just wastes electricity. Does the all neighbourhood lights blink when u turn your pc on? ;D The reason why I bought the Antec P150 case is because it has the best PS and case combination today. The PS is made by Seasonic so its the best, the case isnt the best (bit small) but it was cheap and its ok made. In the old pc i had Antec case also but its PS was made by Channel Well Tech  it gave the "smoke effect" after some time. It didnt broke anything though.. www.behardware.com/news/8550/power-supply-failure-rate.htmlAs it says "and the best one is the Neo HE 430 watts at 2.6%" as a PS failure rate. |
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Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 29, 2007 8:53:38 GMT
1000 watt PC power and cooling power supply Whats the point in having 1000w PS? It just wastes electricity for nothing because you could run that system with proper 500w PS like Seasonic S12-500. Most PS's have about 80% efficiency rate so 1000w PS just wastes electricity. Does the all neighbourhood lights blink when u turn your pc on? ;D The reason why I bought the Antec P150 case is because it has the best PS and case combination today. The PS is made by Seasonic so its the best, the case isnt the best (bit small) but it was cheap and its ok made. In the old pc i had Antec case also but its PS was made by Channel Well Tech it gave the "smoke effect" after some time. It didnt broke anything though.. www.behardware.com/news/8550/power-supply-failure-rate.htmlAs it says "and the best one is the Neo HE 430 watts at 2.6%" as a PS failure rate. 500 watts on my PC LOL I doubt it would even turn on seriously. The reason i am running a large PS is due to the items I am running. The two 8800 gtx's need serious power when running full load. According to Anandtech each video card uses around 300 watts under full load. They use 2: 12 volt 6 pin connectors each or 8: 4 pin molex connectors. 500 watts is needed in an SLI setup and that's just for the video cards. I also have 12 fans in my case, a water pump, 3 hard drives, an over clocked e6600 CPU, 2 DVD rom drives, and 2 cold cathode lights. Using this calculator I came up with around 900 watts of power needed. Here is the calculator extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jspI also did try to run my rig with my 600 watt High end OCZ power supply which is SLI ready and there were lots of artifacts in my games. Scary since I could have damaged something. Trust me these 8800gtx's are power hungry. Anything less than an 850 watt PSU and your asking for trouble. You can read the review of the 8800's here where they go over the PSU requirements. anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2870&p=18 |
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Post by 2ndBadKarma on Jan 29, 2007 10:25:57 GMT
12 fans?! ;D You ARE crazy! isnt the point having water coolin because its quiet? Why on earth you have 12 fans? ???The racket must the earthquake standard. You spend so much money on that system why dont you get zalman reserator or something.
And im sure you could get that setup run on 500-600w PS. Hell even the 430w PS can run e6400@3,2ghz and one 8800gtx easilly.
And your problems with OCZ is because those are made by toppower corp and they arent really that good..
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Post by neoclasiccl on Jan 30, 2007 1:03:32 GMT
12 fans?! ;D You ARE crazy! isnt the point having water coolin because its quiet? Why on earth you have 12 fans? ???The racket must the earthquake standard. You spend so much money on that system why dont you get zalman reserator or something. And im sure you could get that setup run on 500-600w PS. Hell even the 430w PS can run e6400@3,2ghz and one 8800gtx easilly. And your problems with OCZ is because those are made by toppower corp and they arent really that good.. I run the fans at very low speed so they are silent. Trust me you need a high end high wattage power supply. Just ask the guys over at xtremesystems.org 850 is the minimum. |
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Post by McNite on Feb 17, 2007 0:22:45 GMT
Looking at my fav comp store site right now... and they still offer my Athlon 64bit 3000+ CPU i bought 3 years ago, I guess my system isn't that old then ;D
Hm what kind of CPU is recommendable nowadays? AMD 939 socket or AMD AM2 socket?
And if I read your diagram right, the Radeon x1950 is the thing to go for today? After i got my x800Pro I swore I d go back to nvidia after it I think...
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Post by neoclasiccl on Feb 17, 2007 8:04:22 GMT
Looking at my fav comp store site right now... and they still offer my Athlon 64bit 3000+ CPU i bought 3 years ago, I guess my system isn't that old then ;D Hm what kind of CPU is recommendable nowadays? AMD 939 socket or AMD AM2 socket? And if I read your diagram right, the Radeon x1950 is the thing to go for today? After i got my x800Pro I swore I d go back to nvidia after it I think... The top dogs are the Intel Core 2 duos which are pretty cheap. And for video cards get one of the 8 series geforce cards. |
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Post by blue on Feb 17, 2007 10:30:46 GMT
Yes, buy one from the Nvidia 8 serie like Neo says, or wait for the R600 from AMD/ATI.
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Post by McNite on Feb 19, 2007 19:06:55 GMT
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Post by 2ndBadKarma on Feb 20, 2007 20:18:50 GMT
nite geizhals.at/eu/a225880.htmland crossfire means there is 2 of those ati x1950 cards and x1950 dosn't support dx10 and shader model 4.0. and thats only 1 game test and one 8800gts is more faster than one x1950. and will be is much much faster when drivers improve. |
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Post by 2ndBadKarma on Feb 21, 2007 23:18:29 GMT
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Post by mechwolf on Mar 20, 2008 20:38:58 GMT
2x XFX 8800GTX, WHAT THE HELL Too much time and too much money you My setup: Intel E6750 Dual Core 2GB Corsair TwinX 800MHz 2 x 250GB WD HD EVGA 8800GTS-640MB 20" widescreen Samsung 206BW (S-series) Dual layer DVD burner DVD reader |
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Post by ser on Mar 24, 2008 19:07:43 GMT
i got a logitech mouse. very fast.
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It just wastes electricity for nothing because you could run that system with proper 500w PS like Seasonic S12-500. Most PS's have about 80% efficiency rate so 1000w PS just wastes electricity. Does the all neighbourhood lights blink when u turn your pc on? ;D
it gave the "smoke effect" after some time. It didnt broke anything though.. 
