Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

http://blog.phpwnage.com/~klange/pic...h_IMG_4814.JPG
One last shot of my new desktop before I leave for Illinois.

Old pics but p much same setup.

this thread needs to be stickyd again

Two devices to control space and time:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5272/3dmouse.jpg

It's abit of a mess but

Okay, i usually don't complain about shot tags, but THOSE NEED THEM

Jesus! I set my browser to 50% zoom and it's still not enough for those pics.

Lifesized pics ftw?

sorry I used the full 10.1 MP I'll add the shot tags

ehh haven't been in here in awhile don't know how to use shot..

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I'm not sure why there isn't a simple button for this. Really needs one, it would come in handy.

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sorry I used the full 10.1 MP I'll add the shot tags

ehh haven't been in here in awhile don't know how to use shot..

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I'm not sure why there isn't a simple button for this. Really needs one, it would come in handy.

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This, cause it was moved to the last page.

is that how its suppose to turn out though?

Edit fixed it.

Scary mother fucker <3.

:o

So jealous :C

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Scary mother fucker <3.

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go install windows 7

Lmao that thing is enormous

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12lbs = :gonk:

Battery life is suprisingly long when its running off of just the 9400M though - 3 1/2 hours, which isn't great but isn't bad. If I can afford it/Alienware offers it, I'm going to see if they sell additional batteries for it.

Also, finding a bag that fit this thing was a bitch.

Sounds like just the sort of machine to bring to a certain Modacon next year for the LAN party...

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12lbs = :gonk:
Also, finding a bag that fit this thing was a bitch.

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I'm in the same position with my HP HDX - 18.4" and 11.5 pounds.
I can't find a case for it anywhere. :ugh:

This is the only pic of my laptop I can find.

an Asus g50 vt x1

specs?:

fairly decent

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I'm in the same position with my HP HDX - 18.4" and 11.5 pounds.
I can't find a case for it anywhere. :ugh:

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I went with this case and it manages to fit my M17X with a tiny bit of breathing room - the max dimensions for the laptop compartment of the bag are 16.5" x 12.6" x 2.17". My lappy is 15.98" x 12.65" x 2.11".

Lol, if you go with the SLI'd GTX 280s then that bumps the weight of the M17X up to 15.4lbs and gives it a sub-2 hour battery life. That is definitely an ouchy.

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lolwat.

That's pretty much my entire room except for the single size bed that still caught in the bottom left corner. Yes the furniture is old :smith:.

I spy fallout 3. :iamafag:

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Really, I only see "out 3"... :realsmug:

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You'll know soon enough. :-3

Is that an unsolved Rubik's Revenge cube I spy? :o
Probably my favorite cube thus far. But I'm too scared to try the Rubik's Professor cube, heh.

Yes that is a 5x5 rubix cube that I only solved one side for, not sure if it's the same as the professional ones you speak of. Also, yes that is fall out 3.

The 5x5 is the Rubik's Professor cube. (from the photo it looked like a 4x4 though, which is the revenge.)

http://zgaming.net/zgshack/images/mz...tyv7cd34il.jpg
http://zgaming.net/zgshack/images/ml...2myxshaynm.jpg
I'm not that big of a fan of the half life series :U

Very Neat and clean, I like it! +rep

Lian-li supremacy

My Laptop is so amazing when it overheats, i have to cool it down with this air hockey fan and stack a shit load of Manga/Books
to hold it up:

http://screenshots.rd.to/files/678ff...5wc8cfobxa.JPG
Larger: http://screenshots.rd.to/sn/678ff31e...5wc8cfobxa.JPG

Used E3pO's Uploader http://screenshots.rd.to/

Have you tried vacuuming the outlet roster of the cooling fans? If done decently it can significantly improve your overheating issues.

How would you go about doing that Lodex? Mine has the same overheating easily problem.

Well in the case of my laptop I just turn it off, turn it around, and literally vacuum the roster from which the cooling fans blow out of.

You'll have to err, "suck" real "hard", and it may take a little bit untill the dust starts "coming" loose, but eventually you'll see it appearing, and you can either suck it out of the roster of use your "fingers" and err, fiddle it out.

Of course you could also just unscrew the roster, but I'm too lazy to do that.

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yeah I opened up the bottom of the laptop to clean it up a bit.
Did nothing really.

See, its my laptop, it sucks rocks, it can't even play halo on max.

The factory installed water cooling in my laptop is so pro

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I know, mine is p cool to. I use urine as the coolant. :).

PS. check my gallery again.

How exactly do the Alienware back-lit keyboards work? I'm configuring one to buy soon (M15x 15", not a big fancy M17x 17") but there's two options I'm confused about... One is "AlienFX" which lets me choose a bunch of colors, the other is "AlienFX Illuminated Keyboard". I assume I need the "Illuminated Keyboard" option to get the back-lit keyboard, but what does the "AlienFX" by itself cover, the Alienware logo illumination?

How many color options can you switch through on the keyboard? I see you've shown blue and red, can you do more?

E: I saw a video on YouTube of a guys Alienware laptop doing a nice rainbow ambiance and I want it, can you do this?

I think that AlienFX only covers the pretty lighting on the Alienware logos, the Alienware text if it's there and the ring of light around the trackpad. Not sure though - M15x is a little bit older of a design and it might not have some of those features. I'm pretty sure that you'll want to go with the illuminated keyboard design since backlit keyboards are win :P.

Color options are in my attachment.

Regarding the fades and stuff, you can make it fade to different colors like that using the included software. The software gives you the option to watch some tutorials on how to set the lighting up when you first run it. The M17x in that vid looks like the older version, but the software itself is exactly the same and so are all of the zones that you can have light up. I haven't set up any fades or strobes or anything yet but when I get some more packing done I might play with it :P.

So when you choose a color on their website it's just the color it ships with? Then you can change it all yourself if you so desire?

Awesome.

Desktop upgrades can wait, this thing has pretty colors, need it now!

How does:

2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo (Are there OCing tools with these so I can OC to 2.5Ghz and save $100?)
4GB Memory
512MB 9800M GT
500GB HDD

Sound?

E: How is the support for drivers and software and such? I always format laptops and reinstall my own OS so I know it's clean, are the tools/drivers required for AlienFX and all the other peripherals (sound drivers, webcam, etc) downloadable so I can format to Windows 7 64-bit RTM?

EE: Am happy, looks like it works as you described on the m15x as well!

Alienware's driver download page is here - check under "mobile systems". Doesn't look like they have Win7 drivers for anything yet but they hopefully will around the time it hits retail. Mine also came with a resource DVD which probably has some driver/software stuff on it and a few other DVDs (windows disk I think, AlienRespawn, etc.).

I think that you can now in theory use Nvidia's standard driver for mobile chipsets, although I tried to install it and it bitched about not being able to install some of the things that I think are more chipset specific (hybrid SLI, etc.). Mine uses a 730i chipset and I haven't bothered with reinstalling any of the drivers or anything - I'll look that up in a bit I guess.

Oh, and yeah, at least on mine they give you access to the bios so you can do basic things like changing front-side bus or clock speed multiplier if you have an extreme edition CPU. I think you can change ram timings as well. Can't mess with anything voltage wise (probably for good reason :P).

The only thing I'd change on mine is that I'd get a bigger HDD - already running out of space on the 250GB that shipped with the lappy. I think when I actually have money/an on campus job I'll go ahead and throw two decent sized drives in - you can RAID 0 or 1 them up. Not sure if that applies to the M15x.

Fuck rent, job money goes to this now. As for drivers, I've had no problems using Windows Vista 64-Bit drivers on Windows 7 64-Bit if I can't find Windows 7 specific drivers, so that's no problem really!

I hate you Alienware, oh so much.

Speaking of job money, I need a job really bad now. Since there's oh... $5,000 of things I actually NEED qued up behind this now...

For a note, since my mobo and GFX card burned out on me, I've been serviving off a PNY Geforce FX 5500 PCI card (SLO-HO-HO-W) till I could replace my 4770 and I got a new mobo. See specs for more.

Lots of empty space. I guess its good for airflow, but I look at my case like a UV unwrap: pack it as much as possible.

Yeah, I like my stuff as clean and wireyless as possible, I feel bad that I couldn't get that with the fan control cables though. It'll be a lot more packed when I get that Coolmaster V8 in there, Lol.

Be a man and go with the V10! You need to work on your cable management for more than a few minutes though, it's not bad but it's not good either!

Cable management? Yeah, I definitely don't have much skill with that.


I bought a modular PSU, but the bloody cables on it are so stiff that I have trouble hiding them. Even with this horrific wiring job, though, the innards stay relatively cool.

Other reason why it's so jumbled is 'cause Acer built a really short case. The top of the PCI and PCIe slots stick out the back of the computer instead of being recessed, and the hard drives are mounted sideways compared to my M1201's case. I didn't realize the new PSU would be that much longer; there's barely enough room to spare for the wiring that runs the USB ports on top of the case and the SATA power for the optical drive.

Stock cpu fan :(

Maybe it's because it's three cores running at 2.2GHz (that's not exactly blistering), but even when bogging down in Crysis, the hottest of the cores runs up to 44 celsius. I'm not exactly unhappy with those numbers.

And also, when I bought my Athlon X2 5600 Brisbane (two cores at 2.9GHz each), I installed the AMD heatsink that came with the new processor, and it would only run 800RPM (the current AVC runs 1800). I had to re-do the thermal paste and reinstall the AVC 'cause with the AMD heatsink, the CPU was, at idle, running around 45 celsius. Reinstalled the AVC that came with that computer and it dropped to 30 celsius.

EDIT: By "the current AVC" I mean the AVC in my last computer, though this one runs about the same.

Heres my current setup, although its changing in a few weeks (moving out again)

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/774/setupm.png

heh, taken with mobile phone

I will post nude pics of my set up when I move into my dorm tomorrow.

Limited that is a big keyboard

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You're mistaken. The monitor is just small. :realsmug:

You need to play halo 3 in widescreen :saddowns:.

Bad pics are bad; anywaysc;
http://i28.tinypic.com/5cxd0g.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/27zdq36.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/dmzj9i.jpg

Also, sometimes:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2428w1g.jpg
Back (wireless speakers ftw):
http://i25.tinypic.com/2mgsc2v.jpg

I finally got around to mounting my fans.
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/perter/IMG_9547.jpg
http://timo.modacity.net/pix/perter/IMG_9545.jpg

Since I had to drill extra holes into the fans to allow me to mount them to the case, for a long time they were in the same place - one attached by 3M command strips, the other propped up by a box of jelly. Since the holes the in the case were too large for normal screws, I had to get some thumb screws. Cool solution I thought :3

Need to clean my case though :C Originally there was a plastic cover surrounding that metal mesh you can see on the left of the bottom pic, which caused a build up of crap over the years. I might put that mesh back on, but the holes are so damn small it looks like they'd reduce the airflow quite a bit.

I'd put them on until you can get some better ones anyway - don't want one of those wires hitting the fan D: .

Here kitty kitty kitty....

You should also reverse the orientation of those side fans, the top one is blowing in on your CPU fan and the bottom one is blowing out. You want that reversed so the top one is blowing out to assist your CPU fan, and the bottom one is bringing in cool air (hot air rises and all that).

Unless those are weird fans, usually the four supports to the middle section are placed on the direction the fan is blowing.

My CPU fan sucks air in, and blows air out the side. So there's a fan there to help blow air onto the fan, and another on the back of the case to blow air out. The bottom one is reversed because my video card's fan just spits out hot air everywhere (sucks in from the bottom of the case and spits it out the side), so that fan just pulls all the hot air out. If I reversed the fans they'd both be working against what's already happening inside the case :x

e: And they are retarded fans - SpeedFan and my BIOS report that they're spinning at around 150,000 RPM :neckbeard:. But they're quiet, and that's all I really care about. My CPU fan sounded like a vacuum cleaner was started up outside my door when I was in the middle of a game. It's still pretty noisy though - planning on getting a new heatsink soon.

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This is the same with me. Fuck stock HS/Fs.

Well, it doesn't really matter because my fans > ur fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



+18 TOBLERONE

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:iamafag: Ship that to me and I won't pay people to put signs on your lawn anymore.

Psh.

There's also Sushi in front of my keyboard and a half dissasembled Xbox 360 on the floor in front of my chair! :iamafag:

Enjoy?

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Psh.

There's also Sushi in front of my keyboard and a half dissasembled Xbox 360 on the floor in front of my chair! :iamafag:

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I wonder why your Xbox 360 is half disassembled!

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Uhhhh.

Would you buy it if I said I dropped a chunk of Toblerone in there and needed to get it out?

Hey guys.

Look.

















Apparently they now include the eVGA backplate for free, and they changed what the card physically looks like (grill is red instead of black, no GTX 285 sticker anymore) but don't ask me why...

Hoooooly Shit..

Wait a minute, you're running those cards at x16 SLI on PCI-E 1.0????

....Ouch. Still a nice setup.

The one with the sticker looks better.

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Hoooooly Shit..

Wait a minute, you're running those cards at x16 SLI on PCI-E 1.0????

....Ouch. Still a nice setup.

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Yes it's on PCI-E 1.0, since it's more than adequate to handle the amount of information flow. No need to upgrade to PCI-E 2.0 for (maybe) a 1-2 FPS increase. And yes they're both in x16 slots, what are you getting at? x16 is the fastest available anyways.

Also:


As opposed to the old:

I disagree. My brother is holding up a GTS 250 512mb on a PCI-E 1.0 and his performance is severely bottle-necked. Hardly able to run Crysis on High settings without stuttering between 15-30 fps

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I disagree. My brother is holding up a GTS 250 512mb on a PCI-E 1.0 and his performance is severely bottle-necked. Hardly able to run Crysis on High settings without stuttering between 15-30 fps

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You can disagree, but you're wrong. His bottleneck is coming from elsewhere because PCI-E 1.X vs PCI-E 2.0 isn't that huge of a jump, and the cards using said slots aren't even using that much bandwidth. I saw a great discussion/explanation on the fact on some website awhile ago when I checked this. I just played Crysis with about 40-45 FPS, I was getting 25-30 before.

Edit - Here you go, I found what I was looking for:

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Now - As far as "real" performance increase? That's going to be difficult to pinpoint. Why?? Because the existing standard isn't close to it's limits. If you'll allow me to make up some numbers: Think of it as doubling the speed limit on the highway from 70 to 140. If no cars exist which are powerful enough to go faster than 50 miles an hour, and there are enough lanes to fit the traffic, does it matter???? This is like the situation now. Even multiple devices aren't capable of running faster than current limitations. So increasing the capacity of the pipe isn't going to bring much 'real world' benefit. At least the way things stand at the moment.

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so than what else is his problem?... He's got good RAM, the same CPU I do and I'm not getting bottle-necked nearly as much as he is... Whatever, it'd be nice to get an answer, but I don't want to change the subject.

btw, very nice example, whoever made that up is very informative to some people's simplicity. Thank you. +rep

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You're welcome!

Edit - Here are some dark pics:

Interesting, we've got the same motherboard so now i know what the limits of my board would be like pretty much.

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Yup, I can get one more PCI card in there for whatever, but it's expansion slot on the back is used up by my cold cathode controller... You could also throw a better socket 775 processor into this board, obviously.

What's that? I'm using HIVShack for my image needs? Why yes I am!

The LCD TV is 22", 1080p, hooked up via VGA to my laptop. This will change to DVI->HDMI attached to my desktop as soon as I get a dual-link DVI splitter that works so I can move my other displays onto one output port.

Wow, HIVShack is loading SLOOOOOOOOOOW....

Also, I'm not expert on the matter, and it's probably not a huge deal but... Display on top of a microwave? That can't be great for the displays life expectancy...

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Wow, HIVShack is loading SLOOOOOOOOOOW....

Also, I'm not expert on the matter, and it's probably not a huge deal but... Display on top of a microwave? That can't be great for the displays life expectancy...

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I've said this on other forums: Federal law in the United States (and other nations) limits the maximum microwave leakage that a microwave oven can produce to 5mw over the entire course of its lifetime at a two inch distance from source, well below anything that would harm electronics.

Yeahhh it may be the Whiskey ((Don't drink and derive folks)) but I seriously think that statement is wrong.

You cannot have 5mw over the entire course of its lifetime... milliwatts is a *rate*... not a quantity. 1/1000th of a Joule per second. It makes no sense to be the output of an integral over its life...

Even still... each microwave's lifespan is different... so a cheap chinese brand that is leaky as hell but dies after a week of use would be acceptable? ... Yeah that doesn't make sense at all.

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You cannot have 5mw over the entire course of its lifetime... milliwatts is a *rate*... not a quantity. 1/1000th of a Joule per second. It makes no sense to be the output of an integral over its life...

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Maybe I worded that poorly... At no point during its lifetime may it exceed 5mw output. And most microwaves are a lot better than that. Also, the stand for the TV helps keep it far enough away that everything has dissipated.

Yeah that makes sense...

Triple boot, bitches. (Windows 7, Kubuntu 9, Snow Leopard)

... and your reason for that is?

I mean, good on you, but what was your reason to go through all that time?

I moved my entire setup to the basement, need to work on the cable management behind the desk A LOT but it looks great from the front end. This is in preperation for my triple monitor setup, the CD shelf thing on the left is not attached to the desk anymore so I'll remove it when my monitors get here.

@Phopo: I have uses for all three

@Freelancer: That desk looks awesome for triple monitors.

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I'll let you know whenever UPS gets off their collective asses and ships my monitors. "Billing Information Received" status for 3+ days doesn't help meh!!!!

Here's a couple more pictures of my setup, I cleaned up the cable management with some twist ties until I get some cable sleeving or something... Added box of Toblerones...





God damn UPS has had my monitors listed as "Billing Information Received" on their tracking program for EIGHT DAYS now... FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

I wanna be cool too:





Gotta love the vga plug for Xbox :D

Also, fuck cable management.

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Here's a couple more pictures of my setup, I cleaned up the cable management with some twist ties until I get some cable sleeving or something... Added box of Toblerones...

God damn UPS has had my monitors listed as "Billing Information Received" on their tracking program for EIGHT DAYS now... FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

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Couple notes about the Z-5500:
- Take those speaker covers off. They fuck up the output a considerable amount the way they're attached. Also, muffletastic materials.
- That poor subwoofer is in the back. :(

Will post pics of my college setup once I have a camera...

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Couple notes about the Z-5500:
- Take those speaker covers off. They fuck up the output a considerable amount the way they're attached. Also, muffletastic materials.
- That poor subwoofer is in the back. :(

Will post pics of my college setup once I have a camera...

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I experience no change of sound quality or volume (muffling) with/without the speaker covers, and bass is non-directional so having it behind the desk doesn't really matter.

Why do you care so much about cable management behind the desk, i just threw my shit back there

Oh. You're probably more responsible about the volume then. >.>

The bass is debatable, but at those volumes, yeah, it doesn't really matter.

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Why do you care so much about cable management behind the desk, i just threw my shit back there

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My desk is actually in the middle of the room, so the back of the desk is still viewable by anyone on the far couch or chairs.

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Oh. You're probably more responsible about the volume then. >.>

The bass is debatable, but at those volumes, yeah, it doesn't really matter.

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My volume is usually sitting around 3-4 full bars when gaming and casual usage, I'll sometimes put it up to 6 bars (about quarter volume). Whem I'm watching movies/TV shows it's usually at about half, I sometimes go to 3/4 for music, but never anything higher.

Heh, we both measure with the bars. Yeah, that's way more quiet compared to me. Sorry, mum and dad.

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Sorry, mum and dad.

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This is why I can't go louder... :saddowns:

same D:
I'd be having the whole house shake if it wasn't for them
grrrr

This is why I got studio headphones :realsmug: