My desk broke while moving stuff around, so this is my new setup:
Might move the laptops/projector and put my stereo there, dunno yet.
Oh and my other chair broke too :\
My desk broke while moving stuff around, so this is my new setup:
Might move the laptops/projector and put my stereo there, dunno yet.
Oh and my other chair broke too :\
I would put a piece of wood on the ground (like that one leaning against the wall) and put the chassis on top of that to make more room on your table. You might end up cleaning the dust filters more often than you like, but there's less noise travelling at ear level and it's less obtrusive.
Current set up;
2.6ghz AMD Phenom 9950
2Gb DDR2-800
Asrock N68C-S-UCC AM2+
XFX Radeon HD4850 1024gb
Habu mouse.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../IMAGE_052.jpg
Yeah, that's why I have that piece of wood lying against the wall (was a piece of my old desk), I just need to figure out how to fit it somewhere that doesn't look stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
I don't mind the noise though, except my fans get loud as shit while gaming lately.
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4830/caserear.jpg
Why yes, every second expansion slot IS a fan!
lol, the middle one a dedicated slot fan? or is it meant to be above/below the GPUs?
From top down it goes:
Audio card
GTX 285 1 Display Connections
GTX 285 1 Fan
9260-8i RAID Card
Expansion slot fan for RAID Card
GTX 285 2 Display Connections
GTX 285 2 Fan
Bought 2 new HDTV LED 32inch screens for my setup. Total cost? 1k (For the screens). :)
THEY ARE SO AWESOME.
What are they 30"
For that much I would of rather got some 2560x1600 30" monitors.
32. Sorry.
Are they 120hz?
How can you have gap in the center. I have to have one in center and one offset. that seem would kill me.
heh, ever miz up the remotes for those? And freelancer, he got both for $1000 CAD. A single 30" monitor is about that price.
Yes.
I have nothing to worry about when it comes to the gap. I bought this as I am now working as a modeler, so I need one screen for ref and the other for modeling. I have not done any gaming yet.
The remotes seem to use the same radio waves. This means when I press one, it does it on both. :D
Not if you buy used from Kijiji or something :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
I was gonna ask if you could program one to control both haha. That's awesome. One-click power on. Problem occurs when you want to do certain functions on one TV. You'll have to put something between the two TVs or use manual controls lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nero
Proof.
Never been able to get stable over 3.1 before so this is pretty cool.
Shit my cores get up to 70c and that's considered high for the old q6600.... get some water going because that chip has a bit of room left still :>
btw gj on fucking up mounting the heatsink :realsmug:
Me or Plague? My heatsinks are perfect D:Quote:
Originally Posted by InnerGoat
Your load temps vary quite a bit for each die, that's all
There has always been a pretty big temp difference for each die, even when I had my stock cooler.
Just proves again that overclocking is shit :P
I am running a Phenom at lower frequency, higher voltage and I am getting better results and much lower temperatures with just air cooling :S
I overclock my Phenom II x3 from 3.2 to 3.5 and it works just fine, and better than without overclocking, thanks. Never overheats, and I'm using air cooling.
How does this prove overclocking is shit? I'm getting higher frequencies with only slightly higher voltages (1.44v vs 1.21v) and I'm getting very manageable temps, I'm fine with CPU temps under 80 degrees so the 1GHz OC I did is perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrickssj6
I'm using air cooling as well.
My Phenom which is comparable to that CPU is doing almost double the GFlops (~42) with a lower frequency and a lot less heat (max heat was 48 which is your lowest).Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
The only thing you are doing is turning energy into heat and making it more unstable.
Except it is stable, and IIRC the IntelBurnTest displays only displays the GFlops of one core or something. Either way it's inaccurate. If your CPU is comparable to my Q6600 stock, then this Q6600 at 3.4GHz will still destroy your Phenom in every real world test.
Will you two shut up and do a prime95 staring match or something.
lets go outside...eye to eye...prime to primeQuote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
seriously this is no competition thing. i just happen to have a 2 year old average cpu and wanted to ask the point behind overclocking.
ts;dc
i don't care
You didn't ask about the point to overclocking, you said it was useless.
Your 2 year old CPU is much newer than my 6 year old CPU.
The Q6600 is not 6 years old rofl
intel dot com -
Status Launched
Launch Date Q1'07
Processor Number Q6600
5 years old, whatever.
Once I get another graphics card i'm going to use the other monitor I have, it's the same as the left one.
Left one meaning the NEC 4:3?
You'll need a FLEX card from Sapphire or a separate DP to VGA adapter if you plan to use another old monitor.
Yeah I know, they look pretty cheap.
$30 is not cheap. Not for you, anyways, since you need that money for a video card.
Building a new supreme server.
Whats not in this pic is 24 gigs of DDR3 3 Channel Ram. :)
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010537.jpg
This is not going to be used, only for rendering my models and future CGI.
:o
CGI? I'm interested now.
Understand that I'm not bashing your choice in case. I really like the HAF X but I really wish something new that is equally as good comes out, so there's some diversity in a good full tower case.
"Server"
*i7 Extreme*
*GTX 580*
You're doing it wrong. I don't find the extremes worth the price, you can get most of the way to an EVGA SR-2 with two Xenons for that price. That said, what you have there is one amazing rig.
Thanks. :)
Nice to get approval from you. :P
(comp wise)
Edit: reason for this setup is because when I go off to VFS (Vancouver Film School), this will become my main rig, instead of a server.
I need to clean up :|
I couldn't stand that much clutter, i'd have a shitfit.
What? That's not cluttered... :|
Why did you go with socket 1366 instead of the cheaper and faster 1155 solution out of curiosity? i7-2600k will smoke an EE gen-1 i7.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nero
Not sure man. I'll look into that next time.
So I put the entire thing together and it is so DAMN sexy.
Pics or :gtfo:
finally got around to take a picture :P the LP poster is quite old...didn't bother taking it off though. the other posters are around the rest of the room.
Hey guys I got a new pencil holder
:)
http://innergoat.modacity.net/comput...sktop-2011.jpg
What the............................................... .....................
Whats your electricity bill like? Lol, damn!
Edit: And hows the temperature in that room?
I'm not rich :( Think of all the radiation he's getting from those screens. I see 8 computer monitors. EyeFinity that shit.
That's just overkill :\
Radiation, Amit? That's a CRT thing, man. And not even a big one.
lol omfg what the fuck do you do with all that?
(I'm pretty sure that's not actually Goats setup guys)
>inb4 porn on multiple screens
I guessed so much, but he's an animefag, so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
(The making)Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
24 gigs of ram (triple channel ddr3):
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010583.jpg
Graphics Card:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010584.jpg
Fan on cpu's and the motherboard with watercooling (H100):
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010588.jpg
More:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010593.jpg
Turned it on:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010595.jpg
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010596.jpg
Wrapping still on the case (will get a pic tomorrow with it off):
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010598.jpg
Beside my other babies:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/P1010599.jpg
I finally got to put it together after having to RMA a few things. :|
Enjoy.
^^ Freelancer's wet dream without nVidia SLI.
How the hell can you afford to keep building machines like these and then have enough left over to buy $800 worth of HP tablets and accessories for the tablets?
I work as a freelance artist from home.
You should just bang Emma Watson and get her to buy things for you.
Life goal right there.
One day Freelancer... one day.
LOL
Nero you're getting sloppy seconds, I called firsties.
:like:Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Can anyone please explain to me why there is a need for 24 GB of RAM in a desktop PC? Seriously. Honestly 6 is a stretch for most high-end desktops, 8 being the limit of reasonable. But 24? Fuck are you using it as a VMware server or something christ
You're not thinking like an enthusiast:Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
"If there's a 24GB RAM mobo, I'm getting two and filling them both with the most expensive shit out there."
Virtual machines, ramdrive, multiboxing WoW / other shitty MMO, video editing, photoshoping huge images, calculating pi, browsing with firefox, etcQuote:
Originally Posted by jcap
Now that we have 8GB sticks of unbuffered, non-ECC ram that desktops can use, 24GB isn't all that much heh.
1080p high AA multi-threaded rendering?Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
but what amit and innergoat said applies too.
You must have forgotten that everyone on modacity does high quality, next-gen animation CGI rendering projects.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
Seriously, for pressing F5 on modacity and /b/ you don't need 8GB of RAM.
take that macbook pro out of the picture, and perfection ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by InnerGoat
just wondering, with so many screens, why don't you set them up in a proper pattern and order so a game image doesn't look all cut-up and wonky?
What's wrong with the Mac? And I'm pretty sure that's not his real setup.
Ohey again:
FUCK CABLE MANAGEMENT ON THIS CASE.
oh wow, i finally built that computer iv been talking about for like 3 years now and totally forgot to post pics. will do that as soon as i get my camera.
Pic dump from my upgrade log:
More motherboard:
Lovely pics! :3
freelancer i have a p67 b3 too. its asus, not gigabyte, but thats kind of funny.
Cable management for the win.
I think it's terrible, but when you've got that much shit in a mid-tower you can't get much better...
Yeah that fan cable is pretty ugly. Too bad they didn't make the cable black. At least then it wouldn't stand out so much.
The red MiniSAS - 4 SATA cables are the worse to try and manage because of how it attaches to the card, on the top and near the back of the case... Literally no way to get that out of sight.
At least I was able to manage it to the point where airflow isn't disrupted. And I was able to finally get rid of that bulky and ugly IDE cable to my DVD drive since I got a new SATA one.
grats on the new chip now oc it more plz ty
1.340 VCore
Oh wait. Shit, I thought all those RAID card HDD cables was the dedicated fan cable lol. I just realized that a fan would never need that thick bunch of cables.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Video isn't finished, still waiting for replacement GTX 470 so I can film the rest of the video.
Gives off the "Ghost Froom" feeling.
The 70,000 + views on my other computer setup video beg to disagree, but okay.
I meant it being a trailer and all, not the setup.
Oh... I wasn't really trying to make a trailer, I just pieced together what I could for now. What do you guys think of the quality of the footage? I'm not the happiest about the CPU or RAM shots, they're kinda shaky cam. Best I could really do at the time though, shooting with a DSLR and all.
EDIT: So since my birthday was on the 17th and I ended up getting some more money from family that's out of town, decided to grab another 2TB HDD to increase my RAID capacity yet again. Now I'm up to a 5 drive RAID-5, that's 8TB usable and enough redundancy to cover any one drive failure.
... people say I'm excessive when I complain how 500 GB isn't enough.
Nice rig though. I especially like that GTX 470.
Thanks :), I have a second GTX 470 but it crapped out on me so I'm waiting for a replacement to come back from EVGA.
The whole rig looks very cramped when the second GPU is installed.
I'm still waiting to slap in a second GTX480. damn prices won't go down : /
I hope you have enough breathing room. I have a CM Storm Scout case, and my two 470 get quite warm in there. It actually will heat up my room. Lulz. The 470's are good to a ridiculous temp though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
I wouldn't mind that. My room is freezing right now and it's only slightly past mid-September.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
Although this never actually ran properly, I had the second one in there initially:Quote:
Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII
I think that's enough breathing room for both the cards. The bottom one is the "second" one of course, it's got the fan on the HDD cage blowing right on it, and there's a supply of cold air from the bottom of the case since it's got holes in the bottom. It's actually designed to mount a fan on the bottom but since my PSU is so big I can't really pull it off. I might be able to get a 92mm fan down there...
The great thing about the 470's are that the PCB is designed to draw in air from the top too. They really are great cards in SLI.
They're sooooooo loud though. Goind from 285's to these ones with the dinky fans is pretty annoying. I could set my 285's at 80% all the time and they'd be quieter than the 470's at 60%.
