Post Your Computer!!!

I finally did what I needed to do...I swapped out my BE-2350 for an X2 5800+ @ 2.8GHz. I would OC it if I could, but as my MOBO doesn't support OCing I can't. The end result, from 50~125 FPS in GW up to 100~200 (that's right 200) FPS. Now if I can tweak out my latency from 150-250 down to a much more reasonable level I'll be very very happy.

That's a pretty good upgrade there, should make a difference in allot of games for you.

Currently:

e6600 @ 3.6
680i SLI
4gb DDR2 800
8800GTX (latest release driver)
24'' Dell/19'' Viewsonic

It gets me by, or it has for the past few years.
It's been a good machine.
But it's time to upgrade before GW2 hits Cant wait.

Probably going to go with something along the lines of this:

X6 1090t
AsRock Deluxe3
8gb DDR3 1600
Either a 5870 1gb or a 480
80gb SSD/1tb HD
Haf 922 with Corsair 850wt psu

I'm the only crazy upgrade nut here it seems











64 Gb Crucial C300 SSD for my boot drive, 2 Tb Seagate LP for a backup drive, and then I put my Samsung F3s into Raid 0. I wont have the SSD working until tomorrow though, I need a Molex > Sata cable for it.

Me <3 Ebay

other than the godawful pink lighting it looks sweet

Its red not pink, my camera is a fail. They match the Motherboard really well, the only clash is the CPU cooler + ram modules, but I havnt yet seen a better performing cooler, and the ram was cheap (for ram) at £72 per 4 Gb, wheras matching red + black sticks are far too expensive with no performance difference.

A Prolimatech black megahalem cooler would look unbelievably good on this setup, but my temps are as good as the Corsair H70, so I'm not changing it.

I have my CPU at 4.2 Ghz with HT on, ram at 1600 Mhz with 6-8-6-20, T1 timings, and the GTX 460s at 875 / 4250 clocks (nowhere near as high as the ATI cards clock, but they still perform awesome and the SLI scaling is just unbelievable compared to the ATI cards - HD 5970 power for £350).

Gateway GT 5692
AMD Phenom X3 2.1 GHz Triple Core "Toliman" CPU
5 GB RAM
ATi Radeon HD 4870 1024 MB
500 GB Western Digital
Corsair 650 TX 650 Watt PSU
21.5" eMachines 1920x1080 Widescreen LCD

@ Bhavv

Thats a pretty nice looking setup. That big ass CPU sync looks awesome. I have an old Dell sitting around with a huge heatsync like that, hahah.

Do you use that SSD for gaming? If so how well does it perform?

EDIT: Added a couple pics. The reason my PC is backwards is so that monster of a graphics card doesn't suffocate against the wall and with wires.

No I'll be using the SSD as my boot drive for super fast windows. Im still waiting on a molex > sata cable that should be here soon hopefully. For now I went and unplugged my CD drive that was using one and used it on the SSD drive, but now I cant get into windows setup to format the two new drives and reinstall windows onto the SSD until I get a second. 64 Gb might be able to hold a few games on top of the OS, but I doubt it. The 64 Gb was £113, then the 128 Gb was £258 :x. I only wanted the Crucial one because its Sata 3 with the highest read speeds. I'll wait for prices to come down and then buy a second for games.

I'll use my pair of samsung F3s in Raid 0 for games, the 2 Tb drive was reduced to £81 and both my F3s were getting too full, so I thought I'd get it for backups and storage and then I could raid my current ones for games.

Samsung 1Tb F3 drives are down to £44 each, and the 2 Tb segate LP drive is down to £81. With two of the 1 Tbs, and one 2 Tb, anyone can easily setup a Raid 0 spec with the samsung drives.

I'd never use Raid 0 without the backup drive though - two drives in Raid 0 = twice the chance of data loss, as either drive dying wipes all of the data.

Here's my new mighty mini computer I just built. The case isn't much bigger than a PS3 but it still packs a punch!


Athlon II X3 3.0Ghz (4th core unlocked) O.C. to 3.68Ghz
ASUS M4A88T-I Deluxe Mini-ITX motherboard
4 GB DDR 1333 Kingston Hyper-X memory
XFX Radeon HD 5770
Two Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDDs running in RAID-0
LIAN LI PC-Q08B Black Aluminum Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case
Windows 7 Home Premium

Gaming on the big screen from the comfort of the couch.... aahhh.... luxury!

Got any pics of this setup?

Yeap. And I have a nice lap board for mouse and keyboard that fits the recliner great. I need a bluetooth keyboard though because the little Logitech USB antenna has to be stretched out into the middle of the room which is lame.

I'll take some. My hybrid drives just shipped out from Tiger Direct and wont be here for a week (I'm on a US military base in Japan), but I can take pics with the Barracuda in there.

Phenom II 720 (Unlocked 4th Core) with a light OC of 3.4GHz http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1364088
GA-MA770-UD3
4GB Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2 RAM
HD 4850 700core/1045mem
Corsair HX450W
CM590 Case.

AMD Athlon II X4 635
870A-G54
2x2048 MB A-Data Technology
ATI Radeon HD 5850 (xfx)
Be quiet Straight Power 500W
Xigmatek Midgard

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laptop (bought in fall of 2008):

CPU: AMD Turion X2 Mobile RM-70 2.0 GHz
RAM: 3 GB PC6400 DDR2
GPU: ATI RADEON 3100
HDD: 250 GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit


Desktop (bought in early 2005):

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 GHz
RAM: 2.5 GB PC3200 DDR
GPU: EVGA GeForce 7600 GT KO PCI-E
HDD: 160 GB
OS: Windows XP Home 32-Bit


I'm going to attempt to run Guild Wars 2 on both my laptop and desktop, if that doesn't work it'll be new PC time. I'll probably stick to a $600 budget.

My System Specs:
CPU:AMD Phenom II x6 1090t
Zalman CNPS7900 AM3 CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE: GA-MA790GPT-UD3H
WD SATA2 WD5001AALS (boot)
WD SATA2 WD5000AVDS (data)
8GB SuperTalent W1333UX4GM (2 sets)
XFX: HD-4850-ZNFC 1G
Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW
SoundBlaster X-FI XtreameGamer

Wife's System Specs:
CPU:AMD Phenom II x4 965BE
Zalman CNPS 7900 AM3 CPU Cooler
MSI: 870-G45,
WD SATA2 WD5001AALS (boot)
WD SATA2 WD5000AVDS (data)
4GB Mushkin (996744)
XFX: HD-4850-ZNFC 1G
19' Samsung SyncMaster

Both running Windows XP Pro 64Bit.

Gigabyte ex58 UD5
USB3 PCI E
12GB Gskill 2000mhz
i7 920 3.8 ghz
Thermalright 120 - lapped it, two fans on it.
Silverstone TJ10bw
Auzentech Hometheater HD
ATI 5870 Powercolour
Samsung 2233RZ
Steelseries Xai
Filco Majestouch Brown Cherries
Wacom 3
Samsung SSD 64GB
Raid 0, 500 GB black caviars
External USB3 Drive reading bay.
Windows 7 Ultimate, plus windows xp, windows 2003 VM's. Messengers on a VM.
& About 50 mouse mats.

Connected via optical to an arcam amp and transmission line speakers.

Have another server PC (just a duocore...).

Here is an old pic of the lapping that I did. http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1294/007gz.jpg Excuse the bad keyboard!

That looks amazing!

Thanks! It was 4 hours of sanding, not fun lol .

I've been wanting to lap my I7 920 because there arent any affordable 32 nm upgrades yet, but its still covered by warranty so I'll wait until I've had it for almost 3 years.

I dont think a <£250 32 nm quad is going to ever be released for LGA1366 which I've been wanting for ages, so I'll just lap the one I have and keep on using that.

i7 930
Foxconn Bloodrage
Myshkin Ridgebacks 1600 6-8-6-24
Sapphire 5850
Corsair TX850 - sleeved
Cooler Master HAF 932
WD Caviar Black 1TB x2

Water cooling:
EK Supreme HF Full Nickel
EK FC5850 Nickel+acetal
Black Ice GTX360 rad
Swiftech MCP355 with XSPC restop
San Ace 101 fans

i7 930



Switched to a 6 core for a while
1055 x6
Gigabyte-890GPA-UD3H
4GB Mushkin Ridgebacks 1600 6-8-6-24


Just sold off my water cooling and im downgrading. Probably gunna get a Phenom II 555, Asus 880G, and 4GB of something

Hi all, I have been building this for last 6 months, A little more cash needed to finish it.
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System Manufacturer/Model Number ASRock A770DE+
OS Windows 7 Ultimate X64
CPU AMD 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition @3.2GHz
Motherboard ASRock A770DE+
Memory 4 X 2GB 8192 MB (DDR2-1100 DDR2 SDRAM) @ 550Mhz
Graphics Card ATI Sapphire HD 5770 1GB DDR5 850/1200MHz
Sound Card Onboard 7.1 HD Audio/Bluetooth Stereo Audio/C-Media USB 5.1
Monitor(s) Displays 32" Soundwave LCD @ 1920X1080/42" Samsung Plasma @1920X1080
Screen Resolution 1920X1080


Keyboard Accuratus Toughball
Mouse Microsoft Laser Mouse 5000
PSU Evo Labs 900W 80+ 80 plus Dual 12V ATX PC PSU
Case Cooler Master Mystique 631
Cooling Corsair H50 With 2X120mm Push/Pull,3X 120mm (FrX1,SideX2).
Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda LP 1.5TB SAMSUNG HD154UI 1.5TB
Internet Speed 5500kbps
Other Info Corsair H50 Water Cooling With Push/Pull 120mm Fans Front 120mm Extracting Side Panel 2 X120mm Intake 3 X 90mm Fans in side of PC Desk @100% Via USB 3 X XBOX 360 Dual Fan units at the rear of PC (Cooling The Intake air to the H50 Rad) In unison @ 100% Via USB 2.0. OCZ - Extreme Thermal Convection - XTC Memory Cooler Rev 2 akasa HDD Cooler Graphics Cooler Exhaust Via rear PCI slot

I still have to put a 2nd HD 5770 after Xmas and next big upgrade is a Phenom X6 1090T. I will add a Blu Ray RW Drive in there, And I may put a SSD in too at a later date, but time will tell.

Hi all. I finished building my PC earlier this year. was going to go with a sandybridge setup but didnt have enough patience to wait after the recall. I dont have any pics of the inside but will post one soon.


Antec 1200 Tower
ASUS 23 HD Screen
random $50 speakers
ASUS P6X58D Premium Mobo
intel i7 960 3.2ghz quad core
12gb (3x4gb) Corsair DDR3 Ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 graphics card
500gig seagate HDD (didn't really care to get a bigger one)
random HP DVD drive
stock cooling (my tower has like 6 fans anyway)

The one thing I really want to do to it is upgrade to a SSD (Solid State Drive) which will boost the rating of my pc from 5.9 to 7.5-.9 but they just cost too much money right now so I will be waiting before I do that