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[Lord Melchior]

lol sandvich you have the same speakers as I do

[Lord Melchior]

yeah lol.
and haven't had that problem with 'em yet.

[Joe]

Someone needs to learn to compress their photos, loading 28MB of images each time the page loads takes a long time....

[J TIEMO]

System Specs:

Case: Thermaltake ArmorPlus(Armor+) VH6000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Motherboard: EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED "Overclocker's Pick" 3-Way SLI + PhysX 1366 Intel X58 EATX Intel Motherboard

RAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1600C8D (Stock clock speeds)

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920 (OC'd to 3.4 Ghz)

Heat-Sink: Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO CPU Cooler

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Graphics Card: EVGA 017-P3-1175-AR GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Supported Video Card

DVD Drive: LG Internal / GH22 Super Multi DVD Rewriter 22x

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate X64

[J TIEMO]

System Specs:

Case: Thermaltake ArmorPlus(Armor+) VH6000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Motherboard: EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED "Overclocker's Pick" 3-Way SLI + PhysX 1366 Intel X58 EATX Intel Motherboard

RAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1600C8D (Stock clock speeds)

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920 (OC'd to 3.4 Ghz)

Heat-Sink: Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO CPU Cooler

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Graphics Card: EVGA 017-P3-1175-AR GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Supported Video Card

DVD Drive: LG Internal / GH22 Super Multi DVD Rewriter 22x

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate X64

Damn Tiemo you got a nice setup there. How much did that all cost you?

uhhhh,

a lot

$1894.87, I bought most of my parts from newegg

It was worth it though, I built it about 15 months ago, and it's still as powerful as ever. I do want to switch to ATI cards sometime soon though, I'm not too happy with my GTX 275, the only thing keeping it afloat is it's ridiculous amount of memory.

[madmattd]

ridiculous amount of memory.

Enough said right there. Very nice system.

The good news is that advances in speeds and such has slowed dramatically in the last couple of years, such that a good system built 2 years ago isn't too far behind the curve today (kinda like mine, built just when the i7's came out originally). GPUs are the only major advance recently, and 6-core CPUs.

[Mullet]

mullet on the right, opps to the left. She always screen jacks me. LOL

[Mister Joey]

For some 500 Euro's I built a midrange gaming PC that runs TF2 (all I need =3) perfectly fine at all high settings.

CPU: Intel Quadcore Q8400 @ 2.67GHz with stock cooler
MB: MSI G31M3-L V2
RAM: 3GB(1x2GB, 1x1GB) cl5.0 PC2-6400 by Kingston
GPU: XFX Radeon HD5570
HDD: Samsung 250GB SATA300 16MB, HD253GJ at 7200RPM
Case: An older Scaleo P except I changed the blue LED's in the three holes to RED ones and connected them to the HDD Indicator, so they flash awesomely. I also put in some extra fans.
PSU: OCZ StealthXStream 700W
OS: Windows 7 Pro, 32Bits
Monitor: Acer V233HAbd 23" FullHD (1920x1080)
Sound: Onkyo TX-DS595 with 5.1 input from the PC and output to a pre-amplified subwoofer. OR Skullcandy HesH Black&White with 50mm Bass Drivers
WEI: 7,2; 7,2; 5,8; 6,6; 5,9

[madmattd]

My work PC:

Intel Core i7-980x (yes, the 6-core one lol, 12 logical cores in Task Manager ftw!) (stock cooler atm - it actually has a decent cooler with heatpipes and fans, wow)
GA-x58A-UD3R (this board is awesome, I love it!)
Crucial 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 Triple Channel (running at 1066 right now because that is the max the memory controller on the CPU does without OC'ing (or it'll ignore 2/6 GB RAM ), and this is a workstation PC, not a gaming lol)
2x Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000 RPM in RAID 0 - flippin' fast!
SILVERSTONE ST1000-P 1000W ATX Modular Power Supply (I'm never buying a non-modular again, wow these are nice!)
Antec 300 case (love this case, it's been improved too now with a SS mount and CPU cutout panel)
PNY Quadro FX 4800 V1.5GB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Supported Workstation Video Card (beast for CAD work, not so much for gaming)
Windows 7 x64 of course
SAMSUNG P2770H Rose Black 27" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Logitech kb/mouse, Creative speakers (basic ones), SATA DVD burner, nothing fancy there.

Windows experience ratings: 7.8, 7.8, 7.1, 7.1, 6.1
It's stupid how only SSD's get above 6.1 on WEI and that there is no difference b/w RAID 0 and RAID 1 with 7200RPM drives...MS fails.
The gaming graphics score lies, the Quadros are meant for single frame renderings, not high-speed ones.

Please note I would never buy these components for myself, I don't have that kind of money, lol. But this was cheap compared to the workstation systems they got 3 years ago there for the other 2 guys that do CAD.

Eats my CAD work alive. Can't wait to run some simulations or renderings on it!

[Stephen]

it rates hdds so low because they are slow, even in raid they come no where near a single ssd

[Mullet]

SSD FTW!!!!!!

[hulkvsspawn]

I have 4 SSD's in raid 0
Granted they're 30gb, but still.
My 550BE is my weak link. I won't get a seven or higher until I upgrade my chip.

[madmattd]

Considering what's in it, it's good for you since you're a mechanical engineer.(love the quadro FX 4800, but I bet that cost fuckin $4000)

Actually, it was way less than that (still a boat load at over 1500 though...). Total system was about 4k, which is pretty cheap for workstations actually. Newegg ftw, nice that it is a small enough place here that they had no issue with me building it (Dell wanted over 1.5 weeks just to ship a so-so system at same price, and they needed me doing CAD work within a week.).

[madmattd]

Updated PC specs (my personal one):

Added a second 9800GT 1GB because I found an unofficial patch to allow x48 chipsets to do SLI. Works like a charm, piece of cake to set up. Unlike adding the second card, which was even larger than my PNY single-slot 9800GT because this was the fanless Gigabyte one (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814125282). Runs much cooler though, I'll say that. 48C idle versus 71 (which is 62 now that I moved it to a different PCI slot, lol). Also found an SLI bridge, which helped benchmarks a bit.

So:

CPU: Core 2 Quad 9550 OC to 3.4GHz
GPU: 2x 9800GT 1GB in SLI (stock speeds atm) PNY and Gigabyte versions
MOBO: GA-X48-DS5
RAM: 4x2GB Crucial DDR2 1066MHz
PSU: Antec TP3-650 650W
CASE: Antec 300 w/ extra side fan installed
4xWD 320GB in RAID 10, 1TB external on ESATA
2x Samsung 22" at 1680x1050, 42" LG TV (occasionally)

Scores 12005 on 3D Mark Vantage.
WEI: 7.4, 7.4, 7.2, 7.2, 5.9

[madmattd]

Yes. Now that I am aware that there is a "patch" to allow it to be done on older Intel chipsets. That fanless GPU I picked up runs like 25C cooler than the fanned PNY, lol, I still can't believe it. Testing it out tonight on some games, all should be good.