[alan1476]

RIG #2 - RIG 1 HERE

Intel 2600K CPU @ 4GHz (3.4GHGz stock)
AsRock Z-68 Extreme 4
Corsair AX Modular 850W PSU
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 120Gbs
Samsung 2Tb Platter drive ( Data)
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
Corsair 650D Obsidian Case
MSI N480GTX Twin Frozr II GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Corsair H-60 Enclosed Water cooler
2 xSATA Samsung 223F Opticals
1 LG Bluray Burner
1 BenQ DW1640
Window 7 64bit Professional

[macnavarra]

PC#1:
Processor Intel Q9550 2,8Mhz OC to 3,2Ghz
Motherboard: Asus P5Q Socket 775
Mem: Kingston HyperX DDR2 800Mhz 4Gb
Graphics: Asus GTX 470
HDD: Raid 0 Samsung SpinPoint 320GB x2 single Plater
Sound: Creative SoundBlaster extreme music XFI
Media: Sony/Optiarc BluRay Writer 5300S
Media: Nec/Optiarc DVD-RW Writer 5260S quote: looking for a slow read firmware to read mp3 files in low noise !

PC#2:
Processor: Intel Core i3 -540 3.06 Ghz runing at stock speed
Motherboard: Asus P7Q57-M DO Socket 1156
Memory: Kingston 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Value Ram
HDD: RAID 0 WD 500GB X2 Caviar Blue
Media : Samsung DVD-RW Writer SH-S223C

[TechnicsNewA]

HP Pavilion p6160a

Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400

Memory
4 GB

Motherboard
MCP73M01H1 (Napa)

Video graphics (after market)
ASUS GT240 IGB

Sound/Audio
Integrated Realtek ALC888S Audio

TV-Tuner
Hauppauge DVB-T/PAL

Hard drive
750GB

CD/DVD disc drive
Pioneer DVD-219L

[Icy Mt.]

I got a performance bonus at work in 2010 and again in 2011. I've been spending a little of it on upgrades and future-proofing so I need to update my sig:

Raging PC (Homebuild with Tehshi):
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard
Intel E8500 3.16GHz
mushkin 4GB DDR2 800
VisionTek Radeon HD4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCIe x16 in X16 slot (NEW! in Crossfire with
POWERCOLOR Radeon HD4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCIe x16 in x8 slot (old)
WD640GB SATA Hard Drive times 3 (added one)
Iomega 1TB USB External HD (NEW)
SAMSUNG SATA SH-S223Q
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active (NEW)
...After killing two, yes two, OCZ GameXStream 700W ATX12V PSU in this rig
Antec Nine Hundred
Acer X193W+BD Black 19" LCD Monitor
OS Windows 7 x64
This one is running World Community Grid at 100% CPU 24/7/365 (application shared, uses whatever CPU that applications are not)
This one is running Folding@HOME at about 20% overclock 24/7/365 on both video cards running two installations since Crossfire and F@H don't play together).
F@H also moves out of the way whenever GPU is needed for other applications.

HP in basement (Franken-build on HP Original Chassis):
ASUSTeK 'P4SD-LA' Intel Pentium 4(HT) 2.80GHz,
Seagate 320GB HDD
Western Digital 500GB HDD
Seagate Barracuda 120GB HDD external in Plumax
2GB Memory
Realtek AC97 Audio
HIS Radeon X1950Pro 512MB GDDR3 AGP (NEW)
BenQ DW1655 (BCIB, no mods), Liteon SOHD-167T (9S1B)
OCZ StealthXStream 500W ATX12V PSU (NEW!!, since OCZ sucks, I have the two warranty replacement 700W replacements in reserve for this)
Windows 7 x32 (NEW)
Wore out 2 HP400i burners and a Liteon SOHD-166 reader in this one.
This one is running World Community Grid at 80% CPU 24/7/265 whenever the computer is not in use.

Conman:
TOSHIBA Satellite L505-S5969 Intel Pentium dual-core T4200(2.00GHz) 15.6" 3GB Memory 320GB HDD Intel GMA 4500M NoteBook (NEW!!! Inherited from my son TyeDyeHumps)
OS Windows 7 x32

Retired:
From the HP in basement: XFX nVidia GeForce 6800XT 256MB Video
Some Crap Dell with a P4 and 20gb HDD and no video card, Liteon DH-20A4H(QP53)
Tiger Computer running a P3 and Win98SE
Acer Aspire running a P3 at at 1GHz(woohoo!!!) : First burner, an Acer 4X CD lived here
MicroCenter PowerSpec running a P2 at 200MHz
MicroCenter PowerSpec running a Pentium at 90MHz
MicroCenter PowerSpec running a 486 at 66MHz

[AndrewMitchell]

ASUS m88-A with tpu
AMD fx-8120 eightcore stock
16gb 1333mhz corsair
asus enGTX560 ti oc dc ii
western digital 500gb
ooooold alienware area51 case from 2004

[darren42]

Both my Main and LAN PC have been extensively upgrade since my last post

Main Computer

OS: Windows 7 Proffesional 64bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58-UD5
CPU: Intel Corei7 920 @ 4.03GHz
CPU Cooler: Noctua U12P-SE2
RAM: 6GB Corsair TR3X6G1600C9 (3x2GB)
Graphics card: Gigabyte ATI Radeon 5850 1GB
Soundcard: Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Hard Drives: WD 1TB Caviar Black, Samsung 1TB, WD 1.5TB Caviar Green, 5 x WD 2TB Caviar Green
Optical Drives: Generic DVD-ROM, Pionner DVR-111D, LG BH10LS30 Bluray Burner
PSU: Corsair HX-750
Monitor: 2 x ASUS VW222U, Acer G245Hbmid
Case: Lian-Li PC-V2010
Input Device: Logitech G15 Keyboard, Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
Speakers: Logitech Z5500
Addons: AverMedia Dual Hybrid TV Tuner Card, Lian-Li EX-33B, ASROCK USB3 PCI-E 1x Expansion Card

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Lan PC

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3
CPU: Core i7 2600K @ 4.7GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws XL F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL (2x4GB) DDR3
Graphics card: Gigabyte Radeon HD6950 2GB
Soundcard: On board
Hard Drives: WD 1TB Caviar Black, 5 x Western Digital SATA 2TB
Optical Drives: Pionner DVR-218BK
PSU: Corsair HX-750
Case: Bitfenix Colossus

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Waiting for some 120mm fans on backorder, that is why you may have noticed there is a fan missing on the H100 cooler

[alan1476]

RIG 3

Asrock Gen3 Z68 Fatality Pro LGA 1155
Corsair 650D Obsidian Case
16 gbs of GSkill 2133 RAM
Coolit ECO ALC 240mm Rad
Patriot 240 gb Pyro SE SSD
1 TB Western Digital Black
1350W Enermax Max Revo Modular Gold PSU
2x AMD Radeon 6850 GPUs in Crossfire
1 LG Blray Drive
1 Samsung 223F DVDRW drive
Lamptron Fan Controller

[vroom]

Originally Posted by alan1476

RIG 3
Intel 2700K CPU
Asrock Gen3 Z68 Fatality Pro LGA 1155
Corsair 650D Obsifian Case
16 gbs of GSkill 2133 RAM
Coolit ECO ALC 240mm Rad
Patriot 240 gb Pyro SE SSD
1 TB Western Digital Black
1350W Enermax Max Revo Modular Gold PSU
2x AMD Radeon 6850 GPUs in Crossfire
1 LG Blray Drive
1 Samsung 223F DVDRW drive
Lamptron Fan Controller

That's a monster, what CPU did you put on the ASRock? 2500k or 2600k?

[alan1476]

Originally Posted by vroom

That's a monster, what CPU did you put on the ASRock? 2500k or 2600k?

I will fix it now , I put the 2700K.

[alan1476]

Rig 1 has changed:

Corsair Obsidian 800D Case ( upgrade kit)
Asus X79 Sabertooth Motherboard
Intel 3960X CPU
32 GBs of Kingston 1866mhz RAM
2x Kingston RAM Fans for the 8 DIMMs
240gb Patriot Wildfire SSD
240gb Sandisc SSD
1.5 TB WD Black (64mbs) of cache
580GTX Asus Video Card X2 in SLI
Swiftech H-20-320 Edge Kit for cooling
Akasa Fan Controllers for all fans

[Wombler]

Wow, that's a nice piece of kit Alan!

Can't help saying this but I love the lighting too.


Wombler

[alan1476]

Originally Posted by Wombler

Wow, that's a nice piece of kit Alan!

Can't help saying this but I love the lighting too.


Wombler

The lighting was not supposed to be like that, I have to change the coolant to blue and the lights on the back of the mainboard to blue. I had no idea the Kingston Fans with 32gb kit would have blue LEDs.

[alan1476]

Rig 1 has changed:

Corsair Obsidian 800D Case ( upgrade kit)
Asus X79 Sabertooth Motherboard
Intel 3960X CPU
32 GBs of Kingston 1866mhz RAM
2x Kingston RAM Fans for the 8 DIMMs
240gb Patriot Wildfire SSD
240gb Sandisc SSD
1.5 TB WD Black (64mbs) of cache
580GTX Asus Video Card X2 in SLI
Swiftech H-20-320 Edge Kit for cooling
Akasa Fan Controllers for all fans

[Wombler]

That's the same colour of lighting I have in my own PC but it's at the front of the case and I don't have a window at the side so it doesn't have quite the same impact.


Wombler

[Kenshin]

Originally Posted by alan1476

Rig 1 has changed:

Corsair Obsidian 800D Case ( upgrade kit)
Asus X79 Sabertooth Motherboard
Intel 3960X CPU
32 GBs of Kingston 1866mhz RAM
2x Kingston RAM Fans for the 8 DIMMs
240gb Patriot Wildfire SSD
240gb Sandisc SSD
1.5 TB WD Black (64mbs) of cache
580GTX Asus Video Card X2 in SLI
Swiftech H-20-320 Edge Kit for cooling
Akasa Fan Controllers for all fans

At last found this pic. The best part's the cooler integrated to the case.

[blazeminds]

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 3.0Ghz
Motherboard: Asus P5W DH Deluxe
RAM: G.Skill DDR3-800 PC2 6400 F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ (2x1GB) 4-4-4-12 (2.1V)
GFX: ATI Radeon X1950 Pro HDCP + Zalman VF900 cooling
Display: Samsung 20" SyncMaster 206BW @DVI-0 + 17" Dell UltraSharp 1704FPT @DVI-1 + Samsung 42" HP-S4273 @DVI-HDMI.
Audio: 8.1 Polk Audio on Yamaha HTR-5560 via Realtek HD @Optical output
HDD: 1x Seagate 120GB SATAII + 2x Seagate 500GB SATAII
ODD: 10 installed (2x SATA + 8 IDE)
Case: Thermaltake Armor VA8003SWA Silver Aluminum

[jamescooley1]

Originally Posted by blazeminds

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 3.0Ghz
Motherboard: Asus P5W DH Deluxe
RAM: G.Skill DDR3-800 PC2 6400 F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ (2x1GB) 4-4-4-12 (2.1V)
GFX: ATI Radeon X1950 Pro HDCP + Zalman VF900 cooling
Display: Samsung 20" SyncMaster 206BW @DVI-0 + 17" Dell UltraSharp 1704FPT @DVI-1 + Samsung 42" HP-S4273 @DVI-HDMI.
Audio: 8.1 Polk Audio on Yamaha HTR-5560 via Realtek HD @Optical output
HDD: 1x Seagate 120GB SATAII + 2x Seagate 500GB SATAII
ODD: 10 installed (2x SATA + 8 IDE)
Case: Thermaltake Armor VA8003SWA Silver Aluminum

Nice! Welcome to the forums

[alan1476]

Originally Posted by Kenshin

At last found this pic. The best part's the cooler integrated to the case.

Are you talking about the GPU cooler or the CPU cooler?

[Acreo_Aeneas]

Hmm missed this thread entirely.

Avalon Aurora II (main rig, new):

ASUS P8Z77-V LK Motherboard
Intel Core i7-3770K
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme Closed Loop Water Cooler
32 GB (4 x 8) G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600 (9-9-9)
240 GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD
1.5 TB Western Digital Green HDD (WD15EARS) -- second one is dying so doesn't count anymore
2 GB Gigabyte GeForce GTX670
5.1 ASUS Xonar DG
750W Corsair AX750 PSU
12X ASUS Blu-Ray Burner (BW-12B1ST)
NZXT Sentry Mix Fan Controller (6 channels)
Cooler Master Storm Trooper Case
+ 2 x 120 mm BitFenix Spectre Pro LED Fans (Red) -- Front Intake
+ 2 x 120 mm BitFenix Spectre Fans -- Side Intake
+ 1 x 120 mm Corsair SP120 High Performance Fan -- Rear Exhaust
- 1 x 120 mm Fan (still need to buy this one) -- Bottom Intake

25.5" ASUS VW266H LCD Monitor
5.1 Logitech Z-640 Speakers
Logitech G700 Laser Gaming Mouse
Logitech G100 Gaming Keyboard (Red backlighting set)

Some quick photos I just took (sorry for the blurriness). Need to spend a future weekend doing a proper photo shoot. This thing in the dark with my keyboard is sight to behold. Looks like a BSG tin can poised ready to strike.

[Acreo_Aeneas]

@ Darren,

Oooooh. I am liking the look of that BitFenix case. Are the LED colors adjustable? Or are those two separate rigs?

@ Alan,

I think I liked it the way you had it before with red and blue lighting going on inside. It definitely had a more vibrant feel to it and caught my eye more than a single color.

[alan1476]

Originally Posted by Acreo_Aeneas

@ Darren,

Oooooh. I am liking the look of that BitFenix case. Are the LED colors adjustable? Or are those two separate rigs?

@ Alan,

I think I liked it the way you had it before with red and blue lighting going on inside. It definitely had a more vibrant feel to it and caught my eye more than a single color.

Thanks Acreo, If it was just the two colors I might have left it but the green water hose didn't fit with the red and blue. So I decided to make it all blue. I also added a Coolermaster Mech Keyboard ( Storm Trigger). Your build is awesome, I am seeing alot of these Bitfennix Cases now, very surprising but their value has been raised by their nice design.

[alchav21]

This is my Rig basic, but it serves my needs:

• Motherboard: SuperMicro X8SAX
• Processor: Intel Core i7 - 960 3.2Ghz
• Case: NZXT Adamas Silver Aluminum
• PSU: SeaSonic 750W
• RAM: Atlas Precision 12 GB DDR3 / 1333MHz
• GFX: ATI Radeon HD 4670
• Sound: On Board Realtek 7.1 HD
• Hard Disk 1: Seagate 500Gb SATA
• Hard Disk 2: Seagate 500Gb SATA
• Hard Disk 3: Seagate 1.5Tb SATA
• Optical Drive: Plextor Blu-ray Burner SATA
• Monitor: 27" Dell 2707 WFP

http://www.nzxt.com/Download/adamas1280.jpg
http://www.connectreviews.com/2007/1...rp-lcd-review/

[Acreo_Aeneas]

@ Alchav,

Hmm, I was expecting a SSD somewhere in there. Any plans on adding one to be your OS drive? Otherwise looks good. I like how you have a quality S-PVA Dell panel in there.

[alchav21]

Originally Posted by Acreo_Aeneas

@ Alchav,

Hmm, I was expecting a SSD somewhere in there. Any plans on adding one to be your OS drive? Otherwise looks good. I like how you have a quality S-PVA Dell panel in there.

I thought about a SSD, but I wasn't sure about the reliability, they didn't have much of a Track Record. I also like Seagate and Western Digital HDD's. I'm not much of a Gamer, so the speed of my HDD's are sufficient for my needs. As for the Dell Monitor, I wanted to replace my 21" NEC CRT with a good quality LCD that complimented my Silver NZXT Case. I tend to keep my Rig set ups 5 years or more so I try to choose wisely.

[Acreo_Aeneas]

SSDs nowadays are much more reliable than the first gen stuff that came out years ago. Keep in mind the NAND flash memory used in SSDs are much more reliable, faster, and generally higher densities than those offered on USB flash drives. Even a low-end SSD will be noticeably faster than most platter HDDs.

So given that, my Kingston SSD, for example, is expected to last me ~9 years with my current usage rate. That's about as long as some of my old platter drives and definitely longer than the majority of HDDs that I've had that have failed.