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Title: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on March 15, 2011, 02:19:45 PM What is your Current Build/Rig for gaming?
Insert pic if you have one. Whats your current primary game? Core i7 950 @ 4.0GHZ OC air Prolimatech Megahalems heat Sink in Push/Pull Asus Rampage III Formula 6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000MHZ EVGA GTX 460 SLi Dual Intel x-25M SSDs One boot and primary games OS other STEAM Dual WD Raptors Raid 0 (Secondary games mostly large MMOs WoW DCUO) WD 1TB (Storage and Cache files) Cooler Master Storm Scout Currently Playing L4D2 Mirror's Edge Planetside (does not play well with my SLi I usually disable it -_-) Picture taken with iPhone and cropped (sorry for poor quality) (http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m404/Phat31198/Pic1v2.jpg?t=1300198458) Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on March 15, 2011, 08:48:12 PM I feel no love... :'(
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Jim Tressel on March 15, 2011, 09:41:55 PM Mine's a laptop and big ass monitor. THE GOUT! GET SOME PICS UP HERE NAO!!!
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: thegout on March 15, 2011, 09:59:55 PM (http://zazon.us/screenshots/f3e3fdff862d01f8ad8a60d125d0054e.png)
(http://zazon.us/screenshots/e590756ad3f8e98e06ecd0d3b7805734.png) (http://zazon.us/screenshots/4158aba61b92cc8db8e9d8c4219f7afb.png) Alienware Area 51-ALX 6-Core i7 990x Factory OC to 4.0 (stock alienware watercooling) 3x4GB Tri-Channel 1600mhz 1.2kW PSU 2xAMD Radeon 6970 2GB CrossFire OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB 4x300 GB VelociRaptor 10k (raid 10) 2x3TB Hitachi 7x3000 (raid 1) BluRay Multi Burner and i still really suck at video games (and taking pics) The funny story here is I had budgeted $3000 for a new workstation for my office at OSU. I was like hmmm what is Alienware offering through Dell Premier OSU portal? Well I go to configure the most expensive rig I could, and the "6-core 990x OC 4.0ghz" was mistakenly subtracting $2200 rather than adding $2200. I freaked out and sent the order through right away to see if they would honor it, chose overnight shipping, and it showed up 5 days later. The thing hauls ass. Ended up being just under $3000 with a 5 year warranty with accidental damage protection as well. God bless price mistakes! Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Nightstalker on March 15, 2011, 10:16:03 PM (http://s3.amazonaws.com/picable/2007/11/06/75469_Very-Old-Computer_620.jpg)
Performance 486DX2 - This shouldn't be confused with the inferior 486SX. The DX monster is upgraded with Intel's OverDrive chip, which includes the coprocessor, which is far superior to the SX version. Type: 32-bit multitasking microprocessor Transistors: 1,100,000 to 1,200,000 (1.0 micron) Package: 168 or 169-pin PGA Registers: 32 32-bit Real Mode: Performs as a 16-bit 8086 CPU; addresses 1MB memory. Protected Mode: Addresses 4GB physical and 64TB virtual memory; provides access to memory protection and 32-bit instructions. Virtual 8086 Mode: Protected Mode subset that runs a Real Mode application in a virtual machine. I can run windows on this thing not having to boot DOS. Games Mostly Microprose stuffs.. X-Com, Master of Magic, Master of Orion. New Sid Meier games run smooth on it... Civilization, Colonization. Dropped the old 5.25 floppy disc drive for the newer 3.5 disc drive. ( had to get that to run X-Com) Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Unnormal on March 15, 2011, 11:12:12 PM hahaha
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: thegout on March 15, 2011, 11:24:46 PM that kds monitor is hot
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Krogoth on March 15, 2011, 11:28:57 PM (http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4885/dscn0862uc.jpg) (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/dscn0862uc.jpg/)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 2x1GB GSkill DDR2 800 2x2GB CORSAIR DDR2 800 A-DATA S596 Turbo 64GB SSD (main OS, primary games) 1TB internal WD (music, games, swap) 1.5TB external Seagate (backup, fucking EVERYTHING) 19" + 22" LCD Monitors Been running strong for 4yrs now, currently playing Bulletstorm, everything maxed. Added the SSD (HD failure, figured why not) and threw another 4GB RAM at it about a month ago, breathed whole new life into it. Hopefully will get me through college, and be able to at least run PSN. Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Varg on March 16, 2011, 12:43:12 AM LG Black 10X Blu-ray Burner - Bulk SATA WH10LS30 LightScribe Support - OEM
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL Thermaltake Element G VL10001W2Z Black ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive A couple older 300gb i forget brand. XFX HD-585X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP 700W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT55TFBGRBOX Its pretty damn nice. I need an additional 21 inch monitor and really need to build a NAS for media storage and backup. Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Varg on March 16, 2011, 12:43:48 AM Phat, your setup is sick.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Stugots on March 16, 2011, 01:41:24 AM I'll see if I can move the mess on the desk to take a pic when I get home.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on March 16, 2011, 02:26:43 AM LoL
I had a 386 dx2 Windows 3.1 -_- Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Stugots on March 16, 2011, 03:04:45 AM The new Rig:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/lawnmower70/HPIM0497.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/lawnmower70/HPIM0498.jpg) The gateway that I was using, but now is my TV/Video machine: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/lawnmower70/HPIM0501.jpg) New rig: AmdPhenom II X6 3.2 some kinda raid 0 thing going on and some kinda 8g ram going on there, theres a thingy that liquid cools the other thing.... some lights, big fans that are really quiet... and I just realized how f'n big it is....too big. But it works...and I like it. Old machine: quad core amd thing. Bah who cares. Stand back while the computer-turned-pizza guy gets technical on your ass! Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: RedDawn on March 16, 2011, 02:41:38 PM man those are some OLD SCHOOL VHS rental cases
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Stugots on March 16, 2011, 02:47:22 PM LOL yeah, I have a shitload of old VHS tapes, they are currently being digitized and the cases/tapes being thrown out. Before the tape entirely goes bad. Surprised how bad they can get in 10 or 15 ....or20 years.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Nightstalker on March 16, 2011, 03:47:24 PM Haha oh wow, look at all of them. What chu trying to open up a Bloxbuster or something.
look at em too... they got that white label taping on the side means they all custom recorded content. I bet you got alot of oldschool Silvia Saint, Traci Lords porn on them... maybe some Nina Hartley too :) Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Krogoth on March 16, 2011, 05:19:51 PM Quote from: Stugots Before the tape entirely goes bad. Surprised how bad they can get in 10 or 15 ....or20 years. I ran a small VHS-DVD service a few years back, $5 a tape. After a few customers I started asking up front how old the tapes were, I refused to do anything older than 15yrs, they tend to look like shit, even if they've only been run 2-3 times Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Stugots on March 16, 2011, 08:02:07 PM Yeah, and considering most of these ones were stored in the basement for the past 10 years surely doesn't help. But theres some memories on there that I would like to keep around no matter how bad the color, sound, and picture is.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Jim Tressel on March 17, 2011, 12:40:46 AM Here's my laptop and big ass monitor:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5646/officefu.jpg) Alienware M17 Intel Core2 Extreme X9100 @ 3.06GHz 4GB @ 1333MHz dual ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 chips 28" Hanns-G monitor Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on March 17, 2011, 01:34:58 AM is that a 1920x1200? Lucky
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Jim Tressel on March 17, 2011, 01:36:45 AM Sure is! I don't know why everyone doesn't have one. They're pretty damn cheap and unbelievably awesome.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: thegout on March 17, 2011, 01:28:42 PM F the monitor, I want that chair.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: RedDawn on March 17, 2011, 01:54:46 PM I have that monitor. I copy JT's style.
Gout....if you want something take it. I will distract him with a bottle of Jack Daniels Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Jim Tressel on March 17, 2011, 02:06:27 PM Cool it there, Jordan Chase. TAKE IT! TAKE IT!!!
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Redbear8 on March 17, 2011, 03:15:07 PM Here is my setup:
Super Comfy Chair (http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8452/imag0257.jpg) (http://img845.imageshack.us/i/imag0257.jpg/) Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us) OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 7 64bit CPU TYPE: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000 CPU SPEED (GHZ): 3.03 SYSTEM MEMORY (GB DDR2): 4 VIDEO CARD MODEL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/9200/imag0256b.jpg) Samsung 23" 1080p Monitor/Xbox/Tritton Headset/WinTV HVR USB Tuner for the TV watchings (hanging on the wall to the left) (http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9757/imag0254fk.jpg) Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: ZONK on March 17, 2011, 03:44:57 PM I finally updated my computer. However I had to keep things in a budget.
My old computer: CPU: AMD 2.2 Ghz Single Core GPU: nVidia 9800 GT 512 MB MB: ASUS A8N-E RAM: DDR1 512MB x 4 (2GB) HD: 120 GB IDE OS : Windows XP New Computer: CPU: AMD 970 3.5 Ghz Quad Core (Stock with room to OC if I want) GPU: nVidia 9800 GT 512 MB MB: ASUS M4A87TD/USB3+SATA3 RAM: DDR3 2GB x 2 (4GB) running at 1600 overclock HD: 2 SATA3 500GB drives running in Raid 0 OS : Windows 7 64-bit Total cost to upgrade $405 including tax and shipping cost. (Note: case, GPU, power supply are used from old computer, and Windows 7 was free from MSDN when I was in school when it came out. It was sitting in waiting until I built a computer strong enough for it) Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Arctic on March 18, 2011, 04:07:16 AM Night...... dont be riping Xcom
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Nightstalker on March 18, 2011, 12:35:10 PM XCom was awesome. That was a tribute not a rip.
I remember the first day I got it too. My mom made the mistake of inviting in some Mormons knockers to explain in detail the perks of Latter Day Saints. So while they were just a stone's throw away going on about Joseph Smith and his golden tablets, I couldn't help but feel I was indulging in sin as I cursed at and killed the fuck out of some alien assholes, whose existence has no explanation according to their religion. Damnit those little Chryssalids would turn your guys into aliens pissed me off. And yes, to pre-empt any smartasses to the punch line, the first day that I got and played X-Com was earlier this week. ::) Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Redbear8 on March 18, 2011, 01:51:46 PM Poser...
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: thegout on March 18, 2011, 03:20:24 PM Rando how is your WinTV working? Mine works really well but like once a month the fucker will develop a slight lag between audio and video sync on live and DVR stuff. It will get progressively worse until I reboot the machine then all is fine. I'm running mine on a core2 1.86ghz with 2 gig ram so maybe the machine isn't beefy enough to handle the hd cable im trying to DVR but once I restart, it goes away for 2-3 weeks.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Snackcakes on March 18, 2011, 04:05:55 PM oh snap, the gout's back!
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Redbear8 on March 18, 2011, 05:36:59 PM I've really liked it so far. I haven't used the DVR much yet on it, but when I have I haven't had many problems. I don't use the software that came with it, I've been using media center.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on March 18, 2011, 06:24:37 PM I have a 91 ThinkPad running Windows 7 I cannot view video in web browsers like I could when it had XP on it, but I would say its usable.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: thegout on March 18, 2011, 06:44:29 PM Once you have gout, you're stuck with it.
See http://www.4uricinex.com/facts.htm#21 and http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=515153 Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Nightstalker on March 18, 2011, 08:05:15 PM Quote I've really liked it so far. I haven't used the DVR much yet on it, but when I have I haven't had many problems. I don't use the software that came with it, I've been using media center. Bullshit. Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Redbear8 on March 18, 2011, 08:45:23 PM Touche Eveningstalker, touche.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: gr0n on March 20, 2011, 12:55:53 AM I don't think you can get that exact Hanns-G 28" anymore... but there's a monitor that I think is identical: http://www.amazon.com/I-Inc-iH-282HPB-Class-Widescreen-Monitor/dp/B002YECKCQ/
Sound right to you guys? The interwebs seem to think so. I might pull the trigger on this. BTW, on topic, my rig is a stock looking Dell XPS 410...very underwhelming in both looks and performance (old Core2 Duo 6600 with 2GB RAM... a RAID 0 array of 2x SATA drives though). Most recently though I added a GTX 460 vid card that should tide me over for a while. Now I can haz big monitor! Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Varg on March 21, 2011, 11:56:50 AM Im still thinking about Silvia Saint.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Nightstalker on March 21, 2011, 05:28:58 PM hehe
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: thegout on March 22, 2011, 01:16:28 PM I just got a Dell U2711 for my office, i am teh <3 with 2560x1440. need new glasses asap.
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on April 19, 2011, 06:26:56 PM Upgrades on IKURAS-X
(http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m404/Phat31198/IMG_1233.jpg?t=1303158795) Once the leak test is done I will post another shot with it fully loaded. Still waiting on new Fans for the Radiator and a speed controller. Yes I have an addiction to my PC...GO FUCK YOURSELF! Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Jim Tressel on April 20, 2011, 03:33:28 AM You should probably buy some RAM. Maybe that's why you're only level 19.
Also, order some more fans while you're at it. Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: RedDawn on April 20, 2011, 12:04:51 PM I had my own leak test last weekend when I drank 80% of a bottle of The Glenlivet in like an hour and a half. I didn't pee pee in my bed (Kelly Family FTW)
Title: Re: The machine keeps you going...no seriously, it does! (What's your rig like) Post by: Phat31198 on April 27, 2011, 08:10:33 PM I am actually lvl 20 now, I guess It has been so long since I played, the system no longer considers me worth it to update.
Red... ... ... ...I have no response for that...ROFL I find that this game is just not that great...GASP! |