What is in your rig? (strut your stuff)

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warmwaffles

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Well I finally got my rig built. I have been waiting for parts to go on sale and snag them when I got the chance and so here we go.

Case: Cooler Master Pro RC-690-KKN1-GP
Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E
RAM: G.Skill 4 x 1GB DDR2
CPU: Q6600
Video: NVidia 8600 GT
HDD: Seagate 400GB HDD
PSU: Cooler Master 700 Watt

Overall I am very happy running my system on Win XP x64 bit and I am absolutely loving my Quad Core. Though I had to skimp out on the video card for now as I was tight on cash and I bought it for 100 and turned in the mail in rebate and practically spent 80 for it. Though a buddy of mine wants to buy it for like 40 when I get around to getting an 8800 GT, which for me in the end I only spent 40 bucks and got good use out of the card.

I am sure someone has created this kind of post before but its not on the front page. :goodjob:

I spent a total of around 1000-1200 bucks on this PC. Good price for the power that I get from it
 
Had a dual core in a Shuttle kit, but killed it.

Right now have a:
Coolermaster Centurion (mATX)
PIV prescott 3.0Ghz
Biostar MB (BIOSTAR P4M900M4 478 VIA P4M900 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail)
2GB DDR2
Gigabyte GeForce 8600 GT
and other legacy parts

Had some hiccups that I attribute to the Barracuda drive, but otherwise working well un-overclocked.
 
Motherboard: ASUS P5N32-E SLI

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHZ 1066FSB 8MB
Note: SLACR (G0), something that I have no idea what it does except it consumes 10 less watts.

Memory: Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB 2X1GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12 240PIN Dual Channel Memory

Hard Drive: 250 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Monitor: LG Flatron 1400:01 8 rms

Sound Card: Creative SB Audigy 4 [A000]

Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming keyboard

Mouse: Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse

Mouse Surface: exactMat

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition

CPU Fan/Heatsink: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro + non-metallic AC Thermal Paste

Power: OCZ 700W

Case: Coolmaster something or other

The total cost has been almost or at $3000, including taxes, shipping, and the old RAM, CPU, power and mobo that I replaced at the beginning of Febuary.
 
I was going for a more sleeper look on my PC. No LED lights on it what so ever and quiet. I don't know why but it just looks like an ordinary PC but when you start it up you are greeted with a nice big XP 64 bit and a fast load time.
 
#1:

Case: Antec P150
Motherboard: Abit AB9
RAM: G.Skill 2 x 1GB DDR2
CPU: E6400 @ 2.8GhZ
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12F
Video: GeForce 8800GTS 512MB
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy
HDD: 320GB Seagate
PSU: Antec Neo HE 500W

#2:

Case: Antec Sonata III
Motherboard: Abit IP35-E
RAM: Patriot 2 x 1GB DDR2
CPU: E2160 @ 3.0GhZ
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12F
Video: Radeon X1950XT 256MB w/ Zalman VF900-CU
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
HDD: 320GB Samsung
PSU: Antec EarthWatts 500W
 
Quick question. Is that patriot RAM any good? I have seen the prices on them and they are extremely low but is that because of poor quality, life time or have you experienced neither?
 
Drivebymaster said:
Quick question. Is that patriot RAM any good? I have seen the prices on them and they are extremely low but is that because of poor quality, life time or have you experienced neither?
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Patriots that I have are (if I'm correct) a low-end product by them. They don't have much overclocking potential but they've served me well enough. Can't say anything about the life time as I've owned them a bit over month :) Also I'd remember that more expensive Patriots have had quite good reviews in various OC sites.
 
kuukkeli said:
Patriots that I have are (if I'm correct) a low-end product by them. They don't have much overclocking potential but they've served me well enough. Can't say anything about the life time as I've owned them a bit over month :) Also I'd remember that more expensive Patriots have had quite good reviews in various OC sites.
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I myself am not an over clocker. The only thing I will OC is my NVidia card but thats as far as I want to go. Call it paranoia, but I don't want to fry the CPU or the RAM because of my stupidity. :p
 
Drivebymaster said:
I myself am not an over clocker. The only thing I will OC is my NVidia card but thats as far as I want to go. Call it paranoia, but I don't want to fry the CPU or the RAM because of my stupidity. :p
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It's paranoia - I know as I have just recently been cured of that :lol:

Seriously, you can't fry your CPU without going crazy with the voltages. The remnants of my paranoia have this far prevented me from raising the core voltages so both of my CPUs run on stock voltages which to my knowledge does pretty much nothing to their expected life time. So I'm practically just getting free 29% and 66% extra when compared to not overclocking.

And there's rarely need for overclocking RAM in 24/7 use. In #2 RAM runs on its specified 800MHz but with little tighter latencies. In #1 RAM is actually slightly underclocked because of the MoBo's rather limited memory dividers.

In your case overclocking the CPU wouldn't do much in games until you do that GPU upgrade because 8600GT is a clear bottleneck. After that upgrade it would be such a shame not to overclock a great overclocking CPU at least a bit ;)
 
Phlegmak said:
I'm using 5 year old hardware and a 10 year old OS and I'm happy with it.
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Agreed! my old PC is now my file server and my dedicated server for some of my games I play. It was first a CeleronD and then I upgraded to a P4 with 2GB of RAM and used it for 5 years. I just finally got fed up with the fact it didn't have an AGP port and only PCI. But it was for sure the best PC I have ever had and I plan to frame my first CPU and put it on my wall :p
 
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz
RAM: 4GB 800MHz DDR2
HDD: 500GB
Video: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB
Motherboard: "based on" Intel P35 Express - dunno what that means in practice
OS: Vista Ultimate
 
I have:

#1

Case: Antec 900
MB: Gigabyte Ga-p35-ds3r(or something like that)
RAM: G. Skill 800mhz w/micron D9 chips
CPU: E6600
Cooler: Zalman 9500
Video: 8800 GTS (the older ones)
Sound: X-FI Xtreme Music
HDD: Seagates
PSU: Enermax Infinity

#2

Case: Coolermaster 830 EVOLUTION
MB: BFG 680i
RAM: same G. Skills
CPU: E6700
Cooler: Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX
Video: 8800 GTX
Sound: Another X-FI
HDD: more Seagates
PSU: Antec 850 Quatro (I like the yellow racing stripe)

Both have fans, lots of fans :p

And I still have my

Dell Dimension 8100 w/RAMBUS (this PC is why I will never buy a pre-built PC again)

Can't wait to see what the Nehalems look like.
 
The thing was built with old technology. Had a socket 423 processer when socket 478's were already available. Just the other day I saw an invoice at work. Somebody got a brand new Dell with an E4400 chip. Probably has an abacus for a motherboard.
 
3 EMS said:
The thing was built with old technology. Had a socket 423 processer when socket 478's were already available. Just the other day I saw an invoice at work. Somebody got a brand new Dell with an E4400 chip. Probably has an abacus for a motherboard.
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An abacus motherboard with a finger counter math co-processor
 
Yes, they're all in use...

Rig 1

Case: Cooler Master Elite 330
Mobo: Asus P5ND2 SE
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 (2GHz)
RAM: 2GB (Kingston ValueRam at 800MHz)
GPU: ASUS Geforce8400 GS (256MB)
Sound: Onboard
Drives: 1xHDD (160GB), 2xDVD writer)
PSU: Recom Power Engine 450W
OS: Vista Basic
Monitor: Acer AL1916W (19 inch wide screen)
Cost: €700

Rig 2

Acer Aspire 3002WLMi
CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+ (1,6Ghz)
RAM: 2x512 MB
GPU: SiS M760 GX (worse than you think)
Sound: Onboard
Drives: 1xHDD (40GB), 1xDVD writer
OS: Windows XP Home SP2
Monitor: 15 inch wide screen
Cost: €400

Rig 3

Mobo: ECS K7Sem
CPU: AMD Athlon something at 1,2Ghz
RAM: 1x256MB
GPU: Geforce MX 440
Sound: Onboard
Drives: 1xHDD (40GB), 1xCD, 1xCD writer)
OS: Ubuntu 7.10
Monitor: Shares with rig 1
Cost: €300

Rig 4

CPU: Intel Pentium 166Mhz
RAM: 4x 32MB EDO
GPU: Tseng Labs ET4000 (1MB) + Trust Voodoo Dragon 2 (4MB)
Sound: Some Trust SB-compatible
Drives: 1xHDD (1,1GB), 1xCD, 1xFDD
OS: Windows 95
Monitor: Philips CM1500 (15 inch)
Cost: +/- €2000 (at that time)
 
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