Post your gaming setup!

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That's a 750w :P
Nice build, plenty of expansion and OC room. But I'd probably start saving for better peripherals (audio/mouse/kb/etc), if you do a ton of gaming then having great peripherals can make a difference :P


Pfffft we don't have time for low-end budget builds like these.

But in all seriousness whoaaaaaaaa yeah I think this is our most extreme build so far. Especially the peripherals, good god, 3x27" 120hz? Would LOVE to see what your desk looks like

Yes i will take picture of all my stuff on my desk

[DeltrusDisc]

Hi, i'm new here, i'd like to show my setup.

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D
Fans: 2x Corsair AF120's, 3x AF140's
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z77
CPU: Intel i5 3570k 4,2GHz - Corsair H100i Push
GPU: ASUS GTX 680 DirectCU II OC 2GB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB / 4x 4GB DIMMs
SSD: Samsung 840 128GB
HDD: Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM
Power Supply: Corsair HX1000W Modular
Monitor: LG 29EA93-P 2560x1080/75hz
Speakers: 2x KRK Rokit 6 G2's (AMAZING SPEAKERS!)
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Cyanotical will be most pleased! He is another KRK Rokit owner, with the 8s and a subwoofer to match.

Also, what is that mouse? O.o

[Xuvial]

Also, what is that mouse? O.o

Looks like a Razer Diamondback/Copperhead

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So after reading into headphones and that they have better SQ than headsets etc I decided to get me some good headphones
And seeing as an onboard soundcard is probably not enough, I bought a dedicated soundcard as well.



- Superlux HD 668B, with velour pads (Velour is AWSUM! )
- Asus Xonar DGX

They sound good, and def better than my headset. Still have to fiddle with settings on my soundcard to get the most out of them in BF3 for instance and I still have to burn the headphones in.

[Xuvial]

From my experience with Xonar cards you pretty much have to customize the EQ to get the most out of it, in my case the "valley" curve since I play a lot of metal/electronic. Left at default (flat) settings my STX sounds like shit, extremely dull and muddy.

[BicycleMafioso]

My experience is that that was rather the case of my (Sennheiser) headphones rather than sound card. Speakers sound amazing while flat. Headphones as well. But the cans really come to life with a lighter v/m-curve. The speakers get ruined with a curve.

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I will fiddle around with the settings a bit Probably will have to make a couple of settings for music/games

[Xuvial]

My experience is that that was rather the case of my (Sennheiser) headphones rather than sound card. Speakers sound amazing while flat. Headphones as well. But the cans really come to life with a lighter v/m-curve. The speakers get ruined with a curve.

Sennheisers tend to be pretty flat/laid-back by design and need a little boostie in the treble department for those seeking a slightly brighter sound. I've got mine amped slightly (32-64ohm setting) to liven things up, a little amping definitely helps even for low-impedance cans like HD558.

Can't really comment about speakers because I haven't really heard very many flat-response monitors, you're probably right about speakers not needing a curve. The closest thing I have to monitors are Microlab Solo 7c's serving as my stereo home theater speakers powered by an AudioEngine D1 - since it's a driver-free amp there is no EQ to speak of, I simply bump-up the speakers' treble knob a bit and they sound alright.

Meanwhile my PC speakers (Corsair SP2500's) seem to have been built with exploding entire houses in mind -_-

[Majesticii]

I'm really ignorant when it comes to EQ's and curves. Good thing the A5's don't require that much tuning to sound good :P

[DeltrusDisc]

I'm really ignorant when it comes to EQ's and curves. Good thing the A5's don't require that much tuning to sound good :P

Picture? Not sure I remember what you have... or are you the one with the Adam Audio speakers? In that case, I hate you and hope you die so I can steal them.

No, but seriously, Adam Audio speakers are NICE. They look and sound FANTASTIC.

Never mind, just saw the pic in your sig links to your build, just some Audioengines.

You may continue living! :P

[Nohara]

i posted a thread with the build a long time ago but thought i would throw it up here for new people

this was a project i started and never fully finished here is the current parts list which will not match some of the pictures

custom case from mountain mod with custom paint
psu - seasonic 1250 gold
mobo - asus maximus iv extreme z
cpu - i7 2600k - 5.0ghz
gpu 2x gtx titan
ram - 64 gigs dom 2166mhz
hdd - 2x caviar black 1tb in raid 0
ssd - 2x samsung 840 pro 256g in raid 0
cooling
apogee rev 2 cpu block
black ice 360 rad x2
12x scythe gentle typhoon fans
2x scythe 6way fan controller
5port baybus for light switches
everything is sleeved

Out of curiosity, why 64GB of RAM? For my work I used some powerful PC's for video-editing with 16-24GB of high speed RAM. 16GB of RAM already felt like an overkill when working on full HD projects. So I gotta ask, what are you running that is using all that RAM?

I can only think of playing 2 games simultaneously that you both record while editing a full HD movie, that or you are running Norton Anti Virus.

[UFO]

MSI HD 7970 OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI
Intel Core i5-3570K
ASRock Z77 Pro4 Intel Z77
Samsung Green 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Corsair Obsidian Series 550D PC case
Samsung 250GB SSD
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB

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Intel Core i5-3570K
6GB DDR3
ASUS HD 7850
Samsung 500GB SSD

+ X360 .

[Shyzhi]

New PC made (mostly) not done yet, need to get my fan controller, some more fans, a 2nd 760 superclocked, my H100 and some red LEDs to go inside. tho im like 90% done (apart from wireing in my speakers / 2nd monitor.

[DeltrusDisc]

Out of curiosity, why 64GB of RAM? For my work I used some powerful PC's for video-editing with 16-24GB of high speed RAM. 16GB of RAM already felt like an overkill when working on full HD projects. So I gotta ask, what are you running that is using all that RAM?

I can only think of playing 2 games simultaneously that you both record while editing a full HD movie, that or you are running Norton Anti Virus.

Or he's doing real workstation tasks. :P Also, calling out Norton like that is a little unfair, since from what I've heard it isn't quite the same as it was, oh, 5 years ago...

[Flcrewpolo]

Out of curiosity, why 64GB of RAM? For my work I used some powerful PC's for video-editing with 16-24GB of high speed RAM. 16GB of RAM already felt like an overkill when working on full HD projects. So I gotta ask, what are you running that is using all that RAM?

I can only think of playing 2 games simultaneously that you both record while editing a full HD movie, that or you are running Norton Anti Virus.

um mainly cause when i switched my mobo and cpu recently *i posted my old cpu/mobo by mistake my current is 3970x on a asus rampage iv extreme the 2600k is what is pictured*
but when i switched my cpu/mobo i upgraded my ram at same time and got a steal on 64gigs vs 32gigs both are way overkill but my whole machine is overkill

[Cyanotical]

um mainly cause when i switched my mobo and cpu recently *i posted my old cpu/mobo by mistake my current is 3970x on a asus rampage iv extreme the 2600k is what is pictured*
but when i switched my cpu/mobo i upgraded my ram at same time and got a steal on 64gigs vs 32gigs both are way overkill but my whole machine is overkill

i was about to comment "you can't have 64GB on a 2600k"

[Flcrewpolo]

i was about to comment "you can't have 64GB on a 2600k"

yea sandybridge fun huh cyanotical

[Cyanotical]

yea sandybridge fun huh cyanotical

idk if you noticed but SB-E is a whole different animal that SB, about all they really have in common is overclocking procedure, makes me curious about IB-E given that it's getting almost a year and a half of extra dev time over IB, much longer than the 10 months of extra dev time between SB and SB-E

thinking about it, IB cores with HW performance and enterprise L3 and stability, along with rumors of Titan-2 and HD9970, we'll be seeing some pretty awesome setups in this thread

[Xuvial]

Got a new case, Switch 810. My god I love it.... it's like owning an HDD, then getting an SSD and never wanting to go back. FULL TOWER FTW.

http://i.imgur.com/RzxfoV4.jpg

Build isn't done, have a few things arriving next week to finish up.

- Swiftech MP655
- Alphacool Repack Dual 5.25" Acrylic Reservoir
Bleeding the XSPC pump/res. combo is impossible or something (pump is always noisy, slight hum). So I decided to get a new pump and res and will sell off the XSPC combo.
- PrimoChill PRIMOFLEX™ Advanced LRT™ Elegant White
- Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition x 2
- Swiftech MCR220-QP 2X120mm Radiator

Sexy! IMO that bottom rad would do better as intake, it will 1) make it positive pressure and 2) uses the cool air directly from outside to keep the rad cool instead of using the warmer air inside the case