Post your gaming setup!

[DeltrusDisc]

I would like some honest to G-d proof that that OC is 24/7 stable. >_>

whoa Tetris and I posted in the same minute mere seconds/minutes after the guy posted his specs.... what nerds we are! :P

[Saithes]

I would like some honest to G-d proof that that OC is 24/7 stable. >_>

whoa Tetris and I posted in the same minute mere seconds/minutes after the guy posted his specs.... what nerds we are! :P

I agree, so far it seems too that even custom liquid cooling isn't enough for Ivybridge if its running above 1.35 volts and the H100 really is only comparable to high end heatsinks. His temps must be in the 85-90C range lol.

[Cyanotical]

Intel® Pentium™ M ULV 900MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9000 32MB; Hitachi IC25N040ATCS04 40GB 4200 RPM HDD; DDR SDRAM PC2100 128MB

whats with the computer in your sig?

[Saithes]

whats with the computer in your sig?

Haha ;D Oh nothing lol

[jahasafrat]

Here's my setup. It's nothing too fancy but it gets the job done and I'm currently saving up in hopes of upgrading to 1 MB of RAM.

CPU: MOS Technology 6502, 1.023MHz
Memory: 64 KB RAM
Monitor: Apple Monitor II
Disk Drive: DuoDisk 5.25
Case: Platinum IIe

Well, I'm off to play some Oregon Trail before bed. My current game has been pretty tough because I spent all my money on ammunition and didn't buy any medicine or wagon wheels.

* User was infracted for trolling: It's not funny the 30th time.

[coolflame]

Looks great! Shame you took such an incredibly overinflated PSU for a build, even with two of them, could've gotten away with 550-600w, for two of the same GPU.Not saying I don't believe, but I'd love to see a CPU-z verification and a screenshot of your temps 2hours(+) into Prime95!

Here you go:



It crashed after 7hrs and 21min. Good enough for gaming!

EDIT: CPU-Z Validation http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2358189

[Saithes]

87C, wow I was close lol but it doesn't actually list 4.9GHz anywhere?

[coolflame]

87C, wow I was close lol but it doesn't actually list 4.9GHz anywhere?

The 4.9GHz is only when it is on full load, program crashed in that screenshot, frequency goes down to 1600.

Here is a 1hr mark:



I don't have any other pictures other than ones I took with my phone.

EDIT: I believe in this run I moved the computer during the run which is what caused a bump in temps that you see.

EDIT2: When I said "the", I meant "a", the actual 1hr mark of the 7hr 21min run I only have a pic of from my phone:

[Cyanotical]

, program crashed in that screenshot,

then it's not truly stable, and at that temp, you can't increase voltage, so you need to lower your clock

[Xuvial]

While your chip is still within safe temps, you're running a damn hot overclock averaging ~82c and peaking 89c. And it gains you maybe 0.5 fps in games compared to a much cooler 4.5-4.6ghz OC, which still isn't even remotely close to posing as a bottleneck for a single 7950.

But hey, an overclock is an overclock. Get it stable

[Drunkenvalley]

Still though, 4.8 GHz range with an IB would be a good chip. Also, there are a few settings he can lower while not suffering instability, but I guess I have to dig them up again.

That said,



I want to redo the loop again, but I have to wait till I decide what graphics card to go for, as well as get more money so I can add a few small bits and pieces to make it better to work with...

[DeltrusDisc]

then it's not truly stable, and at that temp, you can't increase voltage, so you need to lower your clock

^^ and as Xuvial said, really not worth it running your CPU at 4.9GHz and such hot temps, just lower it...

[Daveric]

My current (4 year old) build. I recently did some actual cable management to this (as best as I could with the case) - no before pictures though...it was a mess.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/840/img9658o.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/img9663c.jpg

CM 690 Case
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Thermaltake Big Typhoon CPU cooler
Nvidia GTS 250
4 GB OCZ RAM (couldn't tell you the exact model)
Corsair 450W PSU
Western Digital 1.5 TB HDD; Seagate 320 GB HDD

It'll run most games at decent settings, but you can forget about pushing the limits on anything. I will be putting together a new build very soon though.

[Deleted]

Daveric, for a case with not a lot of room for cable management, and a non modular PSU, you did a very nice job with tidy-ing it up

[Xuvial]

It'll run most games at decent settings, but you can forget about pushing the limits on anything. I will be putting together a new build very soon though.

Neat-o, reminds me of my old PC.

Now pull together an i5 2500K + GTX670/660 Ti gogo. Pretty sure you won't even have to upgrade the PSU.

[Valiea]

Just built this. Total Cost ~ 2500$
Case: Xigmatek Elysium Black
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe
Power Supply: Corsair 850HX
Processor: Intel i7-2700k.
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100
Memory: 16gb g.Skill Sniper Series DDR3 @ 2133Mhz
Graphics Card : Asus HD 7970 DirectCu II 3GB DDR5
Hard Drive : 2Tb Seagate Barracude 7200rpm Sata 6.0Gb/s
Solid State Drives : 2x Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 180gb Sata III in Raid 0

- Cable Management
- Inside the Chassis
- Frontal View
- Side View Close
- Side View
- Command Center

[DeltrusDisc]

Power Supply: Corsair 850HX
Memory: 16gb g.Skill Sniper Series DDR3 @ 2133Mhz

Unless you're planning to OC the hell out of the CPU and GPU plus add another GPU for XFire, I'd say the PSU was overkill.

Also the RAM, any reason for 2133MHz? I don't even think at that speed it could do anything for you other than serve as a RAMDisk or play the role of "big numbers." :P

Otherwise it all looks good. ^_^ (Hoping you needed the i7, considering you also got the 16GB of RAM, so.) :P

[Valiea]

Hey man, I had 2600$ to blow, I don't NEED a computer, but I WANTED all of it . I do also plan on adding another 7970 once I get enough cash or a better job. Thing was 490$. Plus I overnight shipped it so, hey!

[DeltrusDisc]

Man now you tell me you had $2,600 to blow... I'm tempted to see what I could build with that. ;p

[Drunkenvalley]

Well, gratz on your new build!