Post your gaming setup!

[Xuvial]

Wait what? First let's check some stuff, you got the i7 ivy brdige clocked at 4,6 ghz without running REAL liquid? I mean at 3,5 ghz it should be 45c and if you really managed to get it up to 4,6 ghz without running over 80c please post picture, becuase every guide exlains their temps with ivy at just lower than 80c at 4,3-4,4 ghz. Second, why would you have home premium even though your total GB ram (with Vram) is 18gb? home premium supports maximum of 16 gb ram. so you're getting only 14gb ram and 2 g vram. Make no sense to me hurt cuz money wasted

edit: Okay I'm gonna be constructive instead.

1) Ivy Bridge is perfectly fine at 80-90c peaks. TJmax is 105c. And I seriously doubt it gets anywhere near that during gaming at 4.6ghz, H80 is perfectly viable for cooling it.
2) What does Home Premium have to do with RAM? It supports up to 16gb, that's how much he has.
3) You don't simply add video memory to system memory, they work seperately and do different things.
4) No money was wasted.

The only questionable things in that build is the PSU and SSD.

[CheezusCrust]

What Xuvial said.

Wait what? First let's check some stuff, you got the i7 ivy brdige clocked at 4,6 ghz without running REAL liquid? I mean at 3,5 ghz it should be 45c and if you really managed to get it up to 4,6 ghz without running over 80c please post picture, becuase every guide exlains their temps with ivy at just lower than 80c at 4,3-4,4 ghz. Second, why would you have home premium even though your total GB ram (with Vram) is 18gb? home premium supports maximum of 16 gb ram. so you're getting only 14gb ram and 2 g vram. Make no sense to me hurt cuz money wasted

Isn't money wasted.
Windows 7 HP 64bit only supports 16GB of RAM, but VRAM is not included in that.

[Wries]

Wait what? First let's check some stuff, you got the i7 ivy brdige clocked at 4,6 ghz without running REAL liquid? I mean at 3,5 ghz it should be 45c and if you really managed to get it up to 4,6 ghz without running over 80c please post picture, becuase every guide exlains their temps with ivy at just lower than 80c at 4,3-4,4 ghz. Second, why would you have home premium even though your total GB ram (with Vram) is 18gb? home premium supports maximum of 16 gb ram. so you're getting only 14gb ram and 2 g vram. Make no sense to me hurt cuz money wasted

I do believe the 16GB limit really only applies to system RAM. Let me google..

here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx
search for ArnoudMulder's question on the page.

[Amadeusx]

Neat build, but do you only use it for WoW?

Well I play Assain aswel, bu tmostly wow. =)

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I'd hope you don't have issues running WoW with this build =p Looks good. Your cable management hurts my eyes though!

Dont have any issue with wow, but I had problems with 64 bit wow, thats why I play 32 bit.

[Drakoes]

Intel Core i7-3770k @4.7Ghz 1.24v
Corsair H100 + 2x Cougar Vortex fans
G.Skill RipjawsZ DDR3 8GB @2400mhz 10-12-12-31-1T
Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe
Asus GTX 680 DirectCUII TOP @1330core / 1650mem
Seasonic X-650
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS
Seagate Barracuda 2TB
Creative Sound Blaster Titanium HD
Coolermaster HAF 922

http://i46.tinypic.com/6q9uzb.jpg

Update: loving my new Ivy Bridge so far. It does 4.7Ghz well, and that's with HT off for when I'm gaming. Been stable for past week on all the games I've thrown at it, including WoW, BF3, Skyrim and DB3. I do a lot of work with adobe software, so I turn HT back on as well as upping the voltage to 1.26v for when I do need it

http://i45.tinypic.com/nfjtr8.jpg

[CheezusCrust]

If they do it's horrible teachers & they should get fired.

We're going a little offtopic now :<

/Directs ship back to original course


http://imgur.com/SElbB
Moving to Denmark in 7 days, packed all of my hardware I'm going to take with me =)
/Squeels like a little girl

8GB Kingston HyperX RAM
4x harddrives, salvaged some from dead external harddrives
Sennheiser PC 350 headset
4 Case fans
Intel 320 series 128GB SSD
Dead/old CPU's

[Frex]

Sorry for shitty quality, taken with my phone.
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...20760378_o.jpg
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...20760378_o.jpg

Infracted for oversized image.

[Cyanotical]

Wait what? First let's check some stuff, you got the i7 ivy brdige clocked at 4,6 ghz without running REAL liquid? I mean at 3,5 ghz it should be 45c and if you really managed to get it up to 4,6 ghz without running over 80c please post picture, becuase every guide exlains their temps with ivy at just lower than 80c at 4,3-4,4 ghz. Second, why would you have home premium even though your total GB ram (with Vram) is 18gb? home premium supports maximum of 16 gb ram. so you're getting only 14gb ram and 2 g vram. Make no sense to me hurt cuz money wasted

the H80 is more then enough for any bridge chip, whose of us who still use component loops do it for fun, not need

his ram is fine, 16 on home premium with whatever for GPU still works, if he is only gaming then yes there is some waste there, but it's not that big of an issue considering how cheap ram is

[Voorhees83]

My full desk pic I posted a few pages back, but this is my finished PC... They closed my build log.

Ok so I tried my best. I got my 24 pin white sleeved, and tried to clean up some wires.

Little angled... Prob my favorite shot of it though! All Led's are on in that pic.. but I think i used my flash.

Finally outer shot of full case w/ front.

[DeltrusDisc]

Guhhhhh.

Never stop posting pictures Voorhees83!

[Nidor]

I have a change incoming on my build one of these days, I will be swapping out my smallest radiator for a slightly larger one. Slightly.

[Saithes]

What Xuvial said.



Isn't money wasted.
Windows 7 HP 64bit only supports 16GB of RAM, but VRAM is not included in that.

But VRAM is included in the memory addressing for Windows. It's why on 32 bit that having a graphics card with more VRAM will limit your system RAM since the memory address is limited. The same applies to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Even though it's 64 bit, the memory address capability is reduced which would mean that it is effected by the graphics cards.

Nice read on memory addressing:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/258528-30-explained

The same concept of a reduced memory address on x86 applies to Home Premium 64 bit.

[DeltrusDisc]

That's very lame.

Why do Microsoft feel they need to limit RAM so harshly on a 64 bit OS anyways?

[Saithes]

That's very lame.

Why do Microsoft feel they need to limit RAM so harshly on a 64 bit OS anyways?

To make money :P

[Butler Log]

To get you to spend another 30 bucks on windows professional.

[DeltrusDisc]

Well yay I guess, got Pro through school, but still, lame.

[jries]

UGH I'm bad at cord management D:



Up and running....Gotta tinker around inside a bit and fix some of the cables, pretty aweful right now as you can tell.

[CheezusCrust]

Can't you tuck some of them away into the back?

[protput]

http://i.imgur.com/cx80Ql.jpg

UGH I'm bad at cord management D:

http://i.imgur.com/gQiK3l.jpg

Up and running....Gotta tinker around inside a bit and fix some of the cables, pretty aweful right now as you can tell.

Oh my god dude, oh my god :P

Please don't quote entire posts without breaking the image links.

[jries]

Can't you tuck some of them away into the back?

Yeah, I had to work this morning so I wanted to get it up and running and install/ start to download all the big stuff that I need like Adobe CS, WoW, D3, etc. :P Planning on making it a little...neater haha