Post your gaming setup!

[Skelly]

You should feed your front panel audio connector from two grommets down, where the molex powering the Xonar is coming from. That cable running over your video card makes me sad

And personally, I would take all your SATA cables and run them behind the mobo tray first, and the back through the grommets. I just hate seeing wires. Otherwise it looks good!!

[Asera]

You should feed your front panel audio connector from two grommets down, where the molex powering the Xonar is coming from. That cable running over your video card makes me sad

Tried that, doesn't reach. -_-

[Skelly]

Tried that, doesn't reach. -_-

Yeah I just looked at the other pictures and none of your cables are very long. At least it makes for a tidy behind.

[Seiz]

Don't. An i5-2500K and P67 honestly is better for gaming and OC'd can certainly compare to even the higher end i7-9xx series CPUs, as crazy as it is. It is not cost efficient to buy an i7-9xx/x58 setup unless it's for nostalgia purposes, wanting a hard OC job, or you're just a mad-man like Cyanotical who does folding and fancy stuff. :P

Oh no...I just bought today the i5 2500k CPU with this motherboard

ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M LGA 1155 Intel Z77

Is over clocking an issue with this combo?

[DeltrusDisc]

You quoted a post from over a year ago.... P67 is old tech. You got an amazzing mobo

[Fierae]

You quoted a post from over a year ago.... P67 is old tech. You got an amazzing mobo

That'll teach them to check the date on the post :P

[lockblock]

Made a few updates to my rig over the summer.
Most notably I swapped motherboards from a MSI P67a-C43 to an Asrock Z77 Extreme4.
Upgraded to 8gigs of ram.
Added 2x2TB of storage.
Replaced my 2x Force GT 60gig in raid0 with a Crucial M4 128.
Still running my 2500k and Gtx 570 at stock speeds.
Lastly I copied azome's awesome back side cable management. (sorta)


Before anyone asks I strategically placed the ssd under the bundle of wires so that I wouldn't have to run another sata power cable over to the drive cage.

[Xlink]

Coming back for MoP with a massively upgraded rig.

Hardware:

Case: Modded NZXT Phantom
CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz
RAM: 2 x 4G Corsair Dominator
Mobo: ASUS p8p67 EVO REV. 3.0
PSU: Corsair HX 750w
GPUs: 2x EVGA GTX 680

Cooling:

CPU Block: Koolance CPU 370
GPU Block: 2x Aquacomputer Aquagrafx 680 Nickel
RAM Block: Bitspower Galaxy 4 DIMM Block
Fittings: All Bitspower
Rad1: XSPC RX 240
Rad2: XSPC EX 240
Rad3: XSPC EX 120
Fans: Corsair High Performance SP series
Pump: Swiftech MCP655 variable
Reservoir: Koolance RP 452x2 Dual Bay Reservoir
Tubing: Durelene Clear
Coolant: Distilled Water with Mayhem's Clear/UV Blue











Edit: Formatting.

[Drunkenvalley]

Pictures of that would be awesome! ouo

[Xlink]

Had to do a quick edit to it. Accidently used original photo size which was ginormous =P

[Drunkenvalley]

There we go! Looks good!

[DeltrusDisc]

Most overkill "updated for WoW:X-expansion" PC I've ever seen.

Congratulations! :P

Looks great though, seriously!! But PLEASE, use it for some games that will actually take advantage of TWO GTX 680s!!!

Good games to do so: Crysis whatever thing, Witcher 2 EE, Skyrim, BF3, etc.

[Xuvial]

Coming back for MoP with a massively upgraded rig.

Hardware:

Case: Modded NZXT Phantom
CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz
RAM: 2 x 4G Corsair Dominator
Mobo: ASUS p8p67 EVO REV. 3.0
PSU: Corsair HX 750w
GPUs: 2x EVGA GTX 680

Cooling:

CPU Block: Koolance CPU 370
GPU Block: 2x Aquacomputer Aquagrafx 680 Nickel
RAM Block: Bitspower Galaxy 4 DIMM Block
Fittings: All Bitspower
Rad1: XSPC RX 240
Rad2: XSPC EX 240
Rad3: XSPC EX 120
Fans: Corsair High Performance SP series
Pump: Swiftech MCP655 variable
Reservoir: Koolance RP 452x2 Dual Bay Reservoir
Tubing: Durelene Clear
Coolant: Distilled Water with Mayhem's Clear/UV Blue


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Sweet mother of god that is beautiful, can only imagine the chilled temps you must be getting with all that rad surface area and fans.
Question about the bottom 240 rad - are those fans just in pull, or push/pull and I can't see the fans at the bottom? Fans also do better in push (like your other two rads).

[Xlink]

Most overkill "updated for WoW:X-expansion" PC I've ever seen.

Congratulations! :P

Looks great though, seriously!! But PLEASE, use it for some games that will actually take advantage of TWO GTX 680s!!!

Good games to do so: Crysis whatever thing, Witcher 2 EE, Skyrim, BF3, etc.

I started my like, 7th playthrough of the The Witcher 2 yesterday. Its gorgeous. Before i start another skyrim playthrough i'm gonna find as many graphic enhancing mods as I can find.

[Holo]

Coming back for MoP with a massively upgraded rig.

Hardware:

Case: Modded NZXT Phantom
CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz
RAM: 2 x 4G Corsair Dominator
Mobo: ASUS p8p67 EVO REV. 3.0
PSU: Corsair HX 750w
GPUs: 2x EVGA GTX 680

Cooling:

CPU Block: Koolance CPU 370
GPU Block: 2x Aquacomputer Aquagrafx 680 Nickel
RAM Block: Bitspower Galaxy 4 DIMM Block
Fittings: All Bitspower
Rad1: XSPC RX 240
Rad2: XSPC EX 240
Rad3: XSPC EX 120
Fans: Corsair High Performance SP series
Pump: Swiftech MCP655 variable
Reservoir: Koolance RP 452x2 Dual Bay Reservoir
Tubing: Durelene Clear
Coolant: Distilled Water with Mayhem's Clear/UV Blue

Does your computer freeze solid if you leave the cooling on at idle?

[Xlink]

Sweet mother of god that is beautiful, can only imagine the chilled temps you must be getting with all that rad surface area and fans.
Question about the bottom 240 rad - are those fans just in pull, or push/pull and I can't see the fans at the bottom? Fans also do better in push (like your other two rads).

Yea, I have the fans to go push/pull on both the bottom and the top rad as well. (pretty sure there is enough room for the fans even with the top of the phantom covered) I forgot to order some fan splitters. The corsair fans I got are the high performance series though, aka, they sound like jet turbines when set to max voltage. So until I get the splitters in to hook them up to the fan controller, the rads will stay with their current configurations.

[DeltrusDisc]

I started my like, 7th playthrough of the The Witcher 2 yesterday. Its gorgeous. Before i start another skyrim playthrough i'm gonna find as many graphic enhancing mods as I can find.

Believe this will help.

http://kotaku.com/5903204/how-to-get...nally-possible

^_^ Let us know how it works out!

BY THE WAY!!! You didn't tell us what SSD/HDD you have! :O

Film Skyrim.

[Endonyx]

Looks great though, seriously!! But PLEASE, use it for some games that will actually take advantage of TWO GTX 680s!!!

Good games to do so: Crysis whatever thing, Witcher 2 EE, Skyrim, BF3, etc.

All of those except BF3 tbh it doesnt require that much from your graphics.

[Ineko]

This is my first ever build, finished it a few weeks ago, I'm pretty happy with it.

Case: Antec eleven hundred
CPU: i5-3570k
CPU cooler: Corsair H80
MoBo: Asus Maximus V Gene
RAM: Corsair Vengance 1866mhz 4x4GB
HDD: WD Black 2TB
SSD: Samsung 830 series 128GB
GPU: Asus GTX 660 Ti DirectCu II SLI

I was going to get a single GTX 680 but my friend had a GTX 660 Ti DirectCu II he was trying to get rid of so he sold that to me for $150
So I just bought another for $350 and went SLI.

[Xuvial]

Yea, I have the fans to go push/pull on both the bottom and the top rad as well. (pretty sure there is enough room for the fans even with the top of the phantom covered) I forgot to order some fan splitters. The corsair fans I got are the high performance series though, aka, they sound like jet turbines when set to max voltage. So until I get the splitters in to hook them up to the fan controller, the rads will stay with their current configurations.

Yup I went for the SP120 Quiet editions, really some amazing fans for the price (twin pack!) their static pressure is nuts and they undervolt splendidly.