Post your gaming setup!

[DeltrusDisc]

It's not THAT obvious. =S To be fair.

Especially not to the untrained eye.

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SPECIFICATIONS:

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Professional CPU: i5 3570k Cooler: Corsair H80 with 2x Enermax Magma RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Dominator GT GPU: ASUS Radeon 7970 SPU: ASUS Xonar DX SSD: Samsung 830 128GB HDD: Western Digital: Caviar Blue 750GB PSU: Corsair AX750 with Corsair Sleeved Cables (Red) Case: Silverstone Fortress FT02 Black/W Controller: Lamptron FC9

PERIPHERALS:

Monitor: DELL U2711 Headphones (Gaming): AKG K242 HD Headphones (Music): Grado SR80i Microphone: Zalman ZM-MIC1 Keyboard (Gaming): Corsair K90 (Cherry MX Red) Keyboard (Typing): Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 (Cherry MX Blue) Mouse: Mionix Naos 5000 Mouse-pad: Mionix Propus 380

[Ghâzh]

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That's literally making me drool Pure awesomeness!

How's your chip clocking, anyway?

[DeltrusDisc]

It.... looks.... sooooo..... amazing. x_x

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Well, since people are posting pictures of their desks

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I love the black and white theme you got going for your room there =p

<SNIP> Awesome pictures... <SNIP>

Dude that looks awesome and nice quality pictures!

"I swear officer, you wont find any fingerprints or DNA strings for clues here..."

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How's your chip clocking, anyway?

I actually haven't tested yet. I like how cool and silent it's running at stock, but it's very tempting to start playing with it.

[Drunkenvalley]

Man, I just went ahead and submitted a link to Silverstone's facebook profile via their messaging. That stuff is absolutely awesome, Marest.

[Ghâzh]

I actually haven't tested yet. I like how cool and silent it's running at stock, but it's very tempting to start playing with it.

Heh, play a little and report the results I'm very much interested and I bet Deltrus would like to have you in his overclocking leaderboard! Can always tune it down afterwards.

[Cusco]

I love the black and white theme you got going for your room there =p

Haha, well, I convert to B/W when I can't bother to optimize colors (I'm a nitpicking pixel-peeper).

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Hey, looks like we've got the same type of chair!

Everything in those pictures is really, really tidy; I'm extremely envious.

[BicycleMafioso]

Cusco, I am disappoint. You are a photographer, using a TN-panel. And a 16:9 1080p 27".

Either way, I'll have to follow suit soon, then.

[DeltrusDisc]

I bet Deltrus would like to have you in his overclocking leaderboard!

Needs more people. People even if you only OC'd by 100MHz, I don't care, join the boards!

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Either way, I'll have to follow suit soon, then.

Yeah, we haven't seen too many pictures of your whole setup, tbf!

[Cusco]

Cusco, I am disappoint. You are a photographer, using a TN-panel. And a 16:9 1080p 27".

It's a matter of economy and practicality. I am a photographer, but an amateur one. I also play games, in which 2560x1600 would highly affect the performance. IPS is, indeed, much more suitable for displaying graphical aesthetics in all its forms, but they're generally much more expensive (even rather so at 1080p) and I work part-time. I also think that I have a gigantic lot to learn when it comes to achieving optimal colors in PhotoShop in the first place and the people viewing my pictures, I would assume, are most often using 1080p TN-panels themselves. So my practical and realistic needs for 16:10 IPS is not worth the impact on my economy.

I understand that you aren't all too serious in your disappointment, I just have a habbit of responding with walls, or at least lower fences of text.

[Drunkenvalley]

The U2312HM is a very respectable e-IPS monitor, which is also quite suitable for gaming. If you need something to look out for.
/shameless marketing for the monitor being used

[Djinni]

LG has a very good and rather cheap 23" IPS screen range ;-) Cheap enough that they are price competitive with TN-panels.

[Cusco]

Well, I could either get this 27" screen with speakers No, they'll never be as good as actual brand speakers and I have such too, but I do "attend LAN-parties" (never figured out the English term) on a monthly basis and there it's convenient, or I could get a significantly smaller screen without speakers, but with more colors....that I don't need yet, and most people can't see, because they haven't got IPS-screens themselves.

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Case - Fractal design refine R3 (USB 3.0 edition)
CPU - i5-3570K @ 4.3GhZ
RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance
PSU - Coolermaster GX650W
SSD - 120GB OCZ SSD
HDD - 2TB HDD
Mobo - Asus P8Z77-V
GPU - GTX 670
CPU Cooler - Coolermaster hyper TX3

I'm happy with it. Built it a couple of days ago.

[BicycleMafioso]

The U2312HM is a very respectable e-IPS monitor, which is also quite suitable for gaming. If you need something to look out for.
/shameless marketing for the monitor being used

But not for photowork, since it's a 6bit panel, meaning it has to simulate a portion of its colours anyway, and while the representation is better, it's still not as good as an 8bit or a 10bit. Or even a 12bit simulating 10bit!
Either way, the PA238Q is an 8bit, 1920x1080 monitor that is affordable and 'good enough' at that level (ie, really good, but not literally the best).
Or maybe I'm just too much of a perfectionist.

The lighting makes my laptop screen not blend well with the rest of the setup *grumpy* Either way.
Going to upload a few pictures tomorrow. Street-hockey time.

[Drunkenvalley]

But not for photowork, since it's a 6bit panel, meaning it has to simulate a portion of its colours anyway, and while the representation is better, it's still not as good as an 8bit or a 10bit. Or even a 12bit simulating 10bit!

I can't help but feel there's some huge-ass conspiracy towards completely neglecting this sort of information before either immediately after or long after the product can't be returned lol. Because this is completely new information for me. /durr

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I can't help but feel there's some huge-ass conspiracy towards completely neglecting this sort of information before either immediately after or long after the product can't be returned lol. Because this is completely new information for me. /durr

Well, while we are on the subject...

I found out after purchasing my U2711 that it isn't actually a "true" 10bit monitor, but rather 8bit with AFRC. It's a bit of a let down because DELL themselves say this (U2711 specifications):

1.07 billion colour panel (10-bit), 12-bit internal processing, 102% NTSC colour gamut

Anyway, it will display 16.7 million colours accurately (natively?) and paired with ADRC it can emulate 1.07 billion (?) colours.

[nocturnus]

My new rig:

Mobo: Asus Maximus V Gene Z77
CPU: Intel Ivy Bridge i7 3770k @ 4.8ghz - 39° celcius idle - 70° celcius load after an hour of prime95 - Δ levels are minus 21°
Memory: 8gb Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 Low Profile @1600mhz
CPU cooler: Corsair H100
SSD: Intel 520 120GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001, 3TB * 2
GPU: Asus GTX670-DC2T-2GD5
psu: Zalman ZM850-HP
Chassis: Corsair Obsidian 650D

Mouse: Corsair M90
Keyboard: Corsair K90



Only thing I don't like is the stupid side window, it feels so childish. Anyway, they didn't have any 650D without a window so I took it as is.