Post your gaming setup!

[Drunkenvalley]

Look at the size of the bloody box the CPU comes in!!!

The picture looked like a frigging illustration, not an actual product, lol.

Also, off by 10w? You said 300! 75% load on the 850w is a bloody 637.50 watts. O_O

When saying off by 10w, I mean I was saying I don't think it exceeds 100w. It's apparently expected to be at 112w.

[DeltrusDisc]

Isn't that what they said was the 680 alone?

Bah, either way, I was definitely incorrect, however, 75% load seems high to trigger the fan.

[Drunkenvalley]

Isn't that what they said was the 680 alone?

It's the full system load, not the GPU's load. Says right there on the tin.

[Ringko]

[...] @ Ringko. Nice build. Don't like the quality of the picture or the cable management though.
Is that a Model M?

Haha yeah, I wasn't thinking straight there; taking pictures against my closed white window blinds with their unfortunate light amplification (iPhone camera too). And cable management did get downprioritized since I'd need to crawl under my desk with a flashlight to properly see the insides of the case through the window anyways.

The PSU is a model M, but could just as easily gone with a non-modular version, as I'm using the same amount of cables anyway, d'oh.

[crazypearce]

just curious what some of you guys use for cable management? i have three monitors and a bunch of peripherals connected to a power strip which has 4 or 5 rather thick cables plugged into it. it's got so crazy that i need to sort it out because the wires bunched everywhere are where my feet would like to be, but it's just not possible with them all stacked up.

you can see how bad it is here.

[Drunkenvalley]

I personally just bought a strip of velcro, stuck it to the powerstrip and stuck said strip to the underside of my desk...

[crazypearce]

I personally just bought a strip of velcro, stuck it to the powerstrip and stuck said strip to the underside of my desk...

ooo, not a bad idea mate, i'll buy some at work tomorrow!

[Asera]

I used a bunch of zip ties and tie mounts under my desk to secure the cables behind a piece of wood that comes about a foot down under it, so they are behind there.

Also, the HyperV server has been swapped. Pictures soon!

---------- Post added 2012-07-21 at 09:28 PM ----------

First, the workstation as it appeared before this swap.


Shortly into the initial teardown...


Then we got the inside of the Define XL shortly before that teardown...


Partially into the rebuild of the server components into the Define R3...


And the finished product!


...And the irritating cable management job on the other side!

[DeltrusDisc]

WTB specs list Asera, including networking cards. ;p

[Asera]

WTB specs list Asera, including networking cards. ;p

I listed them before. All that's changed is the case!

Fractal Design Define R3
Asus M4A89GTD Pro USB3
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T w/ AC Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
16GiB DDR3-1333 (2x G.Skill RJX, 2x Mushkin Silverline)
Intel Pro1000CT PCIe NIC
Intel Pro1000GT PCI NIC
DLink DGE-530T (I think) NIC
Antec Truepower New 750W
2x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB
1x WD Caviar Blue 1TB
1x Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB
1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB (So far the only Seagate drive I've owned that hasn't failed!)
LG IDE DVD drive
4x 120mm Yate Loon fans
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacentre (For the Host OS)

[Drunkenvalley]

1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB (So far the only Seagate drive I've owned that hasn't failed!)

*knocks on wood*

Anyway, here's hoping the Cosmos II doesn't take to long to ship. Still no sign of it.

[CheezusCrust]

I wouldn't be surprised if the postman took another Cosmos for his brother. :P

@Asera, love the cable management, I'm far too lazy to do such stuff :C

[Asera]

*knocks on wood*

Fortunately its only function is a mirror of the backup server's storage drive.

So all it has is backups of stored system images, and an Exchange database.

[Xuvial]

ooo, not a bad idea mate, i'll buy some at work tomorrow!

Yup my main goal is to keep the cables off the ground and out of my legs. Also makes vacuuming easier since I'm on a carpeted surface. Bunch the cables together with cable ties (or twist ties).

[Drunkenvalley]

I wouldn't be surprised if the postman took another Cosmos for his brother. :P

Neither case has reached the first shipping company. (I'm not sure why there are two shipping companies involved in the first place, but hey.) The second case was put into the process on late Friday because they were being tardy, but basically it should be leaving on Monday.

[Ghâzh]

Most likely it's some bigger logistics company that has outsourced some departments and it appears as two altough it's basically working as one. I.e one car brings the goods to their terminal and another ships it to your house.

[Drunkenvalley]

No. Posten & Tollpost are two different companies. It's very common practice to default to Posten if for whatever reason you otherwise can't deliver the package though. They are always near-guaranteed to have an office in your general region.

The reason I react to Tollpost handing off the package to Posten in the first place is that they claim they don't have delivery depot in my area. Which is so silly it's funny; the closest depot is literally within line of sight from the nearest streetcorner.

[Ghâzh]

Heh Crazy norwegians..!

[crazypearce]

courier companies... don't even get me started. pretty much every major site here in the UK uses either Yodel or City Link and they are terrible. I can't even remember the amount of times I have paid for next day delivery or saturday delivery and have waited in all day to receive nothing. My Corsair 600T and Noctua NHD14 were over 5 days late (paid £20 for next day delivery!) and it was only delivered because I phoned up both the courier and shop I purchased it from to complain.

I was hoping to buy a sound card and modular power supply so I can fit them on my day off on Tuesday but I pretty much know they won't arrive on time, which is really frustrating, so I think I'll hold off a little longer to get some better parts.

[Asera]

Workstation is done. What an endeavour that was.