Post your gaming setup!

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Well that looks hot.

I'm not that hot about the circle motif on the cpu block.

[DeltrusDisc]

Are you all ready to cry painfully?...

OS: Windows XP Professional 32-bit
Motherboard: Intel i865P Motherboard
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 at 3.0ghZ
Memory: 2gb DDR 400 (?)
Hard Drive: 150gb SAMSUNG SP1604N
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce 7600 GT 512mb
Sound Card: Built-In (Headphones)
Headphones: Gamecom 777
Monitor: Some crappy Japanese model TV Screen called YES
Mouse: Razer Naga
Mousepad: None
Keyboard: Some crappy old school COMPAQ keyboard


FEEL FOR ME GUYS... Feel for meeeee...

PENTIUM 4!!!! heheehe

Least you have some Caviar Blacks in RAID0. Or are they actually Caviler? Is that like an older series?

[deef]

4 hours seems slow for sure, wonder why that was. What firmware do you have on your m4? I have the m4 too and you absolutely need to be on 0309 at least or a later one like 000F I believe it is.

The M4 is new so it came with latest firmware.

Actually I had the same issue a while back and when i looked up the issue it turned out it was a USB device making the install hang at a certain point. It could also be other devices but my fix was to unplug my mouse and keyboard. After that there was no issue.

I'll have to try that next time, remove everything not needed for PC to run. (Got USB mouse and microphone). I'm trying to live without physical drives, so will continue to install from USB pen regardless.

[Grraarrgghh]

Alright, I'm not gonna post pics but I did upgrades on me and the fiancées PCs this week. New stats are as follows:

Mine

CPU: i5-3570k OC @ 4.3 (so far)
GPU: Asus 580 GTX DirectCUII OC @ 900/2150
RAM: 8 GB Patriot Gamer 2 1600
Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V PRO
SSD: Crucial M4 128gb
HDD: WD Caviar Black SATA III 1 TB (32 MB cache)

Accessories etc. listed in my prev post

Hers:

CPU: i5-2500k OC @ 4.1 (so far)
GPU: Asus 560ti 448 Core DirectCUII (no OC yet)
RAM: 8 GB Kingston Hyper X Blue 1600
Mobo: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
SSD: Crucial M4 128gb
HDD: WD Caviar Black SATA III 500 GB (32 MB cache)

Minor upgrade for me, but huge for her. Kicked up her benchmarks by ~45%...surprising amount of bottleneck from her old CPU (e8500 OC @ 3.8)

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My 2 year old setup still doing what it is supposed to do, but due for several upgrades within the next 6 months:

ASRock P55 Deluxe 3
Intel i5-760
Gefore 460 GTX SLI
4gig Ram
Samsung F1 Spinpoint 1TB
and some 850W power supply.

Peripherals:

My trusty Iiyama ProLite B2409HDS
Logitech G500
Razer Nostromo/Lycosa
Gioteck EX05 Wireless

I'm looking for a GPU and CPU upgrade. No idea how good my mobo will handle future upgrades. No idea if more than 4gig ram is necessary, but I might swap them out for 2*4 sticks. An SSD is on the list too, since my case has one of those SSD docks on top.

This was my first custom PC. Before I always bought those store-configured desktops. It's a bit peculiar really, since I know absolutely nothing about my PC (even though I have opened my case several times and fixed some mechanical issues, it doesn't look that complicated really. Only the intense wiring the techies from the webshop have done for me looks like it's quite a feat) I'm a bit 'scared' of upgrading.
Perhaps I'll just buy my upgrade parts from the webshop again and have them re-assemble it for a small fee. Or I might just do it myself with plenty of internet manuals

But it still runs BF3 maxed out, with shadows disabled (so not really maxed out ), so it'll be capable of running GW2, Black Ops 2 and the new Fifa/NBA games too.

It's also my first PC that allows me to run basically all recent games. And that at the age of 24. Bit sad

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http://i.imgur.com/WYLfP.png

So you don't have to click on the link that I posted earlier. :P

Yes, I love Logitech.

You can't see the case but it has a Cooler Master elite 330 case (though without the sidewindow, just a panel)
i5 2500 (not K, not K, just the locked version)
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ for that processor
GTX 460 1GB
8 GB G.Skill Ripjaws ram
Corsair 500CX PSU
AsRock DE/S3 mobo
Western Digital 500GB HDD
And a optical drive of course.

* User was infracted for oversized image

[Ghâzh]

I'm looking for a GPU and CPU upgrade. No idea how good my mobo will handle future upgrades. No idea if more than 4gig ram is necessary, but I might swap them out for 2*4 sticks. An SSD is on the list too, since my case has one of those SSD docks on top.

To be perfectly honest with you here, I wouldn't start upgrading that apart from an SSD. Not now, not yet. Like you said;

My 2 year old setup still doing what it is supposed to do, but due for several upgrades within the next 6 months.

If it's doing what it's supposed to, why upgrade? And in case you nevertheless decided to upgrade, you'd be stuck with "dead" socket meaning that board doesn't support the newest CPU's anymore. You'd have to buy motherboard, CPU and new RAM and GPU if you so desired. That'd be more like complete overhaul instead of upgrade so I just wouldn't do that yet. Wait for couple of years when it starts to struggle to keep up and then buy the newest (which will be far superior compared to what you could buy now which'd be minorly better than what you have now). That's what I'd do anyway.

Oh and if you're looking for a nicely priced, great performing and solid quality SSD, check out the Samsung 830. As far as installing it yourself it's a piece of cake. Screw in, plug the 2 wires and go. Installing a GPU would be similar (infact, so would pretty much anything inside your PC).

[protput]

/excited!

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To be perfectly honest with you here, I wouldn't start upgrading that apart from an SSD. Not now, not yet. Like you said;
If it's doing what it's supposed to, why upgrade? And in case you nevertheless decided to upgrade, you'd be stuck with "dead" socket meaning that board doesn't support the newest CPU's anymore. You'd have to buy motherboard, CPU and new RAM and GPU if you so desired. That'd be more like complete overhaul instead of upgrade so I just wouldn't do that yet. Wait for couple of years when it starts to struggle to keep up and then buy the newest (which will be far superior compared to what you could buy now which'd be minorly better than what you have now). That's what I'd do anyway.

Oh and if you're looking for a nicely priced, great performing and solid quality SSD, check out the Samsung 830. As far as installing it yourself it's a piece of cake. Screw in, plug the 2 wires and go. Installing a GPU would be similar (infact, so would pretty much anything inside your PC).

Thanks for the advice. The SSD is coming soon, so that should be quite the upgrade. The moment I have to go to Low, it's a sign that I need something new. I've never really been used to perfect graphics, but then again I tend to play older games anyway. So that 'Low' might be far, far off

[Xuvial]

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/excited!

Impressive PC360 is basically an HD558 with a mic attached.

[Sweetleader]

Impressive PC360 is basically an HD558 with a mic attached.

Amazing headset. Been using one personally for over a year and I love it.

[Usako]

I got my HDD working today when i finished up my cable management. I have more plans of making all my cables blue and a lot of modding work but it will have to wait until i get some more money again. Anyway for now here is the results!

Terrible cable management back behind:


Inside the case:




Outside the case:







Please don't make fun of the awful panel in my room :P

I tried to take a picture in the dark with no camera flash and it was terrible. The blue lighting off the fans is really nice and makes the inside of the case look just as nice as well.

[VaporX]

Jelous of those rigs

[Konijntjes]

Got a new pc:
Define XL
Intel i7 3770K + Mugen 2 rev b
Corsair 8gb Vengeance 1600 mhz
Asus 670 gtx dcii
intel ssd
samsung 500gb x2 raid 0
lg bluray player

Dell u2711
Logitech mx performance and g110

Denon avr 1611
Jamo s608
Jamo s60 cen
Jamo s602 rear

DT 770 pro headset

Picture of the pc will be shortly going to do cable management on monday and get some good pictures with my dslr

Also cant post any links >.<

[Xuvial]

Please don't make fun of the awful panel in my room :P

I tried to take a picture in the dark with no camera flash and it was terrible. The blue lighting off the fans is really nice and makes the inside of the case look just as nice as well.

Just letting you know that the 3rd fan (closest to exhaust) on your PH-TC14 cooler is doing absolutely nothing, most likely hindering airflow.


Otherwise nice tidy-looking rig, love the blue theme you've got going there.

[Konijntjes]

Looking good but how are you going to close youre case on the back side panel ?

I got my HDD working today when i finished up my cable management. I have more plans of making all my cables blue and a lot of modding work but it will have to wait until i get some more money again. Anyway for now here is the results!

Terrible cable management back behind:

Please don't make fun of the awful panel in my room :P

I tried to take a picture in the dark with no camera flash and it was terrible. The blue lighting off the fans is really nice and makes the inside of the case look just as nice as well.

[Drunkenvalley]

So got new stuff, including the sidepanel as done by Corsair. Honestly, it seems a bit more frail than the one I have already... Two of these quick-DCs will be replacing my reservoir (ie fill up the loop, bleed and then disconnect), because my pump will be installed into this. The latter will be used in the Cosmos II's waterloop, the parts of which should arrive soon'ish.

[Xuvial]

Corsair AIR series? Are those the AP or SP ones? On paper they look like real performers, hope they turn out nice for you.

It's a toss-up between SP series and Scythe GT's for me.

[Drunkenvalley]

Corsair AIR series? Are those the AP or SP ones? On paper they look like real performers, hope they turn out nice for you.

It's a toss-up between SP series and Scythe GT's for me.

They are the Corsair Air SP120 Quiet Edition fans.

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They are the Corsair Air SP120 Quiet Edition fans.

is the ticking sound you can hear in the 75% of the video coming from the fan?