Woohoo! Look forward to the OP of the glorious Post Your Gaming Setup thread posting an update! It's been a long time. ;p
Well - it's been a long while since I've had the chance to visit this thread, but I've just gone out and splashed a ton of cash on my next build with Haswell out now. Needless to say, I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas with everything due to hit my doorstep tomorrow. Hoorah! So the build will be as follows;
PC
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z87-G1.Sniper 5
CPU: Intel i7 Haswell 4770k 3.6Ghz
GPU: EVGA 3GB GTX780
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Black 1600MHz
HDD: Western Digital 1TB Caviar Green
SSD: 2x Sandisk Extreme 120GB 500/550 R/W
Cooler: Corsair Hydro H100i
Case: NZXT Phantom 620
Peripherals
Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth 2012
Mouse: SteelSeries Cataclysm/Razer Naga Epic
Needless to say, I can't wait to get the beast running
Any chance you can return the SSD's (assuming they're both new) and just get one larger capacity? Granted with 16GB and I7 I assume you're doing a lot of rendering/workload, still one large should be fine.
Alas, sadly not at this point - the parts are ordered and on the road according to my latest invoice update. The entire build is brand spanking new. but you are right to assume there will be plenty of work going on soon enough. Plenty of bits of content to come over on Gamebreaker.tv that I'll be having a first hand in, and other bits of content that will reach the recesses of the internet soon enough.
My reasoning for the 2 SSD's and Hard drive may baffle some, but in my OCD mind, makes things a lot simpler. HDD will primarily be for music, pictures and a lot of my programs in general.
SSD #1 shall be specifically for duel booting 2 OS's and a few games (StarCraft, WoW and a few others that I can throw on). SSD#2 Will have a large part in direct recording videos and pretty much nothing more at this point, I'm yet to make the decision - but the overlooming goal is start with the GTX 780 - wait until the 900 series and SLI 2 cards from there and move one of the SSD's into RAID 0 in the future.
I'm not sure if a Sandforce based drive is the best choice for recording video to, incompressible data is kind of their weak side.
Intel i5-3570K @ 4.7GHz | MSI Z77 Mpower | Noctua NH-D14 | Corsair Vengeance LP White 1.35V 8GB 1600MHz
Gigabyte GTX 670 OC Windforce 3X @ 1372/7604MHz | Corsair Force GT 120GB | Silverstone Fortress FT02 | Corsair VX450
Latest firmware updates seemed to have fixed the issues SanDisk had for quite some time So I'm not that worried.
His concerns about Sandforce based disks are still a real one though.
Last edited by Punisher; 2013-06-04 at 09:11 PM.
My first build:
Storage: Kingston SSD Now V200+ 120G and WD Caviar Blue HDD 500 G
Processing Units: i5-3570k @ 3.8 Ghz cooled by 212 Evo and MSI Twin Frozr 3, R7850 @ 900, 1200
Mobo, Ram, PSU Gigabyte Z77-D3H and G.Skill ripjaw 2x 4G with XFX 550w
If I am unreadable, its not because I hate grammar, its because Im french-canadian
We're supposed to post pictures so here:
I finally got my hands on a second 780.
Pulled out the 7970 (I had one not yet given away to compare OpenCL). pulled out a pair of hard disks because the shape of the nvidia cards is different and the cables from the cables out the back of the drive get in the way. Install the second card, add sli bridge and … nothing. Curse for a few hours trying to figure out WTF is wrong. Apparently Asus makes exactly z77 motherboard that supports crossfire but not sli - and somehow I've got one. So now I've got like ~$1100 worth of graphics cards sitting on my desk while I find a new motherboard/cpu.
You can laugh at my poor planning and lack of research.
Last edited by a21fa7c67f26f6d49a20c2c51; 2013-06-05 at 08:31 AM.
Try this. It uses virtualization to emulate SLI certificates essentially and there's tons of people who have got it working. If it does work(which I'm 99.9% sure it will) then it will run exactly like normal SLI.
SLI functions based on an embedded certificate in your motherboards bios. All this ends up doing is using virtualization to emulate these certificates that the Nvidia drivers use to verify SLI support (basically it all depends on if the manufacturer opts to pay the licensing fee to Nvidia to certify a board and this works around that).
Last edited by Saithes; 2013-06-05 at 08:30 AM.
It is an asus p8z77v-l k or v, I don't recall which, but it's obviously the crap one.
I didn't care about either when I got it: the purpose was to run automated tests on code for work more quickly (opencl).
I started playing games more, discovered crossfire worked and never thought twice until the micro stutter drove me nuts: hence the nvidia cards.
Stuck in traffic on my way to the shop to fix it now. So the question is: which z89 board to go with?
Asus z89-pro seems not horrible, there's a slight discount on a gigabyte z89x-udh5, and there may be one Maximus hero left in stock. I think there may be those tuf asus boards too but I'm not sold "thermal armour" nonsense and it seems wasteful to pay $50 for plastic spoilers.
Comments/advice, I've got like 20 minutes.
http://i.imgur.com/TA98Qh.jpg inside pic
http://i.imgur.com/50k6TuG.jpg battlestation as a whole
dell u3011
viewsonic 22" and 27"
sony reciever
jvc 6x9 and MIK tower speakers
dynavoice subwoofer
2700k @ 4.8GHz
32gb dominator platinum 2133MHz (not in the original picture)
2x asus dcii top gtx 680
256gb ocz vertex 4 ssd
4tb hdd
gigabyte X68 mobo
Originally Posted by cryo85Originally Posted by ElementiumOriginally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
It's his alright. Beautiful setup, although I never liked the DF cases myself.
Original gallery here:
http://www.sweclockers.com/galleri/1...-vattenkylning
It's ok but I'm not a big fan of how everything is...white... I mean even the LEDs inside? That's really bland for my taste.
The Fractal Design Define R4 is calling.
It would look good.
Or the NZXT Switch 810. Specifically the white and black one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811146088