Post your gaming setup!

[DeltrusDisc]

Woohoo! Look forward to the OP of the glorious Post Your Gaming Setup thread posting an update! It's been a long time. ;p

[Deleted]

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

[Deleted]

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.

[Deleted]

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.

[n0cturnal]

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.

[Deleted]

Latest firmware updates seemed to have fixed the issues SanDisk had for quite some time So I'm not that worried.

[BicycleMafioso]

His concerns about Sandforce based disks are still a real one though.

[Belize]

Try taking a pic without flash on, or without the plastic shit in front of it lol

Bah, I've already posted pictures of it before, it was just to show that it didn't have a GPU.

[Punisher]

I gave that computer to my wife. She's been asking for a new PC for quite a while so I thought I could give it to her and get myself a Haswell build.

Also yeah about the thermal paste part.. god that part scares me the most when it comes to building PCs, but I'll try my best to do it myself. Will see how things will go.

I understand you man, I need to clean my paste and Im like... "nooooo I don't want tooo"

Latest firmware updates seemed to have fixed the issues SanDisk had for quite some time So I'm not that worried.

Sandforce is the controller of many SSD, they are slow with uncompressed data if I recall correctly

[a21fa7c67f26f6d49a20c2c51]

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.

[Saithes]

We're supposed to post pictures so here:

I finally got my hands on a second 780.
Pulled out the 7970 (I had on left in there to compare OpenCL). pulled out a pair of hard disks because the shape of the 780 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.

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).

[Majesticii]

if SLI is not supported. Chances are your board is 16x4x anyway. Hardly the setup you want a 780SLi to run at.

[a21fa7c67f26f6d49a20c2c51]

if SLI is not supported. Chances are your board is 16x4x anyway. Hardly the setup you want a 780SLi to run at.

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.

[Dentoid]

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

[DeltrusDisc]

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

HOLY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

Is that really yours? That thing is pooeidfhjeprihjgger BEAUTIFUL!!! O_O

Also, your motherboard is Z68*.

[Deleted]

It's his alright. Beautiful setup, although I never liked the DF cases myself.

Original gallery here:
http://www.sweclockers.com/galleri/1...-vattenkylning

[Belize]

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.

[BicycleMafioso]

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.

It's tasteful and stilrent!
Red and blue are rather commonplace and, in my humble opinion, quite tacky most often.

[Deleted]

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

What a sham that the case is really ugly. Atleast in my opinion. I would love to be able to get my plans going with my computer, just cash being a bit short as a student.

[DeltrusDisc]

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