Post your gaming setup!

[Gouca]

Hilarious. Everytime I see a DCII cooler, it's so goddamn heavy it sags to the right.

Haha yeah, had wires there at first to support it 'cause I thought the mobo would suffer

[Grraarrgghh]

Haha yeah, had wires there at first to support it 'cause I thought the mobo would suffer

Well, for what it's worth, mine's been sagging there since last September and neither PCB or the PCI-E port have cracked/broke, so it (in theory) is supported enough.

You might wanna get that third screw in there though...couldn't hurt anyway ;D

[Tradewind]

GTX 690 on the way!

3x BenQ XL2420T's next!

/vigorousselfsatisfaction

[Xuvial]

Haha yeah, had wires there at first to support it 'cause I thought the mobo would suffer

Dude that sag looks very unhealthy, it appears you've been letting your DCII hang like that for a while - I never let mine have a chance to sag and propped it up with a whiteboard marker right away. While I'm fairly sure it's not damaging your PCI slot...that early DCII design wasn't fully "boxed" like the new and improved GTX680/7970 designs which seemingly keep themselves straight right from the PCB.
That severely bent look of it....argh :S

[kidsafe]

If you only have two PCI bracket screws, at least take one out of the middle hole and put one in the top...

[Gouca]

If you only have two PCI bracket screws, at least take one out of the middle hole and put one in the top...

Hehe it won't help at all - the metal slot base just bends.

[Drunkenvalley]

New setup...

Corsair 600T
Corsair AX 750 (should'a gone with 650 or 850 in retrospect)
Asus P8Z77 Deluxe (hence bunnyears on case)
Intel i5 2500k w/ stock cooler
Corsair Dominator 1600MHz @ 1.5v 16GB (2x8GB)
Corsair Force 3 240GB (velcro'd to case, not sure if I can get it off now)
EVGA GTX 680

[Gouca]

New setup...
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The stock heatsink looks so cute compared to the killer parts <3

[DeltrusDisc]

He gets a 680, Dominator RAM, and a stock heatsink. <3 Only Drunkenvalley.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Call it a minimalist approach to cooling, you get that lovely ram and that motherboard, the last thing you want to do is cover it with a kilogram of fans and aluminium fins I think the blue and the intel hologram on the sticker actually go quite well with the setup.

[Drunkenvalley]

It's not gonna last. I'm mostly making sure everything is in working order before the CPU and GPU coolers are removed and replaced with watercooling.

[DeltrusDisc]

inb4 Drunkenvalley builds a third random computer he doesn't need. ;P

btw update your signature buddy!

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

inb4 Drunkenvalley builds a third random computer he doesn't need. ;P

btw update your signature buddy!

Open an internet/gaming café!

[Drunkenvalley]

Truth be told, I have been pondering the idea of opening some sort of local place for such stuff, but I honestly haven't found a good location that seems even mildly sane alas, and there's a fair few logistics I want or need to sort out first if I'm even going to consider it seriously.

[Maruka]

I just finished building my second computer ever. Everything went really well, was hella fun to build! For lols ill post pics of my first build and then my new build in the morning. I think you guys will enjoy the personal progression ive made in the two builds!

[inux94]

First part of my new build arrived today, typical Post Danmark to be a week late with the package & trashing it.


Mostly just velcro, cable extenders & screws, they didn't have any white cables so I just got some black.

[Maruka]

Well i said last night i would post some pics so here they are. I think i posted this first one before but for reference this is my first ever build. i7 920, etc, did me great nothing broke on it ever in the time i had it, but it was time for something a bit newer! The second and third are what i built last night, obviously there is no video card right now but i have a 570 that i will put in it once i have all the initial set up and updates to bios and stuff done. I think my second build is a tad bit cleaner, funny what a bit of rl exp can do!

Yes i know i went overboard with psu and didnt need an expensive mobo but money isnt an issue and i probably will sli so i look at the psu as one ill use for the ages. My only other gripe is i should have got black ram not blue like a dummy >.>







new build is :
i5 3570k
16gb vengence 1600
256 crucial m4 ssd
2gb caviar black
gigabyte g1 sniper mobo
850 watt full modular psu
corsair 600t case
gtx 570 (for now, will be first upgrade)

I am just really happy it seems to working perfectly so far!! Loving the ssd load times, makes getting into the bios tricky sometimes!!

edit: and i have no idea what the mobo code is lol, doesnt seem to be hurting anything!

[DeltrusDisc]

Damn a Gigabyte G1 "insert military gunner position here" board. Don't see too many of those!

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Damn a Gigabyte G1 "insert military gunner position here" board. Don't see too many of those!

I'm happy they didn't go over the top crazy on this board compared to the ones in the past. It looks pretty good.

[Blulight]

Damn a Gigabyte G1 "insert military gunner position here" board. Don't see too many of those!

Here's to you, breaker of trends. We salute you.