Post your gaming setup!

[Dimsumlol]

Yes, it's a few MM away from the side panel window.

[DeltrusDisc]

Yes, it's a few MM away from the side panel window.

It's not getting very good airflow then. I am sure your temperatures are fine, otherwise you would probably have changed it, but it's definitely choked and could perform better. Hardwarecanucks proved the whole fans up against window thing a bad decision recently.

Long story short, higher temps, higher noise because the fan works harder.

[Dimsumlol]

In my original post I indicated it's for aesthetics only and that I use the regular panel when using the computer.

[DeltrusDisc]

Didn't make the connection. Whether it were a window or not, doesn't matter. What matters is the fan up against a wall. There's nothing feeding it, essentially.

[Dimsumlol]

Never seen an M1? The whole side panel is ventilated.

https://www.sfflab.com/products/ncase_m1

[DeltrusDisc]

Never seen an M1? The whole side panel is ventilated.

https://www.sfflab.com/products/ncase_m1

Haven't!

And that helps.

There's so many cases where that's not the case and people pushing up GPUs and such to closed-panels. =/

Otherwise, I want to mention, your whole setup is absolutely lovely! And love the Schiit! And Sennheisers. <3

[pansertjald]

Did some upgrades this last month.

Razer Ornata Chroma
Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum
SteelSeries QCK Heavy Gaming mouse pad
Acer 27" Predator LED G-Sync XB271HU
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink - Black EK m.2 nvme heatsink black

Will post a pics when i get the GFX card, wich should come mid next week (I hope). I i finally installed the purple Corsair fans.
I returned the Sound BlasterX AE-5. After some more testing, there just wasn't enough of a different between the AE-5 and my old Sound Blaster Z and to get the RGB working on the AE-5, you have to use a 4 pin molex, wich looks stupid and the cable was to hard to hide (What the hell was Creative thinking about?)

[DeltrusDisc]

Did some upgrades this last month.

Razer Ornata Chroma
Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum
SteelSeries QCK Heavy Gaming mouse pad
Acer 27" Predator LED G-Sync XB271HU
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink - Black EK m.2 nvme heatsink black

Will post a pics when i get the GFX card, wich should come mid next week (I hope). I i finally installed the purple Corsair fans.
I returned the Sound BlasterX AE-5. After some more testing, there just wasn't enough of a different between the AE-5 and my old Sound Blaster Z and to get the RGB working on the AE-5, you have to use a 4 pin molex, wich looks stupid and the cable was to hard to hide (What the hell was Creative thinking about?)

Are your NVMe drives actually thermally throttling? Which ones do you have?

[pansertjald]

Are your NVMe drives actually thermally throttling? Which ones do you have?

No it's not thermally throttling, but i did see some high temps last summer, so to be on the safe side, i went ahead and ordered a heatsink for it. It's a Samsung evo 960 250GB

[DeltrusDisc]

No it's not thermally throttling, but i did see some high temps last summer, so to be on the safe side, i went ahead and ordered a heatsink for it. It's a Samsung evo 960 250GB

Dang, not even the big heat generator that is the 2TB version. That one totally did throttle when TTL/OC3D used it.

Still, hope the sink helps!

[gegalfo]

Dang, not even the big heat generator that is the 2TB version. That one totally did throttle when TTL/OC3D used it.

Still, hope the sink helps!

if nothing else it looks nice

[DeltrusDisc]

if nothing else it looks nice

He linked to one in his post.

[pansertjald]

Did some upgrades this last month.

Razer Ornata Chroma
Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum
SteelSeries QCK Heavy Gaming mouse pad
Acer 27" Predator LED G-Sync XB271HU
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink - Black EK m.2 nvme heatsink black

Will post a pics when i get the GFX card, wich should come mid next week (I hope). I i finally installed the purple Corsair fans.
I returned the Sound BlasterX AE-5. After some more testing, there just wasn't enough of a different between the AE-5 and my old Sound Blaster Z and to get the RGB working on the AE-5, you have to use a 4 pin molex, wich looks stupid and the cable was to hard to hide (What the hell was Creative thinking about?)

Adding a i7 7700k to the upgrades. Im getting it for 188EU, so i could not say no to that deal and it should prevent me from bottlenecking with the GTX 1080 in new AA titles above 100Hz in 1440p

[Denpepe]

Adding a i7 7700k to the upgrades. Im getting it for 188EU, so i could not say no to that deal and it should prevent me from bottlenecking with the GTX 1080 in new AA titles above 100Hz in 1440p

at that resolution and fps your GPU will be the bottleneck in most modern AAA games, still a nice upgrade though, especially for that price.

[SoulForge]

I think I posted sometime in past here but not sure what page that was even on.

New setup is much different;

✅ CPU: AMD Threadripper 1950X (12% OC giving it a 3.8 Base clock)
✅ GPU: Gigabyte GeForce 980 Ti (GV-N98TG1)
✅ Memory: 32.0GB Quad-Channel DDR4 @ 3200MHz (14-14-14-34)
✅ MOBO: GIGABYTE X399 AORUS Gaming 7
✅ Cooling: Enermax LIQTECH TR4 240mm AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Exclusive for AMD Threadripper
✅ PSU: Corsair AX860
✅ Microphone:Audio Technica - AT2020USBi
✅ Headset/Sound: Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO, 250 ohms
✅ Keyboard: Ideazon Merc Stealth Illuminated Gaming Keyboard
✅ Mouse: Logitech G600

Video card hasn't been updated because of the cost of one has sky rocketed.

Used for streaming/gaming/encoding.

[bowchikabow]

Had to do my rebuild sooner than I hoped. HDD died (thankfully I do weekly backups), and one of my DDR3 ram sticks went bye-bye.

old -> new
AMD FX 4300 3.8ghz -> AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Stock AM3 cpu heatsink/fan -> included Wraith spire cooler
Biostar mATX board -> Asus Prime B350Plus red LED
16gb DDR3 HyperX -> 16gb DDR4-2666 HyperX
PNY GeForce 650ti -> Gigabyte Geforce 1050ti Windforce OC edition
Seagate 500gb HDD -> Samsung 960 evo 250gb SSD w/ WD blue 2tb sata for storage
LG 16x dvdr -> LG 32x Bluray R/RW
TP Link N300 wireless -> TP Link AC1600 wireless (not a waste since we have fiber, and an AC router)
PSU is unchanged: EVGA 850w modular (only 6mo old)
Case is unchanged: Thermaltake v2 black mid-tower. added 3 120m red LED case fans for air channeling
AOC E2770SHE 27" TN LED Monitor... purchased in December, so no need to upgrade either.
Corsair K70 MXcherry mechanical keyboard, Logitech g602 wireless mouse, and Logitech g233 headset (all 3 were acquired in August)

total cost was > $1,000. Honestly, I feel like I am re-experiencing my games, the quality is so much better.

[Drunkenvalley]

hello




Also, specs I guess.

CPU: i7 58209
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S
Mobo: Sabertooth X99
RAM: 4x 8GB G.skill 2166 MHz (I think?)
GPU: GTX 1070
SSD: Samsung Evo 1TB
HDD1: Toshiba 2TB (2.5")
HDD2: WD Green 3TB (3.5")
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G3 750w
Case: xforma MBX MKII

[DeltrusDisc]

Holy shit! Drunkenvalley!

How's it going? Good to see you post. ^_^ More pictures, please. ;P

[Drunkenvalley]

That's the plan. Right now I'm still working out the details of watercooling this thing though, so I might be a little slow on that. Hopefully not "a few years" slow though. :P

[kail]

hello

I'm trying to understand the 2nd pic. Are you gaming in heaven?