Post your gaming setup!

[mauserr]

It's indescriptible how much a good case helps with cable management. I've never bothered with it, but after getting a new case and an AIO cooler, I decided it's time to give it a shot and boy, was it trivial. Looks awesome as well. Love the black/purple/white look. I need to get an RGB strip for my desk and the case, perhaps behind the monitor as well, and get them all in some white/light pink/purple fade/gradient kind of thing. Damn that'll look awesome.

Desk cable management = irrelevant, can't see it when looking at the screen anyway, waste of time

[Temp name]

Finally got it all stress tested and ready (camera being a bitch and refuses to take decent resolution pictures)




Specs:
GPU: 2080ti at stock, it refuses to OC. It runs at 2045MHz core, 6800-7000MHz memory though
CPU: 9700k @5.0. Think I got a bad chip, since I can do 5.0 at stock voltage (1.2ish), but can't do 5.1 even at 1.4V.
Cooling: Corsair H150i Pro
RAM: 32gb of 3200MHz C16
MOBO: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON
Storage: 970 EVO 1TB + 6TB Seagate IronWolf
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G3 850W
Case: Lian-Li PC-O11
Fans: Noctua NF-F12 Chromax x5 (replacing the stock ML120's that came with the 150i pro)

Under full load (Aida64 FPU+GPU stress) my CPU gets to about 55C if I run fans at 100%, 75C if I use my normal profile (which has them inaudible under gaming loads), GPU gets to ~60C

In case anyone cares about peripherals:
Monitors:
Primary - HP Omen Z4D33AA 27" 1440p 165hz G-sync
Secondary - Samsung U28E590D 28" 4k 60hz
Mouse: G502
Keyboard: Custom built GH60 Satan with Cherry greens and Kailh box blues + G13 that I use occasionally.
Audio:
DAC/AMP - Steinberg UR22mkII
headphones - Sennheiser HD598 SE's
Mic - Blue Yeti with shock mount+pop filter
Tablet: Wacom Intuos Pro medium
Controler: Xbox One default controller

[joneson]

Antec NineHundred [4x 120mm fan, 1x 200mm top exhaust]
ASUS M4A89GTD Pro / USB3 [AM3, AMD 890GX]
AMD Phenom II X4 955BE [3.6ghz, C2 stepping, Deneb]
8GB Kingston DDR3-1333mhz ValueRAM [4x2GB, 8-8-8-24]
XFX Radeon HD 6870 [1GB GDDR5, 930mhz core, 4.4ghz RAM]

[Deleted]

Case: NZXT S340 midi ATX (CA-S340W-TH)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
cooler: BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4
mobo: Asus MB STRIX X470-F GAMING, AMD AM4
gpu: Sapphire RX 580 OC 4GB GDDR5
ssd: WD Green 240GB, 2,5"
ram: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB, DDR4, CL14 2400 DIMM
BeQuiet! Power 10 600W


Runs WoW on ultra smoothly at 60fps... even in Uldir, which is known as a shitfest when it comes to optimization.

I'd post a photo... but it's all in black.

[Nihilist74]

[shahidullah]

These all setups is so amazing.

[pansertjald]

Finally got it all stress tested and ready (camera being a bitch and refuses to take decent resolution pictures)
Specs:
GPU: 2080ti at stock, it refuses to OC. It runs at 2045MHz core, 6800-7000MHz memory though
CPU: 9700k @5.0. Think I got a bad chip, since I can do 5.0 at stock voltage (1.2ish), but can't do 5.1 even at 1.4V.
Cooling: Corsair H150i Pro
RAM: 32gb of 3200MHz C16
MOBO: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON
Storage: 970 EVO 1TB + 6TB Seagate IronWolf
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G3 850W
Case: Lian-Li PC-O11
Fans: Noctua NF-F12 Chromax x5 (replacing the stock ML120's that came with the 150i pro)

Under full load (Aida64 FPU+GPU stress) my CPU gets to about 55C if I run fans at 100%, 75C if I use my normal profile (which has them inaudible under gaming loads), GPU gets to ~60C

In case anyone cares about peripherals:
Monitors:
Primary - HP Omen Z4D33AA 27" 1440p 165hz G-sync
Secondary - Samsung U28E590D 28" 4k 60hz
Mouse: G502
Keyboard: Custom built GH60 Satan with Cherry greens and Kailh box blues + G13 that I use occasionally.
Audio:
DAC/AMP - Steinberg UR22mkII
headphones - Sennheiser HD598 SE's
Mic - Blue Yeti with shock mount+pop filter
Tablet: Wacom Intuos Pro medium
Controler: Xbox One default controller

Ho was it to build in that Lian-Li?. Im thinking of getting the air version of it

[Temp name]

Ho was it to build in that Lian-Li?. Im thinking of getting the air version of it

Incredibly easy. The only problems is that the hard drive cages on the back are right above the grommet you'd use for the 24 pin, so you need to pull one of them out to do that. There's plenty of space in the trunk for cable management, and all the panels come off fairly easy, but they don't pop off themselves.

The air seems to be quite a bit different though, but the overall layout should be the same, at least enough for it to still matter

[djshad]

i7 8700 the best

[DeltrusDisc]

Ho was it to build in that Lian-Li?. Im thinking of getting the air version of it

It seems, thanks to GamersNexus' video, the Dynamic version is best.

[pansertjald]

Incredibly easy. The only problems is that the hard drive cages on the back are right above the grommet you'd use for the 24 pin, so you need to pull one of them out to do that. There's plenty of space in the trunk for cable management, and all the panels come off fairly easy, but they don't pop off themselves.

The air seems to be quite a bit different though, but the overall layout should be the same, at least enough for it to still matter

Sounds good. But i have to wait a little for a case upgrade . My Gigabyte z270 G7 just died today after installing my new XPG SX8200 NVMe drive.

It just keeps running in loops trying to choose a bios and shows red light on the CPU LED on the mobo. I have tried every thing and nothing works, no mather what i do. I have tried two other CPU's and non of them works in the mobo.

So right now im using my brothers mobo while he's on x-mas holiday in Norway. All 3 CPU's works on that mobo, so the Gigabyte z270 G7 is dead and the shop warranty has run out, so i have had to buy a new board. I found an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS IX APEX for 260$. It was damn hard to find a z270 board that wasn't overpriced and was of a good quality. All the good z270 boards cost over 280$ here in Denmark and im not paying that much for a z270 board, so im happy to have found an APEX board that cheap, considering it's one of the best z270 boards you can get.

So a new case will have to wait for a while now, because im broke now with christmas and all

[pansertjald]

Ended up ordering a per of CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 16 GB along with the APEX to line up with the amazing LED light the APEX board has.

Looking forward to picking it all up thursday and hopefully getting it all up and running, so i can do some pics for this thread thursday

[Ange]

It's indescriptible how much a good case helps with cable management. I've never bothered with it, but after getting a new case and an AIO cooler, I decided it's time to give it a shot and boy, was it trivial.

Cable management in an "empty" case??? :O

1-2 extra PCI-E cards, a normal SSD-RAID0 strip, BACKUP and HDD storage (RAID1) alone fills up any big-tower case pretty much, there is not much room for fancy cable porn, a bit of cable ties here and there to make it sure no cables are damaged from the cooling or the case itself.

I am allways amazed when I look at minimalistic PC setups, with 1 drive, zero backup, zero data storage, its more like a console build with PC parts. We are close to 2019, everything is digital, memorys, history stored on our PC without any backups or redundancy?

Most of the setups I see could fit in a small barebone / console sized case - 2xRAM, 1CPU, 1PCIE, 1SSD, miniMB. There is not much cable management to do with so few parts.

[Erous]

I am allways amazed when I look at minimalistic PC setups, with 1 drive, zero backup, zero data storage, its more like a console build with PC parts. We are close to 2019, everything is digital, memorys, history stored on our PC without any backups or redundancy?

.

Maybe I misunderstood so forgive me, but it's almost 2019, isn't most of your important data backed up to the cloud?

[Temp name]

Maybe I misunderstood so forgive me, but it's almost 2019, isn't most of your important data backed up to the cloud?

I have cloud backups and physical backups. Cloud for things that aren't that big (pictures, music). Physical (so external drives) for things that take a lot of space, like videos, music, and a couple games.

Upgraded a month ago and got a new HDD, which meant moving ~1TB of data. Wouldn't want to do that through upload and download

[Cilraaz]

I need to get some photos of my updated build. I took my i7-8700k/GTX1070 out of my old NZXT Apollo case (zero cable management!) and put it in a Cooler Master H500 (blank, not the H500P). I saved about 15-20°C, which then let me increase from 4.8GHz to 4.9GHz, by having better cable management, more/better fans, a new heatsink, and a fresh application of Kryonaut. I plan to de-lid and either just let it run cooler or try for 5.0GHz.

I went from a 120mm intake with an 80mm exhaust and a single 120mm fan setup on a Xigmatek Dark Knight II to dual 200mm intakes, 200mm top exhaust, 120mm rear exhaust, and a triple 120mm push/pull setup on a Scythe Fuma Rev B. There's a touch more airflow now, lol.

The loudest component is the GPU. I'm running a Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 at 2113.5 MHz core and 9486 MHz vRAM. I really wanted to get it to 9500, but the next step up on either core or vRAM results in either artifacts or 3DMark Time Spy crashing. I went with a fairly aggressive fan curve, so even in FurMark, I can't get the GPU over roughly 63°C.

Even with the mass of fans and the fairly aggressive fan curves, the noise isn't too bad (for me... I'm sure it would drive some people insane). From the left edge of my desk (the tower is on the floor to the left of the desk), with FurMark and AIDA64 running, I measure about 49 dBA. I get CPU core temps in the mid-80°C range and a GPU temp of 63°C. With a de-lid, I'm hoping to chop another 10°C off the core temps.

I'll try to grab some pics at some point.

[Ange]

Maybe I misunderstood so forgive me, but it's almost 2019, isn't most of your important data backed up to the cloud?

That's like telling people to use facebook publicly since it wont have any affects on your job/social life later on...

Any cloud backup requires cryptography on your side and every cryptography you use require additional backups. At best you could use a cloud service for your 2. or 3. backups IF you are aware how to use cryptography.

Not sure if you are trolling or serious.

[pansertjald]

Got my new Hardware today and holy shit that APEX board is amazing. I haven't had that much time with it yet, but i have tried some OC and this board just takes every thing i throw at it.

On my old Gigabyte z270 Gaming 7 i could not for the love of god get it to do more then 4.9GHz, no matter what i did. On the APEX board i did a 5.1GHZ OC with out any problems at all, at 1.375v and it was stable and temps was at 70c after 1 hour of prime95, so now im going to see how far i can push the i7 7700k delided.

I allso played a little with my new corsair vengeance rgb pro ddr4 3200MHz RAM and i got them to 3600MHz with 1.4v and CL17. Haven't done any higher atemps yet, so i will see if i can lower the volt and push them a little higher just to see what this monster of a board can do.

[Cilraaz]

I grabbed some shots of my new setup. I need to do a better job with the cables for the rear exhaust fan and then I need to better hide the front panel cables, even though they're completely behind. I'm not sure that I have any options on the heatsink fan cables at the top, either.

[pansertjald]

I grabbed some shots of my new setup. I need to do a better job with the cables for the rear exhaust fan and then I need to better hide the front panel cables, even though they're completely behind. I'm not sure that I have any options on the heatsink fan cables at the top, either.]

That case screams for a 360 rad in the front