Post your gaming setup!

[BicycleMafioso]

They've been nice to me before in a similar case with a used RAM stick. I hope they still value customer lovin' as much as they did a couple of years ago. Doesn't hurt to ask

Yea, true. I just meant that you'd have no backing by law; They don't have to help you, but they can. It also depends on the individual salesman.

[Drunkenvalley]

However, normal guarantee does, as well as a different sort of "guarantee" (called "reklamasjonsrett" in Norway). If it positively does not work and this is not due to user error...

At least that's how it works in Norway, but it could be entirely different elsewhere.

[Wries]

However, normal guarantee does, as well as a different sort of "guarantee" (called "reklamasjonsrett" in Norway). If it positively does not work and this is not due to user error...

At least that's how it works in Norway, but it could be entirely different elsewhere.

My P8Z68 Deluxe definitely really works. Harder to trade up giving them a broken board. Different cases, got lots of motherboards ;O

[Shiikarii]

The Components
Processor: i5 2500k
Mobo: MSI P67A-GD53
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (Plan on upgrading or adding more)
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK (Plan on adding another for SLI)
PSU: Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze'
Cooling: Antec Kühler h2o 620
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus

Nothing has been overclocked yet... I've been too busy to spend a few hours messing around!

Some pics!








All pictures took on a Blackberry Torch, sorry for the quality

[conqq]

The Components
Processor: i5 2500k
Mobo: MSI P67A-GD53
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (Plan on upgrading or adding more)
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK (Plan on adding another for SLI)
PSU: Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze'
Cooling: Antec Kühler h2o 620
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus

Nothing has been overclocked yet... I've been too busy to spend a few hours messing around!

Some pics!

-snip-

All pictures took on a Blackberry Torch, sorry for the quality

Nice case. Love blue LEDs

[Xuvial]

Regarding CPU cooling, I've always wondered why Prolimatech's Megahalems series aren't more popular and widely-seen. Equipped with the right fans it can out-perform a D14 while still maintaining a single-tower design, isn't that great? It was originally aimed at LGA1366 but was later equipped to fit 1156/1155.

The neat split-tower design of the heatsink makes it the #1 best cooler out there when you consider that it's significantly smaller than a D14 or Silver Arrow.



(I'm also in love with it. Literally. It's the most beautiful piece of metal I've ever seen.)

[Rixis]

benches for that statement? out of curiosity

[Drunkenvalley]

Not just benches, but overclocked benches.

[pOO flinger]

That thing looks like a transformer in the bottom picture.

[DeltrusDisc]

That thing looks like a transformer in the bottom picture.

This. I saw the thumbnail and I'm like, "WTF?! Is that like lightning in the computer? Holy shit."

I knew it was LEDs but the way the picture was taken, the angles and everything, it seriously looks AWESOME.

[Xuvial]

Ok I may have exaggerated a little, it's difficult for a Megahalems to beat a D14 because D14 is one massive motherf**ker.
But it does come very close and it is possible to beat it if you load it up with 3000rpm Scythe Slipstreams (although it would get a *tad* loud).

http://www.frostytech.com/articlevie...d=2525&page=5:

Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme high 14.1 8.4 43.5
Noctua NH-D14 high 14.5 8.7 48.1
Spire Thermax Eclipse II 14.5 8.7 51.3
Thermaltake Frio high 14.5 8.8 62.6
Prolimatech Megahalems high 15.0 9.2 53.0
3Rsystem iceage 120 Boss II high 15.4 9.8 49.9
Titan TTC-NK85TZ high 15.5 8.8 58.6
Zaward Vapor 120 high 15.6 9.7 51.6
Thermolab BADA high 16.0 9.6 54.0
Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer high 16.1 10.0 51.3
Danamics LMX Extreme high 16.3 9.5 55.4
Zalman CNPS10X Quiet high 16.5 10.4 46.8

[Drunkenvalley]

A tad loud? ...You mean more like "How much do I hate my sense of hearing?"

[Xuvial]

A tad loud? ...You mean more like "How much do I hate my sense of hearing?"

Use a helicopter headset

[BicycleMafioso]

Regarding CPU cooling, I've always wondered why Prolimatech's Megahalems series aren't more popular and widely-seen. Equipped with the right fans it can out-perform a D14 while still maintaining a single-tower design, isn't that great? It was originally aimed at LGA1366 but was later equipped to fit 1156/1155.

The neat split-tower design of the heatsink makes it the #1 best cooler out there when you consider that it's significantly smaller than a D14 or Silver Arrow.

IIRC, This was regarded the top-dawg before the D14 hit the Americas. Equipped with the right fans, so can NH-D14 though.
Can't be bought over here (or couldn't not sure atm), so I'm neglecting to pay heed to it normally.

---------- Post added 2011-09-21 at 12:57 AM ----------

Use a helicopter headset

I don't like the concept of being forced into X to avoid Y.
I enjoy silence radiating from my computer, and I do enjoy my PC360. I don't enjoy being forced into things, though.

[Deleted]

My setup

i5 2500k (stock clock)
msi gtx 570 (stock clock)
8gb corsair vengance 1600MHz
650w corsair tx psu
msi p67a mb
coolermaster hyper 212
NZXT Phantom

peripherals
nameless keyboard
nameless mouse
Tritton 5.1 channel surround sound headset for gaming
Bose sound dock 10 for music
xbox elite

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/718/001lxo.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/002xwt.jpg/

edit: low quality images are from my iphone sorry

[Xuvial]

My setup

i5 2500k (stock clock)
msi gtx 570 (stock clock)

Overclock it.

[BicycleMafioso]

Overclock it.

While I agree that they have so much more potential when overclocked, I wouldn't say it's a good advice to give to people with brand new equipment.
IE, the voiding the warranty-parts. :P

[conqq]

While I agree that they have so much more potential when overclocked, I wouldn't say it's a good advice to give to people with brand new equipment.
IE, the voiding the warranty-parts. :P

Pfft. Warranties xD

[Xuvial]

While I agree that they have so much more potential when overclocked, I wouldn't say it's a good advice to give to people with brand new equipment.
IE, the voiding the warranty-parts. :P

So how long would you wait before you overclocked your brand new overclockable equipment?

[BicycleMafioso]

So how long would you wait before you overclocked your brand new overclockable equipment?

Me? Unboxing->30min camera -> Mounting -> 30min making sure drivers work as they should -> overclock!
But I know what I'm doing. Or at least, that's what I'm telling myself. I wouldn't count on everyone doing it. And I would advice people reading up far more than they need before doing it, because after all, I want them to know enough about it that they not only know they are voiding warranty, but how to do it without needing the warranty. :P