Post your gaming setup!

[DeltrusDisc]

Surely you guys have electricity that can provide lighting with the proper lamp plugged into an outlet on the wall, no?

[Drunkenvalley]

I don't have lamps that aren't fixed to the roof.

[jries]

No hatin' on the Taylor Swift calendar and the rooster light switch :P, They were xmas presents XD





But yeah...current set up, bit messy with all the cords and what not but hey, it works

[DeltrusDisc]

How would anyone have known that was Taylor Swift? :O And nice setup, looks pretty decent. What mouse is that? Looks a fair bit like my Death Adder. Nice to see a non-Naga picture! XD

[jries]

How would anyone have known that was Taylor Swift? :O And nice setup, looks pretty decent. What mouse is that? Looks a fair bit like my Death Adder. Nice to see a non-Naga picture! XD

I figured I would state it before some one yelled "BOOBS IN THE TOP LEFT LOOOOL!!!!" As for the mouse, it is the Razer Lachesis. It took a bit getting used to, but the 9 buttons are more than enough for healing, tanking, and DPS

[Xaphire]

It looks like a Lachesis (the mouse)

[Deleted]

How would anyone have known that was Taylor Swift? :O And nice setup, looks pretty decent. What mouse is that? Looks a fair bit like my Death Adder. Nice to see a non-Naga picture! XD

I can name any girl by her boobs! Trust meh.

@jiries
PSP √
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iPhone √
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Siberia! <3 √

That's alot of stuff!

[haxs101]

Those 570s are right on top of each other... you can't be getting good temps...

Actually they're fine. I have them at 85% fan speed (which is max) 24/7. They're not THAT loud, compared to my old 5870, they're silent lol, that damn thing sounded like a jet at 45%.

The spacing is bad though, but its all I can do, they are fine though. Max temp is 80 on the first 1, and 60-70 on the 2nd one.

[Wries]

Those 570s are right on top of each other... you can't be getting good temps...

When it comes to radial fans, spacing between cards is much less of an issue.

haxs101 you are however using the wrong kind of SLI bridge. You should only use a single link. At least in the past, using dual link for only 2-way SLI resulted in bad performance.

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And i thought my tripple cooled gtx 580 were close. which btw in the awsome sause I am, i have them gently away from each other, using the packaging that came with the cards, made a make shift soft wedge to glide them in and keep them not touching each other, its turned out really well. The actual heatsink are on springs that can actualy take a bit of slack

on max they sit at a nice 65c they idel on 28-29c

[Tradewind]

i7-2600K
eVGA P67 FTW
8GB Mushkin Blackline DDR3-1600
eVGA GTX 570HD
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD
WD Black 1TB 64MB Cache HDD
Corsair TX750 V2 PSU
Silverstone TJ09B Case
Cooled by a modified CoolIT Eliminator with a proper reservoir, Swiftech GTZ cpu waterblock and Danger Den 12V Pump. TEC's ftw.

I had pictures...dunno where I hid them...if anyone actually interested I'll post. But likely not lol.

[DeltrusDisc]

We always want to see pictures, ESPECIALLY if there is water cooling! And it appears you have *REAL water cooling!*

[Tradewind]

We always want to see pictures, ESPECIALLY if there is water cooling! And it appears you have *REAL water cooling!*

I don't know about "real watercooling" haha, but these guys definitely put together an interesting package before Corsair bought them out. In fact the Corsair Hydro series is a culmination of CoolIT's products being distilled down to a barebones watercooling solution. But the Eliminator or the old Boreas they used to make with the TEC's are an ingenious way to chill a CPU. As they use the pelltier effect, one side of the TEC gets cold the other side gets hot. The Radiator and fan cool the hot side while the cold side actively chills the fluid going to the CPU through 3 simple blocks. They just had issues with the pumps being garbage and the waterblock was generally weak...but nothing some tygon and a utility knife couldn't fix.

The only danger is that it has a habit of bringing the CPU too far below ambient temperature if I turn it to the High setting, even more so now that it's on the 2600 which runs at about 14-16C on High, about 20C on medium at 0%. In fact when I was leak testing it, it developed frost on the bottom of the waterblock in about 20 seconds.

Anyway, managed to figure out where I had them on my web server to fire them up on to imgur...keep in mind these are older photos from my Q6600 and an old 8800GTS setup from a couple years back.

http://i.imgur.com/LIuRd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/z86lL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RvvVf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kqEyu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NwQqo.jpg

[DeltrusDisc]

That water-cooling setup does look pretty sweet. I like the color and the wrapping around the tubes, too bad you probably can't get that setup anymore. And the RAM looks pretty neat with the NVidia and SLI logos on it. What RAM is that anyways?

[Tradewind]

That memory was 4GB of OCZ DDR2-8500 SLI Edition. It was great because of the SPD/EPP support combined with the eVGA 780i using the nvidia chipset. It would automatically tune the voltages depending on the OC profile selected. They also had ridiculously tight timings by default, 5-5-5. Plus at the time OCZ was kicking butt in terms of warranty support, they would even cover faults/damage due to overvoltage up to +.5V which was good...too bad they don't do memory anymore :\

Same with CoolIT unfortunately they couldn't keep up with the sales of the Eliminator/Dominator/Boreas...too expensive for people to get into it.

[DeltrusDisc]

Damn. True overclocking support, gone forever. :<

[Ghâzh]

You know, I've been wondering where's all the peltier effect utilising CPU coolers. Right after realizing that a freezer as a computer case wouldn't fly very far I though that something like that would be insanely effective. Is there more solutions like that, or rather, why isn't there more?

And what kind of load temperatures are you getting with it?

[DeltrusDisc]

Wait are you asking what other kinds of CPU cooling other than liquid and air there are? I know there's phase change (or something like that), liquid nitrogen, and liquid helium. I'm sure there's more.

[Saithes]

Peltier's and Phase Change is just extremely inefficient when it comes to cost/performance. A good phase change system can run you $900+ easy and is loud lol. Peltiers draw insane amounts of power constantly and don't give a significant enough boost for the power draw. Not to mention you also have to be able to cool how ever many watts are being drawn.

[DeltrusDisc]

^Shows how little I actually know about Peltier/Phase change. >_>