Post your gaming setup!

[Stormgnoef]

Amd 965 3.9ghz black edition
8gb ram
120gb ssd
gtx 590 nvidia

[Waylander]

My setup:

CPU: i5 2400
GPU: Radeon HD6870
RAM: 4GB
MOUSE: MX-518
TFT: HP w2207 (from a design standpoint, one of the most awesome tft monitors ever made )
OS: Win 7 (32+64Bit)

[Cyanotical]

I am now picturing lots of tubes. And they're filled with cats.

Like Asera's?

[Drunkenvalley]

No... /seriousface
Cuter. :|

Idunnololz

Anyway, it seems I'll get my chance to get a third change of clothes. Awesome. /partyhat
But the new PSU is rather distant, I find. Why's Christmas so expensive? ;_;

[Poppasan]

Okay, going to order this tommorow:

CPU - i5 2500k
MoBo - Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P
RAM - G.skill sniper 1600mhz 2x4
GPU - AMD Radeon HD R6970 Lightning, 2GB GDDR5
HDD - Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
PSU - CORSAIR HX PSU 850W 14CM V2.3 80+SILVER
Heatsink - Noctua NH-D14
Case - Silverstone RV03
OS - Windows 7 64-bit Home Edition

Anything that I should change? Just want to double check, never want to go wrong with big purchases like this!

[Deleted]

Anything that I should change? Just want to double check, never want to go wrong with big purchases like this!

I would go with an other case if I were you. According to reviews that case has pretty bad HDD bays, and also might have problem with the PSU. Also, many people say that the case has a very plastic & cheap feel to it.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Make sure the RAM is going to fit "under" the NH-D14. That is a heck of a chunk of metal

[BicycleMafioso]

Okay, going to order this tommorow:

Anything that I should change? Just want to double check, never want to go wrong with big purchases like this!

The Radeon HD6970 is old tech by now. The HD7970 is released (paper-release) and will be availible within a month. Within two months, better GPUs should be availible for less (..than the HD6970 that is, not HD7970), the 7800-series.

Make sure the RAM is going to fit "under" the NH-D14. That is a heck of a chunk of metal

It will fit, no worries there.

[Drunkenvalley]

I would go with an other case if I were you. According to reviews that case has pretty bad HDD bays, and also might have problem with the PSU. Also, many people say that the case has a very plastic & cheap feel to it.

The solutions are odd, but it's the first time I hear them being called bad. Normal PSUs will fit perfectly fine. Only very special PSUs (ie AX 1200) will possibly have trouble, or if they have strange fans here and there.

The plastic and cheap feel I can't really comment on though; this is often entirely up to taste in my experience. The Define R3 had a cheap feel to me with the loose grommets, but this is not a shared opinion apparently.

[Poppasan]

The Radeon HD6970 is old tech by now. The HD7970 is released (paper-release) and will be availible within a month. Within two months, better GPUs should be availible for less (..than the HD6970 that is, not HD7970), the 7800-series.

It will fit, no worries there.

Oh... Feels a bit weird though, been saving for this for about a year, and when I have the money, waiting 2 months seems like a long time. D:

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Old tech, but it is still as good as it was before. Just not as good as the new stuff. The 6970 hasn't magically got worse since Thursday.

[Asera]

Like Asera's?

Uhm... what?

[DeltrusDisc]

So my Dad bought me a Seasonic X series 660 watt 80+ Gold PSU yesterday as a gift for Christmas and I spent yesterday evening and earlier this morning installing it and making things look as gorgeous as possible. I will have pictures up soon'ish!

[Drunkenvalley]

Uhm... what?

Cats. You have one. In your picture.

[Xuvial]

So my Dad bought me a Seasonic X series 660 watt 80+ Gold PSU yesterday as a gift for Christmas and I spent yesterday evening and earlier this morning installing it and making things look as gorgeous as possible. I will have pictures up soon'ish!

My gripe with Seasonic is that although their sleeving is top-notch quality, they sleeves don't go all the way to the end of the cable or fully black like the Corsair HX/AX series and also they're ridiculously stiff and can be a pain to bend. But hey, atleast you're getting industry-leading power and a dead-silent fan right :P that's a great christmas gift!


In other news, I stopped running dual-monitors about 1 hour after I got them. Other than the fact that I have almost no use for two monitors (hurr?) they were always forcing my GPU to 3D clocks despite forcing 2D profiles via Afterburner. I tried nVidia Inspector (thanks Saithes) and it does successfully achieve idle clocks, but I completely lose my bigger monitor because it turns grey and starts flickering.
I'm happy with my single Asus monitor, it's 23" 1080p 120hz and simply amazing with height adjust, swivel, etc. Not to mention that nVidia 3D kit it came with, I'll play around with that later.

So I gifted my 120hz Syncmaster to my parents, who needed the 2nd monitor for when they worked from home

[Asera]

My gripe with Seasonic is that although their sleeving is top-notch quality, they sleeves don't go all the way to the end of the cable or fully black like the Corsair HX/AX series and also they're ridiculously stiff and can be a pain to bend. But hey, atleast you're getting industry-leading power and a dead-silent fan right :P that's a great christmas gift!


In other news, I stopped running dual-monitors about 1 hour after I got them. Other than the fact that I have almost no use for two monitors (hurr?) they were always forcing my GPU to 3D clocks despite forcing 2D profiles via Afterburner. I tried nVidia Inspector (thanks Saithes) and it does successfully achieve idle clocks, but I completely lose my bigger monitor because it turns grey and starts flickering.
I'm happy with my single Asus monitor, it's 23" 1080p 120hz and simply amazing with height adjust, swivel, etc. Not to mention that nVidia 3D kit it came with, I'll play around with that later.

So I gifted my 120hz Syncmaster to my parents, who needed the 2nd monitor for when they worked from home

I find multiple displays don't work as fluidly on nVidia cards as they do on Radeons. I have my TV hooked up to my comp, and the framerate in video usually plummets on the second screen when doing something on the primary... even just web browsing. :|

[DeltrusDisc]

If tomorrow wasn't Christmas day, I'd call you crazy for just handing off such a nice monitor like that. x_x

In regards to your comments about Seasonic's power supplies, I must say I agree full-heartedly with your points, and they were about my only gripes with the power supply. The endings not being braided looks tacky as can be and I did find bending the CPU 8-pin power cable to be a pain in the butt, but other than that one, I didn't have too many issues. Either way, working with this power supply was a dream come true and I cannot express how amazing it truly is to have a modular power supply, it really cleans up the interior of the chassis.

[Rennadrel]

My gripe with Seasonic is that although their sleeving is top-notch quality, they sleeves don't go all the way to the end of the cable or fully black like the Corsair HX/AX series and also they're ridiculously stiff and can be a pain to bend. But hey, atleast you're getting industry-leading power and a dead-silent fan right :P that's a great christmas gift!


In other news, I stopped running dual-monitors about 1 hour after I got them. Other than the fact that I have almost no use for two monitors (hurr?) they were always forcing my GPU to 3D clocks despite forcing 2D profiles via Afterburner. I tried nVidia Inspector (thanks Saithes) and it does successfully achieve idle clocks, but I completely lose my bigger monitor because it turns grey and starts flickering.
I'm happy with my single Asus monitor, it's 23" 1080p 120hz and simply amazing with height adjust, swivel, etc. Not to mention that nVidia 3D kit it came with, I'll play around with that later.

So I gifted my 120hz Syncmaster to my parents, who needed the 2nd monitor for when they worked from home

My Thermaltake Comet 780 watt PSU has a stiff as a brick cable mesh as well, it sucks ass trying to bend it to be honest cause it just bends back to it's original position.

[Drunkenvalley]

Hehe. Congratulations, Deltrus! Now pick up some sleeves and do some workin' yourself on the cables to make them extra pretty! Pretty please?

[Rennadrel]

http://blogs.amd.com/play/2011/12/21...-and-counting/

Do want nao!