Post your gaming setup!

[mercutiouk]

Currently rocking:

Q9550 Core 2 Quad
8 GB Ram
Ati 5850
C300 256GB SSD
500GBx6 Hardware raid 5
Dell 2405FPW monitor
G700 mouse
Cheapy keyboard
Plantronics Gamecom headset (but not the expensive one)

I'm kinda over the days of being uber bothered about a totally ninja PC. Went as far as dual phase change cooling (AMD Barton core 2500+/1.8Ghz up to 2.8ghz at -20c) and realised there were better things to spend money on. The rig above is overkill for 95% of games out there anyway.

Gone up to a 2600k i7 on Asus p67-p8 pro.
Dtiched the raid fornow tho

[Deleted]

There's like... no space between them at all lol

you shuld see my 6950 sapphire in a storm scout chassie... i had to MAKE space to get it in, AKA bend the some of the things on the chassie to make it fit lol

[Xuvial]

Running a laptop for now, I'll get a proper rig in a few weeks when I get the coin. Binder divider mousepads are win.

Something looks horribly wrong with your desktop but I can't quite put my finger on it >_<

you shuld see my 6950 sapphire in a storm scout chassie... i had to MAKE space to get it in, AKA bend the some of the things on the chassie to make it fit lol

This is probably my biggest fear of buying 6900 series cards. Can't they shorten some connections and arrange things a little closer together or something. There's absolutely no reason for a graphics card to be 11 inches long unless it's a dual-GPU like HD5970, AMD should take a few tips from NVidia on how to NOT make stupidly large cards. I guess with HD6990 they'll say "WE HEARD YOU WANTED MOAR PERFORMANCE SO HERE YOU GO, BIGGER F**KING CARD"
Bad luck with the Storm Scout though, doesn't it have a removable HDD cage? Most decent cases today have that feature.

[Alan1187]

Something looks horribly wrong with your desktop but I can't quite put my finger on it >_<


This is probably my biggest fear of buying 6900 series cards. Can't they shorten some connections and arrange things a little closer together or something. There's absolutely no reason for a graphics card to be 11 inches long unless it's a dual-GPU like HD5970, AMD should take a few tips from NVidia on how to NOT make stupidly large cards. I guess with HD6990 they'll say "WE HEARD YOU WANTED MOAR PERFORMANCE SO HERE YOU GO, BIGGER F**KING CARD"
Bad luck with the Storm Scout though, doesn't it have a removable HDD cage? Most decent cases today have that feature.

Is it the orange folder looking thing being used as a mousepad? Lol

[DeltrusDisc]

Was meaning to put some photos up on my rig a while back, same night i was taking photos i dropped hot chocolate in my pc. My motherboard found it within itself to die, anyway changed the build somewhat due to that :|

Corei7 920 @ 4ghz
Corsair H50 in push pull
Asus Sabretooth X58 TUF (Might be hot chocolate resistant!)
2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1/F3 in RAID 0.
4GB DDR3 OCZ 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 (1 chip was DoA, havent been bothered to replace it yet).
Nvidia Geforce GTX470 @ 712/1424/1806
Corsair TX650 PSU
Logitech G11 Keyboard
Coolermaster Storm Scout case
Microsoft Intellieye 3.0 (Always come back to this mouse no matter what i do)
Logitech G930 Wireless Headset
24 inch Benq G2420HD (PC, 360 and Ps3 connected into it)

Few pics, won't do a full desk shot; compared to all your lovely clean tidy desks, mine looks like a nuke has hit it :]

*Big gorgeous pictures go here!*

Next on list for me is a new PSU (modular, TX650 is a great psu, just get a huge jumble of cables) and another GTX470 for SLI.

So how are you liking the Asus Sabertooth X58 so far? I am planning on getting one because I like the look of it and it is quite affordable. More opinions are always good!

[pozi]

looks cool

[evensis]

So how are you liking the Asus Sabertooth X58 so far? I am planning on getting one because I like the look of it and it is quite affordable. More opinions are always good!

Actually one of the better motherboards i've had, and is a serious overclocking champ. Don't really have to do a whole lot for it to get my 920 to 4ghz. The northbridge can get a bit toasty when raising the voltages on it but generally its nothing to scream about. The marvell 6gbs controller on it is well....dung, the best way of putting it but thats the only real downside to the motherboard. I might just happen to have a crappy controller, got my raid setup on the icr10 and its happily plodding away now. Id give it a 9/10, would of had a 10/10 if that marvell controller actually worked as stated, albeit might be just me doing something wrong with it. But all in all, its a bloody good motherboard and well worth the buy.

[DeltrusDisc]

Actually one of the better motherboards i've had, and is a serious overclocking champ. Don't really have to do a whole lot for it to get my 920 to 4ghz. The northbridge can get a bit toasty when raising the voltages on it but generally its nothing to scream about. The marvell 6gbs controller on it is well....dung, the best way of putting it but thats the only real downside to the motherboard. I might just happen to have a crappy controller, got my raid setup on the icr10 and its happily plodding away now. Id give it a 9/10, would of had a 10/10 if that marvell controller actually worked as stated, albeit might be just me doing something wrong with it. But all in all, its a bloody good motherboard and well worth the buy.

Forgive me for asking a very dumb question, but explain this Raid stuff and icr10 and whatever stuff to me in a nutshell, I don't get it. At all. Perhaps it's because no one has explained it to me yet. :P And no Lmgtfy!!!

[Wries]

Forgive me for asking a very dumb question, but explain this Raid stuff and icr10 and whatever stuff to me in a nutshell, I don't get it. At all. Perhaps it's because no one has explained it to me yet. :P And no Lmgtfy!!!

Hard drive raiding (I'm summarizing it up very short now) is when you group up several harddrives into one. Making so reading/writing data onto this "one drive" goes faster since it has several physical drives to read/write the data on.

Evensis apparently had problems getting nice performance out of the Marvell SATA controller chip, which is a group of SATA ports not directly connected to the southbridge of the motherboard, but usually included in higher end boards so that you get more ports then what the Intel/AMD reference boards have.

I will add to it that my marvell controller is working fine for my puny software raid 0.

Edit: also this lolololololol

[DeltrusDisc]

Hard drive raiding (I'm summarizing it up very short now) is when you group up several harddrives into one. Making so reading/writing data onto this "one drive" goes faster since it has several physical drives to read/write the data on.

Evensis apparently had problems getting nice performance out of the Marvell SATA controller chip, which is a group of SATA ports not directly connected to the southbridge of the motherboard, but usually included in higher end boards so that you get more ports then what the Intel/AMD reference boards have.

I will add to it that my marvell controller is working fine for my puny software raid 0.

Edit: also this lolololololol

Ahh, sums it up a bit thanks.
I just always figured I would just get a few hard drives and just plug them in and go. >_>
Course, that would be better than nothing, since I've been going on one single hard drive for the past 2 years. >_<
so do I need to worry about any of this stuff too much if I just plan to have maybe like a new 1 TB hdd, my old hdd, and possibly an ssd? I mostly just play WoW, may fraps during 25 man raids, and make them into movies. idk how important it would be to understand the whole Raid thingy....

Also, you bad bad man for giving me a lmgtfy!!!!

Thanks!

[BicycleMafioso]

Ahh, sums it up a bit thanks.
I just always figured I would just get a few hard drives and just plug them in and go. >_>
Course, that would be better than nothing, since I've been going on one single hard drive for the past 2 years. >_<
so do I need to worry about any of this stuff too much if I just plan to have maybe like a new 1 TB hdd, my old hdd, and possibly an ssd? I mostly just play WoW, may fraps during 25 man raids, and make them into movies. idk how important it would be to understand the whole Raid thingy....

Also, you bad bad man for giving me a lmgtfy!!!!

Thanks!

You don't need to raid. Raid0 is nigh useless regardless.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives/Discs btw, meaning RAID0 isn't even a proper raid. Thus the 0.
I do like RAID1, RAID5, RAID6 and even RAID10 has its charms.
However, afaik, you need to have all your raided drives equal in size.
Otherwise, use them as proper drives, and you'll have nothing to worry about.

[DeltrusDisc]

You don't need to raid. Raid0 is nigh useless regardless.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives/Discs btw, meaning RAID0 isn't even a proper raid. Thus the 0.
I do like RAID1, RAID5, RAID6 and even RAID10 has its charms.
However, afaik, you need to have all your raided drives equal in size.
Otherwise, use them as proper drives, and you'll have nothing to worry about.

So what I am understanding is I would more or less just plug them in and go, as I was suggesting? Not fumble around with anything?

[Saithes]

So what I am understanding is I would more or less just plug them in and go, as I was suggesting? Not fumble around with anything?

Typically you have to configure it in the BIOS or a RAID Configuration Screen before entering windows. You set the level, the block size and name it pretty much lol.

[FlawlessSoul]

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives/Discs

The original acronym for RAID was replaced with the backronym "Redundant Array of Independant Disks" since the reason for "Inexpensive" no longer applied. Also, the word "disc" or "disk" has different applications, generally applied to magnetic media as "disk" (floppy or hard) and non-magnetic compact or digital-versatile "disc". Blame the Americans for "disk", and the Europeans for "disc"

RAID can function with disks of different sizes, but volumes within the RAID can only be as large as the smallest physical disk (unless you get really weird with nested RAID).

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So what I am understanding is I would more or less just plug them in and go, as I was suggesting? Not fumble around with anything?

You should have a quick flip through your motherboard manual - most will have a short section on enabling and setting up your RAID for use.

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Found the desktop on google somewhere, can't remember where i got it now though, think i used something generic like bleach backgrounds 1920x1080.

Found it on Deviantart via Google, cheers

[Fierae]

Coolermaster HAF 912 Case
Xilence 800W PSU
i7 920 @ 4Ghz, or 980 slightly upped, not sure which I like more, seems the same to me
Gigabyte X58-UD3R Tri-SLI/CF USB3 etc. motherboard
6GB Corsair XMS3
GTX580 (may get another to run in SLI)
160GB OCZ SSD
1TB Samsung HDD
Samsung DVD Drive
2x22" iiyama prolite ultra low response widescreens
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Razer Lachesis mouse
Plantronics 5.1 Surround Headset

[Deleted]

Apple Macbook Pro 15" (late 2010)
Mac OSX 10.6.6 operating system
Intel® Core™ i5-540M Processor (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M (256 MB GDDR3)
4 GB DDR3 (2x2) SO-DIMM-modules at 1066 MHz
Corsair Force F60 60GB SSD
Seagate FreeAgent Go Special Edition 500GB external HDD
Samsung Syncmaster BX2431 24" LED-screen at 1920x1080p
Logitech G15 Keyboard (1st gen.)
Ace Edge 3200 gaming mouse
WoW Cataclysm Collector's Edition mousepad
Creative THX TruStudio Soundblaster Tactic3D Alpha headset

[DeltrusDisc]

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Macbook Pro 15" (late 2010)
Intel® Core™ i5-540M Processor (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M (256 MB GDDR3)
4 GB DDR3 (2x2) SO-DIMM-modules at 1066 MHz
Corsair Force F60 60GB SSD
Seagate FreeAgent Go Special Edition 500GB external HDD
Samsung Syncmaster BX2431 24" LED-screen at 1920x1080p
Logitech G15 Keyboard (1st gen.)
Ace Edge 3200 gaming mouse
WoW Cataclysm Collector's Edition mousepad
Creative THX TruStudio Soundblaster Tactic3D Alpha headset

Your desk is too clean, YOU CAN'T BE A GAMER!!!! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE

[Deleted]

Your desk is too clean, YOU CAN'T BE A GAMER!!!! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE

I'm a gamer with a sense of style, that's all ^^

[Bryguy]

Is it the orange folder looking thing being used as a mousepad? Lol

I think he/she was pointing out the Rift beta patch downloading :P

[The Jackal]

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Process-er: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 3326MB RAM
Hard drive: 160 GB
Video Card:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Monitar : 24 inch LCD HD 1080
Operating system: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100608-0458)
screen resolution: 1920x1080
headset: earforcex11

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