Post your gaming setup!

[Organoth]

That does not have a GPU cooler? Mind clarifying? That it doesn't have a dedicated GPU cooling fan you mean?

Corsair 800D is particularly targeted towards watercooling, but there's nothing really stopping one from using the 800D. Temperatures should never be high unless your cooler is bad.

Yes a dedicated GPU fan is what I am referring to, of which the HAF X has a large one stock and has the ability to have a second one installed. The GPU fan does help, I've never once seen temps as good as I have now with my HAF X. I barely break 60c and that's only occasionally in certain games. Yes I know up to 80c is safe but I'll take 60c over 80c any day of the week as it helps keep other case temps and my room temp down.

And on the note about the SSD Cyanotical is correct, one of the best overall SSD is the Intel 320 and it's only SATA II. Because of it's performance it ends up being faster then some SATA III models. The data transfer rate is not where you will notice the biggest difference in performance.

[Cyanotical]

And on the note about the SSD Cyanotical is correct, one of the best overall SSD is the Intel 320 and it's only SATA II. Because of it's performance it ends up being faster then some SATA III models. The data transfer rate is not where you will notice the biggest difference in performance.

no what i mean is that the connectors and cabling are the same, you can use a SATA-2 cable with a SATA-3 drive with no ill affect, and the connectors in the hot swap bays are just male-to-male connectors

in fact official SATA 3 cables are the same as SATA-2 cables, they may just have an extra bit of EMI shielding

[Organoth]

Well they are still both correct and valid points.

[Drunkenvalley]

Yes a dedicated GPU fan is what I am referring to, of which the HAF X has a large one stock and has the ability to have a second one installed. The GPU fan does help, I've never once seen temps as good as I have now with my HAF X. I barely break 60c and that's only occasionally in certain games. Yes I know up to 80c is safe but I'll take 60c over 80c any day of the week as it helps keep other case temps and my room temp down.

A dedicated GPU fan is all good (I have one too in my Lvl10GT, and I can say with a straight face its fan is better than HAF X), but the damned fans in HAF X have ridiculously short cables.

Pissed me off to no end. They used molex connectors to make the cable longer, sure, but that is a rather moot point in my opinion. It wasn't necessarily a problem finding mobo fan slots in range for the fans though, but the sidepanel was a real pain in the ass when the cable for its fan barely reached the nearest fan slot.

I like the Lvl10GT's door, where the fan on it is connected to the case by a contact surface that it meets when the door is shut. Prefer how the HAF X's other sidepanel is though, but I'd moreso love ala 650D/800D's panels even more.

[Rennadrel]

Nah, I meant that 12GB is overkill, which is what I'm upgrading to. I know 6GB is enough, but I got a good deal on the memory (25% off for buying the other stuff from Newegg).

12GB = never having to worry about your i7 being throttled while multitasking. Hell when I was using 4GB on my i7 for a short while, it was stupidly slow trying to load multiple large programs at the same time because of the bottleneck in lack of RAM. Now that I have 12GB I can start up like 4 big applications without it hanging.

[Drunkenvalley]

Err, you just shifted the bottleneck to the hard drive. o.o

[DeltrusDisc]

Drunken is spot on. Get an SSD and you will really lower issues with loading programs slowly. ;p

[Rennadrel]

Drunken is spot on. Get an SSD and you will really lower issues with loading programs slowly. ;p

I have an SSD, for my OS. I don't really think I can afford to get one to use for all my big applications plus my Steam games :P

[Drunkenvalley]

Get a 240GB SSD!

I'm feeling a little edgy about my purchase now, because I realized rather late that I'm now nearly broke and still haven't begun Christmas shopping... I completely forgot.

[Nazdreg]

Saving for a major upgrade. But this is what I have atm.

keyboard: Saitek cyborg

Mouse: Razer mamba 2012 edition

Headset: Plantronics around the neck style. Noting special. But work great.

Monitor: Acer 22Inch. (forget exact model)

Case: Raidmax Dirk-Tooth

CPU: Phenom II X4 9950 bE

MB: Asus M3a79-T Deluxe

Old Creative SB audigy 2 Platinum EX. Works good surprisingly since it's about 7 years old. lol

GPU GTX 560ti. But just won a GTX 570 from Guild launch.

Ram: Crucial Ballistx DDR2 8gigs
Whopping 401 MHz

Can't wait for a great upgrade. Hopefully in the next few months.

[Xuvial]

Well kill me dead, I just bought my first laptop - desperately needed it for work, bedroom studying, watching stuff on TV, light portable gaming, etc and I couldn't exactly carry around my 25kg tower around the house.
I wish I could build one with my own hands but laptops don't work that way, not without costing an arm and a leg :P

Specs:
Model: Asus N55SF White
CPU: Intel i5 2430M <--should be powerful enough
RAM: 8GB 1333MHz DDR3
Display: 15.6" (1600x900) LED Backlight <--Great resolution for a 15.6" screen
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 2GB DDR3 VRAM <--enough for most games at low/med settings.
Ports: 2 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0 <--I love USB3!
Dimensions: 37.9 x 26.1 x 3.7 ~3.75 cm (WxDxH)
Weight: 2.7 kg (with 6 cell battery)

I will replace the pathetic 5400RPM drive with a 128gb SSD later down the road (limited to Sata2 since I highly doubt the laptop is using a Sata3 port), now that I have a taste for SSD's I simply can't go back to slow boots/performance ever again

The most I'll play on it is some Portal, Audiosurf, Batman, Amnesia, you know those singleplayer "games you play when you're bored" kind of games.

Saving for a major upgrade. But this is what I have atm.

keyboard: Saitek cyborg
Mouse: Razer mamba 2012 edition
Headset: Plantronics around the neck style. Noting special. But work great.
Monitor: Acer 22Inch. (forget exact model)
Case: Raidmax Dirk-Tooth
CPU: Phenom II X4 9950 bE
MB: Asus M3a79-T Deluxe
Old Creative SB audigy 2 Platinum EX. Works good surprisingly since it's about 7 years old. lol
GPU GTX 560ti. But just won a GTX 570 from Guild launch.

Ram: Crucial Ballistx DDR2 8gigs
Whopping 401 MHz

Can't wait for a great upgrade. Hopefully in the next few months.

A big gratz on winning that GTX570! But what are you going to do with it? It's hardly an upgrade over the 560 Ti, I would probably sell the 570 and buy another 560 Ti for SLI. Or sell the 560 Ti and run SLI 570 with a 120hz monitor for an absolute BEAST of a gaming computer :P
And I believe that Audigy 2 Platinum EX should still be better than most onboard sound solutions.

[Drunkenvalley]

Forgot about Christmas? That's a good one. Honestly, i should try that. I don't think my "I don't care about Christmas" attitude will work for many more years even if that is how i really feel every year =\

I didn't forget Christmas... I forgot expenses related to it. ._.

[BicycleMafioso]

You can't say I didn't warn you about spending it all at once now, can you? :]

[Mr Gnomage]

My computer is far from special, but it runs WoW on max graphics, and SW:ToR on medium graphics smoothly, max is choppy but only in large towns.

Intel Core 2 Duo E660 @ 2.4ghz
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB
4 GB RAM
320 GB Hard Drive

Can't remember the case model, but it's an Alienware knock off case, but with no aliens. Same look as alot of Alienware stuff, LED strips on the front / sides, a clear case on the left side, with an LED fan. Pretty beautiful, maybe not what I would have chosen, but it was a bit of a hand-me-down from my brother when he went into the military. I've upgraded a few things inside the comp since I got it, but the case has remained.

It's not spectacular, but it runs everything really great. Since I have dual 20" monitors, I was going to buy a 2nd graphics card and dedicate them to my screens, but it runs so smoothly it's kinda not worth it, especially since I plan on getting a new laptop soon that will be far better than my desktop... Or a decent laptop and upgrade my desktop(??). I dunno what I'm gonna do. Suggestions?!

Can't remember all the specs off the top of my head as I'm at work (Currently on my sister's absolute shit laptop).

[Asera]

Get a 240GB SSD!

Is it bad that even a 240GB SSD would be too small for all my stuff? :|

And no that's NOT including storage.

[Adappy]

Is it bad that even a 240GB SSD would be too small for all my stuff? :|

And no that's NOT including storage.

Nope, I'm in the same boat... my Steam/Origin games HDD has 275GB of data on it (and that's not counting Windows + WoW + Firefox/Thunderbird on my current 64GB SSD... which only has ~4.5GB of free space left )

[Rennadrel]

Get a 240GB SSD!

I'm feeling a little edgy about my purchase now, because I realized rather late that I'm now nearly broke and still haven't begun Christmas shopping... I completely forgot.

I'd be looking at more along the lines of a 350GB SSD at minimum. My secondary drive is 2TB and I still have 1TB of space left on it. Odds are I have at least 500GB used on Steam games and that keeps growing.

[chadbrah]

I'd be looking at more along the lines of a 350GB SSD at minimum. My secondary drive is 2TB and I still have 1TB of space left on it. Odds are I have at least 500GB used on Steam games and that keeps growing.

Usually you wouldnt put every game you own on your ssd. its not like you play that 500 gigs of steam games..

[Xuvial]

Usually you wouldnt put every game you own on your ssd. its not like you play that 500 gigs of steam games..

That's what I was thinking, you can only play so many games at the same damn time -_- especially if one of them is an MMO.

[Rennadrel]

Usually you wouldnt put every game you own on your ssd. its not like you play that 500 gigs of steam games..

Well, the larger games would yes, but my library is quite extensive considering I have only owned gaming PC's less then 2 years. I'd say my Steam library is around 350GB right now and I still can't manage to finish off the Dragon Age: Origins download because doing so would consume my entire months bandwidth (Rogers 30GB cap fail and having 2 other users who are YouTube addicts in my house) since it's the special edition with the expansion which is like 32GB, I am about 25% into the download though, in January I will probably finish it off since I have bought a good 15GB worth of games this month.