Post your gaming setup!

[shamanele]

http://i.imgur.com/wqxaO9U.jpg?1

http://imgur.com/tHCc9g5

PC Specs:
Processor: AMD FX 6300 six core
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 650 Ti Boost
HDD:1tb Western Digital HDD
250g Samsung Evo ssd
Ram: 16g corsair vengeance
Mobo: Asrock 970 extreme 3

Peripherals (updated since pic)
Keyboard: corsair k95
Headset: Siberia V2 Illuminated
Mouse: wow legendary gaming mouse

[Ripox]

http://i.imgur.com/wqxaO9U.jpg?1

http://imgur.com/tHCc9g5

PC Specs:
Processor: AMD FX 6300 six core
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 650 Ti Boost
HDD:1tb Western Digital HDD
250g Samsung Evo ssd
Ram: 16g corsair vengeance
Mobo: Asrock 970 extreme 3

Peripherals (updated since pic)
Keyboard: corsair k95
Headset: Siberia V2 Illuminated
Mouse: wow legendary gaming mouse

IDK how I'd feel having a keyboard that costs more than the CPU or is about the same price as the GPU :/

Excessive RAM, SSD, and peripherals. Money could've better gone to better cpu/gpu

[DeltrusDisc]

IDK how I'd feel having a keyboard that costs more than the CPU or is about the same price as the GPU :/

Excessive RAM, SSD, and peripherals. Money could've better gone to better cpu/gpu

You bring up a really good point about peripherals... people seem to go all out on them and forget how much extra money they are dropping on peripherals but cutting so short on the CPU/GPU, when those are what will deliver the actual game to you. While having peripherals that make you comfortable is important, it is also important to have hardware that can drive your games... While WoW isn't much to drive... it is in 20-25 man raids. Seriously, if shamanele had spent a little less on peripherals, maybe just gotten a 128GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM, they could have gotten an Intel Haswell i5 and GTX 760 or something similar, been able to overclock seriously, and get MUCH better performance.

Such a shame people don't ask before impulse-buying.

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Something on-topic then?

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You'll need hearing protection with those, anyway, i will never buy anything that have stock fans, ever. Windforce 3X all the way baby!

[Cyanotical]

You bring up a really good point about peripherals... people seem to go all out on them and forget how much extra money they are dropping on peripherals but cutting so short on the CPU/GPU, when those are what will deliver the actual game to you. While having peripherals that make you comfortable is important, it is also important to have hardware that can drive your games... While WoW isn't much to drive... it is in 20-25 man raids. Seriously, if shamanele had spent a little less on peripherals, maybe just gotten a 128GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM, they could have gotten an Intel Haswell i5 and GTX 760 or something similar, been able to overclock seriously, and get MUCH better performance.

Such a shame people don't ask before impulse-buying.

i think peripherals are just as important, a new PC will only be faster, but a new keyboard, mouse and monitor makes your overall system feel better

[Ripox]

i think peripherals are just as important, a new PC will only be faster, but a new keyboard, mouse and monitor makes your overall system feel better

Of course. My peripherals are quite expensive and I have loads of them. Whats the point of a PC if I don't feel comfortable using it? I can't even play WoW without a Naga.

BUT - priorities

[DeltrusDisc]

i think peripherals are just as important, a new PC will only be faster, but a new keyboard, mouse and monitor makes your overall system feel better

Well yeah, but the K95? WoW Legendary mouse? 16GB of RAM? 250GB SSD? Siberia V2?

These are all absolute overkill and had he spent a little less on each of these, he could have afforded a better CPU, if not a Haswell i5, (though I seriously believe he could) then a higher-end AMD A10.

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Yeah, but thing is, his peripherals most likely got upgraded/bought after the rest of the pc was made. He says on bracets:"updated since pic".

[Firatha]

Oh herro I am back from the dead now that my court case and irl family stuff has finaly settled down my little baby thread is not really little any more after not being around for sometime and I have some catching up to in the computer area of my life as I pretty much completely stopped fallowing it as I was to busy with the lawsuit and to poor because of it but now I am back and as I said need to catch up as anyone who has read the first page my old build is VERY old and I am going to be comming into some money in the next week and plan on making a new build so another words HALP me.

inb4 Who are you?

[Drunkenvalley]

You'll need hearing protection with those, anyway, i will never buy anything that have stock fans, ever. Windforce 3X all the way baby!

I won't be needing hearing protection... in fact, I won't be hearing the two cards' fans again! Because I'm watercooling.

Etc

Breathe, man.

Also, lawsuit? What crazy stuff did you get involved in?! O_o We'll be happy to help you put together a new build though when you're ready, just make a thread when the time comes.

Look at Marest's thread here: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...-Sample-Builds

[Majesticii]

IDK how I'd feel having a keyboard that costs more than the CPU or is about the same price as the GPU :/

Excessive RAM, SSD, and peripherals. Money could've better gone to better cpu/gpu

My keyboard costed more than my CPU aswell, and i have a 4670K.
But yeah, the hardware choices are a bit weird...

[noteworthynerd]

Oh herro I am back from the dead now that my court case and irl family stuff has finaly settled down my little baby thread is not really little any more after not being around for sometime and I have some catching up to in the computer area of my life as I pretty much completely stopped fallowing it as I was to busy with the lawsuit and to poor because of it but now I am back and as I said need to catch up as anyone who has read the first page my old build is VERY old and I am going to be comming into some money in the next week and plan on making a new build so another words HALP me.

inb4 Who are you?

Make a thread in the build help subforum please. This thread has been converted into a thread just for posting existing builds and commenting on them.

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My keyboard costed more than my CPU aswell, and i have a 4670K.
But yeah, the hardware choices are a bit weird...

also to ripox, yes performance in games are great, but physical ergonomics are far more important then the hardware inside your pc, the settings you play at can always be adjusted, how you interact with what you use is more important as general health should be the number 1 prio of anything, and sadly also the most difficult to get right, so spending money in this area is great.

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Yeah, but thing is, his peripherals most likely got upgraded/bought after the rest of the pc was made. He says on bracets:"updated since pic".

Exactly, sometimes I think people forget not everything was necessarily bought at the same time and buying good peripherals still makes sense (to me). I mean how many of you bought everything at once and have the perfect price to performance vs needs? Not everyone follows this exact recipe for "success"

Also ask the guy instead of instantly nailing him to the cross? Maybe he did ask for help somewhere else and that was the advice he got, who knows.

[Nidor]

Hello again, I've done a test fitting and boot up to make sure everything fits and functions in the case, click this imgur link to see if you're interested! And sorry I'm not a good photographer!

I had to RMA one of the 780Ti's so it's my good old 6970's in this build at the moment. I'm going to powdercoat most of the interior of the case white, the rest I will paint myself in White HS.

[DeltrusDisc]

Welp.

Finally got my first WD Black drive. Just a 1TB for recording Skyrim footage with Fraps and then rendering it to my WD Blue 1TB/or I may leave it to the Toshiba 500GB external. Either way, the Blue just has too much on it already that I'm limited to only about 2 hours of recording - and everything is being recorded and uploaded pretty much... so... :P



Suppose I'll post a pic after I install it, though you can see pictures of my rig earlier in this thread, I don't plan to change much. Just stick it in and not worry too much about cable-tidying.

Why you ask? Sometimes you pull too tightly on cables, then they become loose, and then your computer has power interruptions which ultimately lead to all of your HDDs dying except for your SSD.

Moral of the story: CABLE MANAGEMENT IS BAD, obviously. :P

[shamanele]

You bring up a really good point about peripherals... people seem to go all out on them and forget how much extra money they are dropping on peripherals but cutting so short on the CPU/GPU, when those are what will deliver the actual game to you. While having peripherals that make you comfortable is important, it is also important to have hardware that can drive your games... While WoW isn't much to drive... it is in 20-25 man raids. Seriously, if shamanele had spent a little less on peripherals, maybe just gotten a 128GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM, they could have gotten an Intel Haswell i5 and GTX 760 or something similar, been able to overclock seriously, and get MUCH better performance.

Such a shame people don't ask before impulse-buying.

Yeah this was my first system which i bought off of craigslist for a steal and all of the peripheral upgrades were gifts from the holiday season. I didnt want to be extremely specific so just asked for basic stuff to comprehend instead. I plan on upgrading the cpu asap once wrestling ends and i can start working again.

[DeltrusDisc]

Opposed to Nidor's awesome rig, here's my simple rig. :P





YES, I know it is messy, see above for reason why! Not to mention I just don't really care anymore, since I don't have a window now.

[solvexx]

There's a difference between extreme tightness when cable management.. And none at all. :P

[DeltrusDisc]

There's a difference between extreme tightness when cable management.. And none at all. :P

I guess you could say, I've become slightly paranoid about doing it again. =S

I realize what I did in my mistake and I guess I've just not gotten up the want to do cable management again after I did that. =/

It's something I won't see, anyways, and besides, it only makes adding hardware/changing hardware later on more complicated and time-consuming. If your cables are mostly loose, then you need not worry about cutting a bunch of zip ties to get something else powered with that one SATA cable or Molex cable.