Post your gaming setup!

[BicycleMafioso]

RAID0 for storage is not a good idea at all.

No disagreements there, and I fully agree with your comment about computer-camps for rendering. Was just saying!

[ispano]

To be 100% honest, mine wasn't bought for gaming. Will I be using it for that often? Yes. Building an over the top PC like this has been something akin to my life's dream. I just so happened to come across the money to do so. As for storage, I have a 12TB Fileserver that I use for storage.

[driftguy1234]

Specs: AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4 ghz Black Edition
Evga GTX 460 1024mb EE
Corsair Value S 4gb 1333mhz
Cooler Master Elite 330k Black Edition
Modecom Carbon 530w
Gigabyte MA78LMT-US2H
Samsung SpinPoint 500gb
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Copper Pipe Cooler

BenQ V2420H 24" LED 1920x1080
Highscreen MS 17771 17" 1280x1024

Got a crappy cable mangement and PC case but changing it next week with something more sweet...

[Virandile]

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Got my G11 somewhere but I have to use PS2 keyboard (lol! I know.) cause of my Megalodon headset QQ. I won't write much about rig cause it's crap, going to change that after March.

[Asera]

Holy crap is that an Intuos tablet?!

[sivro]

http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/q...ord/naw013.jpg
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i5-760 @ 3.9 ghz
Cooler Master Hyper 212+(Push/pull)
Cooler Master HAF 922 with side fan
G-skill 4gb RAM(I think 1333? O.o)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 6870
Asus P7P55D-E
Corsair TX750W
Samsung spinpoint F3 1tb
Windows 7 64 bit

Razer Naga
Razer Lycosa
Logitech Clearchat Comfort headset
Some crappy 22" HP screen >.>

[sivro]

Sivro, I'd go nuts on your computer with some zip-ties. xD That's just me though, I'm OCD. O.O; Will your 8-pin power cord run to that hole on the top left of the case above the motherboard?

I tried... I couldn't get it to bend.. Trust me I tried doing my best XD but with my PSU being a bloody hydra, it wasn't easy :P So I just left it as is ^.^

[Cilraaz]

They really should sticky this thread!

Added to the Sticky Index.

Thumbnails amg

Yeah guys, let's try to keep the larger images out of the thread. My general rule in the forum (mentioned a few times, but not posted anywhere, which is why nobody's getting infractions) is 800px wide max. If you use imgur.com, you can feel free to use their "large thumbnail" option.

Finally, let's have a little less bitching about how other people spend their money. If I want a $4000 computer to browse the web on, that's on me (and I wish I had the money to do that, lol). Feel free to discuss each other's systems, but the whole "omg! you have <x> and <y> just for WoW?" has to stop.

[Deleted]

System specs:
Cooler Master Centurion 590
AMD Phenom II X2 560 BE 3.3GHz @ 3.8GHz
ASUS M4N68T-M
GigaByte SuperB 550W
Corsair 2x 2GB XMS3
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Western Digital 500GB Caviar Black 3.5" SATA
Western Digital 250GB Scorpio 2.5" SATA (Stripped from my notebook)
Random ass DVD drive
Random ass WLAN PCI card

Razer DiamondBack 3G
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard
Logitech G35 7.1 (Not true 7.1, but sounds pretty good) Headset
Logitech X530 5.1 Speakers.

I don't feel like doing cable management. Will buy an aftermarket CPU cooler and 4 case fans in the near future.

[Dungeh]

Computer Case: NZXT Phantom Enthusiast White
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 4 x 3.4 GHz 8MB
CPU Heatsink: Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CPU Cooler
Memory: Corsair 8GB XMS3 PC3-12800 1600MHz - 2x4GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - 1536 MB - EVGA
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Pro Intel P67
Hard Drive: 1 TB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 32MB
Power Supply: OCZ 700W Stealth XStream - Low Noise

[shaw0050]

AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition @ 3.6ghz - cpu
Cooler Master Hyper 212+ - cpu cooler
Corsair DDR3 @ 1404mhz - ram
MSI NF750-G55 - motherboard
XFX Radeon HD 6870 - graphics card
Corsair TX750W - power supply
Cooler Master Storm Scout - case
NZXT Sentry 2 - fan controller

Generic lame Dell keyboard
Logitech MX Revolution - mouse
Partially broken Bose speakers (sound great though)

Acer V193W x2 (1440x900) - monitors
Acer H233H x1 (1920x1080) - monitor

[Templar]

I'd say you'd end up at 710~watts with SLI'd 470. I read that somewhere, but that was an estimation, not taking any specific system into regard. It would in any regard still be very punishing on your PSU.

As for the 3D, if you have the money to blow; why not? But in my book, it's just something the manfacturers are trying to push us, that we don't really want. I honestly don't see the point. Not to mention the obscene overpricing :'P

Yea that's what I thought as regards to my PSU taking a hammering. I'll probably upgrade to 850W+ and put the 750W in a spare rig I have with a dodgy PSU (it blew a capacitor and I fixed it but it's making a suspect noise so I dare not use it. Seems to be coming from an Inductor).

I've been to watch 3D films and it's blown me away and if gaming turns out to be half as good I want! I'm waiting to see a demo of 3D gaming first before I decide whether to purchase or not.

[ispano]

I tried... I couldn't get it to bend.. Trust me I tried doing my best XD but with my PSU being a bloody hydra, it wasn't easy :P So I just left it as is ^.^

There is one thing you might be able to do. I've done this with my fileserver due to the annoyingness of one of the cables. Take the GPU out, and run it under the GPU in the small space between the slot and the back of the case.

[Deleted]

ALl this 3D stuff damages your eyes. Its soo over rated as well - Example being the new DS , comes with a crap load of warning on prolonged 3d Viewing.

[shaw0050]

The case for this project arrives saturday, so it's not built yet.

EVGA SR-2 Motherboard
Dual Xeon X5680
Dual ATI 5970
3x 120.4 Rads, 1x 120.3 Rad
Corsair 1200W PSU
Corsair 750W PSU
60GB Vertex 2 for Boot Drive
Game Drive is up in the air since my 2 300G Velociraptors both are dead, waiting on RMA. Might use my Corsair 256G SSD for that.
Creative X-fi Titanium (Yes I know, Creative is garbage, it was free)
Bigfoot Networks Killer Xeno Pro
nVidia 9800GT for PhysX
Dell U3011 30" LCD
Logitech G19 Keyboard
Logitech G700 Mouse
Danger Den LDR 29 Custom Double Wide Case
2x EK Supreme HF CPU Blocks
2x EK-FC5970 Acetal GPU Blocks
1x EK-FB SR2 Acetal+Nickel Chipset Block

EDIT: Forgot RAM
6 Sticks Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3-1600 7-7-7-20

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I'm sad because I couldn't find that RAM when I was buying parts But I don't do Benching so i'm not worried about the loss of speed.

How did you get a 9800 physx card to work with your AMD graphics cards?

[abulldog]

New system I'm building slowly piece by piece but it's getting there. Hopefully it will be finished by Valentines Day.

NZXT Phantom Black
Rosewill BRONZE Series RBR1000-M 1000W 80Plus Bronze Certified, Power Supply
ASUS Rampage III Extreme
Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield
CoolIT Systems VAN-R120 Vantage A.L.C. CPU Cooler
ASUS 24X DVD Burner Black SATA Model DRW-24B3LT LightScribe Support - OEM
2x Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory with Red/Green LEDs (12GB total)
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Galaxy GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi)

So far I have the case and PSU. The Motherboard and DVD drive are on order and should be here on Monday. Processor and Cooler I will be ordering next week. And the memory the week after that. Graphics card I'm pulling from my current system since it's less than 6mos old. The HDD I will be getting either along with the memory or at least about the same time. The case has pretty good airflow but I might get a few more fans for it too in the future.

This is gonna be a big upgrade for me since my last PC is a HP Media center with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and 3gb ram. (to embarrased to show pics of that ) It will also be the first PC I've build for myself since 1998. The last one I built was a Pentium2 and a 486DX266 before that. So hopefully everythinng will go smoothly.

[ispano]

How did you get a 9800 physx card to work with your AMD graphics cards?

http://www.overclock.net/graphics-ca...ysx-guide.html
There's probably an updated guide somewhere.

[Deleted]

How did you get a 9800 physx card to work with your AMD graphics cards?

Since it arrives Saturday (Today?) I assume he didn't, yet.

[ispano]

Since it arrives Saturday (Today?) I assume he didn't, yet.

Yeah, according to the FedEx guy this morning, he should be here within 2 hours. Damn thing was 50lbs shipped.

[shaw0050]

http://www.overclock.net/graphics-ca...ysx-guide.html
There's probably an updated guide somewhere.

That's awesome, thanks. Now my old GTS 250 can actually do something useful. :P