Computers Anyone?

[babystarbud]

SLI or crossfire for that matter is just a white elephant.
its just the different graphix companies showing what they can do with limited tech.

no one is dumb enough to buy that stuff unless they got lots of money and dont know what they are talking about.

sats show that the mother board and CPU gets bottle necks of info, and thats what slows the system down (with a high-end graphics card).

its silly buying 2 x SLI 7900's when theres directx 10 just around the corner.

all the above stuff hasnt got any progs to take advantage of the tech anyway.

[HazmatTHC]

Hello hello.

Unfortunatly, my enermax Liberty is a POS PSU and fizzled my BFG 7800 GTX OC 256 PCI-e so im left with an awesome rig, and no vid card lol.

Specs:

AMD FX-60 skt 939
Asus A8N32-SLI DX
4 Gig of OCZ Platinum EL ram
3 Raptor 10K RPM 74.4 Gig HDD's + 1 more Raptor leftover * need a RAID card *
1 250 Gig HDD * my media disc *
7.1 Surround Sound creative Audigy 2zs platinum * not platinum pro *
ATI tv tuner card
Soon to be an XFX Nvidia Geforce 7900GTX 512MB PCI-E Video Card, and then eventually SLI of the card.

Now for the "cool"parts.
Vapochill A/C phase change CPU cooling "-50 celcious"
Thermaltake Armour Full Tower case black w/ acrylic door.
5 Fans on the inside of the case.
Thermaltake 680watt PSU * my old good PSU *
dvd-rw burner
cd-rw burner
cd-rom drive
Aerocool CoolWatch fan controller / LCD Display / 20-in-1 Card Reader - Black

OC'ing:
VId Card: As far as it will go... simple enough
CPU: somewhere in the 3ghz range. will have to make some time to OC it.

I dont think ive missed anything

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[walterpklondike]

cool boxs, i just got my a+ hardware cert.! yehaww not bad for an 34 year old ex stoner jock! Im not even in the comp buisness im a mason. just wanted to know how they were put together. Im a mac head and the people i took the class w, got tired of my mac talk! redneck reggea botonist out!

[Smoove]

Nice... stoner DIY'ers!!!

Here's my rig:

Case - Aspire Q XPACK (Blue)
Motherboard - Biostar T-Force 6100 939
CPU - AMD Opteron 148 @ 2.8ghz 28c idle 45c load
Heatsink - Zalman 7700cu
Ram - (2) 1 GB sticks of PC4000 Corsair Platinums 166 divider 2.5-3-3-6 timings
Videocard - Sapphire X800GTO2 (BIOS Flashed to enable 16 pipes)
Heatsink - Zalman VF700cu
Harddrives - (2) Western Digital 120gb 8mb cache 7200 rpm
Optical - (2) Lite-on DVD Burners (Black Bezel)
Powersupply - Antec Smartpower 2.0 500 watt madular
Soundcard - Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS

[somethingfunny]

I used to be way into it, a couple months ago and bought some really nice stuff- here it goes

opteron 144 [email protected]
dfi nf4 ultra-d
gskill zx 2x1gb 244mhz 2.5-3-2-6
x1900xt 700/800mhz
antec p160 case
enermax whisper ii 535w
watercooled (thinking i might sell it for some extra cash though)

I had a 165 at one point that ran [email protected]. I deleted all my screenies though in an effort to free up some space Only saved like 50MB, pffft.. they are probably buried somewhere in a thread on xtremesystems though, if you can find them, great..

[Professor Dan K.]

i hide my dank and my pipe in the extra drive slots too lol, nice spot because its not in view of anyone standing at my door, and its in a little box so nobody will ever know

[somethingfunny]

rofl, that is a good idea.. I've been using my guitar amp and it is way too damn dusty in there

[MagicGrow]

No pics but specs:
Pc1 Built 11 months ago was alot of money back then.
Antec Sonata 2 case
Enermax 535w sli psu
AMD 64 X2 4200+
2 gb ocz performance el ram
2 X Asus N7800 GTX-E 256 PCI-E
74 GB Raptor 16 mb cache
160 GB seagate SATA
Sound Blaster X-FI Sound Card
Monior used with this Samsung 955 DF

Pc 2
Custom case went crazy with the hole saw and modded like mad 9 case fans
2 60 mm on top 2 80 mm left pannel 2 80 mm on right 2 back 1 front
+cpufan+videocardfan and psu fan thats 12 fans in total.
Inner part of case painted blue
AMD Athlon 2800+ oc'd to 3200+ can do alot higher unlocked cpu
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe ' - adding new heatsink to cpu for better oc
Thermaltake Purepower 480W
1 GB OCZ - adding on more ram another gb
Ati Radeon 9250 128mb - buying a X700-X850 for it this week
120 Gb seageate sata hdd
onboard sound

[jamstigator]

I used to build my own, but got lazy the last few years.

We have two computers. The first, and oldest, is a Dell XPS Gen4, 3.6 ghz single core P4, with 650 gigs of internal HDs, and 900 gigs of external HDs, an ATI 850XT video card, decent Creative sound card (whatever preceded the XFis), TV tuner, 2 gigs of memory, DVD-ROM and a DVR writer, two sets of keyboards and mice (wired and wireless), with a 19" monitor, and also connected to a 32" LCD TV, with the sound run through a 5.1 700-watt Pioneer stereo. Also connected to a Roland RS-70 synthesizer. This is the machine I usually use.

The other is a Gateway dual-core (not Core 2 Duo though), 3.4 ghz, 2 gigs of ram, an ATI X1900 video card, a 20" widescreen monitor, TV card, SoundBlaster XFi, wired mouse and keyboard, 500 gigs of internal HD, 300 gigs external. (For a total of 2350 gigs, or 2.35 terabytes, spread across both machines.) This is the machine the woman usually uses.

[Totalpain]

Nice desktop somethingfunny, I really like it.

I just recently bought a dual-core Gateway aswell. 1Gig ram....Radeon X1900 pci express, I was aiming for a cheap nice pc to upgrade from my shitty outdated dell so I could play World Of warcraft and download stuff with better capabilities.

Cheers

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