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PC Specs thread!
« on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 06:42:00 »
It's been a while since there hasn't been a thread like this, how about making a new one ?
You can post a picture of your rig if you want :D

I'll start:

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Kingston HyperX Beast 2x4gb 1866MHZ CL9
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Gainward Phantom GTX 770 2GB
Lepa G750W PSU
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unless they have some unforeseeable downside (like they're actually made of cream cheese cunningly disguised as ABS)


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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 07:40:13 »
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36067.0

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33167.0

??
First one is pretty dead, second one is desk tour, I only want PC specs, but well whatever.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 07:45:07 »
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36067.0

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33167.0

??
First one is pretty dead, second one is desk tour, I only want PC specs, but well whatever.

If the first one is dead then you revive it as this is not really a time-sensitive topic.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 08:13:49 »
Last post was less than a month ago.

You should definitely post in that thread, and post more pictures. I'd like to see that case from other angles.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 12:25:15 »
It's been a while since there hasn't been a thread like this, how about making a new one ?
You can post a picture of your rig if you want :D

I'll start:

MSI Z87 MPower MAX
i5-4670k @stock 3.4ghz
CM Hyper 212 Evo w/ 2 x Thermalright TY-147
Kingston HyperX Beast 2x4gb 1866MHZ CL9
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Gainward Phantom GTX 770 2GB
Lepa G750W PSU
Corsair Carbide 500R Artic White w/ 2 x Noctuas NF-S12A

bad choices righ der'

Gtx770 is really slow for what they're charging

750 watt on that rig, you're losing power efficiency because your peak load probably is less than 450watt.

and your overclock is laughable..

Complete waste of k-series cpu + good oc-capable motherboard

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 12:48:51 »
An example of a well thought out Gaming PC

7970 $250 on sale - $50 worth of games = ~$200 

performs around 95% as fast as a 770 for HALF its price.

4670k is good, but it needs to be at 4.8ghz, which is its standard overclock

delid, and you're good on nearly any aftermarket air-cooler, to reach 4.8.

600 watt psu, because haswell doesn't eat much power


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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 12:51:25 »
An example of a well thought out Gaming PC

7970 $250 on sale - $50 worth of games = ~$200 

performs around 95% as fast as a 770 for HALF its price.

4670k is good, but it needs to be at 4.8ghz, which is its standard overclock

delid, and you're good on nearly any aftermarket air-cooler, to reach 4.8.

600 watt psu, because haswell doesn't eat much power

TP what are you running these days?
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 12:53:54 »
On open case, very expensive SLi gfx card, power'd by ErgoDox
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:02:42 »
Here's my rig


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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:07:17 »
Here's my rig
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i7 2600k
Corsair H100 push/pull
4x4GB Corsair Vengeance
2x EVGA 560ti 448 Classified
1tb Caviar Black
500gb Caviar Black
Corsair HX1050
Corsair 800D
All fans are Corsair AF or SP
The cable extensions are Bitfenix Alchemy

that looks really good.  would you mind posting your cable management?  I'm looking into to getting those extensions but i dont have any more room on the back side of my 650 D.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:09:58 »
that looks really good.  would you mind posting your cable management?  I'm looking into to getting those extensions but i dont have any more room on the back side of my 650 D.
I don't have any pics of my cable management, sorry. Put it this way.. The side panel isn't flat anymore.. :))
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:11:09 »
i7 2700k
Asuz Max 4 genez
8gb Dominator ram @ 1600
128gb SSD
6950(had xfire)--switching to 2 580
ax1200 PS(overkill)
Full custom water loop
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:13:36 »
that looks really good.  would you mind posting your cable management?  I'm looking into to getting those extensions but i dont have any more room on the back side of my 650 D.
I don't have any pics of my cable management, sorry. Put it this way.. The side panel isn't flat anymore.. :))

lol good.  i'm not the only one.  i'm almost to the point where I sit on mine to get it closed.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:30:47 »
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #15 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:46:31 »
sorry for bad picture (can't get the whole case in shot properly)



Corsair Obsidian 900D
H110 all in one cooler (push/pull config)
Intel Core i7-3970x
Corsair Dominator GT 32GB RAM
Corsair Neutron GTX 240MB SSD
various hard disks of different sizes
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all fans are Noctua 140mm, except those on the back of the drive cages which are 120mm Noctuas

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #16 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:49:53 »
Just putting this out there; did everyone miss the part about there already being a thread for this? The thread isn't even 2 pages, it's not that much to read...

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #17 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 13:58:22 »
ahh, sorry :(

wonder if a mod can merge?
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #18 on: Tue, 03 September 2013, 14:04:26 »
No point, just repost your stuff over there
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #19 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 09:04:38 »
Pics up later:

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Asrock b75m
Sapphire 7970
CM 850w hybrid
120GB kingston ssd
2tb WD HDD
8GB Corsair LP
Full custom waterloop with ek blocks.

Second build.

Parvum custom case
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Corsair 16GB lp
Palit 3GB 580
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #20 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 09:36:00 »
Palit 3GB 580

Is this rig new, and if so, where did you get a 580 3GB?

I have been searching for one to upgrade my 1.5GB for a while now but they are freaking rare around here and quite sought after. There are almost no cards which are better for certain applications other than the Titan.

I would kill maim someone for a 580 3GB.
I would kill for a Titan.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #21 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 10:05:43 »
Palit 3GB 580

Is this rig new, and if so, where did you get a 580 3GB?

I have been searching for one to upgrade my 1.5GB for a while now but they are freaking rare around here and quite sought after. There are almost no cards which are better for certain applications other than the Titan.

I would kill maim someone for a 580 3GB.
I would kill for a Titan.

I bought it for my brothers rig about a year ago, but since he loves his netbook it barly got used, so its been used for about 100-150 hours total
i used it to test it for 5 mins and still works perfectly, so its currently sat connected to my "second rig" which i need a power supply and its a complete system :)

But yeah i looked at benchmarks and its on par with my 3GB 7970 and waterblocks for it are cheap as chips!
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #22 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 10:11:34 »
An example of a well thought out Gaming PC

7970 $250 on sale - $50 worth of games = ~$200 

performs around 95% as fast as a 770 for HALF its price.

4670k is good, but it needs to be at 4.8ghz, which is its standard overclock

delid, and you're good on nearly any aftermarket air-cooler, to reach 4.8.

600 watt psu, because haswell doesn't eat much power

TP what are you running these days?

doesn't matter..

I don't care what people keep telling me, 5ghz sandybridge is not enough..

I'm going to drive my ass up to microcenter this black friday and GO Haswell, and get a 3rd 7970 for 3x cfx.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #23 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 10:24:13 »
An example of a well thought out Gaming PC

7970 $250 on sale - $50 worth of games = ~$200 

performs around 95% as fast as a 770 for HALF its price.

4670k is good, but it needs to be at 4.8ghz, which is its standard overclock

delid, and you're good on nearly any aftermarket air-cooler, to reach 4.8.

600 watt psu, because haswell doesn't eat much power

TP what are you running these days?

doesn't matter..

I don't care what people keep telling me, 5ghz sandybridge is not enough..

I'm going to drive my ass up to microcenter this black friday and GO Haswell, and get a 3rd 7970 for 3x cfx.

BUT HASWEL IS CRAP AND JUST GETS SO HOT!
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #24 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 13:48:36 »
I bought it for my brothers rig about a year ago, but since he loves his netbook it barly got used, so its been used for about 100-150 hours total
i used it to test it for 5 mins and still works perfectly, so its currently sat connected to my "second rig" which i need a power supply and its a complete system :)

But yeah i looked at benchmarks and its on par with my 3GB 7970 and waterblocks for it are cheap as chips!

Insane that it beats the entire 6-series and up to 780. I recon it is one of few cards where the 3GB version costs more than double that of the 1.5GB. So sad decided to get the 1.5GB back then.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #25 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 16:45:09 »
Too lazy to post pics.

i5-2500k @ 4.4
Hyper 212+
ASRock Z68 Extreme3
8GB G.Skill
XFX 6870
Seasonic 620w PSU
1TB WD black drive (bought during height of inflation, so $160ish)
HAF 912
Optical Drive
Some fans and a fan controller

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #26 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 19:52:26 »
HERE ARE THE SPECS OF THE LAPTOP I'M ON RIGHT NOW:

COMPUTER: COMPAQ LTE ELITE 4/40 CX
PROCESSOR: INTEL i486, 40MHZ
MEMORY: 20MB
DISK DRIVES: 384MB HARD DISK AND 1.44MB FLOPPY (FLOPPY DRIVE'S BROKE)
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MONITOR: 7" LCD

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #27 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 20:04:21 »
Is it a DX2/40?  I have a Toshiba T1950CT somewhere with that processor, but it has a mildly accelerated video card.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #28 on: Mon, 09 September 2013, 20:37:18 »
I've got a DX2-66 in storage, I think I modded it to DX2-100*.  Has 640Mb of disc storage, but that needed two hard drives.   :eek:

(*DX4-100? Something like that.)

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #29 on: Tue, 10 September 2013, 16:13:10 »
Nothing crazy, goal was to build it for 1k or less almost 2 years ago. Maybe time to upgrade some things:

Corsair 500R
i5 2500k oc to 3.9GHz
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MSI GTX560ti Twin Frozr II 2Gb
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #30 on: Tue, 10 September 2013, 19:31:28 »
Is it a DX2/40?  I have a Toshiba T1950CT somewhere with that processor, but it has a mildly accelerated video card.

nope, it's just a straight 486. a little slow, but it runs good and reliably.

i recently got ahold of an upgraded compaq laptop with a 512mb hard disk, 9" screen, and a 75mhz 486/dx2...now i just gotta get a memory card reader so i can transfer network drivers onto it since its floppy drive is broke too.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #31 on: Tue, 10 September 2013, 22:04:46 »
Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz Quad-Core (2007)
Radeon HD6850
4 GB DDR2 RAM.....

Come to think of it, my keyboards cost more than my computer.

Just as well!  Still runs modern games like a champ (granted that's mostly due to the video card).  Reinstalling Windows 7 every 6-12 months helps, too.

I want to upgrade motherboard/ram/cpu, but the need isn't there until it starts performing poorly..... hmm... I really just want USB 3.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #32 on: Tue, 10 September 2013, 22:36:04 »




The graphics card has an aftermarket cooler installed which keeps the temperatures 30C+ cooler than with the stock fans. I built this PC back in early 2011 and I'm wholly satisfied with it. I'm not much of a gamer, but I'm able to play SC2 and Path of Exile on max settings with smooth visuals -- which is all I wanted.

That being said, this PC should last me at least 4-5 more years. My next computer purchase will most likely be a slim All-in-One PC since I'm not a fan of how huge this NZXT Phantom case is.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #33 on: Wed, 11 September 2013, 08:03:19 »
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (cheap m-atx mother board)
AMD FX 4100 at 3.6GHz boosts to 3.8 (stock)
8GB of 1333MHz Kingston black edition RAM
AMD HD7770 1GB
500GB WD blue HDD
OCZ 600W power supply

Poor mans gaming PC :p. It is good enough for me right now.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #34 on: Wed, 11 September 2013, 09:28:23 »
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (cheap m-atx mother board)
AMD FX 4100 at 3.6GHz boosts to 3.8 (stock)
8GB of 1333MHz Kingston black edition RAM
AMD HD7770 1GB
500GB WD blue HDD
OCZ 600W power supply

Poor mans gaming PC :p. It is good enough for me right now.


If it works for you then its good enough :)

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #35 on: Wed, 11 September 2013, 09:38:41 »
My PC is nothing special but it plays the **** I play @ 1920x1200 at pretty high spec's;

Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory - 6144MB RAM
Hard Drive - 160GB SDD // 1TB // 2x500GB
Motherboard - ASUS P5N-E SLI
Operating System - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Video Card - AMD Radeon HD 6970
Keyboard - Filco Majestouch-2, NKR, Cherry MX Blue + Clack
Mouse - Steelseries Sensei (RAW Rubber)
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #36 on: Wed, 11 September 2013, 09:41:24 »
Just out of curiousity, what are people using to connect multiple hard drives? 

I've got an Asus motherboard with 8 SATA ports, but two are those weird Marvell ports, and two are SATAII, leaving only four SATAIII ports.  I've got two SSDs and four 2TB HDDs, plus the optical drive, so even though there are plenty of places to mount the drives in the case, I run out of connectors on the mobo.

Anyone use RAID controller cards, or external storage arrays?

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #37 on: Sat, 14 September 2013, 10:46:05 »
Some of my pics are older, never did bother to take newer pics since I've quit the speedy rig game....more into keyboards these days. Anyway, main rig -
LGA2011 i7 3960X @4.5ghz
Corsair H100 + 2x Corsair Performance SP fans
Asus Rampage IV Extreme
4x 4GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133mhz
3x HD7970 CFX
120GB Corsair ForceGT SSD (OS)
2TB + 2x 1TB WDC Black (Storage)
Seasonic X-1250 PSU
Tt Level 10GT Black chassis
Topre RF 103UB-55G/yellow PBT key caps + Keycool 84 LED Black + Roccat Kone XTD
64bit Win7 HP SP1
(pic below was when I had only 2 sticks of Dom Plat, was waiting for seller to restock)

This was with the Corsair Lightbar mod


2nd rig:
AMD FX8350 @4,5ghz
CM Hyper 412 Slim + 120mm Corsair SP Performance fan
Asus Crosshair V Formula
4x 4GB RipJawsX 2133mhz
2x GTX670 SLi
120GB ForceGT SSD (OS)
1TB WDC Black + 1.5TB WDC Green + 500GB WDC Blue
Corsair HX1050 PSU
Corsair Obsidian 650D
HHKB Pro 2 White + Leopold FC660M Clear + Logitech G9
64bit Win7 Pro SP1


3rd Rig:
LGA775 C2Q X9650 @3.7ghz
TRUE 120 + Corsair SP Performance fan
Asus Maximus II Formula
2x 2GB KHX PC2 8500
Sapphire HD6990 + MSI HD6970 Lightning CFX
120GB Force 3 SSD (OS)
1TB WDC Black + 2x 500GB WDC Blue (Storage)
SilverStone OP1000 PSU
NZXT Phantom 410 Red
Topre Type Heaven/blue PBT key caps + CM Storm Xornet
64bit Win7 HP SP1
(Older pic, this was when I'd just acquire the HD6970 Lightning, was testing stability and such)
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #38 on: Sat, 14 September 2013, 20:04:56 »
Just out of curiousity, what are people using to connect multiple hard drives? 

I've got an Asus motherboard with 8 SATA ports, but two are those weird Marvell ports, and two are SATAII, leaving only four SATAIII ports.  I've got two SSDs and four 2TB HDDs, plus the optical drive, so even though there are plenty of places to mount the drives in the case, I run out of connectors on the mobo.

Anyone use RAID controller cards, or external storage arrays?

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #39 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 03:50:57 »
Just out of curiousity, what are people using to connect multiple hard drives? 

I've got an Asus motherboard with 8 SATA ports, but two are those weird Marvell ports, and two are SATAII, leaving only four SATAIII ports.  I've got two SSDs and four 2TB HDDs, plus the optical drive, so even though there are plenty of places to mount the drives in the case, I run out of connectors on the mobo.

Anyone use RAID controller cards, or external storage arrays?

I USE IDE CABLES. MOST OF MY MOTHERBOARDS COME WITH 4 IDE PORTS, WHICH I USUALLY HOOK UP 1 CD DRIVE, 1 ZIP DRIVE, AND 2 HARD DISKS WITH.

Only trolls use Zip drives.  They are evil.  Click of death and all that.  I have Zip drives in my QuickSilver Macs.  So there.
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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #40 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 05:23:24 »
Nothing special:
  • EVGA GTX660 SC
  • Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 (got this second-hand pretty cheap, and the above-average onboard audio is a nice bonus)
  • Intel i5 3570K @ 4.5Ghz (@1.19V)
  • CM Hyper 212 EVO
  • Corsair LP 2x4GB 1600
  • Samsung 840 250GB
  • WD Blue 1TB x2
  • Antec HCG-520
  • Silverstone TJ08-E
  • SteelSeries Sensei + Glothiathus Control
  • Leopold FC700R (graphite + blank white PBT w/ ghetto modded spacebar)

Offline noisyturtle

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #41 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 05:48:56 »
All these people with dustless PC's. How do you keep it that way, mine looks dustier than a mummy's butthole after just a week or so.

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #42 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 06:17:18 »

All these people with dustless PC's. How do you keep it that way, mine looks dustier than a mummy's butthole after just a week or so.

Get some filters and a can of air. Blow it out every couple of weeks.
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Offline Masterchief79

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #43 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 06:29:58 »
My main PC:

i7-3770K@4,7GHz@1,26V
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H
8GB AData DDR3 2200MHz
XFX HD7970@1300/1600@1,25V
~2TB HDDs + 64GB Crucial SSD on Windows 8
1350W Enermax Max Revo PSU (actually my benching PSU I now have in use 24/7 there and it's a little overkill^^)
Fiio E10 Headphone Amplifier with Sennheiser HD600 headphones
CPU and GPU watercooled by Mora 2 Pro 1080 radiator


Second system I'm currently building at my parents house (it's a little project just for fun, building a now very cheap PC with 3-4 old, former Highend hardware, I will keep it below 300€ in TOTAL including all parts and watercooling):

i7 950
Asus Rampage 2 Extreme
6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000MHz CL7 (MNH-E Hyper Chips)
(still looking for GFX, maybe GTX260 I have laying around till I find a decent GTX480 SLI or something)
700W Seasonic PSU
+ some parts I have laying around, like HDDs, but nothing special there.
CPU, Mainboard, graphics cards and even RAM will all be watercooled. Parts are all there and just need to be assembled in a few days.
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Offline Masterchief79

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #44 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 06:32:14 »
Oops, quote instead of Modify, please delete this^^
« Last Edit: Sun, 15 September 2013, 06:36:21 by Masterchief79 »
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Offline daerid

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #45 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 11:08:31 »
My work rig's got the 3970X in it and 48GB of RAM, but the vid card's only a 3gb 660ti (it is for work after all). Don't remember exactly what the mobo is, but the case is the white Corsair 600T.

Only pic I have:

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #46 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 11:33:57 »
i5 3570k
Hyper 212 plus CPU cooler
GA-z77x-ud3h
8gb ddr3 1600
1tb 7200 rpm
Gigabyte 7950 3gb
Phantom 410
500w atx12v (rip, rip)
win 8 (**** ye)

Asus ve228H 21.5" 1080 - actually looking for a portrait monitor to go on the left side of my main monitor..not sure where to start

Deathadder 2013
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Offline kaotikb

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #47 on: Sun, 15 September 2013, 19:40:15 »
I built a new system two months ago.

Intel i7 4770k
Swiftech H320 cpu water cooler
16Gb Corsair low profile ram
Gigabyte z87x-ud3h motherboard
Evga Gtx 770 SuperClocked with ACX cooler
Intel 150gb ssd drive
CoolerMaster HAF-X case
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Offline MTManiac

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #48 on: Mon, 16 September 2013, 10:44:15 »
Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz Quad-Core (2007)
Radeon HD6850
4 GB DDR2 RAM.....

Come to think of it, my keyboards cost more than my computer.

Just as well!  Still runs modern games like a champ (granted that's mostly due to the video card).  Reinstalling Windows 7 every 6-12 months helps, too.

I want to upgrade motherboard/ram/cpu, but the need isn't there until it starts performing poorly..... hmm... I really just want USB 3.
I have a 6600 sitting at 3.2 with 8GB RAM and a 7870
There's nothing I can't run, it even runs crysis, just not on max settings but is there a machine that can???
I agree, the only thing I am missing is usb 3.0 but I don't really miss is since I upgraded my hard drives to samsung 840 pros

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Re: PC Specs thread!
« Reply #49 on: Mon, 16 September 2013, 11:07:37 »
Pretty dated, gonna upgrade GFX next month...
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PSU: Corsair AX750

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 / Noctua NH-U12P SE2 [2x 120mm @ 900 RPM]
RAM: 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance / DDR3 / 1600MHz
Mobo: ASUS P8P67 PRO S1155 ATX

HDDs: 7x 2TB WD Caviar Black + 2x 2TB WD Caviar Green + 2x 3TB WD Red

Video: Gainward GeForce GTX570 Phantom GDDR5
Displays: EIZO HD2442W / 24" / 1920x1200 + Dell U2412M / 24" / 1920x1200

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DVD/Blu-Ray: LG CH10LS20

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Keyboard: HHKB2, KBC Poker [Ergo-Clear Cherry MX switches, Engraved KBC PBT Keyscaps, Neon Green Aluminium Casing]
Tablet: Wacom Intuos 4 Medium
Gamepad: Sony Dual Shock 2 Controller
Arcade Stick: Mad Catz Super Street Fighter IV FightStick Tournament Edition (Dictator Artwork, Custom Plexi, Red Buttons/Balltop)

UPS: APC Backup-UPS Pro 900
Printer: Canon Pixma iP5300

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