PC Specs thread!

[badcop]

i don't think i actually posted specs yet.

Intel 3770k @ 4.7 ghz 1.3v
2x 8gb Corsair Dominator 1800 mhz
2x Nvidia branded 660 Ti 1200/6000 SLI
Samsung 840 SSD 256gb
WD 1TB Black
Corsair AX860 PSU
Corsair 650 D Case
Corsair H100i CPU Cooler

[Toad1677]

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
AMD Phemon II 1090T @ 4.0 ghz with Corsair H60
16 GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600
Crossfired AMD 5850
256 GB Crucial M4 SSD
4 x 1TB HDD
LG Blu Ray Drive
Corsair HX750 PSU
Cooler Master ATCS 840 with windowed side panel

[Amble]

Pretty dated, gonna upgrade GFX next month...

Love your pen holder.

[Grim Fandango]

I built my PC back in 2010. Since then I only upgraded the RAM and GPU

I5-760
GTX 760
8GB RAM (1600Mhz)
1TB HDD (7200Rpm)
Corsair VX 550 watt PSU
Asus Xonar DGX

[DamienG]

Just over a year old but holding up well http://damieng.com/blog/2012/08/24/building-a-great-windows-8-developer-gaming-desktop-for-900-1500

CPU: Intel i3770K @ 4.2GHz
Mobo: MSI Z77A-GD65
RAM: 32GB (4x8GB Corsair XMS3)
Disks: 1xSamsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD, 2xSamsung 830 256GB
Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2GB OC2
PSU: Corsair AX750W ATX12V / EPS12V
Optical: ASUS DVD-R
Case: Antec One Hundred ATX Mid Tower
Cooler: Hyper-N 520 with fans removed



Could do with changing the case to something smaller and/or with better cable management.

[microsoft windows]

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.

QUICKSILVER MACS ARE CRAP. POWER MACINTOSH G3'S ARE WHERE IT'S AT.

[IPT]

i7 2700k
Asus Maximus Gene V
Samsung 840 500GB SSD, 2TB WD Black, 3TB Seagate
16GB GSkill Ripjaws
EVGA GTX 670 4GB SC+
OCZ ZX850W PSU (Overkill from when i used to run 2 GTX580s)
Corsair 350D
Samsung Bluray Drive
Corsair H80

[MKULTRA]

[JaccoW]

LGA775 C2D E8400 @3,6ghz
DFI LanParty DK P45-T2RS PLUS
MSI GTX460 1GB OC 'Cyclone'
Corsair Dominator 4GB PC2-8500
Asus Xonar D2X
OCZ Vertex 60GB, WD Green 3TB, WD Black 1TB
Corsair HX520
Zalman Z-Machine GT-1000 case

It's getting old but it is still able to handle pretty much everything I throw at it, especially with the SSD.
I opted to buy a really good laptop last year so I blew my budget on alcohol, drugs and hookers on that.
Sony Vaio S13A - i7-3520m, 8GB RAM, 256GB Samsung 830 SSD, 2GB GT640M LE @1000Mhz , Carbon Black

The case is still awesome but kind of outdated in the sense that it has no cable management. I will probably replace most of the internals next year or so.

[DamienG]

Just found out they removed the experience index UI in Windows 8.1

My scores were 8.4 and 8.5 across the board except for my hard-drive being 8.1... annoying given it is a Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

[)amien

[oscillik]

Just found out they removed the experience index UI in Windows 8.1

My scores were 8.4 and 8.5 across the board except for my hard-drive being 8.1... annoying given it is a Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

[)amien

the experience index didn't ever really mean anything anyways, it was a pseudo yard stick by which Microsoft wanted to be able to give 'grades' to computers, but it was all bull****.

it's like Pitchfork

[DamienG]

Was just as valid as any artificial benchmark...

[)amien

[oscillik]

Was just as valid as any artificial benchmark...

[)amien

yeah, which is useless. if I put a 7200rpm hard disk drive in my computer, the whole computer's index would be considerably less than what it is currently, even though the rest of the machine is 'not shabby', to put it lightly.

[DamienG]

A machine without an SSD *is* going to feel incredibly slow by comparison. I think you may have just disproved your own point

[)amien

[Grendel]

No computer w/o SSD in my house (about 9 of them...)

Main rig:

ASUS Rampage IV Gene (X79), i7-3930K, 4x4GB DDR3-1600
Cooling: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011, NF-F12 PWM, NF-S12A, NF-A14 FLX, 2x Arctic F12
MSI N660 TF 2GD5/OC
Samsung SSD 840 Pro 128GB
2x Seagate ST1000NM033 in RAID1
LG WH10LS30 (BD burner)
Sound Blaster Zx
Seasonic X650
Lian-Li PC-8FIR
Ducky Shine 3 MX Brown/red LED
Logitech G9, G13
Dell U2711
W7U64

[JaccoW]

Love the red anodisation of the case.

[Grendel]

Yes, great color Altho the side panel is a bit funky -- here's a shot of it (w/ older guts)

[MKULTRA]

I really don't understand the appeal of Lian Li cases.  They offer shabby features for their price.  Corsair and Fractal both offer better cases.

[Elrick]

I really don't understand the appeal of Lian Li cases.  They offer shabby features for their price.  Corsair and Fractal both offer better cases.

So true, but I'm stuck with 4 of the damn cases.  Just never had the nerve to throw them out, considering the price that was paid (still love the aluminum though).  I'm on a lookout for another PC Case (go figure) and it might be a Fractal or NZXT.  I already have a white 600T and just wasn't impressed at all with it, hence not buying another Corsair model.

The next choice after Fractal is the latest NZXT H630 which has caught me attention, very simple yet heaps of inside space.  I'm now liking simple designs with little or no vegas lights installed.

[Masterchief79]

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.

Finally got to take some pics:

[tp4tissue]

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.

Finally got to take some pics:

LOL... that's a fun setup...

[microsoft windows]

Anybody else on here running 486's?

[kmiller8]

Nothing too special, but since I decided to dust it out today I decided also to work on the cable management and take some pics. Enjoy

Intel 2500k (4.3GHz) (4.75GHz @ 1.425V)
ATi 5870
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
128GB Samsung 830
3x 2TB WD Blacks
Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme
2x-4x Samsung MV-3V4G3 (1886MHz 9-9-9-24-1T)
FSP Arum Gold 700W
Cooler Master HAF 932







Now to save up for 290x OuO But seriously, it'll probably be a 260x OnO

[kmiller8]

Double post for Other computer

Intel 2120T
AMD 7750
ASRock Z77E-ITX
120GB OCZ Nocti
1x Samsung MV-3V4G3
picoPSU 150 XT
M350







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To the best of my knowledge, this is the best power/volume computer in the world built with off the shelf parts

I like to bring it to LAN parties and have a better computer than a lot of other people there )

[tp4tissue]

Double post for Other computer

Intel 2120T
AMD 7750
ASRock Z77E-ITX
120GB OCZ Nocti
1x Samsung MV-3V4G3
picoPSU 150 XT
M350

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To the best of my knowledge, this is the best power/volume computer in the world built with off the shelf parts :thumb:

I like to bring it to LAN parties and have a better computer than a lot of other people there :))

LOL... that's pretty beasty for the size.. you need a small fan somewhere to "direct the airflow" it looks like it'd be cycling lots of hot air.

also.. 4.3ghz?  what is this madness.. 5Ghz is where you should be at.. there's literally zero chance that the CPU will die before it's obsolete.

[kmiller8]

also.. 4.3ghz?  what is this madness.. 5Ghz is where you should be at.. there's literally zero chance that the CPU will die before it's obsolete.

too lazy to want to mess around with multiplier, I put it to 43x a few years back when I got it and never got around to making it faster, I have no reason to do it. flash videos look the same at 3.3 GHz and 5 (I should game more )

E: and as for directing airflow on the mini thing. You have to consider, the whole system is pulling less than 150W, it does pretty good cooling in it's current config, 70C or so after 4+ hours of Borderlands 2 IIRC.

[tp4tissue]

also.. 4.3ghz?  what is this madness.. 5Ghz is where you should be at.. there's literally zero chance that the CPU will die before it's obsolete.

too lazy to want to mess around with multiplier, I put it to 43x a few years back when I got it and never got around to making it faster, I have no reason to do it. flash videos look the same at 3.3 GHz and 5 (I should game more )

E: and as for directing airflow on the mini thing. You have to consider, the whole system is pulling less than 150W, it does pretty good cooling in it's current config, 70C or so after 4+ hours of Borderlands 2 IIRC.

Cut the top of the plate to fit a thick 140mm AIO water cooler..  Drop in a De-lid 3770k.. OVERCLOCK to 4.8ghz... BOOOOOOOmmmmmmmmmm

[Leslieann]

Wow, I really like that!

[terran5992]

Damn son , so many people have amazing coms

[kmiller8]

Nothing too special, but since I decided to dust it out today I decided also to work on the cable management and take some pics. Enjoy

Intel 2500k (4.3GHz)
ATi 5870 AMD 7950
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe
128GB Samsung 830
3x 2TB WD Blacks
Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme
2x-4x Samsung MV-3V4G3 (2000MHz 9-10-10-27)
FSP Arum Gold 700W
Cooler Master HAF 932

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Now to save up for 290x OuO But seriously, it'll probably be a 260x OnO

Ended up buying a 7950 today, can't pass up the 4th most powerful AMD card for $180 :))

[demik]

reminds me, i need to build a new pc. i think mine is already 2-3 years old.

[tp4tissue]

reminds me, i need to build a new pc. i think mine is already 2-3 years old.

2-3 years you can still roll...  5 years is pushing.

[Sniping]

Running a rig from 2011 that I haven't upgraded since in terms of hardware (peripherals are a different story ) and I'd agree that it's still pretty nice. I'm going to try to get 3 more years out of it though. It'll be pretty crap by then but I need to get my money's worth...

[BakaPhoenix]

I'm using:

Asus maximus v gene
i7 3770k @4,5 ghz
Nvidia geforce 660ti
8 GB G.Skill Ares @ 2133
Samsung 840 120 gb for os
Samsung 830 60 gb for games
Corsair h100i with 2 Scythe Glyde stream

Is not the top of the top, but runs fine and i'm quite happy of it

[demik]

reminds me, i need to build a new pc. i think mine is already 2-3 years old.

2-3 years you can still roll...  5 years is pushing.

I think I'll just get a new case and gpu then. I really hate my haf932

[kmiller8]

I really hate my haf932

 

I just wish mine was one of the ones painted black inside.

[demik]

It's not a bad case. Super easy to work with im just tired of looking at it. I want that od green corsair case now

[tp4tissue]

It's not a bad case. Super easy to work with im just tired of looking at it. I want that od green corsair case now

I think those 200r and 300r are the best cases out... good layout... roomy... understated exterior... and CHEAP...   The expensive cases doesn't really offer anything except like 2 extra fan maybe and some gimmicky front plastic thing..

just paint them into whatever color you want.. They're not items you'd handle often.. so paints coming off wouldn't be a problem.

[kmiller8]

I almost forgot the best spec of my computer

my 150CFM CPU fan

[BakaPhoenix]

I almost forgot the best spec of my computer

my 150CFM CPU fan

Does your neighbors call the airport to report a stray airplane every time you turn on your pc? XD

[demik]

It's not a bad case. Super easy to work with im just tired of looking at it. I want that od green corsair case now

I think those 200r and 300r are the best cases out... good layout... roomy... understated exterior... and CHEAP...   The expensive cases doesn't really offer anything except like 2 extra fan maybe and some gimmicky front plastic thing..

just paint them into whatever color you want.. They're not items you'd handle often.. so paints coming off wouldn't be a problem.

true but, i dont feel like sanding, priming and painting.. disassembled, wait, reassemble too much. and this is the case im talking about

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139015

im a sucker for olive drab.

[kmiller8]

I did it 4u tp4

http://valid.canardpc.com/h4jn4l

I didn't want to go over 1.425 and I couldn't get any higher than that ;_;

[Masterchief79]

Oh, we are pulling out the CPU-Z validations? Here's my highest xD
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2436625

I reached 6700MHz with an 3770K though and the one I have in my PC already did 6770MHz. Those were contest scores though so I don't have a validation for them.

[kmiller8]

Oh, we are pulling out the CPU-Z validations? Here's my highest xD
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2436625

I reached 6700MHz with an 3770K though and the one I have in my PC already did 6770MHz. Those were contest scores though so I don't have a validation for them.

I call shenannigans, CPU-Z validations only for the computer you're using

[Masterchief79]

The on I'm using right now? Well dammit. My university doesn't wanna give me anymore liquid nitrogen at 2.40 am.
The Pentium D score was at my home system though which looked about this when I validated.

It's a shame probably no one here is into extreme overclocking

[tp4tissue]

The on I'm using right now? Well dammit. My university doesn't wanna give me anymore liquid nitrogen at 2.40 am.
The Pentium D score was at my home system though which looked about this when I validated.

It's a shame probably no one here is into extreme overclocking

I had a feeling that all the big name OCers were stealing NO2 from school labs... 

[inteli722]

Phenom II x4 960T
8GB of PNY RAM (don't care what kind)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB
ADATA Premiere Pro 64 GB OS
Hitachi 500GB drive for games and other large programs (AutoCAD, etc)

best rig 2013

[tp4tissue]

Phenom II x4 960T
8GB of PNY RAM (don't care what kind)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB
ADATA Premiere Pro 64 GB OS
Hitachi 500GB drive for games and other large programs (AutoCAD, etc)

best rig 2013

naw u need  2800mhz ram for m0ar speed.

[swill]

Rockin' a beastly Mac...

[BakaPhoenix]

Rockin' a beastly Mac...

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I want it too