Post Up Your Rig!

[b1aze]

Originally Posted by MetsFan

Yeah, that's why I went with a modular, and it was still tough. It would have been a big pain to get those out of the way with the small case.

That's the first thing I did, lol. I didn't keep it though, I only tried it to see how far I could get. The ASRock utility makes it very easy. I got the CPU up to 4.2 GHz. I didn't try any CPU benchmarks, but it worked fine playing games and general stuff. I got the video card up to 1075/1450 and played some games on it with no issues. I can run all of my games on ultra settings on my 1080p TV with stock settings though, so I'm going to leave it stock for now.

That was my justification. I'm getting 125+ fps at all times on max settings in CSGO so there's no reason to push it if I don't have to. I will likely grab some dust filters and enjoy the machine for a while. I'm hoping it lasts a good long time!

[MetsFan]

Originally Posted by b1aze

That was my justification. I'm getting 125+ fps at all times on max settings in CSGO so there's no reason to push it if I don't have to. I will likely grab some dust filters and enjoy the machine for a while. I'm hoping it lasts a good long time!

Indeed. I had my old Q6600 PC for 5 years, so I'm hoping for at least as long for this one too.

How do you like that case by the way? I was considering it, but ended up with the Line M because it's not as deep.

[b1aze]

Originally Posted by MetsFan

Indeed. I had my old Q6600 PC for 5 years, so I'm hoping for at least as long for this one too.

How do you like that case by the way? I was considering it, but ended up with the Line M because it's not as deep.

I had an XPS420 with the Q6600 also! That thing was so good to me!

The case is pretty nice actually! I didn't find it too cramped like a lot of people did, but I really took my time assembling it and tried to do as good a job with cable management as I could. Its solid, bland clean looking and pretty well laid out IMO. The front fan pulls in plenty of air, side vent is positioned perfect for GPU cooling and I really like the way they did the drive mounting on the removable, rubber grommet mounted plate. It made doing the cable management a hell of a lot easier and the whole thing can come right out with a few thumb screws.

All in all, its a great setup so far. Nothing I would change, aside from maybe going with the 7950 for another ~$100 just so I knew i had a lot of headroom on GPU performance.

[nullrouted]

Just put together a new one for gaming/virtualization/certification training.

Intel Corei7-4930k Ivy Bridge-E 6-Core 3.4ghz @ 4.5ghz
Corsair Hydro H100i Cooler
Asus Rampage IV Extreme LGA2011 X79 mobo.
64GB G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series DDR3-2400 (8x8).
2x Samsung 840 PRO 256gb SSD in RAID 0 with TRIM on X79.
2x EVGA SuperClocked ACX-cooled FTW 780 GTX (Replacing with 780Ti x2 via StepUp when available)
SoundBlaster Zx (Core3D)
PC Power and Cooling Silencer MKIII 1200w 80-PLUS Platinum
CoolerMaster Storm Trooper Full Tower
Samsung BD-R Drive

[Colt]

Originally Posted by nullrouted

Intel Corei7-4930k Ivy Bridge-E 6-Core 3.4ghz @ 4.5ghz
Corsair Hydro H100i Cooler
Asus Rampage IV Extreme LGA2011 X79 mobo.
64GB G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series DDR3-2400 (8x8).
2x EVGA SuperClocked ACX-cooled FTW 780 GTX

Holy shit 64GB of RAM and 2 GTX 780s

Is the cooler loud?

[nullrouted]

Originally Posted by aM.

Holy shit 64GB of RAM and 2 GTX 780s

Is the cooler loud?

There is a small pump in the waterblock area to cycle the water and then 2 120mm fans on the radiator. None of this makes very much noise -- Altogether the case has about 15 fans of one type or another (including GPUs) and it runs quieter than the small Cisco router in my network stack next to it. Really amazed with how quiet this stuff has become, this is the first new PC I've built in probably 4 years. Most of my work is with enterprise IT equipment, almost all of which is incredibly loud.

[markham335i]

Built this a couple of weeks ago:
corsair 750d case
i7-4770k
Z87-A mobo
H100i water cool
16gb Kingston hyperX ram
AMD 7970 video card
120gb ssd
3TB storage
750w corsair ps

probly going to run 2 graphics card when i get bored

[steveMizdaman]

I just opened mine up the other day for a thorough cleaning inside. Holy dust balls!

[Colt]

Originally Posted by steveMizdaman

I just opened mine up the other day for a thorough cleaning inside. Holy dust balls!

Guarantee mine is in desperate need of this as well.

[steveMizdaman]

Originally Posted by aM.

Guarantee mine is in desperate need of this as well.

I made a big mistake of doing it in bedroom, and let me just say I should of took it to the basement or garage bc the dust went all over the place.

[MetsFan]

So who got into the mining craze? I ended up selling my 7950 for $420 thanks to the miners and bought a GTX 770.

[roger0704]

I don't have a picture, but I will post up my specs:

Core i5 3570k
8 GB Corsair Vengeance 8GB (4GBx2)
1 TB Western Digital Blue
120 GB Samsung 840
Gigabyte Windforce 7950 OC Edition 3 GB GDDR5
Asrock Z77 Pro4 motherboard
LG ultra wide (2580x1080) monitor (sweeeeeet monitor! video of it here:

)

[Someone?]

I cant really get to mine to open it up, but i7, ASUS, couple of Lightning fast Samsung SSD HD, ATI card, Windows 7 Ultimate. I play COD only, hate ghost it sucks.

[Colt]

Originally Posted by steveMizdaman

I made a big mistake of doing it in bedroom, and let me just say I should of took it to the basement or garage bc the dust went all over the place.

Notes taken

Originally Posted by ibmike

I cant really get to mine to open it up, but i7, ASUS, couple of Lightning fast Samsung SSD HD, ATI card, Windows 7 Ultimate. I play COD only, hate ghost it sucks.

Which i7/ASUS/ATI out of curiosity? I heard Ghosts sucks hard donkey too - I haven't even bothered to try it after reviews I have read from day 1. Apparently took out S&D and that's all I play.

[SixBanger]

I could really use some serious help with my rig it's been down for over a month. ASUS' customer service is just awful.Here's what I got:
ASUS P8Z68-V LX
Corsair H60
CorsAir 8Gb Dominator RAM
Fatality sound card by Creative
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Samsung 120gb boot
WD magnetic drive 1TB storage
She boots up fine CPU Fan error" shows up and when I'm into Windows 7 for 3 minutes it automatically resets itself. I've contacted corporate because there customer service is useless and a joke, that's all I will say.
I've taken off the fan and re-applied the thermal paste twice, and same outcome. This has driven me nuts!! If anyone is capable of helping me out,I will paypal them someone money for their help.

[boarderofsnow86]

Originally Posted by SixBanger

I could really use some serious help with my rig it's been down for over a month. ASUS' customer service is just awful.Here's what I got:
ASUS P8Z68-V LX
Corsair H60
CorsAir 8Gb Dominator RAM
Fatality sound card by Creative
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Samsung 120gb boot
WD magnetic drive 1TB storage
She boots up fine CPU Fan error" shows up and when I'm into Windows 7 for 3 minutes it automatically resets itself. I've contacted corporate because there customer service is useless and a joke, that's all I will say.
I've taken off the fan and re-applied the thermal paste twice, and same outcome. This has driven me nuts!! If anyone is capable of helping me out,I will paypal them someone money for their help.

It may be automatically shutting off due to over heating.

Go into your bios and disable the cpu fan sensor since you have a water cooled setup. However check with the cooler manufacturer to see how the pump works. Does it have a dedicated power supply? If not and it runs off the motherboard fan power it may be a different issue and require the mobo sensor to be on to power the pump. Or that power supply may not provide enough power to run the pump.

Make sure thermal paste is good and brackets are installed correctly. Make sure that the pump is actually running. 3 minutes sounds like it may just be cooling with the water sitting on the cpu block.

If you reset your bios it probably reset those settings to default. My Asus board does.

[lamia2super]

put this together recently. waiting to get more money to upgrade my gpus

[SGe92is]

Pasted from my HardForum signature

• i7-2700K @ 4GHz • ASRock Z68 Fatality • 16GB G.Skill ARES 1600 •
• CF XFX DD R9 290 x2 • Asus VG248 24" 144hz x3 • Corsair 650D • Corsair CX750M • Xigmatek Dark Knight II Nighthawk •
• Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SSD • Corsair M500 960 GB SSD • 3x Toshiba 2 TB 7200 RPM •
• Schitt Bifrost (Uber) + Asgard 2 • Sennheiser HD650 headphones • Modded Audioengine A5+ •
• Audio-GD NFB-15.32 • Phillips Fidelio L1 •

Basically, i7 @ 4ghz, two R9 290 in crossfire, 1TB SSD, three 24" 144hz displays in eyefinity.

No pictures of the actual computer, but here is my current desk/tv setup. Ignore the messy cables, it has since been cleaned up.

[davis449]

This might as well be "My Rig". It's my setup at work, but it's where I do a lot of anything computer related from. I'll post my home setup(s) later separately.

Lenovo T430S (Type 2353)
Intel Core i5-3230M 2.60 GHz
Intel HD Graphics 4000 32 MB (1760 MB shared with memory)
Nvidia NVS 5200M 1 GB (Embedded Discrete Graphics)
8 GB PC3 12800 RAM
240 GB Crucial mSATA SSD
500 GB 7200 RPM 2.5" slim WD Black Series
Realtek ALC3202 Sound with Dolby Digital Plus
Integrated 720p camera (External is a Cisco\Tandberg Precision HD)
Inegrated Bluetooth
14.0-inch HD+ (1600 x 900) LED backlight Anti-Glare Display
Backlit Island Keyboard
Two External ASUS VE248 24" 1080p Monitors
Lenovo ThinkPad Mini Dock Series 3
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise

It's about 1.1" thick and comes in at a shade under 5 lbs. Not bad power to weight ratio for a laptop I do have to carry.

[NEFARIOUS]

Laptop:
HP ENVY dv7 17" screen, Intel Core i5-2450m, 8GB RAM, Win8.1 64-bit, 750GB HDD, Intel Integrated HD Graphics 4000. Didn't really care about gaming when I bought it, but now I'm kicking myself after my former roommate got me hooked on COD and back into gaming (so far I'm playing other COD series and Splinter Cell, albeit a bit choppy sometimes) .

Desktop:
It was built from the ground up to be a gaming machine in 2005 and I managed to play Doom 3 and HL2 no problem (extra no problem when I had a phase of playing vintage games like Dune, Duke Nukem or Wolfenstein), but that fad quickly passed a year in and has been an occasional file server to this day and a movie rig set up in my living room when I had a 37" Panasonic Viera. Been meaning to upgrade the computer, but then... What's the point?. My new TV (Samsung FS500) doesn't have VGA or DVI, no monitor (fell down a flight of stairs), and since I overwhelmingly prefer lighter devices (e.g. my laptop or tablet), the only time I even use it is just when I need to offload my laptop or find an archived file once every 1-2 months... Even then it's just turn it on until the network drive shows up, then do a proper shutdown invoking TeamViewer. With that, some parts of the computer are even from 2005 and it's almost embarrassing to post its specs.

Self-built with Cooler Master case, Abit IB9 mobo, Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz Socket 775, 6GB RAM, Win8 64-bit (wish it can do 8.1 but there's 2 parameters that the processor doesn't have ), Velociraptor 10KRPM 300GB HDD1, WD 500GB HDD2, Blu-Ray and DVD+/-RW, FDD drive left unplugged until I can get a card reader (just so I don't have an ugly hole from an empty bay but plan to put a card reader in its place), EVGA ATI 256MB PCIE video card (worst spec on this computer).

[pukicabuki]

My new setup.... no pictures.

i7-4790k
Asus Z97 LGA 1150 motherboard
EVGA GTX 780 FTW 3gb ACX cooled
16gb G.Skill ripjaws Z series 2133
Corsair H100i liquid cooling
Corsair HX750 power supply
PNY 240gb SSD
Western Digital blue 1tb

[fcman]

My rig is a bit older than most on here but it holds its own. No pictures but I have:

2600k 4.5ghz
Corsair H100
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Samsung 830 256GB
GTX Titan
Dell U3011 monitor


Probably going to be switching to a Haswell-E chip and maybe a pair of Maxwell cards if the ever actually come out.