Gaming Rigs

poobar · July 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM

LOL yes this is very true, but well, having a 480 just makes it even better!!!

Ripley · February 12, 2011 at 9:46 AM

Yo everyone I just wanted to say that GTX580 is IN DA HOUSE!!!!!

Crysis warhead on "Enthusiast" with up to 100FPS kicks ass
DMC may already have 2 nanotech graphic cards as SLI but I am happy now

PS: I know I dont care about cable management as you already may have noticed.

EDIT: Anybody wants to have a GTX295? Otherwise I will sell it on ebay

Bigvisk · February 12, 2011 at 10:41 AM

looking good rip. id take that 295, but not sure what cost of shipping would be across the pond.

NecessaryEvil · February 12, 2011 at 2:26 PM Official Post

Yea, sadly the shipping is as much as the card is worth...unless a European member has any interest in it.

Rip, didn't you have a 480?

Ripley · February 12, 2011 at 2:44 PM

I was close to buying it when Tanktop got it but it was to expensive in my eyes.
Only Tanktop could afford it since he can print money :wink:

blackhawk · February 12, 2011 at 6:20 PM

xD how much do u sell your 295?

B-e-t-a · February 12, 2011 at 10:29 PM

I shipped one of my 1/2 inch Lexan intake plates across the pond for like $25. Arrived in under a week. The intake plate is roughly 14"x11" and fit in a flat rate box. However, maybe it costs more going from EU to US side?

Terrorbulky · April 11, 2011 at 12:39 PM

Right, i did some small research. I '' pretended '' to ship from The Netherlands to the USA.
entered a random company in Florida.

Made the package about 30x30x15 cm, and counted 1kg.. Witch is probably slightly more then it would be.. And it costed 104 euro's to ship.

So yeah, i dont think its worth it.

It did surprise me it would only take 2 days to arrive.

NecessaryEvil · April 11, 2011 at 4:16 PM Official Post

Only 2 days? Maybe it costs so much because you selected priority shipping?

Terrorbulky · April 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Well yeah, that's what i thought at first. But there was only 1 possibility. I used DHL as the shipping company...

B-e-t-a · April 12, 2011 at 9:42 PM

Three new builds: Elite_01, Money_02, Specialist_03
All three builds are identical.

- Core i7 Sandybridge 3.4Ghz
- 8Gb Mushkin memory (2x4Gb)
- ASUS P8P67 motherboard (not the vanilla either)
- RAID1 WD Blue 1Tb hard drives (RAID1 mirror)
- Corsair 750 watt power supply
- Nvidia GT 220 1Gb video card
- Coolr Master Elite case

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They are for my work. Mr CEO, our warehouse manager, and myself. I have more of a reason to go to work now too.

MistaD · April 12, 2011 at 10:39 PM

What kind of job is that?

NecessaryEvil · April 12, 2011 at 11:34 PM Official Post

very nice, but you forgot mine.

Scout_Felix · April 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM

Curious why you aren't triple channelling the RAM ?

B-e-t-a · April 13, 2011 at 11:56 AM

Good question. The Sandybridge socket LGA 1155 does not support triple channel DDR3. The only socket that supports triple channel right now is 1366.

In the future, the socket 1356/2011 will support triple channel, along with Ivybridge processors.

And btw, I found one of the six Mushkin memory modules failed Memtest86. It is always important to run Memtest all the way through before concluding that RAM is any good. This is the type of problem that you may not know about until the warranty period has expired. Just a tip for other PC builders here that may save them trouble in the future.

Also, of the 3 identical systems built, one of the motherboards had a different BIOS setting. For some reason the CPU fan speed was set to max out at 60%, which means potential for overheating under 100% load of 8 virtual cores. Was a bit of a worry at first, but an easy solution. I changed it to max out at 100% when the processor reaches 65*C. (This processor is safe until 75*C, but rated for 95*C).

Terrorbulky · April 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM

Quote from "MistaD @ Wed Apr 13

What kind of job is that?

Indeed, damn.. I wish i had a job like that.
Hey, you got something to do for me? Yeah, just assemble these 3 brand new computers!
Need any employees?

NecessaryEvil · April 13, 2011 at 2:51 PM Official Post

So are you getting a free RAM replacement? And why bother with the GT220's? Don't the second gen i5's and 7's come with integrated graphics?

blackhawk · April 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM

yeah abut you need a Mobo with H67 chipset, but he got the P67

NecessaryEvil · April 13, 2011 at 4:48 PM Official Post

Quote from "blackhawk @ Wed Apr 13

yeah abut you need a Mobo with H67 chipset, but he got the P67

Oh, I didn't know that.

btw beta, I see that you got a pair of PNY's for your colleagues. I'm just curious, what card did you get for yourself?

B-e-t-a · April 14, 2011 at 8:49 PM

I am using the same PNY GT220 for work. Basically, MicroCenter did not have a huge selection of decent cards in the pricerange. GT 430's would be a better choice, but ultimately, it was more than necessary.

I do website development, network administration, advertising, tech support, graphic design, video production, and who knows what else. Basically, I am CTO/Admin.