Ginia's RIG

I've had this PC a while now, I got this for my website design and editing not only for gaming, this PC is flying through tasks my old PC would struggle with often losing data and hours of hard work.

Specs:

HAF-X
I7 2600k @4.6mhz
Asus ROG Maximus IV mobo
8gb Corsair xms3 @1600mhz
Dual AMD 6970's
XSPC watercooling cpu+gpu
Corsair HX1000w psu
600gb WD Velociraptor
1tb Samsung spinpoint data HD

The thoughts behind some of the component choices:

1st choice of GPU would of been nVidia 580, but we took a gamble with going down the crossfire root as 2 6970's at the time of build cost the same as a single 580 and in theory would out perform a single 580, so far we have been happy with crossfire seeing nearly a doubling of fps in Crysis and BFBC2 and running stable with max settings, only NFS Shift gives us problems which does not support xf at this time.

We choose xms3 ram at 1600mhz as looking at kits upto 2000mhz showed little performance advantage in Sandybridge systems.

We choose watercooling for cool and quiet running, the fans run at a constant low rpm even underload and everything is nice, quiet and cool.
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cases_…ng_kit_review/1

We stuck at a 4.6mhz overclock as this is nice and stable and not taxing at all for this processor on water and runs plenty fast enough for our needs.

PS this is a huge improvement over my last Best Buy PC, and anyone who thinks buying a high end PC will make them into a pro player overnight is mistaken, wether you play on a low end pc or high end your skill is what it is!!

Quote from "B-e-t-a @ Sun May 29

Wow Ginia, our rigs have a lot in common. i7 2600K, ASUS high-end board, 8Gb 1600mhz RAM, water cooling, triple radiator.

I was considering the XSPC Rasa, but now I am convinced. Since Ginia approves, I will get one too.

The only major differences between our rigs is the HDD/RAID and the GPU's. I will bet that we perform closely the same in web development and Photoshop. Your rig would do better in gaming, mine would be faster in loading times (in theory).

It was a struggle to go as high end as possible but without letting our budget run away with us, we had a budget limit. I'd like to go RAID or maybe get an SSD but this is an area we know nothing about. As a future upgrade what would you reccomend- another 600gb WD Velociraptor drive in raid or go the SSD route?

Those Ripjaws are probably the best ram from what i've read for SB system, and the Sabretooth with i5-2500k is what Arb is looking to base his system on.

The XSPC watercooling is in the budget end of watercooling kits, there are prettier kits out there, yet this kit does its job and does it well and is tidy inside the case, we only have 1 set of fans in push configuration and its more than enough.

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She's a beauty
I'm curious, does the UK dim when you turn it on?

No, but Arborists gets the blue screen of death

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The only thought i had a first glance was Holy Shit!

Nice rig

Thx

That's my time out corner

Quote from "Ripley @ Mon May 30

Wait. Roginia IS DMC!
No, jk.

Are u still using the controller or did u switch to old fashioned mouse and keyboard?

Sorry? I never used a controller, what are you speaking about? You should know better because you helped me to set up the keys on my Gameboard ages ago.

This is what I use: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboard…rd/devices/5123 and G9x mouse.

I use this Gameboard because I love my old keyboard and I will never give away my Logitech DiNova for a G19 gaming keyboard.
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=logitech+dinovo&hl=en&prmd=ivnsfd&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1899&bih=836&wrapid=tlif130680076278010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=2556568333956094122&sa=X&ei=kDLkTe-9PM-2hAemlIzzBw&ved=0CGgQ8wIwBzgK#

Quote from "ROginia @ Mon May 30

Ha, i remember now, you and arborist have the same mouse, he talked me into contacting Logitech and getting my G9 replaced with a G9x even though it worked fine.

Before I started playing Arb used G9 after that he got a G500 and I got G9x. We stil have the G9 but doesnt work very good because inside the mouse the cable is not connecting very well. If I move the mouse fast the lights goes off-on and is not realy possible to play with it..