The "Show us your rig" Thread - MAXIMUM 1024x768

[KaliBR]

As the title says, post pics of your rig.

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Please stay on topic, no random screenshots from games.

Lastly - enjoy the eye candly!!

[KaliBR]

Heres a look through the changes to mine this year:
Cant find any of it all in the old case. Upgrades are slow here, takes ages to save up enough!

Antec Sonata Piano Black Sexyness:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8681/dscn2168sscu5.jpg

With a 7300GS (turbo cache FTW):
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7592/dscn2216sstv8.jpg

Upgrade time to a BFG 7900GS OC:
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4852/dscn2227ssdv4.jpg

Since Vista is a memory pig, needed to get some cheap dual channel memory, 2 x 512mb A-Data cheapy stuff - some say its quite good - we'll see, I may get 2GB more when get new mobo and give it a test:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5940/dscn2476ssxr2.jpg

MMMMM 8800GTS 512!! & a Freezer Pro 7 Custom jobby:
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8420/dscn2480sscd0.jpg

Time to strap on a new cooler which I bought ages ago - been waiting patiently to us eit!:
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2800/dscn2495ssqm5.jpg
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3935/dscn2494ssvi8.jpg
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5171/dscn2501ssom7.jpg
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4327/dscn2500sstr8.jpg

[loggy2007]

nice rig i must say...
are you using vista 64?
and im so jealous of everyone on here having so nice and neat looking cables even though i have just "sorted" mine out it still looks pretty poor :(

[teknokid]

haha, i got new stuff coming today so will get up some more pics. Only 1gb ram in vista? that is one **** of a bottleneck

[KaliBR]

thanks man, using 32bit, kinda interested and tempted to go 64 ... but as yet, well, theres more hardware I wanna buy before getting another OS.
Gotta say I was lucky, I played round with all the cable and some how they just kinda fell into place. theres a load tucked in behind the drive bays too

@ teknokid
nope, got 3GB - it was cheaper at the time to buy 2 x 512 of adata then of corsair as was skint and was getting fed up with finding that just running vista and a game would hog up a whole 2GB of ram!!!

[wuyanxu]

overview now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/WyXQuad_BuildLog/DSC016581024x768.jpg

world's BEST air cooler rated by Anandtech
and 4GB of OCZ Platinum RAM
and Abit iP35 Pro, BEST Intel P35 motherboard also rated by Anandtech
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/WyXQuad_BuildLog/DSC016601024x768.jpg


when i first built it 3 month ago, with BFG 8800GTS 320MB (changed to GTX now)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/WyXQuad_BuildLog/DSC016091024x768.jpg

l33t cable management in this case
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/WyXQuad_BuildLog/DSC016251024x768.jpg

you can't get much better than this element
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/WyXQuad_BuildLog/DSC016311024x768.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/WyXQuad_BuildLog/DSC016321024x768.jpg

[teknokid]

nice, i disagree about the mobo though, i think the blitz boards by asus were a bit better, but they cost a lot more and were probs only good for extremests. still, very nice rig :)

[JDowdall]

good screen there :P and i really need to get a new case but there are no good desktop style ones for £60

[Conrad]

Oooo I do like the Antec P182!
I really need a new monitor.

[JDowdall]

yah i lyk that antec too i need 2 re arrange the room so i can get a tower pc in

[teknokid]

you rly should, i dno how im gna fit my cube in lol

[JDowdall]

lol a 60cm square pc is retarded! i'll have 2 work up some measurements 4 my case and make it so i can put it on its side if i wanted to

[teknokid]

its not retarted, its ott, but gonna be awesome if i can build it

[JDowdall]

if i make it i'll be goin for this type of surface
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11014 i think it'll just be perspex/acrylic over a metal shell, wat metal and thicknesses would you guys reccomend? i'll hav 2 test out wat it looks lyk, oh and where could i get the switches etc from for the front panel?

[teknokid]

why use metal at all? you can use acrlic as a mobo tray :)

[JDowdall]

some structural strength nd i mite freeze the acrylic with a blow torch so i'll need somethin 4 that 2 go around, im thinkin curved edges

[wuyanxu]

nice, i disagree about the mobo though, i think the blitz boards by asus were a bit better, but they cost a lot more and were probs only good for extremests. still, very nice rig :)
the blitz is 1st, too expensive, and 2nd, crossfire will not work with newer PCIe 2.0 cards. i did look into Blitz, but because of that and the fact it's BIOS isn't as good, i didn't go for it. you need to see Abit's uGuru overclocking BIOS!! it's amazing!

anandtech's article (http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3142&p=12) says

We kept looking for problems - or rather, we kept expecting problems to show up as they had on previous products. However, the more we used the board, the more we became enamored of it. It was not any single feature (although the excellent µGuru technology does stand out in the crowd) that eventually won us over but the combination of several features and renewed commitment to support that had us eventually singing praises for this board.

im waiting for P45 from Abit to upgrade to :D X48 don't rock my boat, X38 doesn't upgrade anything at all (don't want crossfire, so x38 is pointless for me). P45 along with 8GB of DDR3 and may be q9450 plus 9800GTX should rock

[JDowdall]

u seem 2 lyk anandtech a lot, it might be worth lookin round for more reviews of stuff nd the x38 has some other features to, and the P35 has crossfire

[djgandy]

Why would you upgrade from a p35 to p45. Totally pointless.

[wuyanxu]

u seem 2 lyk anandtech a lot, it might be worth lookin round for more reviews of stuff nd the x38 has some other features to, and the P35 has crossfire
all x38 has over p35 is PCIe 2.0 (compatible either way), full Crossfire (don't need it) and hotter running chipset.

i want to upgrade to p45 to have 1600FSB support, so that when intel brings out their refresher q9xx0 product, i can upgrade to it. but after some more thoughts, i will only upgrade to p45 if i really going to buy a penryn, otherwise p35s are good enough.

[teknokid]

x38 can use 1600fsb :) and yeah look at other sites. id go for a skulltrail board next year (im spending all my money through the year on water cooling and gfx then for birthday/xmas all going on cpu's...)

[wuyanxu]

X38 don't officially support 1600FSB by Intel. but motherboard makers can make them support 1600FSB through tweaks.

[JDowdall]

lol skulltrail with dual xeon cpus it seems those days of gamers usin server boards (lyk the amd days) are comin bak

[teknokid]

i know, but skulltrail is designed for gaming :)
just got my proc to 3.2ghz running a 400mhz fsb :)
wahooo!!
gna try the ram at 1200mhz next :)

[wuyanxu]

3.2Ghz @ 400x8 on q6600 is easy, been running like that for 2 months now, 3.6Ghz is also very easy as long as you are either lucky or you've got a good water cooling system.
i was unlucky, and got a not-so-good q6600, so i need crazy volrages to achieve 3.6Ghz :(
teknokid, tell me, in Everest-> Motherboard -> CPU page, under CPU physical information, what reading is your "core voltage"??
mine is 1.325, meaning that's the default voltage needed at default speed. some lucky people are getting 1.0v chips, so they can overclock higher with less voltage.

[teknokid]

myns 1.275 :) thats pretty good i think, i can get 3.2ghz easy with 1.35v and 3ghz with 1.3v (they were the first values i tried).
I only taken off the overclock coz i got the water edition of my board, and since i havent got water yet the NB is getting real toasty!!!
Did some more cable management:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8863/dsc03925sm2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8841/dsc03924he7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[wuyanxu]

why don't you route every single cable through the back of your motherboard tray? that way, it'd be much more tidier

[teknokid]

coz id already put the mobo in :)
what sort of volts do you need for 3ghz etc?

[JDowdall]

yeah i would say urs is still a bit untidy but i cant talk because my case is so messy its nt even funny lol just dun a bit of overclockin on my gfx card and eked an extra 80 mhz outta the core altho now my gfx card is running @ 42 degrees no load :(

[teknokid]

LOL!, myns 55 degrees no load and thats very good

[wuyanxu]

i need 1.35v to get 3Ghz 333*9, well that's the first voltage i tryed anyway. and i went straight for 3.2Ghz. 1.4v in BIOS, after vdrop, it's about 1.32v

[KaliBR]

i'm playing with some custom cooling atm, will post some pics later if it works, think blue peter....

idle temps after a couple of hours running:

gpu: 42
gpu board: 31

(using everest)

now lets go give it some TF2 and COD4 for a while till missus moans

[djgandy]

P45 = P35 + Official 1600 FSB support. Why pay for official support. It's like buying a Q6700 over a Q6600.

[Jonny2Bad]

i need 1.35v to get 3Ghz 333*9, well that's the first voltage i tryed anyway. and i went straight for 3.2Ghz. 1.4v in BIOS, after vdrop, it's about 1.32v
I only need 1.25v (1.3v in bios) for 333*9 stable at 3ghz but i really cant get anything stable after that on the striker.

[teknokid]

same as you jonny for me :) 1.3v in bios for a 1.25v. i havent tried lower, i suspect it may work though....
also using the striker bios vdroop is terrible aboce 1.4v, with maximus i reckon i could be seeing 4ghz with new case and water cooling.
im still waiting for my quote!!!

[Taxation]

i'm playing with some custom cooling atm, will post some pics later if it works, think blue peter....



sticky back plastic and a washing up liquid bottle??

[KaliBR]

kinda, some sticky tape and a old whiskers cat biscuit box;

gpu: 66 max

gpu board: 39 max

see, the front fan blows right into the side of the gpu fan, not good as the gpu fans exhaust is 360 round its side, so was trying to had a play with putting some air flow over the mosfets only from the front fan, and let the gpu fan cool the ramsinks.

will see how it goes with some COD4 now - this proper heats it up!!

[teknokid]

use ati tool to artifact scan, that really gets things toasty

[Jonny2Bad]

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5369/02012008016ln8.th.jpg (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=02012008016ln8.jpg)
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1214/02012008015pa7.th.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=02012008015pa7.jpg)
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5607/02012008014cn5.th.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=02012008014cn5.jpg)
Well thats mine as it stands at the mo, due a good clean up a cable routing but never seem to get round to it :lol:

[wuyanxu]

lol, why is the SLi bridge hanging there?

[Jonny2Bad]

So i dont lose it lmao! :lol: Of course silly :wink:

[teknokid]

or you've sli'd you gfx card with your sound card- ingenious!

[Jonny2Bad]

Ah rumbled my secret is out :oops:

[teknokid]

is that like super sound with super graphics or something? did you use standard drivers, i got an old sli bridge might have to try :) lol

[PeteA]

Here's my new rig (specs in sig)

http://media.storesite.co.uk/images/08-PC-PICS/

Not very tidy currently. Sorry about the bluryness my camera isn't very good so its hard to get a good picture

I had to check my fans were working when I looked at the pictures because when I took them the PC was on :P

[edit] the case is a kandalf but i took the very annoying doors off

[wuyanxu]

my friend has a Kandalf, you've done a better job with cables than him...... although he does have 2TB of hard drive space, 5 HDD's.

[PeteA]

It looks better in person. The front bunch of cables (ones with the IDE cable behind it are close to the front panel) the ide I might swap out for a bunched IDE.
I'm used to doing people's cabling for them. Done it loads of times although I did run out of cable ties (had to buy more).

Yeah I have one more I can fit down the bottom slots. The top slots I'll get some nice long cables and run them over the top of the PSU and round, (given that I have enough space) or maybe just along the side of the case. I'd have to buy a raid card to get the 7th in though.

[matz]

GN , danny mate when you posting photos of your beast?

[teknokid]

he hasnt got it yet, hes been "getting" it for a year.

[matz]

hes finally got the mobo tho ;)
i got my thermalright ultra extreme today, i might get my whole rig today tommorow or next weekend.
its the corsair and the graphics card that are out of stock at novatech

[teknokid]

I bet you cant wait.

[matz]

i cant wait.. one thing is the blomen PSU and graphics card,
i can get evga 8800GTS for £210 with crysis off overclockers. its just the PSU find my thread on the cooling/psu section and help me

thanks ;)

[Ajhayter]

Hey,

Built my system recently, just got round to cleaning the cabling to improve the airflow. It got me a few degreees. Cabling is still at bit of a mess, but for my first build it went well. Now the cables arn't practically blocking the intake fan. The graphics card prevents me from easily routing the HDD satas around the back. Also the GFX card blocks 2 sata ports, so with 2 hdd's and 2 dvd drives they are all used. Also, to give me some room for the many, MANY extra cables on the PSU, I removed the floppy tray.

Thermaltake Tsunami Dream
Intel Q6600 with Thermaltake Maxorb Cooler
Thermaltake Toughpower 650 Watt
BFG OC2 nVidia 8800GT (FREAKING HUGE!)
Asus P5K Premium MoBo
2 x Samsung Lightscribe DVD Writer drives
80Gb Maxtor HDD for OS
250 GB Maxtor HDD for everything else.
All drives are SATA2
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/Ajhayter/DSC01279.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/Ajhayter/DSC01278.jpg

[teknokid]

You think the gt is huge, try the GTX!!!
Nice rig :)

[PeteA]

some of the 8800ultra's are 11 to 11.5 inches which is ridiculous

[teknokid]

is that aftermarket cooler? coz my gtx is same length as normal ultras...

[PeteA]

No thats just the length of the board

[teknokid]

yeah, myns the same length...

[matz]

klkl

gonna take some photos soon of my rig

GTS ftw;p

[wuyanxu]

not YOUR's, it's OUR GTX :mrgreen:

very nice build, except DO try to cable manage more, and the reason graphics card is blocking your SATA sockets is because the motherboard wasn't as well thought out.

[teknokid]

Sorry, our GTX is HUGE.
i got my all my fans in my case turned right down, almost silent, but the gtx is getting roasty.

[matz]

guys!! im so happy lol

today i connected a front usb pannel to mobo, done alittle but not my best at cable managing tucking some cables reaching to mobo under the graphics card

my GPU droped 3c and my CPU has droped to 31-31-26-26 and i think i can get it lower than this... i only done alittle bit of what i could of done, now gonna test the USB hopefully it works :) but if it dosent im still proud of the temp drops

brb gonna get dads digital camer a :)

[PeteA]

TBH when neatening cables in your computer CABLE TIES FTW 111111111!

[matz]

im gonna :)

what do you guys think about RAM?
ive got two slots left on my board, should i go for higher than DDR2 6400? like corsair dominators?

[PeteA]

Should have got dominators before you spent the money on the 2GB XMS2 (soon 4GB).

It really depends on what your motherboard can support. If it can only support 800FSB theres not much point in getting 1066

[teknokid]

get crucial ballistix, best ram out there atm IMO, myn are about £45 now, and they get to 1111mhz stock volts.

[matz]

guys, i just when i done my cable management i forgot to connect molex to my dvdrw just reconnected and my temps have went back to 33-33-30-30 strange

[Jonny2Bad]

Ha Ha i got my old dominators just lying about at the mo :roll:

[matz]

im gonna do alot of cable management this weekend.. it wont be the BEST but hopefully it knocks a few degrees

my dad says i can use the camera on the weekend

[wuyanxu]

get crucial ballistix, best ram out there atm IMO, myn are about £45 now, and they get to 1111mhz stock volts.
i agree. when i bought my RAM's, the Ballistix were 80 quid, while mine OCZ were 60 quid...... now they are all dirt cheap :cry:

[teknokid]

hey matz, any chance of a copy of vista :P
myn has gone poo poo

[matz]

vista ultimate 32bit, no need for keygens?
Totally legal.

[teknokid]

what sorry? that was a bit over my head... i know what a keygen is but are you saying illegal is legal?

[matz]

i have VIsta ultimate

contact me msn matz1@hotmail.co.uk for more info

[matz]

Computer pics

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2324/computeralbum1002ak3.th.jpg (http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=computeralbum1002ak3.jpg)
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3824/computeralbum1003yr7.th.jpg (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=computeralbum1003yr7.jpg)
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http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7205/computeralbum1008qs5.th.jpg (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=computeralbum1008qs5.jpg)
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4301/computeralbum1009hg5.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=computeralbum1009hg5.jpg)

[matz]

enjoy :)

[teknokid]

ooh, nice, there a bit blurry though, try using the flash?
Very nice rig though ;)

[matz]

hehe, i will retake some again when its needed
with Artic silver5, after that 200hour period. what kind of temp drops should i expect?

[teknokid]

well ive never found one, but a degree or two, it wont just happen, it will happen over time, making it almost impossible to notice.

[wuyanxu]

where did you get the Thermalright sticker? i can't find one in my TRUE package :cry:

[matz]

ha :P my thermalright ultra 120 extreme sticker was at the tip of my box when i opened it so it was the first thing i saw then the instructions etc

sadly there was only 2 :)