unofficial POST YOUR RIG thread

[n00b3h]

sure u didnt spill something on it

[DJ Double S]

yea, I'm sure, I cleaned it plenty of times, and if you look closely, you can see its in the screen.

[|OSG| MrPurple]

Originally Posted by MastahKillah

So do you notice anything with that Physx card installed purple?

Not with TF2.

I do see a difference in the games that are supported by the card that I play: Company of Heroes and and GRAW2.

I have also seen a small difference in Battlefield 2. I noticed that when I run someone over with a buggy or jeep that their body is a little more animated and has better ragdoll physics when it goes flying...

Overall I think that the PhysX card will add a few fps because it takes a small load off of the GPU.

Off topic, I just ran some video stress tests using CounterStrike:Source

Model, Texture, Shader, Shadow detail - High
Water detail - Reflect all
Color Correction - Enabled
Antialiasing - 16xQ CSAA
Antisotropic Filtering Mode - 16x
Full HDR 1680x1050 Resolution

Vertical synch - Off Result - 228.27 FPS with at times maxing out @ 299 FPS
Vertical synch - On Result - 59.23 FPS with that buggy pink/purple hue on most surfaces, bahh
vert synch sux, leave it off

I would say these are pretty good numbers, thanks to the 8800 Ultra. Crysis is breathtaking on Ultra High settings also. Okay, enough bragging ...

[Paaaat]

Newly changed my XP to look like vista. Added an awesome wallpaper too, which was slightly edited by me

[Catfish]

Mine needs to be posted just because everyone deserves a laugh every now and then When I finally get a freaking job, I'm upgrading this thing to something stronger than a Neo Geo...


Athlon XP 2600+ (2.133 GHz)
1 GB RAM (DDR 2100, well, 27000 technically but it only runs at 266)
GeForce4 Ti4600 (Forceware 96.31 ftw!)
SB Live Platinum 5.1 (yes, they still make drivers for this... kinda)
and as of this afternoon, a no-longer-functioning Sidewinder Precision Pro (pos driver issues with XP SP3 I think)

So um, yeah, it "runs" TF2 but when I disappear every now and then it's because this compost heap crashes out. It also takes more than a minute to just get to the main menu, not to mention connecting...

I'll post my new one when I'm less broke

[KaiN]

well lets see a 3 year old Dell Dimension 8300 (wife wont let me get a new one)

P4 3ghz w/ HT
2gb pc2100 ram
2 120 gb 7500rpm western digital harddrives
XFX Geforce 6800 XT 256mb
Soundblaster Live! 5.1

Runs most games fine (wish the wife would let me build a decent one)

[DriZzLe]

Custom built(by me..)
AMD dual core 4600 @2.6
XFX 8800gt 512 mb
2 gigs Corsair xms ddr400
Sounblaster Audigy zs
2 WD 160g hdd
2 WD 80g hdd
Acer 21" lcd 1680*1050 resolution
Antec plusview II tower
Ultra 550w X-finity psu

I luv my pc

[UnfuN]

Here's my gaming PC

AMD X2 4200
MSI K8N SLI Mobo
2 GB DDR400 Crucial Ballistix
250 GB 7200 16MB SATAII 3.0 Seagate HD
7950GT 512MB EVGA
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Cooler Master Cent 5 Case (the best case ever)
MSI 430W PSU
BenQ 19" LCD 1000:1 1680x1050

[frosti]

Asus G2S Laptop
G15 Keyboard

[Cyanide Ice]

Current rig:
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Rig in process - Just painted new case for the Nehalm build. Sunlight a little bright for the silver, but shows off the true color of the Black Cherry (angle I used on camera to catch color killed a little of the top gloss effect)

IM000305.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

[sleepy-sheep]

Originally Posted by Cyanide Ice

Current rig:


Rig in process - Just painted new case for the Nehalm build. Sunlight a little bright for the silver, but shows off the true color of the Black Cherry (angle I used on camera to catch color killed a little of the top gloss effect)

Is that water cooling for both your gpu and cpu? How hot do both run under load and what kind of card/cpu do you have?


Also specs of my decent comp

Core2 Quad Q6600, oc'd to 3.0
Gigabyte p35 ATX 775 Mobo
Gigabye 8800gt 256mb
Gskill 2gb ddr2 ram. Probably gonna change timings soon from 5-5-5-15
Thermaltake Purepower 600w
Coolermaster Centaurion 5

Playing on an old Dell Keyboard, 22" Acer widescree, and a Razer Diamonback v1

[clowndog]

Intel Q6600
Abit IP35 Pro
2GB Corsair 6400c4
Nvidia 8800GTX
74GB Raptor
250GB Seagate HD
2xDVD-R/W
Soundblaster Xfi XtremeMusic

[Cyanide Ice]

[quote=sleepy-sheep;201978]Is that water cooling for both your gpu and cpu? How hot do both run under load and what kind of card/cpu do you have?

XFX 8800 GTX XXX card. The liquid loop is on the vid card, North bridge chip and the CPU. Even with the CPU, ram (heats up N/B when OC'd) and vid over clocked it idles (load Prime 95) mobo 33C(34-35C) ,CPU 34C (50C), N/B 32C (36C), vidgpu 33C-VIDmem 33C (46C). Using a thermochil 120.3 radiator (3 120mm fans). These vary slightly lower based on any ambient changes. The thing I like the best is how fast it drops to idle temps after 4-5hrs of hard gaming.

E6850 dual core @ 3.8GHz

[Escobar]

hey everyone

my current rigs are these:

main gaming rig

E6600 @ 3.33 on air
AC freezer7pro
8800GTX
X-fi
asus P5B dlx
3GB corsair
10k raptor for os
320GB for movies and music
2 x 250GB for applications games etc etc

new rig currently under construction:

Silverstone TJ-07 with modded roof to fit a 120.3 rad
120.3 thermochill rad
120.3 BIX rad
yate loon fans for all rads
sunbeam rhoebus extreme
DD D-5 Vario
Swiftech apoggee GTX full copper CPU block
a yet to be decided NB waterblock
a yet to be decided GFX card block
asus maximus II formula - best looking mobo ever
Q9450 to be OC'd
antec quattro 850 PSU
2 x samsung spinpoint 750GB F1's - faster than raptors
probably a GTX 280

to be put otgether properly, cable braiding for the fan/rad assemblies, probably a rebraiding of the 24pin ATX power cable to spit it down for easier cable management. UV red dye with black anti kink coils to match the mobo colourscheme.

[Hatch]

What everyone else lacks. Lazy Boy chair gaming