Well im board so i thought id make a pc thread so post what ya have include info if u know what u got







E6600 oc to 3.5Ghz
i actually have 4gig of RAM but i only have 2gig in right now
8800 GTX Gfx
300gig HHD
water cooled incase u havent alrdy seen
22inch screen
logitech Z-5500 Digital Speakers.

Im a gaming freak so yeh.

I have a laptop. It has a on and off button. It takes about 10mins to get into the internet ( Only 4mins 34seconds) and it likes to turn itself off when ever it wants.... Best thing about it is that it has termlab software on it so i can plug in the sensor and instant spl meter.

wish mine had that =(

hmm....i'll post a pic when its all up and running, waiting (F-NG STILL!!!) on a group certficiate to come so i can get the rest when my tax return comes, so i dont ahve to be poor lol....stuff in italic is what im waiting on getting....but here's the final list

Intel Q6600
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme cooler (not watercooling, but the best air cooling u can get (readily, didnt find many Enzotech coolers in aus)
Asus P5K-E Wifi (need wireless for home network)
2 gig of Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (only 667mhz ram, but good stuff) <intend to add an extra 2 gig in the future, will be a Tracers set though )
2 x 500gig Western Digital SATAII hard drives
Corsair HX-620 power supply
Antec Nine Hundred case (4 blue 120mm LED fans, 2 extra 120mils, top 200mil fan, inside has been repainted a dark blue pearl)
Antec Slot cooler
Zalman fan controller
Dell 22" widescreen monitor
Dell SK-8135 keyboard (im in the process of getting)
Logitech X-530 speakers
Logitech G7 wireless mouse

and video card, im aiming for an 8800GTS, but i'll see....soemthing around the $350 mark

like ur case syvirus, tidy wiring too

comments?

Intel E6850
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme cooler with twin 120mm fans
Asus P5N32-E sli Motorboard
eVGA 8800GTS PCI-E Superclocked Video card x2
Corsair XMS2 (dhx heat sinks) 4gb kit
Samsung 226BW 22" Lcd
Seagate 320GB SATA2 HDD x 3
Antec "Nine Hundred" Case
SilverStone ST85ZF Power Supply
Razer Copperhead

Some microsoft KB, waiting for the scaled down version of the G15

AMD 64 3500+
Gigabyte NFORCE 3 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9800XT
5x 250GB Seagate Hard Drives
2GB DDR 400 Corsair Ram
4x Happauge Nova-T Digital TV Cards
2x Creative Audigy 2 Cards
Pioneer DVR109 DVDRW
Custom Milled Heatsink
Antec 550W PSU
Custom CNC'ed and Laser Cut Casing

Pioneer Plasma 50" running 1080p

A screen
A dirty keyboard and mouse
Horrible Sounding logitech speakers
Rattly, dusty outdated PC case
Slow and sometimes frustrating

Best thing about it is it's full of music

Nice, I got the same mouse just never botherd to list it lol.
Yeh i love my case tho its huge... its like 25-30kg so its not very fun to move around when i need to
As for your CPU tho what are you planing to do with your comp? i only ask coz if its just for programs and what not you should look at the E6600 and just over clock it unless u rly wanna get a Q6600.

yeah, i really want a q6600...lol

plan to oc to around 3.4ghz

and not really too much, girlfriend has a few architecture programs she wants to run, and i have my own engineering ones which will get a go too

crysis isnt the only reason for it lol

future proofing i guess, its the first pc i've built myself and have done a good bit of research....so yeh...hope it lasts a little while

hey mat, u got any pics mate?...how much space do you have for the 120 extreme in the 900?....lol, i only got two solid confirmations they fit....so thanks for the third

and, if i have no hope of fitting on a side fan becuase of the U120E, i might end up doing ur trick too and putting the extra fan on the other side of it

Certainly does fit, below is a link to one sinstalled in a nine-hundred, not my computer, but you get an idea of how tight it is:
http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53321

btw, well worth it!

edit: just noticed that apears to be the U120 only, i'll take some pics today of mine.

cheers matt

i love my nine hundred already, lol, even if it doesnt have anything in it yet

tell ya what......so much simpler to paint something like a pc case than a whole car lol....it hit me when i was doing it though, i think i owned the case for about 2 hours, before i was taking sandpaper to the inside of it......(within 15 minutes of getting it home i began pulling it apart lol)

hmm, bugger it, here's some basic pics.....as you can see, for now everything is running off the poor laptop,including one of my 500gig drives, seen to the left of the monitor, in an external caddy (my other 320gig will resume its place in there when i get the pc together)

and i know someone will have a keen eye and tell me im using a microsoft wireless mouse lol......i sold my g7 to a mate yesterday (after owning it for 3 days (ebay)), because it was the old style one, doesnt fit in with the scheme, so im in the process of aquiring one of the carbon ones (auction ends in 5 days )

anyway......o, and this is all on my new desk tooo i like it. dw, cabling under the desk will be tidied when i get things running properly (only thing bundled so far is all the speaker cable (though i might mount the rear speakers high on the wall in front of me in the future))

can see the inside of the case is painted dark, it looks more black to the eye than pearl blue, but im hoping when i get the blue LEDs in there the blue will come out a bit more. excuse the shocking picture quality, but there's also my "Powered by Corsair" sticker on the bottom corner of the windowed side panel too.

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Nice Setup Enzo - I've been watching your thread for a while and it has been interesting!

I too am embarking on a Q6600 setup, but there is no case painting involved with mine! Heres what I have ordered so far:

Q6600 SLACR (G0 Stepping) [$341]
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (SLi board yeh!) [$199]
2 GB Patriot DDR2-800 [$144]
EVGA 8800GTS 640mb [$484]
2x WD 250GB HDD [$85ea]
Antec Sonata III & 500W Earthpower PSU [$179]

...and all this to run my pride and joy, Dell 30" Monitor!

I think I've got a great performing well specced machine pretty cheap here, with plenty of scope for upgrades in the future. The HDD will be in a Raid 0 configuration, as space is not an issue for me (I have a server elsewhere).
As the system stands now:


New mobo & Ram:

mm those screens are sexy!

work is buying me and a few others one . should have it in a week or two

Im very glad to see you both are getteing EVGA stuff, my Motherboard and GFX are EVGA and i love them.

enzo i built my pc just for Crysis ( Went and preorderd it 2day at EB games ) looking at selling my pc tho and upgradeing to the EVGA pearl edition stuff seems its built for OCing.

Gonadman2 you stole my screen =( i wanted a 30" screen but when i went to go buy it they sold out so i got a 22" instead =/

You'll have to speak to my mrs, she bought it for me, for my birthday. Mine will be seeing some 'real' CAD work, but probably BF2 and soon Crysis (which she has also pre-ordered for me, for chrissy - shhh) will be getting a fair bit of screen time too!

crysis is lookin pretty friggen wicked lol.......i downloaded the damned demo the day before yesterday i think it was.....neither of the PCs in my house have a chance in hell of being able to play it...neither will even get an entry screen!!

and i'll be picking up a 360 in the next few weeks....i think the missus has Halo 3 hiding for me already lol.....she cant keep a secret

Sweet man.

enzo where you dl the demo from? I cant find any demos for it yet =/ i did dl a demo off torrents but it keeps asking for a god damn SN witch i dont have hahahaha!

i have one i have on

and that would be the same demo i got too, just got it from a site......saw the thread in OCAU in time to get in for a key...which, it turns out, i cant even use

if a mate of mine i promised it to doesnt grab it early this week, i'll PM it to ya

Ima cry i want a KEY!! lol

im soo jealous. 30 inches of crysis pleasure.

i hate you.
enzo, you have the same speakers as im looking at. how do they sound?

shouldnt be too long before i get my new laptopthen i have something half decent to show here

Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 3.4 GHz
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme
2GB Corsair DDR800 RAM
ASUS P5B Deluxe
ASUS GeForce 7900GS
Creative Audigy DE
Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
3x SATA HDD totalling to about 900GB of space
All housed in a sound deadened Lian Li

Ok guys, running 2 notebooks, one of them hooked up to the LCD. Basic Ascer is my backup / basic stuff computer. The fan's stuffed in it yet it still runs... so far! My Toshiba has a bit more fruit on it.

T2400 @ 1.83GHz
1 GB Ram
NVidia 7900 GS

Back in the day this baby was a beast! Were talking June 06 here. It's all networked together with the 360, 2 external hard drives and connected to the LCD.




By sylabolic23, shot with W810i at 2007-10-06

you wouldent happen to be a member of OCAU? i swear ive seen that pic there b4. Nice stuff btw

nope... afaik, i've only ever posted it on 2 forums incl this =P

toyota mate, they arnt too bad

$75 or something close to that from MSY, and im very happy with them for that price

as long as you dont go in expecting amazingly high detail and smooth response everywhere, you'll be happy. they're computer speakers.

i noticed something strange though lol, when you turn the volume on the speakers down, it sort of, fades to one side.....say if you were turning it upfrom nothing, the sound comes from the right hand side, and then spreads across to the left

all fine, i just adjust softer volumes inside winamp as opposed to speakers

but yeh, good speakers for the price

same.. X-530...
they were dirt cheap when i bought them and have served me well.. does their job pretty well for the price...
have no problems with volume fading...

have just installed kx audio drivers for the creative card and they can be made to sound a whole lot nicer with the amount of DSP incorperated in them drivers..

hmm...i'll see what my tax return is like

worth the money for the sound card you think nick?

and, got a link to em at all?

edit: hmm, rephrase it....would me spending 50 bucks be worth it?

this is a really old one
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had a newer one, but it's hiding somewhere

newer pic...or newer computer?

oh, newer pic of newer PC's
currently consist:
PC1 (tall tower in that shot)
AMD Athlon XP3200+ @ 2.19GHz
1GB DDR DC
FX5700
20GB Seagate
Samsung 940B

PC2 (not in that pic)
Shuttle XPC
AMD x64-3700
2GB DDR DC
6800GT
2x 320GB Seagate SATAII
Samsung 940B

got a few others kicking around:
Power Mac G3
PC-in-a-briefcase (P3/866)
AMD2400+ water cooled (sh1ite)

oh, and my server - Quad XEON / 2GB ECC/ 6x18GB UW 10k Raid5(plus H/S) - Fedora Core 4

plenty more too....

well.. i dont know about spending money on that soundcard.. but i'm definitely sure theres a big difference going from on-board sound to a dedicated sound card...

as for that regarding the kx-audio drivers, have a look at their compatibility list.. only supports limited cards but covers a big range of creative sound cards

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1

yeh, i chucked it up on ocau, n turns out its probably not worth it for me to spend the amount of money im willing to lol...which, is what i was expecting

cheers anyway

pics of the thermalright ultra120extream installed on a 775 setup in a altec nine-hundred for you enzo (alittle late i know). keen eyes will notice the lack of some parts that were sold off (back to vista 32bit). last pic is of the multi pc setup currently going, one on the right is been setup as a media pc for another room.. as soon as i can figure all the bugs out.

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ok, so here is my current mess (no respectable Bachelor has a tidy "work" area)

the PC in the shiny/mirror finish case is an Intel one...

Quad Core Q6600 + Asus p5n32-e SLi mobo. Graphics are supplied by a MSI 7900GTO (nvidia). I have a second identical card but it is currently on loan to my flat mate). Sound is supplied by a Sound Blaster Audigy X-Fi, The PC remembers what to do with 2 gig of Corsair DDR800 RAM and a pair of 500GiB HDDs. This is all housed in an Antec P182 case with a SilverStone Strider PSU providing the Spark of life.

The Second PC is my old Machine, an AMD 2500+ (Barton Core) running off an NForce2 Gigabyte Mobo with a gig of RAM keeping it sane. This machine has 4 250 gig HDDs, a 120 and a pair of 40's for storage and a 9600XT to make the screen look pretty. onboard sound provides the groovy tunes

you will notice the SFF PC on the floor - that is a P4 3GHz machine that I scabbed from work

you will also notice the booze amognst the mess.

The 3 screens visible are a 22" Asus and a pair of Acer 19"s

The alfoil on the window stops the heat and sunlight in summer!

mmm aahhh.. the Antec 182... if i were to ever buy a case in future, that would be what i would be saving for...
how do you keep finger prints off it? =P

whats that H701 box you;ve got hiding there?

Prob polish it ALOT hahaha!

I would say theres a lot of \"polishing \" going on in that room

One eye gophers?



Antec think ahead... it comes with a polishing clothe

and the 701 is installed in the car... I should really add that to my sig along with the R102 roof screen

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Nice old screen

Yep only the best equipment for AMF staff
/end sarcasim

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And I ain't buying another one

Hey guys, Heres my crap.

Hardware :
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Intel Q6600 Cpu
2.0GB 800 Corsair Ram
Asus PK5C Motherboard
512MB 2900XT Video Card
19" Widescreen LCD
Gigabyte 3d Aurora Case
Logitech Z-5500
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Z2 Laser Mouse
ToughPower 850W PSU
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Water Cooling Hardware :
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Koolance VID-290 GPU 24k Gold Plated Block
DTC-D5 Vario Pump
R120-D Radiator
XSPC Reservoir

And Some Pics :




When my rad broke i used metal putty to fix it, works a treat, no leaks, yet.


Testing my mounting point for the rad -


Disasembling the card -


Waterblock mounted -


Mounted cpu block -


Package contents -


Temps -


end result -

If you water cool and underclock can you have a REALLY queit PC?

Currently I have an Antec P180 case and its pretty quiet. But sometimes I can here the fan and the optical drives are noisy as mother funkers (hence I dont use them much). So im thinking if I get a faster PC and slow it down (i dont need the speed im only web browsing) and water cool it...

you don't need to slow it down if you water cool.

as even if its running over clocked theres nothing to get louder, apart from the radiator fans which are 120mm and wont get loud even at high speeds.

personally i only did the water cooling to keep it quite as my computer is a 24/7 PC and is on overnight every night and i hated the random bursts of power from the fans.

hmmmmm, maybe i should clean

Mines more audio then just PC but here it goes:

My computer consists of a 2 yr old Acer with
9600xt video card (i think)
2x 22 inch LCDs
2gb ram
2.8ghz processor
80gb hdd +120 gb external
Behringer CDJ2000 mixing panel (usb)
Yamaha Keyboard (usb)
2x100w RMS amp
Pioneer speakers
Pioneer DJ headphones
200w RMS active sub (to be replaced with Pioneer Bass Bullet 12 inch)
Multiple speakers are flush mounted in the roof throughout the house, ran from computer room.

When i have parties I also run:
18 inch power PA sub
15 inch + horn PA speakers
2x380w RMS PA amp
Behringer FBQ3102 31 band EQ
Behringer RX-1602 16 channel line mixer
Behringer PL2000 racklight

that sounds like a well thought out sound set up, parties must be pretty cool at your house

When my desk is clean it looks like this...

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my work PC

intel core2 duo E6850 3.0GHz 1333mhz fsb
4gig ram
Nvidia 8600GT


it does the job