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The Anti-Midas
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- Dec 6, 2006
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- Florida, A.K.A. the Sweatbox
| System Name | TOO MUCH RADIATOR! | The TV Box a.k.a. The Shoebox |
|---|---|
| Processor | Core i7 4930K @ 4.5GHz | Core i5 6600K @ 4.5GHz |
| Motherboard | Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme | Asus Z170i Pro Gaming |
| Cooling | Custom water on CPU and GPU, dual 360mm radiators | Corsair H80i |
| Memory | 4x 8GB G.Skill TridentX DDR3-1600 | 2x 4GB G.Skill RipJaws 4 DDR4-3000 |
| Video Card(s) | Sapphire AMD R9 295x2 | PowerColor AMD HD7970 |
| Storage | Samsung SSD 830 256GB, various others | 2x 1TB Seagate Barracudas in RAID1 |
| Display(s) | Dell U2713HM 2560x1440 IPS | Panasonic TC-L32E5 1080p IPS TV |
| Case | Thermaltake Suppressor F51 (stripped down to hold two radiators) | Cooler Master Elite 130 |
| Audio Device(s) | RM-DAC -> Xiang Sheng 708b -> Sennheiser HD650 | HDMI sound device on 7970 |
| Power Supply | LEPA G1600-MA 1600W | Corsair CX750M 750W |
| Software | Win 10 64 |
| Benchmark Scores | over 9000 BungholioMarks, "Bitchin' Fast" |
So I'm putting together an older rig with some parts I had lying around and some parts given to me by friends. Its main purpose will be to run XP and play older games such as EQ. It's a bit overkill for that(okay, WAY overkill) but I've been wanting to build an XP-era rig for a while now.
Before starting posting pics and specs, I'd like to give a big thanks to Cold Storm for the motherboard and Newtekie for the RAM.
Specs:
Asus ROG x38 Maximus Formula
Pentium D 820
Xigmatek HDT-S1283
2x 2GB G.Skill Pi 1100 5-5-5-15
HIS x1950PRO 256MB
Apevia Chameleon 550W PSU
Undetermined case
Lighting?
Win XP(can't decide on Home or Pro x64, I have disks for both)
I'm still waiting on the RAM in the mail, but I'll start posting pics when I can(should be some time this weekend). For now, this is a placeholder.
Questions, comments, suggestions, banter welcome.
Update, 4/13:
Here are some pics of some of the hardware as a bit of a teaser. It wasn't intended to be a teaser, but things got bust today and I wasn't able to work on assembly, just pulling parts.
The board:
The chip. It holds a special place in my heart. This chip brought me my first 4GHz overclock on one of my P5W DH boards.:
The GPU holds a special place in my heart as well. This was the second high-end card I owned(first being an x800xt that overclocked to x850 speeds), the first dual-slot card I owned, the first card I ran dual-GPUs with, and the card that introduced me to BIOS modding.:
Before starting posting pics and specs, I'd like to give a big thanks to Cold Storm for the motherboard and Newtekie for the RAM.
Specs:
Asus ROG x38 Maximus Formula
Pentium D 820
Xigmatek HDT-S1283
2x 2GB G.Skill Pi 1100 5-5-5-15
HIS x1950PRO 256MB
Apevia Chameleon 550W PSU
Undetermined case
Lighting?
Win XP(can't decide on Home or Pro x64, I have disks for both)
I'm still waiting on the RAM in the mail, but I'll start posting pics when I can(should be some time this weekend). For now, this is a placeholder.
Questions, comments, suggestions, banter welcome.
Update, 4/13:
Here are some pics of some of the hardware as a bit of a teaser. It wasn't intended to be a teaser, but things got bust today and I wasn't able to work on assembly, just pulling parts.
The board:
The chip. It holds a special place in my heart. This chip brought me my first 4GHz overclock on one of my P5W DH boards.:
The GPU holds a special place in my heart as well. This was the second high-end card I owned(first being an x800xt that overclocked to x850 speeds), the first dual-slot card I owned, the first card I ran dual-GPUs with, and the card that introduced me to BIOS modding.:
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