Your PC ATM

[btarunr]

Second card comes this summer.

Looking at the box (the TriXXX logo), I told the shopkeeper:

"hey, I helped make this technology"

He was like "riight".

 

[Cold Storm]

sexyness bta!

 

[btarunr]

It's this design:

 

[brandonwh64]

why not a 6950 BTA?

 

[btarunr]

why not a 6950 BTA?

No 6950 anywhere here. All allocations to EU/US for winter sales. On the other hand, I got this 6870 for $220.

 

[brandonwh64]

No 6950 anywhere here. All allocations to EU/US for winter sales. On the other hand, I got this 6870 for $220.

That sux man! i was tempted to replace my 5850 with a 6950 unlocked to 6970

 

[HammerON]

That is still a sweet looking card!

 

[Igorius]

Second card comes this summer.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110105/btas6870.jpg

What can you say about this card? Is it hot and noisy?
I would ask for a graph of temperatures (Furmark or MSI Kombustor and GPU-Z).
Why it is better - in your opinion - than the overclocked HD6850?
I ask because I think about buying this card.

 

[btarunr]

What can you say about this card? Is it hot and noisy?
I would ask for a graph of temperatures (Furmark or MSI Kombustor and GPU-Z).
Why it is better - in your opinion - than the overclocked HD6850?
I ask because I think about buying this card.

It gets hot pretty quickly in Furmark (40C to 85C in 2 minutes, ambient 15C). It's very quiet.

 

[Igorius]

It gets hot pretty quickly in Furmark (40C to 85C in 2 minutes, ambient 15C). It's very quiet.

85C is too hot I think
But you are in India - what is the temperature in your room?
In Poland is about -5C outdoor and about +20C in my room just now.

 

[btarunr]

85C is too hot I think
But you are in India - what is the temperature in your room?
In Poland is about -5C outdoor and about +20C in my room just now.

Like I said, my ambient temperature is 15C.

 

[Igorius]

Like I said, my ambient temperature is 15C.

So the temperature of Sapphire HD6870 is too high.

Is the fan speed set automatically? How much (percentage)? When you increase speed of fan how much the card's temperature go down?

 

[btarunr]

So the temperature of Sapphire HD6870 is too high.

Is the fan speed set automatically? How much (percentage)? When you increase speed of fan how much the card's temperature go down?

Automatic, and it doesn't seem to go above 40%.

 

[Reventon]

Did you ever mention how you like your Rokits?

Fucking fantastic for the price. I got the pair for $260 and that was money well spent. High quality music sounds fantastic. Also I'm glad I didn't get Rokit 8's, I saw them at Guitar Center and they are much larger than the space I have. But I am not disappointed with these 5's, great monitors. As you can see I got my MPD and my friend is giving me his $300 keyboard because he no longer uses it. It has MIDI hookups, just need an interface right now since my M-Audio card didn't work.

 

[87dtna]

Is your cooler twisted?

It's an 1156 motherboard with a 775 cooler mounted, ASRock has dual socket capability for coolers. It supports 775 coolers but they have to mount twisted like that. But it's OK anyway because it shoots the hot air right toward the rear fan.

 

[Wile E]

I could swap a sata cable very easily. Pop the back cover off the case off and you're right there to remove and reinstall.

And if you need to test drives all the time, get the CM 690 II advanced with the hot swap docking bay on the top of the case like I did

Of course, now I have a benching station so it's amazingly easy but before that-

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m216/87wagon/Insidecasewithzen.jpg

I already had the case. No need for me to buy another. That's just an expense I can spend on more storage. To what purpose? Vanity? So the inside of my computer looks nice? As long as it does it's job, I just don't care how it looks.

And if you saw the inside of a Stacker and it's lack of holes to route cables, and knew how hard the right panel is to remove and replace when there are cables stuffed behind it, you'd know that it's not really an option to hide the cables, unless I want to get the heavy cutting tools out, as the aluminum is super thick.

Not worth it when a couple extra fans overcome the lack of cable management. Remember, this is an all business computer.

My main rig is on a 3 tier tech station.

Fucking fantastic for the price. I got the pair for $260 and that was money well spent. High quality music sounds fantastic. Also I'm glad I didn't get Rokit 8's, I saw them at Guitar Center and they are much larger than the space I have. But I am not disappointed with these 5's, great monitors. As you can see I got my MPD and my friend is giving me his $300 keyboard because he no longer uses it. It has MIDI hookups, just need an interface right now since my M-Audio card didn't work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002373LVS/?tag=tec06d-20

 

[Reventon]

I'm going to try one more thing with my M-Audio card, then I'll look at something else if ti doesn't work. I'll probably try to find a decent interface off eBay for $75 or less. I need one to reduce the MIDI latency for both my keyboard and MPD (so I'll need two MIDI ports), mine's 47ms, needs to be more like 5ms. It's pretty noticeable. M-Audio Fast Tracks can be found quite cheap.

 

[brandonwh64]

It's an 1156 motherboard with a 775 cooler mounted, ASRock has dual socket capability for coolers. It supports 775 coolers but they have to mount twisted like that. But it's OK anyway because it shoots the hot air right toward the rear fan.

What board is that?

 

[87dtna]

What board is that?

ASRock P55 extreme

ASRock P55 Extreme LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Mo...

 

[Reventon]

Great price and nice specs, looks terrible though, lol.

 

[Josh154]

Great price and nice specs, looks terrible though, lol.

yeah, my asrock x58 extreme is a great board and at the price it is. It doesn't look the best at all though

 

[brandonwh64]

ASRock P55 extreme

ASRock P55 Extreme LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Mo...

What are your clocks and voltage like on that board?

I have the same board in my HTPC and ive got a Xeon X3430 @ 4ghz(211x19) 1.4v

 

[d3fct]

Did you have an Asus M3A78-T?

I know that a cable menagment in my case is bad but...

BTW
It's been brewing in my town

http://www.smaki-piwa.pl/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/HPIM4150.jpg

man that looks delicous........

 

[87dtna]

What are your clocks and voltage like on that board?

I have the same board in my HTPC and ive got a Xeon X3430 @ 4ghz(211x19) 1.4v

I've had an I7 860 to 5ghz with it on DICE ht on, an I3 540 to 5.65ghz, I5 655k to 5.4ghz on phase, and an X3440 to 4ghz on air. Don't really remember voltages too much, but it's a solid board.

 

[dclprojekt]

Hi again everyone! Ok so I said back on page 607 when I posted some pics of my old rigs that I didn't have one of my own. I actually do share this one with my brother for now it doubles as a workstation for his photo business, but I don't game at all on it, come to think of it I haven't played a single game in almost six months! Anyways I set up a small backdrop on the table and took some pics. Hope you all like!

CM 690 II Basic case, AMD Athlon II X4 640@ 3ghz, 8gb 1333mhz RAM, GTS 450, OCZ 64gb SSD, 640gb WD Black, 1tb WD Blue, 1tb WD Green.