Your PC ATM

[Schmuckley]

Heh, didn't realise people still make evaporation coolers these days, ugly things, but the performance is stellar. I'd urge most people to try one of these before sub zero cooling, it's almost as effective
How long have you run it for?

It's getting long in the tooth..3 years now.

As for the humidity factor:
a) I live in FL
b) I have AC that's set @ 78f
c) The evap cooler does not add to humidity inside very much;It's quite negligible.
d) It is quite effective.

 

[Random Murderer]

It's getting long in the tooth..3 years now.

As for the humidity factor:
a) I live in FL
b) I have AC that's set @ 78f
c) The evap cooler does not add to humidity inside very much;It's quite negligible.
d) It is quite effective.

Well then, maybe I'll make one after all

 

[ensabrenoir]

After "The water bottle incident" my boys got an update to their system.......
'
They went from this:
:

To this:

:

pictures really dont do it justice. Had that old Asus lion square cooler (775). With the help of a xigmatek cross bow and a little modding it fits 1150. G3528
The first gent I7 from the original still works fine though. Trying to find an 1156 itx board now. Total mission impossible.......

 

[Gmr_Chick]

The artwork on the side of the first one is pretty neat, ensabrenoir. Did you do that?

 

[ensabrenoir]

The artwork on the side of the first one is pretty neat, ensabrenoir. Did you do that?

Actually it was "Sandy on the Corner". A local artist at a near by flea market. She's air brushed several of my cases.

 

[Schmuckley]

Actually it was "Sandy on the Corner". A local artist at a near by flea market. She's air brushed several of my cases.

Wow! That looks really nice.That cooler looks interesting as well.

 

[Animalpak]

Upgrade your CPU cooler man ! Very cool paint job and setup with the GTX 760 Mars

 

[GreiverBlade]

MOAARRR AIR540!!!

meanwhile, in a small house on a mountain (also LG G2 camera 1st test) :

(not a G2 shot ... )

so i had 2 SATA2 500gb HDD (5400green/7200) : upgrade... they are not the best but at last they are SATA3 7200 1tb each (Toshiba)


then my retailer had a promo on the Logitech G19 (not S) 80$ so i did say "why not" i had a G15 and the G19 is a bit less wide (and also less wide than my K8100V2 who do not have the 12 macro button on the side) using HWiNFO64 for the monitoring (less catchy than AIDA64 but ... hey it's free and do what i ask)


and the bonuses shots, indeed a 13mp stabilized G2 snapper is waayyy better than a 8mp slow to focus UMI X1

Trying to find an 1156 itx board now. Total mission impossible.......

wellll ... where you are, maybe ... where i am ... oh wait ... ITX??? for what, may i ask?

 

[ensabrenoir]

MOAARRR AIR540!!!

meanwhile, in a small house on a mountain (also LG G2 camera 1st test) :
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(not a G2 shot ... )

so i had 2 SATA2 500gb HDD (5400green/7200) : upgrade... they are not the best but at last they are SATA3 7200 1tb each (Toshiba)
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then my retailer had a promo on the Logitech G19 (not S) 80$ so i did say "why not" i had a G15 and the G19 is a bit less wide (and also less wide than my K8100V2 who do not have the 12 macro button on the side) using HWiNFO64 for the monitoring (less catchy than AIDA64 but ... hey it's free and do what i ask)
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and the bonuses shots, indeed a 13mp stabilized G2 snapper is waayyy better than a 8mp slow to focus UMI X1
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wellll ... where you are, maybe ... where i am ... oh wait ... ITX??? for what, may i ask?

Got a I7 860 and a SG05 that'll make a nice mini bruiser of a portable rig.

 

[adulaamin]

Got myself a Corsair Graphite 760T to replace my old Fractal Design Define Mini.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Got myself a Corsair Graphite 760T to replace my old Fractal Design Define Mini.

Really, you seriously have to keep your rig in a cage to contain it.

 

[[Ion]]

Got myself a Corsair Graphite 760T to replace my old Fractal Design Define Mini.

Kinda like my DTX board and no GPU in the Antec 900....isn't your case a bit big for the HW you have in there?

But gorgeous setup

 

[manofthem]

@t_ski @Easy Rhino

That is gorgeous!

 

[adulaamin]

Kinda like my DTX board and no GPU in the Antec 900....isn't your case a bit big for the HW you have in there?

But gorgeous setup

I was originally going to buy the Maximus VII Formula when my previous board (M5G) and processor (3770K) died. I had to settle with the Gene because of the case I had. I didn't have the money to buy a board, processor, and case back then. I thought I'd buy a full tower case so I wouldn't be limited to motherboard choices in the future and I'm planning to build my first custom water loop by next year which led me to go big.

 

[Schmuckley]

M7g is a nice board.

 

[ensabrenoir]

......yes..........I have an mini itx addiction........ When wife wasn't looking.....her pc went from this;

To this:

Had to rma my blue k70......they sent me a red one . ocd raging. Gonna end up modding the blue led in the node and the m65 to red. And i have a confession...........i broke the law....and almost ended up in the house of pain. Wifey don't need a cx750m (only thing decent i can find locally with out ordering) ......so i went to staples........bought an antec 450...something..... lasted about 2 weeks and died with a snap crackle pop pop POP!!!!!! THOUGHT I LOST THE BOARD I5 AND GTX 640. Luckily it only took itself Got a back up thermaltake smart 650 (.....might still be in danger) in there now until I the seasonic arrives . Gotta I7-860 gonna put in the Sg05......soon as i find a 1156 itx.......mission impossible.... .......amazing how you dont know how dusty your house is .....until you post pictures on the web.... yeeesh that whole desk gotta go...

 

[Toothless]

......yes..........I have an mini itx addiction........ When wife wasn't looking.....her pc went from this;

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To this:

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Had to rma my blue k70......they sent me a red one . ocd raging. Gonna end up modding the blue led in the node and the k65 to red. And i have a confession...........i broke the law....and almost ended up in the house of pain. Wifey don't need a cx750m (only thing decent i can find locally with out ordering) ......so i went to staples........bought an antec 450...something..... lasted about 2 weeks and died with a snap crackle pop pop POP!!!!!! THOUGHT I LOST THE BOARD I5 AND GTX 640. Luckily it only took itself Got a back up thermaltake smart 650 (.....might still be in danger) in there now until I the seasonic arrives . Gotta I7-860 gonna put in the Sg05......soon as i find a 1156 itx.......mission impossible.... .......amazing how you dont know how dusty your house is .....until you post pictures on the web..

Is that a M60 I see with all of the dusty glory?

 

[ensabrenoir]

Is that a M60 I see with all of the dusty glory?

M65 dust is really thick ...... cleaning right now......no hope for her desk though......

 

[JunkBear]

Really, you seriously have to keep your rig in a cage to contain it.

In Philippines you gotta chain your stuff to steel rods and concrete if you don't want it to fly away with the typhoons!

 

[xBruce88x]

I've finally got my new build up and running... got 3 yr replacement plans on most of the stuff too.

and now here come the pics... sorry its not a full log or anything.

You can see i started with the MSI Nighblade Z97 barebones, I added an MSI GTX 970 TwinFrozr, 16gb patriot memory, a little over 3TB storage total... one 1tb, one 2tb (both WD 7.2k), a 250gb laptop drive, and a Corsair Force GT 120gb ssd. the cpu is an i5 4690K. I've got an astro A40 for my headphones and a Vizio 39in tv for the monitor. works great so far..

edit: the mouse is the r.a.t.5

here's a few more pics...

There's my Astro set... they're pretty nice when you get them set up properly to use the Optical on the sound card rather than just through USB. Love the little mixer too! When I'm not gaming I like using the large speakers there... they sound pretty good with the hdmi from my 970... sounds way better then my 7850 for whatever reason. could have something to do with the TV as well. Goes 970 HDMI -> TV -> RCA out -> Minijack converter -> car stereo Aux In, stereo is hooked up to an old power supply, works pretty great too!

This houses my extra 1TB hard drive... surprisingly it gets faster transfer rates than the internal 2TB WD Black! eSATA is pretty nice, but the cables seem to be hard to find around here for some reason. All the internal bays in the case are filled lol. Yes... That's a little BMW M3.

Added a 120mm case fan from my old case. I'm thinking of replacing the ODD with a slot load blu-ray drive. Everything's a tight fit... but so far so good!

And here's the setup... yep i was working on this post when i took the pics lol. BTW that's an OUYA tucked away by the xbox 360

and all the boxes lol

 

[Toothless]

Finished!

And cleeeaaannnn. (1080p on the left / 1600x900 on the right)

 

[Compgeke]

"Upgraded" my IRC server. Rather than using an old Sony VAIO laptop with an Athlon 4 (and a surprisingly working battery) I switched over to a Galileo.

Running Debian right now and while compiling\installing anything is slow Unreal runs well enough (but I know a guy who ran it on a 486 at one point, so...).

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Finished!

And cleeeaaannnn. (1080p on the left / 1600x900 on the right)

Looks good, Bulbie!

 

[GreiverBlade]

"Upgraded" my IRC server. Rather than using an old Sony VAIO laptop with an Athlon 4 (and a surprisingly working battery) I switched over to a Galileo.

Running Debian right now and while compiling\installing anything is slow Unreal runs well enough (but I know a guy who ran it on a 486 at one point, so...).

edit nope: it's a P54C/586 core, looks good, (i ran unreal on a 486DX33 too well surprisingly it was not bad at all indeed)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Galileo
tho i remember the pre specsheet showing a quark being a 486 core
still a Pentium with DDR3-800 support : neat

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

So I saw today that Staples had an ultrawide monitor on sale for $90 and I went from this:

To this:

2560x1080 29" goodness all up in yo face