Your PC ATM

[Compgeke]

Surprisingly, yes.

Picked this up the other day for $10 with an X5260, 4 gigs ram, Quadro FX1700, no hard drive.

Now it's a Xeon E5440, 24 GB ram, Radeon HD4850 and GeForce GTS240, Dual 500 GB HDD in RAID0 using LSI 1068 onboard. As soon as I find another S771 heatsink I'll throw in a second E5440 but I haven't money.

 

[Arrakis9]

got all the wires cleaned up, mounted the block "right side up" to get the tubes to stop pushing on the video card, and also finished topping up the liquid in the AIO. looks pretty good with the clear tubes and EK blood red concentrate in there

 

[TRWOV]

I had some troubles with the 7850's fan controller so I decided to install my old Coolviva Z1 on it. I twisted the heat-pipes a little and left it like this:

Now the back heatsink lines up with one of the exhaust fans. I kind of like it better this way since with the original fan all the hot air from the GPU was being channeled towards the PSU intake.

 

[Toothless]

"More resolutions on more screens."

The blur is real.

 

[Compgeke]

Picked this up today for $5. Had no ram at the time but after throwing some in it's working. The major problem(s) are the left screen hinge is ripped out and I managed to dump rubbing alcohol on the keyboard which seems to be slowly drying. Both are fixable and none too expensive when I paid $5 anyways.

Specs: 2.3 GHz Core i5 2410M, 8 GB PC3-12800 ram, 320 GB 7.2k Seagate drive, Intel HD3000 graphics (sadly not AMD), 1366x768 LCD (eww), Intel 1030 wireless card.

 

[micropage7]

Picked this up today for $5. Had no ram at the time but after throwing some in it's working. The major problem(s) are the left screen hinge is ripped out and I managed to dump rubbing alcohol on the keyboard which seems to be slowly drying. Both are fixable and none too expensive when I paid $5 anyways.

Specs: 2.3 GHz Core i5 2410M, 8 GB PC3-12800 ram, 320 GB 7.2k Seagate drive, Intel HD3000 graphics (sadly not AMD), 1366x768 LCD (eww), Intel 1030 wireless card.

ouch, its pretty painful
although it works normal, you may cover it with something

 

[overclocking101]

wow love the corsair air540 mods! i'll post mine asap its stock case with small w/c loop but im upgrading the cpu/mobo and the w/c and possibly the psu

 

[ypoora1]

Primin'... Looks like the Windows Task Manager is drunk. AI suite says i'm running 4,515Ghz and all cores are at 100%. So does CPU-Z. Eh, whatever. It's 4,5 and it's stable. Was pretty close to 4,6 but the temps went over 75 and i decided to take it back a step.

More corsair AF120/140 coming in soon, by that point i can do more of an actual rig showcase with the new upgraded stuff. In the meantime an SSD(Kingston SSDNow V100 64GB, old but barely used and free!) has been added. The difference is scary.

 

[xBruce88x]

Just grabbed me a "new" laptop. Its pretty nice for the price, and its pretty quick to. It'll even do some decent gaming. I only paid $400 for it.

It's current specs are...
Intel Core i7 2720QM 4C/8T
2x 4GB DDR3 1333mhz
250GB Toshiba 7200rpm
Intel HD3000 with nVidia NVS4200M (basically a GT520)
14.1in Display at 1600x900 60hz
Battery will last up to 2-4hrs

It plays games like Diablo III fairly well. Might do ok with Hard Reset. Transistor ran ok too.

However, I mostly got it for work use. I'm about to be running my own shop! woohoo! Details on that later though.

I do have a pending upgrade for the laptop...

Its a 240GB model. It should help with "resuming windows" speed and boot up in general. Should help with battery life and overall performance as well.

Edit: almost forgot... it's a Dell Latitude E4620. It has a magnesium internal frame so it feels real sturdy. I like the back lit keyboard also, though i really don't need to see the keys most of the time, but its still nice.

 

[ypoora1]

Just grabbed me a "new" laptop. Its pretty nice for the price, and its pretty quick to. It'll even do some decent gaming. I only paid $400 for it.

It's current specs are...
Intel Core i7 2720QM 4C/8T
2x 4GB DDR3 1333mhz
250GB Toshiba 7200rpm
Intel HD3000 with nVidia NVS4200M (basically a GT520)
Battery will last up to 4-6hrs

It plays games like Diablo III fairly well. Might do ok with Hard Reset. Transistor ran ok too.

However, I mostly got it for work use. I'm about to be running my own shop! woohoo! Details on that later though.

I do have a pending upgrade for the laptop...

Its a 240GB model. It should help with "resuming windows" speed and boot up in general. Should help with battery life and overall performance as well.

Sweet deal! Pretty sure you'll have lots of fun with that.

 

[Doc41]

Finally moved to new home, the place is a mess and i really need a new desk

Still working on network face-plates and cabling, at least the TV and speakers are new

 

[GreiverBlade]

Reverted to my ASUS VS24H for the moment and also Trust GXT 166 in test (pics does not look to bad) using full size and not thumbnail to beat @Doc41

 

[t_ski]

Just grabbed me a "new" laptop.. it's a Dell Latitude E4620.

Is that dyslexia I smell? Laptop looks like a Latitude E6420.

Anyway, I had one of those before, but "upgraded" to our new model of laptop (at work), which is a Fujitsu E544. I wanted the upgrade due to more ram, faster proc, faster wifi and a SSD/HDD hybrid drive, but the battery life on this thing sucks. My old Dell could sit for weeks powered off and still have a charge - this Fujitsu is dead every time I try to use it.

 

[xBruce88x]

Lol yea my bad. Memory isnt the best. But the laptop works great for what i do with it. Plays a few games well enough

 

[xvi]

As soon as I find another S771 heatsink

As an owner of two dual 771 systems, that's not an easy task to do inexpensively. I hear Socket 604 mounting holes are the same dimensions, but the depth is different. I think, and don't quote me on this, but I think a socket 604 cooler would work as long as you can bolt it down.
..or do what I do and just zip-tie something to it.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Bought myself a new mobo and got a new CPU for Xmas - i3-4360 and a Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z5S (don't worry, will upgrade to K CPU in the future) Got a new Sapphire Tri-X 280x sometime ago, painted it; I know some of you are curious to see it. Once the new parts were in, I took some pictures. The only thing different compared to the pictures is I also had to get a new Seasonic PSU (850w) to run my card.

About my rig: It's a custom painted Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus, painted a color called Green With Envy, a color found on the Dodge Challenger. My dad really put a lot of work into painting the case; the keyboard, a Logitech G105, is also painted the same color. He also used a carbon fiber dip kit on the front panel and some yellow pinstripe tape. Inside, he also did a custom sleeve job (his first ever!) which turned out really good. Unfortunately, my case has practically no cable management, so apologies if it's a bit messy. The stickers were custom printed by a friend of my father, but I did the turtle shell artwork.

The theme I chose for my rig is a bit odd - I based it around those little turtles from the Mario series (love those little guys) so I went with a green and yellow color scheme.

Apologies for the yellowish tint in the pictures but it was too cold outside to take pictures. Enjoy!









The keyboard, the Logitech G105 Call of Duty edition (the backlighting is green)



And finally, the graphics card:

 

[Norton]

Very nice setup @Gmr_Chick !

FYI- If you ever want to tuck that 8pin mobo cable in some more... there is a great spot behind the graphics card (between the back of the case and the PCIE slot)

 

[Brusfantomet]

all i want for christmas is a modded H80

replaced the tubing the coolant the radiator and added a second fan. i also moved the rad from the back exhaust to the front intake to reduce the noise from the second fan.

so all in all I've gone from a bone stock H80i to a custom mounted and modded corsair and gained around 7c in additional cooling performance. The weak link here still seems to be the pump but oh well. the most amazing thing to note is despite relocating the rad and dumping warm air on the video card the temps haven't budged on the 670 under load.

I have noticed that the VRM heatsink is getting quite hot now from the reduced airflow in the top of the case i'll have to adjust the rear fan profile a bit and if that doesn't work try something a little more drastic.
I'll also have to break open the loop again and get rid of the last pocket of air. all in all it was fun modding the thing and i'll have to think up what to do next to squeeze every bit of performance out of my rig.

May i suggest cpuling inn the cpu mosfet cooler to the h80 loop, its already a waterblock ready for use, and you obviously know how to chage the tubing on that H80

 

[GhostRyder]

Bought myself a new mobo and got a new CPU for Xmas - i3-4360 and a Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z5S (don't worry, will upgrade to K CPU in the future) Got a new Sapphire Tri-X 280x sometime ago, painted it; I know some of you are curious to see it. Once the new parts were in, I took some pictures. The only thing different compared to the pictures is I also had to get a new Seasonic PSU (850w) to run my card.

About my rig: It's a custom painted Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus, painted a color called Green With Envy, a color found on the Dodge Challenger. My dad really put a lot of work into painting the case; the keyboard, a Logitech G105, is also painted the same color. He also used a carbon fiber dip kit on the front panel and some yellow pinstripe tape. Inside, he also did a custom sleeve job (his first ever!) which turned out really good. Unfortunately, my case has practically no cable management, so apologies if it's a bit messy. The stickers were custom printed by a friend of my father, but I did the turtle shell artwork.

The theme I chose for my rig is a bit odd - I based it around those little turtles from the Mario series (love those little guys) so I went with a green and yellow color scheme.

Apologies for the yellowish tint in the pictures but it was too cold outside to take pictures. Enjoy!









The keyboard, the Logitech G105 Call of Duty edition (the backlighting is green)



And finally, the graphics card:

That green on the TRI-X is sick! The whole rig looks really great in general and its nice to the customized components made so everything matches up well!!!

 

[15th Warlock]

A quick update, was having issues with my RAID 0 drives on my X99 main rig, every time I flashed a new BIOS to it, it would make the 3TB volume were all my games were installed fail, deleting all of my games Luckily I have a drive on my X79 with the exact same data, but it was super annoying to copy everything after updating the BIOS, so while Asus works on a fix (I reported the issue on their ROG RVE support website) I decided to just replace both RAID 0 Volumes with single Samsung 850 Pro 256GBs SSD and 3TB WD Black drives.

I don't think I ever uploaded pics of my 4K Acer G-Sync monitor, I love this panel, and playing games in 4K is truly an experience to behold, G-Sync makes any frame dips unnoticeable, couldn't be happier with my new screen

Hope you guys like the latest update to my main rig

 

[Arrakis9]

May i suggest cpuling inn the cpu mosfet cooler to the h80 loop, its already a waterblock ready for use, and you obviously know how to chage the tubing on that H80

well the thing is that there are a few different reasons for why i didnt plumb the tubing up to the mosfets, if the screws wernt on the bottom of the motherboard to remove said heat sink i might be more inclined to incorporate it as well but, if i ever had any sort of problem with the loop it would be a complete pain in the ass to get everything apart again without spilling water everywhere. the other thing that concerns me is that it has been said that the block on the motherboard is very restrictive and that "liquefying" the heat sink doesn't really provide much better temps over just putting a fan on the thing. so as it stands; yes it would look nice and all and maybe drop the temps by a few degrees but it's much more of a hassle overall to even really consider.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

A quick update, was having issues with my RAID 0 drives on my X99 main rig, every time I flashed a new BIOS to it, it would make the 3TB volume were all my games were installed fail, deleting all of my games Luckily I have a drive on my X79 with the exact same data, but it was super annoying to copy everything after updating the BIOS, so while Asus works on a fix (I reported the issue on their ROG RVE support website) I decided to just replace both RAID 0 Volumes with single Samsung 850 Pro 256GBs SSD and 3TB WD Black drives.

I don't think I ever uploaded pics of my 4K Acer G-Sync monitor, I love this panel, and playing games in 4K is truly an experience to behold, G-Sync makes any frame dips unnoticeable, couldn't be happier with my new screen

Hope you guys like the latest update to my main rig

You have a lot of money sir. Congrats on that!

 

[GhostRyder]

A quick update, was having issues with my RAID 0 drives on my X99 main rig, every time I flashed a new BIOS to it, it would make the 3TB volume were all my games were installed fail, deleting all of my games Luckily I have a drive on my X79 with the exact same data, but it was super annoying to copy everything after updating the BIOS, so while Asus works on a fix (I reported the issue on their ROG RVE support website) I decided to just replace both RAID 0 Volumes with single Samsung 850 Pro 256GBs SSD and 3TB WD Black drives.

I don't think I ever uploaded pics of my 4K Acer G-Sync monitor, I love this panel, and playing games in 4K is truly an experience to behold, G-Sync makes any frame dips unnoticeable, couldn't be happier with my new screen

Hope you guys like the latest update to my main rig

Raid 0 and SSD's is still something I am always a bit skeptical of honestly because of problems in the past. One of the reasons I went ahead and bought an 840 PRO 512 GB instead of buying 2 840 PRO 256GB models. Though recent years have gotten so much better I just need to one day go out and give it a try if I decide I need more SSD space and buy another 512gb 840 PRO.

Very cool looking system, how you enjoying the ACER? You also having fun like I am with having multiple different resolution monitors around it and the scaling fun with that .

BTW wheres the Swift? Is it the one on the left side I just don't see the logo I guess.

 

[Brusfantomet]

Raid 0 and SSD's is still something I am always a bit skeptical of honestly because of problems in the past. One of the reasons I went ahead and bought an 840 PRO 512 GB instead of buying 2 840 PRO 256GB models. Though recent years have gotten so much better I just need to one day go out and give it a try if I decide I need more SSD space and buy another 512gb 840 PRO.

Have 3 OCZ Vertex 2 120 GB models in raid 0 on my backup machine, software raid. Working prefectly (os on a 250 GB samsung 840 pro)

 

[15th Warlock]

Raid 0 and SSD's is still something I am always a bit skeptical of honestly because of problems in the past. One of the reasons I went ahead and bought an 840 PRO 512 GB instead of buying 2 840 PRO 256GB models. Though recent years have gotten so much better I just need to one day go out and give it a try if I decide I need more SSD space and buy another 512gb 840 PRO.

Very cool looking system, how you enjoying the ACER? You also having fun like I am with having multiple different resolution monitors around it and the scaling fun with that .

BTW wheres the Swift? Is it the one on the left side I just don't see the logo I guess.

Thanks! And yes, the scaling on the two other monitors is awful hahaha, wish you could set scaling indepently on each monitor as opposed to having one global setting :/

The Swift is upstairs in my X79/Titan rig, it's still a very capable system and more than up to the task to run games maxed out at 1440p

And I didn't have any issues with RAID 0 on my X79 system, I guess there's something about the config of my HDDs the R5E board didn't like :/