Battle Stations!

[Bio248]

killed it.

 

[Russosaur]

OS: Win 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel i5-3570K @ 4.2Ghz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i Push/Pull
RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB 1333Mhz
Motherboard: AsRock Extreme6
Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti @ 1Ghz
Hard Drives: WD 300GB, Hitachi 1TB, Seagate 500GB, WD 250GB
Monitor: LG Flatron 21.5"
Case: NZXT Switch 810 White
Power Supply: Corsair TX650v2

My old battle station was better but moving happened with this crappy interwebs all my online gaming came to a halt so my sister mostly uses my computer now she has been playing skyrim non stop another with some other of my steam games. Its funny computer stuff used to be my primary interest, now car stuff happened.

 

[idrivejunk]

Nobody wants to hear what I have to say about gaming or audio. I've only dabbled in online gaming and ain't interested but this was my "battle station" in mid-'13. Unfortunately that 2011 model Dell XPS730 on the left reached a point where it won't boot. So I stashed it and I have had to live in game withdrawals for about a year now except for bare minimum stuff. My PCs have served double duty as a TV for years also. Right now I just have two junk heap Dells and there wasn't much point to using a third monitor but I still can. Anybody want to coach a old dude on my broke XPS? Pipe up, man. You guys have more in your 'puters than in your GPs!

 

[Speedy1973]

^san andreas was dope

i still hook up my old ps2 from time to time and tear that game up

 

[gunsandweed]

 

[idrivejunk]

^san andreas was dope

i still hook up my old ps2 from time to time and tear that game up

I have that installed on both of mine now (with the controversial "hot coffee" mod) and do reach for it occasionally. Figured when 5 for PC hits, I'll build the XPS to the recommended specs. I think NFS HP2 or BF42 DC was the last thing I played online.

 

[Speedy1973]

reminds me of this for some reason

 

[machinegunsquid]

Currently building my new rig. Cant find any pics of my old desk in my apartment,

found a few of my last build tho

Was:
MSI Mpower Z77
i5 3450 CPU
SLI'd EVGA 480 GTX's with Arctic Cooling coolers (still hit 104*C (214*F) with it during stress testing)
8GB Avexir 2400mhz RAM
Stuff and junk.
1TB HDD, slow and noisy


New build is literally waiting for parts to arrive.
MSI MPower Z97 Overclocker edition
i7 4790k (mwahahaha)
SLI'd EVGA GTX 770's (Cheaper and more powerful than a 780ti)
8GB Corsair Dominator 2400mhz RAM
2 512GB Crucial SSD's

Gonna do a custom water cooling loop, mostly XSPC components, save for the CPU block, thats a Swiftech Apogee block. 2 360mm Radiators, both setup in push/pull.
To be jammed into my NZXT H440.


And finally, my best build to date.

 

[seventone]

It might get loud

 

[Grimsin]

Here is my computer system. The desk isnt mine the wife and I are actually living in her parents basement(starting today) until july 26th, we bought a house and it wont be ready to move in until then. moved out of the rental early for cause we hated it so much.






Zalman Z9 case with 6 120mm fans. 1 fan blows in from front of case, 2 fans on the side blowing in, 1 rear fan blowing out, 2 fans on top blowing out
Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler with 120mm fan(so 7 120mm fans total)
AMD phenom II 945 3.0ghz overclocked to 3.6ghz
8 gigabytes of ram
E.V.G.A Nvidia 760 GPU
1 terabyte WD black edition hard drive.
and I believe Asus 880 motherboard..? id have to double check lol.
21'' L.E.D monitor
3 way logitech speakers with 8'' subwoofer
Logitech G700 gaming mouse.
basic keyboard


Machinegunsquid that is one awesome setup you got! :th_clapping:

 

[Russosaur]

Those logitech speakers hit hard, I have the older Z-2300 system and its stupid loud. You have the Z623? I think is the name with the 7 inch sub, still good. Also please do something with that cable management before I do it for you.

 

[Grimsin]

Ya they hit hard I like them.
If I get bored ill think about the wires lol.

 

[Slick2500]

Being as I'm not at home here is a teaser, I'm still waiting for my other Vapor-X to come in.

Here is my case with my old setup in it.

 

[jteske88]

well there are wires bill, behind everything lol but I have a few in my photobucket now that I can share. ok I lied there is one currently, im trying to gget my my old lady to send me one

 

[jteske88]

garbage it is, all garbage

 

[matt5112]

This page is much better.

Here's my crap:

All so old, it's not worth much. Or it wasn't worth much to start with.

See that big white fan? Yes, it's really stopped dead. Thanks for making me open this thing GPF. All of the fans are also getting noisy. Always had terrible luck with Antec fans, but even my Scythe fan is on it's way out. The Arctic cooling CPU cooler fan is done. It's not that it doesn't work at all, it does, just needs a high PWM frequency.

It also reports very hilarious speeds.

Only two speeds it reads.

 

[Russosaur]

Im glad your motherboard reports fan speeds at turbine level speeds lmao, ultra cooling.

 

[Slick2500]

Antec P180b?
Try some Yate Loon fans, I have one that I bought way back in 2007 that only just died a month or 2 ago cuz I dropped a screw driver on it.

 

[matt5112]

Im glad your motherboard reports fan speeds at turbine level speeds lmao, ultra cooling.

Fans aren't cooling enough unless they can build boost inside the case right?

Antec P180b?
Try some Yate Loon fans, I have one that I bought way back in 2007 that only just died a month or 2 ago cuz I dropped a screw driver on it.

I think it's P183. Not that it matters, same thing pretty much.

How quiet are those fans? Anything past a 20-30 dB rating is too loud IMO. Not because I can hear that, but because they always tend to be so much louder in practice.

To be fair, the case and those fans are pretty old now.

 

[Slick2500]

Depends on what speed you get, they have like 4 or 5 different speeds of fans, plus they are cheep too.