Post your desktop/computer pics.

[wtf8269]

Maybe I'm not allowed to start a thread like this, but I used to see them all the time at the old forum site I used to post at. If I'm not allowed to I appologize. However, if I am: go ahead and post your pics/links. I just thought it would be cool to see everybody's computers. There is a link to mine in my signature.

[obso1337]

this is OBSO1337. a ture gaming machine 100% custom built by 1337cshacker aka ME! building it was a little tough, MSI have an OUTSTANDING record of performance in games, and not booting the first time... and that small black strip on the side top of the case clearly say "THIS PC IS INTEL FREE" and its proud of it :p well it all ended great and i build it about 5 months ago, only recently getting the video card 1 month ago. full specs are in my sig. things i couldnt include in sig was the CPU cooler, its the zalman 7000 and it keeps it at 37-40c load 31c idle taking full advantage of cool-n-quiet in my nifty MSI bios. the fan weighs 773g!!!!! FREAKIN HEAVY so very good care is kept for obso1337 not to snap the mobo in half and fall on my beautiful video card. anyway all is fine as long as i dont drop it, and i dont carry it around it sits its ass right there so in my case its fine. great air cooler. i had a cheap water cooler but i was ideling at 43c and it was a bit noisy and scary, this was better, the zalman water coolers are quite nice though, keeping it below 20c most of the time for their water cooling. dont let me ramble :eek: check the pics :cool:

[img=http://img244.echo.cx/img244/8184/s30101933fh.th.jpg] (http://img244.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101933fh.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/53/s30101813tt.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101813tt.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/2226/s30101867yf.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101867yf.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/8073/s30101875xb.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101875xb.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/6673/s30101877es.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101877es.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/8820/s30101888jt.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101888jt.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/5739/s30101897sr.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101897sr.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/6071/s30101919va.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101919va.jpg)
[img=http://img133.echo.cx/img133/9089/s30101933jp.th.jpg] (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101933jp.jpg)

[wtf8269]

That's awesome. I think you need to make your pictures a little lower resolution though, it's loading slower than a sick dog on weed on my school's ISP. :p (Having 300+ computers all networked on a basic broadband ISP is a real smart idea! :rolleyes:.) I'll be able to look at the rest of them once I get home. You did a nice job of keeping the wires tidy too. The only thing that I dont like is (what I think is) the AVI input/ouput box from your graphics card. I'm like you, I'm always updating and looking for something to mod. There's almost nothing the same between my case and the stock v5000a.

[obso1337]

hey i sent you a message about the pics in your sig, photobucket is weird to figure out. think u can help? and what is everyone else waiting for everyone post their pics here!!! also wondering where u got the name tt64 foro your poonage machine.

[wtf8269]

Haha pwnage machine. Anway, the Tt is for Thermaltake, they often abrivate it as Tt, and the 64 is obviously from AMD 64.

[obso1337]

hey this is the ATI forums right, lmao!!!! im like the only guy with an nvidia card!!!!

[wtf8269]

Come on, nobody else has pictures? :(

[zAAm]

I'll post some tomorrow. I'll just have to get my camera up to speed. But don't expect too much eh? ;) I'm still very much working on my case...

[wtf8269]

Hey no problem I'm just glad to see that people are participating. Feel free to post your desktop as well people.

[Morlak]

P4 650 3.4 Ghz 4GB OCZ DDR2 Ram, Thermaltake Big-Water, ASUS P5AD2-E Motherboard, ATI X850-XT, ATI TV Wonder Elite, 200GBx4 SATA Raid, Sony DRU-720A DVD. Ultra 500W PSU.

I want to water-cool the video card asap. I have a block, but would like to read up on cooling the memory better, and read someone elses build notes.

[wtf8269]

Holy $#!% that's crazy. You must have paid a fortune for that. And I thought my 2gb ram was crazy.

[swraman]

Holy $#!% that's crazy. You must have paid a fortune for that. And I thought my 2gb ram was crazy.

seriously :eek:

[Morlak]

Holy $#!% that's crazy. You must have paid a fortune for that. And I thought my 2gb ram was crazy.

Nope, the case is a cheap Tt Soprano btw. I bought it b/c of the 12cm fans. Found the drives for pretty cheap too. They are 7200 RPM drives. I build a new machine every 4-5 years and replace various parts between builds.

My last build was a 1.8Ghz P4 1GB ram, 9800 AIW card. Before that a P3 machine, going back to the 80s when I built my first, a 286 with parts from JDR Micro.

This one did cost a little more b/c I didn't re-use any parts from my old machine, but it wasn't all that bad.

Not exactly a benchmark machine, doing 6136 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm04=2934414) 04-PCMarks, and 6286 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=811018) 05-3DMarks but still not too bad I guess. I still have some tweaking left, and gameplay so far has been awesome.

[wtf8269]

Nope, the case is a cheap Tt Soprano btw. I bought it b/c of the 12cm fans. Found the drives for pretty cheap too. They are 7200 RPM drives. I build a new machine every 4-5 years and replace various parts between builds.

My last build was a 1.8Ghz P4 1GB ram, 9800 AIW card. Before that a P3 machine, going back to the 80s when I built my first, a 286 with parts from JDR Micro.

This one did cost a little more b/c I didn't re-use any parts from my old machine, but it wasn't all that bad.

Not exactly a benchmark machine, doing 6136 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm04=2934414) 04-PCMarks, and 6286 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=811018) 05-3DMarks but still not too bad I guess. I still have some tweaking left, and gameplay so far has been awesome.
I was talking about the ram itself really. 1gb sticks tend to go for almost $120 a piece. Thats $480 just on ram lol.

[Super XP]

The Front.
http://img23.echo.cx/img23/5450/mvc006f0hp.jpg

In the Dark.
http://img71.echo.cx/img71/2189/mvc010f3mx.jpg

In the Back.
http://img71.echo.cx/img71/4972/mvc009f2zh.jpg

[wtf8269]

Hah looks like our CPUs are at the same speed. Very nice, but whats the box for on top, is it like some kind of duct for the radiator or something?

[Super XP]

Hah looks like our CPUs are at the same speed. Very nice, but whats the box for on top, is it like some kind of duct for the radiator or something?

Yes, it's for the Rad. Sucks fresh are from the TOP & blows out into the back.

Same Speed, COOL :)

[swraman]

Front
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/12646OG9w6/449722.jpg

Angle
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/12646OG9w6/449723.jpg

Side
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/12646OG9w6/449724.jpg

nothing special in my case. Only thing is, now instead of that TDK DVD burner, I now have a Plexy :cool:, I have a SB Audigy 7.1 audio card, and I flipped the outside pannel so the fan points into the right place :rolleyes:

[wtf8269]

I've always kind of liked plexiglass cases. I've thought about gettting one for my server. I wouldn't want to get it for my main computer though because there's nowhere to hide the wires. I think i saw a Tt Smart Fan in there also, good choice. :cool:

[swraman]

I've always kind of liked plexiglass cases. I've thought about gettting one for my server. I wouldn't want to get it for my main computer though because there's nowhere to hide the wires. I think i saw a Tt Smart Fan in there also, good choice. :cool:

The case was $80 off of Ebay almost a year ago. Looks like you can get it for about $60 now.

as far as the Tt fan, is does works well, the most powerful fan I could fund, but it is NOISY. But I use it, better to have a loud PC than a fried one. Thats what loud speakers/quality headphones are for. I actually have another of the fans, which I use in the Summer on top of a 100% copper heatsink for my processor. Yup, my heatsinks for my processor are seasonal :rolleyes:

[wtf8269]

The case was $80 off of Ebay almost a year ago. Looks like you can get it for about $60 now.

as far as the Tt fan, is does works well, the most powerful fan I could fund, but it is NOISY. But I use it, better to have a loud PC than a fried one. Thats what loud speakers/quality headphones are for. I actually have another of the fans, which I use in the Summer on top of a 100% copper heatsink for my processor. Yup, my heatsinks for my processor are seasonal :rolleyes:
Haha that's pretty funny. Never seen anybody do that before. Why don't you get a fan controller for the fans? By the way Tornado fans have more performance than Smart Fans do. The only thing that may be an issue is that they're 38mm thick rather than 25mm. I would have Tornado fans but I decided I'd rather sacrafice 10-15cfm for looks and get LED Smart Fans. :cool:

[swraman]

I only switch my heatsinks because the copper one with the Tt fan on top is loud, but works better. My other one that I use is fairly quiet.

I have a controller and a thermostat for the fans, I just don't have it attatched. I really don't know why. I probaly should attatch them.

[wtf8269]

Yeah wouldn't be nearly as loud/annoying.

[Super XP]

Yeah wouldn't be nearly as loud/annoying.

When you are playing games like mad, then crank up the fans, but if you are not, then use the controller to slow down the sound of the fan.

[wtf8269]

Exactly, I usually keep my bottom 92mm fan next to my video card turned up to about 3,000rpm (2,000 min. 3,750 max) and my cpu fan at 3700 (2500 min. 5650 max) and my rear 92mm is always all the way up because I can't really hear it. I think it's like 3,000rpm, it's my only case fan that isn't a smart fan.

[Morlak]

I had a 80mm fan in the side of my case, which I dumped. I am going to replace it with a 120mm fan in the top. In the end it'l have 3 120mm fans all running about 1500 RPM. Should be enough with water-cooled CPU and VPU.

[wtf8269]

I had a 80mm fan in the side of my case, which I dumped. I am going to replace it with a 120mm fan in the top. In the end it'l have 3 120mm fans all running about 1500 RPM. Should be enough with water-cooled CPU and VPU.
Hah yeah I'll say. You should make like two of those radiators, that would be sweet.

[Super XP]

http://img152.echo.cx/img152/5355/00001111112dy.jpg

[Morlak]

Here is what I received when I tried to get to the site ^^^.

"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."

[Super XP]

Here is what I received when I tried to get to the site ^^^.

"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."

Yes, that happends a few times. Try again.

[wtf8269]

I'm pretty suprised you haven't upgraded your northbridge cooler at all.

[Super XP]

I'm pretty suprised you haven't upgraded your northbridge cooler at all.

No, that is an old pic from my water review. I now have the DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D, so I can't really change that cooler because it's almost touching my VGA Card.

[wtf8269]

Yeah same here, I've thought about getting this (http://www.xoxide.com/iceberq.html) before, my friend has it. It helped him quite a bit but he's running a VIA chipset on an AMD XP.

[wazzledoozle]

Yeah same here, I've thought about getting this (http://www.xoxide.com/iceberq.html) before, my friend has it. It helped him quite a bit but he's running a VIA chipset on an AMD XP.
That cooler works well. Solid copper and mirror finish.

[obso1337]

Front
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/12646OG9w6/449722.jpg

Angle
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/12646OG9w6/449723.jpg

Side
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/12646OG9w6/449724.jpg

nothing special in my case. Only thing is, now instead of that TDK DVD burner, I now have a Plexy :cool:, I have a SB Audigy 7.1 audio card, and I flipped the outside pannel so the fan points into the right place :rolleyes:
O THOSE DISGUSTING IDE CABLES TIE THEM OR GET ROUND ONES ZOMG YOU RUINED THAT CASE. the clear cases are nice though, neat in the dark, not ideal for lan parties. overall good job

this is my northbridge cooler TITAN VGA (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.coolfan.be/pictures/16.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.coolfan.be/index.php%3Finclude%3Dprodlist%26cat%3D58&h=280&w=280&sz=27&tbnid=YE8iqBrgkA8J:&tbnh=109&tbnw=109&hl=en&start=9&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtitan%2BVGA%2Bcooler%26hl%3Den%26lr%3 D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN) and a small pic http://www.comexgroup.com/videosystem/video_cards/img_gb_r9700pro/b10.jpg

[obso1337]

P4 650 3.4 Ghz 4GB OCZ DDR2 Ram, Thermaltake Big-Water, ASUS P5AD2-E Motherboard, ATI X850-XT, ATI TV Wonder Elite, 200GBx4 SATA Raid, Sony DRU-720A DVD. Ultra 500W PSU.

I want to water-cool the video card asap. I have a block, but would like to read up on cooling the memory better, and read someone elses build notes.
very messy, slow processor.

[Morlak]

very messy, slow processor.

obo1337's case (http://img133.echo.cx/my.php?image=s30101888jt.jpg)

No more messy than your case ^^ IMO but to each his own.

PCmark 04 - 6136 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm04=2934414)
3DMark 05 - 6286 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=811018)

Post your scores if mine is so "slow".

I already said mine was no benchmark buster, but its not "slow" by any means. Anyway I just finished my watercooling job on the video card over the weekend, and have had 0 problems with it.

[obso1337]

lmao, you PROCESSOR is slow not your whole computer, P4 is nothing in games and BARELY, i mean barely, beats a AMD at anything. from seen benches out of 32 a P4 can take maybe 7, video playback, audio encoding, not number crunching or gaming, and the stuff a P4 would beat a AMD it would be by a second, maybe 2 seconds in encrypting audio/video, if i ever build a PC for my skate videos i will have a P4 in it, AMD64 and AMDfx55/ amd64x2 are king of top end processing in games/other task. props on the watercooling thing, you must be proud you made it yourself just as i made my case and im proud of my case. and my 6800 GT unlocked and oc'ed owns your x850 PEtarded or whatever.

PCmark 05 - 6531

[Super XP]

lmao, you PROCESSOR is slow not your whole computer, P4 is nothing in games and BARELY, i mean barely, beats a AMD at anything. from seen benches out of 32 a P4 can take maybe 7, video playback, audio encoding, not number crunching or gaming, and the stuff a P4 would beat a AMD it would be by a second, maybe 2 seconds in encrypting audio/video, if i ever build a PC for my skate videos i will have a P4 in it, AMD64 and AMDfx55/ amd64x2 are king of top end processing in games/other task. props on the watercooling thing, you must be proud you made it yourself just as i made my case and im proud of my case. and my 6800 GT unlocked and oc'ed owns your x850 PEtarded or whatever.

PCmark 05 - 6531


I agree with that. AMD is now stronger than ever & winning now in Dual Core by far & by over 85% in Multi-Media. AMD is now the Champ in Multi-Media & Video Encoding ;)

[zAAm]

I agree as well... AMD is the king o'the hill :cool: . Nothing compares to their new X2 Dual Cores. And I believe that Intel is really worried at the moment. I think they should adopt a different strategy and lose the high clock, bad clock performance way of thinking. Their CPU's generate too much heat and suck up too much power while the're at it. And even Hyper Threading isn't going to save their asses. But obviously there are Pentium owners who'd probably disagree? (btw it's strange to note that 90% of the AMD vs. Intel discussions are started by the AMD guy exclaiming how much better his CPU is than the Intel... :D ) But isn't this is a bit off topic?? ;) I still have to take some pics of my PC... Will share them as soon as I have time to take them.

[Morlak]

lmao, you PROCESSOR is slow not your whole computer, P4 is nothing in games and BARELY, i mean barely, beats a AMD at anything. from seen benches out of 32 a P4 can take maybe 7, video playback, audio encoding, not number crunching or gaming, and the stuff a P4 would beat a AMD it would be by a second, maybe 2 seconds in encrypting audio/video, if i ever build a PC for my skate videos i will have a P4 in it, AMD64 and AMDfx55/ amd64x2 are king of top end processing in games/other task. props on the watercooling thing, you must be proud you made it yourself just as i made my case and im proud of my case. and my 6800 GT unlocked and oc'ed owns your x850 PEtarded or whatever.

PCmark 05 - 6531

You cant even post a link to back yourself up? Not saying your a liar or anything, but Futuremark does not even MAKE PCmark 05. And if thats a 3DMark score, you didn't own me by any means. 300 points is nothing, and isnt retarded as you put it. I dont know if you realize how you come off when you put someone down, but dude I hope you are more PC in RL than you are in here. I will no longer respond to your slack retarded flames. You own yourself AMD/Nvidia Fanboi, go for it.

[Super XP]

You cant even post a link to back yourself up? Not saying your a liar or anything, but Futuremark does not even MAKE PCmark 05. And if thats a 3DMark score, you didn't own me by any means. 300 points is nothing, and isnt retarded as you put it. I dont know if you realize how you come off when you put someone down, but dude I hope you are more PC in RL than you are in here. I will no longer respond to your slack retarded flames. You own yourself AMD/Nvidia Fanboi, go for it.

LOL, the one thing I have is SOLID FACTS lol

AMD Athlon 64 X2 fumes competition
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23110

AMD's dual-core CPUs come out fighting
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024015,39197754,00.htm

AMD clearly has the faster overall dual core desktop solution
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2410&p=1

AMD Smokes the Competition
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1813757,00.asp

First Tests: AMD's Dual-Core Chip Delivers Real Power Boost

Our exclusive tests show this CPU is faster than Intel's dual-core Pentium EE 840.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120750,00.asp

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ was an excellent performer in virtually every category.
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=682

Clearely AMD has the fastest CPU’s

[Morlak]

I Just started tweaking, and wow first time out gunning for your score obo, at least it might be yours. You still think you "own" me?

6509 ( http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=840504) 3dMark05

I know AMD makes solid gaming CPUS, you fanbois do not have to preach. Its silly and shows you are inmature. I built this PC to be a PVR mainly (notice the tuner/capture card, and 800GB of space?). In any case I'll let my scores speak for themselves, and I'll always post a link.

I never said anything to you XP, I was talking to Obo. I did not start the flames, but I wont roll over either.

I could care less what the newest CPUs will do, what about YOURS, thats what we are showing here, our own, not web reviews. I dont have the latest CPU in my PC, do you?

[obso1337]

You cant even post a link to back yourself up? Not saying your a liar or anything, but Futuremark does not even MAKE PCmark 05. And if thats a 3DMark score, you didn't own me by any means. 300 points is nothing, and isnt retarded as you put it. I dont know if you realize how you come off when you put someone down, but dude I hope you are more PC in RL than you are in here. I will no longer respond to your slack retarded flames. You own yourself AMD/Nvidia Fanboi, go for it.
lol you make me lewl with your distorted facts, YOU MAKE ME LEWL. im no fanboy, i just stick with whats faster in gaming/number crunching. is that a crime? well i dont know what sick country your in, its no crime here.

I Just started tweaking, and wow first time out gunning for your score obo, at least it might be yours. You still think you "own" me?
yes

[obso1337]

LOL, the one thing I have is SOLID FACTS lol

AMD Athlon 64 X2 fumes competition
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23110

AMD's dual-core CPUs come out fighting
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024015,39197754,00.htm

AMD clearly has the faster overall dual core desktop solution
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2410&p=1

AMD Smokes the Competition
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1813757,00.asp

First Tests: AMD's Dual-Core Chip Delivers Real Power Boost

Our exclusive tests show this CPU is faster than Intel's dual-core Pentium EE 840.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120750,00.asp

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ was an excellent performer in virtually every category.
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=682

Clearely AMD has the fastest CPU’s
thank you, you see now morlak? intel gets owned (although they diddnt always used to get owned, and in 1993 and 1994 i used intel to play original dooms because they were better then). fact remains i bench higher, get better game performance, and have better number crunching/gaming processor. big deal you wont "respond to me" LMAO!!! ahhaha this is better than, something i cant think of...anyway facts remain. LMAO!

[Super XP]

thank you, you see now morlak? intel gets owned (although they diddnt always used to get owned, and in 1993 and 1994 i used intel to play original dooms because they were better then). fact remains i bench higher, get better game performance, and have better number crunching/gaming processor. big deal you wont "respond to me" LMAO!!! ahhaha this is better than, something i cant think of...anyway facts remain. LMAO!


"fact remains i bench higher, get" what do you mean you bench higher? How much can you benchpress anyway. I can do around 225 lbs I think ?!?!

[obso1337]

"fact remains i bench higher, get" what do you mean you bench higher? How much can you benchpress anyway. I can do around 225 lbs I think ?!?!
LEWL LEWL LEWL :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[Morlak]

lol you make me lewl with your distorted facts, YOU MAKE ME LEWL. im no fanboy, i just stick with whats faster in gaming/number crunching. is that a crime? well i dont know what sick country your in, its no crime here.


yes

Wrong Fanboi, 6598 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=841265) 3DMark05 on mine, without volt-mods or thermo-electric cooling yet either.

So my "retarted" video card beat yours. Lewl on that... fanboi.

I will concede the top scores today are all super-modded 6800 GTs with AMD CPUs. Just go on futuremark and take a look, and dont bother telling me. I can *&^$ing read for myself. I didn't build my PC to please your lame ass or anyone elses. It works very well for "me". "I" am very happy with the performance even though it may be a "slow" processor, in a "messy" case. You crack me up Fanboi.

Your machine is just like mine, way way way down the list. The top scores belong to people using SLI and super chilled cards and CPUs. Big whoop.

What distorted facts? You started this flame war, calling my video card retarded. Well it started before that when your only lame comment was "Messy case and slow processor". When you put someone elses work down, expect to be flamed Fanboi. What country I live in is also none of your biz dimwad.

I'll be honest with ya now Fanboi, when I first saw that lame as hell sticker on the side of your PC case, that reads "Intel Free blah blah blah", I knew right away you were a Fanboi. And please fix that PcMark05 score dude. FutureMark doesn't make PCMark05. I only hope you dont want to look any more retarded than you already do.

If you must know, I picked the CPU because of the new chipset features. I didn't want to have to buy a dual-cpu board to get more than 2 Gigs of RAM. The new Intel chipset supports 4 Gigs on single processor boards. The board also supports DDR2 memory, and has 1066Mhz FSB, which should let me upgrade to one of those EE processors one day if I want to. I wanted the memory for large video file editing. This board should have a few years of life in it, letting me upgrade the memory speeds as I get another "slow" CPU. It also plays games just fine.

I know you must be the kind of person that always must get in the last word, so until my next case mod, I wont be responding here, so you can have at it.... Fanboi

[wazzledoozle]

Its the AMD revolution all over again :|

[djbbenn]

I agree as well... AMD is the king o'the hill :cool: . Nothing compares to their new X2 Dual Cores. And I believe that Intel is really worried at the moment. I think they should adopt a different strategy and lose the high clock, bad clock performance way of thinking. Their CPU's generate too much heat and suck up too much power while the're at it. And even Hyper Threading isn't going to save their asses. But obviously there are Pentium owners who'd probably disagree? (btw it's strange to note that 90% of the AMD vs. Intel discussions are started by the AMD guy exclaiming how much better his CPU is than the Intel... :D ) But isn't this is a bit off topic?? ;) I still have to take some pics of my PC... Will share them as soon as I have time to take them.

I have a Intel at the moment but I am going over to AMD cause I want better games. The Intels are fast but AMD is winning at the moment though. I like my Intel but I perfer something that will give better games. You guys got to chill a bit about what cpu people have. I'll get some pics of my rig once I pretty er up a bit.

-Dan :D

[wtf8269]

Dude, obso1337, you are a retard. Yes, AMD has the advantage right now, but so what? The guy has an Intel, big deal. It's not like he's going to get 2fps because he's got an intel. Intel's are very strong processors. Yeah sure you'll get 10-15fps more than an intel, but you can't see the difference between 90fps and 105fps. I used to have a 2.8ghz Northwood before I got this cpu. I was able to do a virus scan and still play games at the same time. I sure as Hell can't do that with this AMD. AMD is best in gaming, Intel is best in multimedia, but the differences are so little between the performance that it really doesn't matter which CPU you get.

[nightelf84]

LoL @ Intel vs AMD posts (or crap as I would put it).. Recent history has shown that no one side holds the lead for very long.. It has always been a see-saw battle.. Applies to graphics card as well. X800 series came out and pwn anything nVidia had. But then nVidia came back with the 6800 series and whoop Ati's ass. But then Ati came back with X850s which matched and outperformed single 6800s. AND ATi has their answer to SLi in the works (coming soon to a PC near you).

So you see, AMD has the advantage right now.. sure, no doubt about that, if anyone has said different, I wud hv bitch slapped him/her. But just you wait when Intel comes back with something totally different and more advanced.. It has happened before, and what makes you think it wont happen again? You expect Intel (a multi-billion dollar company) to just sit there and let AMD pwn their over-paid asses? I don't think so.. So yes, ur AMD may be superior.. but don't be a fool and flame an Intel owner.. when Intel makes a come back.. I sure hope you have a big hole to dig and bury ur head into...

[Rule-R]

Ooops, i hope this isnt getting personal?

[wtf8269]

Ooops, i hope this isnt getting personal?
It seems to be for Morlak and Obso1337.

[Rule-R]

Yes, for them..
I guess forums arent the place to make ppl look bad?

[djbbenn]

This thread is for your desktop pics...not AMD vs Intel. lol

-Dan

[wtf8269]

This thread is for your desktop pics...not AMD vs Intel. lol

-Dan
Amen.

[obso1337]

Dude, obso1337, you are a retard. Yes, AMD has the advantage right now, but so what? The guy has an Intel, big deal. It's not like he's going to get 2fps because he's got an intel. Intel's are very strong processors. Yeah sure you'll get 10-15fps more than an intel, but you can't see the difference between 90fps and 105fps. I used to have a 2.8ghz Northwood before I got this cpu. I was able to do a virus scan and still play games at the same time. I sure as Hell can't do that with this AMD. AMD is best in gaming, Intel is best in multimedia, but the differences are so little between the performance that it really doesn't matter which CPU you get.

i agree lets get back on topic he started it. anyway, 10-15 more fps is a big deal. sure visually you cant tell, but mathmaticly it does matter. you would get 20 fps with a intel and 30 with amd, thats visual diffrence. 30 is relativly smooth and 20 is unplayable. well thats jsut an example of it mattering, although none of us here get 20 fps in a game (at least i hope not you guys). mathmaticly it would be nice to get that extra 15 fps in a game is smoke in hl2 or something loads big in a game you have 15 fps to "fall back on" so you WONT get a visual performance diffrence. if you cheap s#!t your computer you will get cheap s#!t performance, thats science. so who else is posting pics? i gotta getn ew pics of my chaintech.

[djbbenn]

I agree to what your saying and thats why I am swichting over to a AMD. But lets drop it and get back to the topic thats this thread is for. If people are gonna talk about this, go to general hardware and start a thread.

-Dan :D

[wtf8269]

i agree lets get back on topic he started it. anyway, 10-15 more fps is a big deal. sure visually you cant tell, but mathmaticly it does matter. you would get 20 fps with a intel and 30 with amd, thats visual diffrence. 30 is relativly smooth and 20 is unplayable. well thats jsut an example of it mattering, although none of us here get 20 fps in a game (at least i hope not you guys). mathmaticly it would be nice to get that extra 15 fps in a game is smoke in hl2 or something loads big in a game you have 15 fps to "fall back on" so you WONT get a visual performance diffrence. if you cheap s#!t your computer you will get cheap s#!t performance, thats science. so who else is posting pics? i gotta getn ew pics of my chaintech.
Yes, it is mathematically a big difference, but I was just saying that you won't see the difference if you're above 30 or 40. Most people get 60fps in HL2 and D3 anyway.

Anywhoo, I ordered this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16826105151) mouse a couple days ago and it'll be here tomarrow so I'll have pics of that sometime tomarrow probably.

Is anybody gonna post screenshots of their desktops, or is everybody ashamed of theirs? Here's mine, except now I have CPU temp in the taskbar too since I got SpeedFan working.

[obso1337]

i dont use a desktop, too lame, i never got used to a desktop right when windows 95 came out, i was used to allot of dos and windows 3.1 windows. so i found the explorer window around 1996 and have been using it since, i made it pop-up when my computer starts, it even pops up into my ---MAIN--- folder and it uses 15k of memory. its small enough so it dosent slow down games. i have a nifty ---MAIN--- folder where i am most of the time, i keep shotcuts to mozilla, games, whats in the picture you see. so thats like a mini desktop. all the file browsing is in the left and other neat stuff, easy installation and other things. well this is a great way of working a computer, i can do so much more than just having a desktop. i think iv seen my desktop once since the last time i formated windows, LOL (o, and nevermind that icon that says "steam game hack" with the yellow gear... i use that to download all of the steam games for free, oh and that hl.exe, thats non-steam for cs 1.6. its very apparent i hack things now!! OOPS! OWNED)
http://img176.echo.cx/img176/4871/desktop6lm.jpg

[wtf8269]

I love explorer, it's all I use to get to all of my folders except for two of which I have shortcuts for one my taskbar.

[Deeko]

i dont use a desktop, too lame, i never got used to a desktop right when windows 95 came out, i was used to allot of dos and windows 3.1 windows. so i found the explorer window around 1996 and have been using it since, i made it pop-up when my computer starts, it even pops up into my ---MAIN--- folder and it uses 15k of memory. its small enough so it dosent slow down games. i have a nifty ---MAIN--- folder where i am most of the time, i keep shotcuts to mozilla, games, whats in the picture you see. so thats like a mini desktop. all the file browsing is in the left and other neat stuff, easy installation and other things. well this is a great way of working a computer, i can do so much more than just having a desktop. i think iv seen my desktop once since the last time i formated windows, LOL (o, and nevermind that icon that says "steam game hack" with the yellow gear... i use that to download all of the steam games for free, oh and that hl.exe, thats non-steam for cs 1.6. its very apparent i hack things now!! OOPS! OWNED)
http://img176.echo.cx/img176/4871/desktop6lm.jpg


Ah, I remember you obso, you got banned from Nvidias official forums for being an idiot.

[wazzledoozle]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/dt.jpg

For some reason the task tray auto-minimize doesnt work :?

[wtf8269]

Ah, I remember you obso, you got banned from Nvidias official forums for being an idiot.
Lol.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/dt.jpg

For some reason the task tray auto-minimize doesnt work :?
That's odd. Sounds like its just a missing script or something? Maybe you can try to fix it with Resource Hacker if you're good at that kind of thing. I love auto-hide, I couldn't live without it.

[Morlak]

Ah, I remember you obso, you got banned from Nvidias official forums for being an idiot.

Busted, but most people here should already know he's an idiot.

I just think of him as a putz fanboi retarded idiot.
Hey no Intel vs AMD stuff here Boso, opps I mean Obso. Pure flames fanboi.

And so sir, I did not start it you freaking dumbass retard, you did. And in case you missed it the first time, my "retarded" video card has owned yours. Owned. lewl all over that fanboi. Whatever lewl means. Sounds like drool to me, but you should know how to drool anyway being a tard and all.

You still crack me up with that "math" of yours. Like how in the world would you even know how to calculate percentages, your a tard. And finally I can't believe you would actually tell everyone you didn't quite get the windows desktop thing. OMFG, you have to be the most retarded computer user of all time. 1000x dumber than I even thought you were. I even gave you the benifit of the doubt too. LMAO @ Obso the tard.

Well back on topic, my desktop is indeed lame, but I dont spend much time looking at it either. Its either BeyondTV, or a game like eq2. BeyondTV records shows while Im playing.

[obso1337]

Busted, but most people here should already know he's an idiot.

I just think of him as a putz fanboi retarded idiot.
Hey no Intel vs AMD stuff here Boso, opps I mean Obso. Pure flames fanboi.

And so sir, I did not start it you freaking dumbass retard, you did. And in case you missed it the first time, my "retarded" video card has owned yours. Owned. lewl all over that fanboi. Whatever lewl means. Sounds like drool to me, but you should know how to drool anyway being a tard and all.

You still crack me up with that "math" of yours. Like how in the world would you even know how to calculate percentages, your a tard. And finally I can't believe you would actually tell everyone you didn't quite get the windows desktop thing. OMFG, you have to be the most retarded computer user of all time. 1000x dumber than I even thought you were. I even gave you the benifit of the doubt too. LMAO @ Obso the tard.

Well back on topic, my desktop is indeed lame, but I dont spend much time looking at it either. Its either BeyondTV, or a game like eq2. BeyondTV records shows while Im playing.

wow listen to this freakin moron people. AMD > intel and you just pissed my computer owned yous. big deal if im the "fanboi" lol its owning you SOUL!!! TO DARKNESS!!!! NEXT! i got banned from nvidia forums because those gay admins think there hott S#!T and there lame. they banned me because my attitude is radical and extreme, but you cant get anywhere in life unless you own.

[obso1337]

B
You still crack me up with that "math" of yours. Like how in the world would you even know how to calculate percentages, your a tard. And finally I can't believe you would actually tell everyone you didn't quite get the windows desktop thing. OMFG, you have to be the most retarded computer user of all time. 1000x dumber than I even thought you were. I even gave you the benifit of the doubt too. LMAO @ Obso the tard.

morlak the treetard. dude get over the fact the way i run my computer owns you. i can copy files, burn cd's benchmark, game, browse internet, etc etc etc!!! 1000x faster then you. i was just so used to the old operating systems like windows 3.1 and dos, and iv been repairing, gaming, building, small programing since 1992. meaning i have more experience then this "morlak" person. i never LIKED the desktop idea. there is nothing wrong with that. omfg you just sound raged and mad. OWNED i refuse to continue any further in this matter, if you want to "say" anything back like a moron then just PM me dont start spamming the boards, my apoligiseies go to everyone who had to read this other than morlak.

[djbbenn]

Omg people...its not a forum of who has the better computer. Its to help people and share ideas. Drop it and get back on topic.

-Dan :p

[Morlak]

wow listen to this freakin moron people. AMD > intel and you just pissed my computer owned yous. big deal if im the "fanboi" lol its owning you SOUL!!! TO DARKNESS!!!! NEXT! i got banned from nvidia forums because those gay admins think there hott S#!T and there lame. they banned me because my attitude is radical and extreme, but you cant get anywhere in life unless you own.

Dribble drabble drool on fanboi, i didnt understand your ramble. Sorry but I didnt piss on anything. Only retards like you piss on anything.

AMD high-end machines own everyone here. You are not on that top-of-the-line list, so quit babbling. I owned your machine putz, get over it.

[obso1337]

AMD high-end machines own everyone here. You are not on that top-of-the-line list, so quit babbling. I owned your machine putz, get over it.
with your crappy processor and video card you own nothing. not me, barely anyone else. blah blah i owned you, you know it and i said PM me idiot. lets not spam the forums. if you post here flamming me because im right and you cant take it i will call over an admin.

AMD64 3400+ 1meg L2
chaintech 6800 GT unlocked pipes, ultra speeds
1gig samsung PC3500
MSI K8N neo plat nForce3 800fsb sata
3Dmark05 - 6531

OWNS

P4
x 800
asus mobo
3Dmark6286

its just a fact i cant help it. i really wish i could have been you freind if you would have kept it freindly. exact words "slow processor, messy wires" i recently cleaned up my wires a bit, nothing to spiffy, wires will always be a bit of a problem.

[obso1337]

I love explorer, it's all I use to get to all of my folders except for two of which I have shortcuts for one my taskbar.
a smart person, he owns morlak too. LOL i agree taskbar shotcuts own! lets all get on topic here next one gets reported to admin. i think desktops should be an option, would be cool i think. not everyone likes them. my freinds do explorer window too.

[Deeko]

You got banned from Nvidias forums because people over there have a high technical knowledge and told you whats what with hardware, you didnt like that, and the main reason you were banned is because you were bragging about pirating software and never buying any games which I think is out of order and you are doing it again by posting screenshots about your pathetic hacking prowess and how you download your games for free. You are a leech.

[Morlak]

morlak the treetard. dude get over the fact the way i run my computer owns you. i can copy files, burn cd's benchmark, game, browse internet, etc etc etc!!! 1000x faster then you. i was just so used to the old operating systems like windows 3.1 and dos, and iv been repairing, gaming, building, small programing since 1992. meaning i have more experience then this "morlak" person. i never LIKED the desktop idea. there is nothing wrong with that. omfg you just sound raged and mad. OWNED i refuse to continue any further in this matter, if you want to "say" anything back like a moron then just PM me dont start spamming the boards, my apoligiseies go to everyone who had to read this other than morlak.

How in the world would you know how much experience I have? You are such a lame putz. 1000x faster than me, get real dimwit. I posted my scores, which are better than yours, with links, and screnshoots to prove my system owns yours. And you still babble on. Want to send me some email retard? Do it and I will PM you putz. Im not mad, this is fun calling you out like the retarded putz that you really are.

[obso1337]

How in the world would you know how much experience I have? You are such a lame putz. 1000x faster than me, get real dimwit. I posted my scores, which are better than yours, with links, and screnshoots to prove my system owns yours. And you still babble on. Want to send me some email retard? Do it and I will PM you putz. Im not mad, this is fun calling you out like the retarded putz that you really are.
lol i recall me getting more fps in games and i get a better PC mark and 3Dmark05 scores. which mean my system owns yous. LOL you can say a million things or call me and my better system a million things and it wont change the simple facts that i just built a better system. well that wraps it up. i already reported you to an admin and he said he will deal with you being a tard. later dude.

[Morlak]

with your crappy processor and video card you own nothing. not me, barely anyone else. blah blah i owned you, you know it and i said PM me idiot. lets not spam the forums. if you post here flamming me because im right and you cant take it i will call over an admin.

AMD64 3400+ 1meg L2
chaintech 6800 GT unlocked pipes, ultra speeds
1gig samsung PC3500
MSI K8N neo plat nForce3 800fsb sata
3Dmark05 - 6531

OWNS

P4
x 800
asus mobo
3Dmark6286

its just a fact i cant help it. i really wish i could have been you freind if you would have kept it freindly. exact words "slow processor, messy wires" i recently cleaned up my wires a bit, nothing to spiffy, wires will always be a bit of a problem.

Now you say you would have been my friend? please... You followed that up with calling my video card retarded. If that isnt flaming putz, I dont know what is.

and OMG you didnt read the post where I owned your video benchmark.

And just to set your retarded mind straight, its a P4 650 (2Mb L2 Cache) 3.4Ghz 800Mhz FSB OCd to 4.09Ghz/950Mhz FSB.

You do not own me you dimwit retarded putz fanboi. 6598 beats 6531, try that math out. Come on dude, I even posted a link and a screenshot just for you. And You missed it.

Waaaah go tell your mommy mean Morlak flamed you again.

here is a short recap

Boso:

Originally Posted by obso1337
lol you make me lewl with your distorted facts, YOU MAKE ME LEWL. im no fanboy, i just stick with whats faster in gaming/number crunching. is that a crime? well i dont know what sick country your in, its no crime here.

Morlak:

Wrong Fanboi, 6598 3DMark05 on mine, without volt-mods or thermo-electric cooling yet either.
So my "retarted" video card beat yours. Lewl on that... fanboi.

[Deeko]

Hes away now because hes panicking about his pirating exploits and the possibility of another ban because of it.

[obso1337]

Now you say you would have been my friend? please... You followed that up with calling my video card retarded. If that isnt flaming putz, I dont know what is.

and OMG you didnt read the post where I owned your video benchmark.

And just to set your retarded mind straight, its a P4 650 (2Mb L2 Cache) 3.4Ghz 800Mhz FSB OCd to 4.09Ghz/950Mhz FSB.

You do not own me you dimwit retarded putz fanboi. 6598 beats 6531, try that math out. Come on dude, I even posted a link and a screenshot just for you. And You missed it.

Waaaah go tell your mommy mean Morlak flamed you again.

here is a short recap

Boso:

Originally Posted by obso1337
lol you make me lewl with your distorted facts, YOU MAKE ME LEWL. im no fanboy, i just stick with whats faster in gaming/number crunching. is that a crime? well i dont know what sick country your in, its no crime here.

Morlak:

Wrong Fanboi, 6598 3DMark05 on mine, without volt-mods or thermo-electric cooling yet either.
So my "retarted" video card beat yours. Lewl on that... fanboi.

lmao, you own nothing, you know it, i know it. AHAHA, so video wasnt higher because of my AMD made up for it. so in turn, you got owned. this is the last post im making here, i have better forums to go to where there arent noobs like you who suck. i think i pissed you off too much, sorry about that, i just cant change the fact that you got owned. what else you want me to say? well i wont see any other post you or your gay ATI freinds make. just know, for fact, i own you, nVidia > ATI, AMD > intel. later noobie. OWNED boso? OBSO1337 OWNS YOU FUCKING SOUL.

[nightelf84]

Wow... we're still on the who owns who topic ehh? LOL!!! You guys should really get a life... On a serious note, Was that you wazzledoozle who had the auto-hide taskbar problem? Maybe something to do with the icons you have on your desktop.. How many megs of RAM do you have mate? Each of those icons are taking up precious resources.. You might wanna take some off.. hmmmm...

Guys.. lay off the flaming ok? Stay on topic or somebody (me) will report to an admin and have you guys banned (again).. :)

Right, this is just a suggestion to end the flames once and for all, you guys (I think there's 3 of you who's flaming and being flame bait) list out your scores for benchmarks (3DMark05).. SCORE ONLY, NO BRAGGING! We will compare, the winner gets lifted up, the LOSERS gets laughed and ridiculed at (cruel I know, but nobody said life was all nice and happy).. And that will be the END. I'm serious guys.. this is not a who owns who forum..

[Deeko]

lmao, you own nothing, you know it, i know it. AHAHA, so video wasnt higher because of my AMD made up for it. so in turn, you got owned. this is the last post im making here, i have better forums to go to where there arent noobs like you who suck. i think i pissed you off too much, sorry about that, i just cant change the fact that you got owned. what else you want me to say? well i wont see any other post you or your gay ATI freinds make. just know, for fact, i own you, nVidia > ATI, AMD > intel. later noobie. OWNED boso? OBSO1337 OWNS YOU FUCKING SOUL.


This was the same parting post u made at nvidias forum just before u got banned, do u have it saved somewhere for frequent use? Or will you come back under a different name like you did over there too and get rumbled straight away?

[wazzledoozle]

Wow... we're still on the who owns who topic ehh? LOL!!! You guys should really get a life... On a serious note, Was that you wazzledoozle who had the auto-hide taskbar problem? Maybe something to do with the icons you have on your desktop.. How many megs of RAM do you have mate? Each of those icons are taking up precious resources.. You might wanna take some off.. hmmmm...

Guys.. lay off the flaming ok? Stay on topic or somebody (me) will report to an admin and have you guys banned (again).. :)

Right, this is just a suggestion to end the flames once and for all, you guys (I think there's 3 of you who's flaming and being flame bait) list out your scores for benchmarks (3DMark05).. SCORE ONLY, NO BRAGGING! We will compare, the winner gets lifted up, the LOSERS gets laughed and ridiculed at (cruel I know, but nobody said life was all nice and happy).. And that will be the END. I'm serious guys.. this is not a who owns who forum..
I have a gig of ram. Windows just sucks

[nightelf84]

I have a gig of ram. Windows just sucks

LoL I second!

[Morlak]

Wow... we're still on the who owns who topic ehh? LOL!!! You guys should really get a life... On a serious note, Was that you wazzledoozle who had the auto-hide taskbar problem? Maybe something to do with the icons you have on your desktop.. How many megs of RAM do you have mate? Each of those icons are taking up precious resources.. You might wanna take some off.. hmmmm...

Guys.. lay off the flaming ok? Stay on topic or somebody (me) will report to an admin and have you guys banned (again).. :)

Right, this is just a suggestion to end the flames once and for all, you guys (I think there's 3 of you who's flaming and being flame bait) list out your scores for benchmarks (3DMark05).. SCORE ONLY, NO BRAGGING! We will compare, the winner gets lifted up, the LOSERS gets laughed and ridiculed at (cruel I know, but nobody said life was all nice and happy).. And that will be the END. I'm serious guys.. this is not a who owns who forum..

Sorry Nightelf, hey btw you play WoW? I do, but play eq2 more see above.

Boso already reported me, he cannot admit defeat but oh well. He was the first to use the "F" word however, and Im not going there, so I should report him for offending my wife who was looking over my sholder. She was offended. I have already seen someone here who volt-modded their ATI to 7300something (that person owns us all here from what I have seen).

I already posted my score of 6598 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=841265) for 3DMark05. Make sure retard posts the link to his score.

I know Im probably behind wtf, and who knows who else, but I am ahead of retard, and thats all that matters in this thread. Im not the only person he put down. His initial posts were arrogant, and thats what made me dislike him. Personally I think I was the better flamer, but tard probably thinks the same thing too. I do not have a "crappy" machine as Retard puts it. see my obo like sig? I'll take that off when this is over. Just showing the putz whats what

[nightelf84]

This was the same parting post u made at nvidias forum just before u got banned, do u have it saved somewhere for frequent use? Or will you come back under a different name like you did over there too and get rumbled straight away?

LOL!!! damn Deeko, I laughed so hard i nearly fell off my chair :D

[wazzledoozle]

First drama on techpowerup?

[djbbenn]

Wow... we're still on the who owns who topic ehh? LOL!!! You guys should really get a life... On a serious note, Was that you wazzledoozle who had the auto-hide taskbar problem? Maybe something to do with the icons you have on your desktop.. How many megs of RAM do you have mate? Each of those icons are taking up precious resources.. You might wanna take some off.. hmmmm...

Guys.. lay off the flaming ok? Stay on topic or somebody (me) will report to an admin and have you guys banned (again).. :)

Right, this is just a suggestion to end the flames once and for all, you guys (I think there's 3 of you who's flaming and being flame bait) list out your scores for benchmarks (3DMark05).. SCORE ONLY, NO BRAGGING! We will compare, the winner gets lifted up, the LOSERS gets laughed and ridiculed at (cruel I know, but nobody said life was all nice and happy).. And that will be the END. I'm serious guys.. this is not a who owns who forum..

Amen to this

-Dan

[wazzledoozle]

sooo


STFU AND GET BACK IN YOUR CAGES, N00BS!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Here are some old pictures of my comp-
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case5.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case4.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/wazzledoozle/case1.jpg

[Morlak]

I like that case, what was the readout on the front?

[wazzledoozle]

Ambient temperature. The probe is the fat kind, so you could tape it anywhere.

I cant find the ones wiht the temp display on the front anymore, but there are these-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811156135

Though if you can find the ones with the temp displays, they have 120 mm fan slots which is a lot better for cooling,

[nightelf84]

Working progress.. Waiting for my 6800GT and a few more cathodes to arrive.. Will post a night time photo tonight :cool:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/nightelf84/DSC01899.jpg

[wazzledoozle]

NICE Nightelf. What kind of PSU is that?

[nightelf84]

Ultra X-Connect 500W. Fully modular, though with the components I hv, still requires quite a few cables :) Check it out here.. Had a TruePower 480 before.. this one helped in my Oveclocks as well :)

http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_info.php?cPath=38_47&products_id=160

[wazzledoozle]

OMG thats expensive :eek:

Know any other good modular PSU's?

[Morlak]

I have a lcd panel otw, that I'll post pics of. Settled on a single bay module instead of the new 2 bay modules.

LCD Panel (http://www.frozencpu.com/lcd-15.html)

[Morlak]

Ultra X-Connect 500W. Fully modular, though with the components I hv, still requires quite a few cables :) Check it out here.. Had a TruePower 480 before.. this one helped in my Oveclocks as well :)

http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_info.php?cPath=38_47&products_id=160

Thats the one I have except different color, nice PSU. Now they have these 600 (http://www.ultraproducts.com/index.php?cPath=38_48) Watt PSUs too.

[nightelf84]

OMG thats expensive :eek:

Know any other good modular PSU's?

Yeah.. was about 50 Aus dollars more exp than my previous Antec TruePower 480W. But being fully modular, with sleeved and EMI shielding UV reactive cables, I tot it was money well spent. It helped with my overclocks as well.. finally went over 2500Mhz.

OCZ has a modular line as well.. Although they are not FULLY modular. (OCZ ModStream)

[Morlak]

OMG thats expensive :eek:

Know any other good modular PSU's?

Ultra was the first but several other companies are doing the same thing now.

Check out xoxide (http://www.xoxide.com/powersupplies1.html)'s site, they have a few modular PSUs by different companies.

[Deeko]

Sorry if I contributed towards that mayhem earlier lads but I had to expose him as he caused the same trouble over at Nvidias official forums and I seen it all happening again before my eyes.

Heres a pic of my setup:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=719

[Morlak]

Nice setup. Very neat, unlike my area that looks like a bomb went off.

[djbbenn]

Ultra X-Connect 500W. Fully modular, though with the components I hv, still requires quite a few cables :) Check it out here.. Had a TruePower 480 before.. this one helped in my Oveclocks as well :)

http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_info.php?cPath=38_47&products_id=160

They are one nice PSU...was looking at one for myself but just as wazz said, they are expensive. :(

-Dan

[wtf8269]

a smart person, he owns morlak too. LOL i agree taskbar shotcuts own! lets all get on topic here next one gets reported to admin. i think desktops should be an option, would be cool i think. not everyone likes them. my freinds do explorer window too.
I don't own anybody, I'm just a 15 yr old nerd.

[djbbenn]

Anyone know about the OCZ ModStream PSU's?...been looking at them too. They seem to have good reviews, anyone have one?

-Dan

[wtf8269]

Sorry Nightelf, hey btw you play WoW? I do, but play eq2 more see above.

Boso already reported me, he cannot admit defeat but oh well. He was the first to use the "F" word however, and Im not going there, so I should report him for offending my wife who was looking over my sholder. She was offended. I have already seen someone here who volt-modded their ATI to 7300something (that person owns us all here from what I have seen).

I already posted my score of 6598 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=841265) for 3DMark05. Make sure retard posts the link to his score.

I know Im probably behind wtf, and who knows who else, but I am ahead of retard, and thats all that matters in this thread. Im not the only person he put down. His initial posts were arrogant, and thats what made me dislike him. Personally I think I was the better flamer, but tard probably thinks the same thing too. I do not have a "crappy" machine as Retard puts it. see my obo like sig? I'll take that off when this is over. Just showing the putz whats what

Actually you're ahead of me by about 500 3dmarks in 05.

And to the rest of you, awesome rigs guys.

[zAAm]

I'm too ashamed to show mine... :D .It just doesn't cut it next to you guy's. No watercooling or nuthin. Hehe. More performance than looks I'd say, although I kinda lose out on performance as well... ;) But nice rigs everyone!

[wtf8269]

I'm too ashamed to show mine... :D .It just doesn't cut it next to you guy's. No watercooling or nuthin. Hehe. More performance than looks I'd say, although I kinda lose out on performance as well... ;) But nice rigs everyone!
Hey, as long as you can play games fluently, it doesn't really matter. My friend has a 2000+ XP with PC2700 ram and a GF4 4200TI and it can still play CS:S just fine. And it looks awesome.

[wtf8269]

All right, I finally took those pics of my new mouse. I'm in love with it. :D

[djbbenn]

Very nice :D

-Dan

[JosefBud]

Pic 1 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurffull.jpg)
Pic 2 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf2full.jpg)
Pic 3 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf3full.jpg)
Pic 4 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf4full.jpg)
Pic 5 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf5full.jpg)
Pic 6 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf6full.jpg)
Pic 7 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf7full.jpg)
Pic 8 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf8full.jpg)
Pic 9 (http://www.josefbud.com/pictures/smurf/smurf9full.jpg)

I just took these pics a couple minutes ago. Just joined the site, cya all around :) .

[djbbenn]

Sweet rig!! I like how you have the logo's on the side of the case. Its neat too, good job :D

-Dan

[JosefBud]

Yeah I've always had a small thing for cars so I kind of wanted to relate that with my PC somehow

[wtf8269]

Kind of a ricer sort of thing, eh? :p

[djbbenn]

Ya its cool...where did you get the logo's at then? O btw I don't think you pics link is working, well not for me.

-Dan

[JosefBud]

Hah..but ricers put up a "Greddy" decal when they don't have any Greddy in their car

I got the decals here (http://www.shadowmajik.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=007&DEPT=1027800676&BACK=A0001A1). Oh and thanks for the sig thing..I got it working now :)

[zAAm]

Sigh, ;) okay... I've taken some pics of my pc. It's just the normal run-of-the-mill pc with nothing expensive added except maybe the light, homemade fanbus and ultra bright white hdd LED's. Oh, and mind the white drive and 3.5" cover. I can't paint it yet and I've just removed the black floppy. :p

[Morlak]

Sigh, ;) okay... I've taken some pics of my pc. It's just the normal run-of-the-mill pc with nothing expensive added except maybe the light, homemade fanbus and ultra bright white hdd LED's. Oh, and mind the white drive and 3.5" cover. I can't paint it yet and I've just removed the black floppy. :p

Looks nice. Noticed your sig says need more cooling.
Talk to Viper John (aka John Hillig) and check out this page of his :Viper John's Radeon Pro Mods (http://imageevent.com/marginjohn/viperjohn)

He also makes mods for NVidia Cards and the ATI Xseries. Im pretty sure most everyone has heard of this guy, but maybe someone here has not seen his work.

At least for ATI, I think its top notch stuff. Im sending him my X850-XT to get his water-cooled kit installed, with a new Water Block, and TEC Cold Plate. He is going to Volt-Mod it for me as well.

I get some artifacts when playing any 3D game more than 5 or 6 hours (lack of memory cooling), and this will be the cure. It should also push the 3DMarks well above 7k also according to John.

[Morlak]

I just took these pics a couple minutes ago. Just joined the site, cya all around :) .

Cool idea with the logos, and nice setup you have.

[wazzledoozle]

Nice zAAM :D

[djbbenn]

Nice job there zAAm...nice and neat. ;)

-Dan

[zAAm]

Thanks for the remarks wazzle and djbbenn! :D
I hate clutter. And I think I'll have to clean up that IDE and SATA cables more... ;) I'm looking to get some LED fans to spice it up a bit... And a damn fan grill for that side panel! (So that the dog's tail don't get caught in the blades all the time) Also, after I cut the panel, there are tons of scratches on the matt black. I'll have to repaint that as well. I'm also thinking about putting a mirror at the bottom of the case. What do you guys think about that?? :confused:

[djbbenn]

A mirror...sweet never thought of that. It will be cool to see a different angle of the case.

-Dan

[wazzledoozle]

A mirror would be awesome. Cool idea, I will have to look into that also :D

[wtf8269]

Yeah a mirror would be sweet. The only thing I've ever thought about doing was painting the inside of my case a flat black, but that would hinder the reflection of my CCFLs.

[zAAm]

I'll just have to make sure I don't show all the 'ugly' bits of my case in the reflection! ;) I think I need to tidy up that fanbus I made... Or at least hide it! And I need cable sleeving. That would be much better than the tape stuff that I'm using now! :D

[wtf8269]

Ahaha I'm in my computer class right now (EEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSYYYYY!!!!) I just presented a PowerPoint to the class with talking agents in it. It was all about my computer and it had pictures and stuff. They were all just like :confused: :confused: :confused: Lol, I even went so far as to say double data rate random access memory instead of DDR RAM. :D

[nightelf84]

Ahaha I'm in my computer class right now (EEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSYYYYY!!!!) I just presented a PowerPoint to the class with talking agents in it. It was all about my computer and it had pictures and stuff. They were all just like :confused: :confused: :confused: Lol, I even went so far as to say double data rate random access memory instead of DDR RAM. :D

At least you didn't say Central Processing Unit instead of CPU... or did you? ;)

[zAAm]

Yup, it's the same in my class don't worry! At least my friends knew what I was talking about. But I'm really aceing programming on highest grade... :D Although my class are all grade 12's so they have a basic idea of pc architecture!! BASIC though!! ;) Try it with MOSFET or CMOS... They'll never know what your'e saying! It's fun playing on someone else's incompetence. :rolleyes:

[wtf8269]

At least you didn't say Central Processing Unit instead of CPU... or did you? ;)
I just said processor, this is just a basic Microsoft Office class (I'm a freshman) and I needed to take that as a prerequisite(sp?) for any other computer class. Anyway there are a lot of hot girls/popular people and I didn't feel like making a complete smart@$$ of myself. :p Although I did go into great detail about my overclocking/overvolting and flashing my graphics card.
Yup, it's the same in my class don't worry! At least my friends knew what I was talking about. But I'm really aceing programming on highest grade... :D Although my class are all grade 12's so they have a basic idea of pc architecture!! BASIC though!! ;) Try it with MOSFET or CMOS... They'll never know what your'e saying! It's fun playing on someone else's incompetence. :rolleyes:
Haha I know what you mean. The kid that sits next to me when he first saw my computer instead of asking what kind of processor it has in it, he said "What kind of Pentium does that thing have?" He had a hard time understanding that there was something else out there besides Pentiums. Anyway, yeah moronic people are fun to mess around with. :D The only thing that sucks is that theres only a couple of other people in my grade that have similar knowledge as me. Both of which are my best friends. Which means, small LAN parties.

[zAAm]

There are only 2 people my age (both my friends) that know close to what I know about PC's... One of them actually convinced someone that he didn't know that you could change the wallpaper from the default XP background. It was hilarious to see this guy trying to explain it to my friend (who was being intentionally dumb)... But what the heck! :D

[wtf8269]

Ahahaha. I remember this one guy didn't know how to install a motherboard or processor or anything. I just made up a buncha BS like don't forget to lubricate your CPU before you put it in the socket.

[wazzledoozle]

Ahaha I'm in my computer class right now (EEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSYYYYY!!!!) I just presented a PowerPoint to the class with talking agents in it. It was all about my computer and it had pictures and stuff. They were all just like :confused: :confused: :confused: Lol, I even went so far as to say double data rate random access memory instead of DDR RAM. :D
Im a freshman in highschool, and I have to take a computer TYPING CLASS. Excel and word all daY!!! So boring. Its easy though, I jsut mess around all week and do all the work on fridays :D

Its really annoying how even our teacher doesnt udnerstand ANYTHING about computers. She calls the computers the CPU's, and when windows gets a BSOD or just freezes, she has gotten to think that that means the mouse is broken!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO :eek:

[djbbenn]

Ha, I have a class called exploring tech. The teacher doesn't care what you do. Its sweet.

-Dan

[Bugalaman]

these are quite old but here they are anyways:
http://home.comcast.net/~bugalaman/desktop.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~bugalaman/casewires.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~bugalaman/workstation.jpg
thats my old crappy 17" viewsonic E70F, since then I've upgraded to a Samsung 730B LCD

damn its only my 2nd post :rolleyes: (and lol, I haven't changed my sig since I bought my BFG6800GT over 6 months ago, hahaha)

[wazzledoozle]

Wow is that video card getting bent down by the ram slots? :eek:
Makes me thing twice about getting a long video card.

[djbbenn]

Ya it looks like it is...can't help the card any. My X800 just clears the ram slots by about 2mm.

-Dan

[nightelf84]

why is the 'Antec' and 'AMD Athlon' inside your case? Does it have a windowed side panel?

[zAAm]

thats my old crappy 17" viewsonic E70F, since then I've upgraded to a Samsung 730B LCD

Hey don't say that! There are people here that actually have the same monitor eh! :mad:
Hehe, but my E70f is still good enough for me at the moment thanks... :p

[JALOOS]

looks like MSI had a good thought moving the ram on the mobo. Won't get in the way of the longer cards. Now if the nf3 chipset was moved it would be better.

[Rule-R]

U can make ppl believe anything, i once told some person in some gaming lobby that i was @ the CIA main terminal or something similar. and that i could host up to 200 persons on server. ANd he took it for real, afterwards i told it wasnt true, but he thought i was kicked in the arse by my "boss" and wasnt making a joke. Thats what i call: ppl believe anything!

[nightelf84]

U can make ppl believe anything, i once told some person in some gaming lobby that i was @ the CIA main terminal or something similar. and that i could host up to 200 persons on server. ANd he took it for real, afterwards i told it wasnt true, but he thought i was kicked in the arse by my "boss" and wasnt making a joke. Thats what i call: ppl believe anything!

huh?

[wtf8269]

Im a freshman in highschool, and I have to take a computer TYPING CLASS. Excel and word all daY!!! So boring. Its easy though, I jsut mess around all week and do all the work on fridays :D

Its really annoying how even our teacher doesnt udnerstand ANYTHING about computers. She calls the computers the CPU's, and when windows gets a BSOD or just freezes, she has gotten to think that that means the mouse is broken!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO :eek:
Ahaha that sucks. My teacher knows a good ammount about software. Mainly just Office though. I respected her at first but by about halfway through the year I found out I knew more than her. So eh, atleast she knows software. She's clueless about hardware though.

I can't wait til Junior year. Computer Tech 1, A+ Certification here I come!!!

[Morlak]

I never did A+. It wasn't around when I was in school (neither were PCs), or even when I worked on PCs. By the time that cert came out, I had been doing network related work, and started doing Cisco certs instead. I even droped my CNE cert to concentrate on Network certs. I work for Cisco now and do system testing on the BTS10200 SoftSwitch. It's a class 5 voice switch that runs on Sun servers. Have you thought about what you want to do? I knew pretty much when I was 8 years old it would be something in electronics. Got a Amateur Radio licence in 1972 that got me interested in electronics, and that led me to computers, then to networks, and now Voice over IP :)

[zAAm]

Hehe. Strange... I've wanted to be a programmer for 8 years since I was 9 but now I'm going to study Financial Engineering. A bit off course?! :D And I don't think A+ will interest me though. I'm not into much software. I know alot about it, but I don't see the need to have a qualification in basic computing... I'm going to be programming in Java and also do maths in a similar way as an Actuary. But we'll see how it turns out...

Anyway, I've wanted to ask you guys, do you think a blue side fan would destroy my X logo on my PC?? Because that would pretty much then become ".X" or sumthin. Maybe I should keep with a black Stealth fan on the side and blue inside?? Any ideas?

PS. Included a pic in case (no pun intended ;) ) you guys forgot how my case looked :p

[wtf8269]

Have you thought about what you want to do? I knew pretty much when I was 8 years old it would be something in electronics. Got a Amateur Radio licence in 1972 that got me interested in electronics, and that led me to computers, then to networks, and now Voice over IP :)
Something with computers for sure, for awhile I wanted to do something with cars (my other love), but I know a little more in the computer industry and it's booming right now so I figured computers would be the better way to go. I don't know specifically what I'd like to do, but I'm just going to take damn near every computer class my school offers and then see where it takes me. I'd like to work with hardware more than I would software. Dream computer job would probably be working at ATI designing/texting new cards. :D

Anyway, I've wanted to ask you guys, do you think a blue side fan would destroy my X logo on my PC?? Because that would pretty much then become ".X" or sumthin. Maybe I should keep with a black Stealth fan on the side and blue inside?? Any ideas?

PS. Included a pic in case (no pun intended ;) ) you guys forgot how my case looked :p

Yeah, we should probably get back on topic lol. I vote a tornado fan + fan controller. It would still be black, and it would cool off your video card even more. :) However, if you do want an LED fan, a Tt LED Smart Fan would be a good choice as well. I think either would look good.

[zAAm]

Thanks... I think I'll probably get a black fan though. Might look better? Maybe a Thermoflow or a Tornado. Although I like the silent PC idea (which is why I built my own fan controller to switch between 7V and 12V for each fan) I've never left my fans running at 7V! Dunno why, maybe because my CPU fan makes so much noise anyway... :)

[wazzledoozle]

Ahaha that sucks. My teacher knows a good ammount about software. Mainly just Office though. I respected her at first but by about halfway through the year I found out I knew more than her. So eh, atleast she knows software. She's clueless about hardware though.

I can't wait til Junior year. Computer Tech 1, A+ Certification here I come!!!
Dont waste your time. Just get a good A+ book. Most of it you wont need to know for the test though. (Or so ive heard form numerous people)

[Morlak]

Hehe. Strange... I've wanted to be a programmer for 8 years since I was 9 but now I'm going to study Financial Engineering. A bit off course?! :D And I don't think A+ will interest me though. I'm not into much software. I know alot about it, but I don't see the need to have a qualification in basic computing... I'm going to be programming in Java and also do maths in a similar way as an Actuary. But we'll see how it turns out...

Anyway, I've wanted to ask you guys, do you think a blue side fan would destroy my X logo on my PC?? Because that would pretty much then become ".X" or sumthin. Maybe I should keep with a black Stealth fan on the side and blue inside?? Any ideas?

PS. Included a pic in case (no pun intended ;) ) you guys forgot how my case looked :p

The A+ is for computer hardware. I did programming (C/C++, and Assembler) in graduate school, and didn't want to make a living doing that.

[wtf8269]

Dont waste your time. Just get a good A+ book. Most of it you wont need to know for the test though. (Or so ive heard form numerous people)
I'm just taking the class because it looks like fun. We get to build robots and then take them to competition. The A+ Certification is just a bonus.

[wtf8269]

Hey, Morlak, have you done any benches now that you've got your card back? I'll bet that sucker screams. :D

[djbbenn]

Just got some pics of mine. Friend brang his digital camera over. Got a new PSU on the way and hopefully a new mobo and cpu in the summer.

-Dan

[Morlak]

Hey, Morlak, have you done any benches now that you've got your card back? I'll bet that sucker screams. :D

I was bored and edited my sig, its fixed now to (soon). He has not even received the card yet, that will not happen until Monday according to Fedex. It means I wont have it back for about 2 weeks. Dont worry, I'll post pics of it and bench it soon after :)

[wtf8269]

Nice, what are the specs of that, and is that a Pro VIVO, XT, or XT PE?

[Morlak]

I'm just taking the class because it looks like fun. We get to build robots and then take them to competition. The A+ Certification is just a bonus.

If the robots are remote controlled, don't get sucked into that money pit hobby lol. Thats going to be a blast I bet.

[wtf8269]

I never really was interested in those robot war type shows. As far as your card goes, what are you gonna do for 2 weeks? Not play games, or do you have a substitute for now?

[djbbenn]

Heres the specs

Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Intel P4 3Ghz Ht 1Mb
Western Digital Raptor 36Gb
Ati X800Pro VIVO 12p@540/560
512mb PC3200 2-3-3-7 (soon to be OCZ platinum 2-3-2-5 PC3200)
450Watt PSU (soon to be OCZ Modstream 520watt)

-Dan

[wtf8269]

I'm suprised you haven't done the 16pp mod on that thing yet. The extra four pipelines give you way more performance than overclocking gives you. Looks like you got a good card for overclocking though. I can't even match that with all the cooling that I've got on my card. I know cooling isn't everything, a lot of it is just luck of which card you get, but you get what I'm saying.

[Morlak]

Nice, what are the specs of that, and is that a Pro VIVO, XT, or XT PE?

It was a 850 XT. I got it to do 587/594 myself (clean benchmarks), so Im sure John's magic will make it scream. Just dont know how much screaming yet :) He is adding a fan or fans for the memory, volt mods, tec cold plate, modified water block, epoxyless memory coolers, and a lcd temp readout (a must-have geek gadget). Don't know what it'l do until he sends me a mail. I thought about doing the volt pencil mods myself, but really wanted a professional job, so I just skipped that part and shipped it.

[djbbenn]

O I did the flash already, thats why I got that card. It was a no go, damn checkard board effect. So I am just overclocking it. I hit a max of 63C on the stock cooling, but now I got a fan blowing on to it so I hit about 57C. Hoping to get a new cpu this summer, like a Venice.

-Dan

[Morlak]

I never really was interested in those robot war type shows. As far as your card goes, what are you gonna do for 2 weeks? Not play games, or do you have a substitute for now?

I went out and bought a very inexpensive pci video card, a ati 9250 256. It's performance is about 1200 3dmark's, after I removed the stock heatsink and slapped a waterblock on it. It will play EQ2 and WoW (of course), Doom3. That is all I have tried so far. Its not bad, but on EQ2 I have to set all options to minimum detail or its unplayable.

[Morlak]

Heres the specs

Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Intel P4 3Ghz Ht 1Mb
Western Digital Raptor 36Gb
Ati X800Pro VIVO 12p@540/560
512mb PC3200 2-3-3-7 (soon to be OCZ platinum 2-3-2-5 PC3200)
450Watt PSU (soon to be OCZ Modstream 520watt)

-Dan

Nice Dan. Nice new PSU and Im sure the stability of it will help OC work later.

[djbbenn]

Thanks- just got to save for the thing now. :D

-Dan

[wtf8269]

It was a 850 XT. I got it to do 587/594 myself (clean benchmarks), so Im sure John's magic will make it scream. Just dont know how much screaming yet :) He is adding a fan or fans for the memory, volt mods, tec cold plate, modified water block, epoxyless memory coolers, and a lcd temp readout (a must-have geek gadget). Don't know what it'l do until he sends me a mail. I thought about doing the volt pencil mods myself, but really wanted a professional job, so I just skipped that part and shipped it.
I was talking about djbbenn's x800, but it's all good.

[Morlak]

I was talking about djbbenn's x800, but it's all good.

That is what quote is for but it's all good.

[wtf8269]

I usually don't quote when I'm responding to the last post. I only quote if the post was awhile back.

[DanTheBanjoman]

She's not pretty or anything, but I love her anyway.

[djbbenn]

Its really neat though, nice computer there. :D

-Dan

[Morlak]

Nice + clean Dan.

[Morlak]

Here are some pics of my very old, but clean Sun Ultra 30 Creator 3D.

Specs:

300Mhz UltraSparc-II CPU (RISC)
786MB Ram
22Gigs of disk 4+18

OS - Solaris 8

I run Matlab and the GNU C compiler on it. It is always searching for a Prime number as well on the GIMPS network.

Beware the Pics are large. I'll shrink em down when I have time and feel like it.

Pics (http://photobucket.com/albums/y234/Morlak/U-30/)

Back it it's day, this was the most powerfull single processor machine Sun made. It's still not too bad.

[wtf8269]

She's not pretty or anything, but I love her anyway.
That is so frickin sweet. Just something really awesome about having two processors.
Here are some pics of my very old, but clean Sun Ultra 30 Creator 3D.

Specs:

300Mhz UltraSparc-II CPU (RISC)
786MB Ram
22Gigs of disk 4+18

OS - Solaris 8

I run Matlab and the GNU C compiler on it. It is always searching for a Prime number as well on the GIMPS network.

Beware the Pics are large. I'll shrink em down when I have time and feel like it.

Pics (http://photobucket.com/albums/y234/Morlak/U-30/)

Back it it's day, this was the most powerfull single processor machine Sun made. It's still not too bad.
Thats pretty cool, never seen anything like that before. Then again, I'm only 15. :p

[djbbenn]

Here are some pics of my very old, but clean Sun Ultra 30 Creator 3D.

Specs:

300Mhz UltraSparc-II CPU (RISC)
786MB Ram
22Gigs of disk 4+18

OS - Solaris 8

I run Matlab and the GNU C compiler on it. It is always searching for a Prime number as well on the GIMPS network.

Beware the Pics are large. I'll shrink em down when I have time and feel like it.

Pics (http://photobucket.com/albums/y234/Morlak/U-30/)

Back it it's day, this was the most powerfull single processor machine Sun made. It's still not too bad.

How old is it? It looks like it has a lot of ram slots...

-Dan

[wtf8269]

Lol yeah, like 10.

[Morlak]

How old is it? It looks like it has a lot of ram slots...

-Dan

I traded some time for it in 1997. It cost $21.5k new back then. Here is the press release (http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-07/sunflash.970715.1112.html) for it.

Lot of ram slots but it will only take 1G.

[djbbenn]

Ha only a gig and you got it in 97...lol

-Dan

[wtf8269]

I can't imagine paying $21.5k for a computer. You could get a nice car for that.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Sun machines aren't PC's, high end workstations/servers they are.

[DanTheBanjoman]

That is so frickin sweet. Just something really awesome about having two processors.


It's practical too, gives me the ability to burn a dvd, encode some movie and game at the same time.
And it's cheaper than a high end single CPU system.

[djbbenn]

How are they for gaming...the Xeon?

-Dan

[Morlak]

Ha only a gig and you got it in 97...lol

-Dan

How much memory did your workstation have Dan? I remember being in total AWE when I heard a buddy of mine was installing 1G of Ram in a Sun back in '95. I along with my professor and several others hoped in my car and drove over to his department just to see it. I was in graduate school at the time. It'l actually hold 2G of ram but not the way I have it configured. Ram for Sun is sooooo very expensive. Much much more than what I have in my PC machine now. Im not upgrading it. <- Period. lol.

[Morlak]

It's practical too, gives me the ability to burn a dvd, encode some movie and game at the same time.
And it's cheaper than a high end single CPU system.

Yeah Dual processor machines rock!

[Morlak]

Lol yeah, like 10.

I used 10 slots, it has 16.

[djbbenn]

I used 10 slots, it has 16.

16...wow the most I have ever seen was 8 simm's lol. Thats excluding 2 cpu mobo's with 2 mem banks.

-Dan

[DanTheBanjoman]

Well the latest Nocona has an 800Mhz FSB jsut like it's P4 counterpart. Though the multiplier is unlocked downwards giving it great potential for a high FSB. If you use a single XEON they're basically the same as a P4. Dual you might have some overhead, other CPU sucking up some bandwidth of the bus. Most games won't use the 2nd CPU at all. You could compare it to HTT, games might perform slower when HTT is enable for exactly the same reason. Though When an application is multithreaded it will benefit a lot.
Actually, check out some dual core vs single core benchmarks, they should be identical to xeon vs single core P4.

[wazzledoozle]

Dan, I have the same case for my old comp :D

Nice setup though, dual P4 :eek: Must be great to be abel to play games and rip dvd's at the same time.

[Morlak]

I talked with ViperJohn this evening after he received my card :) Looks like next week I might have it back. yay.

[wtf8269]

You will post benchmarks on here the day you get it back whether you like it or not. :D

[Morlak]

Of course, pictures too :)

Last night he tested stock overclocked performance with stock cooling to baseline it. He sent me a really nice word document with all the data. I'll summarize

He said my card's core went to a "dismal" 555Mhz stable stock oc (lmao). He is going to fix that today. Memory was "spot-on average" at 615Mhz, and temps were identical to a stock PE card with fan at 100%. He has already flashed it with better bios and set the clocks to a stock XT-PE 540/590.

In other words, all systems go for a major major tune-up lol. His stability test is 25 loops of 3dmark's nature torture test. In my own testing without any volt mods I got my core up to 587Mhz on water (a dismal 67Mhz overclock).

He ran benchmarks on the card at stock clock settings.

[Urlyin]

Of course, pictures too :)

Last night he tested stock overclocked performance with stock cooling to baseline it. He sent me a really nice word document with all the data. I'll summarize

He said my card's core went to a "dismal" 555Mhz stable stock oc (lmao). He is going to fix that today. Memory was "spot-on average" at 615Mhz, and temps were identical to a stock PE card with fan at 100%. He has already flashed it with better bios and set the clocks to a stock XT-PE 540/590.

In other words, all systems go for a major major tune-up lol. His stability test is 25 loops of 3dmark's nature torture test. In my own testing without any volt mods I got my core up to 587Mhz on water (a dismal 67Mhz overclock).

He ran benchmarks on the card at stock clock settings.

Morlak... get the fan adjustment and temp display from John as well... I know he went to a lower RPM fan but it's still nice to have and the temp reading is from top of die... remember he is stating clean clock speeds which pass the torture test and no artifacts... doesn't mean you can't clock higher to make a benchmark run... check out the solder job he does when it comes back... :cool:

[Morlak]

Morlak... get the fan adjustment and temp display from John as well... I know he went to a lower RPM fan but it's still nice to have and the temp reading is from top of die... remember he is stating clean clock speeds which pass the torture test and no artifacts... doesn't mean you can't clock higher to make a benchmark run... check out the solder job he does when it comes back... :cool:

He is doing a custom water block, and leaving out the low-end (85W) tec cold plate. I discussed it with him, and using the (just about required for 850s) TEC 245W cold-plate would require constant care, and seperate power. Im just not up for that. I am getting his temp readout, but since I am getting his water-cooling kit, there is no fan adjustment. His active memory coolers run at a fixed speed I believe.

I hope he sends pictures. He told me the other day he is swamped with work and cant find the time to take pictures lol. Told me via e-mail he pulled a all-nighter last night trying to keep up with demand. I planed on taking hi-rez pictures of his work when I get it back just so everyone can see it.

[wtf8269]

Lol does this guy have an actual job, or is this what he does for a living?

[Morlak]

Dunno, sounds about my age maybe a little older so he may be retired and doing this now.

[Morlak]

ViperJohn sent me his initial final results. He said the final stable clocks were 647/630. 657/630 had a rare small artifact otherwise that would be the final. The max clocks for my best bench run were 580/594 lol. He sent another nice document, and said today he would fit the card for shipment, My guess is tomorrow.

[wtf8269]

Sounds like your video card will be packing a punch similar to //mar's SLI. :D

[wtf8269]

Well I just looked at his score again, almost 12,000 in '05 lol. Getting that with a single card might be a stretch. I bet you'll get 7.5k or more pretty easily though.

[Morlak]

Sorry but I wish lol.

This card will be the secondary card in my CrossFire/AMR setup whenever ATI releases their new animal, and I feel like buying it. Talking with John about that new card already. He told me last night he would offer thermo-electric kits and straight water kits for ATI's new card. Don't know about Air only. He also said since MB manufacturers only received the CrossFire specs last month (don't know how he knows that), Motherboards with that CrossFire feature may not appear until Q3 or Q4.

Asus's new 955X board has 2 PCIe slots, and Asus did say it may work with "other SLI-Like solutions"; ATI? That snippet is in the review of that board linked from Asus's main site. Im not gonna experiment with it, I want to know. Anyway after that little project is done it will compete with SLR but not before. :bows:

My card will only do 7k range 3DMark05s. Not even anywhere remotely close to SLI speeds. :bows again: My Aim is a top 10 spot in my class (CPU:P4 GPU:X850 Series), and I think I'll get there for sure. The top 5 spots belong to the same dude running a 4.6Ghz machine. Can't touch that.

[Urlyin]

Sorry but I wish lol.

This card will be the secondary card in my CrossFire/AMR setup whenever ATI releases their new animal, and I feel like buying it. Talking with John about that new card already. He told me last night he would offer thermo-electric kits and straight water kits for ATI's new card. Don't know about Air only. He also said since MB manufacturers only received the CrossFire specs last month (don't know how he knows that), Motherboards with that CrossFire feature may not appear until Q3 or Q4.

Asus's new 955X board has 2 PCIe slots, and Asus did say it may work with "other SLI-Like solutions"; ATI? That snippet is in the review of that board linked from Asus's main site. Im not gonna experiment with it, I want to know. Anyway after that little project is done it will compete with SLR but not before. :bows:

My card will only do 7k range 3DMark05s. Not even anywhere remotely close to SLI speeds. :bows again: My Aim is a top 10 spot in my class (CPU:P4 GPU:X850 Series), and I think I'll get there for sure. The top 5 spots belong to the same dude running a 4.6Ghz machine. Can't touch that.


Nice rig Molak ... :) waiting for the pics and benches ... 3dmark05 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=752642)

[Morlak]

Nice rig Molak ... :) waiting for the pics and benches ... 3dmark05 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=752642)

I sent him the paypal for it just a few minutes ago.

[Morlak]

Nice rig Molak ... :) waiting for the pics and benches ... 3dmark05 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=752642)

Hey I looked at your score. You have an Awesome system. What CPU are you running? I have only been able to clock my 650 up to 4.08Ghz (20%) but that sometimes fails prime95. I clock it down to 3.9Ghz (15%) for everything but benchmarks (all benchmarks pass but prime95 at 20%). When I try Asus's 30% profile it fails to post. So far Ive been manually tweaking the memory at 15% and 20%. I guess I need to manually tweak the CPU settings a little and see. What are you using for cooling? I may try a evap unit next but don't know if I want to spend that kind of cash on a clocking tool right now. That may be too far above my current game.

[DanTheBanjoman]

If prime95 gives errors you shouldn't consider your system stable.

[djbbenn]

Ya have to agree with that one...

-Dan

[Morlak]

Its a rounding error that occurs. All futuremark benchmarks pass without problems at all. The prime95 rounding problem is a documented well known issue that Im not concerned with overall. I am playing with the clock to see at what point that does start to happen. I played 9 hours of games at that speed with no issues so I do not consider it unstable at all. Like right now Im running at 4.1 Ghz and dont see any problems, heat or anything else, but prime95 has issues. I think I have said before this is a hobby system. nuff said.

[djbbenn]

I had a oced to high but it seemed stable for the longest time, then after about weeks it upright crashed. I was convinced it was stable, but guess not.

-Dan

[Morlak]

Heck anything can happen after weeks. I dont usually leave my hobby systems on unless I am using them, but I do let prime95 run overnight sometimes. Whatever works, works, and I'll be the judge of my own stability. Its all relative; What is running, what just finished running, what the temp is, karma, etc. I know of a sun box that has not been rebooted or even had a hicup since 1993, thats stable. Our PCs cant touch that period.

[Morlak]

I have to add that my rounding error was due to low vcore voltage used by Asus's auto overclocking setup. After I manually tweaked the CPU settings, prime95 passed the self-test, I ran the PCMark04 benchmark application with no problems, and this was at 4.105Ghz. I can push it maybe a little higher, but reaching the limits of my cooling loop quickly. I would never run this machine clocked this high because it really heats up. Benchmarks are 10 degrees above what it normally runs benchmarks at. But since it passed prime95's self test, i'll call it stable lol. heck even more or less idle its 10 degrees hotter. Clock new personal best, but back to 15% for lower tem