What Type of Computer/Gaming RIG you Use?

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Originally Posted by XxBIGWOODxX

so tell me what do you guys think??

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I actually thought about one of those cases myself. I ended up with the CM Cosmos II though. You could really do with some cable management in there ;)

My specs are in my sig. I do run with a 1250 watt power supply and liquid cooling. Running a pair of 680's requires both in my opinion.

Case: CM Storm Enforcer
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Mobo: ASUS P8 Z68-V/Gen3
CPU: i-5 2500k OCed to 4.3ghz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance (8gb)
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX 750w Bronze Certified
GPU: EVGA GTX 660ti FTW Signature 2
Cooling: Thermaltake Water2.0 Pro

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Originally Posted by Yars Revenge

I see a lot of I7s here. I didn't know I was playing against people working for NASA in their spare time.

Me, I like to keep it portable.
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Why do you think you need to work for nasa to have a I7?

My gaming rig got I7 3770, my laptop (for whenever i need it, bought it before my gaming rig) got I7 2630QM, really not expensive if you think about the performance it delivers

Man.. and here I was thinking my 3yo MacBook running Win7 in a VM to play defiance was the cat's pajama's...lol

i5 - 2330m @ 2.25ghz
4gb RAM
No video card
Apple MacBook

running in VirtualBox without a single glitch :)

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Originally Posted by MattChicago

Trust me you do not need much to play a game very effective. I would suggest not just going to Best Buy or Fry's and or microcenter and "buying a complete box" i would suggest building your own it is very easy. Here is a list of the most simple things you would need to have a pretty decent gaming "rig" so to speak that wont eat your lunch.

1. A Decent tower that has say 8 drive slots (bays)
2. A 850 Watt Power Supply
3. A I5 to I7 motherboard
4. A Processor at least 2.5 ghz quad core.
5. 8 Gigs of Memory is all you really need for any game.
6. A Video Card with at least 2 to 4 gigs of memory on it. (you could use dual crossfire but most games cannot handle it)
7. Just get 2 hard drives that are 500 gigs each that are SATA 1 for your main drive 1 for file storage etc.

8. As for a Monitor i would suggest getting a TV instead that is flat screen (do not get a plasma) i had purchased a 24" flatscreen Poloroid from Target that has DVI and HDMI hookups so its the same. at half the cost as well. I was using dual monitors a while back but i wanted to get a display that combined both my flat screen monitors so opted for a flatscreen tv instead.

Now if you shop correctly you should get everything above for about $800 to $1000 total give or take.

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I totally agree with you. I'm not tech savvy myself, so I have a friend who is going to build it for me once I've saved up the money. And I already have the tv, I have a currently unused 36" (I think that's the measurement) sitting on my desk right now, all ready for it (got a even bigger tv last birthday, which is why this perfectly fine tv is sitting on my desk unused at the moment).

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Originally Posted by ExcuseMyMandarin

Why do you think you need to work for nasa to have a I7?

My gaming rig got I7 3770, my laptop (for whenever i need it, bought it before my gaming rig) got I7 2630QM, really not expensive if you think about the performance it delivers

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Yes, it is expensive. And generally overkill. Sorry, but for the most part an I7 is like a whip it out contest or screeching your tires at the light. The vast majority of people don't need it, but have to have the highest number. An I5 will handle any game made. And an I3 will do very well. I'll stick with my Athlon II X3. Very middle of the road, low price point and performs as well as any other for what I need it for.

$750 IdeaPad Y400 (replaced the HDD with a SSD myself for $100)

Runs perfectly, all settings maxed.

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Originally Posted by foxsyd

I totally agree with you. I'm not tech savvy myself, so I have a friend who is going to build it for me once I've saved up the money. And I already have the tv, I have a currently unused 36" (I think that's the measurement) sitting on my desk right now, all ready for it (got a even bigger tv last birthday, which is why this perfectly fine tv is sitting on my desk unused at the moment).

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Just remember one thing about using a flat screen TV for your gaming.. your going to have an issue with refresh rates if you've got a middle of the road TV. That's one of the reasons why flat screen computer monitors tend to be more expensive than the TV variations.. they've got a higher native refresh rate. That refresh rate makes your gaming video a lot smoother and more concise, especially considering that "HD" for a TV is still in the 1040 range, while it's in the MILLIONS range for even a basic computer currently. I know several people who do use a TV for a monitor, and most love it.. but they've stayed with LCD and LED, and avoided plasma all together. I hope it works out well for you :)

486 DX2 @ 66Mhz
Some unknown 2D graphics card :-)
4MB ram
44Mb HDD
2x CD-ROM drive
14" Commodore 1934 Monitor

OS: Dos 6.22
Best application to be able to exit: Windows 3.11

pssst.. btw.. the old bridge 3960x still > the 3770k people are getting these days.. just sayin'..

I'm not going to post specifics, but here is what I'm running.

i7 Processor
16GB Ram
GTX 560 ti Video Card (I am upgrading that to a GTX 680 next month)
120GB SSD
1.5TB HD
2 monitors (one 23" and one 19")

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Originally Posted by PseudoCool

Just remember one thing about using a flat screen TV for your gaming.. your going to have an issue with refresh rates if you've got a middle of the road TV. That's one of the reasons why flat screen computer monitors tend to be more expensive than the TV variations.. they've got a higher native refresh rate. That refresh rate makes your gaming video a lot smoother and more concise, especially considering that "HD" for a TV is still in the 1040 range, while it's in the MILLIONS range for even a basic computer currently. I know several people who do use a TV for a monitor, and most love it.. but they've stayed with LCD and LED, and avoided plasma all together. I hope it works out well for you :)

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yeah, plasma, compared to lcd/led has some serious viewing advantages for movies.. but for anything with static menus.. plasma is bad, no matter how they word it or sell it... glad mine are some of sony's laser tech demos...

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Originally Posted by Yars Revenge

Yes, it is expensive. And generally overkill. Sorry, but for the most part an I7 is like a whip it out contest or screeching your tires at the light. The vast majority of people don't need it, but have to have the highest number. An I5 will handle any game made. And an I3 will do very well. I'll stick with my Athlon II X3. Very middle of the road, low price point and performs as well as any other for what I need it for.

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You mean it's expensive to you......Is it overkill? Probably depending on what else they use their computer for. In the end it's really no different then they guy down the street who tunes imports, some people just want to see what kind of monster they can build :p

Really good advice though for people who are looking for the most bang for their buck on a gaming only rig. Core i5 3570k's are more then enough for gaming while giving you a good option if your into OC'ing and the Athlon II X3 is pure goodness for the price.

We are not talking about Plasma Flatscreens

We are talking about DLP or LCD hdmi and dvi flatscreens that are better and more efficient.


Also depends on your video cards and DPI rates it can handle i am running 1080p and configuration is below.

http://www.chicagomusicpromotions.com/monitor1.png
http://www.chicagomusicpromotions.com/monitor2.png
http://www.chicagomusicpromotions.com/monitor3.png

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Originally Posted by PseudoCool

Just remember one thing about using a flat screen TV for your gaming.. your going to have an issue with refresh rates if you've got a middle of the road TV. That's one of the reasons why flat screen computer monitors tend to be more expensive than the TV variations.. they've got a higher native refresh rate. That refresh rate makes your gaming video a lot smoother and more concise, especially considering that "HD" for a TV is still in the 1040 range, while it's in the MILLIONS range for even a basic computer currently. I know several people who do use a TV for a monitor, and most love it.. but they've stayed with LCD and LED, and avoided plasma all together. I hope it works out well for you :)

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my rig

AMD FX-6100
AMD Radeon HD 7850x2 2GB (crossfire)
12 Gig DDR3 Ram
Logitech G35 Headset

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Originally Posted by Oceanhawk

My specs are in my sig. I do run with a 1250 watt power supply and liquid cooling. Running a pair of 680's requires both in my opinion.

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1250w is for 3 way or more SLI. My dual 680's only run around 700watts total power, peak at full load. So I have 300watts leeway for things like overclocking them. More leeway is nice to an extent but 500 watts of it would be inefficiency to me. 300 watts is just enough to be efficient without wasting too much. It's personal preference though.

System Specs
Case high tower case with 4 big fan slots
ASUS p7p55-e
Cpu Core i7 860 3,4ghz (i shall update this to haswell)
HDD Samsung 1TB
SDD Intel 320 180gb
GPU EVGA GTX 680
PSU 850watt
Ram 8GB

intel i5 3770k @ 4.3 ghz
asus pz77 lx mobo
8 gb corsaire vengeance clocked at 2400 mhz
ocz agility 3 120gb ssd
2 tb seagate hdd
gigabyte windforce 7770hd ghz edition
arctic i30 cooling
coolermaster 430 elite case
corsair tx650m power supply 80+
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit.
cm storm mouse and razer reclusa keyboard, turtle beach p11 headset.
home build :) very proud of it. it can play anything out atm.

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor 3.40 Ghz
8.00 GB memory
64 bit Win 7
Radeon HD 7870 2 GB

Happy about this old processor running nearly every game at max or close enough to not matter Settings :)

How come most gamers have tons of games and crappy, outdated, 6 year old computers? Things that make you go, "hmmmm".

CPU : I5 2500K 4.0ghz
MB: asrock Extreme 3 gen3
Ram: 16GB gskill ripjaw 1600mhz
GPU: gigabyte wind force 7870 ghz eddtion
PSU: OZC 700w modular
Cpu cooler: corsiar H70

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/c...ps6b3b6214.jpg

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Originally Posted by Zara351

CPU : I5 2500K 4.0ghz
MB: asrock Extreme 3 gen3
Ram: 16GB gskill ripjaw 1600mhz
GPU: gigabyte wind force 7870 ghz eddtion
PSU: OZC 700w modular
Cpu cooler: corsiar H70

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/c...ps6b3b6214.jpg

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er.. pls tell me you took that picture upside down.. thermal management seems a bit off here, also.. your system is filthy, which causes more heat and potential for hard failures., meh, got to do what you can with 2-3 yo parts though I guess..

you may want to look into some tweaks for your case, like sealing, and doing a pass through filter system (cheap) or hermatically sealing and dropping it in oil (Not for this rig, for something new and insanely oc'd)

also.. you got ur i5 running at 4ghz, but left the ram at 1600? I suppose it has a latency of 11----?

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Originally Posted by Mirimon

er.. pls tell me you took that picture upside down.. thermal management seems a bit off here, also.. your system is filthy, which causes more heat and potential for hard failures., meh, got to do what you can with 2-3 yo parts though I guess..

you may want to look into some tweaks for your case, like sealing, and doing a pass through filter system (cheap) or hermatically sealing and dropping it in oil (Not for this rig, for something new and insanely oc'd)

also.. you got ur i5 running at 4ghz, but left the ram at 1600? I suppose it has a latency of 11----?

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Haters gonna hate?
I don't think you know what "filthy" looks like!

No its not upside down, have you never seen a high end gaming case with the PSU at the bottom so it doesn't need to eat all the hot air from the other components?

And I5's can be Oc'ed like mad with very little extra heat issues, especially since he has a closed loop water cooler on it its not an issue. (It hardly adds any real performance tho but it sure helps the e-peen)
OC'ing ram is plain stupid and asking for trouble, you can go google as much as you want for ram overclocking and you will find 99.998% of the time no matter how crazy you OC the ram and mess with the timings it has almost no effect on anything from gaming to rendering to pure processing functions. What it does do VERY well is cause the computer not to start at all or randomly BSOD when you least want it too.


Anyway time to add my e-pee contest entry!
CPU: Core i7 2600k
Ram: 8Gb DD3-1600 Gskill Ripjaws
MB: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z
GPU: Evga Geforce GTX 670
PSU: Corsair GS800
Case: Thermaltake V3 Black
HDD0: 240Gb OCZ Vertex3
HHD1: 2x2Tb Seagate cheapo drives mirror
OS: Win 8 X64 (modded to look like win7 of course)
Oh I almost forgot!!
Monitor: Samsung 24" 16:10 (Because 1080p is for noooobs that never seen a 24" 4:3 monitor in their short lives and think everything is supposed to be flat and wiiide like a short fat girl)

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Originally Posted by GuruChaz

How come most gamers have tons of games and crappy, outdated, 6 year old computers? Things that make you go, "hmmmm".

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Because the games are cheap, have you seen the Steam sales.

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Originally Posted by ryu4000

Not really but it does give my 3x cards more room without bottlenecking them plus i try my best to 60fps ever game which still with the hardware don't always work.If i would have stuck with my 920 i would have to overclock it higher or else lose some fps and always read x79 platform is good for tri-sli so i went that route.I still get problems keeping 60fps but that's only during arkfalls the lowest i drop to is like 38fps but keep in mine it's only using one card and this one card is pushing 1440p.

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3Way SLi 670's? I estimate that to be around 10-15% scaling on the 3rd card for an extra 300watts. Did you buy them all at once or separately? my guess would be separately. It would have made more sense to go 2 way 680 at around the same total cost but if you bought them separate then I can understand. Very nice setup though! My commendations to you. Will you be moving to the next series of Nvidia cards or sticking with the 6 series until the 8 series comes out?

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Intel i7 -3960X overclocked to 4.50GHz
32 GB DDR 1600 MHz Corsair RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
BigFoot Killer 2100
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3d Fatal1ty
500 GB Samsung SSD
4TB Hatachi HD

Came by some money last year, figured I'd get myself a computer to last myself a while.

Sinclair ZX 81 with 16k ram pack.

Got plenty of games but I can say most gamers want more games rather than $2000 system



I7 3770k @ 4.7GHz
Asus Maximus v extreme
Samsung840 pro256gb
2tb dynamic couple hdd hsdd
Asus hx24qe 144hz
32gb ram
Gtx680 not sli yet
1000watt plat power supply
Air cooled at 40c
Thermaltake tower

I use a mini-itx rig.

i7 2700k @ 4.3GHz
16GB RAM
3GB 580GTX
2x 256GB SATAIII SSDs

Here is a more detailed look at the whole build.

http://i.imgur.com/AZN7OCs.jpg

lame Intel Users....


AMD4LIFE

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Originally Posted by Violante

lame Intel Users....


AMD4LIFE

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that pretty ironic given that your sig uses art from evga and the name of their motherboard app, evga ofc who don't do amd anything.


everytime i look in this thread it makes me facepalm so hard.

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Originally Posted by Azumi RM

3Way SLi 670's? I estimate that to be around 10-15% scaling on the 3rd card for an extra 300watts. Did you buy them all at once or separately? my guess would be separately. It would have made more sense to go 2 way 680 at around the same total cost but if you bought them separate then I can understand. Very nice setup though! My commendations to you. Will you be moving to the next series of Nvidia cards or sticking with the 6 series until the 8 series comes out?

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I brought them day 1 all at once but i'm not going with the 700 series just not worth it a little bit faster so i'm waiting to 800 series next year or so.I paid 1200 for all 3 being FTW version got them running at 1300mhz.

i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz
16gb 1600mhz kingston
sapphire radeon 7850 OC ed
240gb kingston 3K ssd
1tb WD caviar black storage

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Originally Posted by Mirimon

er.. pls tell me you took that picture upside down.. thermal management seems a bit off here, also.. your system is filthy, which causes more heat and potential for hard failures., meh, got to do what you can with 2-3 yo parts though I guess..

you may want to look into some tweaks for your case, like sealing, and doing a pass through filter system (cheap) or hermatically sealing and dropping it in oil (Not for this rig, for something new and insanely oc'd)

also.. you got ur i5 running at 4ghz, but left the ram at 1600? I suppose it has a latency of 11----?

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Funny thing about this. ...

My PC has more dust in it than West Texas. I have had 0 heating issues, 0 cooling issues, 0 issues in general for 18 months now since I built it. Considering I build a new PC every 2 years, I'm rather extatic. Although, I might actually blow it out sometime soon.

AMD Phenom X6 1100T
16GB DDR3 1600MHz Patriot Viper Red Heat-sinked RAM (4x4GB)
2x 1TB WD Caviar Black drives
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX mb
850 Watt Corsair PSU
NVidia GTX460 1GB video
2x 24" Planar multi-touch active flat screen monitors at 1900x1080 res.
Windows 8 Pro 64 bit OS

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Originally Posted by lipe123

Haters gonna hate?
I don't think you know what "filthy" looks like!

No its not upside down, have you never seen a high end gaming case with the PSU at the bottom so it doesn't need to eat all the hot air from the other components?

And I5's can be Oc'ed like mad with very little extra heat issues, especially since he has a closed loop water cooler on it its not an issue. (It hardly adds any real performance tho but it sure helps the e-peen)
OC'ing ram is plain stupid and asking for trouble, you can go google as much as you want for ram overclocking and you will find 99.998% of the time no matter how crazy you OC the ram and mess with the timings it has almost no effect on anything from gaming to rendering to pure processing functions. What it does do VERY well is cause the computer not to start at all or randomly BSOD when you least want it too.


Anyway time to add my e-pee contest entry!
CPU: Core i7 2600k
Ram: 8Gb DD3-1600 Gskill Ripjaws
MB: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z
GPU: Evga Geforce GTX 670
PSU: Corsair GS800
Case: Thermaltake V3 Black
HDD0: 240Gb OCZ Vertex3
HHD1: 2x2Tb Seagate cheapo drives mirror
OS: Win 8 X64 (modded to look like win7 of course)
Oh I almost forgot!!
Monitor: Samsung 24" 16:10 (Because 1080p is for noooobs that never seen a 24" 4:3 monitor in their short lives and think everything is supposed to be flat and wiiide like a short fat girl)

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not hatin'.. and look at my sig concerning management. fact is, I run my proc at 4.8ghz and ram at 2400mhz and I am 100% air cooled with some really smart heat dispersion options.. not a single issue, because unlike people who google how2build I make a living doing it.

http://xtreview.com/images/Antec%20Skeleton%2002.jpg

not mine( this is an image of the "mini"), but gives you an idea of my antec skeleton.. it's like playing from a bench, with the ability to slide out the mobo/cards and swap out parts rapidly (because that is what I also do, I demo a lot of stuff). For this case the psu is less than 1/2" from the mobo underneath it. BUT... I draw air from an outward (cooler) direction than drawing the air from inside the case, which is still warmer (not that it's an issue.. the airflow for this frame is damn near 100%..).

again.. read sig.

CPU - i5 3570k @ 4.25Ghz
GPU - EVGA 660TI
RAM - 16GB @ 1333mhz

Everything else is pointless to bring up.

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Originally Posted by BrassRazoo

I use a Commodore VIC-20 but I'm saving up for a Commodore 64.

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Sad to say I remember when I did..

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Originally Posted by Brock 5amson

CPU - i5 3570k @ 4.25Ghz
GPU - EVGA 660TI
RAM - 16GB @ 1333mhz

Everything else is pointless to bring up.

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pc's.. except for most of those crap cans made by "dellienware" , can be as different as people.. some go buy some standard car off the lot.. while others grab up a slew of different parts and try to make a work of art or something competitive...


nothing else matters.. a pc is more than those 3 things.. it's the sum of all the parts AND how you've lay them out, the design and management of it all.. that would be like bragging about having a v-12 in your garage.. but it has no car to run in.. or worse still, you put it in a pinto somehow and feed it low grade 87'......