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So I've just been getting laptops for about the past 7 years and decided to build a desktop this time. I'm still waiting on parts to show up for my own, but in the mean time I wanna see what kind of crazy builds are out there from you guys.
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Antec Twelve Hundred case
Z68 motherboard
i5 2500k quad(currently OC'd to 4Ghz on stock cooler)
16GB Gskill(2x8gb so I can add more later)
GTX 570 superclock
60gb SSD OS drive
750w OCZ modular power supply(stout 12v rails to support SLI later)
Win 7 64bit pro
Logitech Z640 5.1 speakers
Samsung 27" syncmaster/Scepter 42" TV
I usually liquid cool my computers, but this time I'm going for a high end air cooled system. Have a Noctua D14 CPU block arriving on thursday and will see if I can get over 5ghz on air
Sold it since I am on the computer all day at work and preferred a laptop for home.
- Silverstone TJ07 Case
- Gigabyte P35-DQ6 Motherboard
- Intel Q6600 Quad Core CPU
- 4GB Mushkin Ram
- EVGA 8800GTS (640MB) Video Card
- Coolermaster Hyper 212+ Heatsink
- Corsair 620w Modular PSU
- DLink Wireless N Card
- Audigy 2 Sound Card
- Western Digital 750GB Caviar Green Hard Drive
Used to have:
Custom radiator with 2x120 radiator, swiftech pump with petratech top and DTek fusion waterblock.
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(Pictures Show Water Cooling, this was removed and replaced with the CM Hyper 212+)
Antec Twelve Hundred case
Z68 motherboard
i5 2500k quad(currently OC'd to 4Ghz on stock cooler)
16GB Gskill(2x8gb so I can add more later)
GTX 570 superclock
60gb SSD OS drive
750w OCZ modular power supply(stout 12v rails to support SLI later)
Win 7 64bit pro
Logitech Z640 5.1 speakers
Samsung 27" syncmaster/Scepter 42" TV
Your build is actually fairly similar to what I have coming. I'm even gonna be using my TV as my monitor too . Just i went with a i7 cpu and a GTX 580. But I cut back and got a regular HDD instead of a SSD.
Cases have gotten crazy since I last built a desktop. This one I got is like a lego set. I'll have to get some pictures of it lit up like las vegas as soon as it's up and running
intel i7 920 @4.3 ghz
6gig o rams
blu ray player
dvd rw
sound blaster fatality something with front panel
amd 6790 2 gig
1kw power supply
80 gig intel ssd
2 x wd black 1tb in raid (for all my steam games =)
1tb for music and storage
custom watercooling with triple 120 rad
acer 120hz 3d monitor
deal 24" ips monitor
lg 37" 240hz led lcd tv
onkyo 7.1 receiver
2x klipsch synergy 7 speakers
polk 10" sub
and a server, and some other toys. ok im done
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Mine, 2010 RX-8 R3, velocity Red, Racing beat Revi intake and intake duct, Axial Flow Series 2 Short throw shifter, BHR ignition, BHR Midpipe. Black / Red Custom Paint
Girls, 2007 Mazdaspeed 3 tomato red. Mazdaspeed oil cap, whiteline end links front and rear.
wow guess i killed this one and i didnt even go on and on for all my computers =(
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Mine, 2010 RX-8 R3, velocity Red, Racing beat Revi intake and intake duct, Axial Flow Series 2 Short throw shifter, BHR ignition, BHR Midpipe. Black / Red Custom Paint
Girls, 2007 Mazdaspeed 3 tomato red. Mazdaspeed oil cap, whiteline end links front and rear.
wow guess i killed this one and i didnt even go on and on for all my computers =(
You have a very nice build and I think you probably did kill it. I have a build that is pretty close to yours but yours is still better. I also have an intel i7 920 overclocked to 4.3 lol. I just have my cpu water cooled but I don't have a custom setup like yours. Very nice.
Nah you didnt kill it You have a very nice setup though.
My Cooler came in a day early so I got to work on overclocking last night. Running rock solid at 4.8Ghz. Temps stay in the mid 60s at full load(prime95). I'm impressed with the D14 and dont regret not doing water again.
It will run fine at 5Ghz(played Skyrim for a couple hours), but wouldnt pass a full run of Prime95
Your build is actually fairly similar to what I have coming. I'm even gonna be using my TV as my monitor too . Just i went with a i7 cpu and a GTX 580. But I cut back and got a regular HDD instead of a SSD.
Every PC I've built and sold in the last 18mo has an SSD, there is NO PC without an SSD that's worth putting other great componenets into it. The old HD just drags it down into its the abyss that is the S-L-O-W and painful mechanical hard drive's pitiful life of punishment.
The SSD makes ALL the dif. You'll never regret it, trust me.
I've made them with various wonderous internals and with 60GB SSD (too small) to 512GB SSD (really really nice!! ). But any of them are way way better for the SSD upgrade.
Use your spinning disk for archivng and big storage needs, but get a ~128GB minimum SSD SATA 6.0 drive for your boot drive and make sure your MB supports SATA 6.0 (most new ones do). Even better, if you want to go crazy, use a R.A.I.D. 0 setup of SSDs, some ~128GBs would work nice. I'd recommend most major SSD, but not OCZs unless you want to risk losing it all... they fail (sadly) regularly.
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The good news is - you weren't paranoid - you were simply ahead of the known reality.
Every PC I've built and sold in the last 18mo has an SSD, there is NO PC without an SSD that's worth putting other great componenets into it. The old HD just drags it down into its the abyss that is the S-L-O-W and painful mechanical hard drive's pitiful life of punishment.
The SSD makes ALL the dif. You'll never regret it, trust me.
I've made them with various wonderous internals and with 60GB SSD (too small) to 512GB SSD (really really nice!! ). But any of them are way way better for the SSD upgrade.
Use your spinning disk for archivng and big storage needs, but get a ~128GB minimum SSD SATA 6.0 drive for your boot drive and make sure your MB supports SATA 6.0 (most new ones do). Even better, if you want to go crazy, use a R.A.I.D. 0 setup of SSDs, some ~128GBs would work nice. I'd recommend most major SSD, but not OCZs unless you want to risk losing it all... they fail (sadly) regularly.
Absolutely! SSD makes a huge difference. I've tried them in every configuration(as a slave for games, OS drive, and intel smart response, raid). No matter how you use it the speed boost is significant. My personal choice now is as an OS drive with enough room to install your most used game/games on it.
I dont think OCZ drives fail any more than the other brands. I think the failure rate is simply more noticable because they sell so many more than any other brand. OCZ makes very good products, I've been using their ram, power supplies and SSDs for customer builds for many years.
The ONLY bad thing about OCZ is that you cannot count on the rebates they offer. They have an internal policy to deny 50% of the rebates sent in. They'll offer a price that seems really attractive with the rebate but only pay out a fraction of them. I just base my choice on the actual price then if I actually get the rebate it s a bonus.
Absolutely! SSD makes a huge difference. I've tried them in every configuration(as a slave for games, OS drive, and intel smart response, raid). No matter how you use it the speed boost is significant. My personal choice now is as an OS drive with enough room to install your most used game/games on it.
I dont think OCZ drives fail any more than the other brands. I think the failure rate is simply more noticable because they sell so many more than any other brand. OCZ makes very good products, I've been using their ram, power supplies and SSDs for customer builds for many years.
The ONLY bad thing about OCZ is that you cannot count on the rebates they offer. They have an internal policy to deny 50% of the rebates sent in. They'll offer a price that seems really attractive with the rebate but only pay out a fraction of them. I just base my choice on the actual price then if I actually get the rebate it s a bonus.
I can only base my opinions on experience. I "used" to sell only sell OCZ because their drives seemed so hi-performance/reasonably priced (esp. w/rebates lol) compared to say, Intel SSDs. Then they started coming back... woops.... unhappy clients and PITA big time. But sadly there's more. For example, recently a customer's OCZ drive failed after a year, OCZ replaced it, that new RMA (sealed) was DOA itself, no response, not recognized. They replaced it again, I'm just going to ebay it. I've learned my lesson several times over. It's not fun when clients show up with lost data. Read the reviews on NewEgg, it's not a pretty picture you get of their hardware or support or rebates, again sadly.
You can find the failure rate studies there are big differences. Why? Several reasons, like NAND type, firmware & controller, and overprovisioning budget. Cheap out on engineering the drive, you get higher failure rates, less performance... or the other way around. I just think OCZ hasn't done the best job for whatever reason vs some others. I realize their drives ARE tempting though so take my experience for just that - yours may well vary
Check out any Enterprise SSD if you want to see REALLY expensive - because they simply CAN'T be failures in that environment! Knock on NAND - our $900 OCZ 160GB IBIS (4x39GB RAID 0) server drive is working like a champ (so far)!
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The good news is - you weren't paranoid - you were simply ahead of the known reality.
I can only base my opinions on experience. I "used" to sell only sell OCZ because their drives seemed so hi-performance/reasonably priced (esp. w/rebates lol) compared to say, Intel SSDs. Then they started coming back... woops.... unhappy clients and PITA big time. But sadly there's more. For example, recently a customer's OCZ drive failed after a year, OCZ replaced it, that new RMA (sealed) was DOA itself, no response, not recognized. They replaced it again, I'm just going to ebay it. I've learned my lesson several times over. It's not fun when clients show up with lost data. Read the reviews on NewEgg, it's not a pretty picture you get of their hardware or support or rebates, again sadly.
You can find the failure rate studies there are big differences. Why? Several reasons, like NAND type, firmware & controller, and overprovisioning budget. Cheap out on engineering the drive, you get higher failure rates, less performance... or the other way around. I just think OCZ hasn't done the best job for whatever reason vs some others. I realize their drives ARE tempting though so take my experience for just that - yours may well vary
Check out any Enterprise SSD if you want to see REALLY expensive - because they simply CAN'T be failures in that environment! Knock on NAND - our $900 OCZ 160GB IBIS (4x39GB RAID 0) server drive is working like a champ (so far)!
Ack, you must have installed a lot more than me to end up with so many failures. I've only installed a couple dozen with one failure(doa). Granted i shut down my computer business two years ago, before the sata III generation. I have two ocz's in my current rig atm. My old faithful first gen sata II Solid series and a new vertex III. What brand do you prefer these days?
^ Had excellent reliability with Intel, also Kingston and Crucial. Below is my (going on 3rd year) trusty dual 28" monitor Windows 7 Ultimate system. I'd truly be lost without it.
Two XSPC RX360's mounted with six Triebwerk's in pull, driven by a DDC 3.25 with an EK top in a 3/8" single loop system.
None of the cores gets above 51C with load, even with 1.35Vcore.
Actually, the i5 and the GTX580's seem to generate a lot less heat than my other watercooled rig, an i7-920@4GHz with a GTX295.
Yea the 500 series seems to run wayyyy cooler than the 200. My gtx 285 was a damn space heater with only a mild overclock. My 570 on the other hand with a heavy overclock(875/2050)only hits 65c with stock the fan at 60%
my 460 hits 47c max during gameplay on bf3, got it up to 61c max when i was benchmarking it using kombustor
yea playing skyrim it stays around 50c, running 3dmark11 for testing gets me the 65c
heh last night for kicks I was running prime95 AND playing skyrim at the same time just to see just how stable my overclocks were. Ran it like a champ, though my FPS dipped into the 20s here and there
I like this thread. Dont get to geek out like this often :P
Heh, I'm still using a 5+ years old Opteron 175-based rig with a DFI LanParty UT nF4-D Ultra MoBo... very reliable board, but it's getting extremely long in the tooth.
I should build a new machine but have no time (and not much desire either) to set up the software from zero again... sooner or later I'll bite the bullet though.
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. Just i went with a i7 cpu and a GTX 580. But I cut back and got a regular HDD instead of a SSD.
You have a very nice setup though.
). But any of them are way way better for the SSD upgrade.
"used" to sell only sell OCZ because their drives seemed so hi-performance/reasonably priced (esp. w/rebates lol) compared to say, Intel SSDs. Then they started coming back... woops.... unhappy clients and PITA big time. But sadly there's more. For example, recently a customer's OCZ drive failed after a year, OCZ replaced it, that new RMA (sealed) was DOA itself, no response, not recognized. They replaced it again, I'm just going to ebay it. I've learned my lesson several times over. It's not fun when clients show up with lost data. Read the reviews on NewEgg, it's not a pretty picture you get of their hardware or support or rebates, again sadly.
so take my experience for just that - yours may well vary 
very reliable board, but it's getting extremely long in the tooth. 
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