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Here is my baby
   Specs: Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R Motherboard BFG 800W PSU Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition @ 4.0Ghz  6GB DDR3 Corsair Memory at 1600Mhz Triple-Channel BFG GTX 260 Graphics Card Intel X-25m 80GB SSD Drive, Seagate 500GB HDD, and a 1TB as well
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08-21-2010, 04:14 PM
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My cameraphone sucks.
 Upgraded/Changed parts so often that specs change monthly, mostly because of RMA's and I fried my original CPU overclocking. I'm not sure how much exactly it costs anymore, because I spent the money over a large amount of time. I'm guessing around an even $700 if you don't include replaced/out of warranty components. Now everything works, haven't had a BSOD or freeze in 2 months. Specs: Motherboard: Asus M4A785TD-V EVO Graphics: MSI Twin-Frozr N275GTX (basically a GTX275 with more robust vreg's and a huge heatsink), overclocked to 700c,1565s,1300m hooked up to a crappy 720p 26" TV. Graphics 2: A GT210 that was on sale, couldn't pass it up for $20. use it to run my 17" CRT CPU: AMD Athalon II X2 240 (OC'd from 2.8GHz to 3.81@1.525V. Got it on sale for $55 after I fried my Phenom II) Memory: Crucial Ballistix 1600 2x2GB HDD: 250GB Seagate 7200.12 (faster than some 10k drives, and I don't need much storage because everything is on my server.) PSU: Corsair TX850W (Don't want to go cheap on the PSU, my first one died, this is the replacement. Don't buy Rosewill PSU's) CPU cooler: Xigmatech d984 92mm heatsink (sanded to mirror finish, with AS5 thermal paste. keeps my cpu 28-50C, cheap.) Rosewill "Blackbone" case and generic LG DVD burner complete the package. Last edited by Sight Unseen; 08-21-2010 at 04:38 PM.
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08-22-2010, 01:23 AM
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Nice cable tidying job
Mine is a lot better than my old PC's but still looks a bit messy compared to some  Edit: realise I never posted my actual spec. Phenom X4 965 Black Edition Asus M4A79T Deluxe GTX 285 4GB Corsair Dominator (will upgrade to 8 some time in the future since I have 2 free slots) 1.5TB and 500GB Seagate Barracudas Corsair TX650W Antec 902 Got a decent enough overclock on it, all nice and stable, temps hit maximum of about 60 for the CPU under full load.
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08-22-2010, 01:48 AM
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lol, nothing wrong with them as long as you don't buy one of the dodgy batch
(even then, just update the firmware)
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08-22-2010, 03:35 AM
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If I had another $60 to spend I definitely would have gone with that CPU, unlocked multipliers to aid overclocking (my "fsb" is at 330, no joke ), but that CPU was kind of a "holy s***!!!... Mom! I'm going to the store..." type emergency, fried CPU makes me sad. Good call on the Seagate drives (fast!), I have a server full of 7200.11's (the infamous 750GB ones) and had one fail on me, but a 5 minute firmware update fixed it. Other than that, no failures. And I have a total of 6 Seagate branded drives. GTX 285 is good, but it's a space heater. as are most NVidia high-ends (with exception of the 460). I always put aftermarket heatsinks of some kind on my cards after I had a 7900 die due to a bad fan. Antec 902... dude... case envy. Mine's not bad, sturdy enough to haul to a friend's house, but the Antec 900 series cases are built like tanks. I bought all this hardware and it was in the mail and a day later I was like "derp. forgot a case." so I got the cheapest okay-looking one on Newegg. And I massively overkill'd on the PSU, I was sooo sick and tired of BSOD's... now I can 100% rule out the PSU, and it will probably be fine through a few rebuilds.Oh, and the cable tidying job? Well, that PSU looks like Cthulu is growing out the back. There's about 1.5cm of clearance behind the motherboard tray. I spent more time trying to get all the clips on the back panel in than I did putting in the PSU. What's your overclock and at what voltage? CPU cooler? Last edited by Sight Unseen; 08-22-2010 at 03:40 AM.
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08-22-2010, 04:30 AM
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Just 3600 at the moment, I don't want to risk killing it because I can NOT afford a new CPU (yeah, I know, a CPU like that deserves to go higher but I don't have watercooling and those chips start to chuck out a LOT of heat when you up the voltage...), cooler is a Freezer 64 Pro. Truthfully don't have a huge need for more though, games get great framerates, hitting the limit in games with one, general performance is probably HDD limited like most PCs rather than CPU (damn SSDs being so ridiculously expensive
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08-22-2010, 05:17 AM
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I've never used a computer before. I don't even know anyone who owns one.
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08-22-2010, 05:22 AM
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Games don't generally use all 4 cores anyway. Crysis runs the same on a Athlon II X2 as it does on a X4 at the same speed, for example. But then again, 2 cores isn't quite enough, as the OS likes a core to itself... and we all know 3-core processors were just a bad idea. I think your performance bottleneck is memory, and graphics. The 2xx series is outdated, and a 460 with 1.5x the performance of the 285 can be had for $~230. (next purchase for me
) And as for memory, The HDD speed doesn't make a difference, as most games dump data in bulk from the HDD to the RAM during loading, and use the data solely from RAM once loaded, and as you already have plenty of ram (for now), and data isn't being swapped to virtual memory on the HDD, a SSD wouldn't improve performance much. A SSD wound basically speed up boot times and game loading times BEFORE play, but thats about it. The reason I say RAM is your bottleneck is that AM3 uses 2 channels and LGA1366 has 3. Thats a 60% faster memory access rate just from architecture alone, not counting that i7's are mostly faster than anything stock from AMD. That said, you could up the voltage of your memory to the max listed on the spec sheet and use the timings listed on the RAM itself. Do Not use "auto". From experience, I get a good 5-10 fps extra in crysis on very high by setting these manually. What would probably give you the best benifit/time ratio is, if you OC'd through multiplier only, to raise the FSB a good 15MHz and back down on the multiplier by .5x, and raising your VDDNB to about 1.3V. This will OC your CPU's built in MMU and increase your RAM's data rate without increasing you clock rate, but you may have to step down on the Memory/FSB ratio as well. This gave me an extra 5 fps, but the gameplay was much much smoother than this small jump in frame rate can account for. Last edited by Sight Unseen; 08-22-2010 at 05:32 AM.
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I just built a new server.
 Specs: AMD Sempron 140 2.7ghz, oc'd to 3.25GHz (1.4V) on stock cooling. Gets to about 35C on hot days under full load. MSI 740GM-P25 Motherboard (Great mobo, but the Atheros LAN shipset doesn't like linux. Saving up for a proper Intel Server NIC) 2GB Kingston Valuram 3TB of HDD's in the picture (2x750's in RAID0 and a 1.5TB as backup, I have 4 more 500GB drives of various brands awaiting a RAID card, but I have no $ at the moment.) Not bad for $125, not including HDD's (already had them) I'm in dire need of a case to stuff all this in, my motherboard is still sitting on the box it came in. It's no Xeon, but it's light-years faster than my old server was with half of the HDD's plugged in through USB adapters.Speaking of my old server...  The redneck iMac has arrived.  Got an old 15" 1024x768 LCD by dumpster diving, had a burned out CCFL, replaced it. Free monitor. My old Atom server was repurposed running fluxbox with an old wireless mouse I found, onscreen keyboard, and autologin script. Free computer. The only thing that wasn't free was the gaffer's tape that I used to tape it all together. That cost $10 for a roll. So, one alarm clock on steroids that can wake me up in the morning, stream media from my server, and generally increase the size of my epenis, $10
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