I was in the middle of typing it up when my boss called a meeting so decided to reserve. I do custom rigs for people all the time and have built and sold more computers that most will own in their lifetime.

 

Looking at what's been posted so far...

Is my machine the fastest at 4.7?

Scroll back a bit...





But you also have a R.A.T. so I guess it's cool.

 

I used to build computers for cash! was a great easy gig, lol. Can I has hookup for jobs? thanks

 

I did get this...

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

 

show of hands, who here is going haswell?

(\)^_^(/)

 

 

oooooooooooooo

now me and the mad scientist got to tear down the GPU that you fried. Granny artic silver 5 applying burn test when you dont need to. Ask any builder any real builder....

 

 

I can't run XFire on my current mobo as it only has 1 PCI-e slot. I thought I'd be able to, but can't. Which is why I bought the MSI z77 mobo.

 

Why you copping my set up? hell even look at the fans in my pic

 

Nice looking rig. Did you have problems formatting the 3TB or did you break it up?

 

I have a huge dual bay res as well, but mine has a spinny wheel to let me know its flowing haha


I like the pump in the res ...... hmmm re do the loop!

 

Current Main PC:
i3-530 OCed to 4.2 GHz (still doing well after all these years) running Vista (yes, Vista, and no, there's nothing wrong with Vista since SP1.)
12 GB RAM
AMD 7850 OCed to 1.2 Ghz with an arctic cooling passive cooler jury rigged with full size silent fans.
Intel 320 SSD
SATA optical drive
Corsair case
NZXT 650 80+ gold PSU
buncha fans running 5 or 7v

Wife's PC:
C2D 7200 OCed to something, I forget... 3.3 ish running Vista
4GB RAM
some Seagate HD
my old OCed 4850 pretty decent OC, made it faster than a 4870 at the time. Also using an arctic cooling passive setup with full size fans zip tied to it so it cools great and is very quiet.
Some old Seasonic PSU

Server PC:
AMD e350 running Ubuntu
one fan (undervolted)
2 1TB Seagate drives. One spins up once a night to backup the other one, then spins down.
Total power consumption at the wall at idle: 34 watts

In the laboratory (garage):
i5-3570 -- de-lidded and replaced original TIM with coollaboratory TIM cooled by Noctua D14
Wasn't going for massive OC on this, just low voltage 4.0GHz, but I bent some pins on the mobo socket, and can't get it booting, so I need a new mobo before I can test again.
AMD 5770 OCed
C300 256 GB
Whatever my current bench PSU is

This was going to be my new main PC, but it might go to my wife's machine since Haswell is out soon, and I'll probably pick up an i7 for me. CPU advancement seems to have slowed to a crawl. I thought my i3 would be a holdover for like a year or so, but it's been peforming fine in the games I play for more than three. At current rate of top end CPU advancement, I figure an i7 Haswell will be a pretty decent gaming CPU for 5 years or so. Before the i5-3570, it had been 15 years since I'd spent more than $130 on a CPU (Pentium Pro 150). I'd been OCing the low-midrange and frequently upgrading my whole life. But times have changed, and it's worth it to go up to the mid-top range of CPUs now that things have slowed enough that you can expect them to perform well enough for YEARS.

Gone are the days where next years midrange CPU is besting last years top end. It's seems it's been a very slow march for the last 3-4 years.

 

Screw ATI cards and their drivers from hell. That was such a bad experience.

 

I never hit full load on my CPU even after having a punch of adobe stuff going on, so I just OCed to see what it would do....... then just went to stock clock haha.

do we need an i-club folding team?