Your PC ATM

[GhostRyder]

Air540 finally here (well judging by the general state of the case, i know now why i got a 50% on it xD still i love it! (3*120 front 2*140 top) plus now i can re use my 20+4/6/8 extension
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and new house (not so new in the end ... it's the Spec 01) for the old bag (re used 2 of the 3 140 bundled with the 540)
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The Carbide Air 540 is definitely one heck of a good looking and functional case. Its probably what I would choose now if I was picking out a new case for my machine and yours just makes me want to get one. Very nice!!!

An update...Added 3rd 290

Looking good!!! Now all we need is a strobe light effect to be added and that machine will be ready for a rave .

 

[GreiverBlade]

The Carbide Air 540 is definitely one heck of a good looking and functional case. Its probably what I would choose now if I was picking out a new case for my machine and yours just makes me want to get one. Very nice!!!

yep totally worth it ... i was in love with the HAF XB from cooler master but ... corsair 90°'ed it and perfected it ...

next in list ... dual 970 Strix (preferably ... i love the 1x8pin PCIeX perspective, even if i would have to buy a 2nd Bitfenix Alchemy 8) if i am not mistaken a SLI of 970 with my rig should hold on my 650W PSU (until i get a new one ) or a single 980 Ref (i love the ref ...)

DUH you did it nVidia! you got me good this time ...

now i also need to change the 2 3.5 (they are still SATA II ) and get some MX100 512gb (crucial price/gb ratio is insane ... they cost the price of a 256gb a while back, and a 256 would cost me just 10chf more than what i paid my Vertex III) a modular PSU (originally i would have needed a 850w for 2 290 but ... well you know ...) then swapping the H60v2 to the old bag and get a 240/280 AIO i think H105 dual JetFlo, Nepton 280L or a Kraken X60, too bad the seller i found for a Swiftech H320 is a b*tch (until i will finally decide for a custom loop)

works to do in perspective...

An update...Added 3rd 290

lovely

 

[GhostRyder]

yep totally worth it ... i was in love with the HAF XB from cooler master but ... corsair 90°'ed it and perfected it ...

next in list ... dual 970 Strix (preferably ... i love the 1x8pin PCIeX perspective, even if i would have to buy a 2nd Bitfenix Alchemy 8) if i am not mistaken a SLI of 970 with my rig should hold on my 650W PSU (until i get a new one ) or a single 980 Ref (i love the ref ...)

DUH you did it nVidia! you got me good this time ...

now i also need to change the 2 3.5 (they are still SATA II ) and get some MX100 512gb (crucial price/gb ratio is insane ... they cost the price of a 256gb a while back, and a 256 would cost me just 10chf more than what i paid my Vertex III) a modular PSU (originally i would have needed a 850w for 2 290 but ... well you know ...) then swapping the H60v2 to the old bag and get a 240/280 AIO i think H105 dual JetFlo, Nepton 280L or a Kraken X60, too bad the seller i found for a Swiftech H320 is a b*tch (until i will finally decide for a custom loop)

works to do in perspective...



lovely

My advice to you on the swap would be to wait if you could till next generation. It might be better just because swapping cards year after year can be an expensive and un-rewarding endeavor (I am just giving my advice on it so take it as it is my friend ) that does not give you to much (Depends on resolution of course but if your at 1080p I doubt you would get to much more since I am assuming most if not all games are maxed on your system as is). The GTX 970 offers some amazing price to performance for sure but even with its nice price and performance I think you might end up with not much to show overall other than a little lower power usage. Plus price changes are coming for sure and there could be something around the corner from the other team along with some hefty cuts that might make something more enticing!

I agree of the SSD's, those Crucial offer one heck of a value option especially right now. I am in love with Samsung generally mostly because they do the work for their SSD's mostly all in house and they just seem good performance and value. But man I really wanna get a bigger SSD for my MSI GT70 (120gb SSD and a 750gb 7200RPM Drive right now) and I may just buy a 500gb one if I decide its time. But I am actually working on a few issues with that laptop right now and upgrading the GPU in it (The wireless has issues and I put a new card in but one issue is still present).

Very cool 540 air system, I still cannot tell you how much I love that case and your choices inside in general with the Rog board to match that dark case. It is literally making me wanna get one because honestly I am tired of my 800D because it just weighs way to much and honestly is to plain for my taste (regretted buying it honestly wish I had bought the Bitfenix Shinobi HF edition instead at the time).

 

[15th Warlock]

Just a small teaser:

To be honest, I wasn't expecting the cards until Monday, I'm too buzzed to get my hands in my PC... Newegg rocks!

I'll upload more pics after I install the cards tomorrow

 

[THE_EGG]

Just a small teaser:

To be honest, I wasn't expecting the cards until Monday, I'm too buzzed to get my hands in my PC... Newegg rocks!

I'll upload more pics after I install the cards tomorrow

I feel so inadequate.... :'( Very nice, looking forward to seeing them installed.

I'm so tempted to upgrade to a gtx 980, overclock it and then sell off my 2 780s. I'm finding having 2 non-ref video cards in my case seems to heat things up quite a bit.

 

[agent00skid]

New thing!

If the cruel truth of it wasn't that it was a replacement for my negligent handling of the side panel of my desktop.

Ouch. Look at that. At least I could get a replacement.

And when I had the side panel off, I just checked the temps on the VRM heatsink with my multimeters temperature probe.

Hot, hot, hot!

 

[springs113]

Have you fired up that Deluxe yet? If so, how's it working for you with the 290's?

I have its actually a great board I just have one quirk...I notice that if I install all my ssd all at once no matter what I do it defaults to one particular being the primary drive even if I change the order in the bios. I have a SanDisk xtrm pro set as the boot and a couple 840 Evo, 840 pro, if I disconnect the cabling to all and reconnect them the SanDisk is no longer the boot, one of the Evo becomes the boot. Not even if I reroute the sata cables. Maybe a bios issue(still on the original) but all in all i love everything the memory matches the board which matches the theme I was trying to go for. I should be good cpu wise for quite some time, on the gpu front I will wait till the next coming release from Amd to see how far on the totem pole I stand

 

[ensabrenoir]

I have its actually a great board I just have one quirk...I notice that if I install all my ssd all at once no matter what I do it defaults to one particular being the primary drive even if I change the order in the bios. I have a SanDisk xtrm pro set as the boot and a couple 840 Evo, 840 pro, if I disconnect the cabling to all and reconnect them the SanDisk is no longer the boot, one of the Evo becomes the boot. Not even if I reroute the sata cables. Maybe a bios issue(still on the original) but all in all i love everything the memory matches the board which matches the theme I was trying to go for. I should be good cpu wise for quite some time, on the gpu front I will wait till the next coming release from Amd to see how far on the totem pole I stand

......sounds like your rig just has excellent taste........it prefers Samsung

 

[springs113]

......sounds like your rig just has excellent taste........it prefers Samsung

Lol that Sandisk is no slouch, there is only one other driver better than it and that is the 850 pro. Plus I couldn't beat the 480gb going for 260. I have yet to see the pro go even 60 below msrp..

 

[THE_EGG]

I have its actually a great board I just have one quirk...I notice that if I install all my ssd all at once no matter what I do it defaults to one particular being the primary drive even if I change the order in the bios. I have a SanDisk xtrm pro set as the boot and a couple 840 Evo, 840 pro, if I disconnect the cabling to all and reconnect them the SanDisk is no longer the boot, one of the Evo becomes the boot. Not even if I reroute the sata cables. Maybe a bios issue(still on the original) but all in all i love everything the memory matches the board which matches the theme I was trying to go for. I should be good cpu wise for quite some time, on the gpu front I will wait till the next coming release from Amd to see how far on the totem pole I stand

Probably just a bios bug as you were thinking. I think X99 in general still has a few things to iron out. E.g. I can't have ANY removable storage connected to my mobo through any USB ports (e.g. USB DVD driver, flash drives, portable hdds etc) otherwise it will crash on POST. When I updated the bios I was able to have more than just the mouse and keyboard connected such as a game controller and printer which was nice but unfortunately still no removable storage.

 

[springs113]

Probably just a bios bug as you were thinking. I think X99 in general still has a few things to iron out. E.g. I can't have ANY removable storage connected to my mobo through any USB ports (e.g. USB DVD driver, flash drives, portable hdds etc) otherwise it will crash on POST. When I updated the bios I was able to have more than just the mouse and keyboard connected such as a game controller and printer which was nice but unfortunately still no removable storage.

I don't have any other issues other than the one I posted. I am now faced with a dilemma of returning my newly purchased 290 and the ssd for a pair of 970s.

 

[15th Warlock]

As promised, here are some pics of the 980s I got yesterday, these cards will go in my main rig downstairs, but waterblocks are still not in stock anywhere, so I decided to test the cards in my 4770K game room rig before I drain the water loop on my Titans; I had to remove the 290Xs to make room for the 980s:

Nvidia has taken the art of building the perfect reference card to the next level, it almost pains me to remove the stock cooler to put waterblocks on these cards, they look that good

Not everything went well, wasn't getting an HDMI signal, I uninstalled the AMD drivers before even putting the cards in, but there must still be some leftover files, I connected an old DVI monitor and when I opened the task manager, all sorts of weird services are still loading, so I just decided to reformat this PC

I'll upload more pics once I get the waterblocks for the cards, thank you all liking my previous pics, it's greatly appreciated

 

[Animalpak]

Congrats on your purchase 15th Warlock !

From a mere and only perfromance point of view ...

But i think a 980Ti or even a dual 980 video card will be released from nvidia Q1/Q2 next year 2015 and most of the people will regret to have bought a GTX 980 today. ( Titans and Ti deja vu story )

Then all the yellin Fu... k nvidia fu green team because a more powerful card is out in less than 6 months and your 980 is already surpassed.

Im sure at the end of 2015 nvidia will start to talk about Volta GPU's...

 

[15th Warlock]

Congrats on your purchase 15th Warlock !

From a mere and only perfromance point of view ...

But i think a 980Ti or even a dual 980 video card will be released from nvidia Q1/Q2 next year 2015 and most of the people will regret to have bought a GTX 980 today. ( Titans and Ti deja vu story )

Then all the yellin Fu... k nvidia fu green team because a more powerful card is out in less than 6 months and your 980 is already surpassed.

Im sure at the end of 2015 nvidia will start to talk about Volta GPU's...

Thanks for your reply, and you know, I'm already aware of that, and honestly there's nothing you can do about it, that's the unavoidable march of technology

There might be a 980Ti with higher clocks, not with more enabled units though, as the current iteration is not a cut down version of GM204 like the original Titan was to GK110.

Anyways, the real dozy is gonna be big Maxwell (GM110/Titan 2?) But we probably won't see it until next year, and then it'll be either that card or the 390X that will inherit the GPU king crown.

I never really regretted getting my Titans, I have actually enjoyed those cards since day one (got them the day they were released) and never felt compelled to upgrade to the 780Ti, Titan Black, et al; Maxwell however brings many technological advancements and are much faster than my Titans at almost half the price of a single one, and using much less power also, so why not give them a shot?

 

[OneMoar]

nice warlock I have that same keyboard lol
sigh... someday Id like to have a decent gpu again
I like where nv is going with the pricing on the 900 series cards if they can get that 970 down to like ~300 flat thats gonna put some hurt on AMD
hopefully AMD will respond by cutting prices

 

[15th Warlock]

nice warlock I have that same keyboard lol
sigh... someday Id like to have a decent gpu again
I like where nv is going with the pricing on the 900 series cards if they can get that 970 down to like ~300 flat thats gonna put some hurt on AMD
hopefully AMD will respond by cutting prices

Thank you man I like the logitech wave, it is really good for an HTPC setup

And yes there's no denying the 970 is an excellent value, I mean, we all know Nvidia is making a killing on the 980 (like they did with the 680 before it) and the only way they could justify the price was by slapping a premium Mg cooler to it, but you have to admit, the 970 is one hell of a card for its price

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Finally done. Dumps all the major heat straight out of the case for low ambient, and fixed fan speeds so its quiet no matter what I do.

 

[dom99]

My micro desktop

I'm going on 'ThePlasticPeople.co.uk' right now to see how much it would be to get one of these made. Looks better every time I see it thanks for posting.

 

[Random Murderer]

Finally done. Dumps all the major heat straight out of the case for low ambient, and fixed fan speeds so its quiet no matter what I do.

Looks great, but... is it just me, or is your 780 flexing quite a bit?

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Looks great, but... is it just me, or is your 780 flexing quite a bit?

There's a tiny bit of flex when I look at the PCB dead on, no more than any other card, but the angle and askew fan on top exaggerate it for some reason.

 

[khemist]

GTX 980 in.

 

[Animalpak]

GTX 980 in.

Any plan to watercool it ?

 

[khemist]

Not sure, i'm going to be switching to the FT05 when it's released, i'll see how i get on with that.

I've still got my classified and block to sell before i even think about it.

 

[Keullo-e]

Cables still need some work and maybe it's time for some dust cleaning..

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Cables still need some work and maybe it's time for some dust cleaning..

Cables are already tidier than most. That bottom bracket is begging for a fan.