Your PC ATM

[drdeathx]

The "Laboratory"



The "Photo Studio"




Here is a photo shot from the studio

[cdawall]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

Picked up a 2nd GTX470 and went push/pull on the CPU HSF:
http://i.imgur.com/4sYP4.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/121018/gpus806.png

I think I'll pick up a small SSD (~60GB) to use in addition to the 320GB HDD I have right now

Looks good I rather like my set. How do yours clock with stocker HSF?

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Originally Posted by drdeathx

The "Laboratory"

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...h/DSCF1552.jpg

The "Photo Studio"

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...th/studiot.jpg


Here is a photo shot from the studio

http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...rdware-1-1.jpg

Quite jelly of that nice clean work area!

[drdeathx]

Originally Posted by [H]@RD5TUFF

Quite jelly of that nice clean work area!

Not always that way!

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Originally Posted by drdeathx

Not always that way!

Still jelly

[ranviper]

Originally Posted by brandonwh64

I am sorry but LOL WUT?? a GTX 480 is still a beast of a card!

This. I have a 470 OC and it makes chop suey of BF3 on ultra, and that's without overclocking it. You wanna drop 300 bucks on a card when I can get nearly the same performance without spending more money to "upgrade" go for it.

[t77snapshot]

Originally Posted by Phusius

No offense, but your 480 needs upgraded, everything else you own is elite... why such an old GPU?

Originally Posted by ranviper

This. I have a 470 OC and it makes chop suey of BF3 on ultra, and that's without overclocking it. You wanna drop 300 bucks on a card when I can get nearly the same performance without spending more money to "upgrade" go for it.

I agree. In fact some of my buddies are still running the gtx 200 series with no gaming issues lol! It is not always necessary to jump on the latest piece of hardware, I think I will be happy with my 570 for a long time.


@ranviper:

I couldn't help but notice your avatar, it looks like an Nzxt Lexa.s? Would you like to join the Nzxt Case Clubhouse? Click here.

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Originally Posted by t77snapshot

I agree. In fact some of my buddies are still running the gtx 200 series with no gaming issues lol! It is not always necessary to jump on the latest piece of hardware, I think I will be happy with my 570 for a long time.

At lower resolutions like 1050, or 1080, yes there is little to no reason to upgrade from a 4xx or 5xx series card, however on 30 inch monitors like mine I do need a 680 to have things turned up to max settings.

Also if you want to bring your video card to its knees attempt to run the sleeping dogs benchmark on extreme settings, that gives even SLI rigs issues!

[cdawall]

Originally Posted by [H]@RD5TUFF

At lower resolutions like 1050, or 1080, yes there is little to no reason to upgrade from a 4xx or 5xx series card, however on 30 inch monitors like mine I do need a 680 to have things turned up to max settings.

Also if you want to bring your video card to its knees attempt to run the sleeping dogs benchmark on extreme settings, that gives even SLI rigs issues!

In nv surround my pair of 470's oc'd gets showed who's boss so I can agree with this there isn't enough of a frame buffer for 5040X1050.

[GC_PaNzerFIN]

For some reason I love that "sort of a camera" look of the EVGA Classified 680

[[Ion]]

Originally Posted by cdawall

Looks good I rather like my set. How do yours clock with stocker HSF?

I'm not really sure what you mean by "stocker HSF". But I have my i7-2700k @ 4.4GHz, and it loads in the low-60s C even with both GPUs heating up the case. It's perfectly stable (or at least passes LinX and hasn't given any errors running WCG for over a month now).

I actually haven't gamed on these GPUs yet--I really want to (it will be so much faster than the HD4000 in my laptop) but I hate to have to suspend the WCG GPU app

[Random Murderer]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

I actually haven't gamed on these GPUs yet--I really want to (it will be so much faster than the HD4000 in my laptop) but I hate to have to suspend the WCG GPU app

That seems unfair to you, the owner of the hardware. If you want to game on them, suspend them. You'll still be contributing with ~25 threads running WCG, and it would probably only be a few hours of gaming, then you could re-enable the GPU threads.
I used to fold/mine bitcoins/crunch, but the power bill and heat in my room got to be too much to manage. With two overclocked 6850s and the 3820 at 4.7GHz, I would get home from work, open the door to my room, and it would be a blast of dry, hot air, sort of like opening the oven to check on what you're cooking. On more than one occasion while sleeping, I woke up to a nosebleed because of the hot, dry air. Ambient temp in the room with AC on full blast would get to around 86-88F, and then if I wanted sound I would have to turn on my vacuum tube amp which supplies another ~150 watts of heat.
I honestly don't know how some of you guys can stand to use your main rig for folding/crunching/mining and not sweat your asses off in that room. The amount of heat that those programs create at full-bore is just unreal.

[[Ion]]

Originally Posted by Random Murderer

That seems unfair to you, the owner of the hardware. If you want to game on them, suspend them. You'll still be contributing with over 25 threads running WCG, and it would probably only be a few hours of gaming, then you could re-enable the GPU threads.
I used to fold/mine bitcoins/crunch, but the power bill and heat in my room got to be too much to manage. With two overclocked 6850s and the 3820 at 4.7GHz, I would get home from work, open the door to my room, and it would be a blast of dry, hot air, sort of like opening the oven to check on what you're cooking. On more than one occasion while sleeping, I woke up to a nosebleed because of the hot, dry air. Ambient temp in the room with AC on full blast would get to around 86-88F, and then if I wanted sound I would have to turn on my vacuum tube amp which supplies another ~150 watts of heat.
I honestly don't know how some of you guys can stand to use your main rig for folding/crunching/mining and not sweat your asses off in that room. The amount of heat that those programs create at full-bore is just unreal.

Oh, I know. It's a tradeoff I'm voluntarily making. When I do want to game, I'll usually use the GTX460 SLI system--it's still more than fast enough and the hit to my output isn't as bad.

As far as the heat goes, I have a 10x14 dorm with its own AC unit, and while it can't keep the room at the 65F I have it set to, it's usually a pleasant ~72F in here. With no AC it would be brutal, but electricity is free here at school so I don't mind.

Running WCG seems to go far easier on the GPUs than FAH--they don't run as hot and don't heat up the room quite so much..good thing too!

[xBruce88x]

Originally Posted by MxPhenom 216

After this weekend. My rig is going to look quite a bit different with tubes running all threw it

Putting it on life support eh?

Originally Posted by Phusius

You know, I just had a great idea for us PC gamers. Screw 2.0 and 2.1 speaker systems, since most of our desk areas are cramped we need to look into the soundbar market. ^^

I might get me a soundbar actually quite soon, any recommendations please PM me with a link. Probably going to go with LG because I trust them most.

I sort of have a sound bar...


not quite the same but it does sit ON my monitor and off the desk lol

Originally Posted by ThE_MaD_ShOt

2.0/2.1, you need 2x 2.1 systems.

I've done this before... it was awesome

Originally Posted by 1nf3rn0x

Le lappy

such a friendly looking puppy

Originally Posted by drdeathx

The "Laboratory"



The "Photo Studio"




Here is a photo shot from the studio

Nice lab, can't wait to set mine up in the spare room.

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Originally Posted by cdawall

In nv surround my pair of 470's oc'd gets showed who's boss so I can agree with this there isn't enough of a frame buffer for 5040X1050.

I miss my 470's those were amazing cards, and they clocked quite well.

[MxPhenom 216]

Originally Posted by [H]@RD5TUFF

I miss my 470's those were amazing cards, and they clocked quite well.

LOL I had a 470, and I didn't realize how shitty they were till i got this 680. It uses like 75w less power and has doubled my FPS in every game I play. If not more.

[drdeathx]

Originally Posted by xBruce88x

Putting it on life support eh?





Nice lab, can't wait to set mine up in the spare room.

Thanks Bruce

[GC_PaNzerFIN]

Originally Posted by MxPhenom 216

LOL I had a 470, and I didn't realize how shitty they were till i got this 680. It uses like 75w less power and has doubled my FPS in every game I play. If not more.

I don't really agree with general opinion that the 4xx cards were terrible in everything else but performance.

My 480 is completely inaudible, runs cool, OC like crazy and power consumption difference makes no difference to me. I bet those people had not tried one with proper cooler, the stock coolers are fail. In fact, I think I would say this is the best card I have ever owned as a complete package. Even price/performance was like 50% higher than 580 at the price I paid for it.

[MxPhenom 216]

Originally Posted by GC_PaNzerFIN

I don't really agree with general opinion that the 4xx cards were terrible in everything else but performance.

My 480 is completely inaudible, runs cool, OC like crazy and power consumption difference makes no difference to me. I bet those people had not tried one with proper cooler, the stock coolers are fail. In fact, I think I would say this is the best card I have ever owned as a complete package. Even price/performance was like 50% higher than 580 at the price I paid for it.

If I can get a card that consumes less power but performs better, I will get that card 100% of the time. First gen Fermi was trash, I don't care how its looked at.

[cdawall]

They are only trash if you care about power consumption.

[xBruce88x]

they were the first batch of that arch... naturally nvidia was more worried about performance than the green factor

[IamEzio]

My system after the upgrade

new motherboard,RAM ,and CPU



My not so new GIGABYTE HD6850 OC (i have it for more then a year now) but still a very nice looking card




Cable management isn't the best, but not that bad



and the final result





also IMO the combination of the Corsair blue vengeance with GIGABYTE's blue PCB looks really nice.

[Mussels]

Hrrrm. that looks rather similar to my build, actually.

(same case, giga mobo, similar CPU cooler)

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

I've been meaning to post some pics of my rig so here we go!

This came out a lot worse than I thought it would

[t77snapshot]

Originally Posted by TacoTown

I've been meaning to post some pics of my rig so here we go!

http://i.imgur.com/7wbTU.jpg

I've always like white cases, hope to own one soon if I play my cards right. That is clean simple build that gets the job done! Nice work Taco!! gett'in dusty