Your PC ATM

[phill]

Very nice indeed

What sort of tests do you run when you have a new rig??

 

[Boneface]

I just game, seeing as its all i do with rig, that and movies, if it doesnt crash after a few hrs of it, its fine for me lol.

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

New rad EK Cool Stream 3x120mm for my next PC


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OMG yummy, what will you be cooling with that ?

Affordability isn't valid argument when you then go on to suggest a larger living space in order to fit a tower. I'd say an iMac is much more affordable than that.

But, giving you the benefit of the doubt, even if the argument were valid, show me something all-in-one with a 27" 2650x1440 IPS, and the same relative cpu and gpu power for less. The only thing you can fairly compare the price of the iMac to is other all-in-ones. People buy all-in-ones becasue that is specifically what they are looking for. Anything else is apples and oranges (no way to avoid that pun, unfortunately). That would be like me telling somebody not to buy a (insert pricey car of choice here), but buy a kit car instead because it's cheaper to build and make faster. Kinda defeats the purpose when that's not what the person wants.

I'm not butt hurt at all as I'm not the one in the wrong here. lol

LOL there is a difference between a new house and a bigger room. Also AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME I have said you are correct that the imac doesn't have a home brew or otherwise competitor in the same price rage (because it's over priced). I also said I wasn't comparing towers to all in ones. I simply was making the true statement that "MAC's ARE OVERPRICED", which you can't seem to accept. You seem to not want to take yes for an answer.

 

[phill]

I just game, seeing as its all i do with rig, that and movies, if it doesnt crash after a few hrs of it, its fine for me lol.

Do you not use like Vantage or any of those 3D or PC based tests to see if it falls over or just game on it and see what happens

 

[Boneface]

Just game on it, but i might give 3dmark 11 a go for shits and giggles

 

[cadaveca]

Do you not use like Vantage or any of those 3D or PC based tests to see if it falls over or just game on it and see what happens

I don't find of the 3DMark apps worth using for stability testing...I can run any of them, over and over, and Furmark too; but when I fire up Dirt3, or L4D2, crash, crash, crash!


The 3DMarks just don't load the card up for long enough, and Furmark barely uses any VGA memory.

They are both good to get a general idea, but the approach of just gaming, when it comes to VGAs, seems best.

CPUs, it's just the same. It's all about utilization, and differing workloads.

The 3DMarks are still some of my favorite games though. What's your high score?

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Just game on it, but i might give 3dmark 11 a go for shits and giggles

IMO for CPU stability Prime 95 is the best evaluator of CPU overclocks.

 

[Boneface]

IMO for CPU stability Prime 95 is the best evaluator of CPU overclocks.

Oh i dont doubt it at all, just if its stable to game for hrs then it works for me lol

 

[phill]

Well I do agree with both, but I do seem to spend a lot of time using them and that was the only reason I asked really

I used to bench for a UK benching team and after my breakup I gave up with it as I was only able to use laptops for 16 months after that?? So having two i7 systems sat there, begging to be used and two 5970's to go in each machine, I was a little gutted!! I think I must have used them about for about four or five months at the most before I sold them both!!

I've tried running Prime 95 but for me when I was testing, I found that even a 16 hour run of Prime I was still crashing out of folding work units within 30 seconds of starting them, so I gave up with that!

Now I'm of the school of believing if it passes through all the 3D Mark and PC Mark tests I throw at it and doesnt crash, then I'm happy. Believe it or not, Vantage CPU tests are a right b%$h to run when the system is unstable. Even 3D Mark 11 is less intense than that!!

As for my highest scores, depends really.. What benchmark?? I've run anything from 3D Mark 99Max to the latest when I had my 5970's and now I'm currently waiting on a pair of 3Gb 580's to turn up before I put them in one machine and end up buying possibly three or four of the next top end single core card for that
I like my gaming and I really hope I can use all three of my screens with the new cards.. I'd really like to see both of these i7 systems running, because as of yet, since July 2009 when I bought the 3x SLI 759 board and my first i7 920 D0, I've yet to have them both running at the same time...

Fire away with your high scores I'll try and dig out a few fast ones of this 'old' 920

 

[(FIH) The Don]

OMG yummy, what will you be cooling with that ?



LOL there is a difference between a new house and a bigger room. Also AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME I have said you are correct that the imac doesn't have a home brew or otherwise competitor in the same price rage (because it's over priced). I also said I wasn't comparing towers to all in ones. I simply was making the true statement that "MAC's ARE OVERPRICED", which you can't seem to accept. You seem to not want to take yes for an answer.

overpriced? in what aspect really?

what does a screen cost with IPS tech? alot yeah

27" is around 1000$ at least, good ones 1200-1500, am i right???

i5 cpu is what? 200$
4gb ram is around 50$
6970 is around what,325$ ? i DO know its not same as mobie, but still, rough comparrison
motherboard is like 100$
HD is around 75$for a regular 1tb
case over 200$ if you want something very good looking in alu right?


so lets do the math here

around 1650$ with the cheapest IPS 27" monitor atm1900 with a better

compared to 1999$ for the 27" imac, built in such a nice case, it doesnt make any sound hardly,
oh yeah and it does come with OS preinstalled along with other programs you want pre installed

how can you call it expensive?

please explain.

 

[phill]

Here's a few from my little 920

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1024291

How do those sound for starters

 

[HammerON]

Scores are alright.
We have threads for posting 3DMark scores if you want to compare to other TPU member scores:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135908
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110050
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110105

 

[phill]

I'll keep an eye open for it I hope to post up a few scores when I get my new cards through the door!!

 

[p_o_s_pc]

here are 3 of my rigs. (sorry for bad pics,haven't found my cam so using my Droid 2)
here is my newest rig its my cruncher just built today

my main rig. just did some WM on it tonight

here is another cruncher. This one needs the case cleaned,all that got a cleaning was the CPU and GPU heatsinks

EDIT:I just noticed i took the pic of the cruncher when i was trying out the Foxconn board in it. it now has a Gigabyte board and different ram but other then that it looks the same

 

[Wile E]

OMG yummy, what will you be cooling with that ?



LOL there is a difference between a new house and a bigger room. Also AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME I have said you are correct that the imac doesn't have a home brew or otherwise competitor in the same price rage (because it's over priced). I also said I wasn't comparing towers to all in ones. I simply was making the true statement that "MAC's ARE OVERPRICED", which you can't seem to accept. You seem to not want to take yes for an answer.

Because the iMacs, Minis and Mac Pros are not overproced. Expensive? Yes. Overpriced? Absolutley not. An iMac, for example, is more expensive than other all-in-ones because it has a $1000 screen in it. Mac Pros have dual cpu workstation/server boards and dual xeon cpus. Price that stuff from other OEMs. When you look at the cost of the individual parts, you'll see that their prices are right in line with other oems for the same type of system.

Sorry, but you are, quite simply, just wrong on this one. The only thing I'll give you as overpriced are the laptops, and when you use Apple's upgrades when you are configuring your system.

 

[HammerON]

I'll keep an eye open for it I hope to post up a few scores when I get my new cards through the door!!

Don't forget pics as this is what this thread is about!

 

[Thrackan]

You guys both have a point here (and I hope we can leave it at this):

Macs are quite expensive. For most Apple products, this is because they don't skimp on quality components. You also pay for Apple's service, and of course a little extra for the brand name.
Then again, what can you compare them to? Hardware-wise, because of the use of high quality components, you'd be hard pressed to find an all-in-one with the same specs as an iMac.

In the Workstation area, Apple is "simply" a normal-priced competitor. Workstations are hella expensive as they are, and taking an even higher price point would be insane.

In the laptop area, I dunno... I mean, macbooks and the likes are priced high, but people buy them like there is no tomorrow! Overpriced in this section? Maybe, but demand still meets supply, so technically it's not really overpriced here either.

As for the iPhone and iPad area, I think this is somewhere in the middle. Their hardware is quite good, but the prices are also remaining high simply because people pay that price.

Conclusion: if Apple was really overpricing their products, would people still buy them? I think there's good reasons why Apple has the market share that they have, and it is partially because of quality, but also due to good marketing and service. It's simply a very good example of a well-thought company strategy.

Price is in the eye of the beholder. If 90 out of 100 people would buy an Apple product at its current price, there is simply no reason to lower it.

 

[gottistar]

hey

Here we go, since i last posted, i have modified the case, bottom right... so the pump has more room, so its not so squeezy anymore, so off with the hardrive rack..!
And also my PSU crapped itself , i had a Thermaltake tough power 1200...i replaced it with a OCZ Technology ZX Series 1250W Power Supply so i had rewire the lot.....the new PSU is kicking goals....its winning !

 

[Wile E]

You ever consider going with a shorter res, and fitting it under the drive bays with the pump?

 

[gottistar]

You ever consider going with a shorter res, and fitting it under the drive bays with the pump?

it could be a possibility in the future, lli get bored with that configuration pretty soon, who knows...

 

[Grnfinger]

moving to the NZT Phantom.... still need to mod the side panel and add a mid plate

 

[phill]

Don't forget pics as this is what this thread is about!

I'll be sure to grab a load I could take some pics with my Pentax compact, but after using my 40D, the images look pants!!

These rigs are looking amazing guys

 

[specks]

Grnfinger, some of your tubings look kinked or are they?

 

[>>PhoeniX<<]

Yah.... On my little comp cause my phantom took a dump..

 

[specks]

Yeah you should fix it. Maybe go for more flexible tubing?