What Are You Running?

[bozodos]

Case: Antec Three Hundred

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel i5 760 2.8ghz

RAM: 4gb dual channel G Skill Ripjaws 1600mhz

Monito: haven't got one yet, probably will get a Dell 24"

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb OC Edition (looking at another for SLI in the future)

HDD(s): 2x 500gb WD Caviar Blacks in RAID 0

OS Used: Windows 7 x64

Peripherals: Dell Multimedia Keyboard, generic mouse

[syfon]

Case: Something random

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel Quad-Core 3ghz or something

RAM: Kingston 4gb DDR3

Monitor: 22" Asus

Graphics Card: can't remember but it's some 1gb card. Goes hard.

HDD(s): 2 x 250GB Western Digital

OS Used: Windows Xp Corporate edition SP2

Soundcard: onboard

Peripherals: Keyboard: Some random MS one, Mouse: Logitech wireless, Speakers: Logitech 5.1 system

[Telcontar]

Apple iMac - Mac OS X 10.6.4 with Windows via Bootcamp (for gaming).

2.66GHz Intel Core i5 / 4GB DDR3

27" Widescreen

Apple Wireless Keyboard/Mouse

Meh, I just got fed up with customised PC setups developing faults and/or quirks that I just went to NextByte and haven't looked back.

[bozodos]

those 27" imacs have awesome screens, pity about the shitty laptop hardware though. I use them at work when forced to

[Telcontar]

running games on the imac is a bit peculiar sometimes, bootcamp does the job of doing windows no problem but I've just felt that games that are compatibile with Mac OS just work smoother.

Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition is my favourite. Just got it the other week and now I'm waiting for the second one.

Can't comment on the laptops hardware. Never used a Macbook before, not one of the modern ones with the aluminum unibody anyway. My uncle has one of the older series and he's never had any trouble with it.

[bozodos]

No I'm saying that the Imac runs laptop components. They are also diabolical to open up to replace the HDD etc in!

[Telcontar]

Ah I see. Yeah I'd agree with that on opening them up. The bloke in the shop who sold the iMac to me stressed several times that unless I had a fair bit of experience dealing with Apple's hardware, it would be much simpler if I just got AppleCare for it.

Glad I did, but I've not had any hardware issues so far, aside from the device emitting a shocking amount of heat.

[R31Nismoid]

Latest update

Case: Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570, Zalman MFC1 Fan Controller

Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-DS4P, Rev 8 BIOS

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel E8400 @ 4.15ghz, 1.28vcore, OCZ Vendetta 2 Prolimatech Megahalems . Using TWO Scythe SlipStream 2000rpm Fans Push/Pull (lapped CPU & Cooler)

RAM: OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 (1066mhz) 2x2gig - Also using Corsair Dominator RAM cooler

Monitor: 19" cheapie LCD 24" BenQ 2400HD LCD

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 4850/PowerColour HD4980 PCS+ 950mhz ASUS TOPCU HD5850

HDD(s): 2x WD 640GB Caviar Greens, 1x Maxtor 180GB, 2x WD 640GB Caviar Blacks RAID0, 2x WD Green JBOD

OS Used: Vista x64 Windows 7

Peripherals: Keyboard - Logitech G15, Mouse - Logitech G9

Also building a home server outta old/recycled/2nd hand bits

Case: Thermaltake Soprano

Motherboard: EP45-Extreme (i might sell it if someone is interested, its pretty ridiculous for a file server hehe)

CPU & CPU Cooler: E6650

RAM: 2GB DDR2

Monitor: N/A

Graphics Card: ati x1600 old skool

HDD(s): 1x PERC 5/i RAID card, pins disabled for Intel board - then feeds SAS --> SATA & 5x1TB WD Black's RAID5

OS Used: WHS

Peripherals: N/A

[S4LVA]

PC 1

Case - Thermaltake v9

Motherboard - Asus M4A89TD-PRO-USB3

Cpu - AM3 965 Black Edition (stock 3.4ghz) Coolermaster TX2

Ram - G-skill Ripjaws 1333mhz 8GB

Monitor - Samsung LCD 40" 1080p TV

Graphics - Gainward GTX260 core 216

HDD - Seagate 7200 1TB Sata

PSU - Thermaltake Toughpower 850w

O/S - 7 Home x64

PC 2

Case - Thermaltake v4

Motherboard - Asus m3n-h/hdmi

Cpu - AM3 955 3.2ghz (flashed bios for compatability) Coolermaster TX2

Ram - Kingston Hyper-X 4gb (2x2gb)

Graphics - Asus 5770

HDD - Seagate 7200 500GB

PSU - Thermaltake 450w

O/S Win 7 x64

Monitor - Samsung 40" LCD 1080p TV

[pistol-pete]

Case: Coolermaster Cosmos S, 8x80mm Zalman Red LED fans, Zalman MFC1 Fan Controller, Blu-ray Burner

MB: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4

CPU & CPU Cooler: i5 750 (OC'd at 3.2ghz), Zalman CNPS9900A

RAM: G.Skill Trident 2000mhz DDR3 4x2GB

Monitor: 2x22" Asus

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 5870

HDD(s): 1x80GB Intel X25-M SSD (OS), 2x1TB, 1x750GB, 1x500GB

OS: Vista x64 Windows 7

Peripherals: Keyboard - Logitech G15, Mouse - Logitech G9

Gotta build myself a NAS unit soon too

[25GTT]

pistol pete i am looking now at a setup similar to yours, i already have the 5870, what PSU are you running? what wattage is it at to run all those HDDs?

[bozodos]

sifn't get 2x GTX 460's! ATI drivers SUCK

[DivHunter]

sifn't get 2x GTX 460's! ATI drivers SUCK

as opposed to leaving features active being a bug in nVidia drivers.

They both make some pretty ordinary drivers.

6000 series out soon, stupid to buy a new graphics card right now of any brand.

[bozodos]

meh the 6 series isn't going to reinvent the wheel, and no swapping from ATI to nvidia cards got rid of all of the problems that I had previously, like the newest version of catalyst breaking the f**king video card drivers, and older opengl games not working at all.

[DivHunter]

meh the 6 series isn't going to reinvent the wheel, and no swapping from ATI to nvidia cards got rid of all of the problems that I had previously, like the newest version of catalyst breaking the f**king video card drivers, and older opengl games not working at all.

Price drops mang, not go buy a 6870

[bozodos]

don't think prices are going to drop much more as it seems that Nvidia won't be releasing another high end video card until late next year

[pistol-pete]

cant say ive had any issues at all with ati's drivers. its been an awesome card.

pistol pete i am looking now at a setup similar to yours, i already have the 5870, what PSU are you running? what wattage is it at to run all those HDDs?

psu is a coolermaster silent pro m 600W, has been running all the hdds no worries for over a year

[MUZT3K]

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ MX

MB: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R

CPU: intel i7 930

RAM: 6GB

Monitor: 23" Samsung LED 2ms

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HIS 5850 1gb x2 (crossfire x)

HDD(s): 1 TB + 500gb external

OS: Windows 7 64bit

Peripherals: Keyboard - microsoft sidewinder x5 , Mouse - microsoft sidewinder x8 speakers Logitech 5.1 system

(built about 8 months ago all parts purchased from PC DIY and MSY boxhill)

[comieodor]

I'm in the same boat as Telcontar. Used to build my own PC's (except for an old Apple Powerbook for work)

Got tired of the messing about and jumped ship to a Mac desktop when the new 27" iMac's were released:

Specs:

27" Primary Display + and old 22" display mt old Lady's work was throwing out.

i7 2.8Hhz (Desktop Version)

4GB Ram

ATI Radeon 4850 (sadly its the Laptop Variant)

1TB HDD

Bootcamp - Dual Booting OSX 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) and Windows 7 (x64)

Also use VirtualBox to run Windows XP for old software like FAST.

Logitec G25 3 Pedal+H-Pattern Steering wheel

Saitek x45 HOTAS Joystick

[bozodos]

haha all of the internal components are laptop ones apart from the Hard Disk and Processor (IIRC the GFX is integrated onto the mainboard as well)

Don't know why you'd go from building your own to an Imac tbh