What Are You Running?

[SoFreshSoClean]

Just upgraded my beast. Tax time ftw.

Case: Antec 300 Gaming Case

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z86X-UD3R-B3

CPU & CPU Cooler: i5 2500k

RAM: G.Skill RIPJAWS 8GB 1600mhz

Monitor: Samsung 2443BW & Samsung 203BW

Graphics Card: AMD 6970 2GB

HDD(s): 2 x 120GB SSD's, 1 x Western Digital 1TB Black, 1 x Western Digital 500GB Green

OS Used: Windows 7

Peripherals: MS Sidewinder Keyboard, Logitech Performance MX Mouse, Logitech Z5500 speakers, Beyerdynamic DT250 Headphones

Sound Card Asus Xonar Essence ST

[Madaz]

Case: Thermaltake V9

Cooling: Some large Thermaltake Heatpipe type setup

Motherboard: Asus P5e SLI

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel Q6600 @ 3.3 standard volts (i think)

RAM: 4GB Xtreem Dark 1066

Sound: On Board

Monitor: Acer G245H 24"

Graphics Card: 2x 4850 1gb OC

Power: Coolmaster 850w

HDD(s): Western Digital 320gb primary 800gb games

OS Used: Win7 64bit ultimate signed edition

>>3d Mark Vantage 13438<<

>>3d Mark06 17425<<

Upgraded Mobo, cpu and ram yesterday

Gigabyte G-B Z68MA-D2H-B3, i7 2600k, gskill sniper ram 8gb kit 1333 runs very nice it added about 1k to my vantage score oh since my first post i have swapped out the 2x 4850 1gb for 1x 6950 1gb will do my updated vantage score now

EDIT

Vantage saw a significant boost even running stock

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3355959 P20585 3DMarks

EDIT 2

P21289 3DMarks with a mild overclock @ 4hz http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3356052

[friction_point]

Hi guys, recently built this myself, haven't benchmarked it though

Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D

Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Extreme II

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel I7 920 @ 4.2GHz running on a watercooled Corsair H70

RAM: Corsair XMS 12GB kit

Monitor: LG LED 21"

Graphics Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 5970 OC Edition

HDD(s): 2x 2TB Samsung SATA II's

OS Used: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Peripherals: Logitech THX 5.1 speakers, MS Sidewinder X6 Keyboard, Logitech Performance MX Mouse

Misc: Corsair 850w Silent Pro PSU, silent 80mm fans

Soundcard: Creative x-Fi 7.1

Edited August 2, 2011 by friction_point

[oweban]

Just realised I hadn't done one of these. Possible CPU/RAM/Mobo update coming soon... Will wait and see. Might put money towards holiday to Europe or paying off loans.

Case: Antec P180

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R

CPU & CPU Cooler: C2D E8400 (stock as a rock) w/ TRUE + Noctua (or Vantec?) 120mm

RAM: 4Gb Team Dark 1066

Monitor: Some 24" Benq thing, 1080p, meh.

Graphics Card: Gainward Phantom GTX 570 1280Mb

HDD(s): 60Gb OCZ Vertex 2 for C:, and 2TB WD Black for everything else. Only V2 cause only have 3Gbit/s SATA on mobo

OS Used: Win7 Home Prem x64

Peripherals: Logitech: G19, G9x, G930, Z5500; Razer Goliathus Alpha, OCZ Fatal1ty 750W PSU (ooh flat cables)

Whole system is quiet as hell. Old GPU had TRAD2 + 2x 92mm Noctua fans on it, was amazing how quiet that was, the GTX only gets a little noisy (and still not that noticeable, kinda like someone's got a bedroom fan on in another room kinda noise) when I've been gaming for 8 hours straight.

When I upgrade will probably be to the i5 2500K, and then go for 8Gb RAM and a Vertex 3.

[Scriblez]

Hey Guys, Thought I'd kick my first post off with this.

Case: Antec DF-85

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD39-B3

CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k

RAM: 8GB Ripjaw G.Skill

Monitor: Samsung 24" HD

Graphics Card: ASUS Nvidia Geforce GTX560

HDD(s): 1x Seagate 1TB, 1x Seagate 2TB

OS Used: Win7 Home Prem x64

Peripherals: Mouse: Razer Mamba. Keyboard: Logitech G110

[SoFreshSoClean]

Just upgraded my beast. Tax time ftw.

Case: Antec 300 Gaming Case

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z86X-UD3R-B3

CPU & CPU Cooler: i5 2500k addded Thermalright TRUE 120 cooler

RAM: G.Skill RIPJAWS 8GB 1600mhz

Monitor: Samsung 2443BW & Samsung 203BW

Graphics Card: AMD 6970 2GB

HDD(s): 2 x 120GB SSD's, 1 x Western Digital 1TB Black, 1 x Western Digital 500GB Green

OS Used: Windows 7

Peripherals: MS Sidewinder Keyboard, Logitech Performance MX Mouse, Logitech Z5500 speakers, Beyerdynamic DT250 Headphones

Sound Card Asus Xonar Essence ST

Also added a Thortech Thunnderbolt 850w PSU.

Now running at 4.7ghz

[T-Rex]

Also added a Thortech Thunnderbolt 850w PSU.

Now running at 4.7ghz

Crikey's! Highest clock i have had was 4.8ghz on an i7 920 and that was with a phase change cooler.

My rig now consists of

Case: Antec Twelve Hundred case (soon to be replaced by lian li V2120X)

Motherboard: Gigabyte X58A UD3

CPU: i7 930 @ 3.3ghz air cooled by Noctua heat sink

GPU: Gainward GTX560ti x2

Hard Drive: 120gb OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (for games)

Memory: 6gb Corsair 1600mhz

Power: Antec 1000w

Sound Card: None, Auzentech refused to work on my system, now i use Razer Magalodon headphones.

OS: Vista 64 ultimate

Monitor: 5yr old Dell 22" 1680x1050 (to be replaced by Samsung 27" 120hz 3d monitor)

This setup plays every game i have maxxed out at 60fps except The Witcher 2 with uber sampling which runs at about 40-50fps. The GTX560ti and Radeon 6950 are brilliant in SLI/Crossfire

[Josh_TypeX]

Just bought the following parts:

Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V

Ram: 8GB (4Gx2) 1600 Kingston hyperx

HDD: WD Green 2T

GPU: 2G 6950 sapphire

CPU: i5-2500K

Optical drive: SATA Blu-Ray Writer LG

Monitor: 24” 2ms Asus VS248H-DVI-HDMI

Power supply: Antec HCG 900

Case: Thermaltake Lanparty V9

Now trying to put it all together!

[Mayuri Krab]

Just bought the following parts:

Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V

Ram: 8GB (4Gx2) 1600 Kingston hyperx

HDD: WD Green 2T

GPU: 2G 6950 sapphire

CPU: i5-2500K

Optical drive: SATA Blu-Ray Writer LG

Monitor: 24” 2ms Asus VS248H-DVI-HDMI

Power supply: Antec HCG 900

Case: Thermaltake Lanparty V9

Now trying to put it all together!

Please tell me you have another 7,200 rpm HDD or SSD there as your OS boot drive?

My new system:

CPU: Intel i7 2600K

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Mobo: Asus P8Z68-deluxe

Ram: 8Gb G.Skill Ripjaw-X 2133

GPU: Inno3D GTX 570

SSD 1: Curical M4 128Gb

SSD 2: ST 64 Gb

HDD 1: 1 TB Samsung 7,200rpm

HDD 2: WD 500Gb 7,200rpm

HDD 3: WD 500Gb 7,200rpm

HDD 4: WD Green 1.5TB

HDD 5: WD Green 2 TB

Optical Drive: LG BD-writer

Case: Antec 1200

PSU: Cosair 650W-TX

Now I'm looking around for a 1900x1200 monitor instead of the common 1080p ones, which seem to be rare as!

[bozodos]

done a bit more fiddling around to mine, mostly longer term upgrades.

Case: Coolermaster HAF 932 Advanced

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4

CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel i5 760 3.8ghz 1.264v stable, Coolermaster Hyper 212+ (bloody awesome for $35!)

RAM: 2GB x4 dual channel G Skill Ripjaws 1528mhz (CBF fiddling with it anymore to get it closer to its original rating, still at a CAS 8 latency)

Monitor: 24" Benq

Graphics Card: 2x Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb OC Edition in SLI (currently running @ 870/1740/2004 mhz 1.025v)

HDD(s): 2x 300gb WD Velociraptors in RAID 0, 1TB Caviar Green 2TB Caviar green storage drives

PSU: Silverstone Strider 850W

Soundcard: Asus Xonar DG

Speakers: Logitech Z-5500

OS Used: Windows 7 x64

Peripherals: Dell Multimedia Keyboard, Logitech MX518 mouse, OCZ mouse mat

Edited September 11, 2011 by bozodos

[BigDirtyJase]

Well this is my setup - It's about 90% there...just need to buy the HDD's and the 2nd Monitor

CPU:

Intel Core i5 2500K (Quad-Core, 3.30GHz, 6MB Cache, Socket 1155)

Motherboard:

ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

CPU Cooler:

Coolermaster Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler

RAM:

8GB (2x4GB) G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3 1866

Video Card:

Sapphire 2GB AMD Radeon HD6950 Dirt 3 Edition

O/S Drive:

Corsair Force Series 3 60GB SSD

System/Program Drive:

WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 Drive

Storage Drives:

2x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA3

Sound Card:

Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

Optical Drive:

Pioneer SATA 219L BK DVD-RW Drive

Case:

Coolermaster HAF 932 Case

PSU:

Antec HCG (High Current Gamer) 900W

Monitors:

2x LG 23” LED Monitors – $318

[oweban]

Getting some new stuff in today, upgrades time! Going from a C2D E8400 rig to this:

Case: Fractal Design Define R3 Titanium (w/ USB 3.0 front ports) w/ OCZ Fatal1ty 750W PSU

Motherboard: GA-Z68XP-UD3

CPU & CPU Cooler: Core i5 2500K with Noctua NH-U12P

RAM: 16Gb GSkill F3-10666CL9Q-16GBXL (4x4GB) DDR3

Monitor: BenQ G2420HD 24"

Graphics Card: Gainward Phantom GTX570 1280Mb

HDD(s): 60Gb OCZ Vertex 2, 2Tb WD Black (to store games and documents), 2Tb WD Green (to do random file dump)

OS Used: Win7 Home Premium x64

Peripherals: Logitech G19, G9x, G930, some Altech Lansing 2.1 speakers..

the stuff i bought

[teinbits]

Hey guys,

every one seems to be upgrading come Tax time .....guilty myself

CPU:

Intel Core i5 2500K (Quad-Core, 3.30GHz, 6MB Cache, Socket 1155)

Motherboard:

ASRock Z68m USB3

RAM:

8GB (2x4GB) G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3 1866mhz

Video Card:

Nvidia - Gigabyte GTX 560

O /S:

Windows 7 64bit

O/S Drive:

Patriot Torqx 2 64GB SSD

Program Drive:

WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA3 Drive

Optical Drive:

LG blue ray writer

Case:

ANTEC 900

PSU:

CORSAIR TX650

Monitors:

LG Flatron 27" Full HD 1080p

Speakers:

Logitech 2.1 (Headset: Volve Gaming)

Keyboard / Mouse:

Razer Lycosa / Razer Naga mmo

Plays Battlefield 3 on High settings @ 1080p no problem

Thanks guys,

[A-K]

<silly post>

iMac 27"

</silly post>

...waits for haters...

Edited December 15, 2011 by A-K

[bozodos]

enjoy your overheating laptop in a screen

[RB BLUEY]

Case: Lian LI Aluminium w/1000W PSU

Motherboard: Gigabyte AM3+ 2 x 16 PCI-X

CPU & CPU Cooler: AMD 6 core Black Edition, stock cooler for now

RAM: 16 GB DDR3 1600 9,9,9

Monitor: 3 X Asus 24 inch Eyefinity

Graphics Card: 2 x Gigabyte 6990's in crossfire

HDD(s): 4x Kingston 64GB SSD in RAID 0, 1x Samsung 2TB

OS Used: Win 7 x64

Between the Stagea, my rifles & PC bits I never seem to have $$$

[NISMØ]

About to build a new rig: I like to game, and I'm a hobbyist photographer.

Case: Antec 900

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T BE

Mobo: Asrock 970 Extreme4

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo

Cooler Compound: Arctic Silver 5

GPU: Sapphire 6870 1GB

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB 1866MHz

RAM Cooler: G.Skill Turbulence 2

SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 (Software / images for editing before storage)

HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB x2 (Storage)

PSU: NZXT Hale82 750W Modular

Montior: LG IPS231P 23"

..

thats all Ive got so far, plan on upgrading to a nice Razer mouse/keyboard when funds permit. Then following that, another monitor.

[Mayuri Krab]

Build a another PC out from spare left over parts in the shed to use as a media player with my new Sony TV & Yamaha A/V receiver after both my PS3 & Sony 3D blue ray player failed to play some of my 1080p encoded animes...

Intel Q6600 OCed @ 3Ghz

Kingston Hyper X DDR 2 800 Ram

Gigabyte P35 DS3P mobo

Palit GeForce GTX 260+ OC

2x 500GB WD blue HDD in Raid 0

LG BD writer

LG DVD writer

550W SF PSU

TT Mamobo Case

Edited December 22, 2011 by Mayuri Krab

[Aleckr33]

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[JNSr33]

My Gaming PC build,

Case:

Antec Six Hundred Gaming Case

PSU:

Antec Quattro TruePower 1200w Supply

Motherboard:

Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 Socket 2011 MB

CPU:

Intel i7-3930K (3.2Ghz) 6-Cores Socket 2011 CPU

CPU Cooler:

Corsair Hydro Series H80 Liquid CPU Cooler

RAM:

Corsair 16GB(4x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL9 Vengeance

Graphics Card:

HD6990 PCI-E 2.1 4GB 256-bit GDDR5

HDD:

1x Seagate 2TB SATA3 64MB HDD (may get another down the track)

OS Used:

Windows Prof 7 64bit

Optical Drive:

LG Blue-Ray Disc Rewriter Internal BH12LS38 OEM

Monitor:

ASUS 27'' VE278Q

Speakers:

Logitech Z506 5.1 Surround Speakers

Keyboard:

Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard

Mouse:

Razer Mamba 4G + Razer Goliathus - Fragged Standard Mousemat