Pc Setup - Chat Thread

[ShiftyTys]

Coolermaster HAF 932 case

Corsair 850w modular psu

Noctua d14 CPU cooler

8 gb gskill ripjaws 1600 8-8-8-24

Intel i7 2600k (oc to 4.5 ghz with no vcore change. Just multi - not finished )

Gigabyte gtx285

Giganbyte ud5 mb

120gb ocz SSd 285mbps read/write

2tb caviar black (games)

2tb samsung green (media)

1tb caviar green for random (pr0n etc. )Rofl

SuperPi 1m = 7.6 secs.

26 degrees idle.

48 degrees max on burn-in test after 4 hours.

50 degree max on prime-95

Edited February 27, 2011 by ShiftyTys

[Madaz]

nice overclock

[ShiftyTys]

nice overclock

Thx! The 2600k is an amazing chip. Aiming for 5ghz

[bozodos]

nice overclock, pity you wasted it by putting your games on 5400rpm drives @_@

[ShiftyTys]

nice overclock, pity you wasted it by putting your games on 5400rpm drives @_@

Do you know what a WD caviar black Hdd is? It's just the fastest spinning drive on the market. Forget raptor. Inneficient way to increase speed by rpm. Also you see the SSd there? Important games on there.

[R31Nismoid]

How is your Prime95 hotter than IBT?

ITB will usually see 10 degrees more than Prime in every PC I've ever built from standard E5200 to overclocked everything!

Someone gimme 1800... I need to regeek myself. All i've done is build home/stocker PC's for friends the past 6 months.

Nothing fast or remotely interesting

[bozodos]

my bad, read black for green.

I have 2 blacks in a stripe, it's pretty good, but you're having a laugh if you think it's anywhere near a raptor, or striped raptors for that matter, which are as fast as an SSD but with more space.

[ShiftyTys]

How is your Prime95 hotter than IBT?

ITB will usually see 10 degrees more than Prime in every PC I've ever built from standard E5200 to overclocked everything!

Someone gimme 1800... I need to regeek myself. All i've done is build home/stocker PC's for friends the past 6 months.

Nothing fast or remotely interesting

Different days. In fact I was gonna say idle temps for the day, before the load temps in my post. But then I CBf. Lol

Yeh 1800 for my rig. Oc the 2600k is bliss.

[CHASRS4]

My Setup

LAPTOP $699

BRAND: ASUS K52F

OS: Windows 7 Premium

CPU: Intel Core i3 370M, 2.4GHz

VGA: Intel Graphics Media Accelarator HD

DISPLAY: 15.6 HD/LED BL

HDD: 320GB

MEMORY: 3GB

GAMING COMPUTER $450 (Swap Meet Build)

BRAND: None

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate

CPU: AMD Athlon II x2 255 Processors (2 CPUs) 3.1GHz

VGA: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

DISPLAY: Pioneer 50inch TV

HDD: 500GB

MEMORY: 2GB

[bozodos]

why two seperate CPU's?

[liger]

whats everyone using for temp monitoring?

i've been using everest ultimate ( now AIDA64). and using MSI afterburner as a backup/second check

[R31Nismoid]

For what part?

Plenty of parts that can be checked lol

Although i dont check my CPU anymore. It's run 4.2ghz or whatever daily for almost 3 years now, never got hot in the first 6 months and that was good enough for me.

Although i do make sure i clean it every 3-5 months from dust etc. And i do check the CPU after reseating the heatsink

[bozodos]

I don't bother with constant CPU monitoring, but I generally have Core Temp installed.

I use MSI afterburner for GFX overclocking / monitoring

[Mayuri Krab]

Core temp here as well.

Don't really bother to check it now days, my main desktop is like several years old already so in other words it already a POS Hyundai Excel.

[Madaz]

hahahahh PC's go from Ferrari to Skyline to Hyundai sooo fast

[bozodos]

i don't think it's as bad as it used to be; for example the difference between a computer made in 1997 and 2001 is huge, 2007 - 2011 not so much (ie multiple cores, decent graphics cards that can still actually run games etc)

[syfon]

Would it be worth buying say a 60gb Solid State Hard Drive just to install Windows 7 on? And then run my games etc off another 7200rpm hard drive?

By doing this, will it effect games performance in a positive manner?

[bozodos]

you'll see better boot times, but games won't really run any quicker.

I looked into it for mine, and thought "nah f**k that" and didn't have the cash for 2x VelociRaptors, so Caviar Blacks it was!

2x Velociraptors in RAID 0 will kick an average SSD and have al ot more space!

[Madaz]

what about the OCZ PCI ssd

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-z-drive-r3-p84-pci-express-ssd.html

EDIT

hahahah pretty dear but $1399 on newegg

but the revo drive is a lot cheaper

[R31Nismoid]

The PCI SSD's are still not as cheap as the 2nd gen SSD. They are line ball still even though they should be cheaper theoretically.

3rd Gen SSD's are coming out. I've been watching as I'm due to a refresh in the next 6 months and intel is due for another update in Q4 i believe.

So end of year will be good timing i think.

SSD wise - put the game(s) on it also. just having it on the OS is only boot time and sometimes load performance. However games do benefit from being on a SSD. No doubt about that