| Author | Message | ||
     Phelan |
Can't wait to see the benchmarks. I'm building a new PC next month, and I'll probably drop one of these babies in it to make it future-proof  | ||
| Froggy |
Yikes, $600 for the cheapest sandy bridge E on newegg! I don't *need* to upgrade, but my computer is old and decrepit with only 4 cores and 8gb of ram. I will probably pull the trigger over the winter. By the way, Skyrim is great at 2560x1600  | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm looking at a i5-2500k ( 1555 pin ) with a Z68 chipset for the next machine. Downside is the lack of pipelines for multi-SLI rigs. Saving grace is that high end motherboards still allow for that, and it's 700+ bucks cheaper than the new toys and test show it games the same. I can buy a LOT of video card for the price difference, and get higher frame rates and better picture. If I was doing lots of video work or other massive multithreading work, then the new 2011-pin rigs will rule. YMMV I'm actually glad I waited to buy a new rig, since the first (2) gens of the mamaboards had issues. Keep an eye out, I find actually reading the ratings at Newegg tells me a lot. SSD's that die in weeks, stuff that stinks....until the new firmware update makes it awesome, etc. | ||
| Pwnzor |
ummmm... My P4 still does what I need it to do. | ||
| Phelan |
Froggy, my roommates have been playing Skyrim constantly. I haven't been big into games in a while, but I've always wanted to build an awesome computer, and the funds will be there next month, so I want to bite the bullet. Also, the PC is going to double as a media and file converter for my side business. I plan on getting a Sabertooth X79 mb, i7 3930K, 16 GB quad channell ram, and twin EVGA GTX 560 ti's to push triple 20" monitors for some awesome multitasking. | ||
| Phelan |
And I do plan to play Skyrim. I played a ton of Morrowwind, but I couldn't get into Oblivion because I couldn't get over how ugly EVERYBODY was in that game so I didn't play it past 5 min. I also plan on doing some Need For Speed of course . | ||
| J2blue |
NERDS!  | ||
| Phelan |
Oh, and for anybody curious, it's all going in a modded NZXT Phantom case with 120 GB SSD boot drive, Kingwin 850w PSU, Corsair H100 H20 CPU cooler (w/ 240 mm radiator), 9-10 case fans (still deciding on one or two locations to better flow air to the GPUs). It should overclock like a boss too  . | ||
| Notpurples2 |
I tried my hand at computer building for the first time this year. Nothing special at all cause I didn't want to spend big $$$ and only to fail and have a big pile of expensive junk. I was quite surpised how easy it was. Don't laugh it's my first build: Biostar 880G MicroATX MB AMD Athlon II X3 445 3.1Ghz (Haven't tried unlocking yet) 4Gb Ripjaws RAM 1Tb Samsung 7200rpm HD Apex MicroATX MidTower w/PS Like I said basic and cheap (under $250 when I bought it since everything was on sale at NewEgg) but it does everything I need, which isn't much. I've played a little DDO and might give WOW a whirl but I don't have much time for gaming. | ||
| Froggy |
Three 20"ers? Amateur   19", 20" wide, 27" wide, 30" wide, 27" wide. Also, it is dead silent. The blue tower is my water cooler reservoir/heat-sink. Other than some occasional hard dive clicking, I don't hear a damn thing, Dynamat lined case is great | ||
| Phelan |
Froggy, your rig is sweet. Makes me want to throw in my 19" monitor into the mix also. But we'll see. I'm trying to keep as clean of asethetics as I can since I still have to use my desk for other stuff too. I'm stil waiting to see the reviews of the new intel lga 2011 mb after the final bios are released. It's a few bucks cheaper than the Sabertooth and would match my color scheme much better, but depends on its performance. | ||
| Phelan |
BTW, what's up with VGA adapter on the side? Is that for a MacBook or what? | ||
| Phelan |
Check out Azio's new mechanical modular keyboard. I must have this with a R.A.T. 7. http://www.gizmag.com/azio-levetron-mech4-keyboard/20311/ (Message edited by Phelan on November 16, 2011) | ||
| Froggy |
If I'm ever going to own a MacBook, it is to hold my door open. That adapter is a Mini Displayport to DVI adapter, I found out the hard way that it isn't compatible with my setup. I do need to replace my aging original style G15 keyboard, but I'm yet to find something I really like. That Mech4 looks cool but the G15 has more features. | ||
| Phelan |
DVI, my bad. We use the same connector on my Youth Pastor's MacBook Pro to throw Pro Presenter up on the Projector. I like Macs but have no need for one unless I have to use Pwnagetool (only when I need a feature of it that Sn0wbreeze doesn't have), and I have my fiance's MacBook available for that . For the church, everyone is on Macs for their viable and easy to learn media interface that never really needs to be messed with for our purposes. I mean, how much more do you want to put on a slide besides video and text? lol | ||
| Phelan |
I just noticed you mentioned Dynamat lining the case. That's a great idea . | ||
| Froggy |
It comes factory installed in many of the higher end Lian Li cases. I think I spent $600 on the case, but it is freaking amazing.  http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112093 | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
My game PC has this case and it's pretty quiet for an air-breathing rig: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 2E16811129021 The big fan runs slowly and doesn't make much noise. My old media storage/web-browsing rig is a beater that makes a proper din! Though it used to be worse when I was running all six hard drives. I copied all of my crap into a 1T and a 2T drive so now only two drives hold all of my tv shows/movies. My wife's is most quiet of our batch. It's one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 2E16883220074 It came with a bracket to bolt it right to a table. I screwed it to the underside of her table and you don't even see it! I put a four connector USB hub under the monitor so you never actually touch it. I'm proud of her rig. It came out pretty nicely. | ||
| Darth_villar |
Froggy, It looks like you are rocking the Steel Battalion controller there! I have always wanted to try and adapt that awesome controller to more game systems... never did though. That setup is sick | ||
| Phelan |
Nate, I like that case but my brother, my roommate, and two of our best friends all have that same case. I wanted to venture out a hare and use something different. |
