Re: Bragging rights thread. What monster you running these days?
Posted by Orpheus on
Thu Feb 14th 2013 at 6:12pm
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Occupation: Long Haul Trucking
Location: Long Oklahoma - USA
Mine:
Q9550 quad @ 2.83. 8 gigs ram. 1 gig 6870 ati card. 1.9 T of hard drive and blue ray DVD burner. All with a 32 inch 1080 p TV/Monitor.
The best things in life, aren't things.
Re: Bragging rights thread. What monster you running these days?
Posted by Crono on
Thu Feb 14th 2013 at 7:11pm
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Location: Oregon, USA
AMD FX-8320 CPU
GSKILL DDR3 1866 8GB RAM (CAS 10)
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 SC 2GB GPU
2 HDD, 250GB Maxtor drive (sadly only running at 60MB/s) and a WD Caviar Black 1TB (130MB/s)
24" Hannspree LED LCD monitor 1920x1080 + 42" Samsung Plasma @ 1080p
I also have an optic connection to a Yamaha audio receiver with 5.1 audio.
... and I need to buy an optic drive. I was going to use my DVD burner ... but when building the computer I noticed the board has no PATA connectors! :doh:
Installing stuff was not simple!
By far the two limiting factors of my machine are the main HDD's speed (seriously, neither of the drive I own are even 6 Gbps... and only SSD can even get close to the SATA theoretical maximum) and the Graphics Card. I'd really like to get a GTX 670 4GB card. :sigh:
The board I put in can be seriously upgraded. It CAN do 4 way SLI OR Crossfire. But it can only do dual card SLI or Crossfire at full 16x speed.
The CPU can't actually go up much higher. I'm one chip down from the AMD's highest end desktop chip currently. I imagine ASUS might release some BIOS update to allow the next AM3+ chips to run on it as long as they're 125W or lower.
The RAM can go up to 32GB. I plan on utilizing that first ... after getting a HDD and DVD drive.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Bragging rights thread. What monster you running these days?
Posted by sgtfly on
Fri Mar 8th 2013 at 1:46pm
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Occupation: 5 more years of BS and I'm done. WOOHOO!
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ok I'll post mine
i5 2500k 16gigs amd7950 2/500gig hybrid drives 27 inch hd my main machine
i7 920 6gigs 120ssd 500gig slave amd6850 dual 22inch hd for lan gaming with company
q6600 4gigs 500gig 8800gt sli 24in hd the one I use in the garage alot and for lan games
67?? quad core 6gig 560gts 320gig drive. Got that one from Valve, used it for lan games but I gave it to the oldest grandson cause he thought it was cool.
Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.
Re: Bragging rights thread. What monster you running these days?
Posted by Juim on
Fri Apr 26th 2013 at 3:40pm
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Occupation: Motion Picture Grip
Location: Los Angeles
My current rig is as follows:
Cooler Master CM STORM Trooper Case
ASUS P8Z68V-Pro MOBO with a CoreI7 2600K CPU
Corsair H-100 liquid CPU cooler
16GB Corsair PC2100 RAM
PNY GEForce GTX680 4gig graphics (single card)
2-128gb Corsair Performance pro SSD's (One has Win7, one has Win8)
2-1TB WD Black Caviar Hard drives
2TB Iomega external Hard drive
2-ASUS Blu-ray read/write drives
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200w PSU
Asus 24" 1920X1080 monitor
Dell 23" Monitor (going to get two more of the ASUS monitors when I get back to work)
I'm hoping that with any relative luck, this rig should hold me over for at least another year without any upgrades whatsoever, barring any new technology revelations. I may , however, if I have a good month or two, go for dual Graphics cards though. LOL.