Gaming Rigs

[Velsia]

Im curious on what other people play on, Im currently playing on the first computer i've ever put together, and looking to expand on it (with my financial aid money lol).

I fell in love with the NZXT Phantom case T_T ive been told only girls set up rigs with lights, i think it looks cool >_> idk what the big deal is.

Nothing fancy, costed me about $600 (Including Windows 7 purchase), AMD Athlon II dual core, Radeon HD 5770 i believe, 500GB Hard Drive, 2Gb DDR3 Ram x2, ive been using the stock cpu cooler T_T which ive read isnt recommended but money was tight. Left side and top 200mm fan, front and rear 140mm fans, right side 2 120mm fans. Only the front and left side fans light up though. I stuck in an LED strip inside the rig though ^^; heh


Learned some cable management

[Xeb]

If I post a picture of Llamda in here.. will that count?

[Polyman]

Here's some stuff I just copy/pasted from the Cyberpower PC website where I bought this. I had a lot of money to spend after a long summer internship and it's been working really great for me. Oh, and I went with the green light and I also think it's pretty cool.

Mega Infinity 6000 Lightning

CAS: Apevia X-Trooper Junior LED Light Mid-Tower Case w/ Side Window [-6] (Green LED Light Color [+0])

CD: Asus BC-12B1ST 12X Blu-Ray Combo DVDRW Drive [+0] (BLACK COLOR)

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-960 3.20 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366

CS_FAN: Maximum 120MM Case Cooling Fans for your selected case [+9]

FA_HDD: Vigor iSURF II Hard Disk Drive Cooling System [+21] (1 x System)

FAN: Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Single Standard 120MM Fan)

HDD: 750GB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [-5] (Single Hard Drive)

MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module (Corsair Dominator)

MONITOR: 24" Widescreen 1920x1080 Asus VH242H LCD w/ Built-in Speaker, DVI, & HDMI [+175]

MOTHERBOARD: * (3-Way SLI Support) MSI X58A-GD45 Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Triple-Channel DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Audio, eSATA, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III, RAID, IEEE1394a, 3 Gen2 PCIe, 3 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI (All Venom OC Certified)

MULTIVIEW: Xtreme Performance in SLI/CrossFireX Gaming Mode Supports Single Monitor [+0]

NETWORK: Killer Xeno Pro Gigabit High Speed Online Gaming PCI Network Interface Card [+0]

POWERSUPPLY: 950 Watts - XtremeGear Gaming Power Supply [+79]

VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6750 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [+65] (Major Brand Powered by ATI)

[Dythan]

Nice rigs o.o... mine isnt anything special so I got nothing to really post

[Velsia]

o.o How much did you spend on that Poly?

[Polyman]

Like 1,200. It was some Back to School special thing for college kids and most of the stuff was like upgraded for free or discounted. Like I said though, I spent all summer working a paid internship and just had nothing else to spend it on lol.

And if you were here before, you'd know why I wanted a badass computer so badly...just check my in-game guild comment.

[Clezzy]

Pulling in 3, 2, 1 no- Shit Poly DC'd. "IT'S COOL GUYS I'M BACK IN" *3 minutes later* Shit Poly DC'd.

Now imagine that every. Single. Raid night.

[Llamda]

http://divideguild.net/threads/3615-Time-for-an-upgrade

[Xeb]

Alright I'm back at home and as I promised I've got some pictures, and some videos to show of my gaming rig and setup

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The full specs are as follows:

Corsair 800D Case
Intel Core i5-2500k OC'd to 4.8GHz
Corsair H100 Liquid CPU Cooler with 4 Panaflo fans in push/pull
16GB G.Skill 2134MHz DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 Motherboard
3-way SLI EVGA GTX 480s OC'd to 850 Core / 4400 Memory Clock
2x Crucial C300 128GB SSDs in Raid 0
Antec High Current Pro Gold 1200w PSU
Green Cathodes :3

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And here are some pics!

The case is massive...

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With side door on.

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With side door off. As you can see, it's very green.

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3-Way SLI is not for the faint of heart.

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And this is what my gaming desk looks like. My shitty phone camera can't take a good picture of screens but you get the idea.

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And here are a couple videos!

This first one shows how loud the computer is with all the fans running at max (basically anytime I'm gaming). It's... fairly loud, the iPhone mic doesn't really pick it all up:



And just so you get an idea of what 3 screen WoW is like I added this video too:

[Velsia]

fucking amazing, so jealous x.x

[Undeadmage]

[Dythan]

Ok first Xeb holy crap awesome setup o.o you better raid with all those screens too lol

second Udm nice pc man I see that gears emblem there! I see it!

[Elderbrock]

Udm, your video card is in the incorrect slot. When using a single card, you should put it in the first pci-e 16x slot since the third and sometimes the second slot does not run at full speed.

[Undeadmage]

yeah...here's the problem I ran into with that. it doesn't fully seat when placed in the first slot. see the little heatsink on the above right, it sticks up too high.

[Elderbrock]

I find it hard to believe Asus designed a mobo that doesnt allow a reference video card to not fit on its first video slot. Whats the model number on the motherboard?