Show Us Your Rig [2]

ZaLiTH · 18 Oct 2011

Haha, yeah.. And unashamedly so. I ran two old XFX 320MB 8800GTS cards in SLI quite a while back, pretty much just because I had two of them... The high temps and power draw really didn't justify the performance, but it looked pretty impressive. :)

ganjiry · 18 Oct 2011

hi all. new gpu comes 2day so once thats in n ive done the cable management Again lol. il get a couple of pics up

Darkelk · 18 Oct 2011

ZaLiTH said:

Haha, yeah.. And unashamedly so. I ran two old XFX 320MB 8800GTS cards in SLI quite a while back, pretty much just because I had two of them... The high temps and power draw really didn't justify the performance, but it looked pretty impressive. :)

Haha, that's the main thing! :)

Darkelk · 18 Oct 2011

ganjiry said:

hi all. new gpu comes 2day so once thats in n ive done the cable management Again lol. il get a couple of pics up

Nice man, let us know what card it is when you've got some photos. :)

ganjiry · 18 Oct 2011

this b the card im gettin

MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Aria Technology

Dave76 · 18 Oct 2011

mickey megabyte said:

just finished upgrading my rig today!

i kept the case, the dusty cards and drive and ripped out the old dual-core mobo/cpu/ram/fan and replaced with new Sandy Bridge i5 2500K and 8 gigs of ram goodness. :) maybe i'll stick an i7 in there one day...

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i think i may have put the heatsink/fan the wrong way round, but hey-ho, it still keeps it cool.

i used a mobo auto-overclocking feature to crank the cpu from 3.3 to 4.2 GHz - I'm sure it'll go higher if i spend some time mucking around with voltages, not sure if i'll need to yet...maybe on a rainy day.

couldn't be bothered to do any benchmarking, but this new rig sure seems a lot swifter than it used to be.

Great rig MM, great upgrade choices

96accord said:

Good Morning Everyone (or whatever part of the day it is where you are at),

I have updated some of my stuff in my PC for the upcoming BF3!

I had a 512MB nVidia 9800GTX+ video card but that would not handle the BF3 Beta..

So I upgraded that to a MSi 2GB HD 6950 PE/OC (see pic below - not my pic)

Since I only had a 500w Antec PSU I figured I'd upgrade that while I was at it.

I went with the OCZ 700w Mod-Extreme Pro (see pic below - not my pic)

I also went from Windows 7 Home 32-bit to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Nice GPU, that is quite a jump, enjoy

Darkelk said:

Here's my current build. Still working on it, plan to sli another 560 and add some cold cathodes and fans.

Nice rig, good wiring job

Darkelk · 18 Oct 2011

Thankyou very much, its suprising how much longer a build is just due to cable management.

96accord · 18 Oct 2011

Alsisgevat said:

That MSI looks sweet

!!

Yeah it's definitely sweet so far. Only game I've tested is BC2 and it runs smooth!

JaidynM said:

A very nice new GPU + PSU, 96accord. MSI in my opinion is great so you should have minimal troubles with it. I hope anyway. :)

I haven't owned much MSi products but it definitely looks great and a good deal :) Thanks

ganjiry said:

hi all. new gpu comes 2day so once thats in n ive done the cable management Again lol. il get a couple of pics up

ganjiry said:

this b the card im gettin

MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Aria Technology

Nice!!!! Same card as me!! :)

Muad Dib · 19 Oct 2011

Darkelk said:

Thankyou very much, its suprising how much longer a build is just due to cable management.

Yeah, but it is so pretty when it is done thoughtfully!

Alsisgevat · 19 Oct 2011

I prefer asus,but have built a few msi rigs and they have some nice features included for overclocking.

And the cable management is fun for me,it rounds up the entire rig,sort of like the cherry on top.