Show Us Your Rig [4]

[A Guy]

I believe Gary means what specifically makes it a Media PC? Hardware? Configuration? Programs?

I assume it is just a PC used to serve media to a display, correct?

A Guy

 

[paulpicks21]

I believe Gary means what specifically makes it a Media PC? Hardware? Configuration? Programs?

I assume it is just a PC used to serve media to a display, correct?

A Guy

Yes Bill, Media PC's dont need to be very powerful, pretty much any PC can be used as a Media PC.


Edit: It pays to have HDMI on the PC though as obviously this carries sound and makes things a whole lot easier connecting it to the TV.

 

[Britton30]

I believe Gary means what specifically makes it a Media PC? Hardware? Configuration? Programs?

I assume it is just a PC used to serve media to a display, correct?

A Guy

Yup, exactly Bill. And "serve" I assume is the same as "play on"? Like the net is now "the cloud".

 

[linnemeyerhere]

OK so I'm jonesing for pictures of rig's......Show me your rig !

 

[essenbe]

OK so I'm jonesing for pictures of rig's......Show me your rig !

This isn't mine Alan, but if you just want one to look at. My HAF X will fit inside this case! It's the new Corsair Obsidian Series 900D Super Tower Computer Case Just imagine, this is a EATX Motherboard with 3 dual slot cards and 2 X 480MM rads in push/pull with 2 huge reservoirs. It has room to spare. Supposed to be released in April.

 

[Bungee18]

So this is what I put together for my youngest nephew whom graduated from high school with honors and was admitted into a great school in the US.
A promise is a promise, so I kept my word. Thank god his father took care of the car!!!
It is way too cool of a rig for a 17 year old hardcore gamer. I wish I had something like this when I was his age.
This will buy me the title of best uncle for about three months. I have 5 brothers, so competition is tough!
I tried the rig out playing some Sleeping Dogs (a gift from a very good brit friend ) and Crysis 3 on a 32" monitor. Silk smooth.
I couldn't help it and had to run Unigine Heaven 4.0. Scores like one of my OC'ed 7870s.

Cheers,

J

Specs
i5 3570K
Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3
Sapphire HD 7950 Boost Dual X
2x8GB GSkill Sniper 1866 CL9
Corsair Force GS 180GB
WD Caviar Black 2TB
Corsair H60
Thermaltake TR2 RX750M
Sentey Arvina Plus

 

[ganjiry]

Sorry for the late reply Gary The others did a better job of explaining it than i would have anyway
A pc in my bedroom would make things a lot easier as to watch any tv in there i have to use a signal sender to send my sky tv upstairs which regularly stops working so i have to go downstairs to change channel which is a right pain in the arse when its freezing cold lol and i don't even watch tv.
Not just that but i'm bored sh##less n need to do something thats not going to cost an arm and a leg as i can't really do much more to my rig. More, larer ssd's needed though

Edit: Very nice Juan. I bet your nephew is buzzin with that. Very nice of you chap

 

[essenbe]

Another great job, Juan. You should be 'Uncle of the Year' for that. Very well done.

 

[Bungee18]

Another great job, Juan. You should be 'Uncle of the Year' for that. Very well done.

Thank you Steve!
At this stage of the game I believe uncle of the year would require nothing less than a Lear Jet.
I'm enjoying the building thing so much that I think everybody I know is going to get rigs as christmas presents, birthday presents, wedding presents, graduation presents... You know what I mean...
Now that the summer is finally over I might get in trouble once again. As the weather grows colder and the days become shorter I have too much time in my hands to think about my next build...

 

[kbrady1979]

An HTPC is usually a small, silent PC....sometimes resembling other entertainment components....that acts as a server box that is connected to a tv. You store media on it and use a media center program, such as XBMC(X Box Media Center) to sort through and organize all of your movies/tv shows/music, etc. I just helped my friend build one for a friend of ours to put in his home theater room and it turned out awesome! As for hardware, you really just need some good storage drives, and graphics capable of HD video playback. I would like to build one around the Intel Core i3-3225 CPU, or one of the new Haswell chips with the HD4600 graphics.......it may happen yet!

 

[Bungee18]

Thank you Ryan!
I'll give it to him later today, and you are right, he is going to be thrilled. It is so great to see their faces when they are surprised and happy!

 

[Britton30]

This isn't mine Alan, but if you just want one to look at. My HAF X will fit inside this case! It's the new Corsair Obsidian Series 900D Super Tower Computer Case Just imagine, this is a EATX Motherboard with 3 dual slot cards and 2 X 480MM rads in push/pull with 2 huge reservoirs. It has room to spare. Supposed to be released in April.


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So, you have a place to stay if Mrs. Essenbe kicks you out.

So this is what I put together for my youngest nephew whom graduated from high school with honors and was admitted into a great school in the US.
A promise is a promise, so I kept my word. Thank god his father took care of the car!!!
It is way too cool of a rig for a 17 year old hardcore gamer. I wish I had something like this when I was his age.
This will buy me the title of best uncle for about three months. I have 5 brothers, so competition is tough!
I tried the rig out playing some Sleeping Dogs (a gift from a very good brit friend ) and Crysis 3 on a 32" monitor. Silk smooth.
I couldn't help it and had to run Unigine Heaven 4.0. Scores like one of my OC'ed 7870s.

Cheers,

J

Specs
i5 3570K
Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3
Sapphire HD 7950 Boost Dual X
2x8GB GSkill Sniper 1866 CL9
Corsair Force GS 180GB
WD Caviar Black 2TB
Corsair H60
Thermaltake TR2 RX750M
Sentey Arvina Plus

Very nice Uncle.

Thanks Ryan, do you have to go outside to fiddle with your Sky TV?

 

[essenbe]

Another great job, Juan. You should be 'Uncle of the Year' for that. Very well done.

Thank you Steve!
At this stage of the game I believe uncle of the year would require nothing less than a Lear Jet.
I'm enjoying the building thing so much that I think everybody I know is going to get rigs as christmas presents, birthday presents, wedding presents, graduation presents... You know what I mean...
Now that the summer is finally over I might get in trouble once again. As the weather grows colder and the days become shorter I have too much time in my hands to think about my next build...

Just so you know, I have a birthday next week or so.

 

[Bungee18]

Another great job, Juan. You should be 'Uncle of the Year' for that. Very well done.

Thank you Steve!
At this stage of the game I believe uncle of the year would require nothing less than a Lear Jet.
I'm enjoying the building thing so much that I think everybody I know is going to get rigs as christmas presents, birthday presents, wedding presents, graduation presents... You know what I mean...
Now that the summer is finally over I might get in trouble once again. As the weather grows colder and the days become shorter I have too much time in my hands to think about my next build...

Just so you know, I have a birthday next week or so.

LOL Steve. To put together a rig to satisfy you I would have to sell my car, my boat and probably my GF too!

 

[ganjiry]

Thanks Ryan, do you have to go outside to fiddle with your Sky TV?

No mate just down stairs, Just my house's insulation is crap and i can't afford to run the heating 24/7 lol. I was shocked enough at my gas bill for last quarter alone. I could have built a media rig with that money lols. Hopefully the next cold period won't be as bad, Not that its anything like the cold weather some of you get aye. BRRRRHHH!

 

[Britton30]

Yeah, we heat with gas and turn it way down at night. We have had a mild winter, nothing sub-zero.

 

[kbrady1979]

We also have gas heat, and I still remember roughly 10 years ago when the price of natural gas more than tripled. It is really cheap now and even the coldest month the gas bill was really reasonable. Our winter down here is quirky at best. Several times this winter we have had 70+ degree days and then overnight, it would dip below freezing and we'd have a bunch of snow and ice. There is a saying in KY: If you don't like the weather, give it a few minutes.......true more times than not!

 

[Solarstarshines]

Thank you Steve!
At this stage of the game I believe uncle of the year would require nothing less than a Lear Jet.
I'm enjoying the building thing so much that I think everybody I know is going to get rigs as christmas presents, birthday presents, wedding presents, graduation presents... You know what I mean...
Now that the summer is finally over I might get in trouble once again. As the weather grows colder and the days become shorter I have too much time in my hands to think about my next build...

Just so you know, I have a birthday next week or so.

LOL Steve. To put together a rig to satisfy you I would have to sell my car, my boat and probably my GF too!

Hahaha I don't think so maybe just your car and boat hahaha Girlfriends are to opinionated I don't think she would like being bartered for parts lol

 

[paulpicks21]

So this is what I put together for my youngest nephew whom graduated from high school with honors and was admitted into a great school in the US.
A promise is a promise, so I kept my word. Thank god his father took care of the car!!!
It is way too cool of a rig for a 17 year old hardcore gamer. I wish I had something like this when I was his age.
This will buy me the title of best uncle for about three months. I have 5 brothers, so competition is tough!
I tried the rig out playing some Sleeping Dogs (a gift from a very good brit friend ) and Crysis 3 on a 32" monitor. Silk smooth.
I couldn't help it and had to run Unigine Heaven 4.0. Scores like one of my OC'ed 7870s.

Cheers,

J

Specs
i5 3570K
Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3
Sapphire HD 7950 Boost Dual X
2x8GB GSkill Sniper 1866 CL9
Corsair Force GS 180GB
WD Caviar Black 2TB
Corsair H60
Thermaltake TR2 RX750M
Sentey Arvina Plus

Another awesome rig there Juan, well put together and great specs.

Fair play to you

 

[ganjiry]

Yeah, we heat with gas and turn it way down at night. We have had a mild winter, nothing sub-zero.

Yeah thats what i was doing last quarter, Can't be doing that again lol £350 ish....

Several times this winter we have had 70+ degree days and then overnight, it would dip below freezing and we'd have a bunch of snow and ice. There is a saying in KY: If you don't like the weather, give it a few minutes.......true more times than not!

lols not very predictable then. The weather in the uk has gone weird over the last few years and it's like we have just 2 seasons.