How's your system running?

[Sardonicus]

How's your system running?

1. Good!
2. Great!!
3. Meh.....could be better!
4. I'll see......upgrading my hardware.

 

[biggles1000]

4. Built what seemed to be a reasonable specced PC to see if I was fully capable (had tinkered before). Now I'm minus the money from that and desperately want to build an amazing i7 machine (hopefully sandy bridge will have been replaced by the time I have the money).

 

[Zepher]

It's running excellent. I am still on the original Win 7 Ultimate 64bit install from August of 2009 with no issues swapping out the motherboard, proc, and ram.
Went from an Intel Q6600, Asus P5Q Pro, and 8GB DDR2 to an i7 870, Asus P7P55D-E, and 16GB DDR3.
Also swapped video cards as well, from a GTX285 and 9600GT to an ATI HD5850.

 

[Sardonicus]

2. Great!
Upgraded to a Sandy bridge build. Everything seems to working well with Seven.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

2. Great!
Upgraded to a Sandy bridge build. Everything seem to working well with Seven.

Me too, as I wanted to learn how to build my own computer from the ground up I chose the Sandy bridge platform. Now it is running smoothly and there wasn't much difference in time between DVD installation and USB installation about 10 min or so.

 

[biggles1000]

Well, I would have thought that starting with a sandy bridge i7 is rather an expensive starter, but I suppose you do own a money pit

 

[hjonesMCT]

I love my Windows 7 x64, but my Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD just died. I'm RMA'ing it right now.

Other than that, I spent a good month researching my system to make sure there are no bottlenecks--my system is pretty spectacular for two things: running VMs (I dual-boot Win7 Ult x64 and Server 2008 R2) and killer games. I am very happy with my AMD x6 and my ATI 5830. Might get another for some Crossfire action

 

[smarteyeball]

How's your system running?

It's not.











It doesn't have legs

 

[Britjoe]

Mines working great the 64bit Windows 7 Pro is a rock, but the 60gb SSD I personly think too small, and often worry about installing anything other than OS office, browsers etc, and for some reason I cant get corel x3 to run at all, crashses, just the app though no blue screen or nothing.

 

[biggles1000]

How's your system running?

It's not.

It doesn't have legs

rofl :roflmao:

(just to clarify, as no 'txt spk' allowed, that means rolling on floor laughing)

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Well, I would have thought that starting with a sandy bridge i7 is rather an expensive starter, but I suppose you do own a money pit

Actually it started with "MoneyPitSenior" an HP computer wanting Windows and upgrade for half the cost of original price tag and got it after joining this forum.

How's your system running?

It's not.


It doesn't have legs

It just levitates like the avatar and sometimes goes Boo.

 

[biggles1000]

Ah, fair enough

 

[pooch]

2 Its running great This is the first intel system for a long time and I am really impressed with it.
Besides the most computer problems that I have are normally made by me :roflmao:

 

[Dave76]

2. Great!!

Has been great since being built, the first small SSD made a huge improvement, the new 120GB SSD is much better yet.

Now, if I could just quit tweaking it...

 

[Devux]

Considering I spent less than $700 on it, it runs great. Does everything I want, I don't play a ton of graphics heavy games, runs Halo 1 at 50 fps with all the effects on max and resolution as high as I can get it. Runs Portal very smoothly. We'll see what kind of performance I can get out of Portal 2 when that comes out in the fall.

 

[biggles1000]

Considering I spent less than $700 on it, it runs great. Does everything I want, I don't play a ton of graphics heavy games, runs Halo 1 at 50 fps with all the effects on max and resolution as high as I can get it. Runs Portal very smoothly. We'll see what kind of performance I can get out of Portal 2 when that comes out in the fall.

erm, Portal 2 is out on the 19th for you (America)

Hopefully your machine will be able to play it well. The minimum specs obviously aren't as demanding as Crysis 2, but they are too high for any of my computers (mainly GPU)

 

[kellymac35]

All the Rigs I have built have preformed great but none as well as my current build. The X58 platform is awesome!

 

[Devux]

Considering I spent less than $700 on it, it runs great. Does everything I want, I don't play a ton of graphics heavy games, runs Halo 1 at 50 fps with all the effects on max and resolution as high as I can get it. Runs Portal very smoothly. We'll see what kind of performance I can get out of Portal 2 when that comes out in the fall.

erm, Portal 2 is out on the 19th for you (America)

Hopefully your machine will be able to play it well. The minimum specs obviously aren't as demanding as Crysis 2, but they are too high for any of my computers (mainly GPU)

Wow, don't know why I was thinking it was way later this year. We shall see if my lil' Intel HD graphics can handle it.

 

[01101001]

I completed this build about a month ago and have no complaints at all. Although the
mb is a bit funky the machine runs cool and quiet. (Actually its exceptionally quiet considering
there are 6 fans running.) This is my first experience with a64-bit OS and my first ever Raid0.
Like a poster before me ... still tweaking. (I choose to disregard all the 'Leave Windows alone!'
advice, but that's just moi.)

The one and only thing that constantly bugs me is the front USB connectors on the HAF-X which
are up-freakin'-side down.

Although I'm not an overclocker per se -- I would like to find a lazy man's quide to crank this rig up a bit.
I'm just not interested in spending weeks obsessing about every little mhz. LOL

 

[pooch]

Now, if I could just quit tweaking it...

You wouldn't be here if you could lol