Show Us Your Rig [2]

[NeroDevil]

Nice little rig dude

Some pretty old school tech there, but thats not a bad thing

How well does 7 run on a single-core Celeron by the way?

 

[biggles1000]

It's surprisingly good. Well, it's the fastest computer I've ever had, so I don't know fast an i7 with TB of RAM would compare , but it runs pretty smoothly. However, given that it is a Celeron, the CPU usage is almost always really high, yet my laptop with a 2.0GHz AMD 'ClawHammer' can go to 1%. Not the best processor on the planet, but it helps play the sims 2 fine and runs XBMX quickly.

 

[robbymcnob]

my little project ebay

Everybody else cleaned their desk i thought i go Ohnatural

 

[linnemeyerhere]

robbymcnob,
It may be cheap as chips but it's still a sweet rig and cheap and quick is always a good combo. Nice clean build and good on ya mate ! the Cheese

 

[Dave76]

Very nice rig, well done.

 

[Beginning]

Everybody else cleaned their desk i thought i go Ohnatural

Interesting rig... I like the total ebay shopping list. Good job!

Here's where I'm a bit fuzzy, I noticed there are a lot of pics of different rigs and sometimes I noticed only one monitor but the rig has two or even three graphic cards in them... Why two cards and one monitor? Just wondering. Cheers!

 

[ZaLiTH]

Everybody else cleaned their desk i thought i go Ohnatural

Interesting rig... I like the total ebay shopping list. Good job!

Here's where I'm a bit fuzzy, I noticed there are a lot of pics of different rigs and sometimes I noticed only one monitor but the rig has two or even three graphic cards in them... Why two cards and one monitor? Just wondering. Cheers!

Lol... Sounds almost like my build, I get most things from eBay (newer CPU and GPU currently in transit from USA). Only thing I bought locally was my case and PSU.

Multiple graphics cards would generally either be Nvidia SLI (Scalable Link Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) or ATI CrossFire (AMD CrossFire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Generally speaking, it's to give your PC a performance boost in the graphics-based department.

The basic idea is that the graphics processing is shared between multiple cards... Mostly for gaming rigs and high-end server setups (they sometimes use GPU power to add to the processing power of the server CPU). A good example in games is the ability to have alternate frames rendered by alternating GPUs; so frames 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, ect by GPU 1 and frames 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc by GPU 2.

 

[robbymcnob]

He he won the second 8800gt on ebay for £16 showing a few artifacts cooked it for 10 mins @ 375f added a sprinkle of oregano and viola

 

[ZaLiTH]

He he won the second 8800gt on ebay for £16 showing a few artifacts cooked it for 10 mins @ 375f added a sprinkle of oregano and viola

Wow.... No ways. That's about 190 degrees celsius! Nearly double the boiling point of water.. Is that one of the GT's you're currently running??

 

[robbymcnob]

Yup runs nice too . Shame it smells of melted cheese though

 

[Beginning]

Lol... Sounds almost like my build, I get most things from eBay (newer CPU and GPU currently in transit from USA). Only thing I bought locally was my case and PSU.

Multiple graphics cards would generally either be Nvidia SLI (Scalable Link Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) or ATI CrossFire (AMD CrossFire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Generally speaking, it's to give your PC a performance boost in the graphics-based department.

The basic idea is that the graphics processing is shared between multiple cards... Mostly for gaming rigs and high-end server setups (they sometimes use GPU power to add to the processing power of the server CPU). A good example in games is the ability to have alternate frames rendered by alternating GPUs; so frames 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, ect by GPU 1 and frames 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc by GPU 2.

Ok thanks for clearing that up, I kinda thought that was the way of it. Cheers!

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Everybody else cleaned their desk i thought i go Ohnatural

Nice build robbymcnob, You got lots of value for the money. Mine cost me $300 (Can) per part for some of the parts. Glad to hear you have had good dealings with ebay after reading about so so many people being scammed on this forum (Re: Windows 7 technet keys).

 

[DrToxic]

couple of little tweaks (mainly the heads height (height of monitor(s)))

brand (acer) new second monitor to replace the dieing CTX, new speakers, new wiring job on the desk... exactly how i like it though..oh..wait..the beer's missing.. who stolez my beer?

VIDEOTOUR

 

[Maxwell]

Very nice @DrToxic!

I want to raise the height of my monitors, they are too low for my taste..

As you can see, the top of my chair is even higher than the top of the monitors..

PS. I love your signature!! I'm almost done playing through Portal 2, just a couple of hours left! Its a fantastic game!

 

[xarden]

That does look too low.
Earlier in this (or the other SUYR) thread, there was a topic going on about the LCD monitor stands.
I think one of those 3x1 ones would do you justice.

 

[Maxwell]

That does look too low.
Earlier in this (or the other SUYR) thread, there was a topic going on about the LCD monitor stands.
I think one of those 3x1 ones would do you justice.

Amazon has some great ones, but none of them are big enough to support 22" monitors.. None of the affordable ones atleast.

 

[DrToxic]

how about those VESA Desk mounts? they can go upto four monitors.... and fully customizable from what I heard... (even rotation for easy viewing of a4 papers...)

i was gonna buy one but i cant fit it to my kitchen work-surface...

 

[robbymcnob]

Max how long did it take you to tidy your desk and work space .... lol

 

[robbymcnob]

robbymcnob,
It may be cheap as chips but it's still a sweet rig and cheap and quick is always a good combo. Nice clean build and good on ya mate ! the Cheese

Thanks matey .

 

[biggles1000]

My 'rig' a few pages back would appear to have passed away: http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/158740-computer-froze-now-doesnt-even-boot.html
Ironically, it wasn't the hard drive that did it (see my system specs info), the rest of the computer beat it to it :'(