Show Us Your Rig [5]

[paulpicks21]

Hello guys!
Looks like I missed a lot since I last dropped by 3 weeks ago.
It's been kind of hectic down here and I haven't had the time to check in as often as I'd like to.
Will try to do it regularly.
I browsed trough all the new pics and I saw some great rigs!

Will post some of my recent efforts in a few days.

Cheers,

J

Hiya Juan, long time no speak! Hope your keeping well and I look forward to seeing your recent efforts. If previous ones are anything to go by then they will be awesome.

 

[ganjiry]

Ell Juan, I hope alls well mate n will look forward to your new pics

As good as black n gold usually look together i really disslike the new Asus boards and think it's a really bad idea.
Take note of the Asus dev's comments in this thread ASUS Z87 Motherboards Unveiled

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I like the black and gold but after the small fortune I spent on my new rig, it will be a long time before I upgrade. Besides, I need the extra PCI-e lanes I get from my X79 board (I'm already using 25 and I haven't put in any TV tuner and/or USB 3.0 cards yet).

 

[ICIT2LOL]

They are covered, or should be, with sticky paper on each side. Do all the machining before taking it off.

Now I am in late on this one but yep Gary that is the go and for edging it I have used car paint wet and dry paper followed by cutting compounds of finer particulate and finish with a product called Silvo (it's for polishing silver) - takes a bit of work and patience but the finish is VERY close to factory. - I use it for all my scratched and marked CD's and DVD's.

Fot the beveled edges it just needs a jig to hold the panel

 

[Britton30]

I like the black and gold but after the small fortune I spent on my new rig, it will be a long time before I upgrade. Besides, I need the extra PCI-e lanes I get from my X79 board (I'm already using 25 and I haven't put in any TV tuner and/or USB 3.0 cards yet).

I suspect the X79 will show to be better running than the Z87 setups.
You are using 25 what?

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I like the black and gold but after the small fortune I spent on my new rig, it will be a long time before I upgrade. Besides, I need the extra PCI-e lanes I get from my X79 board (I'm already using 25 and I haven't put in any TV tuner and/or USB 3.0 cards yet).

I suspect the X79 will show to be better running than the Z87 setups.
You are using 25 what?

25 PCI-e lanes. Sixteen lanes for the GPU card, eight lanes for the HBA card (gives me eight more SATA III ports), and one lane for the internal card reader (with three USB 3.0 ports) added to the front panel. Most TV tuners I've considered use one lane each (I'll be adding one or two later) and a card to add more USB 3.0 ports (if I even ever need one) to the rear of the computer (my board has only two USB 3.0 ports on the back) can use up to four lanes (depending on the number of ports it adds).

Z77 boards have only up to 24 PCI-e lanes available (some of those lanes may be used to provide other functions); X79 boards have up to 48 available (my board uses eight of them so only 40 is actually available). Some Z77 boards use extra chipsets to make more PCI-e lanes available but they aren't as reliable as reliable as the ones from the CPU. I'm using a Sandy Bridge-E CPU (i7-3930k) which limits my PCI-e to only 2.0 speeds but the board is PCI-e 3.0 ready, though I doubt I'll ever need those speeds since most GPUs haven't saturated 2.0 yet and I'll never use my rig for gaming (the old XP Pinball game is intense enough for me).

I have yet to see how many PCI-E lanes Haswell will support and was one reason I decided not to wait for it. Another reason I'm glad I didn't wait is the heat spreader on the Haswell CPUs are going to use TIM like the Ivy Bridge CPUs do instead of soldering the chip to the heat spreader like the Sandy Bridge and earlier CPUs did. A lot of people have been having trouble with the Ivy Bridge CPUs overheating due to poor heat transfer through the TIM from the chip to the heat spreader and have been having to delid the chips to replace the TIM.

 

[essenbe]

I like the black and gold but after the small fortune I spent on my new rig, it will be a long time before I upgrade. Besides, I need the extra PCI-e lanes I get from my X79 board (I'm already using 25 and I haven't put in any TV tuner and/or USB 3.0 cards yet).

I suspect the X79 will show to be better running than the Z87 setups.
You are using 25 what?

Gary, why would you say that?

 

[Solarstarshines]

Oh God, that is a nice lookin board ! :shock:

I had no intention of upgrading, but I may now after seeing that board.

You get that board Steve but throw some Insurance on it I know I would to nice not too

 

[Solarstarshines]

25 PCI-E lanes what on Gods green earth ?

what motherboard has that I only have 4 is this a superboard or something fill me in please

Do you mean x25 x16 x8 because 25lanes is insane lol just saying

 

[paulpicks21]

25 PCI-E lanes what on Gods green earth ?

what motherboard has that I only have 4 is this a superboard or something fill me in please

Do you mean x25 x16 x8 because 25lanes is insane lol just saying

Not PCI-E "Slots" Solar, Lanes.

 

[Solarstarshines]

25 PCI-E lanes what on Gods green earth ?

what motherboard has that I only have 4 is this a superboard or something fill me in please

Do you mean x25 x16 x8 because 25lanes is insane lol just saying

Not PCI-E "Slots" Solar, Lanes.

That is what I was thinking but the way it was said I was like huh ? :shock:
Even Gary said 25 what ? lol

But in reality it is 24 not 25 16 x then a 8x 16+4=20 +4=24 lanes

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

25 PCI-E lanes what on Gods green earth ?

what motherboard has that I only have 4 is this a superboard or something fill me in please

Do you mean x25 x16 x8 because 25lanes is insane lol just saying

Not PCI-E "Slots" Solar, Lanes.

That is what I was thinking but the way it was said I was like huh ? :shock:
Even Gary said 25 what ? lol

But in reality it is 24 not 25 16 x then a 8x 16+4=20 +4=24 lanes

Nope, I'm using 25 lanes: x16 for the GPU, 8X for the HBA card, and 1x for the card reader combo. The board has six slot x16 long but only two are actually x16, two are x8 (paired up with the x16 lane slots; populating both will result in only x8 each), and two 4x.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Not PCI-E "Slots" Solar, Lanes.

That is what I was thinking but the way it was said I was like huh ? :shock:
Even Gary said 25 what ? lol

But in reality it is 24 not 25 16 x then a 8x 16+4=20 +4=24 lanes

Nope, I'm using 25 lanes: x16 for the GPU, 8X for the HBA card, and 1x for the card reader combo. The board has six slot x16 long but only two are actually x16, two are x8 (paired up with the x16 lane slots; populating both will result in only x8 each), and two 4x.

ahhh card reader so nice I have one of those too but via USB there was a time I was a USB junkie but im sure the card reader is just that much faster off of the PCI-E lanes

Have you looked into a TV tuner I was thinking of getting one because I have to battle my kid and wife for TV and I used to have one so now since you mentioned it what brand are you going for ?

 

[Britton30]

Well thanks, I didn't know that X16 meant 16 lanes.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Well thanks, I didn't know that X16 meant 16 lanes.

Don't even feel bad I did a double take in a half and had to get myself correct lol

That is why I asked to explain themselves but in part I did kinda figure that was their formula in getting that 25 number Shoot you learn something new everyday and we're never to old to learn I don't care if your over 100 years old someone can teach you something lol

 

[kbrady1979]

That was one of the selling points for the X79 platform.....it supports up to 40 PCI Express lanes natively. So you can have a graphics card, RAID card, sound card, etc, and all of them will have all the lanes they require to run at maximum performance available.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Well thanks, I didn't know that X16 meant 16 lanes.

Don't even feel bad I did a double take in a half and had to get myself correct lol

That is why I asked to explain themselves but in part I did kinda figure that was their formula in getting that 25 number Shoot you learn something new everyday and we're never to old to learn I don't care if your over 100 years old someone can teach you something lol

Don't feel bad; I only learned it recently, fortunately before I settled on the parts for my rig.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

That was one of the selling points for the X79 platform.....it supports up to 40 PCI Express lanes natively. So you can have a graphics card, RAID card, sound card, etc, and all of them will have all the lanes they require to run at maximum performance available.

That was the selling point for me.

 

[Dallas 7]

Like thus?

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Cool!

 

[sygnus21]

Looking to build a high performance system...

Alright boys & girls, I'm looking to build a high performance system since my old Q6600 backup system is starting to act up. What does that mean? Well, if that system goes, I have to share my current system (first gen i7. See system spec) with the rest of the family... and that just can't happen

So, the new system will replace this one, and this will replace the Q660 system. It's ready to retire anyway.

That said, I've been wanting to get one of the newer processors, mainly the Intel i7-3930K Hexa-Core. I'm trying to decide on which z79 motherboard to get. I've thus far looked at these motherboards...

- ASUS x79 Rampage IV Extreme
- ASRock X79 Extreme 9

I plan on getting a minimum of 16 gig of RAM. Probably this - Corsair DOMINATOR Platinum Series 16GB

As for graphics (AMD only), I'll just go with a single high end card. Still don't trust Crossfire.

No I'm not made of money, but in all my time owning and building computers, I've never once had what I consider a high end system. This time I'm going for it. Just have to save my pennies over the next coming months - by Sept.

Anyway I could use a few suggestions. It's been a while since I've actually looked at this stuff, especially motherboards.

Thanks

BTW, what's the story on Haswell? New chip, different motherboard?