Show Us Your Rig [8]

[Dude]

Great upgrade there Steve, enjoy your new toy.

 

[essenbe]

I've gotten too old to enjoy the building any more, but I think I will enjoy it when finished. I always build it on the bench first. It's not really a bench, just a figure of speech.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I've gotten too old to enjoy the building any more, but I think I will enjoy it when finished. I always build it on the bench first. It's not really a bench, just a figure of speech.

Smart man!

Old age, sucks, doesn't it?

 

[essenbe]

Yea, and all this 'Golden Years' BS. I haven't found anything Golden about them.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Yea, and all this 'Golden Years' BS. I haven't found anything Golden about them.

They're called Golden because you have to spend more gold for health reasons.

 

[Layback Bear]

The only thing good about the Golden Years is remembering your younger years.
When pain wasn't pain after a couple of days. When you wanted to do something and your body told you; No problem lets do it.
When your brain told you that something wasn't very smart to do but what the hell, lets try anyway.

Remember those days?

 

[essenbe]

I remember them Jack, very well. I still try to go there sometimes and end up paying dearly for my efforts.

 

[Lava King]

Time to update/upgrade my HTPC.

The Pentium Dual Core (E6500) just couldn't deal with the latest 1080p 60fps videos on YouTube (and other sources) so I tried installing the Core 2 Quad (former gaming setup) at stock speeds. Unfortunately, there's not enough airflow in the case so after 15 minutes or so of 1080p video it would lock up (works fine with 720p). It's not the CPU overheating, it's either the Northbridge or VRMs.

At any rate, seeing as how the E6500 has been in 24/7 use (it's never turned off) for nearly 5 years, I decided to bring the HTPC into the present day.

Here's what I bought:

ASRock H97M Pro4 (inexpensive 9-series board with the features that I want)

Intel Pentium G3258 (Haswell based dual core at 3.2GHz)

G.Skill DDR3-1333 2x2GB


These components will remain:

Sapphire HD 7750 (with passive cooling)

Samsung 830 128GB SSD

Antec 450 PSU

Windows 10 Tech Preview


I'm planning on doing a video of the install.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I remember them Jack, very well. I still try to go there sometimes and end up paying dearly for my efforts.

Very dearly!

 

[paulpicks21]

Time to update/upgrade my HTPC.

The Pentium Dual Core (E6500) just couldn't deal with the latest 1080p 60fps videos on YouTube (and other sources) so I tried installing the Core 2 Quad (former gaming setup) at stock speeds. Unfortunately, there's not enough airflow in the case so after 15 minutes or so of 1080p video it would lock up (works fine with 720p). It's not the CPU overheating, it's either the Northbridge or VRMs.

At any rate, seeing as how the E6500 has been in 24/7 use (it's never turned off) for nearly 5 years, I decided to bring the HTPC into the present day.

Here's what I bought:

ASRock H97M Pro4 (inexpensive 9-series board with the features that I want)

Intel Pentium G3258 (Haswell based dual core at 3.2GHz)

G.Skill DDR3-1333 2x2GB


These components will remain:

Sapphire HD 7750 (with passive cooling)

Samsung 830 128GB SSD

Antec 450 PSU

Windows 10 Tech Preview


I'm planning on doing a video of the install.

Nice little processor that one Kent. Very good value for money and I have no doubt it will be up to the job.

 

[ZaLiTH]

I got something today to go with my 980 Classified.

View attachment 348762

That's one downright gorgeous board right there..

Nice choice.

..It's not really a bench, just a figure of speech.

Benches come in many different shapes and forms.. Don't they?

 

[Lava King]

Well, the G3258 and H97 board are easily the best purchase in quite a while.

In my HTPC, it's MUCH faster, cooler and quieter than the old E6500 and seems to equal the speed of the QX9650.

It was a mostly trouble-free installation with the only major problem being the bluetooth keyboard not wanting to connect. It may be a coincidence, but it finally connected after I turned off all the other bluetooth devices in the house.

There was a problem with Windows 10 so I just went with Windows 7. I may try Windows 10 again in the future.

 

[Lava King]

Got a third monitor for my main PC (the one on the left).

Dell Ultrasharp U2412M.

Now I can look at far too many things at once!

The tricky part is getting it to hover

In the photo I have the same thing on the left monitor and the right just because I needed something dark on the screen so that the photo wasn't washed out.

 

[Dude]

Looks real good. Great job on a hover monitor!

 

[essenbe]

That looks great. Congratulations.

 

[Layback Bear]

Very nice looking set up and specs Lava King.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Great set up Lava King ! I wish I had real-estate for a third monitor!

Steve I hope you're taking lots of pictures of your new build cause I'm die'g to see that new ASUS X99 all dressed up !

 

[boogieboy]

Great looking setup Lava King

Yesterday I finally bought one of these the ASUS GTX 970 STRIX OC 4GB 3.5GB cost me $500 I know I know but the GTX 980 cost over $700+ here and yes that's the price I had to pay for the shipping, taxes and stuff to Pakistan anyways this is something we can't do much about it...

Previously I used the GALAX GTX 970 EXOC BLACK EDITION for couple of days which I sent back for replacement and had trouble with the online store and I opted out for full refund. The Galax card was nicely built but honestly it wasn't even near to the build quality of this card!! and trust me it is a very big card just take a look at the back I/O plate and you will have the idea.. it's almost 11" and something like this long...

 

[Dude]

Looks real good boogieboy

 

[paulpicks21]

Very nice card boogie