Show Us Your Rig

[Bare Foot Kid]

Last updated: 17 Jan 2010

Hello all....

I'm in the process of building a new i7 rig.


Here's what I have so far towards the new rig.

CM Cosmos RC-1000 case

Corsair 1000HX PSU

EVGA 760 Classified 3Way SLI mobo

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 12GB (6 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

XFX Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity

1x Intel X25-M G2 80GB SSD : I will get another and setup a RAID for the OS

2x 640GB WD Cavial Black : I will get a 1TB WD C. Black also

Tuniq 120 Extreme HSF

Sony Optiarc Black 24X 2MB Cache SATA DVD/CD Rewritable Drive

ASUS 25.5" 2m HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor

1x 250mm fan for the side door that I haven't added yet as I need to get a Dremel tool.
EDIT: I now have the Dremel tool, I need the correct bit.

5x 140mm case fans.

 

[kunzy]

It may be getting old, but shes mine.

 

[skunksmash]

love that case Ted... & that gleaming new corsair PSU mmmmmm

that's also a smart setup you have kunzy..... i must grab one of those keyboards, is that the G15 ???

well here's my setup before i moved it all upstairs, as you can see there are no external whistles & bells here...lol & my sig rigs tower is prehistoric..... its actually contained 3 other computers before this one, im a bit of a skin flint, ''if its functional use it!!''




SK

 

[kunzy]

glad you like, yea, it is the g15. But you can only gwt the orange/black one now. It lights up orange and has less macro keys. But its old, i have 2 monitors now and added a thing or 2 to the case.

Must say though, i dig your speakers and the three towers.

 

[djhallucn8]

Here is my rig, its not the greatest looking but its functional & is fast enough for me to get work done.

 

[grimreaper]

built for my best friend 1 week ago

Cooler Master RC-1100 Cosmos S ATX Full-Tower Case

with an EVGA 780i SLi mobo, Intel core 2 dual Q6600, 2.40 G0 stepping OC'd 3.00GHz,Patriot Extreme Dual Channel 4X2GB PC6400 DDR2 @ 800MHz, 2XBFG GeForce 9800 GTX OCX Sli'd, 2X500GB Seagates RAID 0, ThermalTake MaxOrb CL-P0369, 5X120mm CoolerMaster case fans.

thought it would be nice to share this pic and info with all

ooops and a ThermalTake toughpower W0113RU 1200watt psu.

 

[Mark]

I had this for a while but I don't think I have posted a pic of it yet, so here you go. The colour you see in the case is blue but for some reason when i take a photo it turns into that horrible purple colour. Do you like the Black light?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello all.

I just wanted to post the latest editions to my new Windows 7 system....


ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL PI Black 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 - two sets for a total of 8GB.

ASUS V72 92mm Sleeve CPU Cooler


More will be added when I accumulate additional disposable income.





Later Ted

 

[johngalt]

I need to update the pics, as it doesn't show my dual GTX260s, but here it is - Picasa Web Albums - johnlgalt - The Beast

 

[smarteyeball]

I finally got fed up with my case and just ordered a CoolerMaster HAF 932

CoolerMaster HAF 932 Case CoolerMaster HAF 932 Case [CM-RC-932] - $209.00 : PC Case Gear, Quality case accessories and components

Why are gaming cases so ugly?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Smartey.

It looks like a good case though; maybe you should have looked at what I got. It's puurrrty!...

Cooler Master Cosmos RC-1000

They're pretty much the same case.











Later Ted

 

[JerzeyLegend]

She ain't much, but she gets the job done.

 

[skunksmash]

She ain't much, but she gets the job done.

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gamers dream there JerzeyLegend......


those draws you have it all sitting on have gotta go though mate, where do your legs go while gaming..?? do you have to sit sideways..??


SK

 

[JerzeyLegend]

no. lol. i just sit in front of it. still space between my bed and dresser, I was actually thinking of using today to rearrange some things in my room.

I got rid of the dresser. I have just the PC on a 32" and my new Home Server is on my extra PC with the 17". I am moving into a new town home next month, so I am going to a extra nice setup.

 

[Ben]

Hey guys. First post here.

Here's my beast. 13" 2GHz Unibody MacBook with 2GB RAM (soon to be 4GB). Dual booting 7 Beta 1 with my beloved OS X.

Skitch.com > rspsupra > DSC01217

That's my Mac Mini on the 22" LCD in the background. That's used purely for OS X.

I converted to Mac when the first Vista alphas were around. I knew I didn't wanna suffer that garbage so I jumped ship.
Now that 7 beta has leaked and is actually usable and doesn't try to mother you like Vista does (with all the security alerts and what not), or bog your machine down, I've decided to dip my toes in the water again, and might end up using 7 as a main OS.

 

[johngalt]

Hi, Ben, and welcome to the forums.

I maintain a lab of 25 iMacs (20s) at school, and the guy who wrote the project for some unknown reason decided that he wanted Vista on the iMacs - under *Parallels* - not the world's best choice - I eventually convinced him to use BootCamp and install XP (since the rest of the university was still officially using XP, via site license) and I have to say, OS X Leopard has come a long way - I thoroughly enjoy using it, especially in my C/UNIX class - didn't have to bother with installing CygWin under Vista, etc.

However, with the way W7 is benching and with it's speed, I think I am going to take one of the machines over there and make a test case out of it to see how well BootCamp and W7 play with each other. Since that is what I assume you are already doing, and since you are a *relatively* recent Mac ship-jumper, out of curiosity, *are* you using BootCamp, or something else? Also, using rEFIt (Yes, I know, Mac purists say the Command key is all you need, but not everyone at the University - hell, only maybe 20 students out of 3000, for that matter - even know how to power on the iMacs, let alone use the Command key to pick the OS....

Also, I wanted to send you a personal congratulatory note - you came in here, explained what you do, what you did and why you did without ever *once* sounding like a fanboy. My sincere and deepest gratitude for keeping it on the up and up.

 

[Ben]

Hi, Ben, and welcome to the forums.

I maintain a lab of 25 iMacs (20s) at school, and the guy who wrote the project for some unknown reason decided that he wanted Vista on the iMacs - under *Parallels* - not the world's best choice - I eventually convinced him to use BootCamp and install XP (since the rest of the university was still officially using XP, via site license) and I have to say, OS X Leopard has come a long way - I thoroughly enjoy using it, especially in my C/UNIX class - didn't have to bother with installing CygWin under Vista, etc.

However, with the way W7 is benching and with it's speed, I think I am going to take one of the machines over there and make a test case out of it to see how well BootCamp and W7 play with each other. Since that is what I assume you are already doing, and since you are a *relatively* recent Mac ship-jumper, out of curiosity, *are* you using BootCamp, or something else? Also, using rEFIt (Yes, I know, Mac purists say the Command key is all you need, but not everyone at the University - hell, only maybe 20 students out of 3000, for that matter - even know how to power on the iMacs, let alone use the Command key to pick the OS....

Also, I wanted to send you a personal congratulatory note - you came in here, explained what you do, what you did and why you did without ever *once* sounding like a fanboy. My sincere and deepest gratitude for keeping it on the up and up.

Hi John,
Thank you for the warm welcome.

In answer to your question, yes I am using Boot Camp, and the drivers which were designed for XP and Vista work a charm on 7 Beta 1.
I'm not using rEFIt myself, but I have been considering it so as to run Ubuntu on a partition also. However, the thing that is stopping me, is that I don't think I'd have much of a use for it on the MacBook. I'll probably pop it on to the Mac Mini, as I think it's a much more practical platform, rather than a laptop that already has Windows and OS X loaded onto it.

Thank you also for the congratulations. I try not to be one of those fanboys that you see running around the internet screaming "WINDOWS IS THE DEVIL! USE A MAC AND GO TO HEAVEN!". I don't like them either, as they bring a negative image on us Mac users.

-Ben.

 

[johngalt]

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The beauty of rEFIt is that it is highly customizable, and if you use limited accounts for your users (as we have the machines in the lab using Domain accounts - and man, was setting up AD on the Mac side 10X easier than XP!) are automatically limited, it is great - cause they have no access to the rEFIt folder at all, thus not being able to bypass anything - I have it locked down so that the machine disallows USB bootable drives, and so does rEFIt - it is really handy in a situation where you'll need to be easily able to select an OS at boot, including a default setting - the only thing missing at present is mouse support in the initial OS select screen - other than that it is pretty golden.
[/OT]

re: warm welcome - my pleasure.

 

[Smother]

my share

 

[Smother]

I like that TV monitor wish I had one. Good job Smother.

tnx!

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