What are your pc specifications?

TheRift said:
I think mine is finally ready. Been messing with it for 2-3 weeks or so.

Cooler Master CMStacker 830 (black)
AMD PhenomII 955BE 3.2GHz
ASUS M4A78T-E
4GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR3
Western Digital 500GB Caviar Black Edition
Hitachi UltraStar 7K1000 1TB
Seagate 7200.12 1TB
SONY DRU-V200S DVD writer
Nexus fan controller
Zalman ZM-MFC2 fan controller (just for power metering for now)
Corsair H50 cooler
Vantec iON2+ 600W PSU
Logitech dinovo laser bluetooth desktop set
Audiotechnica ATH-A900 headphones
Philips 109B5 19" monitor (yes, a CRT)

Still want:
1 or 2 more 1TB drives, maybe Samsung this time, WD Black 1TB still too expensive
Another 500GB WD Black
Promise SAS controller
TrendNet bluetooth micro adapter
Scythe silent fans please!
Tianyun Zero DAC/AMP
HP LCD
Another 4GB DDR3 perhaps
And some custom power and front panel cabling to clean things up
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Awesome! How's that board?

Good luck with the HP LCD:D
 
reddevilandy10 said:
Awesome! How's that board?
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Brown.

It's pretty good. Needs more SATA connectors. AMD-based boards always seem to have less SATA ports than Intel boards, but oh well. The board is doing what it was intended for; playing back x264/H.264 MKV files with minimal <10% CPU load and no extra dough spent on a separate graphics card. :) I need to get a proper northbridge cooler though. Think I knocked the flashy ASUS heatsink on this one and temps are up. Might just remove, slap on some thermal paste and reseat it. Then get the tube fan installed again and all will be good.

reddevilandy10 said:
Good luck with the HP LCD:D
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:D Price is down R500 this month. It's now only a gazillion dollars - 500.
 
TheRift said:
Brown.

It's pretty good. Needs more SATA connectors. AMD-based boards always seem to have less SATA ports than Intel boards, but oh well. The board is doing what it was intended for; playing back x264/H.264 MKV files with minimal <10% CPU load and no extra dough spent on a separate graphics card. :) I need to get a proper northbridge cooler though. Think I knocked the flashy ASUS heatsink on this one and temps are up. Might just remove, slap on some thermal paste and reseat it. Then get the tube fan installed again and all will be good.



:D Price is down R500 this month. It's now only a gazillion dollars - 500.
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Mmm... the 955BE running stock...for now?:)
 
Yip. Actually tried overclocking it and it comes to a halt at 3.7GHz. Just have to get used to all the things needed to overclock them these days as I've just come from a AthlonXP 3200+ Barton rig. Back in the day one just increased the FSB speed, maybe fiddled with the clock multiplier and upped the voltage for RAM a bit. Now I am looking at CPU voltage, multipliers, the FSB and HT frequencies, the NB frequency and then the voltages for NB and HT, etc.

I let the 955BE run at 800MHz most of the time anyway. It will ramp up when needed. I doubt it will do as good as the Intel CPUs where I've heard of many 4GHz stable overclocks. Guess I'll look up some 955BE reviews and just copy settings. :D
 
TheRift said:
Yip. Actually tried overclocking it and it comes to a halt at 3.7GHz. Just have to get used to all the things needed to overclock them these days as I've just come from a AthlonXP 3200+ Barton rig. Back in the day one just increased the FSB speed, maybe fiddled with the clock multiplier and upped the voltage for RAM a bit. Now I am looking at CPU voltage, multipliers, the FSB and HT frequencies, the NB frequency and then the voltages for NB and HT, etc.

I let the 955BE run at 800MHz most of the time anyway. It will ramp up when needed. I doubt it will do as good as the Intel CPUs where I've heard of many 4GHz stable overclocks. Guess I'll look up some 955BE reviews and just copy settings. :D
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Don't you just increase the multipliers on BE chips? Or do you mean it's more difficult to get them stable?
 
Cpu: i7 920 @ stock
Cooler: True 120
Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe OC Palm
Ram: 3x2gb XMS3 @ 1600mhz.
Psu: Corsair TX750w (looking to get HX620w).
Hdd: 320gig (looking to get 2x74gig sas drives for OS)
Gfx: XFX 4890 XT
Case: Coolermaster Storm Sniper (moving to a scout in coming weeks)
OS: Windows Vista 64bit
 
reddevilandy10 said:
Don't you just increase the multipliers on BE chips? Or do you mean it's more difficult to get them stable?
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I had the multiplier on 18 and then took FSB to 210MHz and the CPU voltage was on something like 1.395V and it bombed. RAM voltage was 1.6V. Can't tell if it was the CPU that puked or the RAM.

3.6GHz was perfectly fine though.

Coming from 3200+ (2.2GHz) the 3.2GHz 955BE is perfect for me right now. When I get used to it then I'll overclock. With my house, proper cooling even on stock clocks is more important. This place cooks up in summer.
 
i7 920 stock/3.9Ghz
Biostar TPower X58
Coolermaster Hyper N520
OCZ Tri Channel DDR3 3gig
Antec P193
Xfi Fatality XtremeGamer
HP w2408
Good ol' WD Raptor 74
Seagate 7200.12 500gig
Antec Neopower 650watt
Sapphire Radeon 4870
Cambridge Megaworks THX 550
Logitech G9
Microsoft Reclusa
 
CPU: Intel E7200 @ stock
RAM: 3 gb Transcend
GPU: Asus 8800 gt
Motherboard: MSI 7387
Storage: Seagate 250 gb
PSU: Raidmax 630 w
LCD: 17"
Case: Raidmax Smilodon
o/s: Vista home basic
 
Celeron 3.O Ghz
Asus P4VP-MX mobo (hyperthreading)
1.5 Gb ram
2X 160GB hard drives
128Mb graphics card
20" samsung wide LCD(running DVI)
Cordless desktop
Samsung DVD-RW
Morpheus case
450W PSU
XP Home SP 2

Can't wait to upgrade nextyear :D
 
TheRift said:
I had the multiplier on 18 and then took FSB to 210MHz and the CPU voltage was on something like 1.395V and it bombed. RAM voltage was 1.6V. Can't tell if it was the CPU that puked or the RAM.

3.6GHz was perfectly fine though.

Coming from 3200+ (2.2GHz) the 3.2GHz 955BE is perfect for me right now. When I get used to it then I'll overclock. With my house, proper cooling even on stock clocks is more important. This place cooks up in summer.
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Understandable:D

Well guys, check my sig for my specs. Upgrade is imminent...
 
Morpheos said:
Celeron 3.O Ghz
Asus P4VP-MX mobo (hyperthreading)
1.5 Gb ram
2X 160GB hard drives
128Mb graphics card
20" samsung wide LCD(running DVI)
Cordless desktop
Samsung DVD-RW
Morpheus case
450W PSU
XP Home SP 2

Can't wait to upgrade nextyear :D
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Core i9?
 
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AMD PhenomII X4 20 @ 3.8Ghz EDIT: Oops :o Forgot to mention the X4 part.
4GB DDR 1333 (2x2)
ASUS M4A79T-Deluxe
1TB WD Caviar
250GB Seagate Barracuda
HIS ATI HD4850 512MB
20" Samsung Syncmaster 206BW LCD
Coolermaster GeminII + 2x120mm Fans
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Intel I7 920 D0
MSI X58M
3 x 2GB Corsair DDR3 1600
1 x 1TB Seagate 7200.12
Sapphire Radeon 5850 1GB
Coolermaster Extreme 650watt PSU
Coolermaster Gladiator Case
LG 21.5" Full HD HDMI Screen
 
iDenTiTy said:
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AMD PhenomII X20 @ 3.8Ghz
4GB DDR 1333 (2x2)
ASUS M4A79T-Deluxe
1TB WD Caviar
250GB Seagate Barracuda
HIS ATI HD4850 512MB
20" Samsung Syncmaster 206BW LCD
Coolermaster GeminII + 2x120mm Fans
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What were you settings to get that clock rate?
 
Intel Core i7 920 2.66 Ghz
Msi Pro-E X58 motherboard
3 x 2Gb OCZ DDR3 1333MHZ PLATINUM CL7
WD Caviar Black 1TB
Biostar ATI 4890 1GB
Samsung SH-S223F dvd-writer
CoolerMaster Gladiator 600 case
OCZ ModxStream Pro 600W PSU
Samsung 2494Hs 23.6" monitor
Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000
Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical
 
CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 4.2GHz
Heat: Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme
RAM: Corsair 3 x 2GB
GPU: ATi Sapphire HD5870
MB: Asus P6T SE
HDD: 1TB Samsung, 2 x 500GB Samsung
PSU: Corsair 750W
Case: CM 690
OS: Win 7 RC
 
Silverlight said:
Core i9?
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Wouldn't that be sweet!!
Entry level i7 goes for about R2800.
I will probably on have about R3500 to spend so that blows that idea out of the water. sorry for me :(

Probably go Quad, (maybe i5, depends on costs). Not used for gaming,mostly for photo editing.
 
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