Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

[Rook]

Since the motherboard I bought didn't fit my case, I went to an electronics store and bought an Antec 300. I'll take some pictures later. For my first complete build though, it seems like a great case.
that's a good case for cable management without having to drill any holes, you can just shove everything in the space next to the hdd racks.


http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/TheKillerDonut/P1040399.jpg
been trying to make this work since christmas. i just got the idea today to wedge furniture between my bed and the table behind it for a back rest :iamafag:
nice anime watching setup hope you make use of it! :)

[ThePlague]

So here it is:

http://i.min.us/iciknG.jpg
http://i.min.us/ie3Yva.jpg
http://i.min.us/icm9am.jpg
http://i.min.us/iciif8.JPG
http://i.min.us/icm03G.jpg

[Cortexian]

LOL it looks like you cable managed backwards, the rear side is pretty as hell but the front is WIRES GALORE haha. Better than it used to be at least, much cleaner.

[ThePlague]

I cant get any more behind the case, PSU wires are too short :(

[Cortexian]

http://www.nzxt.com/new/product.php?series_name=Premium+Cables&series=13

Great shit right there.


Now for a shameless plug from me, now I don't know the guy running this site but he seems to know what he's doing and it's a good idea for a site. There are similar sites out there but this guy seems pretty dedicated to the site from everything I've heard. The site is called "My Rig Room (http://www.myrigroom.com)" and it's dedicated to showing off your PC, complete desktop setup, etc... Anyway, in order to get his site running with a bang he's offering a free copy of Dead Space for simply signing up and participating on the site a little bit. Make a post in the Showroom or a Build Log if you've recently done some building and such *COUGH*ThePlague*cough*.

Here's the contest rules and regs:
http://forums.myrigroom.com/index.php?topic=34.0

[Rook]

Plague when you use min.us the pictures won't even load, don't know if anyone else is having that problem.

[Cortexian]

I see them just fine.

[Dwood]

Best use of K'Nex I ever had:

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs25/i/2008/034/5/d/_____by_Dwood15.jpg

[BobtheGreatII]

That's actually fairly epic.

[Patrickssj6]

Plague when you use min.us the pictures won't even load, don't know if anyone else is having that problem.

Same here.

[Dwood]

That's actually fairly epic.

Luckily, the monitor never fell over! That build has long since been demolished, sadly. :(

[Mr Buckshot]

http://www.hitechreview.com/uploads/2010/03/MSI-GX640.jpg

Have it hooked up to a 21.5" Acer 1920x1080, more for productivity and occasional movie watching than for games though (I don't feel comfortable having to turn my head to the side, away from the direction my hands are pointing in). The laptop display is already quite high res so it's good enough for me.

[Donut]

nice anime watching setup hope you make use of it! :)
pfft anime. its my beavis and butthead setup. besides that, i moved the piece of wood and laptop onto the cable box and held it up with my super nintendo.

[ExAm]

Buckshot, you're supposed to post a pic of your PC, not a pic of a PC of the same model as your PC, especially not one from a store page.

[Amit]

Buckshot, you're supposed to post a pic of your PC, not a pic of a PC of the same model as your PC, especially not one from a store page.

Does it really matter? It's a laptop. Not much to personalize that bitch.

Theses aren't my pictures but it is the same model as my Thinkpad (T510):

http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/262/images/13.jpg
http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/262/images/18.jpg
http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/262/images/7.jpg
http://www.windowstalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0949.jpg
http://www.windowstalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0962-1024x7681.jpg

[ExAm]

Then... what's the point? As I understand it, this thread is for original content in which people show off their own work on their own computer, or their desk setup. What's the point of posting a picture in this thread if it's not yours?

[Amit]

Then... what's the point? As I understand it, this thread is for original content in which people show off their own work on their own computer, or their desk setup. What's the point of posting a picture in this thread if it's not yours?

The point? If I was to take pictures of my laptop it would look 100% no different than in those pics I posted. Now a desktop I can understand since the outside and inside will usually not look the same as other computers and will have some unique element to it.

I may be coming from the wrong side about this, though. Do you mean to say?: "What is the point of posting a picture of something that isn't personalized?" In that case I would understand, but there are no guidelines forcing us to show some customized piece of hardware.

[BobtheGreatII]

I personally would rather see pictures of the actual computer than any old pic off the internet. Not because it's going to look different, but just because it's putting forth effort to show off what you actually have.

[ExAm]

The point? If I was to take pictures of my laptop it would look 100% no different than in those pics I posted. Now a desktop I can understand since the outside and inside will usually not look the same as other computers and will have some unique element to it.

I may be coming from the wrong side about this, though. Do you mean to say?: "What is the point of posting a picture of something that isn't personalized?" In that case I would understand, but there are no guidelines forcing us to show some customized piece of hardware.
No, I mean there's no real point to posting a picture in this thread if it's not your own computer. Everything I know about this thread tells me this is not "show us which computer you have", this is "show us what you've done with your computer/workspace".

[Amit]

I see now. Well, I thought I had mentioned that those images were placeholder until I took my own, but I forgot to write it at the bottom of my post.

[TVTyrant]

A guy who lives on my floor has one of those. He loves it, except it doesn't game :(

[Amit]

A guy who lives on my floor has one of those. He loves it, except it doesn't game :(

Really? The Quaddro NVS 3100 is good enough for most games. Plays Crysis 2 with tweaks at 1024x768 around 35 FPS with my optimized config. All other games work well with some settings turned down. Trine really taxes the system, though. BC2 works good on this laptop too.

[TVTyrant]

I'm not sure of his specs, but he doesn't think it will for whatever reason. Its a thinkpad, thats all I know. He says he paid like 1600 for it.

[hobojoe]

Update:

New cable management job + taking Freelancers advice on H50 mounting
201120122013

H50 keeps my i7 930 at about 30 - 35c idle

[Amit]

Very clean and tidy. Seems a little empty, but the emptier the better for air flow.

[hobojoe]

Well I don't know what else to fill it with, lol

[Cortexian]

taking Freelancers advice on H50 mounting
My advice is to mount the CPU block portion upside-down so the tubes are on the top, I see you flipped the radiator/fan portion.

The theory is that air will rise to the top in a liquid-solution, so putting the CPU block tubes above the block prevent any air bubbles from forming there. They form in the radiator if they do at all, which isn't a big problem.

Keep the radiator/fan portion like it is, but flip the CPU block part as well.

[Cortexian]

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/3165/harddrivewoes.jpg

Derp.

Yeah I stopped trying to transfer it all back at once don't worry.

[Patrickssj6]

How about deleting Avatar altogether since it's a bad movie :v: good work on Top Gear though.

[Cortexian]

I have the completely opposite opinion on Avatar, seeing it close to 7 times in theaters and probably 20 time since in 3D and extended varieties.

Just finished copying over the last bit of Top Gear I had elsewhere... Unfortunately I've discovered that if you plan on doing RAID-5 it's pretty much required to do it with a real hardware RAID card. The "PCI SATA Controller" software RAID card I'm using (based off a Silicon Image 3114 chip) can only sustain 13MB/s write speeds, copying all my data back to this RAID is literally going to take 3-4 days. At least when I benchmarked it using HD Tune Pro it got reads up to 60MB/s which should be more than enough for streaming and such.

Oh, the burst write speed starts at about 110MB/s but degrades to 20MB/s in about 10 seconds, then it takes another 10-20 seconds for it to drop down to 13MB/s.

[hobojoe]

Fixed #
2037

2038

Also added new fans, old ones died D:

What else should I do to this thing? Planning on another GTX 480 SC once prices go down for the 4 series.

[Cortexian]

Much better :)

Another GPU sounds pretty good, maybe get another 120mm fan and stick it in your open drive bays if it can effectively pull some air in from the front of the case. Maybe a pull fan on the back of your HDD cage like in my system as well:
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/648/img3815.jpg

[ThePlague]

Dusty and dirty but whateva, still sexy (Showing my new keyboard, joystick, etc).
http://k.min.us/imJKAm.JPG
http://k.min.us/imFWbS.JPG

[InnerGoat]

Out with the old in with the new 3-slot GPU :awesome:

http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/computerupgradeapril2011%20(5).jpg

http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/computerupgradeapril2011%20(6).jpg

Yes I know it's a wire mess. The thick PSU cable sleeves are stiff :( Barely fits in this case too haha.

[Warsaw]

Naw, barely fitting would have it scraping against the drive bays.

I would never, ever sacrifice three slots to a GPU. Where are you supposed to put the second one? :v:

[InnerGoat]

There's an 8500GT right under it lol.

[Cortexian]

Why does it need three, if you want the best cooling go water and make it only take up ONE slot...

[Warsaw]

Missed it. Thought that was something else. Also, ATi and nVidia in the same PC? For PhysX, I presume?

[Cortexian]

And other CUDA stuff. That's the only reason to do it right now that I know of.

[hobojoe]

Is that a SSD just hanging out on the bottom there? D:

[Cortexian]

That is, there's really no reason to mount them in drive bays since they have no moving parts. Lots of high-end rigs I've seen have them suspended just off the surface they're sitting on, usually by making use of some type of clear materiel under them. And they're either on the bottom of the case or on compartment tops in cases with bottom compartments separated with a horizontal "shelf".

@InnerGoat, look at my case and wiring, do that. You have a regular length PSU so you can get all your PSU wires out of the way VERY easy in the 690.

[ExAm]

Why does it need three, if you want the best cooling go water and make it only take up ONE slot...
Water's too much effort and maintenance for me and a lot of other people who don't want to deal with flushing/algae/sources of liquid right inside their valuable (and in their current financial situation, irreplaceable) electronic device.

[InnerGoat]

Why does it need three, if you want the best cooling go water and make it only take up ONE slot...

I wanted something other than the hot noisy stock cooler, and 10 dollars more compared to stock cards for that was really nice.


Missed it. Thought that was something else. Also, ATi and nVidia in the same PC? For PhysX, I presume?

It's a GTX 570. Games would actually run slower if the 8500GT was used for physx :eng101:


Is that a SSD just hanging out on the bottom there? D:

It's screwed into the bottom where a fan used to be, but yeah SSDs can go anywhere really.



@InnerGoat, look at my case and wiring, do that. You have a regular length PSU so you can get all your PSU wires out of the way VERY easy in the 690.

Wires are too stiff bro. When I upgrade the rest of the box I'll replace it with a Corsair that has flat cabling maybe. :haw:

[Jelly]

corsair owns

[Cortexian]

Got stiff wires? Heatgun/hair dryer. Apply enough heat so the wires will bend where you want them to.

[InnerGoat]

Nah I have no reason to. Next box will be new everything, besides the GPU and SSD so I'll make that one nice:)

[Warsaw]

I've only seen a triple slot ATI card, I hadn't realised that ASUS used the same cooler on an Nvidia board.

[Amit]

I've only seen a triple slot ATI card, I hadn't realised that ASUS used the same cooler on an Nvidia board.

I've seen ASUS do some crazy things on ATi cards and vice versa. Thing is that you can expect their contraptions to spill to the other brand soon enough.

[johnsonkid]

jw, can some 1 here help me with overclocking my striker extreme. im kinda new to it, and whenever i het to about 2.8 ghz it gets unstable for some reason, when a c2de6600 realy should be able to go much faster. alby, some help mayby, accept for gfx, we hae very similar systems.

[Cortexian]

I have a Striker Extreme, sounds to me like you're running into the same issues I had. The board is factory flawed and can't provide enough voltage to the CPU for overclocking, it sucks but I can't overclock past 3.0 GHz on my Q6600 from 2.4 GHz stock.

[ThePlague]

My desk broke while moving stuff around, so this is my new setup:
http://k.min.us/id4tmW.JPG

Might move the laptops/projector and put my stereo there, dunno yet.

Oh and my other chair broke too :\

[Amit]

I would put a piece of wood on the ground (like that one leaning against the wall) and put the chassis on top of that to make more room on your table. You might end up cleaning the dust filters more often than you like, but there's less noise travelling at ear level and it's less obtrusive.

[=sw=warlord]

Current set up;
2.6ghz AMD Phenom 9950
2Gb DDR2-800
Asrock N68C-S-UCC AM2+
XFX Radeon HD4850 1024gb
Habu mouse.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/the_dark_warlord/IMAGE_052.jpg

[ThePlague]

I would put a piece of wood on the ground (like that one leaning against the wall) and put the chassis on top of that to make more room on your table. You might end up cleaning the dust filters more often than you like, but there's less noise travelling at ear level and it's less obtrusive.
Yeah, that's why I have that piece of wood lying against the wall (was a piece of my old desk), I just need to figure out how to fit it somewhere that doesn't look stupid.

I don't mind the noise though, except my fans get loud as shit while gaming lately.

[Cortexian]

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4830/caserear.jpg

Why yes, every second expansion slot IS a fan!

[Amit]

lol, the middle one a dedicated slot fan? or is it meant to be above/below the GPUs?

[Cortexian]

From top down it goes:

Audio card
GTX 285 1 Display Connections
GTX 285 1 Fan
9260-8i RAID Card
Expansion slot fan for RAID Card
GTX 285 2 Display Connections
GTX 285 2 Fan

[Nero]

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010535.jpg

Bought 2 new HDTV LED 32inch screens for my setup. Total cost? 1k (For the screens). :)
THEY ARE SO AWESOME.

[Cortexian]

What are they 30"

For that much I would of rather got some 2560x1600 30" monitors.

[Nero]

32. Sorry.

[hobojoe]

Are they 120hz?

[paladin]

How can you have gap in the center. I have to have one in center and one offset. that seem would kill me.

[Amit]

heh, ever miz up the remotes for those? And freelancer, he got both for $1000 CAD. A single 30" monitor is about that price.

[Nero]

Yes.
I have nothing to worry about when it comes to the gap. I bought this as I am now working as a modeler, so I need one screen for ref and the other for modeling. I have not done any gaming yet.

The remotes seem to use the same radio waves. This means when I press one, it does it on both. :D

[Cortexian]

heh, ever miz up the remotes for those? And freelancer, he got both for $1000 CAD. A single 30" monitor is about that price.
Not if you buy used from Kijiji or something :)

[Amit]

The remotes seem to use the same radio waves. This means when I press one, it does it on both. :D

I was gonna ask if you could program one to control both haha. That's awesome. One-click power on. Problem occurs when you want to do certain functions on one TV. You'll have to put something between the two TVs or use manual controls lol.

[Cortexian]

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/58/intelburntest34ghz23072.jpg

Proof. (http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1921358)

Never been able to get stable over 3.1 before so this is pretty cool.

[InnerGoat]

Shit my cores get up to 70c and that's considered high for the old q6600.... get some water going because that chip has a bit of room left still :>

btw gj on fucking up mounting the heatsink :realsmug:

[Cortexian]

btw gj on fucking up mounting the heatsink :realsmug:
Me or Plague? My heatsinks are perfect D:

[InnerGoat]

Your load temps vary quite a bit for each die, that's all

[Cortexian]

There has always been a pretty big temp difference for each die, even when I had my stock cooler.

[Patrickssj6]

Just proves again that overclocking is shit :P

I am running a Phenom at lower frequency, higher voltage and I am getting better results and much lower temperatures with just air cooling :S

[ExAm]

I overclock my Phenom II x3 from 3.2 to 3.5 and it works just fine, and better than without overclocking, thanks. Never overheats, and I'm using air cooling.

[Cortexian]

Just proves again that overclocking is shit :P

I am running a Phenom at lower frequency, higher voltage and I am getting better results and much lower temperatures with just air cooling :S
How does this prove overclocking is shit? I'm getting higher frequencies with only slightly higher voltages (1.44v vs 1.21v) and I'm getting very manageable temps, I'm fine with CPU temps under 80 degrees so the 1GHz OC I did is perfect.

I'm using air cooling as well.

[Patrickssj6]

How does this prove overclocking is shit? I'm getting higher frequencies with only slightly higher voltages (1.44v vs 1.21v) and I'm getting very manageable temps, I'm fine with CPU temps under 80 degrees so the 1GHz OC I did is perfect.

I'm using air cooling as well.
My Phenom which is comparable to that CPU is doing almost double the GFlops (~42) with a lower frequency and a lot less heat (max heat was 48 which is your lowest).

The only thing you are doing is turning energy into heat and making it more unstable.

[Cortexian]

Except it is stable, and IIRC the IntelBurnTest displays only displays the GFlops of one core or something. Either way it's inaccurate. If your CPU is comparable to my Q6600 stock, then this Q6600 at 3.4GHz will still destroy your Phenom in every real world test.

[ExAm]

Will you two shut up and do a prime95 staring match or something.

[Cortexian]

http://www.modacity.net/forums/images/customavatars/avatar440_70.gif (http://www.modacity.net/forums/member.php?440-ExAm) (http://www.modacity.net/forums/member.php?440-ExAm)

[Patrickssj6]

Will you two shut up and do a prime95 staring match or something.
lets go outside...eye to eye...prime to prime

seriously this is no competition thing. i just happen to have a 2 year old average cpu and wanted to ask the point behind overclocking.

ts;dc
i don't care

[Cortexian]

You didn't ask about the point to overclocking, you said it was useless.

Your 2 year old CPU is much newer than my 6 year old CPU.

[InnerGoat]

The Q6600 is not 6 years old rofl

intel dot com -

Status Launched
Launch Date Q1'07
Processor Number Q6600

[Cortexian]

5 years old, whatever.

[ThePlague]

http://k.min.us/ilQT3W.JPG
http://k.min.us/ilMWzg.JPG
Once I get another graphics card i'm going to use the other monitor I have, it's the same as the left one.

[Cortexian]

Left one meaning the NEC 4:3?

[Amit]

You'll need a FLEX card from Sapphire or a separate DP to VGA adapter if you plan to use another old monitor.

[ThePlague]

Yeah I know, they look pretty cheap.

[Amit]

$30 is not cheap. Not for you, anyways, since you need that money for a video card.

[Nero]

Building a new supreme server.
Whats not in this pic is 24 gigs of DDR3 3 Channel Ram. :)
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010537.jpg

This is not going to be used, only for rendering my models and future CGI.

[ThePlague]

:o

[Amit]

CGI? I'm interested now.

[BobtheGreatII]

Understand that I'm not bashing your choice in case. I really like the HAF X but I really wish something new that is equally as good comes out, so there's some diversity in a good full tower case.

[Cortexian]

"Server"

*i7 Extreme*

*GTX 580*

You're doing it wrong. I don't find the extremes worth the price, you can get most of the way to an EVGA SR-2 with two Xenons for that price. That said, what you have there is one amazing rig.

[Nero]

Thanks. :)
Nice to get approval from you. :P
(comp wise)

Edit: reason for this setup is because when I go off to VFS (Vancouver Film School), this will become my main rig, instead of a server.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

http://i.imgur.com/ycJ2t.jpg
I need to clean up :|

[ThePlague]

I couldn't stand that much clutter, i'd have a shitfit.

[EX12693]

What? That's not cluttered... :|

[Cortexian]

Thanks. :)
Nice to get approval from you. :P
(comp wise)

Edit: reason for this setup is because when I go off to VFS (Vancouver Film School), this will become my main rig, instead of a server.
Why did you go with socket 1366 instead of the cheaper and faster 1155 solution out of curiosity? i7-2600k will smoke an EE gen-1 i7.

[Nero]

Not sure man. I'll look into that next time.

So I put the entire thing together and it is so DAMN sexy.

[Cortexian]

Pics or :gtfo:

[Patrickssj6]

finally got around to take a picture :P the LP poster is quite old...didn't bother taking it off though. the other posters are around the rest of the room.
http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/rj64f8vn/P1020470.JPG

[InnerGoat]

Hey guys I got a new pencil holder



:)



http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/myanimedesktop-2011.jpg

[Nero]

What the............................................... .....................

Whats your electricity bill like? Lol, damn!

Edit: And hows the temperature in that room?

[Amit]

I'm not rich :( Think of all the radiation he's getting from those screens. I see 8 computer monitors. EyeFinity that shit.

[ThePlague]

That's just overkill :\

[ExAm]

Radiation, Amit? That's a CRT thing, man. And not even a big one.

[Donut]

lol omfg what the fuck do you do with all that?

[Cortexian]

(I'm pretty sure that's not actually Goats setup guys)

[ThePlague]

>inb4 porn on multiple screens

[Amit]

(I'm pretty sure that's not actually Goats setup guys)

I guessed so much, but he's an animefag, so...

[Nero]

Pics or :gtfo:
(The making)
24 gigs of ram (triple channel ddr3):
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010583.jpg
Graphics Card:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010584.jpg
Fan on cpu's and the motherboard with watercooling (H100):
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010588.jpg
More:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010593.jpg
Turned it on:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010595.jpg
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010596.jpg

Wrapping still on the case (will get a pic tomorrow with it off):
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010598.jpg

Beside my other babies:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1010599.jpg

I finally got to put it together after having to RMA a few things. :|
Enjoy.

[Amit]

^^ Freelancer's wet dream without nVidia SLI.

How the hell can you afford to keep building machines like these and then have enough left over to buy $800 worth of HP tablets and accessories for the tablets?

[Nero]

I work as a freelance artist from home.

[Cortexian]

You should just bang Emma Watson and get her to buy things for you.

Life goal right there.

[Nero]

One day Freelancer... one day.

[Amit]

LOL

[ThePlague]

Nero you're getting sloppy seconds, I called firsties.

[InnerGoat]

You should just bang Emma Watson and get her to buy things for you.

Life goal right there.

:like:

[jcap]

Can anyone please explain to me why there is a need for 24 GB of RAM in a desktop PC? Seriously. Honestly 6 is a stretch for most high-end desktops, 8 being the limit of reasonable. But 24? Fuck are you using it as a VMware server or something christ

[Amit]

Can anyone please explain to me why there is a need for 24 GB of RAM in a desktop PC? Seriously. Honestly 6 is a stretch for most high-end desktops, 8 being the limit of reasonable. But 24? Fuck are you using it as a VMware server or something christ

You're not thinking like an enthusiast:

"If there's a 24GB RAM mobo, I'm getting two and filling them both with the most expensive shit out there."

[InnerGoat]

Can anyone please explain to me why there is a need for 24 GB of RAM in a desktop PC? Seriously. Honestly 6 is a stretch for most high-end desktops, 8 being the limit of reasonable. But 24? Fuck are you using it as a VMware server or something christ Virtual machines, ramdrive, multiboxing WoW / other shitty MMO, video editing, photoshoping huge images, calculating pi, browsing with firefox, etc

Now that we have 8GB sticks of unbuffered, non-ECC ram that desktops can use, 24GB isn't all that much heh.

[Zeph]

Can anyone please explain to me why there is a need for 24 GB of RAM in a desktop PC? Seriously. Honestly 6 is a stretch for most high-end desktops, 8 being the limit of reasonable. But 24? Fuck are you using it as a VMware server or something christ
1080p high AA multi-threaded rendering?

[Nero]

1080p high AA multi-threaded rendering?

This.
but what amit and innergoat said applies too.

[Patrickssj6]

Can anyone please explain to me why there is a need for 24 GB of RAM in a desktop PC? Seriously. Honestly 6 is a stretch for most high-end desktops, 8 being the limit of reasonable. But 24? Fuck are you using it as a VMware server or something christ
You must have forgotten that everyone on modacity does high quality, next-gen animation CGI rendering projects.

Seriously, for pressing F5 on modacity and /b/ you don't need 8GB of RAM.

[Mr Buckshot]

Hey guys I got a new pencil holder



:)



http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/myanimedesktop-2011.jpg

take that macbook pro out of the picture, and perfection ;)

just wondering, with so many screens, why don't you set them up in a proper pattern and order so a game image doesn't look all cut-up and wonky?

[Amit]

What's wrong with the Mac? And I'm pretty sure that's not his real setup.

[ThePlague]

Ohey again:
http://k.min.us/ibiAIwggsqN31b.JPG
http://k.min.us/iWU8fJzg3zLR8.JPG

FUCK CABLE MANAGEMENT ON THIS CASE.

[Donut]

oh wow, i finally built that computer iv been talking about for like 3 years now and totally forgot to post pics. will do that as soon as i get my camera.

[Cortexian]

Pic dump from my upgrade log:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4378/42439835.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4434/51336741.jpg

More motherboard:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1239/77874198.jpg

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/1892/77963068.jpg


http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1641/92354395.jpg

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3182/32213562.jpg

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/160/31810148.jpg

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/3676/81989791.jpg

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7861/93347336.jpg

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1201/83884903.jpg

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6676/69259062.jpg

[Nero]

Lovely pics! :3

[Donut]

freelancer i have a p67 b3 too. its asus, not gigabyte, but thats kind of funny.

[Amit]

Cable management for the win.

[Cortexian]

I think it's terrible, but when you've got that much shit in a mid-tower you can't get much better...

[Amit]

Yeah that fan cable is pretty ugly. Too bad they didn't make the cable black. At least then it wouldn't stand out so much.

[Cortexian]

The red MiniSAS - 4 SATA cables are the worse to try and manage because of how it attaches to the card, on the top and near the back of the case... Literally no way to get that out of sight.

At least I was able to manage it to the point where airflow isn't disrupted. And I was able to finally get rid of that bulky and ugly IDE cable to my DVD drive since I got a new SATA one.

[InnerGoat]

grats on the new chip now oc it more plz ty

[Cortexian]

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/6815/intelburntest46ghz134vc.jpg

1.340 VCore

[Amit]

The red MiniSAS - 4 SATA cables are the worse to try and manage because of how it attaches to the card, on the top and near the back of the case... Literally no way to get that out of sight.

At least I was able to manage it to the point where airflow isn't disrupted. And I was able to finally get rid of that bulky and ugly IDE cable to my DVD drive since I got a new SATA one.

Oh wait. Shit, I thought all those RAID card HDD cables was the dedicated fan cable lol. I just realized that a fan would never need that thick bunch of cables.

[Cortexian]

i9YVz0LxAYY

Video isn't finished, still waiting for replacement GTX 470 so I can film the rest of the video.

[Amit]

Gives off the "Ghost Froom" feeling.

[Cortexian]

The 70,000 + views on my other computer setup video beg to disagree, but okay.

[Amit]

I meant it being a trailer and all, not the setup.

[Cortexian]

Oh... I wasn't really trying to make a trailer, I just pieced together what I could for now. What do you guys think of the quality of the footage? I'm not the happiest about the CPU or RAM shots, they're kinda shaky cam. Best I could really do at the time though, shooting with a DSLR and all.

EDIT: So since my birthday was on the 17th and I ended up getting some more money from family that's out of town, decided to grab another 2TB HDD to increase my RAID capacity yet again. Now I'm up to a 5 drive RAID-5, that's 8TB usable and enough redundancy to cover any one drive failure.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9901/raid01w.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1682/raid02.jpg

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8677/raid03.jpg

[Mr Buckshot]

... people say I'm excessive when I complain how 500 GB isn't enough.

Nice rig though. I especially like that GTX 470.

[Cortexian]

Thanks :), I have a second GTX 470 but it crapped out on me so I'm waiting for a replacement to come back from EVGA.

The whole rig looks very cramped when the second GPU is installed.

[hobojoe]

I'm still waiting to slap in a second GTX480. damn prices won't go down : /

[BobtheGreatII]

Thanks :), I have a second GTX 470 but it crapped out on me so I'm waiting for a replacement to come back from EVGA.

The whole rig looks very cramped when the second GPU is installed.

I hope you have enough breathing room. I have a CM Storm Scout case, and my two 470 get quite warm in there. It actually will heat up my room. Lulz. The 470's are good to a ridiculous temp though.

[Amit]

I hope you have enough breathing room. I have a CM Storm Scout case, and my two 470 get quite warm in there. It actually will heat up my room. Lulz. The 470's are good to a ridiculous temp though.

I wouldn't mind that. My room is freezing right now and it's only slightly past mid-September.

[Cortexian]

I hope you have enough breathing room. I have a CM Storm Scout case, and my two 470 get quite warm in there. It actually will heat up my room. Lulz. The 470's are good to a ridiculous temp though.
Although this never actually ran properly, I had the second one in there initially:
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1201/83884903.jpg

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6676/69259062.jpg

I think that's enough breathing room for both the cards. The bottom one is the "second" one of course, it's got the fan on the HDD cage blowing right on it, and there's a supply of cold air from the bottom of the case since it's got holes in the bottom. It's actually designed to mount a fan on the bottom but since my PSU is so big I can't really pull it off. I might be able to get a 92mm fan down there...

[BobtheGreatII]

The great thing about the 470's are that the PCB is designed to draw in air from the top too. They really are great cards in SLI.

[Cortexian]

They're sooooooo loud though. Goind from 285's to these ones with the dinky fans is pretty annoying. I could set my 285's at 80% all the time and they'd be quieter than the 470's at 60%.

[ExAm]

My 470 is quieter than my old 260, and MUCH quieter than my old 8800GT. Subjectivity makes me a happy camper.

[Cortexian]

The problem is the tiny fan compared to the ones on the GTX 285/480/570/580/590.

[ThePlague]

One of my 6870's is a hell of a lot louder than the other. And it's the XFX one with one fan. I have to run it at 80% instead of 100% like my MSI Twin Frozr II because it's twice as loud, with one less fan.

[Amit]

One of my 6870's is a hell of a lot louder than the other. And it's the XFX one with one fan. I have to run it at 80% instead of 100% like my MSI Twin Frozr II because it's twice as loud, with one less fan.

You're a fool if you expect a standard GPU fan to not be louder than a specialized GPU cooler.

[Cortexian]

Yeah, that's the entire point of the Twin Frozr II series cards lmao. Pretty sure the fans on the Frozr are bigger than the reference design as well.

[Cortexian]

Okay, so my second GTX 470 came in (check the Heaven Benchmark thread for my updated results). I've got the the video together now as well:
UoVENn8PBoY

[InnerGoat]

:realsmug:

[Patrickssj6]

more like
http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/391122-mr_burns_i_rsquo_ll_keep_short_sweet_mdash_family_ religion_friendship_three_demons_slay_y.jpg

[Nero]

"This video contains content from BecauseMusic and UMG, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
So I'm guessing Canadians can't see that vid. :\

[ThePlague]

"This video contains content from BecauseMusic and UMG, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
So I'm guessing Canadians can't see that vid. :\:like:

US fag can't either.

[Amit]

I should have watched it before it got taken down. I have the feeling I didn't miss much, though.

[Cortexian]

It should be fine, I disputed the claim on the audio.

[Patrickssj6]

WTF I live in CensorGermany. I can't watch 50% of the YouTube videos but I do can watch that one.

[Cortexian]

Yeah, the dispute should have unblocked it in pretty much every country.

EDIT: Oh wait, for some reason Germany was listed as one of the countries where the video was available by default. Maybe I messed up the dispute or it hasn't gone through for some reason. If it's not up after a week I'll reupload it and dispute again.

[Amit]

Yes you'll have to do that since we still can't see it!!! :maddowns:

[Cortexian]

Some of you have already seen it, but here it is (still unblocked, and SHOULD remain unblocked):
hpfLvRqJ4ak

[Zeph]

Forgot to put up some pics. Going through them, I've only got a couple that are worthy of showing. Haven't taken any beauty shots of the finished build since the GTX590 showed up so late. I'm running a LAN on the 21st, so I'll take some then. I plan on getting three 24" monitors and arraying them in portrait mode while there, so that will have some decent picture opportunities. Also, I figured out how to get the fan/led assembly powered, so it can do that stuff now.

http://www.modreality.net/kitty_paper_packaging.jpg
First off, I'd like to thank Newegg/Tiger Direct for switching to paper padding on their shipping boxes. It was a pain in the ass the last time the cat found a box of packing peanuts.

http://www.modreality.net/mobo.jpg
Naturally took a shot of the mobo before I dropped the 2600k in. Wished I had an SLR to control the focus on the pins, but this is better than nothing. Kinda kicking myself for getting this mobo. That thermal shield is designed to only work when you drop a fan in it. Stupidly enough, a fan does not come standard. Where other parts on the motherboard idle in the mid 20s, the area by the USB 3.0 controller idles 20 degrees warmer. Gets worse when you're rendering.

http://www.modreality.net/it_POSTs.jpg
Setup to see if it POSTs. After this, I started putting it into the case. At that point, cable routing and screw thread frustration kept me from taking many pictures. Of those, the most interesting involve me taking up a stupid amount of table space for the build.

http://www.modreality.net/IMG_1886.JPG
Actually, I take that back, I do have one, but it's kinda meh. At least it gives a bit of perspective on how it fits.

http://www.modreality.net/IMG_1884.JPG
Raptor showed up like this. Those plastic bumpers they use to pack the OEM versions probably had someone jam their thumb down on it to fit them on there causing the power header to give way. Gotten it back from RMA, just gotta find the time to drop it in.

More to follow after the 21st.

[Cortexian]

Lmao at the Raptor.

[InnerGoat]

oh god that case


ugh

[Cortexian]

How is that Level 10 GT for cable management? Did they make it easy to get to the front bays? Video showing that off would be awesome :)

Guess what I got, didn't guess? Well have some videos:
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r-Zqd8Sa5rQ

[BobtheGreatII]

That's pretty sweet actually. Looks like it works well with a tripple monitor setup.

[Patrickssj6]

Are there no AmbiLight monitors (like those TVs)?

[ExAm]

God I wanted to like the track in that second video so much, but then... ponies. Fuck.

[Nero]

I like your setup freelancer! Esp the screens, really neat.

[InnerGoat]

Fractal Design Arc Mini
2500k @ 4.5Ghz 1.36v (fuck your low ambient temp freelancer)
Asus Maximus IV Gene-z
G-skill 16GB 1600mhz
Asus GTX570 DirectCU II
Intel x-25m G2 80GB
Seasonic X650 Gold

http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/NewPC-Nov2011-8721.jpg
http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/NewPC-Nov2011-8731.jpg
http://innergoat.modacity.net/computer/NewPC-Nov2011-8740.jpg

[Cortexian]

Nice!

Triple-slot 570? Is that necessary? Is it overclocked or something? 1600mhz RAM? Why not 1866 or 2133?

But yeah, that is a nice setup! 2500k's sure are awesome!

On another note, I'm thinking of ordering some sleeved extensions from this guy to get rid of gross stock PSU cables. For the worksman ship I think it's a decent deal, what about you guys?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1159606/lutro0-customs-fully-custom-extensions-for-sale-now-offering-mdpc-sleeve

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4638/lutro0customtensions.jpg

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/9643/dsc08968s.jpg

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2964/dsc08964h.jpg

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8846/dsc087352.jpg

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7010/dsc08830l.jpg

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9595/dsc08876v.jpg

[Nero]

uYYkpGWUb5Y&feature=plcp&context=C37f3328UDOEgsToPDskIVaMPybNW0kU_ujMhqliX3

[BobtheGreatII]

I'll take your xbox. Ha ha ha ha. :P

Nice setup btw.

[Nero]

Haha, who knows, maybe one day I will feel generous. :)
Thanks, i like it too. :p
Btw, 1080p is up.

[Amit]

I'll buy your XBOX for cheap. I'll even come by and pick it up so there's no shipping charges. Oh, and I'll be coming with some Popeye's so we can enjoy that setup to the max.

[Cortexian]

I want to do something like that one day, but I have too much computer gear with the triple-monitor setup already in my room... LOL

[Nero]

haha, I'll take you up on that offer of Popeyes Amit! xD

Also, @ Cortexian; Living room? :p
I plan to do another setup like this in the basement actually, as during summer time its the coolest place in the house.

[Cortexian]

You'd be surprised how compact I can make shit when I put my mind to it. I'll probably end up using a TV instead of a projector though since I don't have any large walls avilable. My walls aren't white either.

[Patrickssj6]

You'd be surprised how compact I can make shit when I put my mind to it...My walls aren't white either.

I see.

You probably should not be focusing on that "making shit compact" part though.

[Cortexian]

If that was supposed to be a joke, it didn't come across as one.

[=sw=warlord]

You'll have a single veteran attendee who gets banned from future events because one new scrub gets on his nerves and he says some things that hurt the scrubs feelings. .:-3

[Cortexian]

Wrong thread?

[StankBacon]

shitty phone pics of the comp i just built for my brother...

http://bacon.modacity.net/img/images/wp0000052.jpg

http://bacon.modacity.net/img/images/wp000002.jpg

the power wire was too short to go around the back and it just barely fit across the video card, ill have to look and see if they make extender wires for it.


also i should have researched more, i saw the pins on the socket and thought i bent half of them lol, almost fucked up the mobo thinking of how to bend them back.
i read online and have seen many occasions where people did the same thing tho so i don't feel as dumb.

[Nero]

Sexy case man. Looking nice. :)

[Cortexian]

Why did you chose to go with that direction for the HDD/SSD installation? Stick the power sockets on the other side and you see less cables.

[InnerGoat]

I forgot to reply to this before sorry ~


Nice!

Triple-slot 570? Is that necessary? Is it overclocked or something? 1600mhz RAM? Why not 1866 or 2133?

But yeah, that is a nice setup! 2500k's sure are awesome!

On another note, I'm thinking of ordering some sleeved extensions from this guy to get rid of gross stock PSU cables. For the worksman ship I think it's a decent deal, what about you guys?
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I got that card because of how quiet it was, and it was nearly the same price as a reference gtx570 so why not? Now it's more of a hassle because it makes tons of heat in the case and roasts the cpu. No point in overclocking it really; Ive measured it drawing an additional 100 watts at the outlet with overclock and I don't notice it in games. :ugh:

Also Sandy Bridge doesn't give a crap about how fast your ram is

:eng101: [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3/8 (http://www.overclock.net/t/1159606/lutro0-customs-fully-custom-extensions-for-sale-now-offering-mdpc-sleeve)


I think we confirmed what we pretty much knew all along: Sandy Bridge's improved memory controller has all but eliminated the need for extreme memory bandwidth, at least for this architecture. It's only when you get down to DDR3-1333 that you see a minor performance penalty. The sweet spot appears to be at DDR3-1600, where you will see a minor performance increase over DDR3-1333 with only a slight increase in cost. The performance increase gained by going up to DDR3-1866 or DDR3-2133 isn't nearly as pronounced.

[Cortexian]

But there's still a performance increase going to 1866 or 2133 if you're going to OC past 4.4GHz

[StankBacon]

Why did you chose to go with that direction for the HDD/SSD installation? Stick the power sockets on the other side and you see less cables.

i didn't even think about that lol, i have mine setup like that and i unplug a drive once in while so its convenient for me.

i will turn them around on his tho, thanks for the tip.

[Cortexian]

Got a new router, old one stopped working earlier today after like 6 years... Has been fun working with the new interface that doesn't require the router to reboot for every little thing.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7449/37086122.jpg

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5575/59304867.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5709/52863085.jpg

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2849/96656386.jpg

[=sw=warlord]

...You have it sat right on top of your pc.
Why do you have it sat on the most likely thing in your house to disrupt it's signals?

[Amit]

I thought that microwaves were the most likely thing to fuck with the signal. My own router is behaving like a piece of shit after 4 years, but I'm gonna stick with it until the 802.11ac routers are below $80.

[=sw=warlord]

I thought that microwaves were the most likely thing to fuck with the signal. My own router is behaving like a piece of shit after 4 years, but I'm gonna stick with it until the 802.11ac routers are below $80.Microwaves are mostly shielded and earthed to confine the energy inside the device, computers don't have that kind of luxury.

[BobtheGreatII]

Also. Let us all be real for a second. You just got that router because it matched your computer. :-3

[Cortexian]

I sat it on the computer there because that's where the router has always been in our house. I put the server there at a later data, that's also where the modem is if you look (SMC). I haven't had any signal interferance issues.

It doesn't really match the computer that well, except that it's black and has blue LED's.

[BobtheGreatII]

It doesn't really match the computer that well, except that it's black and has blue LED's.

*cough* What did you think I meant?

[Cortexian]

I don't know, that the texture matched the case or something. It kinda does, but only on the front panel which I just realized you can't see in the photo anyway :P

[t3h m00kz]

sup

sprayed the fuck outta my kb/mouse

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/7127/kbmod.jpg

esdf supremacy

[Bodzilla]

who the hell use's esdf seriously.

[Cortexian]

who the hell use's esdf seriously.
.

[Donut]

i tried esdf in a couple of games to attempt to give myself more buttons to work with. theoretically, it should be wholly superior to wasd because you get w a and x to work with, and z is easier to reach. in practice, muscle memory would repeatedly pull my hand back to wasd. and once i got a 5 button mouse, i ditched the concept of esdf entirely because i no longer needed the additional buttons.

it definitely makes sense in theory though. i think i actually tried it because of mooks

[t3h m00kz]

who the hell use's esdf seriously.

COOL PEOPLE

[Tnnaas]

COOL PEOPLE
.

[t3h m00kz]

i tried esdf in a couple of games to attempt to give myself more buttons to work with. theoretically, it should be wholly superior to wasd because you get w a and x to work with, and z is easier to reach. in practice, muscle memory would repeatedly pull my hand back to wasd. and once i got a 5 button mouse, i ditched the concept of esdf entirely because i no longer needed the additional buttons.

it definitely makes sense in theory though. i think i actually tried it because of mooks

I practically forced myself to start using ESDF and I'll never go back to WASD. seems like a good habit to get into because you never know what the controls of that next game you want to try out are going to look like.

[Cortexian]

I don't get why you'd do it.

Between mouse buttons and keyboards with macro keys there's no point.

[t3h m00kz]

don't be a hater


http://www.artofneil.com/misc/epicReference.jpg

every "gaming keyboard" I've bought was a piece of shit that had terrible ergonomics and/or lacked media keys and/or some keys stopped working.

I'm not going to dish out 100-200 bucks on something "decent" when I can find reliable, sturdy Natural Keyboard Pros with perfectly functioning media keys in the bargain bin at our locally owned computer shop for less than ten bucks.

to be perfectly honest I'd much rather have a mechanical keyboard than anything else, but those are expensive as fuck.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZsLmZJYZL._AA1500_.jpg

something like this would be cool, this is a razr "mechanical gaming keyboard" but even with the macro keys you have to reach all the way over the tab, caps lock, shift area to hit them. kind of out of the way.

also runs for 80-90 bucks.

e:
pshh ahaha got my macro keys right here.
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[Cortexian]

Logitech G110:
http://www.logitech.com/en-ca/keyboards/keyboard/devices/5902

Macro keys are left of Tab/Caps/Shift area but I can hit at least 6 with my pinky without stretching it. Backlight (no keyboard should be without). All the media keys you need.

[BobtheGreatII]

I have the G15. That looks clean. I like it.

[Amit]

I don't understand his arguments. What game could possibly come out that would warrant moving to ESDF? If I was to use ESDF, my pinky would be resting on the windows button. I wouldn't be able to crouch anymore.

G110 supreme, bitches.

[t3h m00kz]

lol I use v to crouch

[Cortexian]

that's weird you're weird.

[Amit]

It's easier to use Left Ctrl as crouch because you can use your pinky finger to do it quickly. Since Left Shift is sprint and you never use sprint at the same time as crouching, there's no worries that your pinky will be in use at the time that crouch is needed. "V" is such a weird key to use. Then again, it's the same distance from the ESDF keys as the "C" key for people who use "C" for crouch so it sort of makes sense.

[=sw=warlord]

You guys must have fucking small hands if you think V is a long distance to reach.

[BobtheGreatII]

Not sure if the V key is really a long reach, it's just more or less, awkward.

[Amit]

It's not that long of a reach, but there are better keys that are already within the immediate area around the WASD keys.

[t3h m00kz]

I also don't use wasd, remember

v is the equivelant of c

[Amit]

I also don't use wasd, remember

v is the equivelant of c

That's exactly what I said 2 posts ago, but nobody seems to have read it.

[Cortexian]

I read it.

:smith:

[Bodzilla]

Logitech G110:
http://www.logitech.com/en-ca/keyboards/keyboard/devices/5902

Macro keys are left of Tab/Caps/Shift area but I can hit at least 6 with my pinky without stretching it. Backlight (no keyboard should be without). All the media keys you need.
I actually have the keyboard.

backlit keys on this keyboard are a gimmic, with the keys being hard to see because the lights aren't nearly bright enough and there isn't enough flood light AROUND the keys which believe it or not makes a HUGE difference.

Try out something from Saitek, the original saitek eclipse 2 that i had was a fucking dream.

[Cortexian]

Both my Saitek keyboards had much dimmer backlighting than the G110. My G110 on red is the brightest backlit keyboard I've been able to find.

[Donut]

ive got one of those low profile saitek eclipses. i can see every key in pitch darkness. its pretty decent for gaming as far as im concerned.

[Amit]

I actually have the keyboard.

backlit keys on this keyboard are a gimmic, with the keys being hard to see because the lights aren't nearly bright enough and there isn't enough flood light AROUND the keys which believe it or not makes a HUGE difference.

Try out something from Saitek, the original saitek eclipse 2 that i had was a fucking dream.

I sort of agree. My G110's LED lighting is pretty dim, but that's only when you have the lights directly over it. Even with my lamp directly over it, I can see the Red and Blue no problem. The purple is a bit harder to see in light, but you can still see it. What you have to understand is that this keyboard's LEDs were meant to be used in the dark, otherwise the publicity on this thing would have been much worse.

The red lighting is what I use most of the time. In daylight and darkness it is clearly visible. In the dark, though, blue is definitely the brightest. It lights up the area around the keyboard really well, but not as much as something like the Saitek V.5. I don't like light pollution coming off my keyboarding and bathing the area in light. The Red is just as visible in the dark, but its better for lateee night gaming because the red glow is more soothing on the eyes. The shades between the Red and Blue are easy to see in the dark, but the Violet colour is as bright as you're going to get between the two.

Unless you are going to use the macro keys, go with the Cyborg V.5.


Both my Saitek keyboards had much dimmer backlighting than the G110. My G110 on red is the brightest backlit keyboard I've been able to find.

You haven't looked very hard. The Cyborg V.7 from Saitek lights up like a Christmas tree and the G510 is quite similar. Both of those keyboards have separate LEDs under each key along with multiple brightness levels so you can customize the fuck out of it.

[Bodzilla]

yeah i honestly have no idea what faillancers talking about there.

i had a saitek eclipse II for about 4 years, and it was incredibly easier to see then the G110.
the G110 also feels worse to type on... it feels like a keyboard that tried to do too much and ended up doing nothing spectacularly.

my keyboard gets light bouncing off the screen, creating a sheen over the keys, and washing out the actual backlit colours, something that NEVER happened with my old keyboard because it was just so much dam brighter it didnt matter.

so please tell me what saitek keyboards you've been using.

[Amit]

yeah i honestly have no idea what faillancers talking about there.

i had a saitek eclipse II for about 4 years, and it was incredibly easier to see then the G110.
the G110 also feels worse to type on... it feels like a keyboard that tried to do too much and ended up doing nothing spectacularly.

my keyboard gets light bouncing off the screen, creating a sheen over the keys, and washing out the actual backlit colours, something that NEVER happened with my old keyboard because it was just so much dam brighter it didnt matter.

so please tell me what saitek keyboards you've been using.

owait, so you bought the G110 already? Uh oh.

I had an Eclispe II. Actually, I still do, but not in my house any more. It was definitely brighter than this G110, but I don't really care how bright the lighting is as long as I can see it comfortably. And YES! The goddamn sheen is an annoyance when you can't see the keys. The keys are also way smaller than any other desktop keyboard I've used. That tripped me up for a week. You get used to it all, though.

[Cortexian]

I had an Eclipse I for YEARS, tried the II but it was even dimmer than the I so I returned it. The G510 is the same brightness as the G110, just has more colors, at least my friends does.

Honestly never looked at the Cyborg keyboards though, don't like the style.

I lied about my G110 being the brightest keyboard I've seen, that right goes to Alienware laptop keyboards. Three individual Red, Green, and Blue LED's under every key. There actually looks like a fourth one but I'm not sure what color it is, white?, yellow?, not sure. Looks like four individual LED sources under the keys.

[Bodzilla]

well i cant speak for your keyboards, i just know that my old saitek blew the G110 that i have now completely out of the water in brightness. i could have and often did have lights sitting strraight over it and i could see everything perfectly.
The g110 i got was a christmas present to replace the old ecclipse 2 that i had, and i've been a little dissapointed with it.

[Amit]

Hey, it was a present, at least you didn't have to spend $100+ on it. When I bought mine it was $89.95 + 13% tax. A week later it showed up in Best Buy for $20 less. Imagine how mad that made made after I realized how my expectations of this product were dashed. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. I love this keyboard and won't replace it until it literally dies.

[Bodzilla]

when you own a house, incomes are pooled together.

no matter where the money came from i did buy it myself.

[Cortexian]

I got my G110 when I was working at Best Buy for cheap.

Now I have a second one that's brand new sitting in my room unopened in a box because Logitech customer support is awesome. I was having some issues with the keyboard randomly disconnecting so they sent me a new one. I decided to try the new software that happened to be released while the new one was shipping to me and it fixed most of the disconnection issues.

LOL

[Amit]

Ha, I remember that. What good guy Logitech doesn't know won't hurt him :realsmug:

[Warsaw]

I had a Saitek Eclipse I. One of the original ones, not the re-branded Cyborg one, back when there was the option to get silver keys on black deck or black keys on silver deck with blue as the only lighting option for both (I got the former). Fantastic keyboard, built like a tank, brightness was great in the dark. The keys were hard to see in the day without turning off the backlight, though. Blue + silver = bad contrast. The space bar got a little wobbly after awhile, but it still functions just fine. However, I wanted to graduate away from tacky blue LEDs to something more...subtle. So, I bought a Logitech Slim Illuminated for $80 (along with the rest of my shiny new computer). I thought I was going to be able to use that $35 rebate, but it expired before I got my keyboard in and they wouldn't let me use it. Bastards. I was pretty pissed. Even worse, it went on sale at Best Buy for $50 the following week.

Then a month later, my computer exploded.

The Logitech Slim is a pretty solid keyboard. It's sturdy, heavier than it looks, looks fantastic, and feels nice. I make more typos than with the Eclipse, though, and I think that's because it has only slightly more travel than your average laptop keyboard. The back-lighting is strong and I can see everything perfectly in any lighting. My biggest gripe has to be the same one you see in all of the other online reviews: the function keys have the back-lighting on the icons and not on the number (i.e. the "Eject" icon is lit, but not the "F8"). I don't have the icons memorized, and I don't have the function row's layout memorized, so it's a hassle when I need to use them and it happens just frequently enough to be irritating.

Oh, and whatever you do, don't ever pull the space bar out for cleaning. It will never feel right ever again if you do that.

[Nero]

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1030278-1.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/P1030278-1.jpg


Temp setup.
Still working on it.

[Cortexian]

Nice!

I think you were messaging me earlier about GPU's? You don't need three Nvidia GPU's to run three monitors for gaming, only two GPU's (each GPU is limited to two display outputs). When it comes to triple-screen gaming performance Nvidia and AMD are pretty much tied now, obviously most Nvidia setups are faster than a single AMD card powering three screens since you get the bonus of SLI. I'll break it down this way:

AMD Pros:
• Can run more than 3 monitors in the future (5/6/9).
• Hydra Vision or whatever it's called automatically lets you segregate the screens so programs maximize to the screen they're on instead of across the entire screen.
• Can run three screens off one card.
• Probably cheaper.

AMD Cons:
• Using one card won't get you very good performace.
• Less driver updates.

Nvidia Pros:
• Better triple-screen performance.
• Lots of driver updates for increased Nvidia Surround performance/compatibility.

Nvidia Cons:
• Requires something like Matrox PowerDesk to segregate monitors for efficient workflow.
• More expensive (requires two identical cards).

I'm sure there's more but those are my main issues.

[hobojoe]

Uhhh......Is that a bike in your house/room? Or is this setup out in the garage?

[TVTyrant]

Uhhh......Is that a bike in your house/room? Or is this setup out in the garage?
Half house, half garage?

[=sw=warlord]

Lancer you forget ATI does have Crossfire which is somewhat similar to SLI.

[Rainbow Dash]

I'm very impressed with how your third monitor actually requires a second fucking desk.

[neuro]

the new high end Nvidia cards will have 3 monitor-outputs.

just sayin'

[Nero]

Uhhh......Is that a bike in your house/room? Or is this setup out in the garage?

It's in the house. Think of it like a showroom. :-3

@Freelancer; thanks man, I went with ati this round.

@Sel: Thanks, I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, But yea, this is the reason I am calling this a temp set-up. Maybe I will attach the screens with wall mounts.

@Neuro: I already have the Asus Republic of Gamers Matrix GTX580 Platinum edition video card. Costed me a shit ton of money. I am pissed enough about them putting 4 outputs and only allowing 2 to work (Not even talking about gaming here), to move over to ATI now. I will move back when the asshats allow more then 2 monitors per card.

Just purchased the Asus ATI 7970... Should arrive any hour now. :)

[Cortexian]

...

Couldn't you of got a second GTX 580 Platinum for cheaper than the 7970? 7970's were GTX 590 price-range last time I checked... Dual 580's would have been significantly faster.

[Nero]

...

Couldn't you of got a second GTX 580 Platinum for cheaper than the 7970? 7970's were GTX 590 price-range last time I checked... Dual 580's would have been significantly faster.

I sold my 580 to my brother. :(

[Cortexian]

Oh I see, so it wasn't just a flat new card purchase.

[Nero]

Pretty much. This way I only have to pay the difference, which isn't to much.

[Cortexian]

Yeah, in that case a single HD 7970 is the way to go if you're only going to run one card.

At least until the new GTX 690/HD 7990 come out.

[ThePlague]

This is what I did today:
6870, dual core processor added, 500w psu, fan added in the back.
http://i.minus.com/ibkQfWBBv4X9AN.JPG
120mm fan added to the side
http://i.minus.com/iJwN5ElvdCj08.JPG
rear view of the case
http://i.minus.com/ib19s72YjPemHt.JPG
view of the outside where the 120mm fan goes
http://i.minus.com/iDr8zesW2mutf.JPG
My current build on the left, and the other one I just build on the right
http://i.minus.com/ibq1oy9IBqz3qJ.JPG

I got that computer back from my friend the other day and decided to make it a gaming pc for my gf and I to play together.

[Donut]

i dont know if any of you are familiar with the nvidea MDT cards, but they support up to 4 (i think) displays.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162092