Very sad I know, but let's see what you got, inside and out

 

Not the tidyiest of install's I'll admit, but, with all the things that need power it's hard 2



AMD Athlon XP 64bit CPU running at 2.2 ghv

3 gig kingston PC3200 DDR Ram

XFX Nvidia GeForce 6800gs 256 mb video card

Philips Ultimate Edge PSC724 24 bit HD 5.1 Sound card, on creative 5.1 speakers

Asus K8V SE Deluxe Motherboard

19" LG Flatron L1915s Monitor

Legitimate Microsoft Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2

Pioneer 105s DVD Slot Loading DVD Rom Drive (Multi Region)
Pioneer 109 DVD-RW drive

7 Hard Drives in total

 

Chassis Specifications
Full Tubular Steel Frame and Swinging Arm
Cross Drilled & Vented Discs, With Alloy Race Specification Calipers
Adjustable Forks

Powerplant
Race Specification ITX featuring volt mod de-restriction and a sink lapped P4-2800 (capable of boosted performance if required)
2gb of Corsair DDR SDRAM
Dual Booting between IP Cop Firewall on compact flash and Kubuntu Linux on 500gb Hardisk - supported by CD/DVD-RW Combo
High performance SFF PSU rated at 450watts

Special Performace Features
Start Button On Handlebars actually starts the machine.
Throttle controls the Processor and PSU fanspeeds.

Performance
0 - Booting = 7 seconds ( ubuntu )





Self confessed geek and staff for a major hardware site, I run a large number of pc's including a modified Vapochill running a volt modded MSI KT8 Master2Far SMP (two processors) with heavily clocked 200 series Opterons, Gigabyte iRam, 4gb Corsair, SCSI raptors in raid... 512 mb Geforce3 Gainward Golden Sample AGP graphics...
A MSI mega SFF-HTPC.....An AMD64 notebook and other stuff....all on Linux

Want pics of all these, not exactly interesting

 

Bought this just before xmas.



Dell dimension 9200
IntelŽ Core 2 Duo (2.4GHz, 1066FSB, 4MB cache)
320gb HD
512mb unshared graphics memory
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM

19" Monitor, shitey speakers/mouse/keyboard.

Well chuffed with it though! Does exactly what i need it to!

 

Recently got a new case(Antec 900) and transferred everything into it from my old compaq case.
Here it is




Case has got two 120mm fans at the front with cool blue leds(see the pic), one 120mm fan at the back(exhaust)also with blue leds and one 200mm fan at the top which is absolutely huge and throws all the warm air out there, to give you some idea of how powerful it is you can make a Ł20 note float above it!
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200
2gigs of ram
300gig seagate barracuda HDD
Philips DVD ReWriter Drive
Geforce 7950GT 512MB graphics card
Creative X-fi Xtreme audio sound card
520w OCZ PSU
Logitech x530 speakers (5.1)

Edit i forgot to say its running on a 17" Ben-Q LCD

 

I don't do "fancy" PC - mine lives beneath the desk and allows me to surf the web, fuck around with video's/DVD's, and stream my music to my hifi - so it don't need to be fancy....

The PC is a Dell Optiplex GX260;



It's a clam-shell design, so it opens, err, like a clam without messing around with screws



Inside is a 2.8ghz P4 chip (no idea what socket or any of that) and 1.5gb (three 512mb sticks) of RAM. a primary 60gb HDD for running the OS, programmes and saving data "procured" from the web to - which i then moved to a 320gb internal slave drive. The important bits from this are saved to an 8gb external HDD

NEC DVD-RW drive, and a stock Dell DVD-ROM drive, stock floppy...

Stock on-board graphics (I don't do gaming) but I upped the audio to a Trust twin PCI (single PCI card with a "daughter board" PCI slot header) optical digital 5.1 card. Main PCI card header has the 5.1 analogue outputs, and the daughter board has a pair of optical (in+out) and a pair of digital coaxial (in+out) connections. I use the optical to stream music ot my hifi, which is only 2ch stereo, but it will stream Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel audio to a reciever than can decode

Bluetooth USB dongle for file transfer to and from my phone and my downstairs PC.....

Stock Dell 17" TFT monitor, stock Dell keyboard, stock Dell wheel button mouse, oh and a USB card reader for my camera's

Nothing fancy, but does pretty much all that I want it to

 

I might aswell stick some pics up of mine seeing as I was messing about with it yesterday.













Basic Spec of that is;

P4 3.0ghz currently overclocked to 3675mhz
2 Gig RAM
ATI Radeon X1950 AGP Graphics Card
70gb 10,000rpm Raptor Drive for Programs and Windows
130gb Secondary Drive for Files
30gb Backup Drive

I really need to add another HDD for all my files


Most of the time it is used with a 17" LCD monitor, but I can also play games on my 42" Plasma TV








I have more fans arriving tomorrow for it, so I can cool the gfx card better and maybe OC the CPU a bit more. I got it up to 3710mhz before I started getting errors but it was stable at 3705mhz, I just backed it off a bit for saftey for now.

 

For the record, the monster fan on top of his CPU is not the easiest to fit

 

Fuck yeah, I'm glad I didn't do it lol. 6 inches tall it only just fitted. Nice and cool CPU temps though.

 

I will have to get one at some point

 

what do you mean "giant fan"? its a heatsink is it not? and yes that is huge

Taking out the mobo would be a right bitch aswell as you would need to take off the heatsink etc first otherwise it would snap the board clean in half

And since were showing graphics cards heres mine

 

Yeah, I meant the heatsink

Was a fiddly job to fit, but has done the job intended

 

You play pc games on the 42"? your gpu wouldnt be powerful enough to run at that resolution unless you play the games on low settings or maybe medium at a push id imagine?

 

I think battlefield 2 run's fine on it

 

No photo's but my spec is

Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Core 2 Duo e6700
2 gig memory
XFX 8800GTX
74 gig raptor
All surrounded in an Antec 900 ( ala GTi iTG )
and a 20inch W/S Sumsung

 

And the case is the dogs danglies aint it, im so glad i got it now plus it keeps everything cool

What ram is it exactly? i know its DD2 but what speed/brand?

 

It is a good case but these 8800 cards are so big I'm starting to wish I got something bigger. As for the memory it's this one :

GeilŽ Ultra DDR2 2.0GB PC6400 Dual Channel memory kit (2 x 1GB) 800MHz (4-4-4-12) +Aluminium heat spreader

 

Nice one thats good memory
Have you fitted an optional fan in the side window yet? i fitted a 80mm fan i had laying around and it dropped my graphics card temps a fair bit, yours would benefit too

 

Nothing special compared to some of the pc's on here, but here goes anyway





Fujitsu Seimens Scaleo P
3.4ghz P4 Dual core
2gb ram
Radeon X700 256mb graphics card
2 * 250gb SATA 7200rpm HDD's
1 * DVD/CD player, CD writer
1* Dual layer DVD / CD burner
Built in wireless + bluetooth

19" samsung SyncMaster 913n
Dell surround sound speaker's + sub (although all just crammed on my desk )
Dell keyboard + optical mouse

Dual boot between xp + Vista Ultimate

 

roy thats better than alot of pf users probably, but not all

You should get a new case for about 50 quid

 

Na not fitted a fan yet. Might get round to it one day lol.

Must admit I don't understand all this memory stuff, timings, latency and all that

 

nah nor do i mate, but i think it doesn't really matter that much, as long as you got a good processor, gpu, and a good amount of ram(i.e 2 gigs) then you will be good all these different types of ram are just for bragging rights more than actual performance, i mean yes you will get a few more points in 3Dmark or a few extra fps in a game maybe? but other than that it wouldn't be noticeable unless you actually LOOK for the performance

 

A little update for mine

Just bought some 5.1 speakers and a 250GB HDD ( only to find out that XP is stupid ). It only see's it as 127GB.

Here's the mess

 

Damn thats alot of wires billy does it effect the cooling at all?

Ive got a 300GB Seagate barracuda and it shows up as 300? well 270 now that ive used abit, not sure why yours doesnt show then.
As long as your still able to use the full capacity......

 

I tidied it up a bit when I put the new hard drive in and I'm not having any probs so I'll leave it now. I've been looking on net and apparently XP can't see big HD unless it's been updated which I can't with my (cough) copy. But soon I hope to get a lagit copy of Vista

 

Oh right well mines legit and up to date, that explains it then

 

mine purely used as a madia centre pc








ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 eSATA 8channel Audio ATX Motherboard
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz
ATI Radeon X700 PCI-E

 

Asus Crosshair nF590 Socked AM2 Motherboard
AMD Athlon Black Eddition 64 X2 Dual core 6400+ 3.20GHz
Asus Extreme 8800GTX 768MB PCI
Patriot 4GB PC2-6400 Extreme Performance

 

wow who bought this post back up?

Moonie looks very nice

Any 3Dmark 06 scores? you can add to stu's thread

 

A couple of pictures of my finished PC room in the dark with New Saitek Ecklipse II keyboard and Microsoft / Razor Habu mouse.

 

Looks good Stu

Running bog standard settings at the moment with a 3D mark 06 score of just over 10k. Need to have a read up on overclocking and see what i can get it to.

 

sounds about right mate, the Intel Q6600 processor and high end cards score around 10-11k.
My mate has just upgraded his pc, new mobo, processor etc(Q6600) but hasnt updated graphics card yet so hes just using his old X1950 pro and he gets 5.5k with that, so if adds a high end card be around your score
My system gets 5.5 but at the moment ive kinda gone off gaming for now and got more important things to spend my spare cash on right now so upgrading can wait