Viper's new rig pics on Pg 3

[Viper]

Right, getting this built up for me :y:

Spec:

Some sort of intel quad core unsure of which one yet.
Thermaltake BigTyphoon 120 VX LGA775 & AM2 Heatpipe Cooler
Asus M2N32 WS Pro nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
nVidia GeForce 8800 768MB GTX
OCZ 1GB 800mhz RAM X2
Western Digital 7200rpm 500GB
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard
NEC Optiarc AD-7170S-0B 18x DVD±RW/DL/RAM Serial ATA Black

and all wrapped up in an Antec 900 Case (http://blog.vincemike.com/siteimg/blog_antec900.jpg)

[TU-Tuning]

http://www.jimwcoleman.com/photoblog/1004%20jim%20nerd.gif

Love you ;)

[Viper]

lmao!! you prick. lol

love you too

[David]

hahaha, where's that asl pic gone... :err:

set up sounds good though Thomas!

[dannyjay]

Right, getting this built up for me :y:

Spec:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+ Socket AM2 Black Edition 3.20GHz
Thermaltake BigTyphoon 120 VX LGA775 & AM2 Heatpipe Cooler
Asus M2N32 WS Pro nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
nVidia GeForce 8800 640MB (cant remember if its the S or X)
OCZ 1GB 800mhz RAM X2
Western Digital 7200rpm 500GB
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Soundcard
NEC Optiarc AD-7170S-0B 18x DVD±RW/DL/RAM Serial ATA Black

and all wrapped up in an Antec 900 Case (http://blog.vincemike.com/siteimg/blog_antec900.jpg)

I'd swap the Thermaltake CPU fan for a Zalman, much cooler and quieter!
The graphics card, I'd personally save that little extra and get the 768mb version, you won't be disapointed!

The OCZ ram I've heard bad things about, I'd stay clear and get corsair or some other make, also look out for timings, 5-5-5-12 etc. The smaller the better, eg 4-4-4-12 being the better of the two.

Also another point; don't buy one big 500GB harddrive, buy two 250GB ones, then if your O/S fails you, all your music etc won't be lost too!

The sound card is a good choice, but I've just picked up my self the Music Xtreme card (for the same price), which in all reviews is much better than the Gamers card, has more functionality etc. The only gamers card thats any good is about 150£ and its under the fatal name.

If you've already bought it then fair enough its a good machine, just thought I'd help incase you hadn't. :)

[lyndon]

Almost as good as mine son ;)

It's the S is that card, The specs of mine I built the other week are:::


AMD AM2 Athlon 64 6400 + Black Edition Dual Core 3.2GHz,

Asus Crosshair V2 R.O.G NF590 SLI, S AM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX


4GB (4x1GB) CorsairXMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18, DHX

1000W Coolermaster Real Power Modular M1000 PSU

768MB XFX 8800GTX, XXX, PCI-E(x16), Mem 2000 MHz, GPU 630 MHz, 128 Pipes/Stream, 2 x DL DVI-I

ZALMAN CNPS9500 AM2/AMD COOLER.


All of it has been teamed up with my old parts from my rig, Thermaltake Armour Case, total of 972gb worth of HDD's including a 36gb raptor for OS,
320gb external FreeAgent drive

[dannyjay]

Almost as good as mine son ;)

It's the S is that card, The specs of mine I built the other week are:::


AMD AM2 Athlon 64 6400 + Black Edition Dual Core 3.2GHz,

Asus Crosshair V2 R.O.G NF590 SLI, S AM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX


4GB (4x1GB) CorsairXMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18, DHX

1000W Coolermaster Real Power Modular M1000 PSU

768MB XFX 8800GTX, XXX, PCI-E(x16), Mem 2000 MHz, GPU 630 MHz, 128 Pipes/Stream, 2 x DL DVI-I

ZALMAN CNPS9500 AM2/AMD COOLER.


All of it has been teamed up with my old parts from my rig, Thermaltake Armour Case, total of 972gb worth of HDD's including a 36gb raptor for OS,
320gb external FreeAgent drive

Basicaly the same as mine, Just my rams the 4-4-4-12 version. (150£ for 2GB, rip off! Lol) and I'm looking for SLI another 8800GTX sometime soon! :A:

[Viper]

hard drive wise, i already have a 500 external WD. so i will be using that too.

guy thats building my PC uses OCZ on his Pc, and has never had any problems with it

and i would get the 768 GTX, but its just more expensive...

unless you know of somewhere i can get a new one for dirt cheap??

[Robbo]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BFG-GeForce-8800-GTX-WC-OC-768-MB-PCI-Express_W0QQitemZ170158470662QQihZ007QQcategoryZ37 62QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

:)

[Viper]

thanx, but its not brand new, which is what i would want. i cant think of why he would be selling such a good gfx card! and why it hasnt got a box only after 1 week....

hmmmmz

[lyndon]

You got the 640mb version right?

The 768mb 'x' is only a little more

will show you the one I got :)

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=519994

http://www.scan.co.uk/images/products/519994-A.jpg

[Viper]

£371 is a hell of a lot mate. my S will only just be pushing the 200 i think

[frankie]

fuck me thats amazin.......whats it all mean.

[TU-Tuning]

Can you not just go and talk to one of those loverly lads down at puc world? Buy a hup. And get a luccudatuve when your there.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/Mrdoovde.jpg/100px-Mrdoovde.jpg


I'll stop

[Jacko]

uber geek viper....:y:...wish i was smart enough to understand what you said...

cool case though.

[Viper]

HAHAHA. i dont even understand some of it :panic: thats why ive got someone else to do it for me. hahaha

benjy, i would go to puc world, but theyre bloody useless. and i want a new luccadetuv, but im thinking more along the lines of something like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130161176739&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=003

[TU-Tuning]

Tom, iz shit. Is now juvvuc. luccadetuuve must be juvvuc

[Viper]

haha, why juvvuc?

samsung luccadatuv are damn good

[Jacko]

that screen looks pretty sweet...nice price and a decent contrast ratio aswell...

[Viper]

cheers :)
an you think of anything else you would reccommend, screen wise?

[Jacko]

as far as tv/screens go i rate LG's...a mate of mine has one ..ill try and find out the exact model..its 27inch(i think) 5000:1 contrast...and supports 1080i HD...i think it was touching 400 quid though...

[lyndon]

My Puc monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster 19", bit of a beast tbh, Really nice and crisp even though it's about a year and half old..

And my luccadatuuve is a Samsung 37" one, it's ready for the hud also :y:

[Viper]

great news :d

got a call from the guy building my PC. said that for about £40 ish more, i would be able to get an intel quad core instead of the AMD black edition dual core.

hell yeah baby!! :A:

oh, and im going with the 768 GTX. i rule

[Karl]

...Price of it all?

[Viper]

just over 900 i believe :)

[Scott]

Nice indeed. Happened to be in one of our configurators faffing about when i read this thread, not even top end but heres a spec:

Microsoft Windows XP Pro 32-bit OS(United Kingdom - UK English)
AMD 2xOpteron 2224SE 3.2 1MB LiqCool CPU
HP 64GB(8x8GB)DDR2-533 ECC Memory
HP 80GB SATA NCQ 10K,1st HDD
HP 160GB SATA NCQ 10K,2nd HDD
HP 160GB SATA NCQ 10K,3rd HDD
HP 160GB SATA NCQ 10K,4th HDD
HP 160GB SATA NCQ 10K,5th HDD
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500 1GB PCIe Card
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500 1GB PCIe,2nd Card
NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync Card
NVIDIA SLI Graphics Connector
HP USB Standard Keyboard(United Kingdom - UK English)
HP USB Optical 3 button mouse
HP 16X DVD+-RW SuperMulti SATA,1st,Drive
HP 16X DVD+-RW SuperMulti SATA,2nd,Drive
HP Floppy Disk Drive
Broadcom 5751 Netxtreme Gigabit PCIe NIC
HP RAID - Data Array Configuration

[lyndon]

Holy. Shit. Does that say 64gb ram... Are you on a box by any chance?


And Viper, that gfx card is spot on, but the lower priced intel quad cores are not worth paying the extra for IMO, the black edition will be faster for games etc... the only quad core I would buy is the extreme one at around £600 as that has the best performance on thee market ;)

[Karl]

64 GB RAM ~ How?!

[Mystic]

Some kinda server id assume, 4 identical HDDs for some RAID configuration.

2x CPUS

Cant quite figure out why the gfx setup

But again multiple HDDs, fat chunk of ram & gig ethernet = lots of simultaneous file transferring

[Karl]

Yeah I guessed it was a server,

can someone point me in the direction of a 64GB RAM allowance on a motherboard?

Link me.

[Mystic]

http://www.rackmountpro.com/prodimages/s5383.jpg
That board would take more than 64GB

Go on the dell website and look at some of there high end rack mount servers... ridiculous spec & cost. Some companies will have 20 or 30 of them kicking around too!

64GB is alot of RAM for only a dual CPU server though i think?

[lyndon]

It will be far too big for your case lol

[Karl]

Is a fooking shed load Mystic, lmao.

[Scott]

its not a server its a desktop...

Some of our servers laugh at 64gb RAM. Some of them take 512GB+ of RAM.

spec wasnt for anything in particular I happened to be doing some other work and had that open so though i would spew out some spec for you:p

[DarylVTR]

How on earth do you get 512GB of RAM that cant be true. Servers at our place only have around 6GB max.

As farr as im aware the max you can get in 1 stick is 2GB so that makes that motherboard 32GB RAM?!?!?!

Thats crazy if true...........

[Mystic]

its not a server its a desktop...

Yeh i suppose that explains the gfx cards & relitively small storage space (for a server anyway)

How much ram is on a single stick for one of the high end servers though? Would take a hell of alot of processor time to shift 512gb, not to mention the further from the CPU(s) the ram chips are, the less useful they become.

Sure its not 512mb :homme: ;)

[Scott]

the desktop will take 5 x 750GB discs but i choose the smaller higher rpm discs just as a for instance.

The server that takes the 512gb has 32 processor sockets. New bad boy takes 1024GB ram and 64 processors.

Get some real servers Daryl and what decade are you in with only 2GB ram on a stick:P These use 4GB sticks.

Also these are very true, they are built in the factory thats joined onto our office here. Wont get much change from your pay check buying one of these though.

[jaybiss]

where do you work daryl?

where do you work scott?

school and sky?

[Viper]

school

HP

i believe

[Mystic]

64 processor, 1024gb ram servers mean business. Would love to have aplay about with a high end server.

The only servers i have access to here are our file server & webservers, which are all essentially just PC towers :sad:

[Viper]

question:

with a server, can you use it as a normal PC?

i.e could i whack halo/BF2142 in it and have a play?

[DarylVTR]

i just got handed a proposed new server spec it only has 4GB of DDR2

and 3 x 140gb HDD's pritty shit for £15,000 to be honest. RM SUCK

[Viper]

RM are shit!! i think every PC we had at school was RM. absolutely bollocks!

4gig of ram in a server? lyndon has that on his home Pc. haha!!

3 140 HDDs?? thats shit! so, where's the 15k going to? lol

[Mystic]

RM are the main suppliers for education institutes, if you dont buy there crappy server, they wont give you anymore cheap desktops ;)

[DarylVTR]

we have to buy RM as its in the contract. Hardware comes to £6k .... .licenses and software £4k and installation is £3.5k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rest is warrenty and support costs. shocking.




Bak on topic viper ive got 4gb at home DDR2 800Mhz and its really good stuff. That spec you havew made up will fly.... just try get SLI if possible.... although ive noticed INTEL boards seem to be ATI not NVIDIA so its crossfire not SLI

[Viper]

good news is always welcome news!

CPU is 2.6ghz (quad core...)

guy whos building my Pc reckons it will be perfectly safe to do a nice bit of over clocking.

so im not going to be running a 3.0ghz quad core. fuck yeah baby! :panic:

[Viper]

pc is up and running now. at a temperature of 28 degrees! haha, sweet :d

[Matt_e]

any pics of it

[lyndon]

Get pics up matey, Should be good to see, Just installed crysis demo on my rig and installed vista, unbelievable!

[Viper]

i don tintend to touch vista. xp is on the new rig. i dont have it yet, but will put up the pics that Dave has shown me:

Big typhoon
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q224/DVAClaymore/21102007041.jpg
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q224/DVAClaymore/21102007042.jpg

Ram and some heatsink

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q224/DVAClaymore/21102007043.jpg

8800GTX

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q224/DVAClaymore/25102007047.jpg

all finished. mine on the right, dave's on the left

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q224/DVAClaymore/25102007050.jpg

[Baz]

tbh its look wank.....

[lyndon]

That one of those Antec cases with the huge fan in the top? pretty cool, will find that rig thread and post some of mine so I'm not hijacking :)

[Viper]

yeah, Antec 900 :y:

baz, jog on

[nufc_lad]

did you get that from overclockers.co.uk?

[DarylVTR]

Looks good mate.


That cooler is even bigger than mine! :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/darylrese/DSCF0531.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/darylrese/DSCF0530.jpg



Good choice of case! What version of the 8800 you get?

[Viper]

8800 is the GTX 768mb :panic:

case was reccommended to me by the guy building it.

nufclad, had it built up for me by a mate

[Mystic]

Thermaltake make some nuts coolers like, im still using the same one i bought 4 years ago which everyone laughed at then, your takes the piss though, i was almost gonna get that for my server like 2 weeks ago but not if thats the size of it lmao!

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l47/DJ-Mystic/Picture220.jpg

[Viper]

haha, PC was running at 34 deg C without the fan even working. so that means it was just the heatsinks!!

its a fucking good cooler. lol

mystique, your tower looks sweet!

still need to own you at halo some time!

[DarylVTR]

34 degress with no fans? Hmmm your mate is BS you lol

GTX's run at 50 - 70 degress, my rigg in same case runs around 42 overclocked so not bad but 32 degrees seems abit too low! :p

[Viper]

tbh, i dont think dave would Bs me. lol

he would gain nothing from doing so.

if you think of all the fans in the antec, and all theh eatsink pipes on the big typhoon, it might be possible, but it would also depend on how long the Pc had been running i suppose