 dragonPremium,Mod
join:2001-01-30
Spring, TX
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Computer Hardware ..
PC Hardware Discus..
1 edit | Your System - March/April 2010 Post your system specs if you've built/bought a new system during the month of March/April.
If you've changed your system, put "ADDED" next to the new component(s).
If you haven't changed anything - don't post!
YOUR SYSTEMS (PART 2) |
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 pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1
4 edits | Re: Your System - March 2010 I guess I'm first! Here's the lowdown pretty much as described here:
Cooler Master HAF 922 Mid Tower
Asus P7P55D-E PRO Socket 1156 (USB3 and SATA3 with PCIe bridge chip)
Intel Core i7 860 LGA1156 2.80Ghz (not OC'd yet, but only gets up to 55C under load stock because of...)
Zalman CNPS10X Quiet CPU Cooler
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600MHz 2x2GB 7-8-7-24
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB RAID0
Corsair TX Series CMPSU-750TX Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda LP 1.5TB (had already, backup drive)
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (even older than 2005 machine, should have dusted it off!)
Hauppauge HVR-1250 PCIe ATSC Tuner
ASUS EAH4870 DK Top 512MB (had already, stock 815/925 can do 875/1050)
I finally upgraded my old Athlon X2 (socket 939 with DDR400 and PATA drives). It held out a long time: from single core to dual-core, 1GB to 2GB, and I think it went through 4 video cards including the latest one I brought to my new machine (7600gs, 7900gs, 9600gt, hd4870) . However, new games have been badly bottlenecked by the CPU/RAM speed for about a year.
The case was cramped too as you can see, picture the 4870 in there extending right up to the end of the mobo into that mess of cables and less than 1cm away from the top HD (which would be right on top of the lower HD if I lowered it). By comparison (ignore the dust plz, need to clean that up) the HAF 922 isn't much bigger, it's the sideways HD mounts and space to put the cables behind the mobo that make most of the difference. A modular supply would've been nice but at $50-75 more I'll live with the pile extra cables at the bottom.
That huge cooler didn't leave much room for the RAM, there's about 0.5cm and a similar stick with a heatsink wouldn't fit in the slot under the cooler at all! One of my requirements for the mobo was two usable (more than 2 slots below or above the GFX card) PCIe x1 slots so I could have the tuner and possibly a PCIe sound card in the future. Unfortunately that slot above the GFX card is barely usable with that huge cooler there, but it's OK for now and should let me a good OC when I get around to it. Turning the cooler to blow up wouldn't make much difference from what I can see, the extension is about the same on the sides and fan.
I wish I'd spent a bit more on the 1GB 4870 last year, but the 512MB has new life with this system (runs 10C cooler too) so I'm going to wait for 5850 or 5870 to come down in price. |
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Monitor upgraded
From 1 x DELL UltraSharp 2007WFP
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2 x DELL UltraSharp U2410
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 capdjqButt outPremium
join:2000-11-01
WetCoaster | I upgraded my Athlon X2 4400+, Asus A8N32 SLI Motherboard to the following:
i7 920 Quad Core
EVGA X58 ATX LGA1366
OCZ XTC Platinum OCZ3P1333LV6GK DDR3-1333 6GB 3X2GB CL7-7-7-20 Triple Channel Memory
Antec Three Hundred Mini Tower Gaming Case
Geforce GTX 270 OC
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W Quad Power Supply
Western Digial 640GB + 2 500GB WD HD
LG DVDRW (Its lousy. Should have purchased the Samsung.)
This was my first build and everything went fine. Even booted up on the first try, which was a fluke. The major mistake I made was not installing an after market heatsink, which means I can't overclock. The Video Card is massive which prevents one Bay from being utilized. Still is plenty fast.
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 adarrylP.A.S.S. Model
join:2001-08-19
Dixon, IL | reply to dragon
Re: Your System - March/April 2010 New AMD Build:
- Skyhawk Eagle Matrix case (reused)
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
- Power Supply: Antec EA650
- CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE w C3 stepping
- HSF: Scythe SCKTN-3000 Katana 3
- RAM: 4Gb Patriot Series G Series ‘Sector 5’ Edition Model PGV34G1333ELK
- Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb
- Video Card: Zotac GTS 250
- Card Reader: Rosewill RCR-IM5001 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port
- ASUS DVD Burner Model DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS
- LITE-ON DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDS118-04
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 usa2kBlessedPremium,MVM
join:2003-01-26
Canton, MI
kudos:3
 ·VOIPo
 ·WOW Internet and..
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Physically due tomorrow, except the monitor has been here a week already.
Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64-bit
Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q8400 w/ VT (2.66GHz, 4M, L2Cache, 1333FSB)
1 Year ProSupport for End Users and 1 Year NBD On-site Service
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz - 2DIMMs
Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive
320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Integrated Video, Intel® GMA X4500
Resource CD and DVD
My Services & Warranties
Vostro System Quick Reference Guide
Vostro 230 Mini-Tower
Vostro 230 Documents and 110 Volt Power setting
Integrated PCIE 10/100/1000
Plus a Samsung SyncMaster 2333HD 1080p HDTV/Monitor bought from buy.com
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 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1
3 edits | reply to dragon
Intel Core i7 920
ASUS P6T Deluxe
MSI GTX260
6GB DDR3 1600 Tri-Channel G-Skill
Kingston SSDNow V SNV425-S2 2x 64GB RAID 0 array 128GB ("ADDED")
WD 1TB HDD
Seagate 750GB
Antec 300
Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit |
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KiwiPremium
join:2003-05-26
USA/MidWest
kudos:1 Reviews:
·Comcast
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All this talk about LCD's, had me hooked for another. 
This time it's a steal at $395.48 for an S-IPS 24". Normally around $725.00, my last one was $600.00. Gotta love Amazon sometimes, eh. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to dragon
** Updated **
Antec 300 Mid
FSP 750W PS
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
- Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
Intel DP35DP
- 8GB (4 x 2GB) G.Skill DDR2 800
PNY nVidia GTX260
- Thermaltake T-Rad2 GTX
Intel X25M-G2 160GB
WD Velicoraptor 10k RPM 160GB
2 x Seagate 7200.12 500GB RAID-0
Sony Optiarc BC-5100 DVD/RW/Blu-Ray
Hauppauge HVR-1600 PCI-E HDTV Tuner
Samsung 2333sw 23.3" 1080p
Samsung 216bw 21.6" 1680x1050
Klipsch Pro-Media 2.0 Speakers
Logitech Performance Mouse MX
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard |
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ed
join:2001-04-26
Los Angeles, CA Reviews:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
1 edit | reply to dragon
Man, I can't believe I've been here for 9 years! lol Anywho, here's my latest build:
Case - CM HAF932
CPU - Intel Core-i7 OC to 4GHz
Mobo - Intel DX58SO
HSF - Prolimatech Megahalems w/ Panaflo
PSU - Corsair TX850
GPU - BFG Tech GTX295
Fan control - Scythe Kaze Q
HDD - Intel SSD X-25M 80GB G2 (boot drive)
HDD - WD Black Caviar 1.5TB (storage drive)
OS - Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2
·Bell Sympatico
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Replaced Killer K1 NIC with Intel Gigabit CT card
Replaced EVGA GTX 260 with EVGA GTX 470.
See this thread: »Sweetness! for more photos.
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 darciliciousCyber LibrarianPremium
join:2001-01-02
Forest Grove, OR
kudos:1
 ·Frontier FiOS
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I'm too lazy to build computers even though I have a BSEE  Bought two new systems in the past two months...
March saw the arrival of an HP MediaSmart Server EX490 running WHS PowerPack 3:
* Intel Celeron Processor 2.2 GHz 64-bit
* 2GB DDR2 DRAM
* 1.0 TB SATA 7200 RPM (system drive)
* 3 x 1.5 TB SATA 7200 RPM
* 4 USB 2.0 ports
* 1 eSATA port (which I'll take advantage of as soon those 2TB drives drop in price a bit )
Not my photo but it's a good one:
Also bought two gigabit switches on the same day so our LAN is finally up to snuff
A week ago, this arrived:
An HP TouchSmart 600xt / All-in-One PC:
* Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T6600 [2.2GHz, 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB]
* 6GB DDR3-1066MHz SODIMM [2 DIMMs]
* 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
* 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT230M
* 1920 x 1080 resolution monitor
Running Windows Home Premium x64 and it's definitely a keeper. In addition to all my usual desktop activities, it's also loaded up with Boxee (a media center of sorts sans PVR) and Hava (like a Slingbox) which is integrated with WMC as a PVR.
The TouchSmart media apps are somewhat of a disappointment though given purchase #1 (above) -- those applications don't "see" any networked-media (!?) I'm hoping for an update at some point by HP...
Surprisingly, I really really like the low-profile keyboard it comes with (I usually toss/donate OEM keyboards as they're typically ridiculously bulky, low-featured, etc). The "key action" on this thing is really nice though, I wish I could have one like it work.
Best of all, only one cord needed (power, natch) though I went ahead and added my 2.1 speakers so but that doesn't count, right? |
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 AirwolfPremium
join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
2 edits | reply to dragon
Just ordered an Asus M4A87TD Evo and 2x2GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1333 7-7-7-21
I'm so excited I have a headache. |
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 MaranelloPremium,MVM
join:2000-12-08
Butler, PA
·Armstrong Zoom ..
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Re: Your System - March/April 2010 AMD X6 1090T
MSI 890FXA-GD70
4GB G.Skill 1600... was 8GB...
Kingston SNV425 64GB SSD
HIS 4890 1GB
Corsair 650W
Antec 300 w/ Xigmatek fans
Xigmatek S1283 cooler with nafljhy's custom mount
The custom mount puts more pressure on the CPU vs the stock clip but also turns the cooler freeing up the #1&2 DIMMs
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»i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq34···ear1.jpg
I'm back down to 4GB of memory. I got two orders of the same memory. The first order was causing cold boot BSOD's and was returned. I'm thinking of moving to AMD specific OCZ or G.Skill. |
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Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·Optimum Online
·EarthLink
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Re: Your System - March 2010Built it myself:
ASUS P7P55D-E PRO 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard
Intel i7-860 2.8 GHz Lynnfield socket 1156 Quad Core HT Processor
Sapphire 100289L HD 5670 1GB 128-bit DDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 DP 64W Video Card
Kingston KVR1333D3N9K2/4G 2 x 2GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Memory Kit
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb Hard Drive
LG GH22LS50 SATA 22X DVD Burner
Antec NSK6580B ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 430 Watts Power Supply
Logitech Internet 350 USB Keyboard
Logitech V220 3 Button Tilt Wheel Cordless Optical 1000 dpi Mouse
Dell U2410 UltraSharp 24-inch 1920x1200 Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
Microsoft Win 7 Pro 64 bit OS |
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