Show us your system!

[volf]

As the topic says... Dooo it....
So heres mine!




Spec :

- Intel DualCore Duo 4400 @ 2.0Ghz
- Nvidia GeForce 8600GT
- 2GB RAM (eBuyer)
- XCilo Case with 36cm Sidefan
- CoolerMaster CPU Heatsink (It was bigger than I thought!)
- SeaGate 250GB HardDrive
- Antec HDD Cooler with twin 40mm fans
- Onboard Soundcard, Hooked up to my HiFi
- DVD combo RW Drive
- AlphaCool LCD screen
- Bloooo LEDs
- Blue LED Running light (Not plugged in at the moment)
- 700WATT PSU
- Cibox 19" LCD screen
- Microsoft LaserOptic mouse

[Chin.]

Good topic this !


Spec :

:arrow: Intel Core2Duo E6420 @ 3.2
:arrow: AC Freezer 64
:arrow: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
:arrow: 2x 200GB Hitachi Deskstar
:arrow: 2x 1GB OCZ Special OPS edition
:arrow: Radeon X1650PRO 512MB
:arrow: SoundBlaster Audigy 24
:arrow: OCZ StealthXstream 600W
:arrow: DVD ROM by LiteOn
:arrow: Samsung writemaster
:arrow: Aerogate Fan Conrtoller by COOLERMASTER
:arrow: Apacer Mem. Card reader 5in1
:arrow: Blue neon [ not connected ]
:arrow: 12mm Blue LED fan - back
:arrow: 8mm fan - front
:arrow: HANNS G 19" LCD
:arrow: Saitek EntryLevelGaming Keyboard
:arrow: Typhoon Laser office mouse
:arrow: Creative T6100

Pics ::




I'm happy with it !

[Rover220CoupeTurbo]

Good topic this !


Spec :

:arrow: Intel Core2Duo E6420 @ 3.2
:arrow: AC Freezer 64
:arrow: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
:arrow: 2x 200GB Hitachi Deskstar
:arrow: 2x 1GB OCZ Special OPS edition
:arrow: Radeon X1650PRO 512MB
:arrow: SoundBlaster Audigy 24
:arrow: OCZ StealthXstream 600W
:arrow: DVD ROM by LiteOn
:arrow: Samsung writemaster
:arrow: Aerogate Fan Conrtoller by COOLERMASTER
:arrow: Apacer Mem. Card reader 5in1
:arrow: Blue neon [ not connected ]
:arrow: 12mm Blue LED fan - back
:arrow: 8mm fan - front
:arrow: HANNS G 19" LCD
:arrow: Saitek EntryLevelGaming Keyboard
:arrow: Typhoon Laser office mouse
:arrow: Creative T6100

Pics ::






I'm happy with it !

I think you may need to do some dusting....

[Null_Byte]

The beast - complete custom case, originally a 486 server tower chassis found in a hedge, now much modified by yours truely to take an ATX board.

Old now, maybe 5+ years or so back in the day it was a droolworthy packing a clocked 2500 barton to 3200xp rated, 1Gb of corsair pro, RAID 0 Seagate SATA, Enermax coolergiant, gigabyte 7nnxp and a nice ATI 9800XT.



Can you tell what game I mostly play??



Yes the CD is hovering thanks to the stupidly powerfull delta 120mm's case has a lot of cooling.

Pretty low spec by todays standards but still a trusty rig just updated with a new G5 mouse will tide me over till I can be bothered to build something new.

[agw_01]

A few piccies...









Intel Core2Duo E8200 CPU
Asus P5K-Pro Motherboard
4gb OCZ Platinum RAM
2x 250gb Hitachi SATA2 HDDs
nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512mb PCI-E Graphics Card
Lian-Li V1000+ Case
Watercooled (random bits)

[Scott]

nowt special, but the monitor was a christmas present, the case and 2 dvd burners were free, the HDs were free, and the mobo/ram/gfx card only cost me £40



22inch fujitsu widescreen lcd
DFI lanparty NF4 ultra mobo.
AMD athlon 3700+
2gig of ram, 4x corsair X or something.
BFG 7800GT OC gfx card
cambridge audio amp
mission speakers

Oh, and my wireless is free aswell courtesy of a work collegue over the road! 8meg lol...

[Chin.]

Good topic this !


Spec :

:arrow: Intel Core2Duo E6420 @ 3.2
:arrow: AC Freezer 64
:arrow: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
:arrow: 2x 200GB Hitachi Deskstar
:arrow: 2x 1GB OCZ Special OPS edition
:arrow: Radeon X1650PRO 512MB
:arrow: SoundBlaster Audigy 24
:arrow: OCZ StealthXstream 600W
:arrow: DVD ROM by LiteOn
:arrow: Samsung writemaster
:arrow: Aerogate Fan Conrtoller by COOLERMASTER
:arrow: Apacer Mem. Card reader 5in1
:arrow: Blue neon [ not connected ]
:arrow: 12mm Blue LED fan - back
:arrow: 8mm fan - front
:arrow: HANNS G 19" LCD
:arrow: Saitek EntryLevelGaming Keyboard
:arrow: Typhoon Laser office mouse
:arrow: Creative T6100

Pics ::






I'm happy with it !

I think you may need to do some dusting....

Indeed

[Chin.]

btw scott , where do you get your stuff from ?

[Scott]

lol, just get involved with the IT department, they have far too much money, and are always upgrading their stuff

[Vard66]

Spec (as I remember it)
Pictures to follow, when I can be bothered to duck in behind the TV.

EZCool case - no idea what name, but it looks neat and gives good airflow.
Asus P5KC Mobo,
ATI Radeon HD 3850 GPU,
Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 CPU(I think, I can't remember if that was the one I went for in the end or not - might have been the E6750.) (It's not oc'd atm, haven't pushed it yet, have seen no need.)
3x 1GB Corsair XMS2 5400 DDR2 RAM,
Seagate Barracuda 500GB Sata II HDD,
Tagan TG530 modular PSU,
Toshiba SD-H802A DVD/HD,
Extra USB 2.0 4 port PCIe card (just for funsies - I'll never use 14 USB ports at once...)
4x Akasa 80mm silent case fans,
1x Akasa 120mm silent case fans,
1x 120mm Ally case fan (don't remember ordering it, but hey!)
Logitech G11
Logitech MX Revolution
Logitech 5.1 Surround (can't remember offhand what it is)
Accoustic Solutions 32" HDTV as monitor (yes, I know. It has issues.)
Windows XP Pro
Firefox User!
WinAMP User!

Oh, and I nearly forgot!
IcyBox external HDD case, which iirc has my Samsung 80GB photo backup drive in it atm.

I don't have a desk as such.The tower sits on my window ledge by my window, for good, cold, and dust free airflow. The HDTV and front tweeter are on a stand in front of it, the Xbox and sub on the bottom shelf, and a 24port Netgear hub running wireless internet to the box below it, other tweeters are on stands left and right, and on window ledges/beauros behind, and my computer chair is a bigass plush cream leather armchair.

The f**king hub makes more idle noise than everything else put together!

[Vard66]

Intel Core2Duo E8200 CPU...
4gb OCZ Platinum RAM

Wtf could you possibly use all that processing power for??

nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512mb PCI-E Graphics Card

GeForce 8800.... mmmmmmmm... My friends tried to persuade me to just go all out on that when I was trolling for a GPU, but it was a bit much at circa £400 when I was looking. Gotta be awesome though, right?

Watercooled (random bits)

Costly? I couldn't seem to find much in the way of W/C when I was looking, under the £200 bracket...
Am thinking about it now though, if the price is right and I get spare cash at any point this century.

[rovex]

Thankfully the 8800GT is not that much to buy, ive seen them dip under £100.

Getting a new case soon for my PC, to go with my HDTV and glass stand. It will be an HTPC case, but finding one that can handle all my powerful gear is not that easy.

[Quiche81]

Ok, here goes.

Asus Sli Mobo
AMD 64 6400+ Dual core CPU
4Gb Ram
2x SATAII 250Gb HDD Striped in Raid 0
2x Nvidia 8500GT 1024Mb DDR2 Graphics cards Running in SLi mode (Pci-E)
Cacky Case
19 Inch TFT Monitor
5.1 Surround CMedia Audio card.
Windows Vista Premium 64Bit OS

[rovex]

Thinking of getting this case


to house the following:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (at 3.4GHz)
ASUS P5E AiLifestyle Series iX38 Mobo
ATI HD3650 (not a gamer.. its for HD decoding only)
4GB OCZ memory
2X Samsung 1TB HDDs (for storage)
1X WD Raptor 150GB HDD (for windows)

[Din]

You guys must spend more on your computers than your cars..............oh and rather thanputting silly neons on your cars you put them on your pc instead, your all bloody chavs

[Scott]

i dont get chavving up your pc nonsense, whats the point?!

a luminous box of whooshing noises in the corner of the room is never going to go down well...

a black glass desk on the other hand is a much more worthwhile spend...

[IrishRover]

Wow, there are some very impressive systems up there.
volf, where did you get that panel that says "processor" on it? Is the thing above it a hdd cooler case?
I do most of my computer shopping on komplett.

The water cooled system looks very impressive. I would like to try this some day. I have always tried to make a machine that doesn't create much heat so I can use the least amount of fans and at the slowest speed, because I value quietness over a little extra speed.

My main pc seems impressive looking to a lot of people who see it, but it looks quite plain compared to your machines.
I do have so many computers though that I genuinely don't know how many I have!

The two main ones are my media center pc and the other one I'm using now.
This one has an Intel C2D E6850, 4GB of ram and a 320MB Nvidia 8800GT


This is my media center pc and it has an Intel C2D E6600, 4GB of ram and a 256MB Nvidia 7300GT (good enough for TV out and mild game playing if it really needed to). The key feature of this machine though is its disk storage which allows it to be used as a media center and file server. It has a separate sata2 raid card, which has two 750gb disks attached to it in a mirrored array. I have one more 750gb disk for recording tv in media center and another 750GB disk which is partitioned for the OS and to allow space to run a virtual server which I use exclusively for downloads.

As you can see, it's placed inside an odd looking cabinet. This was a Pye Continental 405 line black and white television which actually belonged to my grandfather. My dad watched the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome (would you believe live via satellite!) and the 1969 Moon Landings on it. I remember watching some television on it back in the early 80's before they finally switched off the 405-line system.

Since then it has been completely obsolete, but is nonetheless an interesting curiousity. It has been nothing but a table upon which to put other various TVs throughout the years. I didn't take it apart without considering the nature of what I was doing and whether I was destroying a valuable antique or not. However, my dad was ok with it and I have taken it apart in such a way that it can be put back together again should someone want to. Taking it apart was quite fascinating actually noting all the components and who they were made by.












My next project will be to actually house the computer compenents directly inside, using the tv itself as the PC-case. I will use green neon lighting and tubing to give the impression that you are looking inside the workings of an old television. I will put the buttons for power and usb and so on at the front and extend the main sockets out to a panel I will make at the back. I will take great care however not to cut or modify or damage the existing case in any way.

[volf]

You guys must spend more on your computers than your cars..............oh and rather thanputting silly neons on your cars you put them on your pc instead, your all bloody chavs

Ture... My PCs got more power than my car

[SubCat001]

Intel E2160 @3.2GHZ
Artic Cooler Freezer 7
MSI P35 NEO 2 Mobo
2gb Patriot PC2 6400 4-4-4-12
GeCube ATi HD3870 oc 512mb
SB Audigy 4
WD 160GB Sata2
Seagate 750GB Sata2
Sony DVD-RW
Coolermaster ACTS
FSP PSU
2X Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 93SB CRT's
Logitech G25 keyboard
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse.

Some crappy phone pics.




Planning a water cooling setup and probably a CPU upgrade.

Thinking of getting this case


to house the following:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (at 3.4GHz)
ASUS P5E AiLifestyle Series iX38 Mobo
ATI HD3650 (not a gamer.. its for HD decoding only)
4GB OCZ memory
2X Samsung 1TB HDDs (for storage)
1X WD Raptor 150GB HDD (for windows)

Me too. That's on my short list for HTPC cases. Seems to be really good value and reasonably well built.

[shen]

Used to be really into this... water cooled pcs..cooler master cases, glass sides on everything.

TBH it's all a bit old hat now I think and just looks vulgar...

I much prefer PCs looking stylish and classier now...or just novel and different.

I'll see if I can dig out some sexy old pics ...in the meantime

here's some of my fave Case mods

[Din]

OOH i like the classic nintendo pc case

[IrishRover]

Yeah, the NES case idea seems nifty, but at the same time a part of me is upset if it meant destroying a working console.

There's probably a hell of a lot more work gone into that bomb case. I seem to remember the nuclear bomb in the James Bond Octopussy film looked like that.

[agw_01]

Wtf could you possibly use all that processing power for??

Well, I'd been using an Athlon XP system with a gig of RAM and a 9700 Pro graphics card for sometime so I thought it only right that I make a move in the right direction. I had a quick dabble and overclocked this machine but it's so quick I've currently got it running at stock again!

GeForce 8800.... mmmmmmmm... My friends tried to persuade me to just go all out on that when I was trolling for a GPU, but it was a bit much at circa £400 when I was looking. Gotta be awesome though, right?

It's actually not that expensive. I've got the 512mb 8800GT and am very impressed. Like I said, I came from a 9700 Pro and therefore have very few games to push the card to the limits. I can max out Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half Life!

Costly? I couldn't seem to find much in the way of W/C when I was looking, under the £200 bracket...
Am thinking about it now though, if the price is right and I get spare cash at any point this century.

Not really... already had the radiator and pipework. Bought a Thermaltake 12v pump a few months ago for the sum of £17 and a waterblock for this CPU which cost about £25. It's not going to set the world on fire with its performance but it's super quiet and of course, has the cool factor about it

[rovex]

Me too. That's on my short list for HTPC cases. Seems to be really good value and reasonably well built.

Bought it! Its not bad, bit of a tight squeeze for all my bits, especially an overclocked quad core and its cooler!!
Quality is pretty good, front is aluminium, rest is medium quality steel, but thats fine for the price.

Case and much abused Sky box.


Playing back an HD movie (star trek First contact)

[Vard66]

Ok, here are the pics that I promised so long ago.
Overall setup -



Tower location - on the windowsil, with the window open, either wide, if I'm using it for some more demanding stuff, or on the first latch for cooler air all the time anyway.



Random screenshot of WinAmp. Good screen for a dark room, as it doesn't blind you horribly, like this bright forum layout does.



Asus P5KC Motherboard,
ATI Radeon HD 3850 GPU



Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 CPU(I think).



Mission Control.







Cushty, huh?

[bryan2009]

Thinking of getting this case


to house the following:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 (at 3.4GHz)
ASUS P5E AiLifestyle Series iX38 Mobo
ATI HD3650 (not a gamer.. its for HD decoding only)
4GB OCZ memory
2X Samsung 1TB HDDs (for storage)
1X WD Raptor 150GB HDD (for windows)

i have one of these cases for my vista mce machine, there not to bad n quite well built though they a pain in the donkey boy for cooling and for some strange reason the psu sits at the front of the case...

there also a nightmare for hdds, there is one mounting point in the right hand side of the case and one bellow for a floppy or a card reader but i used this for an hdd also.. 2x 750 gb and still not enought! grrr..

[rovex]

Most HTPC cases have the PSU at the front, its actually a pretty good idea.

You can mount a hard drive on each side, where the fan holes are, so you can have up to 4, it would limit cooling, but its ok for a lower powered HTPC setup designed for media use. Im using one of the fan holes for a HDD and have an overclocked quad core, temps are a bit high, but stil within limits.

If you want to add more storage try one of these, brilliant idea! http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=723367

[IrishRover]

There are some amazing case mods on this page. Keep reading onto the second page as they get even better and more creative and genuinely artistic and beautiful.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/06 ... -mods.html

I decided to mount all my computer components directly into that old tv that I showed above and fit an lcd panel in the front where the old tube used to be. I'm in the middle of it at the moment and it'll probably take a good while to get it just right, but I'll update later when done or at least mostly done.