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[MavRCK]

Slab Squathrust, on 19 February 2014 - 05:02 AM, said:

Doesn't mean much when you compare a mobile series gpu the the full on desktop version. The regular GTX 680 will blow yours away every day and twice on Sunday.

I overclocked mine to just above desktop GTX speeds about 5% core / memory.

A desktop GTX 680 can still be overclocked another 10% over stock desktop (some go as much as 20% with the right cooling etc) ... but 5% over stock desktop on a mobile gpu is pretty good.

The mobile GTX680MX are the high quality binned GTX 680 desktop gpu fyi -- same chips, same memory chips too. It's just the thermal characteristics they wanted for apple. I could build a better, faster, more economical desktop but space and looks are considerations -- money isn't.

The cpu is something I can't overclock which would give me a huge fps increase in mwo and any cryengine title!

Edited by MavRCK, 20 February 2014 - 10:27 AM.

[Naranak]

Alright, my turn!

PC1: Used to be my primary gaming rig, now used for work and League of Legends.

Case; Corsair Graphite 600t
PSU: Corsair 1000HX
MoBo: Asus p8z67-c pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500k @ 4.1 GHz
RAM: 8 GB Corsair XMS UltraStable @ 1600 MHz
GPU: AMD Radeon 6850
NIC: Killer 2100
HDD: WD Black 1 TB 7200 RPM
SSD: Corsair Force GS 240 GB
Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow Ultimate
Mouse: Corsair Vengeance M65
Monitor: Samsung 24" LCD 1920x1200

PC2: Used as a higher end gaming rig for contemporary games. Also used as a living room HTPC
Case: Restored and customized NZXT Rogue chassis from 2008
PSU: Corsair HX600
MoBo: Asus z87m-Plus
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670k @ 4.4 GHz
RAM: 8 GB Corsair XMS Vengeance @ 1866 MHz
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 760
HDD: Seagate 500 GB 7200 RPM
SSD: Intel 530 120 GB
Keyboard: Razer Deathstalker
Mouse: Razer Taipan (can also use Wii Mote and Xbox 360 controller for general navigation and game control)
Monitor: Samsung 50" DLP 1920x1080
CPU cooling: Corsair H50
GPU cooling: EVGA ACX
Case cooling: 4x Corsair 120mm Silencer fans



PC3: Bedroom HTPC
Case: Mineral Oil Submersion (aka, fish tank filled with non-conductive liquid)
Mobo: Stripped down Asus x55EA laptop (bought it on ebay with a cracked screen and no HDD and RAM, $80)
CPU: AMD A4-5000 @ 1.5 GHz
RAM: 4 GB Samsung DDR3 @ 1333 MHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 8330
SSD: Crucial c300 64GB
Keyboard / Mouse: Logitech Playstation 3 Blutooth keyboard w/ built in track pad
Monitor: Vizio 32" 720p

[xWiredx]

ASUS Sabertooth P67
Intel Core i7 2600K (@5.0GhZ turbo, hyperthreading on)
8GB Samsung DDR3-1667 9-9-9-11 (@DDR3-1866 9-8-9-11)
250GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
1TB WD Velociraptor
Galaxy GTX 660Ti GC 2GB
Seasonic 850W PSU (forget which series)
Corsair H50
Cooler Master HAF 932

I'm trying desperately to hold out for the new Maxwell Geforce cards in Q3, but I'm starting to get really irritated by this GTX 780 Ti itch and I want to scratch.

[SevenFolds]

Built for my birthday!

• Case: Corsair Carbide 500R (Black)
  
• PSU: Corsair HX650
  
• CPU: Intel i5-4670K
  
• M/B: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming
  
• RAM: G.SKILL RipJaw X 2x4GB 1600MHz
  
• GPU: MSI GTX 770 Gaming 2GB
  
• HDD: Samsung 840 120GB & Seagate Barracuda 1TB
  
• LCD: Insignia 42" 1080p TV calibrated with X-Rite i1 Display Pro
  
• Spkrs: Samsung HW-C560S + Klispch+Samsung+Sony speakers (5.1)
  
• Cans: CMoyBB v2.03 + Sennheiser PC 360
  
• O/S: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Edited by SevenFolds, 22 February 2014 - 01:48 PM.

[OldCowboy]

My 2012 Christmas present to my self.

Alienware aurora
I7 3930k at 3.2ghz(factory oc to 3.8 but I bumped it up to 4.2ghz)
2X Radeon 7950 crossfired and over clocked
1t hard drive
16gb ram

6 months ago I benchmarked it with 3d mark and it scored in the top 3%. Yeah... I was pretty impressed with myself

[JimLahey]

I switched to Nvidia for my GPUs. I replaced my crossfire HD 7970s with Asus GTX 780 DirectCU II OC SLI. I also replaced most of the fans with Corsair AF/SP series fans.

OS- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU - Intel Core i7 3820@4.3GHz
MoBo - Asus Rampage IV Formula
GPU - 2x Asus GTX 780 DirectCU II OC SLI +146core/+110mem
Sound - Asus Xonar DGX
RAM - Corsair Dominator GT 8GB 1866MHz
Hard Drive - Corsair Force GT SSD 120GB
PSU - Corsair AX850
Case - Corsair 600T
Monitor - Acer GD235HZ
Keyboard - Ducky DK-1008 OCN edition(MX Blacks)
Mouse - Zowie Gear AM-GS
Headset - Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80/Mic mod
Speakers - Logitech X230

Edited by spjMrLahey, 08 April 2014 - 08:13 PM.

[OrmusBaxter]

really like your crimson background!


Nice system btw

[WarGruf]

For a man on a budget!

AMD Phenom II X6 2.7Ghz - Overclocked to 3.6Ghz(on all 6 cores, air cooling)
Core speed: 3601
Multiplier x13
Bus speed: 277Mhz
HT link: 2216Mhz

Corsair DDR3 1600, 8Gig, Dual channel.
NB frequency 2216Mhz
Dram Frequency: 738Mhz
FSB\Dram: 3:8
CL 8, tRCD 8, tRP 8, tRAS 20, tRC 27, CR 1.

Crossfired 7770s GPU clock 1100Mhz, Mem Clock 1300Mhz.

PSU 800w EzCool ambiance 80+, dual rail.

M4A77TD Pro Motherboard.

Seagate Hard drives, 465gig + 335Gig.

Monitor Dell P991 1600x1200 27"

[Barbaric Soul]

Barbaric Soul, on 31 December 2013 - 03:25 AM, said:

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (OC'ed to 4.5ghz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Motherboard: MSI Z68A-GD80 (B3)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Storage: Crucial M4 256GB SSD
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB Hard Drive
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti SC ACX 3GB Video Card
Power Supply: XFX 750W XXX-Edition 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular PSU
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64-bit)
Monitor: HP ZR30w 30" 2560*1600 resolution

Did a little upgrading-



CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K not OC'ed YET
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600
Storage: Crucial M4 256GB SSD
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti SC ACX 3GB Video Card
Power Supply: Corsair TX850
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64-bit)
Monitor: HP ZR30w 30" 2560*1600 resolution

Edited by Barbaric Soul, 07 March 2014 - 05:13 AM.

[Bad Karma 308]

Just switched out my Procs and upgraded my LAN.
______________________________________________________
Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise

Processor 2x Intel Xeon E5-2697W v2 Ivy Bridge-EP 3.1GHz 12-Core W/HT 48-cores @3.8GHZ

Co_Processor Intel Xeon Phi 5110P

Motherboard ASUS Z9PE-D8WS Dual LGA 2011

Memory 128GB DDR3 1600

Hard Drive OCZ Z-Drive R4 CM84 1.2TB PCI-E

NIC Intel PCI-E 10Gb Dual Port sfp

Video Card (depending on need) 3x Geforce Titans/ 24x Nvidia Tesla 1070X 1U GPGPU servers

Monitor 3x HP ZR30w 30"

Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion

Keyboard Logitech G19

Mouse Cyborg R.A.T. 7

Spoiler

And plenty more power to spare:

Edited by Bad Karma 308, 09 March 2014 - 02:56 PM.

[Nick Rarang]

Custom Cyberpower Gamer Scorpious 9000

Processor : AMD FX 8350 Oc'd to 5.0ghz
Motherboard : Gigabyte 990FX UD3 rev.3
Memory : 16GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical
Vid Card : Powercolor Radeon 7970 ; 1200 core 1607 mem
HD : Kingston Hyper X 3K 128GB / Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm
Case : Thermaltake Level 10 GTS Snow Edition 2 x 200 ; 1 x 140; 4 x 120 fans
CPU Cooler : Thermaltake FRIO OCK
Power Supply : Thermaltake Smart Series 750W
Monitor : Asus 247H

[Magic Murder Bag]

She may not be the strongest, but she's built for reliability (I'm kinda new to PC language so forgive me):


Processor: intel i7 sandybridge {makes use of the cooler it came with]
Motherboard: ASUS ProGen3
Memory/ Hard Drives: 36 gig RAM (two 18-gig cards]/ Samsung 128 gig SSD drive, WD caviar black 1TB HHD card
GPU: NvIidia GeForce GTX 660 ti [PNY]
Chassis: AZZA Hurricaine
Power Supply: Corsair 660W

My wall mounted samsung 32 inch flatscreen tv is my monitor via HDMI.

Like I said, if high end PC's are exotic cars then mine's a Honda Accord.

Edited by Magic Murder Bag, 10 March 2014 - 12:04 PM.

[Kuga ZA]

ASrock Z68 Extreme 7 Gen 3
Intel Core i7 2600k @ 4.8Ghz
Corsair H100i
Corsair Dominator GT 1866Mhz (4x4GB) XMP Profile
2 x Gigabyte GTX 770
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB (OS + Games)
OCZ Vertex 4 120GB (Cache drive for editing)
3 x Seagate 2TB (RAID 5 ; Storage)
Huntkey X7 900w PSU

Custom HAF 932 + HAF X side and top panels.
Demciflex filters all around

Logitech G19 Keyboard
Logitech G400 mouse
Logitech G430s Headphones (soon )

Samsung T240 LCD
Pics below still have my old AMD 6990 + 6970 setup. I need to take new pics

Spoiler

When I had eyefinity : 3 x LG 23's : Had to downscale when I moved in with my wife

Edited by Kuga ZA, 12 March 2014 - 09:19 AM.

[CMetz]

Built recently, somewhat on a budget:

Cougar Volant case (If you haven't looked into Cougar cases, do it. They're awesome to build in)
Cougar 750W PSU (Bronze)
Asus M5A-78LM/USB3 Mobo
AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz
16 GB Super Talent RAM (1600)
Samsung 840 PRO SSD 128 GB
Asus GTX 770 Direct CU II OC
LG Super Multi Blu BD/DVD/CD R/RW
LG 23" IPS LED monitor
Corsair Vengeance M65 Mouse
Corsair Vengeance K70 Keyboard
Corsair Vengeance 1500 Headset

Total Price: $925 without peripherals

[Himmelganger]

Motherboard Asus Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 X79

CPU Intel 3930k @ 4,2 GHz

CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken X60 (Going to get custom water cooling, doing research)

RAM 32 GB (4x8GB) ofKingston HyperX Beast @ 2400 CL 11

GPU 2xEVGA Nvidia gtx780 SC ACX 3 GB SLI (SLI disabled when running MWO, use the second card as dedicated PhysX card, will eventually get a Nvida gtx750Ti as a dedicated PhysX card when SLI is implimented in MWO)

PSU Corsair AX1200i

Soundcard Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3 Deluxe

System Disk Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB

OS Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit

Monitor Sony 52" HDTV 1080p@60

Case Corsair Obsidian 900D

Mouse Logitech g700

Keyboard Logitech +710

Edited by Himmelganger, 23 March 2014 - 03:49 PM.

[TurkeyMcCoolRay]

Micronics C400 motherboard

Monster 3D II 3D accelerator

Monster Sound MX200

Viper V550 video card

In Win Q500-ATX case

Intel Pentium II 350MHz CPU

64Mb PC100-certified SDRAM

Fujitsu MPC3032AT 3.2Gb Ultra DMA EIDE hard drive

AOpen CD-936E/AKU 36X CD-ROM drive




Custom job

Edited by Neovictorian, 23 March 2014 - 06:50 PM.

[Barbaric Soul]

pic after upgrade-

[ratgoat]

Just put this together last week. I decided my laptop just won't cut it for Starcitizen, and I was tired of playing MWO on low settings..

• 
  
• Corsair Professional Series 860-Watt Power Supply
  
• Western Digital 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Hard Drive
  
• Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2133 MHz
  
• Samsung 840 Pro Series 256 GB SATA 6GB/s Solid State Drive: 2x Raid 0
  
• ASUS Rampage IV Gene LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
  
• Intel i7-4820K LGA 2011 CPU: OC @ 4.3 GHz
  
• Corsair Obsidian Series 350D Performance Micro ATX Computer Case
  
• ASUS Radeon R9 290: OC at about 1100 GHz
  

And a lot of watercooling stuff....



Now I just need a 2560x1440 monitor as this setup is way overkill for my single 1920x1200.

You might notice that I'm missing one of the thumb screws that fastens the CPU waterblock to the CPU. It's currently being shipped to me. I checked the contact between the block, thermal paste and CPU and the three currently installed will suffice for now.

[ThatBum42]

Here's mine.

I mainly use it for scientific computing, hence the powerful processor. The performance per clock/watt of Haswell is insane, by the way. I only have one 1080p display, so the 660Ti is sufficient for the games I intend to be playing. Maybe in a few years I'll get a 700 series card.

[Randall Flagg]

OS - Windows 7 64bit
CPU - Intel Core i7 3820@5.25GHz (watercooled)
MoBo – MSI Xpower II (watercooled)
GPU - 3x EVGA GTX 670 FTW+ 4GB
Sound – Soundblaster Z with Schiit Lyr AMP
RAM - Corsair Dominator GT 4x4GB
Hard Drive – 2x Intel 520 SSD 240 GB
PSU – EVGA 1500w
Case – Xigmatek Elysium
Monitor – Asus 120hz 27” 1920x1080
Keyboard – G15.. from like 2006 lol
Mouse – Deathadder Optical 2013 ed.
Headset – AKG 701s
Cooling: Phobya 60mm thick x 480mm long Rad, Koolance 380 block, black tubing.. etc.