PC Builders?

[Mitsuwhat]

Correct me if im wrong, didnt see a thread asking to see people who have built there own machines. Lets see whos got the most rockin rig out there. Post up some pics. Once im home from work ill post my setup. Include the grand total for the total build as well.

[Sh4d0wX7]

I could get some pics, I'll have to do it later. I'm in class.

[jackvuu]

Damn I use to build sick ass towers but I no longer do. No time for PC so I got laptops now LMFAO.

[DC13]

I have 6 computers that I built and now my Laptop

Once I move into a house Ill get my computers and take some pics my best so far is

2x Quad i7 core
16GB ram
6TB worth of Hard drives

2 285 Nvidia gfx cards

will have blue neon all over it also. cant build it till I get some room but with the specs it should be amazing. spent alittle over 1500 for it so it was amazing price and the best specs you can get at this time beats alienware ten fold.

[snoeclipse]

define 'rocking'.....

I've got a C2Q running at 3Gz, 4Gb of 1033 mz ram, and a genuine Intel mobo that cost me less than $500- Dropped that into a recycled case and a 500 watt PS I've had for 4 years. 500Gb of mirrored SATA-3000 disk cost me $150. Everyone has a few keyboards, mice, and speakers laying around. The integrated Intel 4500 graphics are more than good enough for everything but bleeding edge games. I get 50+ fps on XPlane with all scenery options enabled and it plays blue-ray HD content just fine. If I need to improve the graphics at all a 512Mb ATi 4800 card costs around $100-

Oh, I had to buy a small tube of Arctic Silver cooling goop for a buck.

If price is no object, it's easy to 'rock'. Pare back the allowable spending and then you set up a good challenge.

I"m down to two desktops and two laptops at home supported by a single server. I can see losing the oldest desktop (an OLD-OLD IBM Pentium 2.8Gz X40 all-in-one with a 19" LCD) when it finally breaks. But I have so many old parts in the basement (including enough IDE hard drives to choke an elephant) that unless something major breaks (and remember that this is IBM hardware, it never breaks) that machine may well outlive me.

[Slippercream]

I was kinds hoping Darkmaniac would have come to the last Austin meet so i could show the rig off some. always a great feeling to have built a kickass machine. posting this from the phone so pics to follow...

• AMD Phenom X4 955 black (OC to 3.5 GHz)
• 8 GB DDR3 (1600 MHz clock)
• ATI Radeon 9850 x2 (currently in PCIe x16 on Crossfire with old Radeon 9830... second 9850 x2 to follow when the cash flow gets better)
• 1 TB main SATA HDD
• LG Blu-Ray BD-R

add more later. finding it hard to type lists on the mobile browser...

[psy-q]

I've got a Q6600 w/4gb ram and an ATI 4870 running in a case that'll fit in a backpack. 1.5tb of drive space too.

The thing has so many fans in it for air flow it sounds like an F18 on a hot day. I have to use a directional barrel fan @3000rpm to keep the CPU from liquifying.

[Silverside]

Its 2.5 years old but still bad ass for a duel core.

• Gigabyte M590-S5 mother board
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2Ghz
• PNY GeForce 9800 GX2
• 8 gigs of corsair dominator DDR2 1066 Mhz
• Ultra 1000W modular psu
• 2 seagate 320 Gb Sata hard drives in raid striping mode
• Duel sata dvd burners w/Lightscribe
• Logitech G9 mouse and G15 keyboard
• Liquid cooling on the cpu, gpu, nbridge, sbridge, and v reg.
• All wired into my tv/game setup for recording and playback

I will be building a system for my father in a few months as well.

[Infliction]

Originally Posted by psy-q

I've got a Q6600 w/4gb ram and an ATI 4870 running in a case that'll fit in a backpack. 1.5tb of drive space too.

The thing has so many fans in it for air flow it sounds like an F18 on a hot day. I have to use a directional barrel fan @3000rpm to keep the CPU from liquifying.

you have any problems with the hourly shut down?
i have the q6600. idk whats every been answered about that problem. could be all in the motherboard. mine is straight from gateway with that problem, and they take no responsibility. i'll probably just junk this thing eventually.. so much for that $1,200

[ralph305]

was on tight budget when i built it.Had to make do with what was offered.

NVIDIA 8900 GT
AMD Dual core 5200+
2GB RAM

[haladafs]

gateway laptop with 516 mb ram ddr1 and 60gb hard drive 1100 bucks with radeon graphics card lol and 1.6 ghz processor

[psy-q]

Originally Posted by Infliction

you have any problems with the hourly shut down?
i have the q6600. idk whats every been answered about that problem. could be all in the motherboard. mine is straight from gateway with that problem, and they take no responsibility. i'll probably just junk this thing eventually.. so much for that $1,200

hourly shutdown? nope, never had anything like that. Have you done temperature testing? I know the first batch of Q6600s ran MUCH hotter and they had to do some design changes.

Throw this in as see what your temperatures are:
SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer

I'll typically see 50-70C but core1 is usually the hotter one. It may be dependent on the way the fan is mounted and your case design. I imagine mine is a bit high then normal due to the case size but even 80-90C would be within spec for a first gen Q6600.

[Infliction]

Originally Posted by psy-q

hourly shutdown? nope, never had anything like that. Have you done temperature testing? I know the first batch of Q6600s ran MUCH hotter and they had to do some design changes.

Throw this in as see what your temperatures are:
SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer

I'll typically see 50-70C but core1 is usually the hotter one. It may be dependent on the way the fan is mounted and your case design. I imagine mine is a bit high then normal due to the case size but even 80-90C would be within spec for a first gen Q6600.

the original case size was wayyyy too small. i got a new one hopeing it would help, this one has a side mounted fan. the temp isnt the problem. a lot of people with this gateway model had the same problem. and they've kept track of temp. the best part is, once it does it the first time, it will keep doing it every hour, exactly every hour, no matter what the temp is.
i just found a screen shot i took, gimme a minute.. .. not that youre online right now

[Infliction]

isnt that wonderful?

[the fuzz]

water cooled gaming pc i built 1 years ago and it kicks arse

[psy-q]

Do the following:

1) Click Start, then open Control Panel
2) Click Performance and Maintenance
3) Click System
4) Click on the Advanced Tab
5) Click Settings in the Startup and Recovery section
6) Uncheck Automatically Restart in the System failure section

That way it will hopefully blue screen at that hour instead of automatically restarting. Maybe that will give us a better idea of what is going on.

[Slippercream]

Oh wow... that sucks

I wonder what could be the real cause of that. Don't they have updated firmware to perhaps correct it?

[Infliction]

Originally Posted by psy-q

Do the following:

1) Click Start, then open Control Panel
2) Click Performance and Maintenance
3) Click System
4) Click on the Advanced Tab
5) Click Settings in the Startup and Recovery section
6) Uncheck Automatically Restart in the System failure section

That way it will hopefully blue screen at that hour instead of automatically restarting. Maybe that will give us a better idea of what is going on.

thank you. i'll stop changing the fan settings for a while and see what happens.

and gateway has washed their hands of this computer. at first they said it was a software issue. then kept making new bios updates, nothing ever worked. people with the same one have sent it to gateway. gateway says problem solved, a few weeks, or even months later, it starts again. people have gotten a new computer (same model) from gateway, same problem. the only "fix" is to change the bios fan settings every week or so. whatever that does, it keeps it from happening. even tho it isnt a cooling problem..

ive since drilled holes in the side for the cpu fan. cooling is not the problem :/