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Whats everyone running?

[ - Silverstone FT02 - Intel i5 2500K @ 4.7GHZ - Asus P8Z68 V-Pro - 8GB Patriot Extreme 1866 DDR3 - Antec Kuhler 920 - Palit Geforce GTX 580- Corsair TX850M - Cosair Force GT 120GB - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB - ]

Running a lowly i3 for my main gaming rig, can't remember the specs off the top of my head, will post them from home when I remember

I have been fortunate this year and updated mine a bit! Although its still based on the Phenom II i have been using for just over a year, gone for a much bigger clock, new gpu (was on a HD5770) and some ram with more shiney.

Lian Li PC-A05FNB
AMD Phenom II x4 960t, 2 spare cores unlocked @ 4.1ghz (shows up as an AMD Unknown)
Various XSPC cooling parts
Asus M5A97
8GB of "icantrememberthebrand" 1866mhz (running at 1800mhz, best i can get out of the memory controller
MSI GTX 660ti
Corsair VX550W
Corsair Force 3 60gb SSD
WD Green 1tb hard drive for storage, silly big games and whatnot


Last of all, a 22in Asus LED backlit monitor i bagged for £49.99 but turning up early doors at the overclockers opening. I live about 30 mins from there at the moment, although thats about to change!

Images are on links due to falling off the side of the forum.

Once upon a very long time ago it started life like this... messy mess mess
http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj43 ... G_0911.jpg

Now its much neater and, all round good.
Before water...
http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj43 ... fd10df.jpg

Most up to date!
http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj43 ... c51714.jpg
http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj43 ... d6ff5c.jpg

And last of all the even more geeky parts while under prime95
http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj43 ... d6f5c7.jpg

Ah a good 'My [insert thing here] is bigger than your [insert thing here]' thread

Mine is in need of an update but runs most things pretty well. I use mine for gaming, 3D animation in Maya and video editting/rendering so it gets a good hammering.

I bought it new for a LlamaLAN event about maybe four years ago now?? Bought it cos I wanted something that was zippier and would just 'work' without taking up much of my time, overclocked under warranty. Turns out this was one of the silliest assumptions I ever made as the damn thing blue screened on turning up, went back for repair (it was on warranty, why should I waste my time!), and then came back and was STILL blue screening. I phoned them and they wanted me to send back again. I said "if this goes back to you, I'm getting a refund." They replied "Mmm no we won't authorise a refund." I said "Actually, distance selling regulations authorises a refund." And after disappearing for two minutes he came back and said "Uh yeah we'll authorise a refund." But I wanted a damn machine for the LAN so I said I'd bloomin fix it myself, just tell me where you guys were looking before. He suggested it could be the HDD at fault, at which point I gave up on any semblance of expertise from their end. It turned out to be one of the RAM boards, which once out, left the system very stable. Their overclocking job was shoddy as well, not pushing the hardware as it could be, nor touching any settings on the RAM (having left it all at Auto).

The company? Sorry to say... overclockers.co.uk. Fine for components, pants at overclocking, ironically.

Ahhhh, that feels better.

It's a Striker II Formula with one GTS 8800 512 Mb (had two, one recently snuffed it). 4GB of DDR2 at 1024 Mhz, one 500Gb HDD, and a pentium 2.8Ghz running at 3.4.

Lack of money means no upgrades in all that time!

Golem wrote:Ah a good 'My [insert thing here] is bigger than your [insert thing here]' thread

Be careful where you insert your things, otherwise you could get in a pickle.

Just enough to run Q3A, it's all I'll ever need....
Oh and 640KB of RAM.