Check This Out Post Your Gaming Rig!

Case: NZXT Alpha
Motherboard: ASUS P6X58-E PRO
CPU: Intel i7 970 Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache)
GPU: 2 x AMD Radeon HD 7770 - 1GB - CrossFire Mode (Dual Cards)
RAM: 12 GB [4 GB X3] DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws
Hard Drive 1: 120GB SSD ADATA S510
Hard Drive 2: 2TB SATA 6.0Gb/s
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Mouse: Logitech G500
Headset: Razer Carcharias
Keyboard: saitek cyborg v7
Cooling: Liquid CPU Cooling
 
I have a
CPU: AMD FX 8 core black edition 3.10 ghz
8 GIG Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 Ram
GTX 550 Ti Video
Plus the 6 120 Fans
The case is a NZXT not sure what model but it's what's inside the box that delivers performance to.
 
Case:Corsair 650D
Mobo:Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P
CPU: i7-2700K @ 4.6
CPUCOOLER: Corsair H100
GPU: DIAMOND RADEON 7970 3GB
RAM: GSKILL SNIPER LOW VOLTAGE @ 1866
Mouse: MIONIX NAOS 5000
HDD:CORSAIR FORCE GT 120GB
HDD: SEAGATE BARRACUDA 1TB
Monitor: ASUS VK278Q
Windows 7 64bit
Audio:Yamaha R-V703 and BOSE 201'S w/ ATH-M50
 
Processor: AMD Phenom x4 9850 @ 2.5ghz OC to 2.75ghz
Memory: 4gb ddr2
Hard Drive: 500 GB
Video Card: XFX Ati Radeon 4890 OC to 1.1ghz
Monitor:Dell 1920 x 1080
Headset: C-Media USB Headphone Set
Speakers: Realtek High Definition Audio
Keyboard: Microsoft Wireless
Mouse: Microsoft Wireless
Operating System: Windows 7 Home 64 bit
 
Case:Antec 900(regular)
CPU:AMD Athlon II x3 450 3.2ghz Ima get the corsair h60 soon
Videocard:Evga Nvidia 9800gtx ssc
Motherboard:Gigabyte 880gm-usb3
Harddrive:Seagate 200gb 7200rpm
DVD drive:LG 24x dual layer
1 Red 120mm fan 2 Blue 120mm fans. And 230mm fan.
Stickers :D- Disturbed indestructible guy, evga, smiley faces, My Little Pony stickers-Rainbow Dash Fluttershy Twilight Rarity Pinkie Pie Applejack :D.
And 2 Cold Cathodes-Blue and Green.
Psu-Corsair cx v2 500watt.
 
Quite hard to say mine

Apple Macbook White 13 inch (Mid-2007)
Graphics Card: Intel GMA X3100
Processor: Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
DVD Drive: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-867
Keyboard: Apple Internal Keyboard
Mouse: HP DPI wireless
Audio: Intel High Definition Audio
HDD: Intel ICH8-M AHCI 150 GB

it's quite bad
 
Just updated my rig:

i5 750
Zotac H55ITX-C-E
Radeon 6850
4GB RAM 1333
Samsung F3 1 TB
Silverstone SFX 450W
Silverstone Sugo05-450.

Aw yes. Running with the ITX form factor now. Frankly, more people ought to be scaling down their rigs to at least mATX. mATX can OC just as well as ATX and has just as many features that people use. And if someone's planning on only using one card and a few drives, ITX will do all that, too.
 
reflex99 said:
i know this one:

1. performance: poor (there is a reason they haven't been sold for 4ish years now)

2. no, the pump is pretty weak
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http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/tt_bigwater760_plus/

Saw this review a couple days back. Kinda funny that I randomly see it after just asking about it. I see what you mean about it having some shortcomings.

Performance is not exactly impressive considering it can't even match the nh-d14. I assume this is a newer model too.
 
a pet rock said:
Just updated my rig:

i5 750
Zotac H55ITX-C-E
Radeon 6850
4GB RAM 1333
Samsung F3 1 TB
Silverstone SFX 450W
Silverstone Sugo05-450.

Aw yes. Running with the ITX form factor now. Frankly, more people ought to be scaling down their rigs to at least mATX. mATX can OC just as well as ATX and has just as many features that people use. And if someone's planning on only using one card and a few drives, ITX will do all that, too.
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MATX does not allow for effective multi card setups.
 
reflex99 said:
MATX does not allow for effective multi card setups.
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Elaborate on that please. I'm not a huge fan of buying uATX board either if you plan on a mid or full tower case, but beyond that, are you talking as far as spacing of the pcie slots? Or what exactly?
 
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I'm your huckleberry said:
Elaborate on that please. I'm not a huge fan of buying uATX board either if you plan on a mid or full tower case, but beyond that, are you talking as far as spacing of the pcie slots? Or what exactly?
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you have to put the two cards right on top of eachother, with no room for airflow. It is almost impossible to cool something like dual 6990s with their awkward center-fan-in-a-box heatsink on a uATX board since the bottom card will block almost all of the airflow to the top.

like this (image link, image too large to post here): http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...990-crossfire/sapphire-radeon-6990_bridge.jpg
 
It's old but it does its job well. Kind of wish I had a quad core so I could run some VMs for compiling programs, oh well. I can't find any that fit my motherboard that are a reasonable price.

ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard
Intel Core2Duo E8400 3.0GHz (O.C. @ 3.6GHz on air)
8GB G.Skill pi 1066MHz DDR2
2x ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB (1024MB) CrossFire X
Corsair HX750 PSU (750watts)
Corsair White Graphite 600t Case
Zalman CNPS 9700 CPU cooler
ASUS DVD-RW optical
640GB WD Caviar Black
1TB WD Caviar Black
320 WD Caviar Blue

My next upgrade will probably be a Hauppauge HVR-2250 and a OCZ Vertex 3 SSD for the OS since the Vertex 3 I put in my MacBook has been doing so well.
 
reflex99 said:
you have to put the two cards right on top of eachother, with no room for airflow. It is almost impossible to cool something like dual 6990s with their awkward center-fan-in-a-box heatsink on a uATX board since the bottom card will block almost all of the airflow to the top.

like this (image link, image too large to post here): http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...990-crossfire/sapphire-radeon-6990_bridge.jpg
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Not all are like that:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130612

Or some have 3 pcie slots. While I realize this is probably the exception and not the rule, it is still a possibility. I however do not really see the benefit of a smaller mobo in a large case as price is usually not much cheaper (if at all).

Edit:

Well, looking at the z68 offerings, most appear to have good spacing:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128495
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131786

Likewise for the z77:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138351
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157306
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128541

etc.

So maybe manufacturers have changed it up due to your concern as this way makes sense as you suggest.
 
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Not to mention how many users actually have to deal with multi-GPU setups. And of those, how many are in a situation where they need as much cooling as crossfire 6990s. It's like building a rig with 32GB of RAM. Sure, there are specific instances where someone may need it, but the vast majority of gamers, let alone general users, would never touch that amount.
 
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The only reason you would need to go uATX or ITX is to fit in a uATX/ITX case.

If you use such a case, you only have 4 expansion slots, and you could not put 2 dual slots cards in there without them being stacked.

ITX only has one slot, but you get the point.

If you don't plan to use a uATX case, then why not jsut buy a full size board?

Lets be honest, the only uATX boards that are completely feature parity with solid ATX boards are ASUS' Gene boards, and they really aren't a whole lot cheaper in most cases than a comparable ATX board.

I have a Gene III btw, it is sick, probably up there for one of the best 1156 overclocking boards.
 
A HP 2230 Laptop, with Centrino processor! No wonder My CSS score is less that 930
 
reflex99 said:
The only reason you would need to go uATX or ITX is to fit in a uATX/ITX case.

If you use such a case, you only have 4 expansion slots, and you could not put 2 dual slots cards in there without them being stacked.

ITX only has one slot, but you get the point.

If you don't plan to use a uATX case, then why not jsut buy a full size board?
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Yeah, but that's kinda my point. Most people don't even use all of the mid-tower features. I would expect most gamers have at most two hard drives and an optical. Maybe a card reader. Although there are some ITX cases that can support six hard drives, and 6 mATX cases with 5 expansion slots. So, if someone isn't going to use all the slots in their case or all of the features on the mobo, why would they pay for them?
 
Cooling is one of the main problems I see with smaller cases for a gaming machine. Reflex brings up a great point as far as the actual muATX cases are concerned, a second card could not be put in that slot. However, that makes me think that most people still get a mid tower even if they use a smaller form factor mobo (if they are going for a multi card setup). The main problem I see with the micro cases and mobos is that they are still quite expensive. Not sure if you gain anything from them except limiting yourself and possibly resale value. Obviously, if you want a smaller case for some reason, then you are forced into a smaller mobo, but if you are going to get a larger case (which is a must imo for a gaming computer to get adequate cooling), then you might as well get a mobo with more features while paying the same amount or slightly more.
 
Rig

=(e)= Texas
Model: Custom
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~3.9GHz (looking to up to 4.5 or 5 soon)
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Hard Drive: 300 GB, 1.5 TB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (EVGA)
Monitor: 2 1600 X 1024 monitors
Sound Card: the integrated sound chip on the Sabretooth 990FX
Headset: generic headset
Speakers: Cambridge Soundworks Extreme 2.1
Keyboard: Razer Black Widow
Mouse: Mionix Naos 5000
Mouse Surface: Razer mousepad
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

edit: cooling Kuhler H20 620 w/ push pull and 6 case fans
 
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=(e)= XDBryan
Model: Custom
Processor: Intel 15-2400 3.10GHz
Memory: 8gb patriot ram
Hard Drive: 500gb
Video Card: NVIDIA gtx 560 ti EVGA
Monitor: 32" Sanyo tv 1080p 1768 x 992
Sound Card: High Definition Audio, 2 Speaker Configurable
Headset: Turtle beach x11
Speakers: logitech LS21 2.1
Keyboard: dell keyboard
Mouse: dell mouse
Mouse Surface: Cat pictured mouse pad
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
 
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