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penguin_king wrote:yeah, thats why im not pushing it too far past its stock speed. just enough to get what i want.

Not only that, OCing will void most manufacturers warranties.

oh that, yeah i know lol. but the individual parts are all pretty cheap so it wont be much of a fuss to replace a processor or motherboard etc.

An update.

Finally wrapped up my first ever custom build after a couple of days of careful and painstaking work. Cable management is a nightmare. Still, the hard work was worth it, and the system now runs both Windows 7 and Dragon Age flawlessly.

Specifications as follows;

Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 620
Motherboard: MSI 770-C45
RAM: OCZ Special Ops 4GB PC3-8500 kit
Hard drive: WD Caviar Blue 320GB
Graphics Card: PowerColor HD4870 512MB

Congrats on your first build, Loki.

Nice rig, by the way.

update

terran698 wrote:got 2 comps

comp#1
1)desktop
2)amd phenomx4 9650 2.3ghz
3)xfx 8200 motherboard
4)8gb corsair xms2 pc6400 ram
5)xion 1000w powersupply (not modular)
6)lg dvd-rw w/lightscribe
7)western digital corvair black 1tb hdd in maxcool hdd cooler
8)onboard 512mb graphics
9)dell dimension 2400 case
10)dell 17" crt monitor
11)dell keyboard and optical mouse
12)made in china 2"speakers (no bass below 500hz) or rca 1000w 5.1 surround sound
13)linux ubuntu 9.04 64bit
14)doom3 1280x1024 ultra quality no lag ever no even a stutter
World of warcraft 70ms and 50+fps average

comp#2
1)desktop
2)pentium4 2.8ghz
3)intel unknown model
4)768mb pc2700 ram unknown make
5)dell 200w powersupply
6)phillips cd-rw
7)maxor 80gb hdd (squeals and ready to die)
8)nvidea mx4000 pci 128mb ddr
9)unknown micro (so micro psu wont fit inside case
10)dell17" or 15"unknown both crt's
11)beige ibm keyboard and ball mouse from early 90's
12)see above
13)windows XP 32bit sp3
14)doom3 640x480 low quality 4fps average .75 low 8 high


edit: recently got a i-inc 24.6" lcd monitor and a HIS Radeon 4670 IceQ 1gb running stock speeds

since then i have disassembled the second comp and put it in the closet. have installed windows XP 64bit and overclocked the 4670 and added a second 60mm fan in the mATX Dell case. have tested the graphics card in doom 3 with max overclock (60fps average 31fps low)and it runs 43-44C with side panel in place took the panel off and temps started going up. ran WOW after new os(game kept crashing but might have been patch related) and with old onboard ran 20+fps and 200+ms at 1280x1024 put in graphics card increased resolution to 1920x1080 ran 70's fps average 180-200ms. monitor looks awsome comparable to my crt for picture quality and the built in speakers are literally the worst i have ever heard!!! and i've heard some that i thought were bad untill i heard these(warped/rotted paper cones w/whizzer tweeter out of my truck which is an 85 ram).

Hey guys, I just built this gaming rig about 3 months ago.

Desktop
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66 ghz
Gigabyte Ga-ep45-ud3p motherboard
4 gb Kingston DDR 2 800
Antec true power 650 watt psu
lite-on 24x dvd/rw
western digital caviar blue 500 gb hard drive
BFG GTX 260 OC 2
Antec 900 Case
Samsung 24" 2494 SW
Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate
I can play Crysis with all settings at Ultra and still get 45 fps
Any other game I can play at high or ultra high settings without a problem
This was also my first build and I'm glad my PC didn't blow up! LOL

BlondGamer wrote: I can play Crysis with all settings at Ultra and still get 45 fps
Any other game I can play at high or ultra high settings without a problem
This was also my first build and I'm glad my PC didn't blow up! LOL

Have you tried turning the options back to high in Crysis? Performance should improve by then and the visual quality should be nearly the same as the ultra setting minus some graphical effects.

Judging by your rig, you should be able to play both Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 1 & 2 and CoD: World at War at the 'Extra' settings without any problems. GTA IV might run well with most settings to the max (I said this because a number of people with Quads and GTX equivalent cards ran into performance problems with all settings to the max).

Most UE3-based games like Bioshock, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Mirror's Edge and others should run fine at everything to the max.

People complain now when they get 'only' 45 fps? :speech:

I'm getting old.

Tricky wrote:People complain now when they get 'only' 45 fps? :speech:

It matters if you play multiplayer, especially shooters. If you play single-player, anything above 30 should be satisfactory.

Mine's in my sig. I just changed from a 9800gtx+ with 512mb to the 465 with 1gb because I couldn't run NWN2 with shadows at high with the 512mb - needs 800mb+.

Vantage went from P8448 to P13707, and to P16355 when I very briefly OC'ed the 465.

terran698 wrote:since then i have disassembled the second comp and put it in the closet. have installed windows XP 64bit and overclocked the 4670 and added a second 60mm fan in the mATX Dell case. have tested the graphics card in doom 3 with max overclock (60fps average 31fps low)and it runs 43-44C with side panel in place took the panel off and temps started going up. ran WOW after new os(game kept crashing but might have been patch related) and with old onboard ran 20+fps and 200+ms at 1280x1024 put in graphics card increased resolution to 1920x1080 ran 70's fps average 180-200ms. monitor looks awsome comparable to my crt for picture quality and the built in speakers are literally the worst i have ever heard!!! and i've heard some that i thought were bad untill i heard these(warped/rotted paper cones w/whizzer tweeter out of my truck which is an 85 ram).

well comp 2 kinda died when the belts in my front right tire broke but the tire didnt pop and it was major bone rattling vibrations for and hour and a half drive which shook the hdd to death and i have a back up 60gb but its squeaking is so old so i dont use it much if any. also my old dell mouse finally died(very bad double click problem) so now i use a kensiko 3 button ball mouse as i havent bought a new one yet (snatched unused one from grandparents) and i am seriously debating buying a razer naga so if you have any info on one i would love to hear it(personal or friends info only as i can read forums myself).

i also built a third computer witch is now my back up or computer #2 and my previous secondary computer is now #3(at least when i get it going again) so here is
computer #2
1)desktop
2)amd athlon x64 3800+ @2.4ghz temps unknown
3)foxconn 740g
4)2GB Wintec AMPX pc6400 @800mhz
5)OCZ 500w modular psu
6)old eide dvd drive
7)western digital carvair black 750GB agility 60gb(os)
8)HIS IceQ 4670 1GB oc@800core/900mem
9)dell dimension 2400 case with 2 custom 60mm fans 1 92mm fan 1 40mm fan
10)I-Inc 24.6" lcd w/2 watt speakers (worst i have ever heard including dollar store headphones)
11)old dell keyboard and kensiko ball mouse(sucks for first person shooters)
12)RCA 1000w 5.1 surround sound
13)Linux Ubuntu 32 bit version 9.10
14)none, well it plays movies just fine(might install doom3 just to see what it does)

and if your wondering why the gfx card is the same as my main computer that is because it is the gfx card from my main comp. while playing sc2 i played a million zergling map got to the stage after the speedlings(2k kills i think) and had enough seige tanks and photon cannons that i hit 2 fps with my 4670 so i bought a new one for it an XFX Radeon HD 6950 2gb (not flashed.....yet) which runs sacred 2 w/ every thing maxed and physx turned off @45fps when my old 4670 ran it at 20 something in game(w/lower settings) and in the menu i got 13fps and my new one gets 96fps in the menu @ same settings and runs cooler doing it ~40/45C with fan speed @45% and 840core/1250memory clocks. im going to have to play the million zergling map again just to see what my new card does.

computer#1
1)desktop
2)amd phenomx4 9650 oc@2.47 w/scythe mugen2 cooler(17C idle 36C after 3hours of prime95)
3)xfx 8200 motherboard
4)8gb corsair xms2 pc6400 ram
5)xion 1000w powersupply (not modular)
6)lg dvd-rw w/lightscribe
7)western digital carvair black 1tb hdd in maxcool hdd cooler(data) + ocz agility 60gb(os)
8)XFX Radeon HD6950 2GB @840core/1250memory
9)NZXT Beta Evo w/five 120mm fans
10)I-Inc 24.6" lcd w/2 watt speakers (worst i have ever heard including dollar store headphones)
11)dell keyboard and kensiko 3button ball mouse
12)RCA 1000w 5.1 surround sound
13)Windows7 x64
14)Starcraft2 @1920x1080 max settings 50+fps (need to play some more for better numbers, might try the million zergling map again)

computer#3 (in truck)
1)desktop
2)pentium4 2.8ghz
3)intel unknown model
4)768mb pc2700 ram unknown make
5)dell 200w powersupply
6)phillips cd-rw
7)maxor 40gb hdd (80gb maxor oem died)
8)nvidia mx4000 pci 128mb ddr @250core/400memory
9)Old unknown compaq
10)dell17" crt
11)ancient IBM keyboard and 2 button ball mouse from early 90's
12)plugged into headunit aux port (pioneer DEH-P4000UB + lightning audio B3.69.3)
13)windows XP 32bit sp3
14)doom3 640x480 low quality 4fps average .75 low 8 high (0xAA 0xAF)

sorry for the long post

Ah, the show off thread!

For any games released after 2007 i use an E8400 Intel with a 4870 radeon and 4gb ram, however most of the time i use one of my laptops. Have a few backup pc's.

I didn't encounter a worthy enough software that would make me upgrade my hardware again.

11)ancient IBM keyboard and 2 button ball mouse from early 90's

These are the best keyboard and mouses. Although all my mice have a wheel. Never liked the 10+ buttons bricks that people tend to call "mouse"

I just have a OLD Xbox 360 and an even OLDER PC (think its a 2003) that is crashed....
Why me?

Stworca wrote:Ah, the show off thread!

For any games released after 2007 i use an E8400 Intel with a 4870 radeon and 4gb ram, however most of the time i use one of my laptops. Have a few backup pc's.

I didn't encounter a worthy enough software that would make me upgrade my hardware again.



These are the best keyboard and mouses. Although all my mice have a wheel. Never liked the 10+ buttons bricks that people tend to call "mouse"

is your keyboard one of those legendary ibm mechanical keyboards? i think it would be the m series if it was.

do you have your cpu or gfx card oc'd any?

No, i didn't oc anything yet.

1. There was no need for it yet, everything goes smoothly.
2. I prefer when the PC cooling can work silently enough for me to hear my own breathing

Some parts of my rig are about 10 years old.

AMD 64 3000+
2 GB DDR1 RAM
PNY Geforce 9600
no name Mainboard
No name 430 Watt power supply
80 GB HDD
DvD Writer 4x Speed
Siemens 19 inch monitor

Poor people can't get newest hardware.

Rig type:
Desktop: DIY

Processor:
Intel Core i7 860 (stock)

Graphics card:
nVidia GTX 580 1536 GB GDDR5

RAM, HDD:
Corsair 8 GB 1600 MHz
Intel SSD X25 160 GB
NAS 4 TB

Monitors:
27" Eizo FlexScan
46" Samsung F86

Benchmarks:
Don't care

I mostly play older games since I find most new ones to be pretty hollow.

I just update my computer once every 7 years to state of the art (or close enough to it).

1) Rig type?
Both.

2) Processor?
PC : AMD Athlon II X2 265 Processor
CPU Cache : L1 : 2 x 64 / 2 x 64 KB - L2 : 2 x 1024 KB
Core : Regor (45 nm) / Stepping : DA-C3

3) Graphics card?
Powercolor Radeon HD 5770+

4) RAM? Hard drive?
4GB RAM DDR3 single channel (for now)
HDD : 320 GB x2 , 500GB x1

5) Benchmarks?
Not tested yet, I'm lazy. sorry



Lappie spec : It's a Dell XPSM1210 w/ nVidia Go 7400 - still not upgrade anything on this one.

Xandax wrote:Mines getting a bit old now, it's an E6600 with 4GB RAM, GeForce 8800GTS w. 768 MB RAM, and a X-fi sound card and various other stuff.

Am thinking of buying another within the next 6 months or so when Windows 7 comes out (I've always been on board with the new windows versions ) - have my eyes on a nifty high end one but it does cost a bit, but been a long time since I've spoiled myself.

Whoa - this is a long time ago.

I'm tired of the current one again - I need new hardware to play with. Too expensive now, with the house and car and ... well... I'm just too cheap. :laugh:

Current one is some I7 thingy, 12 GB RAM, GTX470, a SSD and some other stuff thrown in.