Vista - Show us your rig

Here is an updated pic of mine. I've added the fan on the side and I FINALLY found (after months of searching) a Abit uGuru panel.

Nice case 03hdfatboy

What is that grey area on the front for Michael

Hmm..

Hey guys, I'm new. Figured might as well throw my machines up here..
First my main gaming machine..

• Asus Maximus II Formula Motherboard
• Intel Q6600 G0 Stepping Quad Core Processor @ 3.38Ghz
• 2×2GB Corsair Dominator 1066Mhz RAM
• Antec Twelve Hundred Case
• ABS Tagan 750w PSU
• Zalman 7900 CPU Heatsink and Fan
• eVGA 8800GT 512mb DDR3
• 1×320GB SATA WD HDD
• 3×750GB SATA WD HDDs
• 2x LG DVDRW Lightscribe SATA drives

Before my ABS PSU

Right After new psu install



old gaming Machine..and new server

• Antec Nine Hundred case
• Asus Crosshair Motherboard
• AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ 3Ghz
• Arctic Cooling 64 Cooler(Not pictured)
• 4×1GB 533Ghz RAM
• XFX 7900GS Graphics cards
• 1×500GB SATA HDD
• 1×160GB SATA HDD
• 1x1TB LaCie eSata
• Antec 600w PSU

Web server
My server consists of:

• Dell Poweredge 600SC
• Pentium 4 1.8GHz Processor
• 2GB ECC DDR RAM
• 4×250GB WD HDD running raid5
• 1×250GB WD HDD running Server 2003 R2

Sorry for the long post... Check out my blog for more info.

Some things are a bit diff now, like I have a KB and mouse for the second monitor on my desk and things are a bit more organized but meh.. lol

ye thats the only problem, my psu has soo many cables and i only need one of each really. i can disconnect the cables but they are all seperate eg/ sata power x3, 4 pin connectorsx3, 4pci-e x4. its a bit annoying considering that. the only reason ive wedged all the cables to the front is because its not open at the front so no airflow round that area!

Well I've just ordered my new parts for my PC.

Bought:

Intel e8200 - Was going to get an e8400, but was a deal on Aria.co.uk and got the e8200 for £100, so saved £20 and can overclocked it easily anyway.

XFX 750i motherboard - Was going to get the EVGA 750, but the price has gone up to £150, and this was just £100 so saved money on it as well.

Corsair 750 Watt PSU
Zalman CNPS9700-NT Nvidia
Zalman Fan controller
Bunch of green 120mm case fans
1GB RAM to top RAM up to 4GB

And the Coolermaster 690 Nvidia edition to top it all off (Hence the green case fans :P)

And then throwing in my two 8800GTS 512s with my XMS2 RAM.

Expect pics towards the end of next week :P

I got some new toys over the week.

My new PSU that will allow for some better overclocks and SLI in the future.
and my new cooler that will keep me ... well, Cooler!

Gimme back my cooler.

Could someone recommend a 800+ watt modular PSU for me? I'm looking for something snazzy, lights and all if there's anything decent.

I'm liking that ABS Tagan, and I see that it comes in an 800 and 900 watt version as well, the reviews seem to be good on that PSU. Does anyone have any feedback on that?

I'd recommend a decently priced and solid PSU the gigabyte Odin GT 800w. they are really good. and you can manually increase the 3.3v 5v and 12v rails of the PSU with a program they give you. you increase these.. mainly the 12v rail and you can increase stability and overclock levels and performance significantly.

also I had a modular. and yes they are nice, but in reality. I used ALL but one plug in on my current PSU. and thats with only one HD and one optical drive. cuz they all use one wire and can hook many up to it. so I used all the plug ins anyways. modular is nice if you have a very low ammount of things in the case. also modular you loose signal, you loose voltage stability and it has fuzzy interference. I've been told by many many people that for gamers, or extreme systems or OCers that modular is not the way to go. and a single 12v rail is better than multiple rails also. as multiple ones get a cap.. and if you don't use it all. that cap leftover gets wasted. on a single 12v rail all that extra can go elsewhere when needed. So single 12v rail thats over 50A is actually better than 3 or 4.

this PSU i just got is 750w continuous and 810w peak. it's one of the best. they also have a PCP&C 840.. get that. but I'm not going modular.