How big is your rig?

[lonewolff]

This is what I currently have (a couple of years old now)

CPU: i7-930
Mainboard: Asus Rampage III Extreme
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
RAM: 12 Gb Corsiar Dominator
Video: Asus Radeon HD5870
Case: Obsidian 800D
HDD 1: Corsiar 250Gb SSD
HDD 2: 2TB WD Server Grade HDD
HDD 3: 4 x 80 Gb HDD in RAID 5 config (240 Gb)

The price was the best, though. Free! - except for the additional 6 Gb RAM.

The case is freakin' huge and is a bit of overkill.

[Mind Calamity]

Oh... A couple of years old you say ? :O

Well my rig is not as big as your rig, but it works (most of the time):

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66 GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P***** (I have no idea and I'm too lazy to check, it's LGA775, so I messed up there)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
RAM: 4 GB And in definite need of more, I have a strange running application management issues and my RAM is always used up more than 60%
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1 GB - Pretty crappy...
HDD: 1x 320GB (2 GB Free )

Also, what do you mean Free ?

[jacmoe]

He stole it, obviously!

Maybe a gift?

My new rig:

CPU: AMD FX-4100 4-Core Processor (3,6GHz)
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3, Socket-AM3+
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit / Siduction (Debian Sid)
RAM: 8 Gb (2 x G.Skill Ripjaws 4 GB Memory - DIMM 240-pin - 1333 MHz)
Video: ASUS GeForce GT 430 1GB Direct CU Silent

[lonewolff]

LOL, no theft here.

I entered a competition in 2010. Aussie's out there might know of it. It was the APC Magazine 'Master Builder' competetion.

I managed to smash all three rounds and got flown up to Sydney to compete against 3 other guys in a contest in building a PC in the fastest time with the same components. The first person to build it from scratch, load the OS, install Bioshock 2 and bring up the title screen won.

I managed to do the lot in a bit over an hour, the guy who came second was two hour behind me LOL!

[Kojack]

Mine's getting a bit old now (main parts are from 2008, other bits range from 2000-2012), I need to upgrade.

CPU: i7 940
RAM: 10GB (was 12, but a stick went bad)
OS: Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu something (maybe 10.x, I never boot into it so can't remember)
Case: Lian Li PC-A70B (huge rectangular black brushed metal thing, virtually no decorative features. Awesome case)
Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2. It's partly lightning damaged, a storm blew one of the network chips so I only have 1 ethernet port working.
HDD: 4x 1TB, 1x 2TB, 1x 750GB, 1x 200GB, 1x120GB (the last two are just in there temporarily, I was looking for old files). All are western digital.
Video: ATI 5870
Display: 3 Dell 2209WA monitors (two via dvi, one via display port adapter), 58" Samsung 3D plasma (via hdmi).
Extras:
- Razer Black Widow Ultimate mechanical keyboard
- Logitech G700 mouse
- Logitech G13 game board macro keyboard thingy
- Saitek X52 HOTAS joystick/throttle
- Saitek Rudder Pedals
- 3D Connexion Space Pilot Pro 6DOF cad controller
- TrackIR 4 6DOF head tracker
- 360 controller (two, but usually only one is plugged in)
- Vuzix Wrap 1200VR virtual reality headset
- Kinect
- Altec Lansing speakers
- Audio Technica ATH-A900 headphones

I just realised a few days ago that my main monitor has 15+ stuck pixels and my right hand monitor is turning itself on/off and has some flickering pixels. Now that I've noticed the stuck pixels they are pissing me off, so I need to replace the monitors. I like to have all three identical, so I might go for three 24" or three 27". I'd love a 30", but I'm too used to triple monitors now and three 30" is too expensive and way too big for my desk.

[lonewolff]

Nice one!

That is some storage you have there. I might have to install a spare RAID card that I have and throw in my 600Gb veliciraptor too!

Just checked the spec's on your case. It is prety big, but mine is slightly bigger (609 x 609 x 229mm).

Your case is very similar looking to mine. Although mine has 4 hot swap bays (which are great for testing OS's on - pull out one OS' an put in another). But I notice yours has 10 3.5" bays internally. Mine only has 2

I wanted to RAID-5 six drives to see what sort of speed I could get, but there is no space in tha case - short of buying 5 1/4" mounts.

At the moment my 4x 80Gb Seagates (RAID 5) get a respectable 160Mb/s average read speed - which is getting towards my SSD.

[Kojack]

I used to run dual 200GB drives in raid-0, but one died and I lost 400GB of data. Not fun. So now I just leave them as separate drives now.
I have a single hotswap bay, it's an addon one (not part of the case).
I really like how the hard drives mount in the lian li case. It came with a heap of screws with rubber wheels, the hard drives slide in from the side and use the rubber wheels to hold in place and reduce vibration.
I'm thinking of going for raid-5 when I upgrade.

Oops, I forgot that I have an asus xonar dg sound card in there too.
But I'm not that happy with it, I get interference (constant buzz) due to it sitting so close to my gfx card. But there's no other room for it, I only have 1 pci slot and it's squashed right between the two main pci-e slots.
It's still a great card, but I got less noise from the onboard audio (when used with the back ports, the front panel audio ports had interference).

[duststorm]

I work on a dell latitude E6510 laptop with i-5 CPU and integrated graphics.
I have another machine acting as server and HTPC, which is connected to the TV and always running. It's an i3 system on an H55 mini-ITX motherboard in a rather unusal case (a Fractal Design Array 2) with 4x2TB drives in it. Additionally I connect (mostly older) disks externally using this very nice and cheap thing: http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B005AC9UZY/ref= ... B005AC9UZY
Which is connected using eSata or USB3
The server machine has a humble NVidia GTX 420 in it.

[lonewolff]

I used to run dual 200GB drives in raid-0, but one died and I lost 400GB of data. Not fun. So now I just leave them as separate drives now.

Yeah, I haven't had a drive fail yet. But, this is the reason I have RAID-5'd my four 80 gig drives. Somewhere I can store the critical stuff I don't want to lose and still have great performance. Obviously, the more drives you have in the array the more cost effective, as you lose a drive worth of space. As you would know.

[areay]

AMD X2 3700+
4GB RAM
7800GTX
Fedora 16

If I can get my game running good on this setup then I know it'll run good for anyone that matters ie. people who will buy my game

[lonewolff]

My beastie



The cable management is awesome. You would be hard pressed to know that there are currently six hard disks installed. Like ninja's, there are six in this photo.

[Klaim]

I arrived in Japan last month with only my laptop, my previous rig was an AMD Athlon 4200+ with a GTX7800 I think, and I gave it to my brothers.

I need a new rig when I'll get a home because right now I live in a dormitory until I finish the probation period in 2 months.

I think I can get something nice for cheap here, but I 'm not sure if buying online is cheaper than going into Akihabara for this. I'll have to ask some geek people around.

[duststorm]

My beastie

That really is some nice cable management.
Seems like a very good case.

[cybereality]

My rig is getting a bit old now, but was once a beast.



Intel E8400 @ 3.6 GHz - EVGA nForce 780i - EVGA GTX 470 - Zalman Trimon 22" 3D Monitor
OCZ Platinum DDR2-1066 [4x2GB] - Western Digital Raptor X 150GB - Western Digital RE2 750GB
Coolermaster Stacker 830 SE - Coolermaster RealPower Pro 1000W PSU - Coolermaster Aquagate S1

Also have the Nvidia 3D Vision glasses with ASUS 3D monitor, Sony HMZ-T1 head-mounted display and a bunch of funky peripherals (Razer Hydra, etc.)

[Kojack]

Sony HMZ-T1 head-mounted display and a bunch of funky peripherals (Razer Hydra, etc.)

I forgot to list my hydra.

The HMZ-T1 came out? I was waiting for it, but haven't seen any mention of it since before release. Did it end up being ok?

[cybereality]

The HMZ-T1 came out? I was waiting for it, but haven't seen any mention of it since before release. Did it end up being ok?

Yeah, its actually pretty good. The picture quality completely blows away other stuff available (like the 1200VR), however there are some comfort/ergonomic issues. Still, it's a nice kit.