The 2013 Post your PC's and Workstations Thread

[Grendel]

2012 thread here

Main rig:

ASUS Rampage IV Gene (X79), i7-3930K, 4x4GB DDR3-1600
Cooling: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011, NF-F12 PWM, NF-S12A, NF-A14 FLX, 2x Arctic F12
MSI N660 TF 2GD5/OC
Samsung SSD 840 Pro 128GB
2x Seagate ST1000NM033 in RAID1
Pioneer BDR-208D
Sound Blaster Zx
Seasonic X650
Lian-Li PC-8FIR
KB: CM Storm Quickfire XT (MX Green)
Logitech G9, G13
Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro w/ USB converter
Dell U2711
W7U64




WIP:

ASUS Maximus VI Impact (Z87), i7-4770S, 2x4GB DDR3-1600
Cooling: Noctua NH-L12, NF-A14 PWM
MSI N660 TF 2GD5/OC
Samsung SSD 840 Pro 128GB
Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE
Silverstone ST45SF-G
Lian-Li PC-TU200B
W7U64




Folding rig #1:

ASUS Maximus V Gene (Z77), i7-3770K, 2x2GB DDR3-1600
Cooling: Corsair H100i, Noctua NF-P12 PWM, 2x Rosewill ROCF-11003, Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo II
EVGA GTX 660 SC
Samsung SSD 840 Pro 128GB
2x Seagate ST1000DM003 in RAID1
ASUS DRW-24B1ST
Seasonic X650
Lian-Li PC-7HX
W7U64




Folding rig #2:

ASUS Maximus Formula SE (X38), C2D Q9650, 2x2GB DDR2-800
Cooling: Arctic Freezer 13 CO, XigmaTek CN881, Enzotech CNB-S1L/MOS-C1
MSI N660 2GD5/OC
Intel SSD 520 120GB
Sony DVR
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 EPS12V
Antec 900
W7U64






Server:

Gigabyte GA-Z77N-WIFI, i3-3225, 2x2GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SSD 840 120GB
Samsung DVR SN-208DB
Western Digital Red 1TB
Seasonic SSR-360GP
Lian-Li PC-Q03B
W7U64




HTPC:

ASUS Z87I-Deluxe (Z87), i5-4570S, 2x2GB DDR3-1600
Cooling: Prolimatech Samuel 17, GELID Slim 12 PL, Noctua NF-A15 PWM
Samsung SSD 830 128GB
Western Digital AV-25 1TB
Pioneer BD-2208
Seasonic SSR-550RM
Lian-Li PC-Q27A
W8.1P64




Last updated: 2013/12/11

[Krom]

Main PC:
Asus P8Z77-V Motherboard
Intel i7-3770K
16 GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical 1600 MHz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 / 2 GB
Corsair Carbide 300R case
700w OCZ ModXtreme PSU
Intel 320 series / 160 GB SSD (OS)
Seagate ST2000DM001 / 2 TB x2 RAID1 (downloads, backup)
Seagate ST3000DM001 / 3 TB (Bulk storage)
Windows 7 Pro x64
Dell U2412M LCD primary monitor (1920x1200) + Samsung 19" LCD secondary monitor (1280x1024).
BTC 6200C low profile keyboard
Logitech G500 mouse
Yamaha 650w, 5.1 channel home theater sound system



PC #2:
Asus P8Z68-V motherboard
Intel i7-2700K
8 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1333 MHz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 / 1 GB
Rosewill Challenger U3 case upgraded with scythe FDB fans (no LED lights)
OCZ 550w Modular PSU
500 GB Seagate 7200.10 HDD
1.5 TB Seagate 7200.11 HDD
Windows 7 Pro x64
Microsoft wireless KB+Mouse combo
19" generic LCD (1280x1024)

Old PC:
Abit AW9D-MAX 975x chipset mobo
Intel C2D E6600 2.4 @ 3 GHz
8 GB Corsair DDR2
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT / 512MB
Ancient no-name case, with various holes cut in it.
Antec 380w PSU
Windows 7 Pro x64
Seagate 7200.9 / 320 GB
Attached to the 47" LCD TV (1920x1080)
PS/2 Keyboard, Logitech MX Revolution mouse

Parents PCs (x2)
Intel Branded desktop motherboard
Intel i3-2100
4 GB Crucial Ballistix
Using integrated Intel GPU
Rosewill Blackbone case
Antec 380w PSU
Windows 7 Home x64
Western Digital Blue / 500 GB (will eventually be upgraded to SSDs)
BTC 6200C keyboards
1x Logitech G500 mouse, 1x MS Intellimouse optical
1x 19" generic LCD (1280x1024), 1x 22" generic LCD (1680x1050)

[AceCombat]

UPDATE: i now have a PCI-E Recon3D SoundBlaster F@T@L!TY CHAMPION sound card with the front panel

[Grendel]

This thread needs more pictures !

Updated 1st post: new GPU in folding rig, added another pic of main comp.

[Foil]

My PCs, which I generally scrap together from mostly refurb/used/open-box components:


Gaming / Folding rig:



Gigabyte P35-DS3L
Core2Quad Q6600 (oc'd to 3.0GHz)
5Gb DDR2-800
Galaxy GTX 480 (oc'd to 800/2000 MHz)
SoundBlaster XtremeGamer X-Fi
WesternDigital 1TB 7200rpm x2 in RAID0 (redundancy via nightly backup)
Cooler Master HAF 912
Loop: MCP655 pump -> Koolance GPU block -> Phobya 200mm rad (on top of case) -> Swiftech Apogee CPU block -> Swiftech 2x120mm rad (front of case) -> reservoir -> pump
W7x64 Ultimate


Media Center rig:

Athlon II X4 640 w/ Scythe Big Shuriken 120mm cooler
4Gb DDR2-667
Sapphire Radeon HD 4350 passive-cooling
Audio via GPU HDMI
ATI Digital Cable Tuner x2 w/ CableCards installed
WesternDigital 500GB 7200rpm x2 in RAID0 (redundancy via nightly backup)
SilverStone LC-14
LG BD-ROM HD-DVD combo
W7x64 Home Prem


Other:

Home Server: WHS 2011 on an AMD Athlon II X2, small-form-factor case, 2Gb RAM, 750GB on 3 HDs
Ancient (about to die) Acer Celeron laptop
Gateway LT2022u Netbook
Son's Educational rig: Dell XPS Pentium 4 desktop w/ Elo 17" POS touchscreen

[AceCombat]

here is my entire desk:

[Krom]

Is that a TV screen for a monitor? If so, how is the input latency on it? (If you can find the info at all, hard enough to find for a PC monitor and TVs tend to document it even less often.)

[AceCombat]

where do i find such stuff? it IS a TV, specifically a Vizio M420SV LED Backlit 120Hz 42" TV. im running it on straight HDMI with Audio disabled and being rendered by a F@T@L!TY Champion Recon3D PCI-E Sound Card.


with the card i have pushing it, i can run anything in 1080 and hit a easy 60FPS. BF3 is a perfect example, i NEVER drop below 40-45 FPS with heavy rendering going on, and my flight sims...... now AceCombat: Assault Horizon - PC Enhanced Edition, FSX and X-Plane 11 i get a steady 40-50 frames with Maximum rendering options enabled

that card is a NVidia 570HD 2.5 GB VRAM card, by eVGA. that is soon going to be a 670 4GB FTW replacing it.

[AceCombat]

BUMP: im actually going to do 2x 650Ti BOOST SC Sli cards. same 4gb of VRAM but more cores


here is the first 650

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got the second 650 in, i broke the 10K Mark on 3d mark!!!

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6606423

[AceCombat]

UPDATE: here is with the side panel on:

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will get a shot with the two 650's

[AceCombat]

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pics with the 2 650's

[Grendel]

Very nice.

Looks like a TX3 ? Deep in your heart you feel it -- the need for a better CPU cooler ! The 212 Evo has a lot better bang for the buck. Just sayin'

[AceCombat]

Done


will be here tomorrow!

new AS5 for the CPU and i might even drop some AS5 on those 650's

[AceCombat]

IN!!


TY Grendel, much better 4.5 GHz on Air Temps

[AceCombat]

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with the 212 Evo G2

[BUBBALOU]

Still humming along - Widscreen Gaming



Windows 7 Professional 64Bit O/S

COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Case
CORSAIR TX Series CMPSU-950TX 950W PSU
CORSAIR Cooling Hydro Series CWCH50-1 Rev3

Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor
MSI P55-GD65 LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR VENGENCE 8GB DDR3(2 X 4GB) Memory
2 ATI HSI Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) 1GB DX11 Cards - Crossfire
Creative PCI Express X-Fi Titanium

LG 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD Burner - w/Lightscribe
LG 10X Blu-ray Burner - w/LightScribe
AFT XM5U-v2 All-in-one USB 2.0 Card Reader

2 - WD Black 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache (RAID1 Array)
1 - WD Black 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache (Game Drive)
1 - Seagate 2TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache (Data Drive)

Logitech G510 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G500 USB Wired Laser 5700 dpi Gaming Mouse
Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard
3D Connexion (Logitech) SpacePilot

3 Viewsonic 19" VX924 LCD's
1 HP 21.5" L2105tn Multi-Touch LCD
Boston Acoustics 2.1 Speakers

CH Products USB Fighterstick
CH Products 568 Combatstick (Modded with ForceFX) AKA \"Franken Force ©\"
CH Products USB Pro Throttle
CH Products USB Flight Yoke
CH Products USB Throttle Quadrant
CH Products USB Pro Pedals
TrackIR 4

[AceCombat]

Hey bubba, how is that AFT 5U reader working, i got the same thing, and today it started acting weird with my new SanDisk 32GB Micro SD card..........?

[BUBBALOU]

Hey bubba, how is that AFT 5U reader working, i got the same thing, and today it started acting weird with my new SanDisk 32GB Micro SD card..........?

Never had an issue with it, I also forced the AFT vista drivers to load just so I could have those custom drive icons... Also Falcon NW has been using them as featured hardware for years

My suggestion- can of air...clear those slots! Before any troubleshooting

[AceCombat]

i just purchased the drive like a month ago.... slots are pristine condition

[MD-1118]

My computer itself isn't worth discussing, as it is perpetually (and indefinitely) in that state I like to call "In The Shop", i.e. I don't have a proper rig. I'm running on a terrible little get-me-by refurb deal that's on its last leg. So instead, I'll mention the bits actually worth something:

Logitech G19 keyboard
Kensington Expert trackball
IBM P275 21" flatscreen CRT (native res 1600x1200, max ~2000x1600)
3 TB external HDDs (1 TB Seagate and a 2 TB Western Digital)
And last but not least, this old gem I found in a box a while back:


Works quite nicely despite its age, although I did have to tweak it in the mines... it's a bit finnicky.

[Warlock]

Win7 Ult
Intel i7 Quad Core Ivy Bridge
16gb of ram

http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office01.jpg

2012 Datacenter Running AD DNS & DHCP along with 4 VMs
VM 1 Ubuntu VPN server (will be going away soon)
VM 2 2008R2 with SQL 2012
VM 3 2012 Standard running web server and wsus server (testing sccm)
VM 4 WinXP64 running Minecraft server and Mumble server.

AMD 8 Core
16gb of ram soon to take to 32
APC Smart UPS 3000 Total Batt uptime 1Hr

http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office02.jpg

Network Cab for the Office and will be expanding to the rest of the house but all cabling is in wire tracks no way to run them in the walls

http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office03.jpg

Inside of the Cab
Top to Bottom
Cat5e Patch Panel 24 port
Gigabit Switch (planning on replacing it with a smart switch)
Core RTR\Firewall with VPN compatibility (Moving to this for pri VPN)
Power Strip going to UPS also used for grounding bar
AT&T RTR for TV and Net (I hate there router software so my rtr is placed in the DMZ pool)

In back 2TB NAS for backups
http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office04.jpg

More of the wire track

http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office07.jpg


Mame Arcade panel My baby
http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office05.jpg
http://mna-systems.dnsalias.net/img/Office06.jpg