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gneugneu84 said:
Just wow! I browsed this topic for the past hour or so and your setups look awesome. Congrats to all! I'm running on a laptop so it's not worth showing atm. :D
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If you want to see some REALLY extreme rigs have a look at this thread
OCN Water Cooling Club And Picture Gallery
Since its a few years old and 3500 pages long (!) its best to start at 3500 and go backwards.

This guy on ebay has one of the craziest rigs I have ever seen for sale there.Everything is the best of the best (TWO GTX 690's!!). Even at
 
I think he was really just showing off the "water effect"? If it was possible to make a commercial version of that with choices of different cases and GPU etc it would be fun to play around with.
 
Its still a work in progress but here is my Asus ROG themed case build "Dark Wind" built using the new Cooler Master HAF XB case.

Just got the replacement fans and lighting system installed. Next up is custom sleeved cabling for the new Corsair AX860 PSU, window kit, possible ROG decal and rewiring and a small LED soldering job.

System is running a i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz with evga GTX 670 FTW 2gig


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EVGA_RobB said:
Nice to see some EVGA love in here. If any of you guys have any questions or issues with your products, feel free to email me at webmaster@evga.com or PM me here. We also have 24/7 tech support in the US 1-888-881-3842. For those across the pond, I work daily with our EU office, so please feel free to still contact me.

My Rig (plan on some upgrades soon)

Silverstone TJ09 Case
Intel Core i7 950
EVGA X58 Classified Motherboard
EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked (Need to upgrade for monitors below, unsure of upgrade path)
80 Gig Corsair SSD/1.5 TB WD/2 TB WD
Corsair 1000W PSU
1 x 27" Viewsonic Monitor, 1 x Alienware 24" Monitor
**Just purchased but haven't set up yet (to replace the above monitors)** 3 x Acer 23" LCD with Surround Stand
Razer Black Widow Ultimate Keyboard
Razer Copperhead Mouse (plan to upgrade to Taipan soon)
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Much love to EVGA! Submitted a help ticket last night and support replied this morning, thats what I like to see in a company!
Plus your video cards are just amazing, any pc I build will run evga!
 
That's great to hear. Please feel free to email me at webmaster@evga.com should you have any issues.

By the way, if you guys like comparing rigs, we have a website (Mods Rigs | Powered by EVGA) where users can post and compare their systems. Also, every 200 systems posted we give away a $1000 Sponsorship (usually to a place like Tiger Direct, Newegg, Amazon, etc).
 
EVGA_RobB if you want to upgrade to 3 x LCD monitors why don't you get the EVGA GTX 690? It supports 4 monitors, 3 by DVI and one mini display port.
 
Watercooling is going in. That isn't a leak - its my sweat :confused:
 

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Ballymoss said:
EVGA_RobB if you want to upgrade to 3 x LCD monitors why don't you get the EVGA GTX 690? It supports 4 monitors, 3 by DVI and one mini display port.
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Very low margins on Graphics Cards, which means not much of an employee discount. Alas, I don't have an extra $1000 laying around. I'd love to have one though! :)
 
All plumbed in , cables tidied up and given a quick dust. Water cooling has saved me 6 cables and the whole rig runs much quieter.
 

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Fr0stTr0n said:
Its still a work in progress but here is my Asus ROG themed case build "Dark Wind" built using the new Cooler Master HAF XB case.

Just got the replacement fans and lighting system installed. Next up is custom sleeved cabling for the new Corsair AX860 PSU, window kit, possible ROG decal and rewiring and a small LED soldering job.

System is running a i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz with evga GTX 670 FTW 2gig

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What case is that? It looks awesome!
 
Not a rig, but a question on the value of a GPU. I found an ad on good old CraigsList, the poster is wanting to trade their "very lightly used pny nvidia geforce gt 620 graphics card" for Skyrim for the 360. I recently traded my 360 in while GameStop was holding a double trade in value promo, because I wanted to get a decent value out of it while it still worked (thought it might be on its way out, sometimes couldn't even open Netflix). Point is, got a free dl code for Skyrim when I got my new 360, and have been debating whether or not to use it, and still have not.

I am interested in building a rig. Something decent enough to maybe get into some casual but high end PC gaming, but not something top of the line. Although it definitely needs to be capable of some serious Photoshop usage, as it may soon be part of my work.

I know very little about how different PC components stack up against each other (I follow mobile and console gaming tech instead). So my questions are, is this a worthwhile trade? And would this be worth using if I want to take advantage of a system with 6GB of RAM and maybe a decent overclocked i5?
 
More on my previous post.

I think I found a lot of good stuff at some GREAT deals! But, I'm not entirely sure. Not to mention, these are all used parts. Let me know what you guys think!

PNY NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 graphics card (very lightly used)
price: trade for Skyrim for 360

Intel i7 930 (used)
ASUS P6T SE (used)
Corsair XMS3 6 gigs 1600mhz ram (2gigs x 3) (used)
Zalman copper cpu cooler (used)
price: $180 (before negotiating)

I still need a memory drive, tower, and power unit (easy stuff). I might also add a little bit of ram, but I would only use what I can fit in three of the dim slots so I can run in triple channel mode rather than single. But I need help deciding if the parts I'm looking at are worth it.

I was just told that the group of components for sale have been run at the following:
"Max over clock I pushed was 3.8ghz and i ran that for 24/7 for about 2 years. Highest temp I saw the chip get to was 74 celcius."

The main purpose for building this rig is for use with a new job I am interviewing for today. I would be using Photoshop quite heavily for lots of photography. I think I would also finally get into some video editing as well, as well as some casual coding and learning to work with 3D programs such as modeling and game design (again, casually and on the side).

Should I go ahead with this? Should I negotiate? Any tips on this in general?




edit: ha can't forget I still need a disc drive if I want to get some form of an operating system running :P
 
Looking at those components the CPU and motherboard are excellent but the GTX 620 is a turkey, a GTX 460 is way more powerful and can be had quite cheaply used on ebay. I would suggest selling your Skrim on ebay and putting your money towards a high spec used GPU. RAM is very cheap nowadays so no problem there.DVD drives are likewise very cheap - I use a Samsung Writemaster which I bought off ebay for a few pounds. For a hard drive I would suggest an SSD (solid state drive) of about 80gb for your operating system and something like 1 Terabyte for everything else. If you get Custom PC magazine they have just done a review of affordable mid tower cases and their "top choice" was the Xigmatek Midgard I I - great looking and packed with useful features. If you want to build your own PC I suggest searching Youtube for "how to build a PC", I linked to a useful video earlier in this thread.
 
I recommend the Newegg vids as they were really good and helpful when I built mine.

I also agree with Ballymoss that a 620 is a bit.... bad? I would have said a 560Ti is a really great bang-for-buck card if you can afford it.
 
Thanks a ton, guys! I didn't want to get a gpu that wouldn't take advantage of the i7, i appreciate the tip. I have a Seagate goflex 1tb external drive. Would I be able to remove that from its housing to use in a rig? Also, you don't think those components were used too extensively to be a concern?
 
There would be no problem moving the seagate hard drive out of its enclosure and it would save you money. Personally I have no problem with second hand components -obviously you take a chance but I have bought components from Novatechltd on ebay and they are "refurbished" but always give flawless performance.
 
I got some updated pics of my setup, more than just the original 2 I posted..



























My only complaint is with the motherboard and case setup I cant run SLI because of the PSU, and cpu heatsink are in the way.

Also sometimes it starts up with out keyboard and mouse any way to know what causes that?
 
Your setup looks fantastic a personally I love the NZXT cases. And your PSU is ample to run SLI. Do you mean it doesn't have the 6+2 connectors?
 
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