Computer Setup

You aren't alone tswarthog, and you'll be surprised how many people have assembled their own computers.

As for mine, its a 2 year old budget PC I bought just to upgrade from an old Compaq Pentium 4, with a Radeon 9600XT.

AMD 5000+ BE @ 3.1 GHz
ASUS M4A77D (was originally a Biostar MicroATX, sitting in closet now)
3 GB Crucial 667 @ 730
500 GB Hitachi Deskstar & 250 GB Maxtor PATA
Nvidia PNY 9800GTX+
Audigy 2 ZS
Antec 300

Not thinking of building another one because I am a broke college student that doesn't need to game.

Also, can the EVGA presicion tool alter GPU voltage? Generally 470's can have the voltage be bumped up a little and receive a lot of overclocking headroom.

Even though people think they get hot, they really don't. My brother owns one and bumped his up I think over 150+ MHz increase on the Core, with it only maxing out at 80c and fan speed at around 70% tops.

If this turns into a "these are my computer specs" thread, we already have one for that.

Right now precision does not offer voltage for the gtx 470 so you have to find a different program to do that. I here they are working on new versions of precision that can change voltage. Right now I have mine up as far as it will go without changing voltage and it only runs at around 71 with only 70% fan. I will probably change the voltage once I get the lowest voltage needed to keep my i7 stable at 4.0 ghtz.

I've been building my own computers since I was about 13 years old. I prefer to since I get to choose quality components and not those poor quality generic crap. Last one I built was like 3 years ago but it's still good and I'm waiting for some price drops before I make a new one. Since the one I am using now is water cooled and slied.

I guess the only downside is that if something doesn't work or goes wrong you have to figure it out yourself since you do not have any technical support or return the whole computer to a store. But you do learn a lot about fixing computers yourself.

Not much component wise can really get jacked up unless you do something stupid with it to be honest. You will know if you blow something up due to reckless overclock lol.

MSI Afterburner can change voltages for GPU's... but I have heard that it can get glitchy sometimes. It won't do anything dangerous.. but my brother claims that the voltage and clocks don't stay consistent, and he finds sometimes that his GPU is artifacting.

Maybe if you turn off/down the fan.

She's an old girl now but back in the day was kicking it with the best of them:
CPU: E8400 @ 3.33ghz
Mobo: EP45-DS4P
RAM: Ballistix Tracer DDR2-800 4GB (used to have 8 one set died)
Video: HD4870|HD4350
Storage: Intel X25-M|Team SSD 64gb|WD Raptor 74gb|SG 250, 320|4TB File Server
Sound: Xonar D2X
Case: Antec 900
PSU: HX620
Display(s): 3x Samsung 2243BW

Still runs most of my games and apps happily, needs an upgrade to a quad and more RAM since Photoshop wants more.

Noctua fans are great the only caveat is you have to use the slow speed to get a nice quiet machine otherwise your box will be as noisy as any other box.
Antec Pxxx series would probably be your best bet for a sound deadening case, Fractual Design's R2 series of cases are a good alternative if you don't have the dough for Antec cases.



The new i7s can easily hit +4ghz on air.



It probably will think you can merge the threads?

It worked, surprisingly.

PICTURES!!! sorry if the quality of the picture isnt all that good, i used my phone





EDIT: ill put sum new pix up as a new post of change this... prolly change this... when my new comp gets in, is sexy :3



new comp :D same monitor keyboard n such

Can you post more pictures? I really like your tower.

Left side - can mount a 200mm or 2x120mm


top - 200mm fan, can mount 2x120mm if i wanted :p


inside [not bad for first build eh? lol]


right side


seems like other ppl are puttin up specs :p
may as well lol

gtx470, i5 760, 4gb DDR3 g.skill, 1tb black wd, asus maximus 3 gene mobo

My new laptop getup: HP Pavilion dm4-1063cl laptop



Pretty powerful laptop for its small, compact size.

I Got a new laptop about 3 month ago, Asus G73.

17.3" LCD
i7 720Qm CPU
8Gb 1333Mhz Ram
2x500Gb HDD
ATI 5870m GPU

now I don't have to carry my desktop to lans anymore. (not to mention the Antec 1200 case doesn't fit into the boot of my car anyway...)

Specs:
CoolMaster Scout MT ATX
MSI P55 - GD65
i7 850
ATI 5850 1GB
8GB corsair w/ OCZ fan
2.5 TB (1TBx2 seagate barracuda)(.5TB seagate)
creative Xfi w/ 5.1 Logitech G51
750W antec PSU
corsair H70
Dell and Acer Monitors from craigslist
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Processorr Intel Core i3-530
Memory : 4Go DDR3 (2x2048Mo Triple Channel)
GPU: ATI Radeon HD5770 1Go DDR5
HD: 1To SATA II
Windows 7 64b.

Had all this for about 700 euros. I do intend to upgrade the processor and add more RAM when time will come.

Compaq Presario CQ5315LA:

-500 GB WD HD @ 7200RPM + External Apollo Imation 160 HD @ 5400 RPM
-Pentium Dual Core 2.6Ghz 800FSB
-3 GB DDR3 1066MZ Dualchannel
-Windows 7 64bits Ultimate
-Intel GMA 4500 (this sucks, I'm changing sometime soon)
-Realtek HD audio (keeping it)
-Compaq W185q wide "18.5(1366x768)
-DVD RW +/- CD RW +/- With lightscribe
-Multicard reader
-PATHETIC 180W PSU...(Changing that crap soon)

And my first build xDU and descendant of my now dead Dell Dimension 4100
(My little brother's PC now)
-40GB WD + 160 Samsung IDE HD's at 5400RPM
-Pentium 4 2.8ghz
-512MB RAM DDR2 DIMM
-Windows XP Professional 32bits + Windows Vista Home premium 32bits
-Nvidia Geforce (don't remember exactly) 64 MB
-Sound Blaster Live 5.1
-Dell CRT monitor 17"
-DVD RW +/-
-Another DVD RW +/-
-600W PSU
-Multicard Reader
-Wireless Adapter

Well, they're not so awesome as the other posted here XD

I might not have the fastest computer, but I am proud to say I have the best computer to listen to music. Blue Scholars anybody?