The 2005 Post your PC's and Workstations Thread

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:42 pm

My new Dell Latitude D510 laptop. It was free!

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:13 am

New system upgrade:

Specs

Vertigo Zer0 · Post by **Vertigo Zer0** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:11 am

Just the guts of my new PC for now:

My 3DMark05 score using ForceWare 77.72 drivers:

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:02 pm

Here is my system. The name brand is POS.

Gammaray · Post by **Gammaray** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:07 am

holy ouch! overexposure

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:52 pm

thats like the worst camera work I have ever seen

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:29 pm

REEEEEEAAAAL POS digital camera. That was after hours of trying to get it to take a decent picture.

EDIT: Ah. After playing with some angles I got a much better picture and substituted it.

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:13 pm

ah, much better =D

Nexus_One · Post by **Nexus_One** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:18 pm

Here are the specs, pics to follow as soon as it is up and running. Hopefully inside of 2 weeks it will assembled and ready to go. I hope shipping doesn't take too long...

Athlon 4800+
Gigabyte G-Power BL Heatsink
A Pair of 1GB Corsair Matched Sticks of RAM
Asus A8N SLI Premium mobo
2 XFX GeForce 7800 GTX
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
Thermaltake Armor VA8000BWS Case (Black)
BenQ 1640 DVD-RW
BenQ 1625 DVD-RW with Lightscribe
2 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB Hard Drives
ViewSonic 191b 19" LCD
Logitech Z-5500 Speakers
Logitech MX518 mouse
Mitsumi Floppy Drive with 7-in-1 Media Reader
Enermax Noisetaker 600W P/S
Belkin Split Key Keyboard
Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition

Please no flames of jealously.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:01 am

Welp, here it is:

Lian-Li PC68 case
Coolermaster Realpower 450W PSU w/ 120mm temp-sensitive fan
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 nForce4 Ultra mainboard w/ 6-phase power adapter
Athlon64 3000+ Venice
Thermaltake Sonic Tower, 3-heatpipe passive cooler
2 x 512MB PC4000 CL2 Crucial Ballistix RAM
Gigabyte X800XL (passive 2-heatpipe cooler)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 Sound
Seagate 200GB 7200.7 SATA HDD w/ NCQ
Western Digital 120GB WD120JB IDE HDD
Samsung 52X CD-R
Pioneer 12X DVD-R
Vantec Nexus temperature monitor and inlet fan control
Thermaltake exhaust fan speed controller
3 x Vantac Stealth 80mm fans.

Modifications:
Removed 6-phase adapter cooling fan (not needed). Installed a Thermaltake Volcano 7+ Cu heatsink, cut in half, on the nForce4 chipset. The original sink howled like a banshee. This has 5 times the surface area, and is bolted down hard.

This box is amazingly quiet. The hum from the 5.1 system when nothing is playing, is more noisy than the PC! The noisiest thing in the box is the Seagate HDD. I got sick and tired of the noise from the old box - so this is a very pleasant change.

There's 4 fans in the case. 2 inlet fans at 1300 rpm each, driven by the Vantec fan controller on the front of the box. They will get up to 2150 rpms at max speed. The 80mm exhaust fan is also running at 1300 rpm also, and has 3 settings available from the controller on top of the HDD cage.

The PSU fan is 120mm, and barely moves. All in all, a great way to compute. I'm never building a noisy box ever again.

This is the setup.

Inside the quiet machine.

Here's the detail of the modified CPU cooler for the chipset. It was tight! Yes, I know I didn't get it straight. The holes are offset...

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:31 pm

Lookin good Mobi, nice job on the chipset heatsink too.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:25 pm

Thanks Vindicator. Still a bit of tidy up work with the wires to do, but over all, I'm very happy.

FYI: temps are very reasonable too. Under full load (SETI) the base of the CPU heatsink sits at 41C, and the chipset heatsink sits at 54.

Now for some CPU overclocking!

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:27 pm

Whats the stepping on the Venice?
and E3 or E6?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:05 pm

You know something? I have absolutely no idea!

New Zealand stockists don't ever record, or advertise what stepping a core is - usually just the process, so Venice were distinct from the previous process. Whatever it is - it's rock solid.

Nexus_One · Post by **Nexus_One** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:13 am

If someone can host a few pics I can show off what I built. Can anyone help me out here?

Gammaray · Post by **Gammaray** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:03 am

Nexus_One wrote:If someone can host a few pics I can show off what I built. Can anyone help me out here?

check your pm's

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:49 am

I have been wanting to do a little case modding and I have finally gotten around to it. Of course Im doing a Descent theme.

A couple of things about these pictures. The blue tube in the middle of the big circle is a "Blue Thunder" tube. It has a lightning effect but I cant really get a good picture of that. Obviously the idea is to represent the blue orb sitting behind the grid at the bottom.

Also the small hole at the top is cut in the shape of a fusion cannon with a UV cold cathod tube behind it.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:54 pm

This machine is a little old, but she still packs a punch.

Specs:
Asus P4P800
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
2x Mushkin 512MB 2-2-2-6
Geforce FX 5950 Ultra
Audigy 2 ZS
2x WD Raptor 36GB 10000RPM SATA in RAID0
Seagate 300GB 7200RPM PATA
LiteOn CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo sprayed aluminum
Floppy also sprayed aluminum (they've gotta match)
And some other important stuff too.

Pics:

Badboy · Post by **Badboy** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:23 pm

Why not put mine in, I never have... well here we go

...

Specs:

-Windows XP

-Pentium 4 2.66 GHz, Overclocked to 2.80 GHz

-1 gig of RAM

Video: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 (bought myself

)

Drives: Two 40 gig Harddrives

-ATAPI CDROM
-SONY CD-RW

Monitor: Regular 17 inch CRT

Audio: Soundblaster

Sorry Specs are kinda described bad.

Guess thats it not much since im only 15 and dont have alot of money to put into it. Anyway heres some pics your probley gonna like the power supply

.
I built it all myself..

Thanks for taking time to look!

Gammaray · Post by **Gammaray** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:43 am

what is up with that folding keyboard? Nice case, too many cables though

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:35 am

Gammaray wrote:what is up with that folding keyboard? Nice case, too many cables though

you've never seen a Z-board?

http://www.zboard.com/modules/changecou ... rom=global

Badboy · Post by **Badboy** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:45 pm

Thats my zboard, and thanks about my case

. I play with the gaming keyset (one on bottom with red keys) works awesome, I was tired of keyboards not being able to do alot of functions at once so I got a 50 dollar one with even 2 usb ports for an mp3 player, etc...

. And the normal keyset is awesome for the hotkeys. It has programable keys for Calculator, Windows Media Player, Mail, etc.. You can change them to anywthing. About the cpu again, The only thing it cant do is glow

! Also the cables where slightly fat when I made that computer especially the one that went to the mobo it was so fat, I had to bend it forever. Anyway zboard is awesome if you dont like getting a new joystick and replacing hats all the time.

Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:32 pm

BTW shouldnt we now have a:

\"The 2006 Post your PC's and Workstations Thread\"

The 2005 Post your PC's and Workstations Thread

Mobi's new box completed

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