What's Your Computer Build?

[Colorblinded]

Can't be bothered to take a pic since it's all closed up and running but in December I built a new workstation (and sometimes gaming machine) and upgraded from:

Core 2 Quad Q9450 OC'd to 3.2GHz w/ Noctua U12
Asus P5K Pro
8GB DDR2 800
300GB Velociraptor
EVGA 560ti superclocked
Corsair HX-520 power supply
running Win 7 Pro in a Lian-Li with a long model name I've forgotten

to:

i7-3770K w/ Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
ASrock Extreme 4
32GB DDR3 1866
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
Crucial M4 256GB
EVGA 670FTW (initially I carried over the 560Ti but I decided to upgrade)
Corsair HX-750 power supply
all on Win 8 Pro in a Fractal Designs Define R4 (much cheaper than the outgoing Lian Li and quite nice)
carried over my data drives, card reader & FW800 PCI card and bought a new optical

The old system was quiet but the new one is quieter and draws less power... yay progress.

[canonKx5]

I just have a quick questions for u guys on here.

What is a best/popular monitor for photo editing for LR4 and PS?

[*sigh*]

Originally Posted by canonKx5

I just have a quick questions for u guys on here.

What is a best/popular monitor for photo editing for LR4 and PS?

What is the best? Probably something from Eizo or something similar, but you're going to be paying a ton for them. What's good and still popular, the U2410, 2711, 3011, or their replacements the U2413, U2713H, U3014 (The Premiere Color ones, they're the higher end wide gamut models, though their other ultrasharps are still pretty decent).

[Radders]

I'll get a photo of my setup later. It's a bit frankenstein as I've built it from scrap computers that have come into work, but at the moment it's only running 3GB RAM, 2.5TB's hard disc, WinXP pro and a 3 year old motherboard (can't remember which), but it's fast enough for me, soon to get faster with Windows 7 and 8GB

[ben_r_]

Did a little upgrade to my beast, added a second GTX 670 FTX to feed this 30 incher and man has it been nice for gaming! My first dabble in SLI. Lots more heat coming out of my case now though!

[Tareq]

About 3-4 weeks ago was planning to build one PC, now my plan is to build 3, so i am not done yet to finish my first one yet, the only thing is remaining is a better GPU, i have only 1 GPU now which is Gigabyte 660Ti while i have 3 mobos and 2 cases and 2 PSU/Cooler/RAM.

I am not sure which processor to go with my ASRock Z77 Pro3, i3 or i5 or i7?

[CyberDyneSystems]

Originally Posted by sapearl

Better yet - submerge the ENTIRE SYSTEM in mineral oil .

That's the latest concept in corporate data centers for temperature reduction and reduced energy costs associated with the overall cooling process:

http://www.grcooling.com/

Ahh, this is Old School. Nothing new here.

We used to call it "Goo Cooling"

"EvilMatt" and "Dicki" made one back in 2002 that was the bomb.
They set it up to "crunch seti" and let it run for years without stopping.

Unfortunately, I can;t find the actual review any more, but I did find the forum discussion at appropriately the "Liquid Ninja" forum, complete with my own replies in line;
http://www.liquidninjas.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=960

LN was one of many "teams" of distributed computing that were working on Seti and the Human genome project etc..

This was back when I had my own "render farm" of 8 PCs crunching the Human Genome project 24/7
I did make one Goo Cooled unit myself, but the idea was totally from the above people.
Dead silent FYI, with the exception of the hard drive.

[keyfox11]

I'd love to try my hand at that. It'd be a significant upgrade from my first/current budget build.

[Tareq]

As usual, i always wasting too much money on things and then i try to figure out some of what i did.

I bought 2 expensive power supplies, and i don't know which one to use with with mobo and case, so if can you tell me which combo is better to go with?

Last bad news updated: am ending up with building 3 computers instead of 1 or 2, so i will have so long time to decide on parts for each build.

[emorgn]

I finished my build a few weeks ago...




Case: Corsair 800D
PSU: Corsair AX860i
MB: Asus Sabertooth Z77
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K w/Corsair H100i
RAM: 16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866 C9
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 660
SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
HDD: 2 x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Raid0
EX-HDD: 2 x 2TB Western Digital My Book Studios
ODD: Asus Blu-Ray Burner
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit ( I have windows 8 Pro, but I'm not a fan of it)

[DiMAn0684]

Nice build emorgn.

I've replaced my old Cooler Master Centurion 5 with Fractal Define R4 this past week and also swapped an entry level Gigabyte board for ASRock Z77 Extreme 4. I now got a pretty neat budged build that will hopefully last me a few years.

Fractal Design Define R4 Case
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 Motherboard
Intel i7 2600k with Corsair A50 cooler (w/ CM Blade Master fan)
Corsair XMS3 4 x 4GB 1600MHz Memory
OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD
WD Blue 500GB x 2 (RAID 1)
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 7200RPM disk

[keyfox11]

Originally Posted by emorgn

( I have windows 8 Pro, but I'm not a fan of it)

I tested Win 8 on my machine and came to the conclusion that it is, for all practical purposes, useless without a touch-screen monitor. I went back to Win 7 Pro.

That being said, I can't wait till this comes out: https://www.leapmotion.com/

[Eagle]

Win 8 is fine, just takes getting used to a few changes. Once you start up and you're at the start screen with all the apps, just click on the desktop app and you are pretty much at what you're used to. Just no start menu so you have to get used to that.

[isoMorphic]

NZXT SWITCH 810 Case
NZXT HALE90 750 Watt
NZXT KRAKEN X60 CPU Cooler
MSI Z77A-GD65 Motherboard
MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition
Intel Core i5-3570K Processor OC'd @ 3.7 GHz
Corsair Platinum 16GB DDR3 1600
Western Digital Black 1TB (main)
Samsung Spinpoint 1TB (storage)
Seagate Barracuda 500GB (game)
ASUS DVD Burner (DRW-24B1ST)
NZXT Fans (6 fan's total)
UV Neon/LED Lighting
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro