Show us your workstations - Page 43

dilli-theclaw · 12-01-2011, 09:42

My portable workstation

damien c · 25-03-2011, 19:44

Well I have done a bit of a upgrade

I am now running:

Intel Sandy Bridge 2600k
Asus P8P67 Pro
8gb Corsair Vengance DDR3 1600mhz 9-9-9-24
Palit GTX 580 SLI

Pic's are from before and stripped and then with just the motherboard in the case and then with everything in it.

Looking forward to tomorrow when I can fire it up and get windows installed and then playing around with the overclocking on, these cpu's hoping to hit 5.0ghz.

25-03-2011, 20:03

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Originally Posted by damien c

Well I have done a bit of a upgrade

Looking forward to tomorrow when I can fire it up and get windows installed and then playing around with the overclocking on, these cpu's hoping to hit 5.0ghz.

All that processing power to run notepad.exe!!!

damien c · 25-03-2011, 20:25

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Originally Posted by LSainsbury

All that processing power to run notepad.exe!!!

To be honest I only went to get the 2 GTX 580's but ended up chatting to the owner of Scan, with my brother in law and he said to the guy on the counter "this guy want's some nice kit give him discount" so I ended up with a sandy bridge as well, and got a very very very nice discount on it all so not complaining but will be interested in seeing what it is like at converting some of my vid's for youtube.

Just now need the case that I want from specialtech then the waterblock's for my graphic's cards.

25-03-2011, 20:59

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Originally Posted by damien c

... but will be interested in seeing what it is like at converting some of my vid's for youtube.

Wasted!!

Welshchris · 25-03-2011, 21:02

when mine is back in one piece and the leads inside dont look like spagetti Junction i will lol.

damien c · 25-03-2011, 21:23

There are other videos that I convert and other thing's that need abit of grunt other than gaming.

25-03-2011, 21:23

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Originally Posted by damien c

To be honest I only went to get the 2 GTX 580's but ended up chatting to the owner of Scan, with my brother in law and he said to the guy on the counter "this guy want's some nice kit give him discount" so I ended up with a sandy bridge as well, and got a very very very nice discount on it all so not complaining but will be interested in seeing what it is like at converting some of my vid's for youtube.

Just now need the case that I want from specialtech then the waterblock's for my graphic's cards.

well Crysis looks good but its a total let down. No Direct X11 or even 10 till its patched no real settings for GFX even with a little tool to create a autoexe file which turns everything on full but runs perfectly on a single 5870. Gone are the days I spend a lot of money of GFX cards and nothing pushes them. Even if Battlefield 3 pushes it its still only 1 game

Besides that nice build :-) it is a second rev board free of the potential controller issues?

damien c · 25-03-2011, 22:02

Yeah to be honest Zing I see your point about the card's and the games but I still play the original Crysis and Crysis Warhead and they, still bring a pc to it's knees now or atleast they did with my single GTX 480 that's why I went for the 2 GTX 580's as they mean I can, max it out and still play it with a stable FPS.

I did hear something about Crysis 2 not being DX11 from the start though so will wait for that game for now, until they patch it but I am looking forward to running Crysis at it's max and playing with the overclocking on this chip.

dilli-theclaw · 26-04-2011, 15:32

Well the skeleton is finally going - so I thought i'd post the final couple of piccys

I'm replacing it with a cheap no bling - no windows - basic black case.

27-04-2011, 11:06

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

Well the skeleton is finally going - so I thought i'd post the final couple of piccys

I'm replacing it with a cheap no bling - no windows - basic black case.

Why dude?

dilli-theclaw · 27-04-2011, 12:09

I'm bored with it - and I can't be bothered with the lights and things so a bog standard case is in order.

27-04-2011, 12:11

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

I'm bored with it - and I can't be bothered with the lights and things so a bog standard case is in order.

fair enough dude

Mr_love_monkey · 27-04-2011, 12:14

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

I'm bored with it - and I can't be bothered with the lights and things so a bog standard case is in order.

how big is it? (ooer)

what MB will it take and how many drives?

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don't worry - looking at the specs

dilli-theclaw · 27-04-2011, 12:16

Fair enough

- It does take up a lot of space.