Thread: What do you play on?

Originally Posted by Blah64

This is my new setup:


So much screen space makes doing my work a lot easier.
Then when I am gaming, it is really easy to keep track of a lot of things and multi-task.


Yea... in this photo, TPG forums happened to be at front on 2 of the screens, and the TPG TS was on a third.... I like browsing TPG.

I love multitasking! I am down to only 2 monitors right now... my 19" and my 27" Dell Ultrasharp. My second 19" monitor needs to have some caps replaced. It is only a few dollar fix, but I am hella lazy. Maybe I will get to it next weekend.

My current setup.

Antec 900 case
Nspire 1000 watt PSU
250 GB Sata - WD
1 TB Sata - WD
Asus M3A32 MVP DELUXE motherboard (flashed for am3) - next thing to be replaced!
4 gig Corsair XMS DDR2 - also being replaced in next upgrade!
Sapphire 5870 1GB PCI-E
AMD Phenom X6 1090T Black Edition
LG DVD RW Burner
Logitech G500 Gaming mouse
Sony Headphones - Cheap 20 dolla headphones
3 - Mag Innovation 22" LCD monitors
Triple monitor stand

Asus p67 Sabertooth Mobo
WD 1.5tb 7200
WD 80gb SSD
Intel I7 2600k 3.4ghz
ASUS Geforce GTX 570 (3 PCI slots..)
Corsair Vengence 8gb
Corsair 850psu
Cooler Master Scout case
Cooler Master V6 Heat sink
2x Asus 23.6" LED monitors

Lol if you notice... the vid card was too big so i had to remove the rivets on the hd bays and shift it over a little bit

q6700
nforce 780i
4 gigs gskill
250 gb HD
gtx260
620hx
24" samsung
razer arctosa
razer naga

Current Rig:
Sigma Unicorn Case
AMD Phenom X4 9650
MSI KA780G
XFX AMD Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition
4GB Mushkin DDR2 800
Intel 80GB 3Gb/s SSD
2 Tb Hard drives one for Common Files the other for backup.
22" LG L226WTQ
15" POS Monitor
Razer Lachesis
Razer Lycosa


Upgrading over then next 6 months:
Silverstone Raven RV02 Case
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge
MSI Z68A-GD80 (B3)
XFX AMD Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition X2 In Crossfire
16GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1333
Crucial 128GB 6GB/s SSD
2 Tb Hard drives one for Common Files the other for backup.
27" LG E2770V-BF
22" LG L226WTQ
Logitech G19
Logitech G700 or Logitech G9x

Originally Posted by MRUBEENHADD

My current setup.

Antec 900 case
Nspire 1000 watt PSU
250 GB Sata - WD
1 TB Sata - WD
Asus M3A32 MVP DELUXE motherboard (flashed for am3) - next thing to be replaced!
4 gig Corsair XMS DDR2 - also being replaced in next upgrade!
Sapphire 5870 1GB PCI-E
AMD Phenom X6 1090T Black Edition
LG DVD RW Burner
Logitech G500 Gaming mouse
Sony Headphones - Cheap 20 dolla headphones
3 - Mag Innovation 22" LCD monitors
Triple monitor stand

I don't know how you can play anything across multiple monitors like that. The monitor edges would bug me too much. Personally, I need a seamless screen to do my gaming.

HeavyG has the sickest setup I've seen in a while.

GPU - XFX Radeon 6870 Crossfire
Processor - i7 870
Memory - 8G DDR3
1T Harddrive

Razer Deathadder
23" Acer H233H Monitor
Logitech Z506 5.1 Surround Sound speaker system
Keyboard that came with the computer
Razer Carcharias Headset
Oh, and the TPG mousepad

It's basically a Gateway FX6840-15e with a new GPU in it. I LOVE the case but some of the things with this CPU weren't worth it full price. However, the deal I got this together on was very much worth it.

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

HeavyG has the sickest setup I've seen in a while.

I just saw HeavyG system and all I can say is WOW. HeavyG, man that is one hell of a setup. Especially, for water cooling man. Very nicely done. I'm jealous and wondering what you do, how you do it. Cause, there is some money there. Overall, that's a kick ass system.

Respectfully,
h7g6f5

Originally Posted by h7g6f5

I just saw HeavyG system and all I can say is WOW. HeavyG, man that is one hell of a setup. Especially, for water cooling man. Very nicely done. I'm jealous and wondering what you do, how you do it. Cause, there is some money there. Overall, that's a kick ass system.

Respectfully,
h7g6f5

Thanks! It has taken me a LOT of time, patience, and money. I invested weeks worth of planning and designing, reading reviews and how-to articles, budgeting, and most importantly budgeting what I can afford.

The initial water cooling investment was over $700, but has now approached the $1500 range if not higher. The good thing is that many of the components can be recycled for future builds. The philosophy behind my build is to take components that may not be the highest performing, and overclock the hell out of them to make them surpass even the top of the line components available. Prior to water cooling, things were just running too hot... especially the graphics cards (GTX 570s). Once I splashed water on them, I was able to get unbelievable overclocks with temps 20-30*C cooler than lower clocks on air.

I love the chase... pushing the components to the limit, increasing the clocks and voltage, and finding the breaking point between performance and stability. It all comes with some sacrifice as I am constantly tweeking and reconfiguring my water loop... adding radiators, fans, rerouting tubes... all in order to decrease temps and provide a good flow rate for the water.

I also require functionality from my rig... It has to run games at top notch performance at high resolution (2560x1440), be able to run as a Folding@Home machine during the day, and be able to perform the many ripping/encoding projects.

I just upgraded to a Sandy Bridge 2600K system. It was a nightmare of a build, and took me about 26 hours of actual building time (prior to Windows installation). It has stretched me far over my budget, and both physically and mentally exhausted. I will post up some pics soon.